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The number of new positives in 24 hours rises to more than 12,000 per day. France, which has a stake of 12,845 tonight, according to the Health Ministry. The number of deaths increased by 64, which, since the beginning of the epidemic, was 31,956 among hospitals, residences and institutions for the disabled. The positivity rate, set at 7.6%, is high but stable compared to yesterday.
For the second consecutive day in Britain The 7,000 new cases of coronavirus have been exceeded. The new infections found in the last 24 hours are 7,108 (yesterday they were 7,143, a new record), bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 453,264 cases. 71 new deaths were registered by the health authorities, the same number in the previous 24 hours, for a total of 42,143 confirmed victims.
The emergency legislation passed at the end of March by the British Parliament to grant special powers to the executive to intervene in the face of the pandemic remains in force for at least another 6 months. The renewal of the Coronavirus Law finally achieved an overwhelming majority -306 votes cast- in the House of Commons tonight, after a debate not without controversy, but from which the government of Boris Johnson managed to get a substantially intact text: thank you also to the refusal for procedural reasons by speaker Lindsay Hoyle to admit an amendment supported by some 50 “ libertarian ” MPs from the Conservative majority who would have liked to introduce a Westminster voting right (and veto) on any future restrictions and in particular on a hypothetical national closure bis. “I am pleased that the Coronavirus Law has been renewed with an overwhelming majority of 306 votes,” said Health Minister Matt Hancock in the classroom, “it is a crucial law to implement our strategy: suppress the virus, support the economy, the education and the NHS (the national health service) until a vaccine makes us all safe. ”The vote took place in the context of data confirming the spike in infections and deaths from Covid-19 in the Kingdom, whose spread , warned Boris Johnson and his scientific advisers Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty, has begun to go “in a negative direction” at the national level: although with more concentrated outbreaks, a context of greater preparedness in the country and an intensity of diffusion that is currently “different” and “slower” than in spring. However, some conservative MPs have insisted on warning the government not to intend to act without the scrutiny “and consent of Parliament.” rify Minister Hancock’s verbal commitment to submit “as much as possible” to the vote of the House the next anti-Covid measures that were not considered by the executive “emergency for public health.”
In Spain 3,897 new cases of Covid-19 have been detected in the last 24 hours, of which 1,586 only in Madrid. La Vanguardia reports it. Another 177 deaths were recorded, adding to 486 last week.
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