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The Russia registered 244 deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in the last 24 hours, compared to 125 the day before. This is the highest number of daily deaths since the start of the pandemic. The total number of deaths thus amounts to 22,966. The coronavirus crisis center said so. There were 13,868 new infections, also an absolute record. Tass reports it.
Infections in Belgium continue to grow at a rapid rate. Between October 3 and 9, according to the latest available official data, people positive for the coronavirus were on average 4,449 per day, 79% more than in the previous seven days. Between October 6 and 12, hospitalizations increased by 68.4% and people in intensive care are now 267. The rate of positive tests has reached 11.1%. To deal with the spread of the virus, two provinces, Walloon Brabant and Luxembourg, have decided to decree, starting at midnight today, a night curfew for the next 15 days. Between one and six in the morning, no one can circulate except for health or work reasons.
France towards a possible new repression of the coronavirus. On the eve of the long-awaited interview with the unified networks on France 2 and TF1, French President Emmanuel Macron today chairs a new Health Defense Council to organize the response to the invisible enemy. In particular, the government intends to study means to block the second wave, which in France is reaching worrying levels. After cities such as Paris, Lyon and Marseille, as of tonight Montpellier and Toulouse also passed in the ‘maximum alert’ zone along with several neighboring municipalities. Yesterday, France accounted for 96 deaths in 24 hours related to the epidemic, according to data published by Santé Publique France. Meanwhile, there is a new warning from the director of the consortium that brings together the hospitals of Paris (AP-HP), Martin Hirsch, on what he considers the “inevitable” explosion in the number of Covid patients in resuscitation. Interviewed by the daily Le Parisien, Hirsch says that, taking into account current indicators, “around October 24 there will be at least 800 to 1000 Covid patients in resuscitation services” in the Ile-de-France region of Paris . Between “70 and 90% of our current capacities,” he warned, adding that “the situation is serious.” In the 39 hospitals of the AP-HP consortium, he specified, about “20% of non-priority interventions” are currently suspended or postponed.
The dutch government plans to completely close restaurants and ban the sale of alcohol after 8 p.m., as measures to contain the curve of coronavirus infections. RTL Nieuws reports it. The new measures, which in the Netherlands have already aroused protests from businessmen in the sector, should be applied for at least two weeks and will be presented tonight at a press conference by Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The schools will remain open as will the gyms. In recent days, the Netherlands has exceeded the threshold of 6,500 daily infections.
In Israel the number of deaths from coronavirus has reached 2021 but, for the first time in weeks, there is the lowest morbidity rate, 7%. According to data from the health ministry, in the last 24 hours the new infections were 3,097 of the nearly 44 thousand swabs made. The seriously ill are also falling, reaching 801 out of 51 thousand active cai. Today, chaired by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, the Government Coronavirus Committee meets to examine the situation on the eve of the indicated date (October 14) for the end of this phase of the lockdown. The government has already made it known that the contested ban on mass demonstrations that was in effect during this period will not be renewed.
A new all-time record was recorded in the number of coronavirus infections and deaths in Bulgaria, where in the last 24 hours 587 new cases have been registered, which is equivalent to more than 13% of the 4,320 diagnostic tests performed. The total since the beginning of the epidemic is 24,989 to date. According to data published this morning by the anti-Covid operating committee of Sofia, since yesterday twenty-three deaths have been reported and the total number of victims amounts to 915. The number of cases of contagion among medical health personnel has risen to 1,384. There are currently 8,099 active cases in Bulgaria, while 1,221 patients are hospitalized in hospitals, 65 of them in intensive care. The population of Bulgaria is just over seven million people.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has self-quarantined after contact with a Covid-19 positive person. He announced it himself on Facebook. “I found out that I had contact with a person who tested positive for Covid. Based on this and all the health regulations, I quarantined myself, ”he declared, posting a video message in which he added that he is in contact with colleagues. and that “the government functions normally.” Morawiecki then called on his compatriots to respect health regulations, wear masks and respect distancing. Poland today registered 5,068 new cases of coronavirus and 63 deaths, bringing the total number of infected people to 135,278 and the number of victims to 3,101.
The tests in Covid-19 a Qingdao, in Cina, they were carried out in 4.32 million people, just under half of the 9.4 million inhabitants of the port city of Shandong. According to the latest afternoon updates from health authorities, no other infections have been found so far. Qingdao reported six new cases of domestic transmission over the weekend and six new asymptomatic ones underpinning the alert that will lead the entire city to undergo massive tests to be completed in 5 days.
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