Home » World » UK, death record: 1,820 in 24 hours. In Spain more than 41 thousand new cases. Holland towards curfew: it is the first time since the war

UK, death record: 1,820 in 24 hours. In Spain more than 41 thousand new cases. Holland towards curfew: it is the first time since the war

For the second day in a row there Great Britain does register a new casualty record caused by the coronavirus. I’m 1.820, against 1,610 yesterday, the deaths in the last 24 hours. The country is grappling with a more aggressive variant of the virus that the national lockdown is only slowly slowing down and that is now making its effects felt on deaths a couple of weeks after the peaks in infections. On the other hand, there are almost 39 thousand new cases certified on almost 580 thousand tests. But another country with a negative record today is there Spain, which has counted in the last 24 hours 41,576 new cases, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic. January 7, he notes The country, the number was 42,360 but it also included the previous day’s data.

I Netherlands are preparing to impose, from tomorrow, the curfew between the straits that will be announced today throughout the country to limit the circulation of coronavirus, according to local media reports. This is the first time that such a measure has been undertaken by Second World War. Some sources reported to the broadcaster We that ministers are discussing the measure which should start from 20.30 until 4.30 in the morning. On the table also other restrictions to home visits, new limitations on the number of people ai funeral and a potential flight ban from Great Britain and South Africa for fears related to variants of the virus. The premier Mark Rutte he declared that “nobody wants it. It is a severe measure. Nobody is cheering. The ban will come only if the House of Representatives agrees “.

In Portugal 13,000 voters who are in quarantine or in homes for the elderly will be able to vote in the next presidential elections, scheduled for Sunday, thanks to volunteers who have come to collect their ballot papers door to door. “We must fight the pandemic but we cannot suspend democracy”, said the mayor of Loures, Bernardino Soares. The unprecedented operation represents “a very complicated logistical effort” and “everything was organized at the last minute”.

The France he did know that “a reopening of the skilifts in mid or late February seems highly unlikely “, as stated by the Undersecretary for Tourism, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. The undersecretary added that “we are heading towards a ‘white season'”, without alpine skiing. Paris also made it known that “France is in favor of establishing border health checks internal between European states “to face the danger of Covid variants, the government spokesman said, Gabriel Attal. “There are questions that can be asked about borders within the EU and will be the subject of the discussions that will take place tomorrow in the framework of the European Council. France is in favor of establishing health checks as soon as possible and of advancing European coordination on this point ”.

Meanwhile a Beijing, where the first cases of English variant in the country, the five affected neighborhoods have been placed in lockdown. The cases in the district of Daxing, where the new international airport is located, have been “considered to be variants of the new coronavirus discovered in the UK,” said the head of the Beijing health authority. Pang Xinghuo. In all, the squeeze involves 1.7 million people which are added to the others already affected by new measures in various Chinese provinces. “The cases detected in Daxing have raised the alarm that the epidemic situation is tough and complex – he said Xu Hejian, spokesman for the municipality, at a press conference – We cannot relax on the prevention of imported cases and on the domestic rebound ”. Beijing has already extended the period of restrictions to 28 days for anyone arriving from abroad, including 14 days in centralized quarantine.

Residents of five apartment complexes in Daxing will be prevented from leaving their homes starting today, the local government said, while students across the district were told to stay at home. Many public places, including offices, hotels, restaurants, factories and supermarkets, have been closed as Daxing residents have been subjected to mass test.

Germany – There are now more than 48,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic. Data from the Robert Koch Institute speak of another 1,148 deaths and 15,974 new cases of Covid-19.

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.