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Guatemala
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has almost recovered from a COVID-19 attack, the government said on Friday, wishing his US counterpart Donald Trump a speedy convalescence from the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Canada
The Canadian province of Quebec reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, a resurgence of infections despite recent measures aimed at limiting social gatherings blamed for the spike among residents under 30.
Europe
Spain
Some 4.8 million Madrid residents will be banned from leaving the area as of Friday night, making it the first European capital to close again due to the increase in coronavirus cases.
Restaurants and bars in the Spanish capital and nine satellite cities will close early and cut capacity in half in what has once again become Europe’s worst source of infection.
France
The French Health Ministry on Friday reported 12,148 new confirmed coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, down from 13,970 on Thursday and well below the highs of more than 16,000 seen last week.
The total number of infections since the beginning of the epidemic amounted to 589,653. France also reported 136 new deaths from coronavirus, the highest daily number since mid-May, for a cumulative total of 32,155. Last Friday he had already reported a death toll of 150 in one day.
Hospital admissions for COVID-19 increased by 106 to 6,758 and intensive care admissions by 11 to 1,276, continuing an upward trend since recent weeks.
Russia
Russia recorded 157,181 deaths in August, an increase of 9.6 percent or 13,787 cases in the same month a year earlier, the state statistics service Rosstat showed on Friday.
Of these cases, Russia officially recorded 7,463 deaths related to suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases. Of these, the virus had been the leading cause of death in 3,863 cases, Rosstat said.
Russia reported 9,412 new coronavirus cases on Friday, its highest daily count since May 23, bringing the national total to 1,194,643.
