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On Wednesday, Germany set a new post-peak record for new daily coronavirus cases with 2,828 new cases. The number of people who had to be treated in intensive care units and on ventilators also increased.
In late March and early April, Germany was counting more than 6,000 new cases a day before declining. Since July, however, the numbers have slowly increased again. The lockdown rules have been gradually lifted since May, but the capital Berlin announced a partial curfew on Tuesday.
As a result of increasing cases, the German state officials have agreed to forbid travelers from risk areas to stay in hotels unless they can show a negative test, but four federal states, including Thuringia, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin, have doubts on the ban.
This would prevent Berliners from taking a domestic vacation in the upcoming school holidays unless they tested negative.
“The federal and state governments call on all citizens to avoid all unnecessary trips to or from regions in which there have been 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days,” the ministers said in a joint statement.
Asia and Oceania
Sri Lanka has banned all public gatherings as cases have increased in the Indian Ocean nation. More than 800 infections have been linked to a clothing factory and more than 1,000 people have been quarantined. The cluster of cases occurred on Monday, a day after the country reported its first infection in the community in two months.
South Korea reported 114 new cases, the first daily increase of over 100 cases in a week. Health officials have warned that infections are likely to increase due to increased travel activity during the Chuseok harvest holidays, which ended over the weekend. More than 90 of the new cases involved the capital Seoul, which has seen a resurgence since mid-August.
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America
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it would be years before Mexico Economy to recover from the pandemic. The IMF said the country’s economy will contract 9% in 2020, a slight improvement from an earlier forecast of 10.5%. She predicts that the economy will grow by 3.5% in 2021 and around 2% thereafter. “Based on these projections, it will take employment, income and poverty several years to return to pre-pandemic levels,” said an IMF report.
US President Donald Trump, still under treatment for the virus, abruptly ended talks with Democrats on an economic aid package to Americans affected by the pandemic, rather than saying he would come up with a plan after his re-election. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden voiced his criticism and tweeted, “The president has turned his back on you.”
American Public broadcaster PBS announced that medical supply chains in the country have failed, leading to more deaths from the coronavirus. Research by the Associated Press and Frontline PBS program showed that link after link between commodities and foreign manufacturers was falling apart. The investigation found that politicians and large corporations ignored warnings about the country’s over-reliance on foreign production and a lack of adequate preparation at home.
Europe
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Italian-born Filippo Grandi, said he had been diagnosed with COVID-19 and was being quarantined from home.
The Netherlands reported 5,000 new cases within 24 hours on Wednesday while Denmark The announced restrictions on public life would last at least until October 31.
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said there were some important differences between the first and second waves of infections in his country. He said the death rate during the first wave was around 12%. In the second wave this rate had fallen to 1%. In addition, authorities believe they were only able to detect around 10% of coronavirus cases in the first round. That number is now estimated at 70-80%. Almost 4.8 million people in and around the capital Madrid are restricted in their freedom of movement due to the second wave.
Brussels will close its bars and cafes for a month from Thursday to curb the numbers and infections of the coronavirus and to put pressure on hospitals in the region. Restaurants can stay open until 11 p.m., but according to the new national rules, they can only be entered in groups of up to four people.
ed, kbd / sms (AP, AFP, Reuters)
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