Highlights : 1) Poland hit a daily record of 6,526 cases on Wednesday,
Poland likely to introduce new restrictions on Thursday; 2) India braces for a surge of COVID-19 cases in coming weeks, as it heads into its main holiday season with an economy freed of virus restrictions;
3) Germany reports a record daily COVID-19 cases, w/6,638 new infections on Thursday, eclipsing March 28th report of 6,294 new cases; 4) Czech Republic reports an all time high for daily Covid cases, recording 9,544 new infections;
5) WHO’s chief scientist has said, due to prioritization, young, healthy people may have to wait until 2022 to be vaccinated for COVID-19; 6) Paris and eight other French cities will be subject to a curfew from Saturday;
7) Spain closes Catalonia bars & restaurants for 15 days following a surge in infections. Weekly total cases rose from 7K to 11K over course of a few days; 8) Netherlands introduced tough restrictions , including restrictions on alcohol sales and new mask requirements;
9) Portugal to introduce restrictions from Thursday, as 🇵🇹 reported a new record in cases. Gatherings will be limited to five people; 10) India’s reports 67,708 new cases in past 24 hours. India’s tally of COVID-19 cases stood at 7.31 million on Thursday;
11(a) Police raided the homes and offices of France’s former PM, the Health Minister and a number of prominent officials on Thursday, as part of an investigation into the authorities’ response to the coronavirus pandemic, BFM TV reported;
11(b) The Health Minister, Olivier Véran, his predecessor, Agnes Buzyn, the former PM Edouard Philippe, former government Spox Sibeth Ndiaye and the current Public Health Director, Jerome Salomon, were also targeted by the raids, BFM added;
12) EU governments not yet prepared for new Covid-19 surge - EUC; 13) UK to move London and Essex to Tier 2: 14) Czech Rep to build field hospitals after record daily cases; 15) Third of newborns with Covid infected before or during birth – study;
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1) FT - “Deaths are published on Wed on the National Board of Health and Welfare website .Doctors send the death certificates in over 3 wks, so there is a significant lag in death reporting.
“Last week in Sweden – a Corona report (5 – 11 Oct) :
A) 5,894 people have now died with Covid-19 in Sweden, a decrease in total fatalities of 1 compared with last week. This isn’t to say there’s been a resurrection, rather during the week..
B) a region made a downwards revision by 12 of their total deaths. It can be more accurately said, then, that 11 fatalities were reported this week, which is a similar number to last week. The total number of Swedish ICU cases has gone largely unchanged, however the number....
Highlights : 1) Slovakia reported 2,075 new daily cases on Friday, has one of the fastest infection rates in Europe; 2) Czech Rep recorded 9,721 new infections , the second consecutive day it posted its worst daily figures;
3) Schools in Italy’s Campania region have closed less than a month after reopening,schools would remain closed until the end of October; 4) Switzerland suffered its worst day for infections again on Friday, having posted its previous worst figure the day before;
5) A court suspended a curfew on Berlin’s bars and restaurants, joining others in Germany in overturning government-imposed measures; 6) Global deaths at 1,096,833 & US cases near 8 M. More than 5K new deaths are being reported daily worldwide;
Article keys : 1) WHO says tighter controls to curb COVID-19, could save 100s of 1000s of lives across Europe before Feb;
2) WHO’s European Dir. Kluge said current situation was, “more than ever, pandemic times for Europe”;
3) infections are hitting 100K daily in Europe,as region has reported 700K weekly COVID-19 cases;
4) “The fall (autumn) and winter surge continues to unfold in Europe, with exponential increases in daily cases and matching percentage increases in daily deaths,” - Kluge;
5) “It’s time to step up. The message to governments is: don’t hold back with relatively small actions, to avoid the painful damaging actions( national lockdowns we saw in the first round (in March and April);”
PT - “UK'S FOREIGN MIN. RAAB: WE ARE TO ENFORCE ASSET FREEZES AND TRAVEL BANS, ON THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NOVICHOK POISONING OF RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER NAVALNY.”
A new round of flooding has emerged in upstream Yangtze River and is moving downstream fast. Half of China's important agricultural provinces have been impacted by the biggest flooding in decades. And much more !
@jendubayevans Fyi regarding China. And interesting report to listen to over morning coffee and breakfast.
2)Article keys : 1) Flooding impacting shipments of PPE; 2) As per Michael Einhorn (Dealmed President), unable to get products out for week, delays could entail 3 weeks;
3)Xiantao (W of Wuhan) supples 1/3 of 🇨🇳 total exports of nonwoven fabric products.