Coronavirus cases worldwide have exceeded 1.2 million , while the death toll is rapidly approaching the 65,000 threshold: Johns Hopkins University reports. In its latest bulletin the American university specifies that the infections are now 1,203,099, the deaths 64,774 and the number of the healed 246,893.
There is an emergency in the United States with Donald Trump who also announced the deployment of a thousand soldiers in New York to help the city manage the pandemic emergency. "They will be employed where there is more need," he said. In the previous hours, Mayor Bill de Blasio had asked the White House to send soldiers and hospital staff.
Since the coronavirus emergency erupted - among other things - at least 430,000 people have come to the United States on direct flights from China , 40,000 in the last 2 months, after Trump launched the travel squeeze. The New York Times reports that passengers are of different nationalities and disembarked in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Newark Chicago, Seattle and Detroit. Thousands arrived from Wuhan and many flights continued until last week from Beijing to Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, with passengers exempted from the ban on entering the United States.
Meanwhile , cases of coronavirus infections in Tokyo are setting a new high , confirming an upward trend that does not seem to know any interruptions. In Sunday's preliminary estimate, infections recorded on Sunday in the Japanese capital settle at 130, a number that exceeds yesterday's record 118, after exceeding 100 daily units for the first time. With today's cases, the total number of people tested positive in the capital exceeds 1,000. With steady increases in cases, pressure from multiple sides continues to the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to decree the state of emergency. For the second weekend in a row in Tokyo, the streets were semi-deserted, despite no executive lockdown having been imposed by the authorities, with citizens voluntarily accepting the invitation from Governor Yuriko Koike to stay home and not leave unless for essential services.
In Sweden, the coronavirus epidemic is growing faster than elsewhere in Scandinavia (over 6,400 infections and 333 deaths) and there is pressure on the government to abandon the soft line: schools, restaurants and bars open and simple recommendations to limit contacts, relying on individual responsibility. In an interview with the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven reiterated that he did not want to overload the health system, but admitted that "we must prepare for thousands of victims".
The number of coronavirus cases in Iran has risen to 58,226, well 2,483 more than yesterday : the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Kianoush Jahanpour said today, stressing that in the last 24 hours at least 151 people have died, for a total of 3,603. "So far about 22,011 patients have healed - he added -, but 4,057 are in critical condition".
It will still take between seven and ten days before the coronavirus epidemic in the UK reaches its peak and the case curve begins to flatten: epidemiologist Neil Ferguson of Imperial College of London, whose team has outlined alarming patterns of the potential spread of the virus in the past few weeks that ultimately convinced the government to accelerate on the road to a radical lockdown.
The historic speech to the nation of the Queen of England is expected for tonight, which according to the advances of the British media will exhort her subjects to "self-discipline" and to "determination" to overcome with a spirit of "brotherhood" the emergency of the coronavirus pandemic.
The decline in coronavirus deaths in Spain continues for the third consecutive day , with 674 deaths in the past 24 hours, 135 fewer than you were and the lowest level in the last nine days. This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health of Madrid published by the newspaper El Pais. Overall, 12,418 deaths out of a total of 130,759 cases, 6,023 more infections in the last 24 hours.
Deaths in Belgium from coronavirus are growing more than yesterday . According to data released by the health authorities, 164 deaths in the last 24 were against 140 on Saturday bringing the total number of victims to 1447. For the first time, however, the number of discharged (504) exceeded that of new hospitalizations (499 ). There are 5,735 people hospitalized due to coronavirus, of which 1,261 in intensive care, 16 more than yesterday. People tested positive for the virus are 19,961, 1,260 more than on Saturday.
Positive coronavirus cases reached 8,018 in Israel . The Ministry of Health has announced that 127 patients are currently hospitalized in serious conditions and 106 of them are under intensive care. There were 46 deaths overall and 477 recoveries. In recent days, health managers have launched continuous appeals to the population so that this year they will give up visiting relatives on the occasion of the Jewish Passover (which will start on Wednesday) so as not to give any further impulse to the spread of the pandemic. . "Israel is at a crossroads," said Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and Easter days, he warned, can be of critical importance for the country. "Everyone must therefore stay indoors and celebrate Easter in an intimate way."
With nine more cases, the number of coronavirus positives has risen to 226 in the Palestinian Territories, including Gaza . The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority (PA) has indicated that the cases have occurred in the Governorate of Ramallah, Jenin and Jerusalem. In addition, the government is considering closing a hospital in Tulkarem, where a patient with Covid-19 went before being transferred to a center specializing in the treatment of coronavirus patients. So far, one is the victim of the pandemic in the territories
The Greek Ministry of Migration has announced that a second migrant camp near Athens has been placed in isolation after an Afghan resident has tested positive for the coronavirus. This is the Malakasa camp, about forty kilometers north-east of Athens, which has been put into "complete medical isolation" for 14 days, and no one will be able to enter or leave it.
And in Cuba, a 101 year old woman was reported by the ministry of health among people infected with the coronavirus . The patient, states in a statement, "is in serious condition". This is the oldest patient registered on the island, 'primacy' who until a few days ago belonged to Marta Sánchez, a 94-year-old woman discharged on April 1 from the 'Pedro Kourí' Institute of Tropical Diseases in Havana. Currently there are 288 patients infected by Covid-19 on the Caribbean island, of which six have died. Among these is also a 61-year-old Italian citizen who died in mid-March.
