ET Covid-19 Live Updates: Britain Announces Lockdown as Resurgent Virus Consumes Europe The United States reported nearly 100,000 new cases , a single-day record, with two dozen states breaking records. After months of resisting calls for a lockdown, he is shutting pubs, restaurants and most retail stores, starting Thursday until Dec. 2. The country’s total death toll from the virus is 58,925, one of the highest in Europe. Greece, which only recently started recovering from a decade-long financial crisis, is highly aware of the toll a full lockdown would exact. Held less than a month after the city relaxed its final virus restrictions, it was sweaty, euphoric and jam-packed — an epidemiologist’s worst nightmare anywhere else in the world.

Source: New York Times October 31, 2020 13:41 UTC