New record in France , where the number of new positive cases at Covid-19 has reached 5,429 in the last 24 hours, a number that hasn't been seen since mid-April. This is what is learned from the Directorate General of Health, which however has not updated the number of deaths and hospitalizations due to a "computer failure" that has affected the counting system. Bars and restaurants in Marseille , the second largest city in France, on the south coast, will close at 11pm by decision of the prefect as part of the measures to stem the increase in coronavirus infections. The government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, at the end of the Council of Ministers, said that crackdowns of this type "are not excluded" even for Paris and Ile-de-France, where the circulation of the virus continues to be high. .
Still shadows in the Trump government's handling of the pandemic . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US agency for health protection, has received pressure from the administration to change their testing guidelines to exclude people who have no symptoms of covid-19 even if they have been recently exposed to the virus. The New York Times reveals it, citing two federal health executives. One reported that the order comes from above, the second that the new guidelines were not written by the CDC but imposed.
In the last 24 hours in Russia 4,676 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded and 115 deaths caused by the infection have been ascertained. The national coronavirus operations center reports. The total number of infections in the country since the beginning of the epidemic thus rises to 970,865. The deaths are officially 16,683.
L 'Argentine has scored in the last 24 hours a new record of coronavirus infections , recording 8,771 cases and thus surpassing the previous peak on Monday that it was in 8713. The health authorities of Buenos Aires announced this last night, stating that overall the infected reached 359,638. At the same time, the deaths of the day were 198, for a total of 7,563, placing Argentina in sixth place in Latin America, behind Brazil (116,580), Mexico (61,450), Peru (27,813), Colombia (17,889) and Chile (10,958).
India counted 67,151 positives in 24 hours yesterday . On the same day, there were 1,059 new deaths. The total number of infections amounts to 3 million 234 thousand. The Ministry of Health reports that 2 million 467 thousand have been healed since the start of the pandemic, with a recovery rate of 76.30 percent. According to the ICMR, the Indian Higher Institute of Health, 823,992 tests were carried out yesterday.
New leap in coronavirus cases in Switzerland : 379 laboratory-confirmed infections have been recorded in the last 24 hours. The Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) indicated this in its daily bulletin. The total since the outbreak of the epidemic rises to 40,540, with 474.5 infections per 100,000 inhabitants. Yesterday 202 cases were announced, Monday 157 and Sunday 276. Note the strong increase in tests carried out, 14,456, well above the average of the last few days. There are no new deaths, the figure is still at 1722.