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L ‘Europe approaches the Christmas introducing severe restrictions, curfew and confinement, the most difficult began today Germany at the request of the chancellor Angela Merkel. And thewho, in his recommendations, he calls for the use of masks during family gatherings at parties. The World Health Organization also warns that there is a “high risk” of a new wave of coronavirus in early 2021 in Europe, referring to the hypothesis that EU countries have feared for weeks.
The situation remains serious, although with figures much lower than the Italian ones, in Germany, which communicated the record of 952 new victims why COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. The numbers published by Robert Koch Institute, which mark the absolute peak reached in a single day since the start of the pandemic but which could also include deaths not counted in the previous days, arrive while the country has decided to close everything a few days before the start of the Christmas holidays. The intensive care of the Saxony, Land in emergency for weeks that has already entered a blockade since Monday, with shops and schools closed. “In recent days we have already been forced on several occasions to decide who receives oxygen,” said a doctor. Zittau, Mathias Mengeltalking on the radio MDR. The Christian Democratic governor of the region, Michael Kretschmer, also urged citizens not to go “to Christmas In the church. We are extremely alarmed to see that the number of contagion continue to increase, “he added, announcing that for the next few days he is not ruling out new measures on internal mobility in the region.
Meanwhile, also in the U.S the coronavirus shows no signs of slowing down the spread: new record of contagion more than 248 thousand new cases. In the United States, for the fourteenth day in a row, there are more than 100,000 hospitalizations in 24 hours. Meanwhile, London enters the red zone and the president of the French Scientific Council, Jean-Francois Delfraissy, raises the hypothesis of a way out of the pandemic crisis “in the summer or autumn of 2021” thanks to vaccine.
Germany – The previous death record had been reached last Friday, when they had been 598. Today, however, the German death toll reaches close to a thousand, a threshold the country had not even imagined it could reach. The government had understood that the shutdown light had not worked since early December and tried to rush to cover itself with a total shutdown, starting today. Perhaps too late: the Rki reports that they have also registered 27,728 new cases, many more than last Wednesday when daily infections were 20,815. The peak of positives in one day was always reached last Friday, with 29,875. Lothar wieler, director of the Robert Koch Institute, commented that the situation “is more serious than it has been so far “since” the number of cases is higher than ever and it keeps going up. There is a danger that worst situation and that it is increasingly difficult to manage the pandemic and its consequences. “
U.S – At U.S the dead were 2,706. In addition, they have been registered for 13 days more than 200,000 cases a day. Also the number of people hospitalized and ai maximum since the beginning of the pandemic, with 113,000 patients hospitalized for Covid on Tuesday alone, according to updated data from the US Department of Health. vaccination campaign which was launched Monday in the United States, with the first administrations of the drug from Pfizer-BioNTech, Will not allow stem The current increase, warned health authorities, because it will take several months before a sufficiently large part of the population is immunized. For this reason, experts insist on the need to respect all precautions, especially when the end of the year holidays are approaching.
UK – A London restrictions at ‘level 3’, the maximum of measures anti-Covid on the scale developed by the British government. The new restrictions will also apply to parts of theEssex and theHertfordshire and anticipate the closure of pubs and restaurants, the prohibition of receiving people at home outside own members of the family, while you will be allowed to meet outdoors in groups of up to six. The situation in the capital, where there is an increase in infections by COVID-19, is “very worrying,” said the mayor Sadiq Khan, urging government intervention to control the progress of the epidemic. The Minister of Health, Matt hancock, explained that the measure was necessary to relieve pressure on hospitals.
France – In an interview with The parisian, the president of the French Scientific Council, Jean-Francois Delfraissy asks the French to be cautious. We must “hold out” and remain cautious “for another three to six months.” France is currently in a phase of “stagnation of new cases around 10-15 thousand per day”, he said, recalling that “the cold wave has favored the resumption of circulation” of the virus. The risk of one third wave “It is not negligible” but we must “do everything possible to avoid it.” The country could be better prepared in the coming months to face the coronavirushe continued, thanks to the advent of “more sensitive antigenic tests”, “retreats salivary and a new drug based on monoclonal antibodies “.
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