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While theItaly prepares to prolong the state of emergency, introducing new measures to deal with the epidemic of COVID-19, in Europe the trend in Germany that in the last 24 hours registered the death record since the start of the pandemic: 1,244 in a single day with 25,164 new infections. Thus, according to what image, Angela Markel is thinking of a reinforced lock from January 20: in addition to the closure of non-essential shops, kindergartens, schools and many other activities already in force, the Chancellor reflects on the possibility of suspend public transport ei long distance trains, presents the curfew and force some Länder to total smart work. “There is pure terror over the mutation” of the virus, reports a participant in the meeting in which Merkel expressed her desire to impose stricter measures.
“By the end of this year we will have reached normality”However, stated the president of the Robert Koch Institut, Lothar wieler, adding that every effort should now be made to reduce contact. “Every infection is too much. Protect yourself and others. Think about the health system, ”he said. Wieler also stressed that in this second wave of the pandemic “more and more young people are affected by the virus” and even in intensive care “there are many patients under the age of 60”. The number of daily infections, he confessed, “often does not make me sleep soundly at night.” And many of these deaths occur in nursing homes. Protecting them completely would only be possible with total isolation, an option rightly rejected in Germany, from their point of view.
There was expectation for the press conference of the French prime minister, Jean castex, which had announced more restrictive measures to contain the spread of infections in the country. And the premier confirmed the most accredited indiscretion of recent days: the curfew, which currently starts at 8pm, will be scheduled from next Saturday at 18 throughout the national territory “for at least 15 days”, while until now the prohibition of departure and movement was applied from 6:00 p.m. only in 25 departments, all of the east and southeast, out of a total of 101. However, Castex stated that “the holidays have passed without the epidemic having registered peaks”, but there is concern above all about the new English variant of the virus that is spreading in various European countries and beyond.
Yet they remain open schoolsCastex added, stating that “a strengthening the health protocol, especially in canteens, with suspension of school and extracurricular sports activities indoors and an increase in tampons ”. The Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, said France “is proud to have been the country in Europe that has kept its schools open for the longest time” during the crisis. But the head of government also comes a warning about the emergency shutdown: “I want to be very clear with you. As of the moment I speak to you, the health situation does not require a new lockdown. If we see a sharp worsening of the health situation in the coming days, we will immediately decide on a new blockade ”.
High numbers also in Sweden, where in the last 24 hours the record of 351 new deaths since Wednesday, bringing the total death toll from the coronavirus to 10,185 out of a population of around 10 million people. I am instead 6,580 new cases registered, with a downward trend compared to the data for the end of December. However, if the contagion curve appears to have settled, health authorities have warned that the number of deaths is set to rise for the time being. In general, the number of intensive therapy still available is equal to 20% of the total.
Also in China The situation is once again worrying, so much so that the authorities have already imposed the blockade on tens of millions of people. In the Asian giant where the pandemic was now thought to be a distant memory, 138 new cases have been registered, reaching the highest levels since March 2020. But not only: for the first time since May Beijing recorded a death. According to the National Health Commission, the national infections were 124 and those imported 14. The new national infections are mainly concentrated in the province of Hebei (81) and in the north of Heilongjiang (43), which has been in a ‘state of emergency’ since yesterday.
Tunisia – The situation on the other side of the Mediterranean. Today begins in Tunisia a emergency shutdown 4 national days: the country has in fact reached a new record of daily cases, registering 3,632 infections in 24 hours on January 12. The figure brings the total of confirmed infections to 168,568. The death toll has also increased: 5,415 have died since the start of the pandemic, of which 72 on January 12. Currently 1,805 people are hospitalized, of which 364 in resuscitation and 128 in assisted respiration.
U.S – The United States yesterday registered 224,258 new cases of coronavirus and another 3,848 deaths: this is what emerges from the Johns Hopkins University counts.
France – There are 23,852 new cases of Covid-19 registered in the last 24 hours in France, where the pressure on hospitals shows no signs of abating. This can be learned from the data published by the French public health system. Yesterday there were 19,753 infections. Since early 2021, there have been an average of 20,000 new infections a day, well above the 5,000 the government predicted in mid-December. The victims are 232, compared to 362 the day before. In the field of vaccination, to date 247,167 people have been vaccinated as part of the campaign launched on December 26, 2020.
Lebanon – Today began a general blockade across Lebanon, with a strict 24-hour curfew, strictly imposed for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. From today until the morning of January 25, the curfew is in effect 24 hours a day, and not just at night. Supermarkets and other grocery stores can only make home deliveries and cannot receive customers inside the structures. Anyone wishing to leave their home must demonstrate, but without written self-certification, that they have an urgent need to go elsewhere. Military, police, doctors and journalists are among the few categories exempted from these measures.
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