Coronavirus, in Germany the contagion curve is not reversed. Merkel: “Worrying”. The prince of Sweden and his wife are infected. Over 2,400 deaths in the US, a record since May

The Germany still fails to reverse the contagion curve of coronavirus, with the Christmas holidays approaching and the government’s hope of loosen restrictions per allow citizens to do the expenses for holidays and meet, even if in groups of up to ten people. According to the latest bulletin released by Robert Koch Institute, the number of confirmed cases has risen by 22,268, for a total of to 983,588 cases since the start of the pandemic. The exponential growth has been stopped, but “there is still no reversal of the trend, the growth of infections has stopped at a high level, too high. And in many Länder they are still growing too much instead of falling, ”he said Angela Merkel speaking to Bundestag, citing among other things the “Sad record of victims” marked the day before yesterday. “This must worry us – he added – If we waited for intensive care to fill up it would be too late “.

Coronavirus infections also in the royal family in Sweden. The Prince Charles Philip, 41 years old, second son of the reigning sovereign, and his consort, Sofia, 35, both tested positive in these hours after experiencing symptoms of the infection as early as yesterday. Tampons have now also been laid out for the rest of the dynasty, by the 74-year-old king Carlo Gustavo, to the 76-year-old queen Silvia, up to the heir to the throne Victory (43 years old) and her husband Daniel. On Friday the whole royal family had gathered in a Lutheran church for the funeral of Walther Sommerlath, brother of the queen.

Across the Atlantic, in the United States the number of daily victims is worrying, which has been over 2,000 for two days now. In the last 24 hours they have been over 2,400 the dead for coronavirus, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University: the worst toll in more than six months. The last time the death toll surpassed this number in one day was in early May, at the height of the US health crisis. The country has simultaneously recorded almost 200 thousand new infections. Despite this, the Supreme Court blocked the limits imposed by the New York State authorities at religious functions: with a vote of 5 to 4 the judge’s ruling was decisive Amy Coney Barrett, nominated by President Donald Trump and recently confirmed by Congress. The court’s decision conflicts with two other rulings concerning churches in California and Nevada, issued before Justice Barrett joined the US top court. In those cases, the judges allowed the governors to limit participation in religious services.

Just four days after the praise ofWorld Health Organization towards Asian countries such as South Korea, where the “people are fully involved, they assume behaviors that make it difficult for the virus to circulate. They keep the distances, they wear masks, they isolate themselves when they are sick, they protect the groups most at risk ”, precisely Alone records a new peak of infections: they are 583 the new cases of Covid-19 recorded in the last 24 hours, of which 553 of domestic broadcast. This is the highest level for over 8 months. “We are in the situation where outbreaks of the virus can emerge anywhere,” admitted the Minister of Health Park Neung-hoo.

Russia – New peak of both new infections and deaths caused by Covid-19 in 24 hours. Over the course of the last day, 25,487 new cases of Covid-19 were ascertained and 524 people died of the virus according to data published by the national coronavirus operations center. The mayor of Moscow, Serghiei Sobyanin, has decided to extend until January 15, 2021 the rule adopted in October which requires companies and companies to make at least 30% of its employees work remotely in order to curb the Covid-19 epidemic.

Tunisia – The Tunisian Minister of Health Faouzi Mahdi estimates that the 12% of Tunisians have already contracted the coronavirus. “In the last 14 days, the spread of the virus has reached 135 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants,” he said at a press conference, recalling that up to 23 November 90,213 confirmed cases were registered in Tunis out of a total of 439,181 analyzes carried out.

Ukraine – New record of infections in Ukraine. In the last 24 hours, 15,331 new cases have been ascertained in the former Soviet republic, the maximum since the beginning of the epidemic. The deaths caused by the disease during the last day were 225.

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