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16 December 2020On the day when the new restrictive measures, strongly desired by Chancellor Angela Merkel, aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus,

Germany records the heaviest health bulletin since the onset of the disease

.

As many as 952 new deaths related to the virus, the highest count in a single day and at the same time a spike of vastly greater proportions than the previous record of victims of December 11, when there were 598. According to the data of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) the infections diagnosed in the day just passed would be 27,728.

To these must be added the data from Saxony. 



United States

As experts have long predicted, the United States has seen a deadly resurgence of the novel coronavirus which is not only hitting new areas, but is also circulating in areas that seemed to have "beaten" it in the first wave, setting new records. of infections, hospitalizations and deaths.

The situation deteriorated in December, after a series of massive displacements of the population on the occasion of the Thanksgiving holidays that caused

daily infections to

jump

over the average of 200 thousand and deaths above two thousand per day

.

Critical are the conditions of the hospitals that only yesterday recorded 112,816 active admissions involving Covid-19 positive patients, setting a new record since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project (CTP).

It is the 14th consecutive day that the United States has remained in excess of 100,000 hospitalizations.



South Korea

The Korean Agency for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that

205 active patients out of 11,205 are in serious or critical condition

amid growing fears of a possible shortage of intensive care units.

Critics say the resurgence of the virus highlights the risk of encouraging economic activity when vaccines are at least months away.

The government eased social distancing restrictions in October as disease rates slowed despite experts warning of a viral wave during the winter, when people spend more hours indoors.

The government has reinstated some restrictions in recent weeks, such as closing night clubs, interrupting school classes in person, and restaurants can only deliver and provide take-out service after 9pm.