More than 90,000 people died of coronaviruses in Europe, according to a count by the France Presse agency.
WHO EUROPE - Press conference on the coronavirus pandemic in Europe . "You don't have to make mistakes now. Even though spring has come, we're still in the middle of the storm." "Some countries have yet to experience the strongest impact - said WHO director general Hans Kluge - while in others there is a moment of calm with the number of new cases of Covid-19 decreasing", he added.
"Of the 10 countries in the region that have had the highest number of coronavirus cases," stressed WHO Europe director Hans Kluge, "there have been optimistic signs in numbers in Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Switzerland" . Unfortunately, he added, "50% of Covid-19's weight is on Europe where more than 84,000 people have died from the virus."
"Out of 300,000 tests for coronavirus in Europe, 1 in 13 cases of infection affects health care workers," said WHO Europe's Dr Catherine Smallwood. The data on which this calculation is based are those that each European country sends to the regional office, explained the doctor, expressing "concern" for doctors, nurses and other workers in the sector.
SPAIN - Spain currently has a total of 182,816 confirmed cases of covid-19, with a new increase in infections of 5,183, the highest figure since 9 April. Deaths rise to 19,130 with 551 in the past 24 hours. Local media report this.
UNITED STATES - Meanwhile, Donald Trump announced in the daily briefing at the White House that the data suggest that the nation has overcome the peak of coronavirus cases and that today it will reveal the "directives" to "reopen" the American economy . "We will reopen some states before others and I think some states can really reopen before May 1st," he continued, referring to the expiration of the guidelines for social distancing.