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In the The United States has exceeded 7.5 million cases of Covid. This was announced by Johns Hopkinks University, according to which the country currently has 7,500,964 infections, including 210,886 deaths. According to the American university, the country registered at least 43,562 new infections yesterday, while deaths in the 24 hours were 705. The totals include cases registered in the 50 states, in the District of Columbia, in the territories of the United States and those of returnees. New measures in Europe.
The number of new infections in Germany has set a new record since April: 2,898 in the last 24 hours, the Robert Koch Institute announced. It is the highest figure since last Friday’s peak, when 2,673 were registered, counting that during the weekend many local health offices do not transmit data, thus registering a periodic decrease. The number of patients in intensive care is growing (449), about 100 more than last week, and the number of patients on ventilators is also increasing (219). But there are still around 8,900 openings in intensive care, reports Tagesschau. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 306,000 have been infected, while 267,700 have been cured and 9,562 have died. In the last 24 hours there have been 16 deaths
In Belgium i cafes and bars in Brussels They will close from tomorrow morning for a month: this was decided by the new tightening launched by the city’s security council due to the new increase in coronavirus cases. Instead, the restaurants will remain open.
Pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes in central Scotland, including Glasgow and Edinburgh, will be forced to close for two weeks starting Friday. This was announced by Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, according to BBC reports. “None of this is easy,” he stressed, adding that he is aware that with each decision “life and work are at stake.” But with the increase in coronavirus infections “more needs to be done – he stressed – and we must do it now.”
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Record in Germany and Bulgaria
New record of daily cases of coronavirus contagion in Germany: the new infections are 2,828 according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), with 16 new deaths, for a total of 9,562 deaths since the start of the pandemic. The number of patients undergoing intensive care is also growing: 449.
Record the number of infections in Bulgaria: In the last 24 hours, 463 cases of coronavirus have been registered out of the 5,431 diagnostic tests carried out, that is, more than 8% of the tests. Since the start of the epidemic, the total number of infections to date has reached 22,306. The deaths registered in the last 24 hours are eight and the total number of victims amounts to 862. Active cases in Bulgaria are currently 6,134, while 971 patients are hospitalized, 57 of them in intensive care. Bulgaria is in the orange zone on the list of European countries at risk of Covid-19. At the end of September, the government decided to extend the “emergency situation” of Covid-19 in the country for two months, from October 1 to the end of November. The government had announced that it would not be willing to impose or reintroduce strong restrictive measures during this period.
Libya reopens mosques
The Presidential Council of the Government of Tripoli He ordered “the reopening of mosques for all prayers starting next Friday,” with all the necessary precautions, after more than seven months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision to reopen the mosques came after extensive consultations with the Scientific Committee to combat Coronavirus and administrators and faithful will be asked to take all necessary preventive measures to limit the risk of the spread of the coronavirus in mosques. Libyan authorities closed mosques as a precautionary measure last March to stop the spread of cases, now more than 38,000 since the beginning of the epidemic, with 602 dead and more than 15,000 recovered, according to the National Center for Disease Control.
Colombia, alarm for flights
Arrival to Colombia in the last days of five Colombians positive for Covid-19, after traveling by airplanes from Spain, Mexico and Peru, has alarmed the Bogotá authorities who have opened investigations to establish some responsibility of both the airlines and the passengers themselves. The director of ‘Migracin Colombià, Juan Francisco Espinosa, confirmed that his body and the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority are investigating how it was possible that the companies involved allowed the infected to enter on board, despite being aware of the strict Existing regulations in Colombia that prohibit the entry into the country of people who do not test negative for Covid-19.
Under current regulations, airlines are exposed to financial penalties of $ 4,000 for each positive passenger detected upon arrival. In addition, the immigration agency has transferred the files of the five cases to the Prosecutor’s Office to determine whether it is appropriate to initiate criminal proceedings against the carriers and the passengers themselves who, with knowledge of the infection, have nevertheless decided to board the aircraft to return to Colombia. . After the location of those infected at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá, the authorities ordered their quarantine, a measure that also affected the passengers seated next to them, who were also subjected to tests to verify the presence or absence of Covid. -19.
New Zealand, no new cases
The New Zealand It has once again “crushed” the Coronavirus and has no active cases of Covid-19 transmitted locally. This was announced by the country’s health minister, Chris Hipkins: “This is a great milestone. New Zealanders have once again crushed the virus through their collective behavior. ‘ In recent months, the country’s authorities had celebrated the achievement of no new cases of local transmission for a hundred consecutive days, but then a new outbreak had emerged. Since then, 186 infections have been recorded, 100% of which have returned.
A goal that should not lead to victory early, warned the minister, who urged his compatriots to remain “constantly vigilant and participate in the collective commitment” to continue dominating the virus. The August outbreak will be officially considered “closed” in one month if no new cases have emerged at the end of two incubation periods. Three infections were discovered today, but all on the border. For 12 days, however, not a single new Covid-19 infection with local transmission appeared.
Australia, fertility drops
The coronavirus weighs on immigration in Australia, which is about to fall to negative levels for the first time since the Second World War: according to the forecasts announced yesterday by the Treasury Minister, Josh Frydenberg, the 2020/21 fiscal year will see a negative balance (-72 thousand people) in net immigration, which will not return to pre-pandemic levels for at least four years. According to forecasts, the balance between how many people enter Australia and stay there for more than 12 months and the people who leave the country in the same period should rise from 154,000 in 2019/20 to -72,000 in 2020/21 and -21,600 in 2021 / 22, before gradually increasing to around 201,000 over the next four years. The fertility rate of Australians (the average number of children per woman) is also falling: from 1.9 in 2019/20 to 1.58 expected in 2020/22.
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