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Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, according to US scientists, more than one million people have died worldwide after infection with the virus. This was revealed on Monday evening by data from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. More than 33.2 million infections were detected. Experts assume a high number of unreported cases. Around a fifth of all recorded deaths are in the USA, where more than 205,000 people died. The number of victims in the USA, where around 330 million people live, is the highest in the world in…

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Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, according to US scientists, more than one million people have died worldwide after infection with the virus. This was revealed on Monday evening (local time) from data at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. More than 33.2 million infections were detected. Experts assume a high number of unreported cases. Around one-fifth of all recorded deaths are in the USA, where more than 205,000 people died. In many European countries, the figures have also risen rapidly again recently. The situation is particularly dramatic in Montenegro,…

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Prague. In view of rising corona numbers, the Czech Republic wants to declare a state of emergency again. This is certainly necessary, said head of government Andrej Babis of the populist party ANO on Monday evening on the television station Nova. He assumed that the cabinet would meet in Prague on Wednesday for a special session to decide on this step. The state of emergency already applied for two months in spring and expired at the end of May. Among other things, it allows the government to suspend civil rights…

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The Netherlands are tightening their coronavirus rules for an initial period of three weeks in view of rapidly increasing case numbers. “Everyone has seen the alarming reports,” said Prime Minister Mark Rutte this evening in The Hague. Consequences must now be drawn from this. These include that from tomorrow evening on, all sporting events must take place without an audience. Cafes and restaurants must close at 10 p.m. and are not allowed to admit new guests after 9 p.m. In addition altogether only 30 humans may be at the same…

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In view of the escalating numbers of new coronavirus infections in Slovakia, the country’s crisis management team has decided to declare a new state of emergency. This was announced by the Slovak chief hygienist Jan Mikas at a press conference in Bratislava this evening. It was said that the government will definitely have to decide on the crisis management team’s proposal, which will probably happen on Wednesday. Emergency was already in force in Slovakia during the first wave of coronavirus in spring, but only in the health sector. This was…

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The world region most affected by the pandemic is Latin America and the Caribbean. The number of deaths recorded worldwide in the Corona pandemic has exceeded the symbolic threshold of one million cases in total. This is the result of a census by the news agency AFP from the night to Monday, based on information provided by the authorities. According to this, at 00:30 CEST there were exactly 1,000,009 deaths. The number of recorded cases of infection at that time was 33,018,877. The region of the world most affected by…

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In Argentina, more than 700,000 people have already tested positive for coronavirus in more than 700,000 cases. The exact number was reported by the Ministry of Health last night (local time) at 702,484. 15,543 people who tested positive die. The country, with a population of approximately 45 million, ranks ninth in the world in the Johns Hopkins University list, behind the United States, India, Brazil, Russia, Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Spain. Argentina, which has already suffered from an economic crisis, was one of the first countries in Latin America to…

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In France, almost 16,000 people were newly infected with the coronavirus within 24 hours. Since Thursday evening, 15,797 new cases of infection have been registered, the health authorities announced yesterday evening. The day before, a new record of 16,096 infections had been registered. Since Thursday, 56 new deaths in hospitals have been registered. With more than 31,600 deaths, France is one of the countries in Europe most affected by the pandemic in absolute figures. As a direct result, the government imposed new restrictions – including a local lockdown for the…

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In the USA, which has a population of around 328.2 inhabitants, more than seven million people have now tested positive for the coronavirus. This is the result of calculations by the Reuters news agency. The number corresponds to more than 20 percent of all cases worldwide. The USA is therefore in first place, followed by India with 5.7 million cases and Brazil with 4.6 million. The number of deaths that tested positive exceeded the 200,000 mark in the United States a few days ago. — Hector Pascua with report from…

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