The number of people infected with the coronavirus worldwide has surpassed one million, according to data released Thursday night by Johns Hopkins University. According to the same data, more than 51 thousand people have died as a result of the infection, and 208 thousand have recovered. The highest number of infection cases is registered in the United States, the highest mortality rate is in Italy. For the latest information on the number of cases and deaths worldwide, check out our updated map.
Head of WHO warned that the number of new cases continues to rise rapidly. In Russia, 771 cases of Covid-19 were identified in 29 regions within 24 hours. According to the Coronavirus Operational Center, the total number of people infected in the country has reached 3,548. Six people with confirmed diagnoses have died in the past day. The number of deaths in Russia has reached 30.
According to the Department of Health and Social Care in the UK, more than 1130 people have died from Covid-19 in the country over the past two days. This is a record number, almost half of all deaths since the outbreak began. 569 people have died in the last 24 hours. The total number of deaths in the country is 2921. To date, 163,194 people have been tested for coronavirus in the UK, of whom 33,718 have been diagnosed with Covid-19.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to increase the scale of coronavirus testing for healthcare workers and members of the public with obvious symptoms of infection. His government has been criticized for inadequate diagnostic support compared to other European countries. To date, only about 2,000 health care workers out of half a million nationwide have taken the Covid-19 test.
The sad statistics of the past few days have been greatly exacerbated by the U.S., where more than 235,000 cases of infection have been confirmed and 884 people have died in the past 24 hours. The total number of deaths in the U.S. has exceeded 5,600. The country’s authorities urgently need to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE), which is completely depleted in the US. Unemployment in the country is breaking records. According to the latest data, more than 6.6 million Americans have applied for benefits.
Negotiations between BA and the unions have been going on for a week, but in the current situation the company cannot keep all the staff on the job. British Airways has announced the need to temporarily reduce its workforce by 36,000 employees. This represents 80% of the company’s total workforce, including flight and ground crews, engineers and office staff. BA emphasizes that this is not a layoff and that all temporarily reduced employees will receive a reduced monthly salary. The British government has also urged banks not to refuse to help companies on the brink of bankruptcy. Alok Sharma, UK Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, said that the banks’ inaction in the current situation was simply unacceptable. In addition, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) called on banks to temporarily waive interest on loans and allow borrowers to forgo repayments on loans and credit card debt for the next 90 days.
European countries continue to set sad records for daily mortality. The situation in some European countries remains extremely difficult. In France and Spain, a record number of people died in the last day – 509 and 950 respectively. This brings the number of deaths in Spain to over 10,000. According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of infected people in France is 57,763, while in Spain it exceeds 104,000. For the first time since the outbreak, there is encouraging news from Italy. The one-day death toll has dropped to 727. And while the number is still high, officials are seeing a positive trend. In some areas, quarantine measures may even be relaxed and children may be allowed to walk outside once a day. The number of people infected in Italy has reached 110,574, according to the latest data. More than 14,000 of them have died, the highest mortality rate in Europe.
Over the past day, 771 new cases of Covid-19 have been identified in Russia, including 595 in the capital. In Moscow, six people with a confirmed diagnosis died in one day, bringing the total death toll to 30. According to official data, the total number of infected people in Russia is 3,548. The epidemic has affected dozens of regions. The passenger cruise ship “Costa Neoromantica”, which was denied entry into the port of Vladivostok by Russian authorities, is now heading for the shores of South Korea. The ship wanted to replenish its fuel, water and food supplies in Russia. However, according to Rospotrebnadzor, among the 418 crew members there are representatives of Asian countries where Covid-19 is raging, and the decision was made to refuse the liner’s docking. By all appearances, there are no passengers aboard the liner.
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In Belarus, a doctor from Vitebsk was summoned to the prosecutor’s office after writing on social media that the coronavirus situation was getting out of control. According to her, the department treated her politely, but videotaped the conversation with her and asked her to provide written explanations. A week ago, the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, ordered the KGB to deal with the sources of information that “spread panic” about the coronavirus epidemic, and also said that “it is time to deal with scoundrels who spread fake news.” Coronavirus: the number of infected people worldwide is over one million, in the UK – more than 560 deaths per day. In Belarus, more than 150 cases of infection have been detected, 1 person has died, but no quarantine measures have been taken.
Shenzhen has become the first city in China to ban the consumption of cat and dog meat. The ban will take effect on May 1. Experts believe that the global outbreak of coronavirus is linked to the widespread consumption of wild animal meat in China. With the onset of the pandemic, Chinese authorities imposed a ban on such meat, but the measures applied to exotic animals. According to a number of human rights organizations, approximately 30 million dogs are consumed as food in Asian countries each year.
This is Yemen. Officially, there is no coronavirus there, but it is possible that an ongoing armed conflict that consumes all resources is simply preventing its detection. Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the statistics of the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and the damage in each country, has published a list of countries and territories where no officially registered cases of infection have been reported. There are 41 names on the list. The range of countries is quite wide, from the African state of Lesotho to Micronesia in Oceania. The list also includes Antarctica, Falkland Islands, Tonga, Cook Islands, Nauru, Malawi, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Yemen, and others. However, experts believe that in some of these countries there are no official statistics, not because there are no infected people, but because of authoritarian regimes.