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Increase in coronavirus cases in Europe and around the world. The spread of the pandemic does not stop ea Worldwide, deaths exceed one million 91 thousand, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, while confirmed cases exceed 38 million. Europe is worrying: infections are increasing in France and the UK, but also in Germany, where 7,334 new infections have been recorded in 24 hours. It is a “serious and unprecedented situation”, we are witnessing a “resurgence of the epidemic and we must accelerate cooperation especially in tracing and testing, we have decided to intensify the coordination of leaders to contain the epidemic,” said the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, entering the second working day of the EU summit Let’s look at the situation in the world today.
Germany
New record of coronavirus cases in Germany where 7,334 infected in the last 24 hours have been registered for a total of 348,557. This was announced by the Robert Koch Institute. It is the second day in a row that such high figures have been recorded in Germany. The death toll is also increasing, with 324 dead in the last 24 hours for a total of 9,734. Yesterday, new infections in Germany were 6,638, the highest number ever recorded in the country in a day since the start of the pandemic. The number of patients in intensive care is also growing: today there are 655, a week ago there were 487.
Bulgaria
The constantly increasing trend of infections in Bulgaria becomes worrying. In the last 24 hours in the Balkan country, 914 cases of coronavirus have been registered, equivalent to 14.4% of the 6,324 diagnostic tests carried out. The highest number of infected people is registered in the capital, Sofia: 260. The total number of infections since the beginning of the epidemic is 27,507 to date. Since yesterday, fifteen deaths have been reported and the total number of victims has risen to 944. The number of cases of infection among medical health personnel has risen to 1,483. Currently there are 9,885 active cases in Bulgaria, while 1,426 patients are hospitalized in hospitals, 74 of them in intensive care. The situation is especially serious in the regions of Targovishte (north) and Blagoevgrad (south), where the code rossò has been introduced, the greatest danger of infection. In both regions there are 120 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Health Minister Kostadin Anghelov called for limiting travel to the two regions.
Croatia
In Croatia, the series of negative records on the coronavirus front continues, and today for the first time the threshold of a thousand daily infections has been exceeded. According to the daily bulletin of the Civil Protection Crisis Unit, 1,131 new infections have been registered since yesterday. The maximum is also the number of patients with active infection, to date 4,233. Of these, 505 are in hospital treatment and 24 are connected to a ventilator for artificial respiration. One person has died since yesterday, bringing the total deaths to 345. Since the start of the epidemic in Croatia, just under 24,000 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed, out of the 385,000 swabs performed and a population of four million. The most serious situation is that of the capital, Zagreb, where 231 new infections have been registered since yesterday, while the only region that is still in the green zone is Istria, where there are only 21 infected patients, two more than yesterday. Hospitals have been put on alert and, according to the press, if this trend of growth of new infections continues, the health system could be seriously compromised in the next two weeks.
United States
New cases of coronavirus in the United States in the last 24 hours have been 62,000, the highest level since July 31. This is what emerges from the Washington Post’s calculations. According to NBC calculations, the total number of cases in the United States has exceeded 8 million. Coronavirus cases are on the rise in states preparing for US elections. Wisconsin and North Carolina, where Donald Trump won in 2016 but is now trailing Joe Biden, are experiencing a jump in contagion. In the last 24 hours, there have been 2,532 cases in North Carolina, almost double the previous day, while Wisconsin has had 3,747 cases. Arizona reported more than 1,000 cases in one day for the first time in a month, while Florida saw 3,573 cases.
Argentina
Argentina has registered 17,096 infections in the last 24 hours, which brought the total to 949,063, but above all, it marked the new daily record of infected since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March. The Telam news agency writes it today. In addition, according to the latest bulletin from the health authorities, another 421 people died, bringing the death toll to 25,342. In the resuscitation units of Argentine hospitals, it was also known, there are 4,278 people, with a bed occupancy percentage of 64.4% in the national territory and 64.7% in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires.
China
A new outbreak also in China. The insufficient sanitation of the Tac ward of the Qingdao Thoracic Hospital has led to a new Covid19 outbreak in the city, in east China’s Shandong province. This was announced today by a local health official. On September 24, two asymptomatic dockworkers who had handled imported frozen seafood at Qingdao port tested positive for Covid-19. They were isolated at the Thoracic Hospital and underwent a CT scan in the dedicated ward of the hospital. But Lixin, deputy director of the Provincial Health Commission, explained at a press conference that the Tac room was contaminated due to lack of sanitation and that the virus has spread even more to other people. But he also noted that the new outbreak was neither caused nor did it cause cross-infections in the community. As of yesterday, 13 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been reported in this new wave of infections. Qingdao is conducting a city-wide molecular testing campaign on all of its 11 million residents, the results of which are expected overnight.
Iran
There are 4,552 Covid-19 cases recorded in the last 24 hours in Iran, for a total of 522,387 confirmed infections. The new victims amounted to 265, reaching a total of 29,870. The recovered amount to 420,910, while in intensive care there are 4,684 patients. The tests carried out amount to 4,454,570. Iranian Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Lari reported in her daily bulletin.
Australia
The only good news comes from Australia. After only two new coronavirus cases were recorded in the Australian state of Victoria, Daniel Andrews announced that anti-Covid measures will soon be relaxed. It’s already been 99 days since tougher rules were imposed in the capital Melbourne, including the recommendation to stay home as long as possible. The number of new infections recorded today is the lowest since no new coronavirus cases were reported on June 9. “Today we can be optimistic. We kept to the point, we did not allow frustration to get the better of us and we made the conscious decision to defeat the second wave, “Andrews said, announcing a release from restrictions,” safely, “starting Sunday.
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