Germany is poised to pass the mark of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 this week, a sombre milestone that several of its neighbours crossed months ago but which Western Europe's most populous nation had hoped to avoid.
Discipline, a robust health-care system and the rollout of multiple vaccines — one of them homegrown — were meant to stave off a winter surge of the kind that hit Germany last year.
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Germany poised to pass 100,000 COVID-19 deaths | CBC News
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10/5/21
The Netherlands: Dutch Covid hospital total up 6% in a day; New patients near 4-week high
Hospitals in the Netherlands were treating 483 people with Covid-19 on Tuesday. The figure rose 6 percent since Monday afternoon, the third straight daily increase. It was caused in part by 82 patient admissions during the preceding 24 hours, the most in a day since September 9.
Seventeen of the new patients were sent directly to intensive care, a two-week high. Hospitals took on an average of 47 new Covid-19 patients each of the past seven days, including nine sent to an ICU.
Read more at: Dutch Covid hospital total up 6% in a day; New patients near 4-week high | NL Times
Seventeen of the new patients were sent directly to intensive care, a two-week high. Hospitals took on an average of 47 new Covid-19 patients each of the past seven days, including nine sent to an ICU.
Read more at: Dutch Covid hospital total up 6% in a day; New patients near 4-week high | NL Times
8/5/21
Coronavirus - it ain't over yet: World Reaches Grim Milestone of 200 Million COVID Cases Globally, as Delta Variant Surges
The total number of recorded COVID-19 cases worldwide has hit 200 million on Wednesday, according to the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
This milestone, which does not account for any cases that have gone unrecorded is disconcerting as the world grapples with a surging Delta variant. It is a record number that stands to prove how much the virus has affected the globe as the more infectious variant continues to threaten areas with low vaccination rates and puts immense strains on the world's healthcare systems.
Read more at: World Reaches Grim Milestone of 200 Million COVID Cases Globally, as Delta Variant Surges
This milestone, which does not account for any cases that have gone unrecorded is disconcerting as the world grapples with a surging Delta variant. It is a record number that stands to prove how much the virus has affected the globe as the more infectious variant continues to threaten areas with low vaccination rates and puts immense strains on the world's healthcare systems.
Read more at: World Reaches Grim Milestone of 200 Million COVID Cases Globally, as Delta Variant Surges
12/13/20
The Netherlands: Grim milestone: Number of Covid deaths surpasses 10,000 in The Netherlands
he Netherlands reached another grim milestone. On Saturday, the number of people who have died as a result of Covid-19 has surpassed 10,000. This was reported by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
On Saturday, another 53 deaths were reported bringing the total number of fatalities to 10,019 since counting began. On March 6, 2020, the first coronavirus related death was confirmed in the Netherlands. He was an 86-year-old patient who died in the Ikazia Hospital in Rotterdam.
The viral infection remains most lethal to older people. According to RIVM data, about 90 percent of the known deaths were people aged 70 or above. Furthermore, the statistics shows that the coronavirus infection is more fatal for men. Though 54 percent of known infections occurred in women, men accounted for 55 percent of the fatal outcomes.
Read more at: Grim milestone: Number of Covid deaths surpasses 10,000 in The Netherlands | NL Times
On Saturday, another 53 deaths were reported bringing the total number of fatalities to 10,019 since counting began. On March 6, 2020, the first coronavirus related death was confirmed in the Netherlands. He was an 86-year-old patient who died in the Ikazia Hospital in Rotterdam.
The viral infection remains most lethal to older people. According to RIVM data, about 90 percent of the known deaths were people aged 70 or above. Furthermore, the statistics shows that the coronavirus infection is more fatal for men. Though 54 percent of known infections occurred in women, men accounted for 55 percent of the fatal outcomes.
Read more at: Grim milestone: Number of Covid deaths surpasses 10,000 in The Netherlands | NL Times
11/12/20
Britain: Coronavirus: UK records highest daily number of coronavirus cases - by George Parker, Jim Pickard and Alice Hancock
The UK has recorded its highest ever daily number of coronavirus cases and the largest number of deaths since July 1, increasing strains within the Conservative party over how to respond to the resurgence of Covid-19.
Boris Johnson is under pressure from some Tory MPs to take a more “proportionate” approach to new coronavirus restrictions, amid claims that his scientific advisers are engaged in “project fear”.
Read more at: UK records highest daily number of coronavirus cases | Financial Times
Boris Johnson is under pressure from some Tory MPs to take a more “proportionate” approach to new coronavirus restrictions, amid claims that his scientific advisers are engaged in “project fear”.
Read more at: UK records highest daily number of coronavirus cases | Financial Times
6/19/20
Italy's tourism industry braces for 'worst revenue slump in over 20 years'
The country, which welcomed over 60 million foreign tourists in 2018,
according to the World Tourism Organization, is now expecting 56 million
fewer overnight stays, according to a new survey from Florence's
Centrefor Tourism Studies.
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Italy's tourism industry braces for 'worst revenue slump in over 20 years' - The Local
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Italy's tourism industry braces for 'worst revenue slump in over 20 years' - The Local
5/4/20
US's number one problem - testing: Donald Trump is lying about the size of coronavirus testing — but lying about size is typical for him says John Oliver
If there’s one thing Donald Trump does best it’s lie about the size of things.
“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver pointed out that one of the most
dangerous things the president is lying about right now is the size of
the group of people that will be tested for the coronavirus.
When asked this week if the U.S. could reach the benchmark of 5
million coronavirus tests per day recommended by public-health
experts, Trump said USA would. “Well, it will increase it, and it’ll increase it by much more than that in the very near future,”
Trump said, before going off on another incoherent fever-dream that he has singlehandedly saved the world in some kind of war.
The reporter followed up, “Sorry, are you saying you’re confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day?”
“Well, we’re going to be there very soon,” he said, more concisely. “If you look at the numbers, it could be that we’re getting very close. I mean, I don’t have the exact numbers. We would have had them if you asked me the same question a little while ago because people with the statistics were there. We’re going to be there very soon.”
Currently, the U.S. is only able to test about 200,000 people per day.
“There is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet, that we can do 20 million tests a day, or even 5 million tests a day,” said Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of health. He’s the person in charge of the U.S. testing response.
Read more: John Oliver: Donald Trump is lying about the size of coronavirus testing — but lying about size is typical for him – Raw Story
“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver pointed out that one of the most
dangerous things the president is lying about right now is the size of
the group of people that will be tested for the coronavirus.When asked this week if the U.S. could reach the benchmark of 5
million coronavirus tests per day recommended by public-health
experts, Trump said USA would. “Well, it will increase it, and it’ll increase it by much more than that in the very near future,”
Trump said, before going off on another incoherent fever-dream that he has singlehandedly saved the world in some kind of war.
The reporter followed up, “Sorry, are you saying you’re confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day?”
“Well, we’re going to be there very soon,” he said, more concisely. “If you look at the numbers, it could be that we’re getting very close. I mean, I don’t have the exact numbers. We would have had them if you asked me the same question a little while ago because people with the statistics were there. We’re going to be there very soon.”
Currently, the U.S. is only able to test about 200,000 people per day.
“There is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet, that we can do 20 million tests a day, or even 5 million tests a day,” said Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of health. He’s the person in charge of the U.S. testing response.
Read more: John Oliver: Donald Trump is lying about the size of coronavirus testing — but lying about size is typical for him – Raw Story
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