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The number of deaths confirmed by Covid 19 registered in the world has exceeded the threshold of 850 thousand. According to the map updated in real time by Johns Hopkins University, which compiles official data provided by countries around the planet, the day after the total number of infections of 24 million is exceeded, the total number of deaths reached 850,544. Cases now number 24,484,767. The United States continues to be the most affected country in the world with at least 183,000 deaths and more than 6 million infections, according to figures from the JHU. Only two other countries have reported more than a million cases: Brazil with around 3 million and India with almost 4 million. Meanwhile, the
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India, cases continue to rise. Today’s exams for two million students
The number of people infected by the coronavirus in India has risen to nearly 4 million (3,691,166), an increase of 69,000 from yesterday. Data released by local health authorities, which speak of 891 deaths. bringing the death toll to 65,288, the third heaviest in the world after the United States (183,597) and Brazil (121,515). The Times of India, however, notes that the cure rate is 76.94 percent, indicating that two million people have defeated the virus according to the health ministry. Today pubs and discos are reopening, and two million students will face the state exam to enter the university, between masks and distancing.
In recent days, the country has incinerated all the records in terms of daily positivity diagnoses, traveling at the rate of almost 80,000 infections a day. A few hours ago the Ministry of Health issued a bulletin in which a slight decrease in the progression of infections is observed, which are still very high: in fact, 69,921 swabs tested positive in the last 24 hours. In August alone, India recorded nearly two million new cases and 28,000 deaths in the past month.
And today, almost two million Indian students will participate in the university entrance exams. The federal government had refused to postpone the tests, already postponed twice this year, despite mounting pressure from some students and opposition parties who feared increased infections, as well as the difficulty of getting to the testing centers. . due to transport limitations related to the virus.
Happened a million cases in Russia
Russia has exceeded one million cases of Covid 19: according to official data, there are 1,000,048 infections in the country since the beginning of the epidemic. In the last 24 hours there have been 4,729 new infections and 123 deaths. According to the authorities, the deaths caused by the new virus are 17,299 in total.
Hungary closes its borders
The country of Orban has closed its external borders, the only EU country that has decided at this stage on this drastic measure to contain the spread of the Covid 19 epidemic. As of today, people enter the country only for justified exceptions such as those granted to cross-border workers but with precise limits, to participants in important cultural and religious sports, diplomatic and official trips. Travel for business relationships will also be very limited.
