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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.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, 4,038 new cases were registered yesterday, a live increase compared to the previous day. Since the start of the pandemic, 146,542 infections have been estimated and 111,539 have been recovered. No other deaths were recorded for a total of 1,077 victims. As for the tests, 47 thousand were carried out yesterday, with 8.8% positive results.
Officially confirmed infections in the world have exceeded 28 million, according to data from the Johns Hopkins American University. The total of deaths exceeds 908,000. The most affected country in absolute terms continues to be the United States, with almost 6.4 million cases and at least 191,750 deaths. India and Brazil follow.
Registration of positives in France
In France, there have been just under 10,000 infections in the last 24 hours, precisely 9,843. This was reported by the agency Santé publique France, the national public health agency, adding that it had detected 71 new outbreaks. This is “an unprecedented figure since the beginning of the pandemic.”
Great Britain, back off the curve
The daily increase of infections in the United Kingdom has returned to almost 3,000, which has risen according to the data of the last 24 hours surveyed today released by the Ministry of Health to 2,919, with a number of deaths that also increases slightly to 14. This is the third highest peak of new cases in the last week, while hospitalizations and patients on assisted ventilation are returning, albeit slightly (837 and 80 respectively in total nationwide).
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.
In India in the last 24 hours almost one hundred thousand cases
India recorded nearly 100,000 cases in 24 hours after asking many people to repeat tests they did not consider reliable. According to the Ministry of Health, the country recorded another peak of 96,551 cases, bringing the total to 4.56 million infections. In addition, another 1,209 deaths have been estimated, bringing the total number of victims to 76,271. The retest order went to people who tested negative but had a fever, cough, or shortness of breath or people who had developed Covid-19 symptoms within three days of negative test results.
Peru fifth in the world for infections
Peru is the fifth country in the world in infections, with almost 703,000 officially confirmed cases. This was announced by the American University Johns Hopkins, according to which deaths in Peru linked to Covid-19 have exceeded 30,000. Peru is currently the South American country most affected by the pandemic in absolute terms after Brazil.
