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Chicago, Denver Tighten Limits; French Deaths Soar: Virus Update
Covid-19 patients now occupy 57.5% of France’s intensive-care beds, rising by almost 3 percentage points from Monday and up from 42.9% a week ago, according to health authorities.
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Germany is looking at closing restaurants and prohibiting large events as governments across Europe seek to tackle rising infections and fatalities while avoiding full-scale lockdowns. Italy reported a record number of new cases, while deaths in France were the highest since April.
In the U.S., Covid-19 hospitalizations have risen at least 10% in the past week in 32 states and the nation’s capital as the month-old viral surge increasingly weighs on America’s health-care system. Chicago and Denver tightened restrictions in an attempt to stem outbreaks.