Russia records two record daily deaths and injuries

Italy imposes a curfew at night to confront the outbreak of "Corona"

Demonstrators in Brescia, Italy, protest against lockdown restrictions.

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The Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, signed a decree imposing a curfew in all the country's territory, from today, from 10 pm to 5 am, until December 3, to confront the outbreak of the new Corona virus (Covid-19), while Russia recorded two outcomes. Two new records of daily deaths and injuries due to the virus.

According to the decree, issued by the Italian Prime Minister, the 20 Italian regions will be divided into green, orange and red regions, based on the severity of the epidemiological situation in them, and varying restrictions will be imposed in each region, secondary schools will be closed, and commercial centers will be closed on weekends.

The decision of the Italian government came in the wake of mass demonstrations in the city of Brescia, in protest against the restrictions of the closure.

Last February, Italy, the first country in which the epidemic broke out in Europe, recorded more than 39,000 deaths out of more than 750,000 infections.

In Portugal, the bulk of the country entered a new lockdown yesterday, less stringent than the one imposed in the spring, but the government may soon impose stricter measures.

The isolation covers about 70% of the population, which number about 10 million, and will remain in effect for a period of no less than two weeks.

Telework is now mandatory, but schools will remain open, and so will shops and restaurants that close their doors early.

In addition, a Reuters statistics showed that more than 47.49 million people were infected with the emerging corona virus worldwide, while the total deaths resulting from the virus reached 1 million 213897 cases, and HIV infections were recorded in more than 210 countries and regions since the first cases were discovered. China last December.

Yesterday, the Russian health authorities announced that 389 deaths and 19768 new cases of Corona had been recorded during the past 24 hours.

According to the Bloomberg News Agency, these two deaths and injuries are the largest recorded in Russia in one day since the virus appeared there.

The special operations room to combat the spread of the coronavirus in Russia stated that the total number of infected people exceeded one million and 693 thousand cases, and the total deaths since the start of the epidemic reached 29,217 cases.

15567 patients recovered from the virus during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of people recovering in Russia to one million and 266 thousand people.

According to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, Russia ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of Corona infections, after the United States, India and Brazil.

Yesterday, Oxford University expressed its hope to present the results of the last phase of trials of its candidate vaccine to prevent "Covid-19" disease next month, which increases hopes that Britain will be able to start distributing a successful vaccine in late December or early 2021.

"I am optimistic that we can reach this stage before the end of this year," Andrew Pollard, chief researcher for vaccine trials in Oxford, told British MPs, speaking of presenting the results of the trials this year.

He explained that determining whether the vaccine is effective or not will be during the current year, and after that, regulators will carefully review the data, and then a decision will be made on who should receive the Oxford vaccine.

"Oxford" hopes to release the results of its vaccine trials against "Corona" next month.

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