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Japan
Japan has once again plunged into the nightmare of the pandemic: on Saturday, November 28, the country’s health authorities recorded a historical record of new cases. They have been 2,688 new Sars-CoV-2 infections identified in the last 24 hours. The total contagion balance was updated to 145,365. With i 32 deaths reported yesterday, the total number of people who died in the country amounts to 2,119. Another worrying record since the pandemic began: For the first time, Japan exceeds the threshold of 440 busy intensive care.
United States
There is a curfew in San Francisco. The city of Golden Gate, located on the west coast of the United States, has announced a series of restrictions due to the increase in cases of Coronavirus. Non-essential activities will be closed and meetings will be banned from 10 pm to 5 am, a measure that will remain in effect until December 21, announced Mayor London Breed. San Mateo County, near San Francisco, is also affected by the same measures.
Nationwide, November was a very bad month for the United States, with more than 4 million new cases, more than double the month of October. According to data from New York Times, who underscored how many states do not post updates over the long Thanksgiving weekend, currently the average is 170,000 new cases per day. More than 1 million infections have been recorded in the last week, a figure that brings the total number since the start of the pandemic to more than 13 million.
Biden trusts Jeffrey Zients
On the political level, it is expected that President-elect Joe Biden will make official the figure who will be in charge of developing an anti-contagion strategy in the new administration. Barring surprises, the lead role will be played by Jeffrey Zients, Obama’s former economic adviser. It will be he who will have to form a decisive axis with those who fight on the ground against the pandemic, starting with the number one of the Institute of Infectious Diseases, virologist Anthony Fauci.
Brazil
In the last 24 hours, Brazil registered 51,922 new cases of coronavirus and 587 deaths, according to data published by the Ministry of Health. In total, Brazil has registered 6,290,272 infections and 172,561 deaths since the start of the pandemic. In recent weeks there has been a significant increase in the daily average of deaths and infections as well as in the speed of transmission in the South American country.
“A coordinated and effective central policy is lacking”
In a study carried out by researchers from the Federal University of the State of Sao Paulo, the University of Brasilia and the University of the State of Bahia, we read that “the situation has drastically deteriorated in the last two weeks.” Experts recall that there was an “explosive increase” in the circulation of the virus due to the lack of a “coordinated and effective central policy” against the pandemic and the “lack of systematic tests with case monitoring.” The newspaper State of S.Paulo revealed that around 6 million anti-Covid tests remained in a federal government warehouse rather than being sent to states and municipalities.
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