Austria declares 'second wave,' paused vaccine trial resumes: COVID-19 Daily Bulletin
- "What we are experiencing is the beginning of the second wave," Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Sunday, warning the country would soon hit the mark of 1,000 daily cases.
- France's new daily cases numbers have topped 10,000 for the first time, as the government attempts to avoid a full lockdown while combating what is seen as the country's "second wave" of the coronavirus.
- Czechia reported its largest single-day increase in new infections for the third day in a row on Sunday, with 1,541 new cases, as it experiences one of the fastest surges of the virus in the European Union.
- Confirmed cases in Germany rose by 948 on Sunday. Despite keeping new infections comparatively low to other European states, the spread of the virus has picked up pace since mid-August.
- The secretary general of Spain's doctors' union has blamed the country's recent spike on the decentralization of the country's coronavirus response. Spain has one of the highest concentration of cases in Europe.
- Russia recorded 5,449 new cases and 94 deaths on Sunday, with the national tally for infections now at 1,062,811, the fourth highest in the world.
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