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Rome, November 5, 2020 – The pandemic of Coronavirus does not stop at world, but the lens is increasingly focused on European data, which continue to worry. It’s no better in America: while Americans remain with bated breath waiting to know who between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the next president, America breaks another sad record about the coronavirus. Yesterday for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic more than 100 thousand cases of covid in a single day (As virologist Anthony Fauci had predicted last week).
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The WHO even denounces “an explosion” in the number of Covid 19 cases in the old continent, and asks the states to adopt “specific and proportionate” measures. However, the World Health Organization believes that schools should remain open “until the end” and close only as a last resort, underlines the WHO director for Europe, Hans Kluge. “It only took a couple of days to see how the European region has seen an increase of more than a million cases,” explained Hans Kluge, in an interview with AFP. “We also see mortality gradually increasing,” he added.
France, almost 60 thousand new cases
In France, the health situation is increasingly serious, prompting the government to evaluate new restrictions. “Faced with more restrictive measures in France, patients transferred and anger from merchants” headlines the newspaper Le Monde, reporting on the latest statements by President Emmanuel Macron.
The new closures in France were accompanied by controversy and malfunctions. “The situation is dire and continues to deteriorate, and resuscitation services are approaching collapse with a patient hospitalized for Covid-19 every 30 seconds“, said the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal. The head of state also relaunched his call for” responsibility and absolute mobilization of each person. “To date, at least 4,080 infected patients are hospitalized in intensive care, according to availability. total of 6,400 beds, not only for Covid.
The absolute numbers in France are scary: 58,146 new cases in one day. This was announced by the health director, Jerome Salomon, underlining that the country has reached 1.6 million cases since the beginning of the epidemic, the first European country by the number of infections. If we do not respect the confinement, “the second wave will be bigger and longer”, warned the Minister of Health, Olivier Veran, at the same press conference. Salomon reported that the death toll reached 39,037, with 363 new deaths. In the last 24 hours, there have been 3,000 new hospitalizations for covid-19, of which 447 in intensive care.
Germany, almost 20 thousand infections
Germany touches 20 thousand infections in 24 hours: this is the new absolute record since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. As reported by the Robert Koch Institut, the national epidemiological center, 19,990 new infections are recorded daily. The previous record was last Saturday with 19,059 cases. The deaths, always within 24 hours, were 118, bringing the total number to 10,930.
However, the R index has dropped to 0.81. The new “soft lockdown” decided last week by the German government together with the Laenders, which began on Monday, includes, among other measures, the closure of restaurants, bars, cinemas, theaters, discotheques, the reduction “to a minimum” of all social contacts with the permission for a maximum of two families or partners to meet outdoors, while schools, kindergartens and businesses remain open.
Britain, infections are on the decline
Daily infections and deaths related to the coronavirus in the United Kingdom fell slightly on the day of the entry into force of the national closure imposed by the government of Boris Johnson. According to data from the Ministry of Health, deaths in 24 hours were 378 compared to 492 yesterday, while the new cases diagnosed are just over 24,000 compared to more than 25,000 of a total of daily tests carried out that go back to more than 300,000. All British daily indicators (deaths, infections and hospitalizations in general) are now lower than those registered by Italy.
Austria, 15 red zones
All 15 Austrian districts are now red, according to the traffic light indicating the risk of coronavirus infection – the coronavirus commission decided this afternoon. The last yellow and green regions have disappeared from the map. 7,400 new infections, Kurier reports. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 132,000 have been infected and 50,643 people are currently sick with covid-19.
Sweden, the highest figure in history
Sweden, whose pandemic strategy without containment measures attracted international attention, today registered 4,034 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic. The increase from a maximum of 3,254 daily cases reported on October 29. Sweden has repeatedly set new daily records in recent weeks, while hospitalizations and deaths among people with the virus have also started to rise. Sweden recorded five new deaths, bringing the total to 6,002 deaths.
Meanwhile, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Loefven locked himself into self-isolation after a person from his close circle came in contact with a Covid positive.
Ukraine, a new record
Ukraine has registered a record 9,850 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. The day before, 9,524 infections had been confirmed. The total figure reached 430,467 infections and 7,924 deaths. The daily count of coronavirus infections rose in late September and remained consistently high throughout October, prompting the government to extend lockdown measures until the end of this year.
Switzerland, another 10,000 infections
In Switzerland in the last 24 hours there have been another 10,128 cases of coronavirus and 62 deaths. Another 399 patients have arrived at hospitals and the government has decided to employ the military to help the health system, under great pressure, manage the increase in hospitalizations.
Japan, more than a thousand cases a day
For the first time since the end of August, daily cases of coronavirus in Japan exceed 1,000 due to greater population movements after government incentives supported to encourage domestic tourism. In addition to major metropolitan centers, including Tokyo and Osaka, 119 infections have been reported in the prefecture north of Hokkaido, specifically in the capital Sapporo, which has become a popular tourist attraction.
China, stop flights from Italy
China temporarily suspends the entry into its territory of citizens residing in Italy in possession of Chinese visas and residence permits for work, private business and family reunification. The Chinese embassy and consulates in Italy will no longer provide the ‘health declaration’ authentication services necessary to return to China. The contraction is due to the new wave of Covid-19 in Europe and has already affected other countries such as Great Britain and Belgium.
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