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34,819,528 |
+316,256 |
1,032,741 |
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7,549,323 |
+51,403 |
213,524 |
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6,471,934 |
+79,974 |
100,875 |
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4,882,231 |
+33,002 |
145,431 |
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1,194,643 |
+9,412 |
21,077 |
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841,531 |
+6,192 |
26,397 |
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821,564 |
+3,267 |
32,609 |
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810,807 |
+3,722 |
32,086 |
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779,689 |
+14,687 |
20,599 |
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748,315 |
+5,099 |
78,078 |
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677,833 |
+1,749 |
16,909 |
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589,653 |
+12,148 |
32,155 |
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467,146 |
+6,968 |
42,268 |
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466,590 |
+1,840 |
12,867 |
|
|
464,596 |
+3,552 |
26,567 |
|
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372,259 |
+4,785 |
9,298 |
|
|
366,383 |
+1,396 |
5,305 |
|
|
335,578 |
+481 |
4,823 |
|
|
321,512 |
+1,442 |
8,325 |
|
|
319,908 |
+2,499 |
35,941 |
|
|
316,678 |
+2,611 |
5,616 |
|
|
313,431 |
+625 |
6,499 |
|
|
298,363 |
+2,833 |
9,596 |
|
|
295,499 |
+4,317 |
10,972 |
|
|
258,920 |
+5,430 |
1,633 |
|
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217,661 |
+4,633 |
4,261 |
|
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162,659 |
+2,124 |
9,409 |
|
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139,534 |
+950 |
11,495 |
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|
135,716 |
+405 |
8,001 |
|
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132,001 |
+2,343 |
4,915 |
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128,565 |
+2,521 |
2,263 |
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127,922 |
+3,825 |
6,428 |
|
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126,164 |
+205 |
215 |
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121,059 |
+2,607 |
10,023 |
|
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113,962 |
+620 |
2,406 |
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113,350 |
+622 |
2,117 |
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108,044 |
+65 |
1,725 |
|
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106,087 |
+411 |
615 |
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103,466 |
+149 |
5,956 |
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96,529 |
+1,181 |
424 |
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95,773 |
+2,292 |
2,570 |
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94,283 |
+668 |
5,895 |
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93,090 |
+681 |
3,267 |
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85,424 |
+10 |
4,634 |
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84,215 |
+652 |
1,578 |
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82,450 |
+2,722 |
520 |
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79,421 |
+402 |
844 |
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78,051 |
+3,796 |
699 |
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77,829 |
+1,001 |
930 |
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77,598 |
+698 |
2,380 |
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77,284 |
+888 |
1,983 |
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76,988 |
+890 |
1,208 |
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76,820 |
+791 |
643 |
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71,803 |
+429 |
255 |
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59,127 |
+126 |
1,112 |
|
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57,794 |
+10 |
27 |
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57,454 |
+264 |
472 |
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55,016 |
+952 |
1,344 |
|
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51,847 |
+157 |
1,749 |
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51,382 |
+532 |
966 |
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47,056 |
+215 |
1,065 |
|
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46,694 |
+38 |
301 |
|
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46,374 |
+688 |
803 |
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42,684 |
+885 |
890 |
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42,173 |
+1,291 |
386 |
|
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40,766 |
+444 |
321 |
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40,453 |
+144 |
594 |
|
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38,923 |
+210 |
725 |
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37,063 |
+466 |
1,801 |
|
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35,717 |
+509 |
570 |
|
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33,735 |
+73 |
751 |
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28,932 |
+536 |
652 |
|
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28,631 |
+1,322 |
798 |
|
|
27,113 |
+17 |
890 |
|
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23,952 |
+63 |
416 |
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21,336 |
+240 |
838 |
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20,924 |
+86 |
420 |
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19,793 |
+38 |
120 |
|
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19,721 |
+1,308 |
271 |
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19,346 |
+460 |
398 |
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18,363 |
+225 |
749 |
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17,160 |
+333 |
291 |
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16,493 |
+39 |
232 |
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15,525 |
+1,142 |
353 |
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15,051 |
+32 |
312 |
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|
14,830 |
+28 |
333 |
|
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14,284 |
+135 |
275 |
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13,965 |
+159 |
389 |
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13,650 |
+549 |
79 |
|
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11,771 |
+287 |
136 |
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11,690 |
+130 |
172 |
|
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11,617 |
+679 |
54 |
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11,480 |
+107 |
123 |
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10,729 |
+44 |
272 |
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10,398 |
+44 |
34 |
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10,244 |
+141 |
345 |
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9,968 |
+2 |
67 |
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9,852 |
+41 |
77 |
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8,709 |
+114 |
125 |
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8,491 |
+204 |
79 |
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7,858 |
+8 |
228 |
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7,093 |
+453 |
46 |
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6,704 |
+149 |
116 |
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6,103 |
+238 |
154 |
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5,783 |
+4 |
179 |
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5,718 |
+48 |
122 |
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5,521 |
+21 |
111 |
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5,211 |
+97 |
189 |
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5,105 |
+7 |
105 |
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4,899 |
+8 |
105 |
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4,847 |
+4 |
29 |
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4,038 |
+40 |
30 |
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3,585 |
+1 |
115 |
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3,575 |
+6 |
59 |
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3,139 |
+44 |
37 |
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1,848 |
+1 |
25 |
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1,789 |
+17 |
22 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
President Trump did not speak to reporters on Friday as he left for the Walter Reed military hospital.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
President Trump was hospitalized on Friday evening less than 24 hours after learning that he had the coronavirus. Aides said Mr. Trump was experiencing coughing, congestion and fever, symptoms that worsened through the day.
