• Coronavirus Asia. China, zero internal cases, 41 imported. South Korea, infections, 102 dead
  • Whuan in late isolation, New York's new epicenter, India in lockdown
  • Russia, closed all borders by land and sea

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April 01, 2020 More than 42,000 coronavirus deaths worldwide. To update the budget is Johns Hopkins University, which speaks of 42,341 victims globally. Contagions also increase, reaching 859,796. Italy is the first country for the sad death toll (12,428), while the United States are first in number of confirmed cases (189,618).


China: slow return to normal

New signs of a return to normal in China, where patients recovered from the coronavirus rise to 76,238, while 2,004 other people are still hospitalized. Another 186 patients were discharged yesterday. Meanwhile, reports the Xinhua agency, the first group of seven hundred doctors and paramedics who left Hubei at the end of the emergency, ended the 14-day period of quarantine following the end of the service provided in the area from where the epidemic has spread and today it can return to embrace loved ones. After the quarantine was over, healthcare workers attended a ceremony before returning home. In the aftermath of the outbreak in Wuhan in Hubei, thousands of civilian and military doctors and staff members had been sent to the region to help local doctors and paramedics.

India: sleeping cars transformed into isolation wards

Sleeping cars converted into isolation wards for patients who contracted Covid-19 in India. The railways have made available to the Ministry of Health 20 thousand carriages that will be able to accommodate, once the intervention is completed, up to 320 thousand patients, the government has announced. The conversion of sleeping cars has already started. There are 1,590 confirmed infections in India, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (1,637 according to government data). But it is feared that the real number is much higher given the fragility of the health system, both in terms of personnel and structures. A situation that makes it more difficult to follow the progress of the epidemic with tests and hospitalizations.



South Korea 101 new cases

South Korea yesterday recorded 101 new coronavirus cases, down from 125 on Monday, for a total of 9,887. According to updates from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Kcdc), there are three new deaths that bring the toll to 165. 35% of the infections relating to the last two weeks are imported, while the return infections are 560 in all. The more stringent rules on entry into the country have reduced arrivals by 93% in the last week of March compared to the first. 5,567 people have recovered and 4,155 patients still under treatment. 10:42
South Korea has imposed a two-week quarantine on all passengers arriving from abroad in an attempt to slow down infections imported from abroad. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said he was particularly concerned about young South Korean students returning from abroad and warned that officials will apply a non-tolerance policy for those who do not stay home. Under recently enforced laws, South Korean citizens can face up to one year in prison or be fined up to $ 8,200 if they break the quarantine. Foreigners can be expelled.

In Russia 440 new infections

Russia adds another 440 cases of coronavirus infection to the official budget, which reaches 2,777 confirmed cases, of which 1,880 are in Moscow, reports Headquarters for the fight against the spread of Covid-19. If the always contained official Russian numbers continue to arouse skepticism abroad and also at home - the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin claims that the real data are certainly much more serious, but not intercepted - the majority of confirmed cases are still concentrated in the capital: of the new 440 positives, 267 are Muscovite residents. In the Russian megalopolis, a particular trend is also confirmed, which sees a very high percentage of people infected under the age of 45. Of the new cases, 117, almost half, are between 18 and 45 years old. Among the positives at Covid-19 in Moscow there are also many children.