Coronavirus, over 247 thousand dead in the US and more than 69 thousand people hospitalized. Record of deaths in Russia

In Europe the infections begin to stabilize in UK and to decrease in Spain, while in Germany the government, which would like to impose new ones restrictions, clashes with the opposition of Laender. Meanwhile in France, starting tomorrow, the frequency of public transport will be reduced inIle-de-France, the region of Paris, to adapt to the decline in attendance linked to the second lockdown. Fewer vehicles will pass in the hours of less traffic on numerous lines and up to 50% on the underground network. L’Austria, as announced, enters lockdown today while on the other side of theAtlantico, continues to worry about the progress of the pandemic in the United States, where the victims are more than 247 thousand and there is a record of people hospitalized: 69,864. There Russia records the record of deaths with 442 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, along with another record, that of healed which were 22,055 in one day. Fears for the spread of coronavirus are growing again also in South Korea, where for the fourth consecutive day there are more than 200 cases in the space of 24 hours. In AustraliaInstead, the authorities carried out mass tests and about 4 thousand people were quarantined in the hope of keeping a new cluster in the south of the country linked to 21 cases of Covid, the first in 9 days.

Austria – Get into lockdown today. According to the blocking measures, the people they will be able to leave their homes only to do the expense, to carry out work deemed essential, to do exercise or to help those in need assistance. Restaurants, shops, hairdressers and other services will be closed and public schools have organized a distance learning program. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced yesterday that the lockdown will last until 6 December and that “all social and public life will be reduced to a minimum”. Austria currently records more than 527 new cases per 100,000 residents per week, more than 10 times the rate that the authorities believe sustainable. In the last seven days, 46,946 new infections have been recorded.

France – French Prime Minister Jean Castex will publicly speak on the next stage of confinement and on the health situation on November 26, on the eve of Black Friday. The premier’s office is working on organizing a new press conference that will make it possible to clarify a number of rules relating to gatherings and travel, as the end of year holidays approach. The head of government will also be heard today at the end of the day by the parliamentary inquiry commission of the National Assembly on the management of the epidemic.

United States – According to Johns Hopkins University since the beginning of the pandemic, 247,101 people have died in the country out of a total of 11,188,766 cases. So far 4,185,549 people have been healed. On Sunday, according to the Covid Tracking Project, were hospitalized in American hospitals a record of 69,864 people, a level much higher than the previous peak of last April 15 at 59,940. In the past week, an average of 148,725 new coronavirus cases were recorded per day, 31% more than the daily average of the previous week. In the United States on average, about a thousand people die from the virus every day, the immunologist said yesterday Anthony Fauci.

Russia – 22,410 cases were registered in one day, according to the Interfax agency. The country marks the record of deaths with 442 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, along with another record, that of healed which were 22,055 in one day. The number of cases daily it is slightly lower than the record of Monday when 22,778 new cases were registered but it is the fourth day in which the number of new infections exceeds the threshold of 22 thousand. In general, since the beginning of September, the number of almost daily it increased nearly fourfold: from 5,762 cases on September 17 to 22,410 cases on November 17. The highest rates of infection are observed at Moscow, where 5,882 new cases of Covid-19 and 74 deaths were recorded. Overall, 1,971,013 infections and almost 34 thousand deaths were recorded in Russia, specifically 33,931.

Bulgaria – There is a new surge of contagion and of victims for the consequences of the coronavirus. In fact, 152 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours and the total number of victims rises to 2,282. Since yesterday in the Balkan country, which has about 7 million inhabitants, 3,519 coronavirus infections have been recorded, or almost 44% of the 7,934 diagnostic tests carried out. The greatest number of infected people is always registered in the capital Sofia (about two million inhabitants): 1163. The total number of infections since the beginning of the epidemic has exceeded the psychological threshold of one hundred thousand: 101,770. The toll of cases of infection among medical health personnel rose to 4,011. There are currently 69,171 active cases in Bulgaria, while 5,353 patients are hospitalized in hospitals, 288 of whom are in intensive care.
In several inhabited centers there is a shortage of medical staff or the beds for Covid-19 patients in hospitals are exhausted. Local media noted the increasingly insistent appeals of some experts to introduce the lockdown in the country.

Australia – On Monday the State ofSouth Australia had reintroduced measures of spacing social after the discovery of 21 cases of Covid, the first in 9 days, most of which were transmitted locally. “We are not out of danger. We are only at the beginning of the fight against this very ugly cluster, ”he said Adelaide the premier of the state Steven Marshall. All contagions, he explained Marshall, can be traced to an Australian citizen who arrived from overseas on 2 November and quarantined in a hotel where he infected some employees who came into contact with contaminated surfaces. From there the contagion spread. Australia recorded a total of 27,800 cases and 906 deaths.

South Korea – The i fears for the spread of the coronavirus also in South Korea, where for the fourth consecutive day there are more than 200 cases in the space of 24 hours. The government has decided to tighten the measures with particular attention to spacing physical in the Seoul metropolitan area, where about half of the South Korean population (51 million people in all) live, and Gwangju, southwest of Alone. He first Chung Sye-kyun, in statements reported by the agency Yonhap, spoke of a real “crisis” regarding the efforts to contain the epidemic. “In the last week – he added – in the metropolitan area of Alone there were on average more than one hundred patients a day ”. Of the 230 new cases reported in the official bulletin this morning, 137 were confirmed a Alone and in neighboring cities. Thus, reports the Yonhap, stricter measures come into effect Thursday in the capital and in the province of Gyeonggi. In particular, it says, two-thirds of students, normally behind the desks, will be allowed to enter the classroom. New provisions also for bars, clubs and indoor venues. In places of worship and sporting events, 30% of the normally expected people are admitted. Concerts, various events and festivals allowed with a maximum of 100 participants. Since the beginning of the health emergency the South Korea reported 28,999 cases of Covid-19 and 494 deaths.

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