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20 October 2021 The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, approved the proposal of the Cabinet to declare a non-working week, but with the maintenance of wages, starting from 30 October, to keep workers at home and counteract the increase in infections of COVID-19. In the week from October 30th, four of seven days are national holidays. Putin added that in some areas, where the situation is particularly serious at the pandemic level, the stop could begin on Saturday.



In Russia over the last day there were 1,028 deaths caused by Covid-19, the maximum in a day since the beginning of the epidemic: the Russian state news agency Tass reports, citing data from the national anticoronavirus operations center. According to official data, 34,073 new cases of Covid-19 have been ascertained in the country over the last 24 hours.



WHO: slows down the downward trend in the world 


Slows down the downward trend of new cases and Covid deaths, which has been observed for weeks in the world. In the last 7 days examined by the World Health Organization (WHO), the numbers are stabilizing at a global level: the registered infections are over 2.7 million and over 46 thousand have died in the period 11-17 October, with a decrease of 4 and 2% respectively.       



The trend reversal is beginning to be clear in the European region, which is the only area to record an increase in new Covid cases for the third consecutive week: + 7% compared to the previous week, for a total that exceeds 1.3 millions of infections in 7 days. Also on the death front the figure is growing: + 4%, for a weekly total of 17,998. In the period considered by the WHO bulletin, one in 2 cases was registered in Europe and almost 40% of deaths reported globally.       



Very slight increase in deaths (1%) also in the western Pacific region.

The largest decrease in new weekly cases was reported by the African region (18%), followed by the Western Pacific region (17%).

The cumulative number of confirmed confirmed cases reported globally is now over 240 million and the cumulative number of deaths is over 4.8 million.

The largest decline in new weekly deaths was also reported from the African region, showing a 24% decrease from the previous week.