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30 May 2020 / 13:31

More than six million people infected with Coronavirus worldwide

More than six million people infected with Coronavirus worldwide are trying to return to normal. Countries drop restrictions, restaurants, hotels reopen, and primary school children return to school. At the same time, there are protests. People are dissatisfied with the way the authorities intervened to manage the pandemic, Moldova 1 reports.

Doctors and students in more than 20 cities in Italy have protested calling for a reform of education in their sector, especially an increase in the number of scholarships for specializations. In Milan, doctors took off their white robes. An identical scene took place in Rome, in front of the Parliament, where about 100 demonstrators gathered. The total number of deaths caused by Coronavirus in Italy exceeds 33,000.

In Latvia, hundreds of restaurant and cafe employees took part in an unprecedented concert-demonstration in which they patted pots in protest of insufficient state support for the economy hard hit by the epidemic.

Britain has reached over 38,000 dead, but the actual number would be much higher. From Monday, in the Kingdom, the children from the primary classes return to school.

From June 15, Austria waives the obligation of masks in schools, shops and tourist places. Thus, the country moves to a new stage of relaxation of measures. Hotels and gyms have been reopening since yesterday, after a similar decision has already been made for shops, restaurants and schools.

In Switzerland, where schools are already open, two children - a brother and a sister - have infected more than 70 people. Family, classmates and teachers were quarantined until June 5.

At the same time, Switzerland reported the first death of a baby due to COVID-19, which allegedly became infected outside the country.

The number of contaminants remains the same in Russia, in the last 24 hours, another nine thousand people have been tested positive and over 180 have died.

The situation is dramatic in Brazil, where about 30,000 new cases of contamination have been reported in a single day, and more than 1,100 people have lost their lives.

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