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- While the number of infections in China and South Korea has been decreasing for several days, in Europe, the coronavirus continues to spread, now affecting all the countries of the EU.
- The number of cases worldwide now exceeds 113,000 in 101 countries and territories, according to an assessment made Monday at 6 p.m. Germany has announced its first two deaths, Canada its first.
- In Italy, the main European home, the government has taken drastic measures to try to halt the spread of the virus, which has already killed 463 people and more than 9,000 cases in the peninsula.
- In France, the coronavirus epidemic continues to spread. According to official figures, 1,412 people are contaminated and 25 have died.
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7:17 am: All of Italy placed in confinement
Sixty million Italians are asked to stay at home: Rome is implementing unprecedented measures worldwide on Tuesday to fight the epidemic. The head of the Italian government Giuseppe Conte signed this Tuesday a decree which extends to the whole country the drastic measures confining since Sunday a quarter of the population of the north of the peninsula.
"I am going to sign a decree which can be summarized as follows:" I am staying at home ". (…) The whole of Italy will become a protected area, ”he said in a serious tone. All Italians will have to "avoid travel" except to go to work, get supplies or even medical care. Gatherings are also prohibited.
However, these new measures do not provide for "limiting public transport, in order to guarantee the continuity" of economic activity "and to allow people to go to work," assured Giuseppe Conte. Italy, a member of the G7, thus becomes the first country on the planet to generalize such draconian measures to try to halt the progression of the coronavirus, which has already killed 463 people and more than 9,000 cases in the peninsula.
7:05 am: Update on the situation in France
According to the latest assessment, communicated by Jérôme Salomon, the Director General of Health, this Monday, 1,412 people are contaminated in France and 25 have died. Among the victims, fifteen are men and ten are women, he said, reporting a seventh "grouping" of 38 positive cases in Ajaccio, Corsica. Culture minister Frank Riester also tested positive for Covid-19.
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This Tuesday, we will follow the evolution of the spread of Covid-19 all over the world, and especially in France.
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