A man wearing a face mask walks on a street in London, Britain, on Nov. 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Han Yan)
-- UK records more than 50,000 coronavirus deaths;
-- France's daily COVID-19-related deaths hit 7-month high;
-- Germany reports new daily record of 23,542 cases;
-- Portugal's total COVID-19 cases top 200,000.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries.
LONDON -- Another 27,301 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 1,317,496, according to official figures released Friday.
The coronavirus-related deaths in Britain rose by 376 to 51,304, the data showed.
Britain is the first European nation to record more than 50,000 coronavirus deaths. It is the fifth country in the world to hit the tragic milestone, following the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.
A woman jogs past the closed old bookstall by the River Seine in Paris, France, Nov. 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
PARIS -- France reported 932 lives lost to COVID-19 on Friday, the highest single-day death number since mid-April, while new cases and hospital admissions dwindled, a sign that reinforced curbs on people's movement are starting to work.
Now the total of deaths from COVID-19 reached 43,892, with nursing home accounting for nearly one third of the fatalities, health authorities said.
Some 23,794 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, down from 33,172 on Thursday and much lower compared with the all-time high of 60,486 reported a week ago. The cumulative number of cases totals 1,922,504, ranking now fourth in the world, behind the United States, India and Brazil.
On Friday, 24 people with the virus were hospitalized, sharply down from 737 a day before. Only four patients needed life support, also drastically down from 96 on Thursday.
Two pedestrians wearing face masks talk to each other on a square in Frankfurt, Germany, on Nov. 2, 2020. (Xinhua/Lu Yang)
BERLIN -- Germany on Friday reported a new record of 23,542 COVID-19 infections within one day, bringing the national tally to 751,095, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
The number of deaths related to COVID-19 increased by 218 to a total of 12,200, said the RKI, the federal government agency for disease control and prevention.
Germany entered a month-long partial lockdown in November, during which stricter contact restrictions are imposed and restaurants and bars are closed.
People wearing facial masks walk along the Tagus river in Lisbon, Portugal, on Nov. 4, 2020. (Photo by Pedro Fiuza/Xinhua)
LISBON -- Portugal on Friday recorded 6,653 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a 24-hour span, bringing the country's cumulative number of infections to 204,664 since the outbreak of the epidemic.
A further 69 people had died from COVID-19 in the 24 hours, taking the death toll to 3,250, according to Friday's data by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) of Portugal.
Additional 3,693 people have recovered from the disease in the 24 hours, raising the total number of recoveries to 117,382, official data showed.■
