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Added on the 08/11/2021 17:06:00 - Copyright : Euronews EN
The streets are quiet Sunday in China's cosmopolitan business hub of Shanghai. The city reported 39 Covid deaths Sunday, official data showed, its highest daily toll since a weeks-long lockdown started. IMAGES
In what Italy's prime minister said was 'not an easy decision,' PM Giuseppe Conte has put the country on lockdown for the holidays. Business Insider reports Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told reporters that experts fear there will be a jump in COVID-19 cases over Christmas. Italy wasn't the only European country to tighten restrictions over the holidays — the UK and Germany have both announced heightened coronavirus restrictions. Johns Hopkins University data reports that as of Saturday, Italy had recorded over 1.9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began. Thus far, nearly 68,000 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in Italy.
The mayor of Austin, Texas, told his constituents on a video call last month to 'stay home' and avoid unnecessary travel. The message was a bid to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus in the city and across Texas, as COVID-19 patients are already overwhelming hospitals. But according to Business Insider, Mayor Steve Adler, a Democrat, neglected to mention where he was when he filmed the public service announcement. In fact, he was speaking from a timeshare in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to which he'd flown on a private jet shared with eight other family members and guests. The day before the flight, Adler had hosted a wedding for his daughter, with 20 attending. As of Wednesday, more than 13.8 million Americans have tested positive for coronavirus and over 272,400 have died. Texas is the second worst-hit state in the US. It's surpassed 1.25 million cases and 22,100 deaths.
Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Dominic Raab says in a press conference that 30,615 people have died of coronavirus in the UK, with Britain's death toll now the highest in Europe. SOUNDBITE
Quito, Apr 28 (EFE) .- The number of deaths by COVID-19 rose to 871 after 208 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours in Ecuador.(CAMERA: Juan Francisco Chávez and some footage courtesy of the Presidency of Ecuador)
The number of people in Britain who have died in hospital from the coronavirus has risen by 596 to 16,060, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson. SOUNDBITE