Coronavirus: new world record for daily cases

The pandemic of coronavirus marked a new record with more than 671,000 cases and more than 10,600 deaths in the last 24 hours worldwide, with the United States in the lead after surpassing 200,000 positives for the first time in one day and while some European countries lifted restrictions after a drop in infections.

With 671,885 positives on the last day, the world has passed 62 million people infected with Covid-19, while the number of deaths from the epidemic stood at 1.4 million, according to the updated balance from Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

Almost a third of infections in the past 24 hours have occurred The United States, the country most affected by the disease, which has recorded 205,557 new cases, which marked another spike in daily infections and exceeded 13.2 million positives. Also, 1406 people died the day before and the total death toll in the country stood at 264,859 people.

Faced with this situation, heAuthorities in Greater Los Angeles, the county most affected by the virus at the moment, have decided to ban public and private meetings from Monday and for at least three weeks, with the exception of those organized for religious or protest purposes, to stop the advance of Covid-19.

Europe

As, Europe has now exceeded 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus, Coinciding with the easing of restrictions in several countries, eager to regain some of the normality by Christmas.

The European continent recorded more than 36,000 deaths last week, the most serious figure since the start of the pandemic, the news agency reported AFP.

Despite these alarming figures, the situation is improving in most countries, which appear to have passed the peak of the second wave. With strict sanitary rules, stores in France and shopping centers in Poland reopened today, while Ireland and Belgium will adopt similar measures next Tuesday, December 1.

“Everyone’s efforts and sacrifices worked and we saved lives,” praised the Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin.

However, in Germany The restrictions may be in effect until the boreal source, the Minister of Economy Peter Altmaier. “We have three or four long winter months ahead of us. It will all depend on the arrival of the vaccines, but it is possible that the restrictions will continue during the first months of 2021, ”he said in an interview with the newspaper. The world.

Germany, seen as an example of management in the first wave, was hit hard in the second wave of the virus and already has more than 15,500 deaths from Covid-19.

In the UK, Wales will tighten restrictions on pubs and restaurants before Christmas and in England, including London, the 56 million inhabitants will continue to live under severe restrictions when the second lockdown ends next Wednesday.

Dissatisfied with the measures, hundreds of people defied the ban and protested today in London shouting “Freedom” and with banners reading “Stop controlling us”, while police arrested more than 60 protesters for having violated isolation. valid.

Despite the fatigue of part of the population, UK Minister Michael Gove said today hospitals across the country could face an emergency if urgent action is not taken and strict against the advancement of the disease.

The UK is the seventh country in the world and the fourth in Europe with the most confirmed cases of Covid-19, and the fifth on the planet and the first on this continent with the most deaths from the disease, according to JHU.

So far, it has accumulated 1,605,172 infections (15,871 in the past 24 hours) and 58,030 deaths (479 new), the health ministry reported this afternoon, according to the news agency. Europa Press.

Italy, for its part, saw a slight drop in infections and deaths due to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, but the government has warned that the levels remain high anyway and even in some areas continue to rise.

However, the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, ordered that from tomorrow Lombardy, Calabria and Piedmont return to the orange risk zone, which implies a relaxation of the restrictions adopted to contain the spread of the virus.

Latin America

Across the Atlantic, Mexico registered 12,081 new cases of Covid-19 last night, a record number, which puts the total number of infections in the country at 1,090,675, according to figures from the Federal Ministry of Health.

In the past 24 hours, the deaths of 631 people were also reported, bringing the total to 104,873 deaths.

In Peru, the state of health emergency has been extended by 90 days, until early March 2021, but authorities have relaxed some restrictions thanks to the slow but sustained reduction in infections and deaths.

With 33 million inhabitants, Peru has accumulated 35,780 deaths from the virus, the second highest death rate in the world relative to population.

Since the start of the pandemic, Latin America and the Caribbean have already recorded 444,036 deaths from Covid-19 and more than 12.8 million infections, according to official figures.
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