The coronavirus pandemic continues its devastation on Tuesday on a planet yet largely confined. The United States is by far the country with the highest number of confirmed cases (163,429 out of more than 780,000 worldwide), with 3,008 deaths. The 2,000 death mark had been crossed on Saturday, and the federated states are now sounding the general mobilization.
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New York in a state of war
A thousand-bed hospital ship arrived in New York, the epicenter of the epidemic, to relieve the hospitals in the megalopolis. Temporary hospitals have also been erected in a conference center or in tents set up in Central Park. "The virus has been one step ahead of us since day one," New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday. Mayor Bill de Blasio said his city needs some 400 respirators and additional medical staff just to run the week.
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"A worst-case scenario"
In Louisiana and Florida, Illinois and New Jersey, the situation is getting worse day by day. Concern is also growing in Maryland, north of the federal capital Washington: 67 residents of a retirement home tested positive there, and the governor of the state, Larry Hogan, spoke of "a worst case scenario" . According to him, the situation is all the more critical as several federal establishments, such as the National Intelligence Agency, have their headquarters in Maryland and that many senior officials live there.
To protect its population, its Florida counterpart refuses for the time being to land a liner, the Zaandam, which is in the Caribbean Sea with four dead and dozens of sick on board.
A real-time map to see the evolution of the coronavirus
Developed by researchers at the Johns-Hopkins University in the United States, a map lists all the confirmed cases of Covid-19 around the world, as well as those suspected, in real time. But it is also accompanied by several counters which provide information on the number of victims ... and people healed.