⁍ The number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States last week rose 24% while the number of tests performed rose 5.5%.
⁍ France posted more than 50,000 daily cases for the first time on Sunday.
⁍ Russia’s daily tally of new COVID-19 infections surged to a record high of 17,347 on Monday.
– Pandemics of coronavirus, which has killed at least 1.15 million people worldwide and sickened more than 43 million, continue to roil the Northern Hemisphere. The latest count from the World Health Organization puts the number of cases in Russia at a record high of 17,347 as of Monday, the AP reports. That’s more than double the number of cases in the US, which is at a two-month high. France, which passed the 250,000 mark for cases on Sunday for the first time, has had more than 50,000 cases a day for the first time, Reuters reports. Russia’s health minister said Monday that the number of cases in the country is beginning to exceed the threshold for a state of emergency. In the US, the number of hospitalized patients is at a two-month high, straining health care systems in some states. Health Secretary Matt Hancock cautioned that a vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc produced immune responses in both elderly and young people. But British Health Secretary Matt Hancock cautioned that the vaccine would not be widely available until next year and said, “We’re not there yet.” The number of new cases in the US last week rose 24% while the number of tests performed rose 5.5%, according to a Reuters analysis. In Europe, the picture was unrelentingly grim as a string of countries reported record increases, led by France, which posted more than 50,000 cases for the first time on Sunday, while the continent passed the threshold of 250,000 deaths.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/wave-of-new-covid-19-cases-crashes-across-us-and-europe-as-winter-looms-idUSKBN27B118