An almost inevitable decision if the progression of new infections continues at the current rate. In fifteen days the cases have doubled and reached a staggering figure: more than a thousand every hour, up to the latest data that really risk blowing the bank. The measure is valid from midnight on Friday, from 9pm to 6am, for a period of six weeks.
Over 41 million cases in the world since the beginning of the pandemic. more than one million 100 thousand deaths. the virus circulates from one end of the planet to the other: from Europe to India, from South America to the United States where peaks of 2,300 daily deaths are expected to be reached, according to a model developed by the University of Washington.
Several states are trying to run for cover between targeted confinements and real lockdowns. The data continues to deteriorate even in Spain, 1,005,295 infections according to Johns Hopkins University. Faced with the increase in patients, the authorities urgently imposed new restrictions. Granada is the first Spanish city where a curfew was enacted from 11pm to 6am. Health Minister Salvador Illa announced that the Community of Madrid “is working on tough measures” that it will take after the alarm is lifted on Saturday. , and that the regional government will announce on Friday.
Also there Greece was forced to impose curfews on Athens and Thessaloniki, premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis said. “The situation is very serious” in Germany warned the president of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, in light of the 11,287 new infections at federal level in 24 hours, predicting “that serious cases and the number of victims will increase”.
The contagion in fact out of control Belgium, which has become the second country in the world by number of deaths (10,539 since the beginning of the pandemic) in relation to the population. New infections reached the average daily threshold of 9,693 between 12 and 18 October, equal to a 75 percent increase compared to the previous week, the Sciensano Institute of Public Health found. Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes also ended up in intensive care.
Numbers above the guard level in Russia – 15,971 new cases and 290 deaths in 24 hours – and in the Balkans. And in addition to the number of cases and deaths, in Europe the number of positives per 100 thousand inhabitants continues to grow according to the updated map published by the Center for Disease Control (Ecdc). The incidence of infections is more than 120 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in almost all states and in Italy the figure of 191.7 was reached against 172.6 on Wednesday.
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