Coronavirus: new restrictions in America, Europe and Asia due to the advance of the virus – Telam

Coronavirus Rises in Different Parts of the World (File Photo)

The coronavirus redoubled its global lead on Thursday with another outbreak in China, a sharp rise in cases in India and new or expanded restrictions in Japan, France, Italy and Canada, amid growing deterioration in South America , especially in Brazil and Chile, in the latter case despite the success of its vaccination campaign.

Another day marked by the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic which is ravaging Brazil, where a new, more contagious variant of the virus was recently discovered, 3,950 people have died, the maximum figure reported so far, while the moving average reached the highest value on record for the sixth consecutive day, with 2,971 deaths per day.

March also broke the all-time death record; with 66,868 in total, more than double the second month with the highest number of victims, or July 2020 (32,912 dead), replied the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.

The South American region also today reported an alarming record of daily cases in Chile, with 8,830, despite the success of its vaccination campaign against Covid-19, which has accumulated 6,795,818 vaccinated, so the government has decided to close all its borders as of next Monday for 30 days. , restriction of travel abroad and prohibition of entry by non-resident aliens.

In addition, the Department of Health recorded 193 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 23,328 and more than 90% critical bed occupancy nationwide.

For this reason, the authorities have reported that 19 other municipalities in the regions are under total quarantine as of Monday at 5 a.m. and with this measure, 86.6% of Chile will be in detention from that day, according to the newspaper La Tercera.

In order to try to stop the entry into the country of Brazilian variants of the coronavirus, Bolivia today announced the closure of its border with Brazil for at least a week from midnight, with the two countries in a delicate epidemiological situation.

Faced with fears that these new variants are circulating, including the appeal of Manaus, which is more transmissible, the Bolivian government ordered earlier this week to speed up vaccination campaigns in towns on the border with Brazil.

In North America, while the American government launched this Thursday a bilingual campaign with celebrities to encourage vaccination against the coronavirus in the face of the reluctance of the citizen, Canada has ordered the lockdowns of the cities of Quebec, Lévis and Gatineau, due to a sharp increase in coronavirus cases.

On the Asian continent, China, one of the countries on the verge of returning to normalcy, has reported six people with coronavirus in the city of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar, two days after an outbreak of the disease was detected there, health authorities reported today.

China has largely eliminated community transmission of the coronavirus and whenever it discovers an epidemic, it fights it through isolation and massive testing.

Amid sharp surge in coronavirus infections, Japanese government reported strengthened health measures in the northern prefectures of Osaka, Hyogo and Miyagi, including the early closure of bars and restaurants, which will take effect on April 5 and last for one month.

On the same line, India today extended its vaccination campaign to people aged 45 to 60, after adding more than 72,000 infections in the past 24 hours, the highest daily figure for more than five months.

In parallel, the coronavirus pandemic has continued to progress at a sustained rate in Europe, as in Spain, which has reported more than 7,000 new cases, a figure higher than those of the same day last week, as the German capital imposed a light curfew like tomorrow, to try to stop the contagion, reported the agency Europa Press.

For its part, Italy has reported 23,650 new cases, bringing the total to 3.6 million, and 501 deaths, for a total of 109,847, and authorities have announced that security forces will verify “compliance with current measures” in parks, coasts and areas at risk of crowds during Holy Week, as reproduced by the ANSA agency.

In a decree approved last night, which will be applied from April 7, the ban on movement in the country is established as well as visits to family and friends in “red zones” and the continuity of the closure of bars , restaurants, cinemas, theaters, gymnasiums and swimming pools.

As France neared 100,000 coronavirus deaths and the number of daily infections surpassed 50,000 these days, French Prime Minister Jean Castex defended the government’s plan to close schools for three weeks and announced that the restrictions package would also include a ban on drinking alcohol. on public roads.

In the UK, meanwhile, with 4,364,463 cumulative cases and 127,006 deaths, a King’s College and public health study found that less than a quarter of Britons with coronavirus symptoms ask to be tested.

In Brussels, and five days after Belgium tightened restrictions with the closure of schools, borders and non-essential stores, police dispersed thousands of people with fire hydrant trucks who had been summoned by pranksters to attend a supposed concert announced in a social network, according to the AFP agency.