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Sweden has registered more than 2,000 new infections with the coronavirus within 24 hours. Today, a total of 2,128 confirmed cases were added to the database of the Folkhälsomyndigheten health authority – according to the TV station SVT, this is the highest daily figure since the beginning of the pandemic. In the meantime, more tests are being carried out, which is why the figures can only be compared with those from the first half of the year to a limited extent. Almost 118,000 infections were detected in Sweden. The number…

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with the Prime Ministers on Wednesday to discuss further restrictions to contain the pandemic in view of rising corona cases. According to a media report, the German government is pressing for drastic restrictions in Germany for the whole of November, as shown in a draft resolution (as of late Tuesday evening) for the conference, which is available to the newspapers of the “Funke Mediengruppe”. According to the resolution, from November 4 to the end of November, citizens are to be urged to “restrict contacts…

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The significant increase in coronavirus cases in Belgium in recent weeks has now resulted in the country having the highest number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the EU. This is the result of today’s figures from the European Epidemic Control Centre (ECDC). With a 14-day incidence of around 1,390, the country now even ranks ahead of the Czech Republic, which is in a state of emergency (incidence of around 1,380). For comparison: According to ECDC figures, Austria has a 14-day incidence of 321. Recently, therefore, the measures in Belgium…

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According to the Robert Koch Institute, the health authorities reported 11,409 new corona infections within one day in Germany early on Tuesday morning. On Tuesday a week ago, the number was 6,868. On Saturday, 14,714 new infections had reached a new record level since the beginning of the corona pandemic in Germany. The number of deaths exceeded the 10,000 mark at the weekend. The current figures are only partly comparable with those from the spring, as considerably more tests are now being carried out and more infections are being detected.…

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Over the next two weekends, the Slovakian government plans to test almost the entire population of the country for the coronavirus. The national corona crisis staff has approved the plan after a pilot phase was successfully completed last weekend, head of government Igor Matovic announced on Monday evening. From last Friday to Sunday, four districts on the Polish border that were particularly hard hit by the pandemic were initially tested. In the next two phases, all residents over ten years of age in the rest of the country will be…

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In Denmark, for the first time since the beginning of the CoV pandemic, more than a thousand new infections have been recorded within one day. As the Danish health authority announced yesterday, 1,056 new cases were registered within 24 hours. At the beginning of the week, new restrictions had come into force in Denmark. Since then, alcohol may no longer be sold in Denmark after 22.00 hours. Meetings with more than ten participants are prohibited. From Thursday onwards, the obligation to wear masks, which is already in force in public…

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In view of rapidly increasing numbers of coronavirus infections, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of overloading intensive care units, especially in Europe and North America. “Many countries in the northern hemisphere are currently seeing a worrying increase in cases and hospital admissions,” said WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a briefing in Geneva yesterday. In some places intensive care units filled up quickly. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 40 million infections have been detected worldwide. More than one million people have died…

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The famous Christkindlesmarkt in Nürnberg is cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. This was announced by the northern Bavarian city today. “We find this decision very difficult. The Christkindlesmarkt with its great tradition belongs to Nürnberg,” said Lord Mayor Marcus König. Originally, the city had planned to have the traditional Christkindlesmarkt more decentralized and with a strict hygiene concept. But in view of the rising numbers, the city now considers this to be the wrong signal, said König. Curfew for Rottal-Inn CountyThe number of registered new CoV infections…

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Belgium, severely affected by the corona pandemic, reports a new record level of new infections. For Tuesday last week (October 20), the number was 18,217 according to new calculations, the spokesman of the crisis center, Yves van Laethem, told the press in Brussels on Monday. The figure for 20 October had initially been given as 15,432 over the weekend. For Belgium, the Sciensano public health institute put the average number of new infections per day for the period from October 16 to 22 at 12,491, an increase of 44 percent…

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