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Several countries around the world have announced a rise in the incidence and death rate of the emerging coronavirus, while international measures to contain it and reduce its risk have continued.
And in South Korea, the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced 152 new infections today, bringing the number of cases nationwide to 8,565, after discovering a new outpost for an outbreak in a nursing home in Daegu, a setback after the slowdown of the infection for several days. Seven more deaths, bringing the death toll to 92, while a total of 407 other patients have been cured.
In Germany, the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases announced that the number of infections in the country reached 12,223 cases.
In Panama, Minister of Health Rosario Turner announced 86 confirmed new cases of the virus, bringing the total number to 109, and the government imposed a night curfew throughout the country as part of its measures to control the spread of the virus.
The Honduran government has announced that the number of cases in the country has risen to 12, while the Costa Rican Ministry of Health registered the first death of the virus yesterday, which is of an 86-year-old man.
In turn, the government of Mauritius announced the registration of the first three cases of coronavirus, two of them were working on cruise ships and the third came from Britain.
In Brazil, the authorities announced that a number of Corona virus officials were infected, including the National Security Adviser to the Brazilian President, the Minister of Mining and Energy, and the President of the Senate of the country, while the number of deaths rose to four and the number of infections to 428.
In Peru, 145 cases of HIV infection were registered, and the presidency issued a decree imposing a curfew and banning the movement of all private vehicles that do not provide basic services.
In Mexico, the Ministry of Health said that it recorded the first death from corona virus, while the ministry had previously stated that the number of confirmed cases of the virus in the country rose by 27 percent during the 24 hours until Wednesday evening to 118 from 93 the previous day.
In Nicaragua, Vice President Rosario Murillo announced yesterday that a man in his forty years had recently returned from Panama, who had become the first person infected with the new Corona virus in this country. It is for a man who was in Italy.
In the United States, a member of the US House of Representatives, Ben Macadams, announced that he was infected with Corona virus after it was confirmed that Mario Diaz Ballart had registered the first cases of the virus in Congress.
Several members of the Senate and House of Representatives have imposed a quarantine on themselves in the past few weeks because they may have had contact with a person infected with the Coronavirus.
In the context of the precautionary measures taken by the governments of countries around the world to limit the spread of the virus, Australia imposed an unprecedented ban on non-residents and non-Australian nationals coming to it and prevented them from entering the country so that the decision will come into effect as of 9:00 pm tomorrow, after it had asked Its citizens yesterday refrained from traveling abroad and also called on travelers to return quickly to their country.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison also asked to curb unnecessary gatherings of more than 100 people indoors, and Quantas, Australia's largest airline, announced today that it will halt all international flights this month, following the example of its rival Virgin.
Australia has had more than 500 HIV-positive people and six deaths.
In turn, Bolivia declared a state of health emergency and imposed a night curfew that starts at five in the evening and ends at five in the morning until the 31st of this month.
In Chile, President Sebastian Peñera announced yesterday the exceptional constitutional state of disasters that allows him to deploy the army to maintain order in the country for a period of ninety days, after the casualties in this country rose to more than two hundred.
Britain decided to close schools in the coming days and put 20,000 soldiers in a state of readiness as part of efforts to stop the spread of the Corona virus. The London Transport Department announced the closure of 40 subway stations in the capital until further notice and the suspension of the work of a number of public buses.
The number of deaths in Britain due to the Corona virus has exceeded 100, and nearly 3,000 others have been infected.