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March 27, 2020 There are over 530,000 cases of coronavirus infection in 176 countries around the world, with a total of over 24,000 deaths, according to the latest data on the John Hopkins University pandemic. In detail, 533,416 people are infected, 24,082 victims and 122,710 recovered. The United States overtook China by number of infections, with 85,991 cases confirmed against 81,782, followed by Italy with 80,589. Italy and Spain are the countries with the most deaths.


In Spain almost 5000 dead, hospitals collapsing
The number of deaths following the spread of the coronavirus returns to increase in Spain with 769 victims indicated in the last 24 hours. The total death toll thus rises to 4,858. El Pais writes it.

Spanish health has arrived unprepared to face the emergency: there are no protective devices, masks, intensive care units and respirators. Tampons are also missing. Field hospitals and Covid-19 departments are improvised, it is a struggle against time, to face an invisible and ruthless enemy. In Madrid, the Ice Palace has been transformed into a huge mortuary chamber while the army is used to sanitize the streets and to check traffic restrictions.

Meanwhile, Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology, a Chinese biotechnology company that has provided Spain with tests for COVID-19 considered unreliable, has announced that it will replace them with new kits. The South China Morning Post reports. An Iberian research institute has found a low accuracy rate in these diagnostic kits and, for this, Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology has announced that it will send new kits that guarantee that "patients have the best diagnostics" and tests with greater "sensitivity. and specificity ".

Contagions are growing in Germany
A leap in coronavirus infections in Germany: in the last 24 hours another 5,780 positives have been recorded, while the victims are 55. Thus the number of people infected rises to 42,288 and the number of dead to 253, according to the Robert Koch Institute. Germany is the fifth country in the world for infections, after the United States, China, Italy and Spain.

Meanwhile, the German Bundesrat (the federal senate) has approved the huge aid package that will have to save businesses and families from the economic impact of the coronavirus in the country. These are economic measures of 750 billion euros, which include a deficit of 156 billion for 2020.


London, over 100 dead yesterday. Positive Johnson

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been infected with the coronavirus and is in self-isolation. This was reported by Downing Street, specifying that the symptoms are currently "light".

Yesterday, Britain has recorded 103 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours: it is the first time that the death toll has exceeded one hundred in a single day, as reported by the British National Health Service. The total number of deaths is 578. boom in GB, over 100 deaths in one day
British police also appeal to retired staff to help with the coronavirus emergency. The initiative was formalized in particular for London by the Scotland Yard commander, Cressida Dick, who in a letter addressed to retired agents and officers asked them to be willing to temporarily resume service, both for a fee and by volunteers. In addition to routine security duties, the British police are called upon to ensure compliance with the lockdown declared by Boris Johnson's government. The emergency legislation in force since yesterday in the Kingdom authorizes, among other things, to go as far as the immediate arrest of the most hostile offenders and to impose fines of up to almost a thousand pounds.