Coronavirus. USA: 3808 victims in 24 hours, 1224 in Brazil. In Japan hypothesis of a state of emergency

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• Coronavirus, record deaths in Germany: over a thousand in one day

• Coronavirus around the world.

  The infected exceed 80 million.

  Sweden: first case "English variant"

• Coronavirus.

  In Germany, over 30 thousand have died since the start of the pandemic

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December 31, 2020 Over 710 thousand infections and more than 15 thousand deaths. This is the toll of the Covid-19 pandemic photographed by the Johns Hopkins University database

in the last 24 hours, from 6.30 this morning to the same time yesterday. Overall, the new coronavirus has caused 82 million 707 thousand infections as well as 1,805,002 victims since its appearance.

The situation appears particularly serious in Europe and the Americas. In the

, according to data published just now by the New York Times, yesterday there was a new absolute record of victims in the 24 hours: 3,808, even more than the previous tragic record recorded just the day before yesterday with 3,708 lethality.

The

recorded 1,224 deaths from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the most since 20 were instead agosto.Sono 55,853 new cases.

In the last 24 hours

, 32,552 new cases of coronavirus and 964 deaths attributable to the infection have been recorded

in

. This was reported by the Robert Koch Institute (Rki), the agency commissioned by the Berlin government to monitor the progress of the pandemic in the country. The total number of confirmed cases in Germany is thus updated to 1,719,737, while that of deaths rises to 33,071.

In

, another 5,253 cases of coronavirus have been recorded since last Sunday in lockdown for the third time. This was reported by the Ministry of Health, announcing that almost 800,000 Israelis have received the vaccine so far, eleven days after the start of the administration campaign.

Faced with an unusual spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Japanese government is now seriously considering the possibility of declaring a state of emergency. Economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura stressed this in a Twitter, for whom it is now a priority to "curb the spread of the coronavirus. At any cost". In the latest bulletin, relating to yesterday, 

recorded 944 new infections, the highest daily increase in infections since the beginning of the pandemic. The total number of people who have been infected in the capital now stands at 58,140, ​​according to the Japanese Ministry of Health. Overall, yesterday 

reported 3,851 new coronavirus cases and 65 deaths from Covid. There are currently 668 patients admitted to intensive care units and considered to be in serious condition. The total number of confirmed cases nationwide now stands at 231,016, while the death toll has reached 3,427.