Rome, 1 October 2020 – Tensions in Spain on the measures anti-Covid. The Community of Madrid it does not intend to apply the new partial lockdown imposed by the government. The regional health councilor, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, told the conservative daily ABC, according to whom the government “is in a hurry to intervene in Madrid, and not to fight the coronavirus”. The president of the Community, the popular Isabel Diaz Ayuso, has often opposed the restrictions decided by the socialist government in the past, implying that it was a strategy to attack it and make it lose support. Escudero said the new restrictions make no sense because the epidemic in the area has entered a “stable” phase and there are “first signs of improvement”. In addition, the commissioner continued, the new limitations were approved with the opposite vote of five regions, including Madrid, and therefore “have no validity”. The Community, he explained, will take the necessary measures before the state advocacy once the measures are published and come into force.
The epidemic in Spain
In the entire community of Madrid the Ministry of Health has recorded in the last 24 hours 3,897 new infections, 43.6% of the 11,016 new cases reported by the latest bulletin, which leads to 31,791 – 177 more in the last 24 hours – the total deaths in the Iberian nation. The community of Madrid is also the region with the greater number of deaths from Covid in the last 7 days, 172, followed by Andalusia (70), Castilla and Leon (64), Castilla-La Mancha (39) and the Basque Country (39). The new restrictions apply to municipalities over 100,000 inhabitants with an incidence exceeding 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and include the limitation of entrances and exits from the areas involved, the prohibition of gatherings of more than six people and the closure of playgrounds .
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France, warning message
The situation in France continues to be serious, where the Minister of Health Olivier Véran will launch a today ‘warning message’ to citizens: if the contagion situation does not improve, new decisions will be made. To report, citing a government source in Paris, is Bfmtv. At 6pm Véran will take stock of the pandemic situation in France weekly. Adopting new measures now is premature, explains the broadcaster, reconstructing the meaning of the message that the government wants to launch: the latest ones are too recent to have had time to demonstrate their effectiveness. But the warning for the foreseeable future remains.
Gemany, 2,500 cases in 24 hours
The epidemic is also growing in Germany. The country has registered 2,503 new cases in the last 24 hours, updating the contagion toll in the country to 291,722. This was announced this morning by the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases. The victims since yesterday are 12. The total of deaths related to Covid-19 thus rose to 9,500.
Brazil, again over 1,000 dead
Brazil recorded 1,031 deaths from Covid-19 and 33,413 infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to nearly 144,000 and the number of infections to 4.9 million. Since September 15, when the South American country counted 1,113 deaths, the number of victims had no longer exceeded 1,000 in a single day. Brazil has the second highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world, after the United States, and the third highest number of infections, after the United States and India.
Argentina, record of infections
Argentina confirmed 14,392 new positives in the last 24 hours, a daily record of infections. In total in the country there are 751,001 infections, according to data from the Ministry of Health. In the last 24 hours the Argentine authorities have also registered 419 deaths among infected patients. The victims are in total 16,937 since the beginning of the pandemic.
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