People wearing face masks have a rest at Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, Oct. 26, 2020. (Xinhua/Cheng Tingting)
-- Italy's COVID-19 curve on marked upward trend;
-- France sees 33,417 new infections, 523 new deaths;
-- Germany reports 11,409 new COVID-19 cases;
-- Netherlands reports over 10,000 new COVID-19 infections in 24 hours.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries.
ROME -- Italy's COVID-19 epidemiological curve is on a marked upward trend and must be brought back down before the situation sparks tougher measures, National Institute of Health (ISS) President Silvio Brusaferro warned during a press conference on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday 21,994 new COVID-19 cases.
"The upward trend is pretty unequivocal," Brusaferro said, adding that "people over 70 are starting to get infected again -- and they are the people most at risk of complications and a fatal outcome."
A man wearing a face mask walks past the Trocadero Place near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, Oct. 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
PARIS -- The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in France jumped by 523 to 35,541, the largest daily rise since end April, confirming the worsening of the epidemic situation which has forced the government to consider "difficult decisions" to halt the epidemic resurgence.
According to figures posted on the government's data website, the total number of confirmed cases since the COVID-19 outbreak in France stood at 1,198,695, after 33,417 people contracted the coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
Currently, 18,978 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospital, including 2,918 on ventilators.
People wearing facial masks are seen on a street during the COVID-19 epidemic in Frankfurt, Germany, on Oct. 24, 2020. (Xinhua/Lu Yang)
BERLIN -- New COVID-19 infections in Germany increased by 11,409 within one day to a total of 449,275, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Tuesday.
Last Saturday, a new daily record was reached in the country, with 14,714 cases, according to the RKI, the federal government agency for disease control and prevention. On the same day, the number of deaths exceeded the 10,000 mark.
The number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days increased to 80.9 nationwide as of Monday, according to the latest RKI daily situation report. At the same day last week, the so-called seven-day-incidence in Germany was only 45.4 cases.
A visitor disinfects her hands before visiting the reopened Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 1, 2020. (Photo by Sylvia Lederer/Xinhua)
THE HAGUE -- The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) reported on Tuesday 10,315 new COVID-19 infections in the Netherlands in a 24-hour span, almost as many as a day earlier.
It was the third day in a row that the daily number of infections topped the 10,000 mark in the Netherlands. On Monday, the RIVM said the daily number of confirmed new cases reached a new high of 10,343, following Sunday's figure of 10,202.
To date, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases totals 311,889 in the country, and the death toll is 7,142 since the start of the outbreak, RIVM data showed.■
