Injuries worldwide exceed 46.7 million ... and deaths 1.2 million

Corona forces Austria to re-lockdown ... and Greece tightens restrictions

Medics take care of a patient who contracted Corona in intensive care at Reina Sofia Hospital in Murcia, southeast Spain.

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In the face of the outbreak of the second wave of the emerging corona virus, European countries began yesterday to re-impose strict measures, such as Austria, which imposed a re-closure, and Greece with a partial lockdown, while additional restrictions will be announced, including a curfew in Italy.

This comes in what the "Covid-19" epidemic has killed at least 1.2 million people around the world, out of 467,928,818 injuries, according to statistics from official sources.

In detail, new lockdown restrictions took effect in Austria yesterday, and they are scheduled to continue until the end of November.

Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig said that schools and nurseries will remain open, but in the capital, and parents will be able to keep their children at home and not send them to school.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced, on Saturday, that going out between 20:00 and 6:00 in the morning has become prohibited, and the new restrictions, which will continue until the end of November, will determine the number of people participating in private meetings with ten from two different families.

The country of 8.8 million people, which relatively survived the first wave, records more than 5,000 infections per day, compared to 1,000 in early October, with 1,109 deaths since the outbreak of the epidemic.

In Greece, where a curfew was imposed between midnight and 5 in the morning since October 22, a partial one-month lockdown entered into force yesterday across the country, in an attempt to curb the high number of HIV infections.

Restaurants, cafes, galleries, museums and sports halls will be closed in Athens.

Thessaloniki will be subject to a general lockdown for 14 days.

In Italy, the details of the night curfew will be announced nationwide, as well as travel restrictions to the affected areas.

"Let us remain united in this tragic moment," Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Monday.

The priority is to defend health ».

And media reports stated that partial lockdown measures will be imposed to confront the Corona virus in two of the largest industrial regions in Italy, Lombardy and Piedmont.

In France, the number of deaths related to "Covid-19" within 24 hours exceeded the threshold of 400 deaths for the first time on Monday, with 418 registrations, bringing the total number of deaths in France to more than 37,435 since the beginning of the epidemic.

The country has been subject to lockdown measures since Friday, which are less stringent than those imposed in the spring, while 12 million students returned to school on Monday after the All Saints' holiday.

Likewise, the French government also announced that it would publish "mandatory" and rapid tests for "Covid-19" at airports from November 7 for travelers from outside the European Union.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that the holiday season, especially Christmas, would be celebrated in short.

She said that Germany "faces difficult months", likening the epidemic to "an event that only happens once every century."

The vice president of the Robert Koch Institute, which is the main body to combat the virus in Germany, Lars Schade, said yesterday that Germany would have been exposed to more than 400,000 daily infections with the Coronavirus by New Year if the course of infection continued as it is.

Belgium, the country with the largest number of cases of "Covid-19" in the world, relative to its population, has started a new closure that lasts for six weeks, but it is less stringent than the one imposed in the spring.

Yesterday, the Danish parliament postponed the questioning session of the prime minister and other votes, in light of fears that a number of ministers and deputies might be infected with the Corona virus.

Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen said in a speech to Parliament that the postponement is a necessary precaution, referring to several MPs who met last week with Justice Minister Nick Hickrop, who is awaiting the results of his Corona examination.

In the United Kingdom, the country most affected by the epidemic in Europe with about 47 thousand deaths, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the re-imposition of isolation measures in England until the second of December.

In Russia, the health authorities announced yesterday that 355 deaths and 18,648 new cases of coronavirus were recorded during the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that he had isolated himself after he had been in contact with a person who had tested positive for the virus, and the organization said Monday that he had not shown any symptoms.

A Reuters count showed that more than 46.79 million people were infected with the new Corona virus worldwide, while the total deaths resulting from the virus reached 1 million 204,103 cases.

The United States was the most affected country in the world in terms of the number of deaths, with 231493 deaths.

And HIV infections have been recorded in more than 210 countries and regions since the first cases were discovered in China last December.

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