Coronavirus live news: Giuliani tests positive for Covid; South Korea deploys military to expand testing

5 min readDec 7, 2020

Schools, restaurants and courts in Greece will not reopen until 7 January, the government’s spokesman Stelios Petsas has said.

Greece was forced to impose a nationwide lockdown in November, its second this year, after an aggressive rise in Covid-19 cases. It has extended it twice since then, most recently until 14 December.

But Petsas said progress was still slow and some restrictions will not be lifted until next month, including a night curfew.

Updated at 12.06pm GMT

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Denmark will implement further lockdown measures in parts of the country to curb a recent spike in infections, the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has said.

Bars, restaurants, museums and cinemas will have to close on 9 December in 38 municipalities, including Copenhagen, and students in upper primary school, high schools and universities will be sent home. The new restrictions will be in place until 3 January.

Updated at 11.51am GMT

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Some 3,000 to 5,000 Hungarians could participate in clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, the Hungarian human resources minister Miklos Kasler said on his Facebook page on Monday.

Kasler said a Hungarian delegation of medical experts had received “detailed notification” about the Russian vaccine in Moscow and observed “that the vaccine is being manufactured with the latest technology and with WHO protocols being applied”.

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2h ago10:31

Next year’s Paris airshow has been cancelled as the aerospace industry continues to weather the coronavirus crisis, a spokesman for the French organisers said today.

Together with Britain’s Farnborough airshow, with which it alternates every other year, the event is the industry’s largest showcase. Its cancellation is the latest sign of the depth of the pandemic-related crisis hitting airlines and manufacturers.

Updated at 11.14am GMT

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2h ago10:05

More than 66.66 million people have been reported to be infected by coronavirus globally and 1,533,752 have died, according to the latest Reuters tally.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

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4h ago08:16

The number of new Covid-19 infections per day in France is unlikely to fall to a 5,000 target by 15 December as the population is not sufficiently respecting social distancing measures, one of France*s top coronavirus experts said today.

Eric Caumes, head of infectious diseases at Paris hospital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, told LCI television that if the French are not cautious enough over Christmas and year-end holidays, it will lead to a third wave of the virus in mid-January.

President Emmanuel Macron has said the French lockdown that started on 30 October could be lifted on 15 December, if by then the number of new infections per day has fallen to 5,000.

“No, I do not think this target can be reached as the trend downward stopped, it is stabilising. So it will be difficult to reach that target,” Caumes said.

French health authorities reported 11,022 new confirmed Covid-19 cases on Sunday, down from the 12,923 new infections detected the previous day.

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5h ago07:13

It’s back to school today for some New York City schoolchildren, weeks after the schools were closed to in-person learning because of rising Covid-19 infections.

The city’s public school system, which shut down in-person learning earlier this month, will bring back preschool students and children in kindergarten through fifth grade, whose parents chose a mix of in-school and remote learning. Special education students in all grades who have particularly complex needs will be welcomed back starting Thursday.

Middle school and high school will remain all remote at least until after the holiday break, Mayor Bill de Blasio has said.

De Blasio announced on 18 November that public school buildings would close because the city had crossed a threshold set earlier of 3% of all the coronavirus tests performed over a seven-day period coming back positive.

The rate of positive Covid-19 tests is now over 5%, according to the city’s figures, but de Blasio has said it’s safe to reopen schools with beefed-up testing protocols — in part because few infections have been linked to the schools. On Friday, he told WNYC radio:

We have facts now for two straight months of extraordinarily low levels of transmission in our schools, our schools are clearly safer. This is what our health care leaders say. Our schools are safer than pretty much any place else in New York City. So, I really think everyone in the school community can feel secure because so many measures are in place to protect everyone.

De Blasio announced on 29 November that school buildings serving younger children and special-needs students would reopen with coronavirus testing increased from monthly to weekly. Masks and social distancing are required at all city schools.

About 190,000 students will be eligible to return to school buildings starting today. After closing schools in March, New York City was one of the first large US cities to reopen school buildings in September, but the majority of parents chose online-only learning for their children.

Children whose parents chose the hybrid model were previously inside physical classrooms from one to three days a week, but de Blasio said some students will now be in their school buildings five days a week.

Coronavirus live news: Giuliani tests positive for Covid; South Korea deploys military to expand testing

Written by Marty T. Bolinger

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