The number of new infections in Germany returns to rise with 1390 cases yesterday, reports the Robert Koch Institut, after yesterday's encouraging data that were affected by the closure of many local health offices over the weekend. Despite the steady and moderate growth trend of the last two weeks, it is still far from the peak reached at the beginning of April with 6000 cases. The daily contagion RO factor is 1.11, while the 7-day mean contagion value is 1.04. The areas most affected by the epidemic are still Bavaria, especially on farms in the Dingolfing-Landau district, the Wiesbaden area in Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and growing in Berlin. There are 224,404 total coronavirus cases recorded and 9236 coronavirus positive victims.
The Russian has recorded 4,748 cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest number since April 20. The coronavirus center said so. The total number of cases reached 932,493. According to the crisis center, the coronavirus daily growth rate was 0.5% for the third day in a row. Moscow then documented 132 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, up from 55 the day before. In total, 15,872 patients have died from the virus in Russia. Tass reports it.
The South Korea announced a ban on churches in Seoul and neighboring areas to hold public activities except for worship services without any direct contact: the draconian measure determined to contain the rapid spread of the sudden outbreak of Covid-19 departed from the Protestant church of Sarang Jeil, in the capital. In a statement, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun made it clear that the government has raised social distancing rules to level 2 in Incheon, a city west of Seoul. The infections announced today are 246, for 15,761 total, with one more death, to 306.
Almost 20 thousand have died of coronavirus in Iran since the beginning of the pandemic. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Sima Lari, said on state TV. "The total number of coronavirus cases in Iran - he specified - reached 347,835, with 2,385 new cases since yesterday. At least 168 deaths with the virus have been reported in the last 24 hours to increase the total death toll to 19,972". A total of 300,881 people have recovered, while 3,882 people are currently in intensive care. In all, nearly three million tests were carried out in the country, 2,914,049 precisely, added Lari.