CNN reported that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was infected with the emerging coronavirus, while a number of European countries took the initiative to re-impose the stone to control the virus.

The network indicated that Meadows, 61, told his circles after the presidential elections that he had contracted Covid-19, without knowing precisely when his positive test result came out.

According to the Washington Post, Meadows was among a crowd in a White House hall when Donald Trump was addressing a speech to about 150 of his aides and supporters on Wednesday.

Several senior Trump administration officials have contracted Covid-19 in recent weeks, including the president and his wife Melania.

This came at a time when the United States recorded, during the last week, a significant increase in the rate of new infections and deaths from the emerging corona virus, to be the highest since the outbreak of the virus in the country.

While the highest daily rate of 50 thousand injuries was recorded in mid-October, these injuries reached more than 90 thousand cases on the morning of the presidential elections, last Tuesday, 3 November.

According to data issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Friday, the average number of HIV infections throughout the country during the past seven days was 28.4 cases per 100,000 people, and North Dakota came on top of the states in terms of infection speed, with a rate of 171 per 100,000.

As of Saturday dawn, the number of Corona patients in the world exceeded 49 million and 655 thousand, of whom more than one million and 248 thousand died, and more than 35 million and 251 thousand recovered, according to the World Meter website.

Stone in Europe

Greece, which is facing the risk of hospitals going out of capacity, will reimpose a quarantine from Saturday for a period of 3 weeks.

The country has recorded only 702 deaths, but it fears a sharp rise in the number of intensive care patients, given an insufficient hospital system.

The curfew was imposed throughout Italy Friday night, until December 3.

Schools are required to switch to remote education, and museums and shopping centers will be closed during the weekend.

New "red zones" have been declared, Lombardy, Piedmont, Valle da Aosta and Calabria, and 16 million Italians have returned to isolation.

The data of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases today showed that the number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Germany increased by 23,399, bringing the total number to 642,488.

She added that the total number of deaths increased by 130 to 11,226.

In Denmark, after monitoring a problematic "mutation" of Covid-19 in mink that could threaten the effectiveness of the future vaccine, the authorities imposed a health cordon on more than 280,000 people in the northwest of the country.

France has tightened the restrictions in effect since the closure was imposed a week ago, as it strengthened the health protocol in secondary schools, and banned the sale of food after ten at night, local time.

More than 58,000 cases of Covid-19 were recorded within 24 hours, which is a record number, according to the Institute of Public Health.

On Friday, the British government launched a massive and rapid testing program in the northern English city of Liverpool, which was hit hard by the second wave.

Liverpool's 500,000 residents, whether or not they develop symptoms, will be suggested to undergo testing in order to "break the chain of transmission" of the virus.

Russia

Russia recorded 20,396 new cases of Coronavirus today, including 5829 cases in the capital, Moscow, bringing the total number of cases in the country to one million 753,836.

The authorities also recorded 364 deaths from virus-related causes during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 30,251.