08:21 South Korea, new cases date back to 125 - South Korea yesterday reported a rise in new cases from Covid-19 to 125, from 78 on Sunday, due to problems in keeping internal outbreaks and imported infections under control. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 9,786 total infections and 162 (+4) deaths. There are 15 cases imported, 518 in total. South Korea has launched a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all arrivals, including for the 530 South Koreans expected from Italy. 5,408 are now healed, while 4,275 patients are under treatment.
07:43 China, 48 new cases all imported - China only registered 48 new cases of coronavirus infection yesterday, all imported. The National Health Commission (NHC), updating the number of return infections to 771, mentioned a further death in Hubei, the epicenter province of the pandemic. Serious cases continue to thin, having fallen from 105 to 528 units. The total number of cases is now 81,518: 2,161 are patients under treatment, 3,305 deaths and 76,052 hospitalized, equal to a cure rate of 93.2 %.
07:11 Pope: pray for the homeless, society will notice them - "Let us pray today for those who are homeless, at this moment when we ask to be inside the house: because the society of men and women notice this reality, help them, and the Church welcome them ". Pope Francis said so at the beginning of the morning mass at Casa Santa Marta.
02:31 over 3,000 deaths in the US, 500 in 24 hours - On the Black Monday of the US the number of coronavirus deaths exceeds 3,000, with the last 500 victims in just 24 hours. The cases ascertained, as emerges from the data processed by John Hopkins University, are over 161,000.
00:42 Trump, ready for a possible second wave - America is ready to face a possible new wave of Covid-19 cases after the summer: Donald Trump said it after the virologist Anthony Fauci proposed the hypothesis of a return of the virus in the fall. "It could really happen, but it would be a whole other thing" thanks to the greater ability to do tests and the possibility of getting a vaccine, "explained the super expert of the White House task force." Hopefully it won't happen, "he said. Trump said, "but we're ready."
00:23 Cura Italia: agreement for advance payment to workers - signed the agreement for the advance payment of layoffs by banks to workers suspended due to the coronavirus emergency. The government with the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, Nunzia Catalfo, the ABI and the social partners, after a long discussion by videoconference, have in fact shared a protocol that allows the advance payment to the beneficiaries of the shock absorbers provided by the decree "Cura Italy".
