Coronavirus, UK: 60 thousand cases, over a thousand deaths. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip vaccinated. Germany: 1,083 victims. Minister of Health: “Immunize 500 thousand people”

The pandemic continues to register in Europe and in United States worrying numbers, both of contagion that of victims. The number of cases in the UK, which exceeds 80 thousand dead and the 3 million infections since the beginning of health crisis. Despite in the last 24 hours the number of deaths is slightly down, the figure remains above a thousand (1,035 against 1,325 yesterday) and new infections 59.937 against 68,053 yesterday (with 620 thousand swabs). It also alarms the rise of hospitalizations with the risk of saturation of hospitals. According to the media, the government Johnson and the police they are determined to give a close with many and effective punitive measures against violators of the lockdown just reintroduced. Meanwhile the Queen Elizabeth II, 94, and the prince Filippo, 99, were vaccinated by a doctor of the royal house at the castle of Windsor.

Also affects the today Germany, which in the last 24 hours has recorded almost 24,694 new cases and another 1,083 deaths, bringing the total number of victims to 39,878. Overwhelmed by the controversy over the slowness in the administration of vaccines e for having delegated the purchase of doses to the EU, the chancellor Angela Merkel he promised to speed up and, acknowledging that “it was a slow start,” he added: “A few hundred thousand people have been vaccinated and the number is growing every day. The pace will increase ”. The German Health Minister Jens Spahn he also reported that they have already been vaccinated in the country 500 thousand people. “We are doing more vaccinations every day and the processes are getting better and better,” said the minister, quoted by Cnn, noting that “things are going really well and the procedures are done very professionally”.

Still on the vaccine theme France, tail in Europe for the number of inoculazioni, announced that the first doses of the drug will arrive on Monday Modern, authorized yesterday by the health authorities of Paris. Looking overseas, the situation is alarming in the United States United States, which with almost 290 thousand registered cases (288,677) in 24 hours set a new record of infections. Many deaths: 3,676 on the last day.

“Brigitte Macron was also positive” – Le Figaro writes that the premier dame, like her husband Emmanuel Macron, tested positive during the last few days of last year Brégançon. Brigitte Macron was positive, asymptomatic, in a test carried out on December 24th. He resumed normal activities on January 4, he writes Le Figaro citing its source, “since it was negative” al Covid-19 “On December 30”. Negative both on December 30 and December 31, second Europe 1. Le Figaro recalls how on December 26 the Elysée confirmed the presence of Emmanuel e Brigitte Macron a Brégançon. The French president, who tested positive for Covid-19 on December 17, was in solitary confinement at the official La Lanterne residence in Versailles, and returned to the Elysée on December 24 because he did not complain of “more symptoms” related to the coronavirus. According to Europe 1, since the ‘première dame’ “showed no serious symptoms and in light of the end of the isolation” of the president, the couple “however went to celebrate the Christmas a Fort Brégançon“.

Brisbane in lockdown due to English variant – The third Australian city, Brisbane, enters lockdown today, while the “maximum alert” is in force throughout the country for the emergence of more contagious strains of Covid-19. The closing order for the more than two million residents of Brisbane was activated after the variant English of the virus was transmitted by a traveler who returned to Australia to a cleaner in a hotel quarantine: this is the first local case recorded in Australia of the UK strain considered among the numerous variants of Covid-19 emerging all over the world, among the most contagious. The news comes while some parts of Sydney they were preparing to end a weeks-long lockdown following an epidemic that emerged last month. The New South Wales Minister of Health Brad Hazzard he said the state remained on “high alert” due to a growing number of travelers quarantined positive results for new variants of Covid-19. Until the lockdown of today, Brisbane it had been among several Australian cities that enjoyed a return to relative normality thanks to the country’s success in killing the virus. L’Australia has recorded more than 28,500 cases of Covid-19 and 909 deaths related to the virus, out of a population of about 25 million.

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