Coronavirus in the world: dramatic results in Italy, China and the United States ready to unite, Russia snaps
Italy announced on Friday a rise of nearly 1,000 coronavirus deaths in one day, a toll that no country in the world has reached so far, according to official data from the Civil Protection.
The spread of the pandemic continues to accelerate and to severely affect the global economy. Despite unprecedented containment measures affecting more than 3 billion people worldwide, the new coronavirus has now infected more than half a million people worldwide.
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1,000 dead in Italy, WHO fears the United States will become the next epicenter of the pandemic
The new coronavirus has already killed at least 24,663 people worldwide, two thirds of them in Europe, where more than 290,000 cases are officially diagnosed, according to a count carried out by AFP on Friday March 27 at 11 a.m. ). The Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, told him of a death toll of 26,000 worldwide. This number of diagnosed cases, however, only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections, with a large number of countries now testing only those cases requiring hospital care.
It is in Italy that the latest assessment is the most dramatic: the country announced at the end of the day Friday a record increase of nearly 1,000 coronavirus deaths in twenty-four hours, a record that no country in the world does had reached so far, according to official data from the Civil Protection. The total number of deaths now stands at 9,134 but contagion continues to slow, however, with an increase of 7.4% in the total number of positive cases, the lowest rate since the beginning of the epidemic in Italy there is more than a month.
Spain is the second most affected country in Europe, with 769 new deaths between Thursday and Friday, a new record in the country, which brings to 4,858 the total number of people killed by the epidemic, according to the latest assessment of authorities. In France, where the death toll has reached nearly 1,700, the epidemic continues to worsen with 365 deaths recorded at the hospital in twenty-four hours.
Iran announced on Friday 144 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 2,378 in this country, one of the most affected by the epidemic. The United Kingdom has meanwhile counted for the first time 100 dead in a day.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed 345 people in the United States in the past twenty-four hours, according to a record published Friday by Johns Hopkins University, a record, which brings the death toll in the country to 1,475 dead. The United States, now number one in the number of officially declared cases in the world (97,028) also recorded nearly 18,000 cases in one day. The World Health Organization is concerned that the country and its nearly 330 million people may become the next epicenter of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Venezuela has announced the first death on its territory, a 47-year-old man who previously suffered from lung disease. As for South Africa, the country announced its first two deaths on Friday, hours after entering a three-week national confinement period, controlled by the military and intended to halt the worrying spread of the disease. The most industrialized country in Africa is by far the most affected on the continent with more than a thousand cases reported.
The EU intends to encourage the transfer of patients from one country to another
Asked Friday noon about the statements of Philippe Juvin, head of emergency services at the Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris, who spoke of the transfer of French patients to other European countries, the European Commission said that she was studying the help she could bring to such operations.
Brussels intends to encourage the reception of patients in countries where the hospital system is less overloaded, citing "solidarity in action". French patients have, in particular, already been received in Germany and Luxembourg.
Trump signs historic $ 2 trillion stimulus package
US President Donald Trump signed the largest aid plan ever adopted in the United States, which will raise $ 2 trillion. Earlier today, the House of Representatives adopted this historic aid package that will help the US economy avoid plunging into a lasting recession.
The plan includes sending a check for $ 1,200 to many Americans, nearly $ 400 billion in assistance to small businesses, and $ 500 billion in assistance to large companies, which will be subject to surveillance. '' a controller general, as well as $ 100 billion for hospitals, and $ 30 billion
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