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The new coronavirus pandemic has already caused at least 1,155,301 deaths worldwide since the disease became known in December in China and until 11 a.m. GMT (12:00 p.m. in Lisbon), according to an AFP report.
More than 43,080,500 cases of infection have been recorded since the pandemic began and at least 29,194,100 people have been cured. In the last 24 hours there were 4,313 new deaths and 408,969 more infected worldwide, the countries that registered the most deaths on the last day were India (480), the United States (461) and Iran (337). .
The United States is the country most affected by covid-19, both in number of deaths and in cases, with a total of 225,239 deaths out of 8,636,995 cases, according to the general balance of Johns Hopkins University. At least 3,422,878 people have been declared cured.
After the United States, the most affected countries are Brazil with 157,134 deaths in 5,394,128 cases, India with 119,014 deaths (7,909,959 cases), Mexico with 88,924 deaths (891,160 infected) and the United Kingdom with 44,896 deaths (873,800 cases).
France
France has recorded 258 deaths associated with the covid-19 disease in the past 24 hours, the highest number since April, French health officials reported Monday, also reporting that more than 13,000 people were hospitalized in the same period.
As for new infections, the French health authorities recorded 26,771 new cases of contagion by the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, highlighting, however, that fewer diagnostic tests were performed on Sunday.
After the country has exceeded the barrier of 40 and 50 thousand new daily cases in the last two days (Saturday and Sunday), this figure represents a sharp decline.
In global terms, and since the beginning of the pandemic crisis, France has recorded 35,018 deaths and 1,165,278 infected. Of the 101 departments in the country, 92 are in a highly vulnerable situation. The incidence rate exceeds 350 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants.
French doctors warned on Monday that their country had “lost control of the Covid-19 epidemic,” a day after health officials reported 52,000 new cases, while European nations tightened restrictions to reduce infections.
Jean-François Delfraissy, president of the scientific council that advises the French government on the virus, said the country is in “a very difficult, even critical situation.”
“There are probably more than 50,000 new cases every day. Our estimate in the scientific council is around 100,000. Among those who have not been examined and are asymptomatic, we are close to that number of cases. That means that the virus is spreading. . be extremely fast, “Delfraissy told RTL radio.
Eric Caumes, head of the department of tropical diseases and infections at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris, said the country needs to be confined again. “We lost control of the epidemic, but that is not yesterday. We lost control of the epidemic several weeks ago,” he told Franceinfo.
Spain
Spain has registered 52,188 cases of covid-19 since Friday, the highest number reached during a weekend, which brings the total number of infected to 1,098,320, according to figures released today by the Spanish Ministry of Health.
The country has another 279 deaths from the disease reported in the past three days, bringing the total number of deaths to 35,031.
Madrid continues to be the autonomous community with the highest number of infections due to the new coronavirus, having added 3,884 more cases to Friday’s figures, bringing the total to 296,638.
1,584 people have been admitted to hospitals with the disease in the last 24 hours, of which 327 in Catalonia, 273 in Andalusia and 188 in Madrid. 16,008 people infected with the new coronavirus are hospitalized throughout the country, of which 2,183 are in intensive care units.
The president of the government of Aragon, in Spain, announced this Monday a local confinement.
As of midnight on Tuesday, no one will be able to enter or leave the autonomous community, except for trips with just cause.
Catalonia is also considering the possibility of confining its population at home on weekends. “This is a scenario that is on the table, since it is during the weekends when there is more social interaction,” the spokeswoman for the Generalitat told Catalan public radio today.
Meritxell Budo has added that the regional executive must “avoid total confinement, as in March, unless it is absolutely necessary and is the only option”, thus being one of the scenarios the confinement at home of the Catalan population.
Italy
Italy today registered 17,012 infections with the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a lower figure than the previous day, when the Government advises citizens not to travel abroad.
On Sunday there were more than 21,000 positive cases, and today’s figures respond to the foreseeable reduction on Mondays, when fewer diagnostic tests are performed.
According to the Italian Ministry of Health, 141 people died from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll since the beginning of the pandemic to 37,479.
