Meanwhile the Turkey closes the borders with theEurope (Greece and Bulgaria) from midnight and in UK Boris Johnson changes course, announcing the closing of schools of every order and grade all over the country starting on Friday “until further notice” due to an acceleration of the infection. Schools are only open to the children of those working on the front lines for emergencies. Johnson also announced the new goal of “25,000 swabs per day“- against the 10,000 indicated so far – measures to support workers and the health system.
Looking to the United States, Donald Trump, writes the New York Times, asks Congress to allocate 500 billion for two tranches separated by thousand dollars of direct payments to American taxpayers on April 6 and May 6, and others $ 300 billion to help SMEs pay wages in an emergency. The US president also announced in a tweet that he would temporarily close the border with the Canada “To non-essential traffic”. in USA the outbreak has affected all States, with 7,323 cases and 115 deaths. Trump has anticipated that they will arrive two hospital ships, to New York It is on Pacific. FCA, General Motors and Ford have decided to stop production in North America because of the coronavirus. It also closes the trading floor of Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange, the symbol of America, announces that exchanges will be temporarily on Monday 23 March all electronic. It is the first time that the physical trading floor of the Big Board closes even if the exchanges continue. The last total closings of Wall Street date back to Second World War and allSept. 11.
Angela Merkel’s speech – Germany is also beginning to have repercussions on the industry with Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW that have announced the stop to the production of cars in Europe for a period ranging from 2 to 4 weeks. “Let yourself be told this: it is a serious matter. Take it seriously too – said Merkel on TV – Since the Second World War there has been no challenge requiring our country to act jointly and in solidarity on this scale “. Fighting the coronavirus “is a historical task and can only be tackled together. The situation is serious and fluid, which means that it does not depend only but also how long each will follow the rules with discipline“.
In a Germany still free to move, where for now public life has been armored but not yet in force lockdown, the Bundeskanzlerin has defined the limitations imposed so far however “dramatic“And yet”needed to save lives. ” “The government constantly checks whether it should to correct something, but even if something still needed is missing ”, is the passage with which the Chancellor has left open the road to the decision to impose on the Germans to stay at home.
The speech of King Felipe – Also King Felipe IV of Spain spoke to the nation about the coronavirus emergency in the country infected 14,535 people, causing 630 dead. “This virus will not win. We are stronger as a society … we are a company standing in the face of any adversity, “said Felipe. “Don’t thank never enough for what you are doing for your country, “he said, turning to doctors is nurses. The king made an appeal to “unit towards a single goal: to overcome this serious situation “and”win the war against coronavirus “. Felipe said that “there are moments in the history of peoples who they test us, in a painful and even extreme way. Moments that test i values of a company and the capacity of a state ”to overcome them. King Felipe said that what we are experiencing is “a parenthesis in our lives and we will return to normal“.
The situation country by country:
Spain – 14,535 infections and 630 deaths. Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz is in serious condition after testing positive for coronavirus. According to the Ideal newspaper, Sanz has been hospitalized in intensive care and is fighting against Covid-19. Sanz was the president of the Santiago Bernabeu club from 1995 to 2000. According to doctors who work in intensive care if the emergency plan is not followed, there is a risk of up to 86,000 deaths. The peak of the contagions in Spain, according to the doctors questioned by El Mundo, should be reached in the seventh week (in the country they are still in the second week since the start of the pandemic) with 6,673 hospitalizations in a single day. The Spanish authorities have announced the closure of all hotels in the country as of March 24.
France – There are 9,134 coronavirus cases in France, 264 deaths. The “State of health emergency” has been decreed today in the Council of Ministers, which allows, among other things, to “requisition all the goods and services necessary” to combat the coronavirus: this is what was announced by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. Failure to comply with the requisitions could result in sentences of up to 6 months in prison and a fine of 10,000 euros.
Germany – 10,082 cases, 27 dead. The German chancellor Angela Merkel today he chaired a council of ministers dedicated to new measures to be taken to deal with the emergency, the repatriation of tens of thousands of German tourists who have been stranded abroad and the movement of goods across borders. During the meeting, ministers maintained a safe distance between them. The Berlin administration says it is working to build a new special hospital, with 1000 patients, in the spaces of its fair, as announced by the senator with responsibility for health of the local administration, Dilek Kalayci. This is part of the expansion plan for the German healthcare system, which intends to double the number of intensive care beds (currently 28,000).
