Coronavirus France, Marseille furious with Macron: “The squeeze is an affront”



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Rome, September 24, 2020 – Approaching altitude 32 million me contagion verified in the world since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, positive cases of Covid-19 so far have been 31,880,241, with 976,789 deaths worldwide. The most affected country are the U.S, with 6,934,205 and 201,909 deaths.

In Europe the tension is still very high France. The new anti-coronavirus measures implemented yesterday by the French government are generating controversy. This morning the deputy mayor of Marseilles, Benoit Payan, stated that the the new restrictive rules represent an “affront”, because approved “without consultation” by the current administration of Emmanuel macron and asked for an extension of 10 days before putting into effect the new repression. Yesterday the new positive cases in a single day exceeded 13,000, up to 13,072. The positivity rate has increased again, now at 6.2%. “The situation of” Covid-19 “infections in some EU states is worse than the peak in March.” The European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, says this.

Israel, 6,808 new cases

In the last 24 hours Israel registered 6,808 new infections: it is the second consecutive day that infections amounted to almost 7,000 out of 52,839 swabs with a morbidity rate of 12.9%. To stop the pandemic, the government has decided to strengthen the current emergency shutdown with more restrictions. The first Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced that the increase in infections is pushing the country “to the edge of the abyss.” Established a practically total confinement: Few shops will be allowed to open from tomorrow until October 10. Religious and prayer meetings will be limited to 20 people and in locations no more than one kilometer from your home. the synagogues they will only open for that Yom Kippur. The government has yet to decide whether or not to close Ben Gurion Airport. The Weitzman Institute, one of the most authoritative in the country and in the world, has calculated that if in the first wave – last March – the infections were around 16 thousand, in this second in the last 4 days they were 17 thousand.

United States, another 1,098 dead

the U.S recorded 37,330 cases and 1,098 deaths from the virus yesterday: this is what is clear from the Johns Hopkins University counts. The new data brings the total number of infections in the country to 6,934,205 and the number of deaths to 201,909.

Russia, an expanding pandemic

Infections continue to increase in Russia. In the last 24 hours, 6,595 cases have been registered, for a total of 1,128,836. It is the highest figure since July 12. The dead were 149, for a total of 19,948. In Moscow, the epicenter of the first wave, there were more than 1,000 infections.

Germany, there are 2,143 new cases

The number of infections rises again Germany. New data from the Robert Koch Institute speak of 2,143 new cases and 19 other deaths, compared to 1,769 infections and 13 deaths reported yesterday. In total, 278,070 cases and 9,428 victims have been registered in the country since the start of the health emergency. On the other hand, around 246,900 people have been healed.

Spain, 31,034 total victims

The death toll from the coronavirus in Spain It has exceeded 31 thousand: reports the newspaper El País. There were 130 more deaths yesterday, bringing the total death toll since the start of the pandemic to 31,034. At the same time, infections amounted to 693,556, of which 11,289 were recorded yesterday.

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