Here we follow all developments about the spread of the new coronavirus on an international scale.
9h14 – EasyJet announces resumption of some flights on June 15th
UK airline EasyJet announced today that it will resume flights on June 15, suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The initial schedule will mainly include domestic flights in the UK and France” and the number of flights will be reduced, the airline said in a statement.
EasyJet added that more routes will be announced in the coming weeks, “as customer demand increases and blocking measures across Europe are eased.”
Sanitary measures will be reinforced, the press guaranteed, in the same note.
Customers, flight attendants, pilots and the ground crew must wear masks, aircraft cleaning and disinfection will be reinforced, there will be “disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer on board” and there will be no food service on board, explained the company.
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9h05 – DGS publishes manual with rules for schools and daycare centers
The Directorate-General for Health published the manual “Health and daily activities”Where the Covid-19 prevention and control measures are presented in educational establishments, namely in the return to the 11th and 12th grade face-to-face classes and in nurseries and childcare centers.
In relation to secondary education, among the norms is “the organization of students in groups”, the “definition of circuits of inputs and outputs in the classroom”, the “spacing between students and teachers” who must “keep the minimum distance from 1.5 to 2 meters ”.
The need for “personal and environmental hygiene”, the “use of a mask” is recalled. And additionally hand hygiene at the entrance and exit ”. The standard also defends that “access doors are kept open”.
For day care centers and nurseries, DGS establishes “the maximization of spacing between children, including during meals”, the organization of “children and educators in fixed rooms” and the “delivery of children to the institution’s door”.
In the activity room, “each child must always use the same crib or deck chair” and “footwear must remain at the entrance”.
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8:47 am – Russia surpasses the three thousand death barrier
The official number of Covid-19 deaths in Russia has risen to 3,099, after 127 more people have died in the past 24 hours.
A further 8,849 confirmed cases were also reported, bringing the total number to 317,554.
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8:30 am – More than five million cases worldwide
The total number of confirmed cases worldwide is now 5,000,038, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. 328,172 people died.
Covid-19 first appeared in Wuhan, China, in late December.
In the last 24 hours, 106,000 new cases were confirmed – the maximum in a single day, which led the World Health Organization to warn that the pandemic was far from over.
The United States is the country with the most confirmed cases, with 1,551,853.
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8:15 am – Germany with 176,752 infected and 8,147 dead
The Robert Koch Institute has revealed that in the past 24 hours, an additional 745 cases of infection have been confirmed in Germany, bringing the number of infected people to 176,752.
57 more people died, now there are 8,147 fatalities.
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More than 158,000 people have recovered from the disease.
8:00 am – China records two new cases in the last 24 hours
China has diagnosed, in the last 24 hours, two new cases of Covid-19, authorities said today, on the tenth consecutive day that the daily sum of infections in the country remains below ten.
The China Health Commission said it had identified a case with local origin, until 11:59 pm on Wednesday (4:59 pm in Lisbon), in Shanghai, China’s financial ‘capital’.
The other case comes from abroad and was diagnosed in Guangdong, the province adjacent to Macau.
Health officials also reported that five patients were discharged in the past 24 hours, so the number of infected people active in the Asian country stood at 84, including eight in a condition considered serious.
According to official data, since the beginning of the pandemic, China has registered 82,967 infected and 4,634 dead due to Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. So far, 78,249 people have been discharged.
Chinese authorities reported that 740,967 people who had close contact with infected people were under medical surveillance in China, 4,864 of whom remain under observation.
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Actors, choreographers, producers and technicians come together, in a vigil in 16 cities in the country, as a way of alerting to the fact that they have run out of income due to Covid-19. The Vigília Cultura e Artes takes to the streets this Thursday.
“What if we all ran out of culture?” The issue is the starting point for the protest of actors, technicians and cultural managers, aiming to show that the works of the arts “continue to exist”, despite the fact that cultural spaces are currently closed and their programming has been suspended since March.
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7:20 am – The Food Bank campaign advances today
This year in different ways, with no volunteers in the supermarkets, but whoever wants to can contribute by making donations on the internet or buying help vouchers at supermarket boxes. The president of the Federation of Food Banks, Isabel Jonet explains how donations are made this year.
Food banks are supporting almost four hundred and forty thousand people. Isabel Jonet says that help requests have increased a lot because of the pandemic /
### 1230570 ### In the launch today of the food emergency campaign, a campaign that RTP has joined and that includes a telephone line of added value, anyone who wants to donate food can also do it through that line at the cost of one euro the call. The number is 761 20 19 19.
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Prime Minister defends possibility of continuing with the lay-off
For the prime minister, the continuation of the lay-off has to be duly considered, after the President of the Republic has come to say that this could be considered, since the instrument has served as a “buffer cushion” for unemployment.
In the fortnightly debate, António Costa considered yesterday that this will be evaluated.
A discussion when the unemployment figures in Portugal were known. From March to April, the number of unemployed increased by 14 percent. It means that from one month to the next, 76 thousand Portuguese lost their jobs. There are now more than 392 thousand unemployed in Portugal.
110 thousand companies have already gone into lay-off. So far, only 90 thousand have received support: 284 million euros, covering 735 thousand workers.
The average social security response is 16 days.
Of the total of companies that went into lay-off, 65% asked to renew the lay-off in May.
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The lack of definition continues, however. The Government has announced that national theaters will be able to open doors as early as next month, June 1.
But according to representatives of culture, this is an impossible mission. Speaking to Antena 1, Anaísa Raquel, from the culture and arts vigil committee, explains that the measures decreed by the government for these spaces are not compatible so that theaters can reopen.
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Pandemic is still growing, says WHO
According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic is far from over and is even in a growth phase. This can be seen in the figures released by the WHO.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom has announced more than 106,000 new cases in the past 24 hours. That is, the largest number of cases in a single day so far. Therefore, he argues that there is still a long way to go, even when there is an announcement that several countries will resume international flights.
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Around five million people have already been infected worldwide.
China has diagnosed, in the last 24 hours, two new cases of covid-19, authorities said, on the tenth consecutive day that the daily sum of infections in the country remains below ten.
The China Health Commission said it had identified a case with local origin, until 11:59 pm on Wednesday (4:59 pm in Lisbon), in Shanghai, China’s financial capital. The other case comes from abroad and was diagnosed in Guangdong, the province adjacent to Macau.
At the opposite extreme, Mexico, which recorded 424 deaths in the last 24 hours, the highest number of deaths since the covid-19 outbreak began, according to official data. In Mexico, 6,090 people have died so far from the disease.
According to Mexican authorities, a further 2,248 infections were reported in the last 24 hours, totaling 56,594 confirmed cases, on what was the seventh consecutive day that Mexico crossed the barrier of two thousand new cases of contagion.
Mexico will remain in confinement until May 30, and is expected to begin phased reopening of some sectors from June 1.
Brazil registered an additional 888 new deaths in 24 hours, with a record number of 19,951 new cases, for a total of 291,579 cases, said the Ministry of Health.
There are still 18,859 deaths from covid-19, a disease diagnosed in the country for the first time on February 26.
The United States recorded 1,369 deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, 167 fewer than the day before, bringing the total number of deaths to 93,214, according to an independent report by Johns Hopkins University.
According to the figures counted until 1:00 am this Thursday in Lisbon, the country also registered 23,604 more infections in the last 24 hours, reaching the 1,550,959 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
The United States is by far the country with the most fatalities worldwide and the most cases of confirmed infections.
The state of New York remains the main focus of the pandemic.
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