Contingency to contain corona in the world .. And America authorizes hospitals to use chloroquine

With the increasing number of people infected with the emerging coronavirus, the US authorities have authorized hospitals to use chloroquine and hydroxychloroene as a treatment, and countries around the world are struggling to contain the epidemic and its repercussions.

The number of people infected with Coronavirus around the world exceeded 721,000, more than 158,000 were recovered, while about 34,000 died.

The United States ranked first with more than 142,000 injured.

US President Donald Trump suggested that the United States will experience the highest death rate from coronavirus in the next two weeks, and announced the extension of social separation guidelines until the end of next April.

He also stressed during a press conference with members of the crisis committee to confront the Corona epidemic that work will be done to ensure that the testing process is accelerated in order to circumvent and undermine the spread of the virus, and stressed that the US Army's engineering brigade and the National Emergency Agency are working around the clock to build hospitals in affected areas.

Trump added that there was talk of more than two million deaths, but more than two trillion dollars was prevented.

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, accused President Trump of denying the true extent of the spread and severity of the Corona epidemic, and said that this behavior is taking lives.

Pelosi added that Trump made very little efforts in the first weeks, and criticized his refusal until last week to issue orders to produce basic medical equipment.

Chloroquine treatment
Pelosi objected to Trump's proposal to restore economic activity next month, and cautioned that the Corona virus was still spreading, and that a lack of means to check for infection meant that new outbreaks could escape surveillance.

The US Food and Drug Administration has allowed chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to be used as a treatment for the emerging coronavirus, but only in hospitals, which are two anti-malarial drugs on which President Donald Trump has high hopes.

In a statement, the US Department of Health confirmed that the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light for "doctors to distribute and prescribe (these treatments) to adolescent and adult patients with Covid 19 who are treated in hospitals, appropriately, when clinical trials are not available or possible."

On March 24, the US President praised this drug, saying, "There is a real chance that it will have a tremendous impact. It will be a gift from God if he succeeds."

The controversial French doctor, Didier Rouault, is defending this drug and has presented studies on it that have not entirely convinced the scientific community.

The US health authorities have warned residents not to treat themselves at home. A resident of Arizona (southwest) died after consuming chloroquine phosphate intended for aquarium cleaning.

In Britain, Jenny Harris, the government's deputy medical advisor, said the country's isolation and closure measures due to the Corona pandemic could last for six months or more.

It warned that a new outbreak of the virus could break out if the measures were lifted quickly.

Britain recorded 209 new deaths, bringing the total to 1228, and injuries to 19,500.

In France, 292 new deaths were recorded, bringing the number of deaths to 2,606. A further 2599 cases of coronavirus were recorded, bringing the total to 4,0174.

In Italy, 756 new deaths were recorded, bringing the number of deaths to 10779. The number of injuries reached 97,400.

In Turkey, 1,815 new infections were reported, taking the total number to 9,217.

In Finland, the total number of people infected with the Coronavirus has increased to 1,240.

In Sweden, 253 new cases of corona were registered, bringing the number to 3,700.

curfew
On the Arab level, the Iraqi Minister of Health and the head of the Crisis Cell, Jaafar Tawfiq Allawi, warned of the possibility of the country being subjected to a "complete collapse" if the preventive curfew measures announced by the Iraqi authorities to face the spread of the Corona virus are not adhered to.

Allawi said in statements carried by the official channel, "Iraq", that the state of emergency across the country may be imposed at any time. He did not rule out the extension of the curfew imposed by the authorities about two weeks ago, and it will continue until the eleventh of next month.

For his part, the Governor of Karbala, Nassif Al-Khattabi, criticized the central crisis cell in Baghdad, for not naming Syria as one of the countries in which the Coruna epidemic had spread.

In a statement on his Facebook page, Al-Khattabi said that Karbala recorded eleven cases of the virus, most of them citizens coming from Syria.

In Mauritania, the Mauritanian Ministry of the Interior has designated Nouakchott and the city of Kaede as two outposts of the Corona virus. The Mauritanian authorities announced the closure of the city of Kaedi, south of the country, after it was discovered that an infection with the Corona virus had occurred.

The authorities have taken several measures to counter the virus, including a curfew from six in the evening to six in the morning, the suspension of studies and flights, and the closure of land borders.

In Libya, the National Center for Disease Control announced that the number of people infected with the Coronavirus has risen to eight, after five new infections were recorded yesterday.

The Ministry of Health in the Government of National Accord, in cooperation with the Military Medical Authority in Tripoli, distributed medical equipment recently imported by the government to counter the Corona pandemic.

In Saudi Arabia, 96 new infections were recorded, bringing the total to 1299. Four people died, and the total rose to eight deaths.

In Doha, the Qatar Ministry of Health announced the registration of 44 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total to 634, while the number of people recovering reached 48.

In Egypt, 33 new infections were recorded, bringing the total number to 609. Four new deaths were recorded, bringing the total number to forty. While 132 injured people have been recovered.

The UAE Ministry of Health announced one hundred and two injuries, bringing the total to 570, while one and three new heals were recorded, bringing the total recovery to 58.

As for Algeria, 57 new cases of coronavirus were registered, bringing the number of patients to 511 and two new deaths.

In Morocco, sixteen new cases were registered, bringing the total to 479, the number of deaths reaching 26, and the number of people recovering, 13.