The UK over 50 thousand victims since the beginning of the pandemic and becomes the first country in Europe for the number of deaths from Covid-19 and the fifth in the world after United States, Brazil, India and Mexico. According to theWHO instead Italy is among the five countries in the world with the highest number of cases in the past week. A ‘record’ shared with United States, France, India and the United Kingdom. Deaths have also increased “markedly” in the past 7 days in Europe, with France, Spain e Italy which report the highest bill, while Czechoslovakia, Belgium e Slovenia they have the highest per capita mortality rate. There Spain instead it has decided that from 23 November it will ask all travelers arriving from high-risk countries (referring to the list Ecdc which also includes Italy) a swab certifying its negativity carried out 72 hours before landing. Spain, one of the European countries most affected by the pandemic, did not require the test so far.
The pandemic advances in Europe, but also on the other side ofAtlantico infections and victims grow. The United States have recorded in the last 24 hours over 200 thousand new cases and the record of people currently hospitalized for coronavirus (61,964). The Usa thus confirmed the first country in the world for the number of infections and victims, with 10,256,094 cases Covid-19 and 239,673 deaths since the start of the health emergency. And the Texas it has already passed the one million mark. Texas is the state most affected by the pandemic and has already passed the 1 million mark contagion.
UK – Second consecutive record of casualties. In 24 hours, 595 were registered, for a total of 50,365 deaths. According to data from the British health authorities, there were 22,950 new infections. The United Kingdom is confirmed as the European country with the most victims.
Japan – A new increase in infections is imminent for the health authorities. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga wished to obtain doses of vaccines sufficient to cover the entire Japanese population, but in the meantime the daily cases of Covid-19 increase partly due to falling temperatures e partly due to the many movements within the country favored by a government campaign to promote local tourism. In the last 24 hours, 1,284 new infections have been recorded for a total of 111,222. The death toll is 1,864.
Germany – In the last twenty-four hours it has been 18,487 new cases of coronavirus and another 261 deaths. New data from the Robert Koch Institute bring the total to 705,687 infections and 11,767 deaths since the beginning of the health emergency. According to the German newspaper image, in the country there are 300,000 students and 30,000 teachers in quarantine for Covid. Industry experts call it “lockdown-salami”, because it affects “slices” of the school world, in a country that has made the choice to keep students in the classroom (with face-to-face lessons) as long as possible, so as not to penalize the development of children and young people due to the pandemic. Yesterday the Federal Minister of Education, Anja Karlikzek, has expressed itself in favor of the use of masks in the classroom, even in elementary school: a measure that is still much discussed but which is already applied in Italy.
Texas – New spike in coronavirus cases in Texas, which becomes the first US state to exceed one million infections (1,010,364 cases with 19,337 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic). Texas reported 10,865 positives on Tuesday, setting a new daily record that surpassed 74 infections last day’s July 15 peak. According to state data on Tuesday, there are about 132,146 active cases, the highest number since August 17, and 6,170 hospitalized, the highest number since August 18. The real number of infections it is likely higher because many people have not been tested and many may be asymptomatic. Another 94 people died on Tuesday, according to Texas Department of Health.
Brazil – The Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro he downplayed the coronavirus pandemic again, arguing that Brazil must “stop being a country of sissies“. “I’m sorry for the dead, I’m sorry, but we all have to die someday. Here, we all have to die, ”Bolsonaro said during a speech on tourism delivered in the presidential palace in Planalto. “We need to stop being a country of sissies and face the pandemic head on,” Bolsonaro said. In Brazil, the pandemic caused 162,638 victims and over 5 and a half million people infected.
Venezuela – Venezuela will be “in a position” to start one massive and free vaccination campaign against the coronavirus from April 2021: its president, Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday, saying he was “optimistic”. “I have calculated that we may be in a position to start mass vaccination in Venezuela in a free, safe and direct way in April,” Maduro said in a televised speech. His government claims to have curbed the increase in infections in Venezuela, a country of 30 million inhabitants that officially counts 95,149 confirmed cases and 830 deaths. But organizations like Human Rights Watch question these figures, deeming the situation much more serious.
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