Britain has Europe’s highest death toll since the start of the pandemic, with 41,821 confirmed virus-related deaths. Romania is among the countries that has had a new spike in confirmed cases, including a national daily record of 1,713 cases earlier in the week and 1,333 more on Saturday. In all, Romania has had 111,550 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 4,402 deaths from the disease since the start of the pandemic. Protesters in Bucharest’s University Square drew parallels between the protective measures against the pandemic and Nazi regimes. As of Saturday, Johns Hopkins University reported nearly 200,000 deaths in the US since the start of the pandemic and 6.7 million confirmed cases of the virus in the US.

Source: Manila Times September 20, 2020 17:03 UTC