Rome, 23 December 2020 – L‘Europe must deal with the Covid variant which comes from England and with data that continue to be negative especially in Germany, the country that had managed the first wave better and that is now facing a second violent wave. The data for the last 24 hours also testify to this. In the last 24 hours, another 24,740 coronavirus cases and 962 deaths have been recorded. The Robert Koch Institute reported this. This is the new all-time high since March.
Covid variant, passengers arrived in Calais
Here is the identikit of the English patient
They landed at Calais, in France, the first passengers arrived from Great Britain after the French Minister of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, announced last night that air, sea and rail connections with the United Kingdom would resume this morning, provided that upon arrival the travelers
show “a negative test”. France, Belgium and the Netherlands have decided to partially reopen the borders with Great Britain to allow the return of their compatriots and the transit of goods through the English Channel.
The however, tension remains high in Dover where in recent days thousands of trucks have piled up, blocked by the French decision to close the borders with Great Britain due to fears over the spread of the variant of the new coronavirus. This morning there were clashes between the transporters and the police.
Denmark and Norway, on the other hand, extend the ban on flights with Great Britain. Kosovo suspends them and Bulgaria repairs them.
Italians stuck in London until Epiphany
Macron is better
The state of health of the French president Emmanuel macron, positive for covid since last week, “shows signs of improvement”, announced the Elysée. Macron, in solitary confinement, moved to his official residence in Versailles. However, the French President presided over the Council of Ministers, via video conference, on Monday.
Madrid closed until January 6th
The Community of Madrid will be closed from today to January 6: it will be forbidden to enter or leave the region during this period with some exceptions, such as the visit of family members or relatives. The decision to close the perimeter on these dates was adopted by the Inter-territorial Council of the National Health System, with the exception of adequately justified travels that occur for one of the reasons provided for by the decree on the state of alert, as well as visits to places of habitual residence of family members or relatives.
Switzerland: off to vaccination
The Switzerland has started the vaccination campaign for Covid: a 90-year-old guest in a home for the elderly in the Lucerne region was the first to receive the serum developed by Pfizer / BioNTech, approved four days ago by the authorities.
Russia, over 27 thousand new cases
In Russia in the last 24 hours, 27,250 new cases of Covid-19 and 549 deaths caused by the disease have been ascertained. The national anticoronavirus operations center reports this. The areas with the highest number of new infections in the last day are Moscow, with 5,652 cases, St. Petersburg with 3,749, and the capital region with 1,540 cases.
Peru exceeds one million cases
The Peru yesterday became the 17th country in the world and the 6th in the Americas to overcome the Covid-19 infectious barrier, with a total of 1,000,153 confirmed cases.
Brazil close to a thousand deaths a day
The Brazil confirmed 968 more deaths from the novel coronavirus and another 55,202 infections in the past 24 hours, figures that confirm the acceleration of the pandemic seen in the country in recent weeks, the government said.
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