Coronavirus live news: Europe records highest weekly cases; WHO warns deaths could hit five times April's peak

WHO ’s Europe directorsays virus spreading rapidly across continent; EU governments‘unprepared’ for new surgeEurope records highest ever weekly Covid cases, says WHO expertFrench police search officials ’ homes as part of coronavirus inquiryItaly poised to be removed from England ’s travel corridorBlood and tears as Israeli police storm wedding during lockdownSee all our coronavirus coverage1.48pmBSTThe coronavirus has killed at least 1,093,624 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Thursday.At least 38,571,770 cases have been registered. Of these, at least 26,662,700 are now considered recovered.1.47pmBSTAs rural northwesternKansas communities endured some of the state ’s biggest spikes in Covid-19 cases last week, a county sheriff who was among those testing positive found himself struggling to breathe and landed in a hospital room more than an hour from home.The pandemic arrived late, but it ’s now stressing Gove County, which has had to send patients including Sheriff Allan Weber to hospitals in other towns. The county’s 22-bed medical centre only has a handful of beds dedicated to coronavirus patients and not enough staff to monitor the most serious cases around the clock.The local nursing home had most of its 30-plus residents test positive, and six have died since late September. Besides the sheriff, the county ’s emergency management director, the hospital ch...
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