Covid also infects Antarctica: no longer ‘virus free’ – Abroad



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Washington, December 22, 2020 – Countries stopping flights to and from London continue to increase, with the result that Britain is isolated,: the fear, of course, is that the contagion of English variant of the virus about which very little is knownPfizer and modern are testing their vaccines more). And it’s right in vaccination plans who aim to get out of the nightmare of repeated waves of Coronavirus. In Italy the V-day starts on December 27: Since then the mass vaccination plan begins.

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But obviously, waiting for the vaccine, they continue count infections and victims in the world.

Germany: 731 more dead

Germany registers 19,528 new cases of coronavirus and 731 deaths, compared to 16,643 infections and 226 deaths registered yesterday in the Robert Koch Institute newsletter and the record of more than 30,000 cases last Friday. With the new data, the total number of infections rises to 1,530,180 and the death toll to 27,006 deaths. On the other hand, 1,136,700 people have been cured. Meanwhile, Germany has decided enlarge “until January 6” closure of its borders with Great Britain and South Africa, where a more contagious variant of Covid-19 has been recorded, announced the German Ministry of Health. Initially, the closure of “connections with buses, trains, ships and planes” and the prohibition of entry to Germany for people from these two countries was expected until December 31.




Antarctica is no longer Covid-free

They registered 36 almost coronavirus in one Chilean base in Antarctica, continent until now that was the last declared “virus free”. According to Chilean media, the outbreak was identified at the General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme base, which is located one of the 13 Chilean bases in Antarctica. The infected, 26 military personnel and 10 maintenance workers, have already been transferred to Chile, said the Chilean ex-officio, stating in a statement that “thanks to timely preventive action it was possible” to identify the cases.

Also infected three ship’s crew sent to support the base. At the time of the massive spread of the pandemic last spring, winter began in Antarctica and the six-month night continued, with researchers closed, isolated at their bases. But the return of the sun and the arrival of new researchers to dozens of bases on the southern continent, the coldest and most inhospitable on the planet where there are no permanent inhabitants, has brought the risk of contagion.




Gb, more than 84 thousand deaths linked to Covid

A total of 81,416 deaths Related to Covid 19 have been recorded so far in the UK, according to the latest reports from statistical agencies. The total includes 73,730 deaths in England and Wales as of December 11 (and recorded as of December 19). Since these statistics were compiled, a further 2,421 deaths are known to have occurred in England, plus 85 in Scotland, 193 in Wales and 83 in Northern Ireland, according to additional data published in the government’s coronavirus dashboard.
Together these totals mean that 84,198 Covid-19 related deaths have occurred in the UK so far. In south-east England, 294 deaths were recorded in the week before December 11, up from 250 the week before and the highest number since the week ending May 22. Eastern England recorded 201 deaths from Covid-19 in the week to December 11, up from 182 and the highest between the week and May 29. In the East Midlands, 334 deaths from Covid-19 were recorded in the week through December 11. This number increased from 323 the previous week, but down from the 361 recorded in the week through November 27.




Russia: another 561 deaths

Russia reports almost 29,000 new cases of coronavirus and 561 deaths. With the new confirmed infections (28,776), the total number of people infected since the beginning of the emergency amounts to 2,906,503, according to the official bulletin reported by the Tass agency. Even today, most of the new cases, 7,237, have been diagnosed in Moscow. The updated death toll is 51,912. In Russia, where authorities reported a record 29,350 new infections yesterday, there are 535,071 ‘active’ cases.

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