Eight million cases in India
India has officially exceeded eight million cases since the start of the epidemic.
Worldwide, the pandemic has officially infected more than 44.5 million people, for more than 1.175 million deaths since the end of December, according to a report established by AFP on Thursday.
The United States has the most fatalities (227,701), ahead of Brazil (158,456), India (120,527), Mexico (90,309) and the United Kingdom (45,675).
France is reconfiguring itself
France is becoming one of the few countries or regions in Europe - along with Ireland and Wales - to choose to confine its entire population.
Massive teleworking, compulsory mask at school from the age of six: the day after the announcement of a new confinement of at least four weeks in France, the government detailed this Thursday, October 29, the radical measure decided by Emmanuel Macron to counter a second wave of Covid-19, "
probably more deadly
" than the first, according to the head of state.
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Unlike the confinement last spring, schools as well as health structures will remain open and retirement homes will be able to continue to receive visits, thanks to reinforced health protocols.
But “non-essential” businesses will be closed again, as will theaters and theaters.
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Record worsening in the United States
The situation also continues to escalate in the United States, in the midst of the election campaign.
The world's leading power on Thursday recorded a new record of Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, crossing for the first time the barrier of 90,000 new contaminations, according to a count from Johns Hopkins University.
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On the same day, precisely 91,290 people were infected, while 1,021 died from Covid-19 in the United States.
Rain of restrictions in Europe
In Europe, the countries are barricaded one after the other, like Spain, where five regions including that of Madrid closed their territory on Friday.
Spanish MPs on Thursday approved the government's request for a six-month extension of the state of health emergency.
Belgium, the country where the coronavirus circulates most intensely, convened a new crisis meeting on Friday.
“
The worst is yet to come,
” said government spokesperson for the coronavirus, Yves van Laethem.
In England, new regions will be placed on alert level 2 this Saturday, October 31, prohibiting the inhabitants concerned from meeting people who do not belong to their home inside.
But the British government is still resisting calls to confine England.
Warning from UN experts
Unless there is a radical transformation of the economic system, which destroys nature, pandemics like Covid-19 will "
emerge more often, spread faster, kill more people and have unprecedented devastating impacts on the global economy
“Warn UN experts, pointing out the immense reservoir of unknown viruses in the animal world.
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According to estimates published in the journal Science in 2018 and included in the report, there are 1.7 million unknown viruses in mammals and birds, and 540,000 to 850,000 of them "
have the capacity to infect humans
" .
Marshall Islands more spared
The Marshall Islands, one of the last countries that were still preserved from the pandemic, have officially recorded their first two cases of coronavirus.
The islands and territories of Kiribati, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu are the last most likely spared by the coronavirus.
Tunisia under curfew
The Tunisian authorities have decreed a national night curfew, the closure of schools and the ban on movement between regions.
Pope Francis without the faithful
Due to a generalized increase in the epidemic in Italy, Pope Francis again cancels his general Wednesday audiences in the presence of the faithful.
These will be transmitted from the library of the Apostolic Palace, announces the Vatican.