• Spain and France exceed one million coronavirus infections

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22 October 2020 Covid overwhelms France with the absolute record of infections that exceed 41 thousand cases in 24 hours, while the card of partial lockdowns and curfews is being played throughout Europe in the extreme attempt to stop the exponential advance of the virus and avert a new, disastrous, total closure.

But the data of the infections are constantly worsening and the questions are multiplying on the effectiveness of the protection measures in force.

The continent has passed eight million cases and 256,000 deaths.



According to Santé Publique France, there are 41,622 new cases and the positivity rate has also hit a record 14.3 percent.

The victims have been 165 since yesterday and the total deaths since the beginning of the pandemic are 34,210.

France has abundantly exceeded one million cases, surpassing Spain and becoming the fifth country in the world for number of infections and the first in Europe.

Paris has decided on a further extension of the curfew from 21 to 6 in the morning to other 38 departments and to Polynesia which will come into force - premier Jean Castex announced - from Friday to midnight and will last six weeks.

Thus the territories involved rise to 54 for a total of 46 million people but, Castex specified, the "device will be evaluated again next week and could be strengthened".



An almost inevitable decision if the progression of new infections continues at the current rate.

In fifteen days the cases have doubled and reached a staggering figure: more than a thousand every hour, up to the latest data that really risk blowing the bank.

A heartfelt appeal was launched by the Minister for Digital Transition Cedric O for as many people as possible to download the new 'Tous Anti-Covid' app, the French equivalent of Immuni.

And even Strasbourg this year renounces the traditional Christmas market, one of the most important in Europe, due to the worsening of the health situation.



The data continues to deteriorate in Spain as well, with 1,005,295 infections according to Johns Hopkins University.

Faced with the increase in patients, the authorities urgently imposed new restrictions.

Granada is the first Spanish city where a curfew was enacted from 11pm to 6am. Health Minister Salvador Illa announced that the Community of Madrid "is working on tough measures" that it will take after the alarm is lifted on Saturday. , and that the regional government will announce on Friday.



Greece was also forced to impose a curfew on Athens and Thessaloniki, premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.



"The situation is very serious" in Germany warned the president of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, in light of the 11,287 new infections at federal level in 24 hours, predicting "that serious cases and the number of victims will increase".

After Chancellor Angela Merkel's appeal two days ago to stay at home, Wieler reiterated that the only possibility of slowing down the spread of the virus is to "respect the rules in a consistent way" because "most infections are detected. in private contexts ".

Meanwhile, Berlin has included 11 Italian regions (including Lombardy, Lazio and Tuscany) among the areas at risk from Covid: those arriving in Germany from these areas will have to undergo a swab or do a two-week quarantine.



In fact, the contagion in Belgium is out of control, which has become the second country in the world for number of deaths (10,539 since the beginning of the pandemic) in relation to the population.

New infections reached an average daily threshold of 9,693 between October 12 and 18, a 75 percent increase over the previous week, the Sciensano Institute of Public Health found.

The 45-year-old Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes also ended up in intensive care.

His conditions are "stable".



Numbers above the warning level in Russia - 15,971 new cases and 290 deaths in 24 hours - and in the Balkans.

And in addition to the number of cases and deaths, in Europe the number of positives per 100,000 inhabitants continues to grow according to the updated map published by the Center for Disease Control (Ecdc).



The incidence of infections is higher than 120 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in almost all states and in Italy the figure of 191.7 was reached against 172.6 yesterday.

Almost all of Europe is marked in red with the exclusion of Germany and the northern countries.

Italy is also red, which a week ago was marked in orange, with the exclusion of Calabria passed from the green of October 15 to today's orange.