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Rome, December 26, 2020 – Infections are on the rise COVID-19 in Japan and as a consequence comes the provision of border closure to the foreigners. The Japanese government has announced that as of Monday it will no longer be allowedentry to the country for foreigners. Only Japanese and foreign nationals living in Japan will be allowed to return.
The border closure comes on the same day that Japan announced a further increase in Covid infections. Tokyo. In the land of the rising sun, developments in the English variant virus intercepted on Friday for the first time. Yesterday, the government had identified five people carrying the highly contagious virus discovered in England, four men and one woman who landed at Osaka and Tokyo airports from Great Britain. Two other people, reports the Ministry of Health, were infected within the same family unit.
The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 949 positives today, topping the 888 on Friday, bringing the total sum in the capital to 55,812 – the highest of the country’s 47 prefectures. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga urged the population to reduce travel along with the start of the festivities that in Japan mainly coincide with the beginning of the new year. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the capital’s health authorities have raised the emergency level to the highest level of alert. The city’s restaurants, bars, and karaoke bars have been asked to close at 10pm earlier until the second half of January.
Covid Italia, the newsletter of December 26
Meanwhile, the Coronavirus pandemic is also spreading rest of the world and hit more than 80 million people. Of these, 1,753,313 died. This is confirmed by the periodic report of John Hopkins University, which today stops the count of infected people registered on the face of the earth at 80,027,056. the U.S They have the sad double record: that of infected (8,771,885) and that of deaths (330.34). In the last two weeks, in Europe, the most critical situation is in Germany which registers 296,635 new cases and 7,680 deaths, followed byItaly with 202,579 new infected and 7,323 deaths.
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Germany, 14 thousand cases and 240 deaths
I am 14,455 new infections ei 240 dead gives Coronavirus in Germany in the last 24 hours, according to the report published by the Robert Koch Institute. With the new data, the balance of the pandemic in Germany amounts to 1,627,103 infected and 29,422 dead, while 1,223,700 people recovered, of which some 17,600 were discharged in the last 24 hours. The German regions most affected by the pandemic are North Rhine-Westphalia (375,714 cases and 5,888 deaths), Bavaria (308,651 infected and 6,150 deaths) and Baden-Württemberg (227,305 positive and 4,400 deaths). In Berlin, the figures stand at 92,346 infected and 1,118 dead. German citizens were forced to give up many Christmas traditions as a result of the new blockade imposed to curb the increase in Coronavirus cases, which also led to the suspension of Christmas markets.
Great Britain, another 34 thousand infections
the UK has been registered 34,693 new infections of Coronavirus – 1,968 more than yesterday – and 210 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the budget updated to date by the British authorities. Overall, the disease caused 70,405 deaths and 2,256,005 infected. The balance of infections could suffer more variations in the coming hours, due to the slowness with which the results arrive due to the holidays, it has been specified.
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France, hospitalizations increase
In France more have been logged in the last 24 hours 146 dead for Coronavirus and 3,093 infections, but the number of hospitalizations (+85) for the first time in six days
Austria, the third running of the bulls begins
In Austria came into force today on terzo lock of Coronavirus after the relaxation of anti-Covid restrictions on the occasion of Christmas. While the first 10,000 doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine arrived in the country from Belgium via Germany, escorted by the police, before the vaccination campaign that begins tomorrow, the Austrians have entered the new confinement, which will keep closed until January 17 non-essential stores. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said he expected a third wave of infections in early 2021 before vaccines and large-scale testing produced the desired effect. The restrictions also apply to outings, limited to a few basic needs, and to contacts with other people.
Hungary and Slovakia anticipate V-Day
Tear of theHungary and of Slovakia who started the vaccination campaign for Covid in advance 24 hours compared to the Vaccine Day set by the European Union for December 27. As soon as the first doses of the serum developed by Pfizer / BioNTech were received, Budapest began vaccinating healthcare professionals, at the forefront of the fight against Coronavirus. Mass vaccination in the Eastern European country is scheduled for the first half of 2021. “Today we have taken an important step to curb the epidemic,” commented Hungarian Human Resources Minister Miklos Kasler. Slovakia is along the same lines: the Bratislava Ministry of Health has announced the start of “vaccination in Nitra hospital” from Boxing Day.
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