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The United States accumulates more than 236,000 deaths and 9.7 million cases, as shown in the following video:
The pandemic has already killed more than 1.2 million people around the world and caused nearly 49 million infections, according to an AFP tally based on official data.
The current epicenter of the pandemic is Europe with its more than 12 million infections, said Hans Kluge, WHO director for Europe, where more than 300,000 people have died.
We have “seen an explosion” of infections, Kluge said. “In a few days there have been a million more cases” in Europe, and “we also see how mortality is gradually increasing,” he said.
The Old Continent is the second most planted area in the world since the pandemic, with 300,688 deaths in total (for 12,136,981 infections), behind Latin America and the Caribbean (408,841 deaths, 11,490,126 cases), according to the latest AFP toll.
More and more European countries are implementing measures, such as new quarantines
Faced with this situation, the list of European countries that continue to strengthen measures is being expanded.
From this Friday evening until December 3, the curfew will come into effect from 22:00 to 5:00 throughout Italy.
Upper secondary schools will teach remotely, museums will close and shopping centers will not be open on weekends.
Lombardy, Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta and Calabria have been declared “red” and “high risk” regions and 16 million Italians will have to respect a new border.
In Bergamo, in Lombardy, several hundred people, including traders, restaurateurs and some far-right militants, protested against these restrictions and shouted for “Freedom”, before being dispersed by the police.
“There is more weariness and distrust” than in the March imprisonmentsaid the mayor of Bergamo, Giorgio Gori.
The United Kingdom, the most affected country in Europe with over 48,000 deaths, has decreed a reconfirmation in England since Thursday.
And Liverpool (north-west) on Friday became the first English city to test all of its inhabitants for covid-19 even if they were showing no symptoms.
The coronavirus is mutating
Denmark defended its decision on Friday to kill all mink in the country – between 15 and 17 million – after the discovery in these animals of a mutation of the coronavirus transmissible to humans.
This strain called “Cluster 5” and which has already been detected in 12 people, threatens the development of a vaccine against COVID-19.
“We are taking the necessary and appropriate measures” in the face of a “disturbing” development, said Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod.
On the Mediterranean side of Europe, in Greece, the authorities have ordered a new confinement since Saturday and for at least three weeks, due to the risk of hospital saturation.
Before leaving, Greeks They must indicate the reason and time of departure via text message and wait for the green light from the authorities, through the same system.
In France, reconfigured from 30 October, the second wave “is brutal and spreading rapidly”, with more than 58,000 new infections detected in the past 24 hours, according to Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon.
Latin America eases measures against coronavirus
Unlike Europe, Latin America has begun to ease its measures after months of fighting COVID-19.
The progressive lifting of the restrictions has generated a relaxation among the population, for example in Ecuador, which has had to re-impose measures due to the non-compliance with health protection rules.
The authorities in Guayaquil (southwest) have banned the sale of alcohol from Thursday to Sunday, as well as dancing and festive events.
Colombia, which imposed five months in prison until the end of August, for its part has lifted the obligation to submit a negative COVID-19 test to travelers from abroad, sparking criticism. In Colombia, almost 10,000 new cases of contagion were recorded on the night of Friday 6 November.
And in Venezuela, where according to official data there have been about 800 coronavirus deaths, citizens have been able to return to the beaches and hundreds have recovered their way to earn their bread, reopening their shops or their services to bathers, after seven months of total closure.
The regime of Nicolás Maduro decreed the beginning of the Christmas period on October 15th.
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