The number of deaths caused by the coronavirus continues to remain high in Germany, with the total since the beginning of the pandemic which has now exceeded 55 thousand, after the Robert Koch Institut recorded other 839 victims. On the last day they also registered 14,022 new infections. “We are on the right track and we have to go forward so consistently,” said the president of the Robert Koch Institut, Lothar Wieler, at a press conference in Berlin with the Minister of Health, Jens Spahn. Wieler warned of easing measures as Germany continues his lockdown duro started on December 16: “Le terapie intensive I am still very troubled and a worsening of the situation would not be manageable. There are more and more outbreaks caused by the contagion of the new variant ”.
France – France, on the other hand, according to the premier Jean Castex, “In the light of the latest figures” may have “still a chance to avoid lockdown“. A surprise announcement that denies the forecasts of the last few days, according to which a new total lockout was now taken for granted. For Sunday evening, in fact, a live televised speech was expected from Emmanuel Macron. To prevent the situation from getting worse, however, France will close from Sunday to midnight borders with countries outside the European Union “except for imperative reasons”, to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus epidemic. Castex then announced that “policemen and gendarmes will be mobilized for to check failure to comply with the curfew“. “The violations some – said the premier – must not frustrate the everyone’s efforts“. Furthermore, from Monday “all the shopping centers non-food products with an area greater than 20,000 square meters, those that favor people contact the most “. Remote work will be “reinforced” in all companies where “it is possible”. All measures that aim to avoid another lockdown in the face of a plateau of contagions around 18-20 thousand cases a day now stable for several weeks. Determinants, second Bfm, will be the latest data on the effects of the 6pm curfew. One hypothesis is that Macron may eventually opt for a lockdown “ibrido”, that is, “less hard for young people”, according to Bfm, with open schools e accessible universities in attendance at least one day a week.
Japan – Meanwhile, the Japanese government announced that the distribution of vaccines for people over 65, one of the priority bands in the country, will not happen before April. The Minister for Administrative Reforms said, Taro Kono, who is also the person in charge of coordinating the inoculations by the premier Yoshihide Suga. “Vaccinations for older people will begin on April 1st. I urge the prefectures to take appropriate precautions, ”Kono said during an online meeting with the governor of Tokushima, Kamon Iizumi, who also holds the role of president of the National Association of the 47 prefectures of the archipelago. Kono said the campaign will run for about 2 months and three weeks and will end in the third week of June. As for immunizations to the rest of the population, Kono said he is still unable to provide an answer.
UK – New daily infections for Covid settled at a high level About 29 thousand (out of over 750 thousand swabs daily) in the United Kingdom, struggling with the consequences of the aggressiveness of the so-called English variant of the coronavirus. Government data from the last 24 hours certify this, leading to almost the 30% decrease in cases recorded in the last week thanks to the effect of third national lockdown and the general tightening imposed in the country. 1,245 deaths. Meanwhile, the Rt index of spread of the infection is adjusted in the Kingdom to the level 0.7-1.1: with a decrease from 0.8 to 0.7 in the territories where the infections have gradually started to retreat (such as London), but an increase from 1 to 1.1, therefore beyond the danger threshold, in individual areas where the rebound caused by the ‘English variant’ came later. Finally, the number of vaccinated people (with an increase of about half a million in 24 hours in the total number of those who received the first dose, up to about 7.9 million individuals, now including 90% of all over eighty on the island) and about 480,000 recalls.
Russia – In the last 24 hours, 19,238 cases of Covid-19 and 534 deaths caused by the Sars-Cov-2 virus have been ascertained. The areas with the highest number of infections on the last day are Moscow, with 2,799 cases, St. Petersburg with 2,284, and the Moscow region with 1,044.
The other countries – Very different numbers in the United States, where instead the cases are 164,665, with 3,872 deaths. But to climb the sad ranking of countries with the most victims in the world is the Mexico, where in some federal states it was decided to take a softer line in terms of restrictions: passed theIndia by number of victims from Covid, ranking third after Usa e Brazil. According to Johns Hopkins University, the country currently has 155,145 victims against 154,010 in India, which has a population over ten times higher.
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