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With more than 129 million infections worldwide and 2.8 million deaths, the Covid-19 pandemic records a new epidemic in China, a sharp increase in cases in India and the renewal of restrictions in Japan, France, in Italy and Canada. In this context, Argentina has recorded 14,430 infections in the last 24 hours and the regional situation is critical in Brazil and Chile.

The virus in North America and the Asian powers

In the United States, the Joe Biden government has launched a bilingual campaign with celebrities to promote the coronavirus vaccination in the face of public reluctance, despite the highest number of infections (30,520,491) and deaths (552,942) in the world .

For its part, Canada has ordered containment in 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, reported six people with coronavirus in the town of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar, two days after an outbreak of the disease was detected there.

The Asian giant, which was the first country where the virus was recorded, has so far reported 101,745 cases (fewer than Uruguay) and 4,841 deaths, 114 times fewer than in the United States. China has almost completely eliminated community transmission of the coronavirus, and whenever an outbreak appears, it fights it with isolation and massive testing.

On the neighboring island of Japan, amid a sudden resurgence in infections, the Japanese government announced stricter health measures in the northern provinces of Osaka, Hyogo and Miyagi, including the early closure of bars and restaurants , which will take effect from April 5 and last for one month.

On a related note, 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 over five months.

The pandemic is crossing Europe

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 on the same day last week.

Meanwhile, in Berlin, Germany, a curfew has been imposed from tomorrow, in an attempt to curb infections.

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

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. The warning comes after learning of a scandalous case of concealing numbers in Sicily.

For its part, France is experiencing a third wave of the virus and was approaching 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus and the number of daily infections these days exceeds 50,000. French Prime Minister Jean Castex has defended the government’s plan to shut down schools for three weeks and announced that the restriction package will 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, five days after Belgium tightened restrictions with the closure of schools, borders and non-essential stores, police dispersed thousands of people with fire trucks who had been summoned by pranksters to assist at an alleged concert announced in a social network, according to the AFP agency.

The second wave in South America

On another day marked by the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping through Brazil, where a new, more contagious variant of the virus was recently discovered, 3,950 people died. The average number of deaths in Brazil reached the highest value recorded for the sixth consecutive day, 2,971 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, July 2020 (32,912 dead), according to the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.

The South American region also reported an alarming record of daily cases in Chile, with 8,830, despite its extensive vaccination campaign against Covid-19, which has racked up 6,795,818 vaccinated. The government has resolved to close all its borders as of next Monday for 30 days, to limit foreign travel and to ban non-resident foreigners from entering.

In addition, the Department of Health recorded 193 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 23,328, while occupancy of therapy beds reached 90% of occupancy nationwide.

For this reason, the authorities reported that 19 other municipalities in the regions would be placed in total quarantine as of Monday at 5 p.m. and with this measure, 86.6% of the population would be in detention from that day, according to the newspaper La Tercera. .

In Bolivia, in an attempt to stop the entry into the country of Brazilian variants of the coronavirus, the closure of its border with Brazil for at least a week from this midnight was announced today, the two countries being 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.