Rome, 20 August 2020 – The first news of the day on the front of the pandemic world of Coronavirus comes from Germany where 1,700 new positive cases were recorded yesterday: a record. L’Europe continues to cope with what we can already define the second wave with the beyond 3,700 cases registered in both Spain and France. And precisely about Europe, WHO says: “Every day the European Region reports an average of over 26,000 new cases every day”. According to theWHO now the epicenter of the pandemic is in Latin America and the Caribbean and the European continent ‘weighs’ for 17% of cases. And it doesn’t get better in the rest of the world: altogether over 22 million have been infected since the beginning of the emergency while deaths have practically reached 800 thousand.
Coronavirus, the bulletin of August 20
France
The concern rises in France for a new increase in infections. In the last 24 hours in the country they have been recorded 4,771 new cases and bring the total to 229,814. As announced by ‘Sante’ publique France ‘, 12 deaths in one day in hospital total 30,480 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic, of which 19,969 in hospital. There are currently 380 hospitalized patients in intensive care, out of a total of 4,748 hospitalized patients.
Spain
Infections decrease in Spain, while always remaining at worrying levels. According to data released by the Madrid Ministry of Health, they are 3.349 the cases registered in the last 24 hours, while 3,715 new positives were reported yesterday. Today’s data bring to 370,867 confirmed cases in Spain. In the last seven days, moreover, there are 122 deaths related to the coronavirus.
Germany, record increase
The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 1.707 for a total of 228,621 infections since the start of the pandemic, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute. The daily figure is the highest since the end of April. The death toll rose to 9,253 after another 10 patients died in the past 24 hours. Germany, as a result of the high number of infections, has designated two tourist regions of Croatia come zone a Covid risk. The Robert Koch Institute explained that Croatia is the third country for the number of infections recorded among returning Germans, after Kosovo and Turkey. Travel to the Sibenik-Knin region and the region is not recommended Spalatino-Dalmatia, where are the islands most frequented by tourists in the summer. Bild, “shock to 180,000 Germans” news.
Catalonia, at school with masks
Masks in the classroom in Catalonia: this was announced by the Minister of Education of the Catalonia, Josep Bargallo ‘. The school year will begin on September 14 and, according to Babagallo ‘, as the pandemic evolves, students will “surely” have to wear masks in the classroom, at least in “some territories”.
Brazil, Bolsonaro: the mask is not needed
Despite the 3.45 million cases and 111,100 deaths in the country, and the fact that he became ill in person for the little attention paid to the risks of the Coronavirus (then healed in a few weeks), the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, continues to support the ineffectiveness of the mask in preventing contagion. “The effectiveness of the mask is almost nil,” Bolsonaro told a sympathizer.
Macron: “Closing is not possible”
The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, is back, in an interview with Paris Match on the increase in infections in France in recent days, affirming that «” zero risk never exists “and that” the whole country cannot be closed “.
USA, over 172 thousand dead
The United States they reached the number of 5,524,398 confirmed cases and 172,965 deaths, according to estimates by Johns Hopkins University. The new infections accounted for in the last 24 hours are 43,911 and the number of deaths recorded in one day is equal to 1,286. The State of New York is no longer the one with the highest number of infections, but remains the most affected in terms of victims, amounting to 32,865. In New York City alone, the total deaths are 23,642.
Sweden, record of deaths
According to the British Guardian the Sweden, the only European country not to lockdown, due to Covid-19 this year had the higher mortality rate of the last 150 years. The newspaper quotes the Swedish statistical office. In the country, which in response to the virus figures, has launched a new ‘do-it-yourself’ contact tracing system, in which positive people are asked to warn of close contacts, in the first six months of the year it counted over 51 thousand dead, the highest number since 1869 when they were over 55,000. Mortality in the period considered is 10% higher than in the previous five years, while in April alone the excess caused by Covid-19 was 40%. Much higher figures than the neighboring countries, with the Norway with only 260 dead for Covid. Furthermore, the Stockholm strategy of not applying a lockdown does not seem to have brought details benefits to the economy, with the GDP which fell by 8.6% in the second quarter of the year against 5% of the Norwegian neighbors.
Belgium
In Belgium schools will reopen on September 1, with a mandatory coronavirus mask for teachers and pupils over 12 years of age. This was announced by the Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes, explaining that “the goal is to avoid the second wave”.
Romania
In Romania in the last 24 hours they registered 1,346 new cases, which bring the total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic to 74,963. There have been another 48 deaths since yesterday, with the total number of victims rising to 3,154. To date there are 489 hospitalized in intensive care in the Balkan country, which remains the most affected by the coronavirus in the region, and among the largest outbreaks in Europe. For the Arrivals in Italy from Romania, and also from Bulgaria, theobligation of a quarantine 14 days.
Russia, nearly a million positives
The death toll from coronavirus in Russia has passed the 16,000 mark. With 110 deaths recorded today, the total comes to 16,099. There are 4,785 new cases for a total of 942,106.
China, no deaths for 4 months
The Chinese authorities reported that no coronavirus hospitalized patients have died “in the past four months”.
India, daily record
L‘India recorded a new daily record of Covid-19 cases: in the last 24 hours in the country another 69,672 patients tested positive, the total rises to
2.84 million cases. There are 53,886 deaths from coronavirus.
Gates: “Millions more dead”
“There will still be millions of deaths, before the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.” This is the prediction of Bill Gates in an interview with The Economist in early August.
The other countries
In Colombia exceeded 500 thousand infections. New record in Ukraine with 2,134 new cases. In the Philippines another 4,339 new cases were registered, the total rises to over 178 thousand infections in the country. Another 88 patients died, the overall toll being 2,883 deaths. Cuba, presented the vaccine ‘Soberana 01’ effective for the contrast of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At the meeting, Cuban researchers also presented two new anti Covid-19 drugs: Nasalfern and CIGB 325, both with encouraging results in clinical tests.
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