More than 11 million cases of COVID-19 were registered in Europe



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More than 11 million new cases of coronavirus have been officially registered in Europe, according to a census prepared by Agence France-Presse based on official sources on Tuesday at 13:30 GMT.

At least 11,008,465 injuries and 284,148 deaths were announced on the continent. Almost half of the injuries were recorded in the four most affected countries in Europe, which are Russia (1,673,686), France (1,466,433), Spain (1,240,697) and Great Britain (1,053,864).

In total, 46,998,445 injuries and 1,206,930 deaths were recorded worldwide.

New controversy in France over isolation

After the controversy and the change in attitudes regarding the opening of stores, the government faced a new problem on Tuesday of imposing isolation again, with the announcement of a curfew in Paris, which was soon denied.

Since the application of the isolation measures began on Friday, 14,000 reports of seizures of the 100,000 surveillance operations in the country have been drawn up, as announced by the government spokesman, and “in view of these conditions, we will again impose a touch curfew in Paris and possibly Lille-de-France “.

Minutes later, the government denied it and said that such a measure “has not yet been decided at this stage.” The Health Minister announced that “preliminary figures” indicate respect for isolation, “which was reinforced on Friday.

Quick Checks in Liverpool

In the city of Liverpool (northern Great Britain), a program to detect infection with Covid-19 will be implemented that could be expanded to keep pace with the lifting of isolation measures, if successful, in a precedent in Great Britain.

Starting Friday, the 500,000 inhabitants and those who work in the city will be offered periodic and rapid checks to detect the infection, whether or not they have symptoms.

Crown patient transfer

In France, Covid-19 patients are expected to be transferred from He de France (North) to Germany “in the coming days,” with evacuations to other French regions, as announced on Tuesday by Frederic Valto, president of the Federation of Hospitals in France.

“The pressure is very high in some areas,” he said, especially in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and France.

On Monday, the Health Minister had referred to the “transfer of 40 patients last week.”

Tourism in Spain is declining

Spain, the world’s second-largest tourist destination, experienced a 75% decline in the number of foreign visitors over a year during the first nine months of 2020, according to official figures released Tuesday.

Spain, one of the countries most affected by the epidemic, received only 16.8 million tourists between January and September, compared to 67 million in the same period in 2019.

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