- Sassoli, many countries have not understood the extent of the catastrophe: Germany clarifies
- Coronavirus: over 723,000 cases worldwide, over 34,000 deaths
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March 30, 2020 34,018 people worldwide have died of Covid-19. There are 723,700 confirmed cases and 152,032 recovered cases. It is the latest update to the Johns Hopkins University database that brings together data from WHO and local authorities. The United States is leading the number of infections, with over 143 thousand cases, one fifth of the global figure. Followed by Italy (97,689), which today risks exceeding the 100 thousand threshold, and China with 82,152 which could be reached by Spain (80,110). Italy maintains the mournful primacy of deaths with 10,779 victims, followed by Spain (6,803) and China (3,308).Over 80,000 cases in Spain, the death toll exceeds 6,800
The cases of contagion in Spain have exceeded 80,000 and are close to those recorded so far throughout China: this is what emerges from the data of John Hopkins University. To be exact, Spain now has 80,110 cases against China's 82,156. There are 6,803 dead in Spain and 14,709 people recovered. Madrid approved the stop to all non-essential activities, starting today and until April 9, as announced by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
2,600 infected in France
In France, the infections exceeded 40,000 and the deaths are over 2,600. Two French patients were evacuated from Strasbourg to the hospital in Ulm, Germany, with a German military plane taking over 80 French patients hospitalized in Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland and alleviating the overcrowding of the Alsatian health facilities, among the most affected emergency. "Germany offers us extra beds" as well as providing France with respirators ", thanked the Minister for European Affairs, Amelie de Montchalin, who took the opportunity of an interview with RadioFrance Inter to address the need for solidarity European at this stage.
Each month of confinement costs French GDP 3 points, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said during an interview with BfmTv. "I have long since revised the estimate of a 1% drop in GDP (indicated at the beginning of the crisis, editor's note), we have taken measures for this crisis for some time and are working on a European response," said the minister.
In Germany 62 thousand cases with more than 500 deaths
The situation is also worsening in Germany where there are 62,435 cases and 541 deaths. In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine am Sonntag, the president of the Koch Institut, Lothar Wieler, did not rule out that Germany may experience a situation like the Italian one in the future and that it will be impossible to cure everyone.
GB, almost 20 thousand infected
It rises to 19,784 with 1,228 deaths, the total diagnosed of coronavirus infections in the United Kingdom, mainly concentrated in England and London
Britain's deputy medical officer Jenny Harries said life will not return to normal for at least six months. Harries said the current closure and confinement measures will be reviewed in three weeks, but warned that if the epidemic were removed too soon, it would pick up again.