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People queue outside a Primark store in central Manchester, Britain, June 15, 2020. (Photo by Jon Super/Xinhua)
-- UK COVID-19 deaths hit 43,230;
-- France to launch massive coronavirus testing campaign;
-- 80-odd people contract coronavirus at Spain's Red Cross center;
-- Germany's COVID-19 warning app to be available in other European countries.
BRUSSELS, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries.
LONDON -- Another 149 COVID-19 patients have died in Britain as of Wednesday afternoon, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 43,230, the British Department of Health and Social Care said Thursday.
The figures include deaths in all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community.
As of Thursday morning, 307,980 people have tested positive for the disease in Britain, a daily increase of 1,118, according to the department.
People wearing face masks wait to visit the Eiffel Tower on its reopening day in Paris, France, June 25, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
PARIS -- France is launching a "large scale" coronavirus testing campaign to identify any "dormant clusters" and to get ready for a potential resurgence of the epidemic, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Thursday.
Speaking to Le Monde newspaper, Veran said the massive testing campaign will target people who live near previous COVID-19 risk zones and will aim to detect asymptomatic individuals who may be transmitting the virus without knowing it.
As part of the government's post-confinement measures, some 1.3 million people in the Greater Paris region will receive vouchers for virus tests in any public or private laboratory even if they have no symptoms, according to the minister.
A worker disinfects facilities at the wholesale market Mercamadrid in Madrid, Spain, April 2, 2020. (Photo by Mercamadrid/Handout via Xinhua)
MADRID -- At least 80 people have been infected with the coronavirus at a Red Cross center that houses migrants in the city of Malaga in southern Spain, health authorities in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia confirmed on Thursday.
Spanish State TV network RTVE informed that for the moment none of the infected is in a serious condition or needed hospital treatment, as nearly all of them are young people who made dangerous sea crossings to Spain from North Africa in the past weeks and months.
The center has been placed under strict quarantine, with residents being confined to their rooms. Meanwhile, some workers at the center have also been infected and are self-isolating at their homes.
A spectator watches a backyard concert performed by members of the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra in Berlin, capital of Germany, on June 23, 2020. (Photo by Peter Adamik/Xinhua)
BERLIN -- Germany's official COVID-19 warning app would be "gradually" made available in international app stores, public health institute Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced via Twitter Thursday.
The warning app that was launched on June 16 would now also be offered for free download in ten European countries such as the Netherlands, France, Austria, Poland, Denmark and Bulgaria, according to RKI.
According to the German government, the app informs citizens who had been in contact with an infected person in order to detect and break chains of infection.■
