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The epidemic continues to count new cases and deaths, but the number of infections recorded in mainland China has dropped for the third consecutive day (2,009 cases in 24 hours). The total number of deaths still rises: according to the latest figures there are 1,775 deaths, of which 1,770 in China, in the province of Hubei. There are 71,335 infected, of which 70,552 on Chinese territory.

Italian citizen infected on the ship, flying to the USA
An Italian who was aboard the Diamond Princess, the ship blocked in Japan, may have contracted the coronavirus. The head of the Farnesina crisis unit, Stefano Verrecchia, said on the Agorà broadcast of Rai 3. The American Italian has lived in the United States for several years, married to an American woman and has tested positive before the tests. boarding on the flight. The American authorities have announced that all passengers disembarked from the flight will undergo new tests in the US, this time carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The plane, which took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport, recently landed at a military air base, Travis Air Force Base, near Fairfield, California.

Another 99 infected on the quarantined ship, 454 were infected
The tests found 99 more infected on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was blocked in port in Yokohama for quarantine. The Japanese media reported this, citing the latest figures from the Ministry of Health. The total is now 454 confirmed infections. On board, before the departure of the Americans who landed yesterday, there were over 3,700 people including passengers and crew members.

Italian flight also open to European citizens on board the ship
The plane that the Italian government is preparing to send to Japan to evacuate the compatriots left for days in quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, could also bring back citizens of other European countries. This was reported by qualified sources, specifying that European collaboration requires a choice of this kind, also considering that - in that case - the costs of the mission would be shared with other countries.

Close for 60 million people in Hubei: "Don't leave home"
China tightens restrictions to fight the epidemic in Hubei, a coronavirus outbreak province. Sixty million people have been asked not to leave the house (except for emergencies) and the use of private cars has been banned indefinitely. The BBC reports it. Only one person from each family will be able to go out every three days to go shopping while an entrance will be open in the buildings, supervised to ensure that only residents enter or leave. All businesses are closed, except for pharmacies, hotels, food and medical services.

From the Chinese central bank maxi-injection of liquidity
The Chinese Central Bank (PBOC) has entered liquidity with a 200 billion yuan (MLF) one-year credit line, approximately USD 30 billion, at the rate of 3.15%, lowered from the previous 3.25%, at in order to ease the pressures on businesses experienced by the effects of the coronavirus epidemic. The PBOC today also provided a liquidity injection on the 100 billion yuan markets, on the day of expiry of 1,000 billion yuan of reverserepo, thus draining the figure of 900 billion.

Hypothesis of two Chinese biologists: "Coronavirus released from Wuhan's laboratory"
It would have come to life in one of the two laboratories located near the Wuhan fish market, the new coronavirus that is bringing China to its knees with over 1700 deaths. To say this are two biologists from the South China University of Technology who contest the official version provided by the Beijing authorities, according to which the pathogen was transmitted directly from bats to humans.

In particular, writes the Daily Mail, Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao claim that "the possible origins of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus could have as its cause the infected animals kept in the laboratory by the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WHCDC), including 605 bats. " "The WHCDC is also close to the Union Hospital where the first group of doctors was infected during this epidemic. It is plausible that the virus leaked and that some of them contaminated the initial patients, although new evidence is needed," reads .

The document also reveals that bats once attacked a researcher and "their blood ran into his skin". Knowing the extreme danger of possible infection, the scientist then placed himself in voluntary quarantine for 14 days. The same man isolated himself even after a bat urinated on him. "Patient genome sequences were 96% or 89% identical to the Coronavirus Bat CoV ZC45 originally found in Rhinolophus affinis," the scientists write.

According to the study, these native bats are approximately 960 kilometers away from the Wuhan fish market and the probability that the bats have made such a long flight from the provinces of Yunnan and Zhejiang was minimal. The possibility that the infection arose from the local tendency to eat bats is also minimal.