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ISRAEL – As expected, Israel’s coronavirus ministerial committee proposed shutting down the country overnight amid the peak of infections in recent weeks. The decision will be validated by the government on Sunday. In the initial phase, the closing will last two weeks and will refer to the festival of Rosh ha-Shanà (the Jewish New Year) and the fast of Kippur. If it has the desired effect, it will loosen very gradually.
FRANCE – Rise in infections in 24 hours: there are just under 10,000 (9,843) new positive cases in Covid-19 in France, figures that confirm the upward trend of all epidemic parameters. The General Directorate of Health also reports the death of 29 people in the last day (total 30,813) while 352 were hospitalized for coronavirus in 24 hours, a lower figure than in the last 2 days. Since yesterday, 54 patients have been admitted to resuscitation rooms, again a lower number than in the last 2 days. There are 32 schools and 524 classrooms that have been closed in France so far since the reopening on September 1: Government spokesman Gabriel Attal spoke this morning on BFM TV. Attal said that the institutions that had to close are “0.05%” of the total in the area.
BRITAIN– The daily increase in coronavirus infections in the United Kingdom has returned to almost 3,000, which has risen according to data from the last 24 hours surveyed by the Ministry of Health to 2,919, with a number of deaths that also increased slightly to 14. This is the third highest peak of new cases in the last week, while admissions and patients on assisted ventilation are returning, albeit slightly, (837 and 80 respectively in total in the entire country). Meanwhile, the number of daily tests carried out continues to exceed 175,000, a record in Europe. Yesterday Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a closure in social contacts to no more than 6 people, in public and in private, binding by law and with the threat of police measures for offenders, in an attempt to stop the rebound of the pandemic , to avoid an even more alarming trend in countries like Spain or France and to eliminate the specter of a second national blockade. There Scotland aligns with England in tightening social contacts in the face of the new increase in coronavirus cases, adopting in turn the ‘rule of 6’ announced yesterday for the Kingdom nation by the British government of Boris Johnson: the ban on meeting in more than 6 people, in public or private. The decision was formalized by Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon on behalf of the Edinburgh local government, which is competent in the matter under the return.
INDIA- There have been 95,735 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours: this is a new daily record that brings the total number of infections to 4,465,863. This was announced by the Ministry of Health, according to CNN. At the same time, 1,172 additional deaths have been reported, for a total of 75,062 deaths since the start of the pandemic. New Delhi also set a new daily record yesterday with another 4,039 infections, while deaths were 20: Overall, the capital has so far recorded more than 200,000 infections and 4,638 deaths.
PORTUGAL- The Portuguese government has decided to tighten its sanitary restrictions shortly before the start of the school year, to curb the increase in the number of new cases of coronavirus. Based on the measures adopted in the Council of Ministers, which will come into force on Tuesday, the number of people who will be able to meet will drop from 20 to 10 throughout the country, as is already the case in Lisbon and its region. And as in the capital, the sale of alcoholic beverages will be prohibited everywhere after 8:00 p.m., as well as their consumption in public spaces. Portugal reported 646 new cases in 24 hours yesterday, the highest number since April 20. The head of government added that most of these new infections affect people between 20 and 39 years old and most of them did not present any symptoms of the disease.
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