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Sicily asks Cuba to send medics to help fight second Covid wave

26th November 2020

Authorities in Sicily have asked Cuba’s government to send about 60 healthcare workers, including d...

Italy loosens COVID restrictions in five regions, including Lombardy

The Italian government will ease anti-COVID restrictions in five regions from Sunday, including in the country's richest and most populous region Lombardy, the Health Ministry said. Lombardy, Piedmont and Calabria will be downgraded from red to orange zones, while Sicily and Liguria will drop from the orange to the yellow zone, which has least restrictions. Friday's decision follows a gradual decline in hospitalisations from coronavi...

German minister Altmeier says partial lockdown could last until Spring 2021

Germany's partial lockdown measures could be extended until early Spring if infections are not brought under control, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday. Altmaier told Die Welt it was not possible to give the all-clear while there were incidences of more than 50 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in large parts of Germany. "We have three to four long winter months ahead of us," he was quoted...

Coronation Street writers pitched global pandemic plot in 2019 but it was deemed ‘too far-fetched’

While The Simpsons are known for their eerie ability to 'predict' the future - from Trump's presidency to the horse meat scandal - but Coronation Street writers also managed the same feat last year. According to the Mirror, Executive Producer Iain MacLeod has revealed that one of the storylines pitched for the 60th anniversary included a global pandemic started by Tyrone's pigeons... but that they had deemed it "too far-fetched". "Speaking...

Once Australia’s COVID-19 hotspot, Victoria goes 28 days without an infection

Australia's second-largest state, Victoria, once the country's COVID-19 hotspot, said on Friday it has gone 28 days without detecting any new infections, a benchmark widely cited as eliminating the virus from the community. The state also has zero active cases after the last COVID-19 patient was discharged from hospital this week, a far cry from August when Victoria recorded more than 700 cases in one day and active infections totalled nearly...

Romanians donate to fill funding gaps for healthcare

Earlier this week, Oana Gheorghiu and Carmen Uscatu were at a county hospital in northeastern Romania making plans to quickly replace its intensive care unit after a fire destroyed it two weeks ago, killing 12 COVID-19 patients. The founders of Give Life, an NGO that builds medical infrastructure in Romania, have already raised funds from the public and companies for the country's first pediatric oncology hospital and a modular coronavirus ho...

Denmark wants to dig up ‘zombie mink’ that resurfaced from mass graves

Denmark's government said on Friday it wants to dig up mink that were culled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after some resurfaced from mass graves. Denmark ordered all farmed mink to be culled early this month after finding that 12 people had been infected by a mutated strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, which passed from humans to mink and back to humans. The decision led to 17 million animals being destroyed and to the r...

A Natale puoi… The other ‘Christmas’ in Italy

Italy reported 827 COVID 19-related deaths on Friday, against 822 the day before, and 28,352 new infections, down from 29,003 on Thursday, the health ministry said. There were 222,803 swabs carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 232,711. EPA-EFE/LUCA ZENNARO Italy was the first Western country to be hit by the virus and has seen 53,677 COVID-19 fatalities since its outbreak emerged in February, the second highest toll...

Explainer: Will COVID-19 vaccines protect us? Does efficacy equal effectiveness?

The frontrunners in the COVID-19 vaccine race have emerged with different success rates for their shots in clinical trials, but what does that mean for the global fight against the pandemic? U.S. drugmakers Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna have each said their coronavirus vaccines have an efficacy rate of around 95% and a Russian project touted 92% efficacy for its Sputnik V vaccine. Britain's AstraZeneca announced an average efficacy rate of 7...

Belgium lets shops reopen, but keeps Christmas curbs to prevent third wave

Belgium will let shops reopen from Tuesday, but keep other coronavirus curbs over the festive period, including limits on gatherings over Christmas and a ban on fireworks at New Year, the prime minister said. Countries across Europe have been battling a second wave of infections, and wrestling with how to keep their citizens safe while allowing them a little relief over the holidays. "If we loosen too soon, the numbers will shoot up ...

UK hospitals told to prepare for vaccine rollout in 10 days time – The Guardian

Hospitals have been told to prepare for the rollout of a coronavirus vaccine in as little as 10 days’ time, with NHS workers expected to be front of the queue, the Guardian has learned. NHS bosses said hospitals in England could expect to receive their first deliveries of a vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech as soon as Monday 7 December, with regulatory approval anticipated within days. According to sources at several hospitals across the...

Download the daily number of new reported cases of COVID-19 by country worldwide

The downloadable data file is updated daily and contains the latest available public data on COVID-19. You may use the data in line with ECDC’s copyright policy.
Communicable disease threats report, 22-28 November 2020, week 48

The ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) is a weekly bulletin for epidemiologists and health professionals on active public health threats. This issue covers the period 22-28 November 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19, cholera, dengue, seasonal influenza and West Nile fever.
Data on country response measures to COVID-19

This downloadable data file contains information on non-pharmaceutical interventions (or response measures) that countries in the EU/EEA and the UK have reported to date.
Data on testing for COVID-19 by week and country

The downloadable data file contains information about testing volume for COVID-19 by week and country. Each row contains the corresponding data for a country and a week. The file is updated weekly. You may use the data in line with ECDC’s copyright policy.
Data on hospital and ICU admission rates and current occupancy for COVID-19

The downloadable data files contain information about hospitalisation and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission rates and current occupancy for COVID-19 by date and country. Each row contains the corresponding data for a certain date (day or week) and per country. The file is updated weekly. You may use the data in line with ECDC’s copyright policy.
Data on 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases and deaths

These files contain data on the 14-day notification rate of newly reported COVID-19 cases per 100 000 population and 14-day notification rate of reported deaths per million population by day and country, in EU/EEA and the UK. Each row contains the corresponding data for a certain day and per country. The files are updated weekly. You may use the data in accordance to ECDC’s copyright policy.
Data on the daily subnational 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases

The downloadable data file contains information on the 14-day notification rate of new cases per 100 000 inhabitants for COVID-19 by day and subnational region. Each row contains the corresponding data for a certain day and per subnational region. The file is updated weekly. You may use the data in line with ECDC’s copyright policy. The source is either TESSy COVID-19, subnational daily data, or an official Github source, or an official website.
Data on the weekly subnational 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases

The downloadable data file contains information on the 14-day notification rate of new cases per 100 000 inhabitants for COVID-19 by day and subnational region. Each row contains the corresponding data for a certain epidemiological week and per subnational region. The file is updated weekly. You may use the data in line with ECDC’s copyright policy.