03/02/2020 - 8:14
- Clarín.com
- World
The Portuguese government confirmed on Monday the first case of coronavirus in the country . This is a man who was in northern Italy on vacation.
In addition, another man who recently traveled to Spain for work was positive in a first analysis and the result of a new test is expected to confirm his diagnosis, as published by the EFE news agency .
The two men, of Portuguese nationality, are admitted to two hospitals in Oporto , in the north of the country, and their status is "stable," the Portuguese Minister of Health, Marta Temido, told a news conference.
This is the first confirmation of coronavirus in Portugal, which had already announced that two of its citizens had tested positive for the virus aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, moored south of Tokyo.
The global balance of the epidemic of the new coronavirus surpassed on Monday the 3,000 dead, while the contagion in Italy and South Korea soar.
China's authorities announced 42 new deaths on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 2,912 and the world balance to more than 3,000. However, the 202 new infections recorded in mainland China represent the lowest daily figure since the end of January.
Outside the province of Hubei, the epicenter of the epidemic, the resumption of activity, paralyzed since the end of January, was noticeable, with some traffic jams in Beijing.
The COVID-19 epidemic seems to diminish in China, where quarantine measures were imposed on more than 50 million people, but it worsens in other countries of the world.
South Korea, the country where the coronavirus epidemic is spreading the most, announced on Monday almost 500 new infections and four more dead (22 in total).
In Italy, about 500 new infections were detected on Sunday, an exponential increase that brings the number to almost 1,700 in the country. Five other deaths (34 in total) have also been reported, all in three regions of the north of the country: Lombardy, Emilia Romagna and Veneto.
France, a new axis of contagion in Europe, counts 130 cases and two deaths and Spain has 73 cases.
The Louvre museum in the French capital, which received 9.6 million visitors in 2019, was closed this Sunday after staff claimed their right to stop working because of the epidemic, the management announced, without specifying whether it will reopen Monday. The Paris Book Fair also canceled the 2020 edition.
In Germany, 129 cases were detected, more than half in North Rhine-Westphalia, where an infected couple participated last week at the Heinsberg Carnival, a very popular event.
In Latin America, this Sunday the first case was registered in the Dominican Republic, an Italian traveler. There are four cases registered in Mexico, two in Brazil and six in Ecuador.
Iran reported 11 new deaths, raising the official balance to 54 deaths. However, the BBC's Farsi service mentions at least 210 dead, information denied by the authorities.
After two deaths in US territory, Australia also announced the first death by coronavirus, that of an ex-cruise ship of the cruise ship "Diamond Princess", the ship that has been isolated for weeks in Japan, where more than 700 cases were declared.
The 130 crew members who were still in prison were able to disembark, the Japanese authorities said.
The situation led the World Health Organization (WHO) to increase the alert level to "very high" and warn that no one is safe from the COVID-19 epidemic, and that if a country thought that, it would be falling into A "fatal mistake."