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There is a “high risk” of a new wave of coronavirus in early 2021 in Europe. This is the alarm launched by the WHO who for the holidays recommends wearing masks to family gatherings at Christmas.
Record number of deaths in Germany the first day of the new blockade to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Official sources report it. There are 952 deaths and 23,427 new cases reported today by German authorities. The number of deaths is the highest registered in the country so far. However, the figure could include deaths from previous days, notes the BBC. Lothar Wieler, director of the Robert Koch Institute, which has the function of monitoring the progress of the pandemic in Germany, commented that the situation “is more serious than it has been until now”, since “the number of cases is greater than never”. and it keeps increasing. There is a danger that the situation will get worse and that it will be increasingly difficult to manage the pandemic and its consequences ”.
Covid is causing an emergency in the land of saxony where, according to local media, due to the overload of intensive care, cases of triage have already been registered. “In recent days we have already been forced several times to decide who gets oxygen,” a Zittau doctor, Mathias Mengel, told MDR. According to the Robert Koch Institut, the incidence of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in 7 days is 407.
From midnight local time London went to the highest level of coronavirus restrictions, dealing another blow to the locals, to the culture before Christmas. As the British capital moves into ‘Phase 3’, theaters, pubs and restaurants will have to close, although take away food will still be allowed to be sold and consumed. Starting today, residents won’t be able to socialize at home with anyone other than family or the ‘bubble of support’, but it will be possible to gather outside in groups of up to six. Essential shops and hair salons may still remain open, as can schools, but not covered entertainment venues. During the holidays, the government would like to relax the measures for five days allowing trips and reunions of up to three families, but experts are pressing for this not to happen. “We believe the government is about to make another serious mistake that will cost many lives,” wrote BMJ and HSJ, leading medical journals in a joint editorial, the second in a century.
There are almost 140,000 anti-Covid vaccines administered in one week in UK, the first country in the world to give the green light to the Pfizer / BioNTech prototype. This was announced by Nadhim Zahawi, the deputy minister appointed ad hoc by the conservative government of Boris Johnson to supervise the vaccination program, specifying that 108,000 people, starting with the elderly and health workers, identified as priorities in this phase 1, have received the first dose. in England (which has about 55 million of the Kingdom’s 66.5 million inhabitants), 18,000 in Scotland, almost 8,000 in Wales and about 4,000 in Northern Ireland.
There are 26,509 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Russia in the last 24 hours: reported by the national anti-coronavirus operations center, specifying that 5,028 cases have been detected in Moscow, 3,758 in Saint Petersburg and 1,477 in the Moscow region. 596 people died from the disease in the last day. According to official data, 2,734,454 cases of Covid-19 and 48,564 deaths caused by the disease have been detected in Russia since the beginning of the epidemic.
the U.S have registered a new record of infections with more than 248,000 cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The dead were 2,706. More than 200,000 cases have been recorded every day in the US for 13 days. The number of people hospitalized is also at its highest level since the start of the pandemic, with 113,000 patients hospitalized for Covid, according to updated data from the US Department of Health.The huge vaccination campaign that was launched in the United States this Monday, with the first administrations of the drug from Pfizer-BioNTech, it will not allow to stop the current rebound, health authorities warned, because it will take several months before a part of a large enough population is immunized. For this reason, experts insist on the need to respect all precautions, especially when the end of the year holidays are approaching.
The premier of the Quebec François Legault announced a series of new restrictions including the closure of non-essential businesses from December 25 to January 11 and mandatory telecommuting starting tomorrow, to stop the second wave of coronavirus. In particular, hair salons and clothing stores will be closed, while food, alcohol and cannabis stores will be able to remain open, as happened during the first wave. Quebec, the province most affected by the coronavirus in Canada, has registered 1,741 new infections and 39 deaths in the last 24 hours. “Even if we are doing better than elsewhere, the fact is that the level of spread of the virus is still high,” Francois Legault complained during a press conference. Smart work will be mandatory from December 17 to January 11, and elementary schools will be closed until that date, one week longer than regular holidays. In addition, all regions will be considered red, that is, at the maximum alert threshold, where any meeting is prohibited. However, exceptions are being studied during the period, in which groups of up to eight people could practice outdoor activities together. And single people, who can currently only house one person at a time, will be able to enter the “other family bubble” during this time.
There are 964 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours in Brazil, the highest number since September 30. The death toll since the start of the pandemic is 182,799. The new infections are 42,889, in total 6,970,034, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
And the pandemic also turns off the party New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, in addition to the famous carnival parades. “Canceled! The municipality of Rio announces that the New Year’s party has been canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic. The decision was made out of respect for the victims and to protect the health of all,” read the Twitter profile from the municipality of Rio. . Last September, the municipality of Rio decided to postpone the famous carnival parades until next July due to the pandemic.
Brazilian president Jair bolsonaro Meanwhile, it has announced that it will not vaccinate against covid-19. “I am not going to vaccinate, closed question. Am I risking my life? It is my problem,” said Bolsonaro, who has always had an attitude of denial since the beginning of the pandemic, despite being infected by the virus.
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