LIVE | Italy reports highest number of corona infections in six months | Inland

Italy has again reported a significant increase in the number of corona infections. The Ministry of Health says 4,458 corona cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours. It is the first time since April 12 that more than 4000 infections have been detected in the southern European country in one day. The death toll rose by 22 to 36,083.

Italy was badly hit by the pandemic earlier this year. The government announced a strict lockdown and seemed to have the outbreak largely under control by the summer. More and more infections are now being diagnosed, although the number of deaths is still considerably lower than in the spring. Then hundreds of patients died every day.

The virus also seems to be spreading rapidly in other European countries. France reported 18,129 new infections on Thursday. The day record had been broken the day before. Then nearly 19,000 new corona cases were added. In the Netherlands, 5,831 new corona cases were reported between Wednesday morning and Thursday. That was also a record.

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• Number of corona patients in hospital increased from 1021 to 1070
• Sometimes it is not possible to discharge recovered corona patients from the hospital. These are patients who no longer have to stay in a hospital, but who are still too sick to go home
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• Leiden company almost delivers 8 million corona vaccines to the Netherlands
• Corona hits naval vessels Sr. Ms. Rotterdam and Johan de Witt
• Forty employees Groningen detention center quarantined, detainees transferred
• Coronaproof: robot LoWie delivers packages to students
• Red Cross inundated with questions about home quarantine
• Kabinet: event industry may be allowed to experiment
• ‘First corona rapid tests approved ‘
• 29 new corona infections were registered on Curaçao on Wednesday. That is the highest number of infections in one day so far.
• ‘Nature worship hinders the hunt for a vaccine’
• The EU has secured the supply of half a million treatments with remdesivir. The Netherlands, among others, is struggling with virus inhibitor deficiencies.

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• NPO DJ Bert Haandrikman is currently not working due to quarantine

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