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>> Follow the events of this Friday January 8, 2020
7 hours.
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onfinement express in the Australian city of Brisbane.
The Australian city of Brisbane has decreed an immediate three-day lockdown of its population, after an employee of a hotel welcoming people placed in quarantine contracted the highly infectious strain of Covid-19 discovered in the United Kingdom.
As of tonight, more than two million residents of Greater Brisbane must stay at home, authorities said.
As of this announcement, long queues quickly formed in front of the shops of the city.
6:25 am.
4,000 deaths in one day in the United States, a record.
The United States has recorded a new 24-hour death record, almost hitting the 4,000 daily death mark, according to benchmark figures from Johns Hopkins University.
At the same time, the country recorded more than 265,000 new infections.
The number of people hospitalized is also at its highest since the start of the pandemic, with more than 132,000 patients occupying beds
6:20 am.
California is deploying dozens of refrigerated trailers for the dead.
California authorities have announced that they have deployed at least 166 refrigerated trailers to serve as temporary morgues in hospitals overwhelmed by Covid-19-related deaths.
With at least 2,500 deaths from the coronavirus every week, California has become one of the main hotbeds of the pandemic in the United States and traditional morgues are full.
6:15 am.
Colombia tightens restrictions on Covid-19.
More than 30 of Colombia's 50 million inhabitants are subject to reinforced containment for five days in order to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, accelerated in favor of the end of the year celebrations and holidays.
Nine of the 32 departments are concerned, as well as the cities of Bogota (center), Medellin (north-west) and Cali (south-west), the three main ones in the country, making a total of around 32 million people.
6:10 am.
Travelers arriving in England will be required to present a negative Covid test.
All travelers arriving in England, including those residing there, will have to test negative for the new coronavirus as early as next week, carried out within 72 hours before their departure.
Even in the event of a negative test, people from "high-risk" countries targeted by quarantine measures will have to continue to self-isolate for ten days.
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6:05 am.
WHO calls on Europe to do more because of the British variant of the virus.
The WHO has called on Europe to react more to the "alarming situation" created by the new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus.
“This is an alarming situation, which means that for a short time we are going to have to do more than we did,” said WHO European Director Hans Kluge.
Twenty-two countries in the Europe zone, comprising 53 states including Russia, have now recorded cases linked to this new strain, said the WHO.
France has identified two “risk clusters” of this British variant of the coronavirus.
6 hours.
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