Covid 19 coronavirus: global increase in infections: one million new cases in three days

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The death toll has exceeded one million and now stands at 1,074,732.

The United States is the most affected country in the world, losing about 215,000 people to the coronavirus. Brazil has reported 150,198 deaths out of 5,082,637 cases, India has lost 108,334 people of its 7,053,806 cases, and Mexico 83,642 deaths out of 814,328 cases.

The United Kingdom and Italy, the European countries most affected by the pandemic, have lost 42,915 and 36,166 people, respectively.

The increase in cases around the world has triggered a second wave of lockdowns.

In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will introduce new restrictions to parliament today, which is expected to be a new three-tier lockdown system as virus infections rise, particularly in the north of England.

Johnson’s top strategic adviser, Edward Lister, wrote to MPs representing seats in the north of England, after meeting with regional leaders to warn them that it is “very likely” that the region will have to abide by stricter rules.

British Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam told reporters the nation was at a “tipping point”.

“This time it’s different … as we are now entering the coldest and darkest winter months,” he said.

In France, six cities, including Paris, were on high alert and on lockdown after a spike in cases.

The Central European nation recorded 26,896 new infections on Saturday, a daily record for France.

According to The New York Times, France has seen a 32 percent increase in its daily average number of cases in the last two weeks.

The week before breaking its daily record of cases, France had 16,000 new cases a day.

The nation’s frontline healthcare workers are also on the brink of exhaustion after battling the pandemic for more than eight months.

According to a survey by the French national nurses union, 57 percent of the country’s nurses said they were in a “state of professional burnout,” up from 33 percent before the global Covid-19 pandemic struck France earlier. 2020.

More than a third of the nurses also said their departments were under-staffed compared to normal, and two-thirds said that working conditions had deteriorated since the start of the pandemic.

One in five nurses said they had not been able to take a vacation since March.

“While there are 34,000 vacant nursing positions at this time in 2020 … degraded working conditions mean that we risk seeing more nurses throwing in the towel,” the union said in a statement.

Nepal also reports an increase in coronavirus cases.

With a population of 30 million, a small number compared to its neighbors China and India, the nation reported a record 5008 infections on Saturday.

The country has registered more than 100,000 cases since the pandemic began, a third of which are still active.

The number of cases has already paralyzed Nepal’s health system and coronavirus patients are urged to remain in home isolation and not go to hospital.

Approximately 400 patients are in intensive care and the hospitals are at capacity.

Russia also broke its coronavirus record over the weekend, reporting an increase of 13,634 cases on Sunday and 149 deaths.

The day before, Russia registered 12,864 cases.

Russia’s record for daily coronavirus cases had previously been broken on October 9, when 12,126 people tested positive.

Starting Monday, Moscow’s workplaces must transfer 30 percent of their employees to remote work until at least October 28.