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The United States accumulates more than 236,000 deaths and 9.7 million cases, as shown in the following video:
The pandemic has already killed more than 1.2 million people worldwide and caused almost 49 million infections, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
The current epicenter of the pandemic is in Europe with its more than 12 million infections, said Hans Kluge, WHO director of Europe, where more than 300,000 people have died.
We “saw an explosion” of contagions, Kluge said. “In just a few days there have been a million additional cases” in Europe, and “we also see how mortality increases little by little,” he said.
The Old Continent is the second area in the world most mourned by the pandemic, with 300,688 deaths in total (for 12,136,981 infections), behind Latin America and the Caribbean (408,841 deaths, 11,490,126 cases), according to the latest AFP balance.
More and more European countries implement measures, such as new quarantines
Faced with this situation, the list of European countries that continue to toughen measures is expanded.
From this Friday night and until December 3, a curfew will take effect between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. throughout Italy.
Upper-level secondary schools will teach distance learning, museums will close, and shopping malls will not open on weekends.
Lombardy, Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta and Calabria were declared “red” and “high risk” regions and 16 million Italians will have to respect a new confinement.
In Bergamo, Lombardy, several hundred people, including shopkeepers, restaurant owners and some far-right militants, protested these restrictions and called out for “Freedom”, before being dispersed by the forces of order.
“There is more fatigue and distrust” than in the confinement of Marchsaid the mayor of Bergamo, Giorgio Gori.
The United Kingdom, the worst hit country in Europe with more than 48,000 dead, decreed a reconfinement in England since Thursday.
And Liverpool (northwest) became the first English city on Friday to test all its inhabitants for covid-19 even if they do not present symptoms.
The coronavirus is mutating
Denmark defended this Friday its decision to euthanize all minks in the country -between 15 and 17 million-, after the discovery in these animals of a mutation of the coronavirus transmissible to man.
This strain called ‘Cluster 5’ and which has already been detected in 12 people, threatens the development of a vaccine against COVID-19.
“We are taking the necessary and appropriate measures” in the face of a “disturbing” development, declared the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jeppe Kofod.
On the Mediterranean side of Europe, in Greece, the authorities ordered a new confinement from Saturday and for at least three weeks, given a risk of saturation of the hospitals.
Before leaving home, Greeks They must indicate by text message the reason and time of departure, and wait for the green light from the authorities, through the same system.
In France, reconfigured since October 30, the second wave “is brutal and spreading rapidly”, with more than 58,000 new infections detected in the last 24 hours, according to the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon.
Latin America relaxes its measures against the coronavirus
Unlike in Europe, Latin America began to relax its measures, after months of fighting COVID-19.
The progressive lifting of the restrictions generated a relaxation among the population, for example in Ecuador, which had to re-impose measures due to non-compliance with sanitary protection regulations.
The authorities of Guayaquil (southwest) prohibited the sale of alcohol from Thursday to Sunday, as well as dances and festive events.
Colombia, which imposed five months of confinement until the end of August, for its part lifted the obligation to present a negative COVID-19 test to travelers from abroad, which drew criticism. In Colombia, almost 10,000 new cases of contagion were registered on the night of Friday, November 6.
And in Venezuela, where according to official figures there have been about 800 deaths from coronavirus, citizens have been able to return to the beaches and hundreds have regained their way of earning their bread, reopening their shops or services to bathers, after seven months of total closure.
The Nicolás Maduro regime decreed that the Christmas season began on October 15.
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