Coronavirus Live News: Global deaths near 1M as India prepares to pass 6m cases World News

One person has died in Greece’s Covid-19, the first asylum seeker to die from the coronavirus since an epidemic broke out in Greece in late February, a government official told Reuters.

The children, a 1-year-old Afghan, a father of two who lived in a migration camp in Malacca north of Athens, were treated and died at a hospital in Athens, the official said, adding that authorities were looking for his contacts.

It was not immediately clear how long he was in the hospital.

After positive tests for the new coronavirus, the Malkasa camp, which has had about 1,000 migrants since September, has been isolated.

Many other migration facilities in Greece have been sealed off or movement has been banned to prevent the spread of the virus.

Greece is the main gateway to the European Union for those fleeing the conflict in the Middle East and beyond. More than one million people reached its shores from Turkey in 2015-16.

At least 110,000 people currently live in relocated facilities – 40,000 of them in crowded camps on five islands.

Greece’s largest paramilitary camp on the island of Lesbos exploded this month, trapping about 12,000 people. Most of them have now moved to temporary tent camps on the island.

There were 218 covid-19 cases reported in Greece on Sunday and three deaths, with the first case reported in late February bringing the total number of infections to 17,444.

Travel between New Zealand and some Australian states is possible before the end of the year, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.

Travel ‘bubble’ plans between Australia and New Zealand have been under discussion for months, as both countries slowed the spread of coronavirus, but they were disrupted after the resurgence of Covid-19 in Melbourne, Australia, after which another wave began. Infections in uck calendula.

The virus is mostly contained in New Zealand, and travel bubbles have resumed with some states as cases are declining in the Australian territories.
When asked by state broadcaster TVNZ whether New Zealanders would be able to travel to at least some of the Australian regions before Christmas, Ardern said: “It’s possible.”

“What we need to make sure is that when Australia says‘ OK we’ve got a hotspot here ’the border around the hotspot means people can’t travel to the states we’re in. Trans-transman tour, ”he said.

Ardern said Australia is very satisfied with both how New Zealand tracks now and how they track in general.

Charlotte Graham-McLean for the Guardian:

No new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in New Zealand, health officials said Monday.

There are 55 active cases of the virus in New Zealand, 28 of which have been imported into returning passengers from abroad, all engaged on government-operated isolation facilities.

The other 27 are community-spread cases in the largest city, Uck Cland, the only place in New Zealand that has some Covid-19 restrictions.

The Land Calendar cluster – which is shrinking in size – asked for the city’s second lockdown, which is now getting easier. The rest of New Zealand has returned to normal life except for strict border controls.

One person is hospitalized with the virus.

There have been 1,477 known cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand, with 25 deaths.

The Johns Hopkins University tracker has so far confirmed 6,996,084 deaths, just below the destructive target of 1 million people who lost their lives in the nine months of the epidemic so far.

True tolls are possible due to different definitions, time lapses and underreporting suspicions in some countries. Is over 1 million.

According to a Reuters analysis, in some states in the US Midwest, the number of tests coming back for Covid-19 peaked at 25%, as the number of cases and hospital admissions in the region also increased.

North Dakota’s positive test rate has increased by an average of 30% over the past seven days compared to the previous week. According to the analysis using test data from the Covid tracking project, the positivity rate in South Dakota has reached 26%, up from 17% in the previous week. The average tests in Minnesota and Montana are coming back positive, but according to the analysis, Montana’s positivity rate rose to 20% on Sunday.

The World Health Organization considers rates above 5% as it indicates that there are more cases in the community that have not been exposed. Some states, such as New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine, have a positive test rate of less than 1%.

At the same time that positive test rates are rising in the Midwest, there are records of cases and hospitalizations in those states.

Over the past week, five Midwest states have recorded a day of new infections – Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

This UK The government is planning to impose a total social lockdown on most people North England And Probably London, To combat another coronavirus wave, the Times reports.

If new lockdown measures are being considered, all pubs, rest restaurants rent and bars will be ordered to be closed for two weeks initially, the report said.

The report added that homes would be banned indefinitely from meeting each other in any kind of indoor location where they were not already under order.

Britain last week introduced new measures requiring people to work from home wherever possible and ordered the closure of restaurants and bars as soon as possible to counter the second wave of Covid-1’s rapid spread, with the new ban likely to last six months. .

According to the newspaper, London as well as Merseyside, Northeast and Lancashire are expected to be included in the new move.

The Times quoted a senior government source as saying that schools and shops with factories and offices where employees could not work from home would be allowed to remain open.

Welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus epidemic.

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According to the country’s official statistics, the country recorded 88,600 new infections on Sunday, after India. Millions of coronavirus cases will pass soon, according to the country’s official figures, the official number of the country has reached just below one million (,, 9999૨,532૨). Deaths rose 1,124 to 94,503.

India has the second highest number of cases worldwide, with the U.S. There are about 1 million cases.

According to Johns Hopkins University Trekker, with 5,5 deaths, 65 deaths reported globally, the number of coronavirus deaths is close to the alarming target of one million casualties.

Here are the other major developments of the last few hours:

• There are a further 5,693 lab-confirmed coronavirus cases UK, Taking a total of 429,277, according to government data. Government figures show that 17 more people died within 28 days of being tested positive for the virus by Sunday. This brings the UK’s official toll to 41,988.
• Greece Its first coronavirus fatality has been recorded in its large migrant community. Health officials described the victim as an Afghan 1-year-old Afghan man, who died in Kovid-1to at Evangelism Hospital in Athens after being evacuated from the refugee camp Malakasa, east of the capital.
• Bose of Manchester Metropolitan University says students under the Covid-19 lockdown are free to leave their student hallsBut “they believe they will do the right thing” and telling many students that they are being wrongly imprisoned will lead to self-separation.
• The Scottish Government has issued updated guidance that students can return to their family home (Formerly Clinical Director Jason Leach said they could not) Self-isolated or permanently.
• The Spanish government and the authorities in Madrid are locked in a stalemate How to deal with the second wave of Covid-19 in and around the capital, where more than a third of Spain’s 716,481 cases have been diagnosed.
• The Australian state of Victoria has announced the end of its curfew And simplify some lockdown steps that have been going on for months. Just 18 new cases were reported in Australia on Saturday, killing two people, and Trade Minister Simon Birmingham hopes the travel bubble with New Zealand will be closed by the end of the year.
• Argentina’s coronavirus cases have peaked at 700,000, with new daily infections and deaths hitting the top five globally. Despite a seven-month lockdown that has devastated the fragile economy.