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Britain has removed Italy from the list of safe countries on the Covid front, which means that anyone arriving in the UK from Italy on or after Sunday must observe a 14-day period of self-isolation. This was announced by the British Ministry of Transport quoted by the Press Association.
The UK, according to Sky News reports, today records 18,980 daily coronavirus infections and 138 victims.
the the Polish government has announced a partial shutdown in the country due to the increase in coronavirus infections.
The evolution of the coronavirus situation in Europe is “very disturbing”. The director of the regional office of thewho, Hans Kluge, during a briefing on Covid-19. “The number of coronavirus cases per day is increasing, as are hospital admissions. Covid is now the fifth leading cause of death and the threshold of 1,000 deaths per day has been reached,” he said.
Italy is one of the five European countries that appears in orange in the first harmonized map published today by the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Ecdc) based on data submitted by individual countries. Up to 17 countries, including France, Spain and the United Kingdom, are completely colored red. In Italy, the Calabria region even appears in green.
Also there Germany He runs to take cover in the face of the increase in coronavirus cases, which in the last 24 hours have registered the record of positives: 6,638. The previous record for cases in 24 hours was on March 28 when 6,294 were recorded. Given the “sometimes very steep” growth curve in some areas of Germany, “contact restrictions will be introduced in areas where new infections exceed 50 new infections per 1000 inhabitants both in public and in private”: Chancellor Angela announced Merkel. “We know that the data reflects the events of the previous ten days and therefore if we introduce measures we have to wait ten days to see if the dynamics of the epidemic has stopped or decreased and only then will we see if other measures are necessary,” he added .
United Kingdom – London will go to “high alert” level from Saturday at midnight, the second in the scale of restrictions imposed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. British media reports. The measure provides for the prohibition of meetings at home with friends.
FRANCE – After the intervention of Emmanuel Macron on television – with the president who announced to the French the unprecedented curfew measure for 6 weeks in Paris and 9 other cities in critical situation with the epidemic – It is up to Prime Minister Jean Castex to explain to the French, at a press conference in the afternoon, the details of the measure in force since Saturday. The words of Castex are especially awaited in relation to the criticisms and protests of the hospitality sector, which complains of being severely sanctioned. The curfew, in addition to the capital, covers Lille, Grenoble, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Montpellier, Rouen, Toulouse and Saint-Etienne. 20 million people live in these metropolitan areas affected by the measure. Yesterday’s figures show a further worsening of the health situation, with more than 100 deaths in 24 hours and 193 admissions to the resuscitation rooms of hospitals, a phenomenon that greatly worries the authorities after the critical experiences of the first wave of the Coronavirus in spring. .
RUSSIA – The death toll from COVID-19 has increased by 286 in the last 24 hours, the highest since the pandemic began. The coronavirus crisis center reports this. The previous record of 244 deaths was recorded on October 13. In total, according to the crisis center, 23,491 people died in the country. The infections were then 13,754 for a total of 1,354,163.
In Moscow, as of October 19, a digital pass system will be in operation, via SMS or QR code, to enter discos, clubs or bars in the capital from midnight to six in the morning. This was announced by Mayor Serghei Sobyanin, calling it an “experiment” to avoid its closure as decided in many “megacities of the world.” “Of course, the passes alone will not prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but in the event that an infection is detected in one of the visitors it will be possible to notify everyone present that they are at risk and that they must undergo a test”, writes Sobyanin.
BULGARIA – New record of infections: in the last 24 hours, 819 cases of coronavirus have been registered, which is equivalent to 13.8% of the 5,898 diagnostic tests carried out. The highest number of infected people is registered in the capital Sofia: 265. The total number of infections since the beginning of the epidemic is now 26,593. Since yesterday, six deaths have been reported and the total number of victims amounts to 929. The number of cases of contagion among medical health personnel has increased to 1,440. There are currently 9,175 active cases in Bulgaria, while 1,380 patients are hospitalized in hospitals, 67 of them in intensive care. The Ministry of Health has announced that controls on the preventive anti-life measures in force will be intensified, but no new restrictive measures will be imposed.
CZECH REPUBLIC – Register of cases, registered 9,544 new infected in the last 24 hours. This was announced by the Ministry of Health as reported by The Guardian. this is the highest number of cases in one day since the start of the pandemic. October for the Czech Republic was a black month, with the number of infected people almost doubled for a total of 139,290, out of a population of 10.7 million.
ARGENTINA – It rises to 5th place in the world for coronavirus infections, having surpassed Colombia in the last 24 hours, reaching 931,967 cases. The Telam news agency reports. In the last 24 hours, the Argentine health authorities have confirmed 14,932 new infections and 350 deaths, which has raised the number of the latter to 24,921. Currently 4,316 people are hospitalized in intensive care throughout the country, with a percentage of bed occupancy in this sector of 64.1% nationwide and 63.5% in Buenos Aires and the province. Faced with the dilemma of a situation that, on the one hand, requires stricter control measures for the movement of people, and on the other, a stimulus for vital economic activities, President Alberto Fernández argued that the pandemic “forces us to rethink the world that is difficult “. it will go back to being what it was. “Speaking at the opening of a conference organized by Argentine businessmen (Idea), the president added that” we will have to reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of the way of life we had until the virus appeared. In the world ranking, with its 931,967 cases, Argentina has surpassed Colombia and in fifth place is followed by the United States (7,916,100), India (7,307,097), Brazil (5,140,863) and Russia (1,332,824). ).
JAPAN – The spread of Covid-19 continues to generate more and more anxieties and fears within the same family unit. In this sense, the Tokyo metropolitan government intends to finance a program to limit the possibility of contagion of the oldest components that, despite having tested negative for the virus, continue to live in close contact with an infected person. The program provides for the reception of non-carrier elderly people, who often live isolated in their homes, providing adequate facilities and regular assistance. According to the plan, the municipalities will coordinate the transportation of citizens and the necessary care through the support of qualified personnel. The metropolitan government has allocated a figure equivalent to 10 million yen, the equivalent of 80,000 euros, explaining that the details will be communicated in the coming days. On Wednesday, Tokyo reported 177 infections while nationally the positivity reached 552. To date, in Japan the numbers of the pandemic remain well below the average values of Western countries, with a total of 90,818 infections and 1,659 deaths overall.
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