Coronavirus, Austria returns to lockdown. Partial closure in Greece and Portugal. Register of cases in Germany: 19 thousand

Every day, European countries continue to record a record number of infections, with the pandemic now forcing most governments to resort to new restrictions. The Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, announced that the country is closure until November 30. The government has decided a curfew and the closure of restaurants, hotels, cultural and sports institutions, in an attempt to stop the second wave of the pandemic.

In Germany, in the last 24 hours, new positives have for the first time exceeded the threshold of 19 thousand almost (19,059), also recording 103 deaths. This is the fourth consecutive day in which the country registers a record of cases, thus surpassing the 500 thousand infections since the beginning of the pandemic, with beyond 10 thousand victims and the new rules imposed by the Chancellor Angela Merkel which will start tomorrow. Meanwhile the Bavaria send via and tourists: before November 2, they must leave the hotels in the region. The same announcement was made yesterday by Schleswig-Holstein and of Brandenburg.

According to British media such as Times and the guardian, also the government of London Now he seems determined to return to a form of national blockade to try to stop the wave of infections that show no signs of abating. Boris johnson, after resisting in recent days the suggestion of imposing a generalized two-week lockdown, is preparing to announce a longer one throughout the England. Estimates speak of a possible spread of the virus in winter up to four times greater than the “worst” scenario drawn by the same scientists in recent months and the threat of another 85 thousand dead.

Starting next Wednesday, November 4, Portugal will return to partial blocking which will affect 70% of its population. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Lisbon, Antonio Costa, at the end of an extraordinary council of ministers dedicated to the health crisis. “The time has come when it is necessary to take more restrictive measures to have control over this pandemic.” Same election announced by the Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Since Tuesday Pub, restaurants and others Recreational activities will be closed in Athens and other major cities and the night curfew: from midnight to 5 in the morning. “We must act now before the units intensive care they are overwhelmed, ”the prime minister said in a speech to the nation. “It is not a total block like last spring,” however, he said.

In SpainInstead, hundreds of people took to the streets a Barcelona to protest against recent anti-Covid measures including the curfew and the prohibition to leave the city during the holiday weekend. According to a spokesperson for the Mossos, more than 700 people were in the street for the demonstration. Fifty of them “started throwing dangerous objects” at the officers. Also record some looting in shopsas well as damage to police cars. Fifty officers were injured and 12 people were arrested at their place, police confirmed on Twitter.

He still criticizes the situation in France, where infections are the highest in Europe in absolute numbers. The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, has launched a new call for citizen responsibility on Twitter. “Yes, imprisonment is a test for all French people. But I remember that Covid-19 is: a patient every 2 seconds, a hospitalization every 30 seconds, a death every 4 minutes. Let’s respect this isolation, let’s stick together. The state will protect and accompany them ”.

Coming from Europe, even in the United States there is a new record wave: in the last 24 hours there have been 94 thousand new cases of coronavirus, an unprecedented number in the country since the start of the pandemic, according to the Johns Hopkins University. Other surveys even speak of 97 thousand new cases.

Britain – Slight decrease today in the daily cases of coronavirus diagnosed in the United Kingdom (from 24,405 to 21,915) which thus exceed one million since the start of the pandemic, a threshold already exceeded in Europe by Spain and France, while deaths in the 24 hours They go back to 326 from 273 yesterday, for a total of 46,555.

Poland – The number of infections in Poland continues to grow. Yesterday 22,000 cases were registered and 281 people died. The authorities have decided to close the cemeteries to coincide with the reappearance of All Saints and the dead to contain the spread of the epidemic. Temporary hospitals will be opened in various places in the country to secure another 5,000 beds for Covid patients. A hospital has already been installed in the Warsaw football stadium.

Brazil – With others 22mila contagion and 508 deaths registered yesterday, Brazil is approaching the budget of 160 thousand dead due to Covid. But the president Jair bolsonaro, in a meeting with supporters, expressed the belief that the epidemic “is ending.” Redefining Covid, which he has also hired in recent months, as “a small influence,” Bolsonaro is also attacking those, such as the governor of the state of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, is fighting for the mandatory vaccine, accusing it of being “authoritarian.”

India – In India there were more than 48 thousand new cases of Covid and 551 deaths in the last 24 hours. This was announced by the Indian Ministry of Health, with a total number of infections exceeding 8.1 million, the highest number in the world after the United States. The registered victims are more than 121 thousand.

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