12:37 – In one of the largest cities in the south of France Marseille all restaurants and bars must be closed from Saturday. Health Minister Olivier Véran explains the ordered measure by the high numbers of coronavirus infections. “Maximum alert” has been declared for Marseille and the overseas region of Guadeloupe. All publicly accessible facilities are also closed. Theaters and cinemas should not be covered.
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Hospital in Marseille
Foto: Eric Gaillard, Reuters
12:08 – Russia will supply its covid-19 drug called Avifavir to another 17 countries, including Slovakia. So far, Moscow has made the product available to six friendly states.
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11:29 – V Polish coronavirus infection has been confirmed in 1136 people in the last 24 hours. This is the highest daily gain since the beginning of the epidemic. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 82,809 people have been infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Poland, which has a population of around 38 million. With the covid-19, 2,369 infected people died in the country, 25 of them during the past day.
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10:39 – and Sweden, which has reported a low number of new coronavirus infections in recent weeks, is starting to worsen again. Stricter measures could therefore be imposed in the Stockholm metropolis, according to Swedish radio, Andidem Tegnell, an epidemiologist and one of the architects of the country’s current benevolent strategy to combat covid-19.
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10:05 – Slovakia reports 360 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, the highest since the onset of the pandemic. A total of 7629 people have been tested positively in the country so far, and 41 people have died since the beginning of the pandemic in Slovakia.
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09:34 – V Hungary recorded 750 new cases of coronavirus infection on Wednesday, seven people were infected. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 21,200 people have been infected and 709 people have died.
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09:18 – Slovak Minister of Health Marek Krajčí is in quarantine. “I received information that I was in contact with a person positive for covid-19 at the working meeting. I have to stay in isolation and get tested on the fifth day, “Krajčí wrote on the social network.
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Marek Krajčí
Photo: Profimedia.cz
08.14 – During the adaptation courses, which were attended by hundreds of students from various universities at the beginning of September at Mácha’s Lake, at least 116 people became infected with covid-19, the iROZHLAS.cz server said. Organizing introductory courses for hundreds of students from all over the country is against the recommendations of hygienists during the coronavirus epidemic. However, universities often have nothing to do with the courses, because according to the server, some of them are organized by the civic association Seznamovák.
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07.50 – Number of coronavirus infections in Germany again he exceeded the limit of two thousand. 2,143 people have been infected in the last 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). In the Czech Republic, which has eight times fewer inhabitants, there were 2309 confirmed cases of infection in the middle. In Germany, a population of about 83 million, 278,070 people have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus since the outbreak. On Wednesday, 19 patients died with covid-19, bringing the total to 9428.
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05.53 – The famous New York Metropolitan Opera (Met) has canceled the entire upcoming season and announced that it will remain closed until September next year. According to a published statement, the management of the opera has decided not to return to the original activity as long as it poses a risk to the coronavirus. An opera with a hall for 3,800 spectators usually presents 200 performances per season and attracts almost 800,000 people a year.
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05.15 – All workers in a winery in the province of Álava in northern Spain must undergo a covid-19 test as a precaution before they can start work. According to Reuters, this measure threatens this year’s harvest in the famous Rioja wine region.
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04.42 – In the Czech Republic, the worst situation with the infection is in Prague, respectively in the district of Prague-East, where 200.35 people are infected per 100,000 inhabitants. Then there are Liberec (182.21), Prague-west (162.72), Plzeň-město (162.65), Uherské Hradiště (150.46) or Ústí nad Labem (148.32).
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Of the 628 infected who are in hospital, 120 are in serious condition. Since the beginning of September, the number of patients hospitalized with coronavirus has more than tripled, and three times more people are in serious condition.
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Since March, laboratories in the Czech Republic have detected 55,464 infected people, 26 of whom have been cured of the disease.
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04.30 – V Brazil 33,281 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in the last 24 hours, and 869 people with covid-19 have died. In a country of about 212 million people, more than 4.6 million people have been infected with coronavirus so far. The official death toll is 138,977. Brazil is the third most affected country in the world after the United States and India.
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