Coronavirus news on Wednesday: The most important developments on Sars-CoV-2 and Covid-19

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More than 50,000 new infections in Brazil

12:23 a.m.: The corona numbers in Brazil continue to rise. Within 24 hours, the number of new infections rose by 52,160 to 3,109,630, as the Ministry of Health announced. The deaths rose accordingly by 1274 to 103,026.

The coronavirus is currently spreading on the banks of the Amazon. The pandemic reached isolated villages from the rainforest metropolis of Manaus. Manaus has been a corona hotspot for months.

Travel warnings for Spain extended

00.01 a.m.: The Federal Foreign Office has extended its travel warning for Spain. The Foreign Office said that unnecessary tourist trips to the autonomous communities of Aragon, Basque Country, Catalonia, Madrid and Navarra are currently being warned due to renewed high numbers of infections and local closures.

There are currently new regional sources of infection in Aragon, Catalonia, Navarra, the Basque Country and the capital region of Madrid with an occurrence of more than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days. That is why the Robert Koch Institute declared these areas to be risk areas. This results in a quarantine obligation or a free mandatory test when entering Germany, it said.

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