In France, 4 other cities on maximum alert – While the national toll of coronavirus patients is updated upwards (693,000 cases and 32,463 deaths), French Health Minister Olivier Vèran announced that starting from Saturday four more metropolises, Lille, Grenoble, Lyon and Saint-Etienne , will enter the zone of “maximum alert”.
In Paris hospitals in trouble: emergency plan is triggered – Hospitals in Paris are activating emergency measures to deal with Covid-19 patients, who currently occupy 40% of the intensive care units in the region. Authorities have already closed bars in Paris and several cities and restricted private gatherings. Oncoming emergency measures involve adding hospital beds and postponing non-urgent surgeries. Such measures were already ordered in March and April when the pandemic first appeared in Europe.
In Madrid court rejects lockdown, authorities: “Don’t leave the city” – The president of the Autonomous Community of Madrid has asked citizens not to move from the capital, after the sentence of the Higher Court of Justice of Madrid which rejected the restrictive measures of the government. Isabel Díaz Ayuso then promised the adoption shortly of “new fair, sensible and considered measures” that will be agreed with the executive. The Madrid regional court canceled the government order that imposed a partial lockdown on the Spanish capital and nine towns in its area. In a statement, the court announced that the appeal of the local authorities was accepted, stating that the order of the Ministry of Health violates the fundamental freedoms of the 4.5 million people affected by the lockdown. The Madrid region has banned its inhabitants from leaving home without a valid reason since Saturday with the aim of controlling the second wave of coronavirus infections.
In Portugal 1,278 new cases: highest figure since April – Portugal surpassed 1,000 new daily coronavirus cases for the first time in six months. The Directorate General of Health recorded 1,278 infections in the last 24 hours. It is the highest figure since 10 April. Health Minister Antonio Lacerda Sales said officials are concerned about a possible difficult winter for the public health service. On Wednesday, the official number of cases reached 944. The number of new cases per day in Portugal only crossed the 1,000 mark twice, on 31 March and 10 April. The nation of 10 million has recorded 82,534 cases and 2,050 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Peak of new cases in Austria, 1,200 in 24 hours – Austria records a spike in new coronavirus cases. In the last 24 hours, 1,209 new infections have been recorded. A value never recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. The number of so-called active cases now touches the threshold of 10 thousand, with 9,930 positives still not cured while this value in June was just 400.
Russia: population invited to stay at home over the weekend – In Russia, the health ministry has issued a recommendation to the population to stay home this weekend due to a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases, the RIA news agency reported. The health authorities of the Russian Federation have recorded 11,493 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, slightly less than the peak in a single day during the entire period of the pandemic, bringing the overall total of infections to 1,260,112.
In Gb 17,540 new cases, 3,300 more than yesterday – The UK has registered 17,540 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, 3,300 more than yesterday. The victims are 77, up from 70 on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a new study from University College London has established that asymptomatics made up 86% of people who tested positive for coronavirus in Britain during the lockdown. The study suggests that the UK authorities’ current policy of swabbing people who show suspicious symptoms or are contacts of other positives may not detect a large number of cases.
In Germany, contagions are worrying: over 4,000 in 24 hours – More than 4,000 cases (4,058) of contagion in 24 hours. These are the numbers that worry Germany and which have not been seen since the beginning of April. Figures that continue to rise and which risk losing control over the containment of the virus in the country, warn the German health minister, Jens Spahn and the director of the Robert Koch Institut, Lothar Wieler. “At the end of the summer holidays, many people took the virus home. Today this accounts for only 8% of the cases we see in Germany. Most of the infections occur in Germany,” he added. “Conclusion: the incidence of infections is growing in almost all regions and this worries me a lot”, Wieler said.
admitting that he does not know what turn the situation will take, it could even reach 10,000 infections a day and he then invited to respect the rules of social distancing, to wash your hands and use a mask.
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