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Coronavirus: update on the pandemic

2020-10-24T19:05:51.405Z


New reports, new measures and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.


More than 42.26 million cases

The pandemic has killed at least 1.14 million people worldwide since the end of December, according to a report established this Saturday, October 24 by AFP from official sources.

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More than 42.26 million cases have been officially diagnosed.

Chile crossed the threshold of 500,000 contaminations this Saturday, October 24.

The United States is the most bereaved country with 223,998 dead.

Next come Brazil with 156,471 dead, India (117,956), Mexico (88,312) and the United Kingdom (44,571).

France: extension of the state of emergency

The Minister of Health Olivier Véran defended before the National Assembly the extension until February 16 of the state of health emergency to face a "

period which will be long and difficult

".

The toll will "

grow heavier in the coming days and weeks, whatever we do

", due to the dynamics of the epidemic, said Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

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This exceptional regime, re-triggered last Saturday, notably allows curfews.

In total, two out of three French people in 54 departments and Polynesia are now subject to it from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., under penalty of fines.

New restrictions in Madrid and Brussels

New restrictions come into effect this Saturday, October 24 in Madrid: all gatherings, public and private, of people not living in the same homes will be prohibited between midnight and six in the morning.

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In Brussels, the authorities have decided to advance the curfew imposed in Belgium to 10 p.m.

In particular, the government ordered the closure of shops as well as cultural venues, museums and sports halls at 8:00 p.m., from Monday.

This new turn of the screw in Belgium goes beyond the decisions adopted Friday, October 23 by the government for the whole country and follows the measures announced by the authorities of Wallonia, the French-speaking region of the kingdom.

More than 10,000 dead in Germany

The death toll from the coronavirus has passed 10,000 in Germany, a country so far relatively spared.

"The

agenda is as follows: reduce contacts, meet as few people as possible,

" the German Chancellor repeated in her weekly podcast.

Angela Merkel had already solemnly asked her fellow citizens last Saturday to "

stay at home

" as much as possible.

"

What will be winter, what will be our Christmas, will be decided in the days and weeks to come

", she warned again, rebroadcasting her speech from last week.

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Germany, which until now had rather been spared by the first wave in the spring, has been facing for several weeks, like all European countries, a sharp increase in cases of Covid-19 infection.

Clashes in Naples against the curfew

Faced with the threat of new confinement, clashes between the police in the evening of Friday October 23 in Naples against hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the curfew.

The latter is established from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. in Campania (southern Italy).

At around 11 p.m., when the curfew began, several hundred people lit smoke bombs, set fire to garbage cans and threw projectiles at riot police.

The Under-Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Carlo Sibilia, relayed a video where several vehicles of the police are taken to task.

"

The traders, the bartenders, the entrepreneurs, the workers, do not protest in this way

", he writes, describing the perpetrators of the violence as "

criminals

".

Polish President contaminated

Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for the coronavirus, but "is

doing well,

" the government said, as Poland faces an upsurge in the pandemic.

Andrzej Duda participated in an investment forum in Tallinn on Monday where he met Bulgarian President Roumen Radev, who then had to isolate himself due to another contact with an infected person in his country.

Source: lefigaro

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