In total, 542,789 people have been infected since the start of the health crisis in Italy, with 236,000 active cases, most of them isolated at home, with mild or no symptoms.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom recorded an additional 20,890 new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, during which time the disease caused the death of 102 more people infected with the new coronavirus.
The country has added more than 800 thousand cases since the beginning of the pandemic and represents 44,998 deaths.
Belgium
Belgium registers an average of 12,491 cases in the last seven days, for a total of 321,031 since the start of the pandemic, and a total of 757 patients with covid-19 hospitalized in intensive care.
The new coronavirus covid-19 has already killed 10,810 people in Belgium, the country with the second highest incidence rate of the disease – 1,165 per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days – in Europe, after the Czech Republic (1,284).
Macau
Macau authorities on Monday imposed a mandatory 14-day quarantine on residents of the territory who have been in the Kashgar district of Xinjiang, a Chinese province in the northwest of the country.
“Starting at 12 noon today (4 a.m. in Lisbon), anyone entering Macau from the Kashgar district is required to conduct a 14-day centralized isolation medical observation,” authorities said.
Kashgar officials confirmed the existence of 137 asymptomatic cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus, related to an infected and also asymptomatic teenager, detected on Saturday during a routine examination.
In addition to Kashgar, quarantine is also imposed on anyone who has been in Qingdao in the 14 days prior to entering Macau.
Located in the east of the country, the port city of Qingdao had detected a covid-19 outbreak the day before, identifying three asymptomatic local cases related to a lung disease hospital, ending almost two months without COVID-19 cases in China. .
Australia
The Australian state of Victoria, the epicenter of the second wave of covid-19 in Australia, announced on Monday the lifting of the lockdown as of Tuesday, after not having registered any new cases in the last 24 hours.
The shops, restaurants and cafes of Melbourne, the capital of the state of Victoria and the second most populous city in the country, will reopen at midnight on Tuesday and residents will be able to move around the city again.
“We can say that now is the time to open,” said the head of government of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, visibly moved, at a press conference in Melbourne, recalling that the last time the state had zero infections was on June 9. .
The detention was enacted in July, when the number of new cases was about 190 a day, a number that rose to 700 in August.
Australia, with a population of 25 million, has had approximately 27,500 cases since the start of the pandemic and 905 deaths from Covid-19.
Africa
Africa recorded 117 more deaths in the last 24 hours due to covid-19, totaling 41,262 deaths, and the number of infected people rose to 1,716,864, according to the most recent data on the pandemic on the continent.
According to the African Union Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in the 55 member states of the organization there were 9,123 additional infected and the number of recoveries increased by 7,290 in the last 24 hours, to a total of 1,406,528.
Southern Africa continues to record the highest number of infections and deaths, with 792,570 infected and 20,403 deaths. In this region, only South Africa, the most affected country on the continent, registers 715,868 cases and 18,968 deaths.
Egypt, which is the second African country with the most deaths after South Africa, has 6,199 deaths and 106,540 infected, and Morocco has 3,301 deaths and 197,481 cases of infection.
Algeria followed, with 56,143 infections and 1,914 deaths.
Among the African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Angola leads in number of deaths and Mozambique in number of cases.
Angola has 268 deaths and 9,381 cases, followed by Cape Verde (94 deaths and 8,396 cases), Mozambique (86 deaths and 11,986 cases), Equatorial Guinea (83 deaths and 5,079 cases), Guinea-Bissau (41 deaths and 2,403 cases) and São Tomé and Príncipe (15 deaths and 935 cases).
China
The Chinese Health Commission announced on Monday that 20 cases of covid-19 have been identified in the past 24 hours, all overseas. The ‘imported’ cases were diagnosed in Shanghai (east), Inner Mongolia (north), Shaanxi (northwest), Hebei (north), Shanxi (northwest), Guangdong (south), Sichuan (southwest) and Fujian (southeast).
The city of Kashgar, in the Xinjiang region, confirmed the existence of 137 asymptomatic cases, related to an infected and also asymptomatic teenager, detected on Saturday during a routine examination.
Authorities said that in the last 24 hours, 20 patients were discharged, bringing the number of active infected people in the country to 265, including four critically ill patients.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, China has registered 85,810 infected and 4,634 deaths from covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
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