The pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed at least 307,321 people worldwide since its appearance in December in China, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Saturday at 11:00 GMT. Over 4.5 million cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories.
The United States is the most affected country in terms of number of deaths and cases, with 87,568 deaths for more than 1.44 million cases. This is followed by the United Kingdom (33,998 dead), Italy (31,610), Spain (27,563) and France (27,529).
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EUROPE
Spain
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Saturday that he would extend the state of emergency, which was scheduled to end on May 24, for “about a month” until the end of the deconfinement process. “This should be the last state of emergency and last until the end of the deconfinement,” he said during a television address.
Spain, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic in the world with more than 27,000 deaths, launched its phase-in deconfinement in half of the country last Monday.
The beach or the forest, nature if possible … Confined for eight weeks, the French hope to reconnect on Saturday with the hollow paths and tourist sites that reopen punctually, such as Mont Saint-Michel, the 39 forests of Ile-de -France, the cathedral of Chartres and even the Aiguille du Midi whose cable car is back in service.
The daily toll of the epidemic dropped Friday with 104 new deaths recorded in 24 hours, against a peak at more than 600 in early April, bringing the total to more than 27,500 deaths since March 1. Above all, the number of patients in intensive care decreases regularly (-96 patients Friday), insists the Directorate General of Health Friday evening.
Germany became the first major European football league to relaunch its competitions on Saturday, with four second division matches kicking off behind closed doors.
The German death toll from covid-19 is at least 7,884 dead, according to Johns Hopkins University. The country, which had experienced an increase in its local reproduction rate (R0) last week – which shows the number of people to whom an infected individual can potentially transmit the virus – has seen this number fall below the bar of 1, Thursday, at 0.75.
Britain
In Britain, 468 people have died in the past 24 hours after being infected with the coronavirus, bringing the total number of victims to 34,466, the British Department of Public Health said on Saturday. Still over these past 24 hours, 3,450 new infections were detected, for a total of confirmed cases amounting to 240,000.
Italy
The Italian government will reopen its borders to EU tourists from June 3 and cancel the compulsory quarantine for foreign visitors to the peninsula. These measures were announced overnight from Friday to Saturday, following a Council of Ministers around Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. They could nevertheless evolve according to a possible “epidemiological risk”, specifies a government press release.
Italy has been strongly affected by the coronavirus with 32,000 deaths.
Netherlands
For the first time in the Netherlands, a dog was diagnosed as carrying Sars-CoV-2, Dutch Agriculture Minister Carola Schoutan told Parliament on Friday. The dog, which belonged to a covid-19 patient, developed antibodies, which means he was infected.
The official number of deaths from coronavirus in the Netherlands is 5,643. In the past 24 hours, the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has identified 53 new fatal cases. The actual number of deaths is certainly higher, since not everyone is tested.
Russia recorded a record 24-hour death rate from the new coronavirus on Saturday, but the number of new infections has dropped to its lowest level in two weeks. Russia ranks second in the world, after the United States, with 272,043 cases identified, including 9,200 new cases announced on Saturday. This figure is the lowest since May 2.
AMERICA
In the United States, the most affected country with more than 87,500 deaths, unemployment affects nearly 15% of the working population, a record.
The House of Representatives voted on Friday for a historic $ 3 trillion aid plan to fight the economic ravages of the epidemic. But President Donald Trump declared this text presented by the Democrats “stillborn”.
Chile
Santiago de Chile woke up on Saturday in total containment, a measure ordered by the government after a jump of 60% of new cases of coronavirus in 24 hours and a doubling of the number of daily deaths in two days. The measure, for an initial period of one week, entered into force Friday evening at 22:00 (02:00 GMT Saturday) in this capital of seven million inhabitants, which concentrates more than 80% of the cases of the country.
Brazil
In Brazil, where the pandemic is spreading particularly among the poorest populations, the Minister of Health has resigned, for “differences of opinion” with President Jair Bolsonaro on the measures to be taken, after having occupied the post only during less than a month.
Brazil, the epicenter of the pandemic in Latin America, is one of the countries most affected by the new coronavirus in the world, with more than 13,000 deaths and nearly 190,000 confirmed cases, knowing that the official figures are largely underestimated according to specialists. . And the state of Amazonas, home to many indigenous tribes, has recorded more than 300 deaths per million, almost twice as many as the state of Sao Paulo, according to the Ministry of Health.
Ecuador
Ecuador is one of the Latin American countries most affected by the pandemic, with 30,500 cases, including 2,338 deaths. Authorities also reported 1,561 deaths likely due to the virus.
According to Mayor Jorge Yunda, in Quito, which has nearly 2,200 cases, hospitals are not overwhelmed as happened in Guayaquil, the economic capital of the country counting 8,273 cases.
ASIA
Over a hundred projects have been launched around the world and a dozen clinical trials are underway, including five in China, to try to find a cure for Covid-19.
China (excluding the territories of Hong Kong and Macao), where the epidemic began at the end of December, officially counted a total of 82,933 cases (4 new between Thursday and Friday), including 4,633 deaths (0 new), and 78,209 recoveries.
Japan
In Japan, the state of emergency was lifted on Thursday in most regions following the sharp decline in the number of new cases of Covid-19. It is maintained in particular in Tokyo and Osaka.
Tehran on Saturday announced 35 more deaths from the new coronavirus, the lowest daily toll since March 7, and plans to further ease measures against the spread of the virus. These new deaths bring the official death toll from the pandemic in Iran to 6,937 since the first cases were announced in February.
India
The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in India is approaching 86,000, the Indian government announced on Saturday. There are now more cases identified in India than in China, a neighboring country where the epidemic started late last year, according to figures officially released.
AFRICA
In Africa, the consequences could be even more devastating, according to a WHO study published on Friday. So far relatively spared with less than 2,500 deaths officially recorded, the continent could register up to 190,000 deaths.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Saturday the closure of the land borders with Tanzania and Somalia and extended the main measures put in place in the country to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, in a televised address to the Nation.
The continent has just over 75,000 cases of Covid-19 and the virus has already claimed the lives of some 2,555 people there.
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