Mr. Trump was flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after being given an experimental antibody treatment as the White House rushed to cope with a commander in chief infected by a virus that has killed more than 208,000 people in the United States. Officials said he would remain in the hospital for several days and canceled his upcoming campaign events.
The White House shrouded Mr. Trump’s condition in secrecy, saying little more than that he had “mild symptoms,” and officials characterized the hospital stay as a precautionary measure. But the normally voluble president remained almost entirely out of public view, skipped a telephone call with governors at the last minute and uncharacteristically stayed off Twitter nearly all day while people close to the situation said his fever and other symptoms worsened as the hours wore on.
“I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support,” Mr. Trump, wearing a suit and tie but appearing unusually pale and lethargic, said in an 18-second video that was recorded just before he boarded the Marine One helicopter and then posted on Twitter in his first public comment of the day. “I’m going to Walter Reed hospital. I think I’m doing very well, but we’re going to make sure that things work out.”
Mr. Trump returned to Twitter late Friday night, writing in a short post: “Going well, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!”
Dr. Sean P. Conley, the White House physician, said in a statement that Mr. Trump had received a single eight-gram dose of polyclonal antibody cocktail while also taking zinc, vitamin D, melatonin, aspirin and famotidine, a heartburn medicine. Dr. Conley did not explain why Mr. Trump was taken to the hospital. In a statement released beforehand, he said that “the president remains fatigued but in good spirits,” and noted that he had also started taking remdesivir, an experimental drug that has received emergency use approval from the Food and Drug Administration to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients.
He had a more positive assessment of the first lady, Melania Trump, who also tested positive, saying that she “remains well with only a mild cough and headache.”
The president donned a black face mask and emerged from the White House shortly after 6 p.m., giving a perfunctory thumbs up to reporters without stopping to speak as he walked unassisted to the helicopter. He was accompanied by Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, who was also wearing a mask.
The hospital trip was an abrupt change in plans after Vice President Mike Pence told governors earlier in the day that the president would remain at the White House.
White House officials said Mr. Trump was well enough to work. If the illness were to become worse, the president could temporarily transfer his powers to Mr. Pence under the 25th Amendment with the transmission of letters to the speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate and then reclaim them once he recovers.
There was rising frustration on the part of some White House aides late in the day that so little information was being released about the president’s health, in part because they worried that it would stoke fears beyond the known facts. Some staff members described a rush for tests for themselves, with some told they could not get them.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the president’s Democratic challenger, who was on a debate stage with Mr. Trump on Tuesday, tested negative on Friday.
It can take several days after exposure for the virus to reach levels that are detectable by a test. People show symptoms on average around five days after exposure, but as late as 14 days.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/03/world/covid-trump?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
People wait for trains at Atocha railway station in Madrid on October 2. Paul Hanna/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The Spanish capital city is getting ready for new coronavirus restrictions to come into effect at 10 p.m. local time tonight.
People in Madrid will be required to stay at home except to go to work, classes, to sit exams, to meet legal obligations or for extreme circumstances.
Bars and restaurants will be forced to reduce their capacity by 50%, offer table service only, and will have to close at 11 p.m with the last entry one hour before closing time.
Shops will slash capacity and will be required to shut at 10 p.m. and will have to close early.
Gatherings will remain restricted to no more than six people, in both public or private spaces.
The move comes after a steady increase in the number of coronavirus infections in the Madrid area over the past couple of months.
Spain has reported 778,607 cases so far, the worst in the European Union. At 31,973 people have died of the virus in Spain.
From CNN’s Vasco Cotovio
Northumbria University Steve Black/Shutterstock
More than 700 students from Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, have tested positive for Covid-19 and are in self-isolation, with the university saying they could be expelled if they fail to comply.
In a statement to CNN, the university said that as of Friday, at least 770 people had tested positive for Covid-19 –– 78 of them had symptoms. The students as well as their flatmates and any close contacts will now be self-isolating for 14 days.
“We are supporting all students who are self-isolating, providing them with food and other essential items, as well as welfare support including 24/7 online mental health support and one-to-one support from our wellbeing teams where required which is accessible through multiple channels,” a spokesperson for the university said.
The university also said they are providing laundry, cleaning materials and other support in partnership with campus resources.
“We are making it clear to students that if they break the rules they will be subject to fines from police and disciplinary action by the universities which may include fines, final warnings or expulsion,” the spokesperson said.
The university also said the early detection of these cases was a reflection of the “good access to and availability of testing, as well as rigorous and robust reporting systems.”
