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9 am – Argentina, new record of infections: 17,000
Argentina has registered 17,096 infections in the last 24 hours, which brought the total to 949,063, but above all, it marked the new daily record of infected since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March. The news agency writes it today Telam. In addition, according to the latest bulletin from the health authorities, another 421 people died, bringing the death toll to 25,342.
8.48am – New Zealand votes, Ardern leading the way for pandemic management On Saturday October 17, New Zealand will go to vote to choose between outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the 40-year-old leader of the Labor Party who has based her policy on the concept of kindness, and Judith Collins, 61, at the head of the Party Nacional, dubbed a shredder for its anti-crime measures. Ardern offers a huge advantage in the way she has dealt with these three years that have seen her deal with the Christchruch terrorist attack and the pandemic. But critics blame them for not keeping all promises and for leaving issues like child poverty or Maori behind.
8.26 am – China, in Tsingtao 10.94 million samples collected
in massive tests (and no new contagion)
The Chinese coastal city of Tsingtao, Shandong province, collected 10.94 million samples during its nucleic acid scan to diagnose Covid for all residents, which the administration promised to complete today. , Friday October 16. The results of 8.84 million samples collected did not report any other positive cases after those already reported, city authorities said at a news conference.
8.14 – Locatelli: Data does not suggest a new lock I do not believe that there are elements that can guide us to foresee a next, new confinement, much less a confinement to be carried out in such a definite time, but still relatively distant, like the Christmas holidays. So, in an interview with him Messenger of the Will bethe president of the Superior Council of Sanit Franco Locatelli, adding for what will be decisive what each of us will be able to contribute in individual behaviors as a contribution to prevent the increase in new daily cases from assuming an exponential trend that escapes control . In short, we certainly have time to reverse the march, but everyone’s commitment is critical because we can no longer afford to deviate from the good rules.
8.15 am – Intensive care alert, for 10 high-risk regions
There are ten high-risk regions (Abruzzo, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Lombardy, Puglia, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria and Valle d’Aosta) with a probability of exceeding the 30% threshold of intensive care units occupied by Covid patients practically true. All the Regions have, then, the Rt index above 1 except Calabria and Basilicata. In addition, Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Marche, Piedmont, Bolzano, Tuscany, Umbria are in the so-called scenario 3 established by Iss and the Ministry of Health which, among other things, foresees possible temporary closures at the local level, closure of activities social / cultural / sports and temporary closure of schools, as reported by tracking data.
8 am – Conte da Bruxelles: Close schools in Campania?
Not the best solution
Closing schools in this way is not the best solution. Thus, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte commented on the decision taken by the president of the Campania region, De Luca, at the end of the first working day of the European Council in Brussels. Conte explained that from a formal point of view, individual regions can adopt more restrictive measures. I simply say, and make a first assessment, that immediately closing all schools en bloc is a solution that seems to be within reach and very easy.
7.15am – Trump: I am the president, I cannot stay in the basement
I’m the president. I have to meet people. I can’t stay in the basement. This is how Donald Trump expressed himself, who at the beginning of the month announced that he was positive for Covid and that he was hospitalized for three days. A clear reference to when Joe Biden was accused of hiding in the basement from his home in Delaware, in the midst of a pandemic. I can’t stay in a room. I have to stay on the sidelines, added the US president from Miami during the remote television duel with Biden.
7.12 – In Germany another 7,334 cases, never so many in 24 hours
new record of infections in Germany where in the last 24 hours another 7,334 cases of Covid have been registered, never so many since the beginning of the epidemic. The Robert Koch Institute reported this. the second consecutive day that Germany reports such high figures (here the map of the epidemic in the world).
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