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October 27, 2021 Infections from Covid-19 are spurting in Eastern European countries that are seeing new cases surge to the highest levels since the beginning of the pandemic. It is a record in

with 8,361 new infections in the last 24 hours compared to 6,265 the previous day. The last time the country had registered over 8,000 cases was in April 2021.

The

, reports the Guardian, counted 6,274 new cases, effectively doubling in a week. And it is a record since the beginning of the pandemic also in

with 6,813 infections in the last 24 hours. Concern is also

in

where there are 3,125 new patients in 24 hours against 1,668 cases per day a week ago.

Cases also on the rise in Germany: over 23,000 in 24 hours. A number up from 17,015 a week ago. The total toll in the country has now risen to 4.5 million cases and 95,359 deaths. Despite the increase in infections, the state of emergency will not be extended to the deadline set for November 25: "There will be no more school closures, lockdowns or curfews", said Dirk Wiese, deputy head of the parliamentary group of Social Democrats. The pandemic, he added, has yet to be managed responsibly, but restrictions on civil rights need to be relaxed again. Despite the deadline of November 25, some measures such as the mandatory use of masks in public spaces, restrictions onentry to certain locations only for those who have been vaccinated or financial support for workers who have been hit hard by the pandemic will remain in place until March. Furthermore, individual states can still decide to re-implement stricter measures if necessary.

Russia has recorded a new record of deaths from Covid: in the last 24 hours there have been 1,123, bringing the overall toll to 233,898. There were 36,582 new infections. From tomorrow in the capital Moscow, new anti-Covid restrictions will come into force and for next week seven days at home from work have been decreed throughout the Federation to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Ukraine, where new restrictions are in place in areas affected by a new wave of the pandemic, recorded a record number of vaccinations: 291,293 people in one day, the highest figure since the vaccination campaign began. To date, nearly a quarter of the population has received at least one injection and nearly 19% both doses. To counter the increase in cases, the government has imposed health restrictions in the eight most affected regions and made the health pass mandatory to access many public places. In Kiev on Wednesday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned about the saturation of hospitals: "Today almost 66% of the beds equipped with oxygen are occupied. We could soon run out of them given the current speed of spread of the virus," he wrote. on Facebook. 

The pandemic killed over 4,960,994 people worldwide according to the WHO.

More than 244,464,760 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed since the outbreak began.

The countries that have recorded the highest number of new deaths in the latest reports are the United States - the most affected country by far according to data from Johns Hopkins University followed by Brazil and India - Russia and Ukraine.