Coronavirus: 50% more deaths in Wuhan than reported, Denmark returns to normal

The authorities of Chinese Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, which began the spread of coronavirus around the world, said that 3.3 thousand more people had died from Covid-19 in the city than previously reported; Thus, the number of deaths there increased by 50% and amounted to 4.6 thousand.

Wuhan authorities say there was no intentional concealment of data. According to them, doctors continue to compile reports on what happened in Wuhan in January-February, and new information is constantly appearing. In addition, the number of deaths outside hospitals was finally calculated.

The Sovietid-19 statistics for China as a whole aroused mistrust in a number of countries. French President Emmanuel Macron believes that it was naive to believe in the information of Beijing. According to data provided by the Chinese authorities on Friday, 83.7 thousand patients with coronavirus were registered in the country, the number of deaths was about 4.6 thousand people.

As a group of CIA officials said, back in January, U.S. intelligence reported to President Trump that China was hiding the true state of the spread of the infection, but Trump, they said, preferred not to attach much importance to the reports.

Strict quarantine in Wuhan, where 11 million people live, lasted for 11 weeks, and only recently the city was reopened.

For the first time in decades, China’s economy, the second largest in the world, has shrunk significantly. Only in the first quarter of this year, losses amounted to 6.8%.

• Coronavirus brought down China’s economy. Next in line is the rest of the world

What is happening in Europe

In Britain The quarantine has been extended for another three weeks, and, as Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, the interim prime minister, said on the eve, it is likely that he will continue after that.

The number of people infected with coronavirus in Britain is approaching 100 thousand, 13 729 people have died. In fact, there are more deaths, as the statistics show only cases when patients died in hospitals, excluding nursing homes and those who died at home.

The UK Treasury reported that large companies added to the government’s bailout package of £ 330 billion. Previously, it was about saving only small and medium-sized businesses.

The president Belarus Alexander Lukashenko continues to believe that a pandemic is no reason to paralyze life in the country. The rehearsals of the Victory Parade are ongoing in Minsk by May 9, and the authorities appointed a nationwide subbotnik on April 25. In Russia Victory Parade it was decided to transfer.

Spring breaks in Belarusian schools were extended for a week and totaled three weeks, but on Friday Lukashenko ordered to return to school from Monday.

According to data on Friday, Covid-19 was detected in 4,779 residents of Belarus, 575 new cases were registered in the last day, 42 people died. It is also reported that coronavirus was diagnosed in 116 children.

Minister of Health Germany Jens Span said on Friday that the country’s coronavirus epidemic has been taken under control. According to him, the number of infected has decreased significantly.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of cases in Germany since the beginning of the epidemic is almost 138 thousand people, 3,868 died. This ratio is considered one of the most favorable in Europe.

According to international experts, Germany’s success in overcoming the epidemic lies in the timely introduction of a large-scale testing system.

Germany began to relax quarantine measures. From next week, small shops will open in the country, classes in schools are scheduled to resume in early May.

Denmark also continues to weaken quarantine. The authorities said that on April 20, hairdressers, beauty salons, driving schools and a number of small and medium-sized companies will return to work.

Schoolchildren under 11 years old have already started classes last Wednesday. Also, from the beginning of the week, many stores that are not classified as life-supporting have earned.

Restaurants, bars and gyms will remain closed. The ban on mass events remains. Danish borders are still closed.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, about 7 thousand cases of infection have been confirmed in the country, 321 people have died.

What else in the world?

The number of infected in Turkey per day increased by almost 5 thousand people and now, according to Johns Hopkins University, it is almost 70 thousand. More than one and a half thousand people have died.

The Minister of Health of the country Fakhrettin Koja reported a sharp jump in statistics per day. This is due to the fact that a large-scale testing system has been introduced in Turkey. A full quarantine has been introduced during the weekend in major Turkish cities, residents will be prohibited from leaving their homes.

President’s daughter USA Donald Trump Ivanka Trump was criticized for breaking the quarantine rules and, together with her husband and three children, went from Washington to her father’s golf club in New Jersey to celebrate Passover.

Many in the United States ask on what grounds the president’s daughter violated a federal government order to stay home.

The White House defended Ivanka, saying that her movements were no different from other citizens traveling from work to work, and she simply decided to spend the holidays away from everyone, in a place where there are much fewer people than in her area in Washington.

The number of people infected in the USA at the moment has exceeded 650 thousand people, about 31 thousand have died.

Number of Islamic preachers in Pakistan stated that they would hold Friday prayers in their mosques, despite the ban on public events. One of the muftis, Taki Usmani, said that now more than ever it is necessary to keep five daily prayers, and Friday prayer is sacred.

Pakistani scholars believe that mosques should be freed from quarantine if ministers ensure that preventive measures, such as cleaning frequently and reducing the number of worshipers inside mosques, are observed.

The president Tanzania John Magufuli called on citizens to spend the coming weekend in prayer. Schools, colleges and a number of companies are closed in the country as measures to combat the epidemic, but a ban on religious meetings has not been introduced.

At present, only 94 cases of Covid-19 infection have been detected in Tanzania, 4 people have died. However, the situation in Africa as a whole is deteriorating sharply, and the World Health Organization warned that this continent could become the next epicenter of the pandemic.

So far, about 18 thousand cases and almost 1 thousand deaths have been recorded in African countries, but a WHO spokesman said in an interview with the BBC that coronavirus in Africa began to spread outside large cities.

there are fears that Tanzania, which many use as a transit country, will face a serious epidemic.

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