Record number of COVID-19 cases in UK, France and Italy - France over 332,000 daily cases and UK 193,000+

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https://www.france24.com/en/france/...00-000-new-covid-cases-for-fourth-day-running

France reported 219,126 new confirmed coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period on Saturday, the fourth day in a row that the country has recorded more than 200,000 cases.



Saturday's figure is the second-highest to date after the 232,200 record set on Friday, when French President Emmanuel Macron said that the next few weeks would be difficult due to the recent surge in infections.

 

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-reports-141262-coronavirus-cases-111-deaths-2022-01-01/

Italy reports 141,262 coronavirus cases, 111 deaths

ROME, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Italy reported 141,262 COVID-19 related cases on Saturday, following 144,243 the day before, the health ministry said, while the number of deaths fell to 111 from 155.

Italy has registered 137,513 deaths linked to COVID-19 since February 2020, and has reported 6.267 million cases to date.

Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 11,265 on Saturday, up from 11,150 a day earlier.

There were 135 new admissions to intensive care units, up from 119 on Friday. The total number of intensive care patients increased to 1,297 from a previous 1,260.

 

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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/italy-reports-61046-covid-19-cases-sunday-133-deaths-2411356

Italy reports 61,046 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, 133 deaths

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...pped-boris-johnson-coronavirus-latest-updates

UK Covid live: more than 20 health trusts declare critical incidents but No 10 says it’s not a good performance indicator

• The PM’s spokesman said:

We know that there are a number of trusts that have reported critical incidents.

I believe it’s more than 20 currently, but that number will fluctuate. But again, those critical incidents can vary in terms of their scale, some can relate to one part of the trust, some can be across the whole trust. So it’s not a good indicator, necessarily, of NHS performance at any one time.​

• The spokesman played down the significance of the report that one ambulance service is asking some patients to consider getting a lift to hospital (see 11.28am), saying that this was just one trust and that “the public will still receive the quality of care they expect from the NHS”.

 

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https://inews.co.uk/news/world/fran...he-wants-to-piss-off-the-unvaccinated-1383508

French President Emmanuel Macron has received backlash after saying he wants to “piss off” the unvaccinated as he looks at restricting freedoms further to ban those who have not been jabbed from accessing entertainment venues.

During his first interview of the year with French newspaper Le Parisien, Mr Macron used the term “emmerder”, which can also be translated as “to get on their nerves”, to describe the strategy he intends to adopt against those who still have not been jabbed.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220104-france-s-daily-covid-19-cases-top-270-000

France's daily Covid-19 cases top 270,000 as Omicron sweeps Europe

The more-contagious Omicron variant of coronavirus drove the number of confirmed cases in France to more than 160,000 per day last week and more than 200,000 for four consecutive days over the weekend.

France on Saturday became the sixth country in the world to report more than 10 million Covid-19 infections since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to official data.

"The tidal wave has indeed arrived, it's enormous, but we will not give in to panic," Health Minister Olivier Véran told parliament.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/world/covid-variant-france.html

The World Health Organization says that it is monitoring a coronavirus variant detected in a small number of patients in France, but that, for now, there is little reason to worry about its spread.

 

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https://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/7571657/argentina-france-turkey-cases-hit-high/?cs=12758

Health authorities in Argentina, France, Italy, Sweden, Croatia and Turkey have registered more coronavirus infections in one day than ever before since the pandemic began.
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Italy also recorded a new daily high in coronavirus infections on Wednesday.
The health authorities reported more than 189,000 infections and about 230 virus deaths within one day.

The above article also states Sweden cases topped 17,000 but

"We have a rapid increase in the number of cases but so far not such a big impact on the healthcare system," she told a news conference.

 

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/19826949.france-hits-staggering-new-coronavirus-case-record/

France announced a staggering 332,252 daily virus cases on Wednesday, as hospitals prepared drastic measures to brace for patient surges and the government strained to avoid a new lockdown.

With Europe’s highest-ever single-day confirmed infection count, France is facing an Omicron-driven surge that is dominating the race for April’s presidential election and increasingly disrupting workplaces, schools and public life.

 

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