Coronavirus: Over 10,000 dead worldwide

The number of deaths worldwide caused by coronavirus has exceeded 10,000 : the latest bulletin released by Johns Hopkins University reports it. The American university records 10,030 deaths this morning, a total of 244,523 confirmed cases of infection and 86,031 people recovered. The threshold of 9,000 deaths in the world had only been crossed yesterday.

In the US doubling of cases in 24 hours, there are 13 thousand - The United States has exceeded 13,000 cases of contagion from coronavirus: there are 13,133, doubled in just 24 hours. The death toll rises to 193 people. This is the picture that emerges from the latest data provided by federal and local health authorities. California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all state residents, some 40 million people, to stay home to counter the rapid spread of the coronavirus epidemic. The lockdown takes place from Los Angeles to San Francisco. "We have to bend the curve. Isolation at home is not my favorite choice but it is now necessary," said the governor.

China - Wuhan, the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, has not reported new infections for the second day in a row: throughout China, the National Health Commission reported, there were 39 other cases of imported infection and 3 deaths, of which 2 in Hubei province and one in Liaoning province. Confirmed cases rose to 80,967 in total, including 6,569 patients still under medical treatment, 3,248 deaths and 71,150 people discharged from hospitals, which pushed the share of the healed to 87.8%.

National quarantine in Argentina - President Alberto Fernandez announced in Buenos Aires the creation in Argentina of a 'mandatory preventive social isolation', essentially a national quarantine to counter the expansion in the country of the coronavirus, which begins at the '0 hour today (4 Italian) and will end on March 31 at 24. Respect for the quarantine, stressed the head of state, will be monitored by national and local police and armed forces. The measure is in addition to other measures already adopted in the past, such as the suspension of lessons until March 31, and the obligation for all those entering Argentina from abroad to quarantine for 14 days.