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Covid cases in the world exceed 40 million, according to data published by Johns Hopkins University, while the confirmed deaths are 1,113,750 since the start of the pandemic. And also in Italy infections continue to increase: the latest figure, relative to Monday, October 19, of 9,338 positives and 73 deaths compared to 98,862 swabs (here the bulletin with the data and here the bulletins that show the situation since the beginning of the pandemic).
9.20 – Giro d’Italia, UAE driver and Covid-positive AG2R staff member
A UAE Team Emirates pilot tested positive for Covid-19 and was entrusted to the team doctor who ordered the isolation measures and took the necessary measures, in accordance with WHO rules. This was announced by the organization of the Giro d’Italia after the 492 tests carried out on the rest day. A staff member of the AG2R-La Mondiale Team also tested positive for Covid-19 and was entrusted to the team doctor who ordered the isolation measures and took the necessary actions, in accordance with the rules of the World Health Organization. .
8.50 am – Spain, Ryanair and EasyJet reduce flights
The second wave of the coronavirus is forcing airlines to worsen seasonal forecasts for the coming months and now the goal is to try to save Christmas, although it is already estimated that there will be an 80% drop in bookings for this period of the year. ‘year. In Spain, the low-cost airline Ryanair, which had planned to operate 60 percent of its flights, announced that it would reduce this figure to 40 percent, after suffering a drastic drop in demand due to increased restrictions by numerous European governments. A similar policy was adopted by EasyJet, another large low-cost airline that operates in the Spanish skies, with an operation reduced to just 25% of flights until the end of the year. To try not to further aggravate the situation, the Airline Association (Ala) has called for a coordinated security system for all countries of the European Union, highlighting the need to create safe tourist corridors.
8.40 am – Chrysants: With 10 thousand boxes no system can hold
It is not a problem of quarantine, but of identification of infections. We cannot do like China, which made millions of swabs from 11 cases. Today we live with the virus but with suffering and for that we need to reach a low number of infections: with 10 thousand cases, no system can endure. Thus the virologist Andrea Crisanti, tenured professor of microbiology at the University of Padua, in Agor en Rai3. The chains of infection transmission must be blocked, he added.
8.20 am – WHO, cases on the rise in Europe? Quarantine errors
The dizzying number of coronavirus cases in the northern hemisphere due to the fact that people who have come into contact with an infected person have not been quarantined for an adequate period. This was stated by the WHO emergency director, Michael Ryan. It did not happen everywhere and in a systematic way but I am convinced that it is the main reason why we are seeing such high figures, he added, specifying that in half of the 48 countries in Europe that are part of the UN Agency, cases of Covid-19 increased by 50%.
8.00 am – Cutleryna, exceeded a million infections
Argentina has reached 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, making it the second Latin American nation to reach the milestone and the fifth in the world to do so. The total balance reached 1,002,662 cases and 26,716 victims.
October 20, 2020 (change October 20, 2020 | 09:22)
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