“In parts of the UK where universities started term earlier, numbers of student cases surged in induction week, and then reduced,” the spokesperson said.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-10-02-20-intl/index.html
By Kate Vandy BBC News, Brussels
A 330-foot-tall Buddhist statue towers over Awajishima Island in Awaji, Japan. (Kyodo News/Kyodo News via Getty Images)
More than €1bn (£907m; $1.1bn) has been spent on cycling-related infrastructure and 2,300km (1,400 miles) of new bike lanes have been rolled out since the pandemic began.
"Cycling has come out a big winner," says Jill Warren of the Brussels-based European Cycling Federation. "This time has shown us the potential cycling that has to change our cities and our lives."
But what has all this money been spent on? And what might the long-term impacts of this investment be? This is what four major cities have been doing.
"We tried to build bike lanes before, but car drivers protested," says Pierfrancesco Maran, Milan's deputy mayor for Urban Planning, Green Areas and Agriculture. "Someone said to me: 'You needed coronavirus to [introduce them] here!'"
This industrial hub in northern Italy was one of the first cities in Europe to invest in cycling as a way to get people moving around again. There are 35km of new cycle paths, although many of these are temporary.
"Most people who are cycling used public transport before. But now they need an alternative," Mr Maran says. "Before Covid we had 1,000 cyclists [on the main shopping street], now we have 7,000."
But this rise in popularity has put pressure on many bike-related businesses.
More than 800km away, Paris Deputy Mayor David Belliard talks of a big transformation in the French capital, with €20m invested since the start of the pandemic.
"It's like a revolution," he says.
"The most iconic change is on the notoriously busy Rue de Rivoli, which stretches across Paris from east to west. Some sections of this road are now completely car-free. The more you give space for bicycles the more they will use it."
Unlike most big cities, Amsterdam already had a cycling infrastructure long before the pandemic. The Dutch capital famously has more bikes than people and 767km of well-established cycle lanes.
But the impact of coronavirus on urban mobility has been far-reaching, and it has still had an impact here.
"It's been crazy to see what we thought would happen in the next 10 years suddenly happening in three to six months," says Taco Carlier, whose electric bike brand VanMoof sold more bikes in the first four months of 2020 than it did in the previous two years.
"People saw how much more beautiful their city could be and how much more liveable it would be with more bikes and less cars," Mr Carlier says. "Now they don't want to go back."
Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54353914
Restaurateurs and their staff in France stood in front of their restaurants wearing black arm-bands and banging pots and pans today, urging the French government not to order tighter restrictions to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Reuters reports:
On Thursday, health minister Olivier Véran said the Paris region was set to be placed on maximum Covid-19 alert from as soon as Monday as cases rise.
Restaurant owners fear new closures could force them out of business. Bars and restaurants in the French capital must close by 10 pm under current coronavirus restrictions.
Andrea Vincenzi, who manages La Ville de Provins restaurant in northern Paris near the Gare de l’Est railway station, told Reuters:
It’s a great concern for our jobs, for our wages, for our future.
To head off closures, they have proposed measures including taking the temperature of staff and customers before allowing them into venues, limiting the number of people at a table to eight from 10 and keeping a register of customers’ details for contact tracing, similar to schemes in place in Germany, Britain and elsewhere.
Véran said the Paris region had passed all three of the government’s criteria for being put on the highest level of alert. In the past 24 hours, the coronavirus infection rate had surpassed 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Double Michelin-starred chef Philippe Etchebest urged fellow restaurant and bar owners to protest against the possible closure of their establishments, calling on them to stand outside their venues on Friday before lunch service and make some noise.
Here’s a quick run down of all the latest coronavirus developments across the globe.
· Covid cases doubled under most local lockdowns in England. Coronavirus cases have doubled in the majority of English cities and towns that are subject to long-term local lockdowns, Guardian analysis has found, amid growing concern that restrictions are confusing and done “on the cheap”.
· Pandemic risks overwhelming Wisconsin ahead of Trump rallies. Wisconsin, where US president Donald Trump will hold rallies over the weekend, registered a record increase in new Covid-19 cases on Thursday. The 3,000 new recorded infections fanned fears that the sheer number of new patients could overwhelm hospitals.
· Paris in danger of restaurant shutdown as France records 9% increase in daily infections. Paris is set to be placed on maximum Covid alert from as soon as Monday, a move likely to force the closure of restaurants and bars and impose further restrictions on public life. French authorities reported a daily rise in new COVID-19 cases exceeding 13,000 again on Thursday.
· Scottish MP Margaret Ferrier suspended for taking train after positive Covid test. An SNP MP has been suspended from her party and faced multiple calls to resign after taking a train from London to Scotland knowing that she had tested positive for Covid-19. Margaret Ferrier, the SNP MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, apologised unreservedly for major breaches of Covid regulations.
· Italy has recorded more than 2,000 daily cases for the first time since April. The country registered 2,548 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, the first time it has exceeded 2,000 cases in a single day since the end of April.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/oct/01/coronavirus-live-news-spain-puts-madrid-under-lockdown-34m-jobs-lost-in-latin-america
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