UK – 2,626 positive cases, 104 deaths. The premier Boris Johnson reverses course and, in front of a half-empty House of Commons, announces the new objective of “25,000 swabs per day“- against the 10,000 indicated so far – with” a massive effort “on this front, as on that for an extra production of” fans “and” emergency equipment “for hospitals. The British premier has guaranteed that the government is working on “further measures” to protect British workers “of all kinds” forced to stay home by the coronavirus, and reiterated that the Tory intend to allocate “all you need“(Whatever it takes) for workers and the health system, in the face of an emergency that forces restrictions” unprecedented in peacetime “. The Labor leader, Jeremy Corbyn, had previously urged him to increase “on an industrial scale” the tests, “as recommended by the WHO” and on all doctors and nurses in the Kingdom. Not without highlighting the protests that emerged in these categories and defining “better than nothing, but still largely insufficient”The total number of tampons made so far in the country (over 50,000). The debate, not without some controversy, but in a tone of mutual recognition of the will to cooperate in the face of a national crisis, saw only a representation of the government and the shadow government and a few dozen deputies from the rear, present in the wake of a Indication agreed by the same executive with the other parties and with the speaker of the Chamber for precautionary purposes. The indication, accepted by the parliamentarians, “respectfully invited the honorable members” not to be in the classroom, not to crowd it, if not booked to ask questions to the prime minister. A caution praised among others by MEP Tory Michael Fabricant who in tweet called Westminster a “large contagion hotspot from covid-19“. Meanwhile, the pound has plunged to the markets and has seen lows for over 30 years in the cross with the dollar, in a market that does not believe in the response of the London government to the impact of the coronavirus.
Portugal – Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has declared a state of emergency in the country. The measure must be approved by Parliament. In the country, 642 cases of contagion and two deaths were confirmed, with an increase of 194 cases compared to Monday. One of the two victims is the president of the board of Santander, António Vieira Monteiro, hospitalized after returning from a holiday in Italy.
USA – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said a thousand cases will be reached in the city in the next few hours. The pandemic spread to the entire US territory on Tuesday, when the governor of West Virginia – Jim Justice – announced the first case of contagion in his state, until yesterday the only one still immune from contagion. L’Trump administration has announced extraordinary economic measures, with the Treasury saying that it is ready to make a direct contribution in cash to American citizens, but fears that the system, above all the health system, will not be able to stand up are growing stronger. In this climate, the primaries of the Democrats in Florida, Arizona and Illinois took place and they – in fact – decreed Joe Biden as a tycoon challenger in the November White House race. At the press conference at White House on emergency, Donald Trump he compared himself to a “wartime” president. “We are fighting against an invisible enemy and we will win,” he said, after evoking the possibility of resorting to a wartime law with Korea as the Defense production act. And he said he was convinced that the China he could have warned of the coronavirus “much earlier”. The US Senate has approved a first 100 billion aid package for workers affected by the crisis. The bill, already approved by the Chamber, provides free tests to check for any contagion, increases the availability of holidays and increases unemployment benefits. Additional support for food programs is also provided. The signature of President Trump is now required to implement the law.
China – China had 13 new coronavirus cases yesterday: one only in Wuhan (for the second day in a row) and 12 imported cases, including five in Guangdong, three in Beijing and Shanghai and one in Sichuan. Returns have risen to 155, according to the National Health Commission bulletin, according to which the 11 additional deaths are all in Hubei. Total confirmed cases reached 80,894 at the end of Tuesday, of which 8,056 patients still under treatment, 3,237 deaths and 69,601 discharged from hospitals. The cure rate rose to 86%. Thus the fear grows the increase in imported cases: The Global Times points out that of the 155 confirmed, 47 are related to Iran and 41 to Italy. According to the newspaper, Spain (21 cases), the United Kingdom (12) and the United States (7) follow. In total, since the beginning of the emergency, Chinese data speak of 3,237 deaths and 80,894 positive cases.
Brazil – “Italy is a city … a country full of old men, in each building there are at least a couple, as in Copacabana, for this reason there are many deaths,” said the president Jair Bolsonaro, speaking in Brasilia with journalists who urged him on the spread of the coronavirus and on the contrast measures implemented by the government. Meanwhile, Bolsonaro underwent the second test, proving once again negative. The first swab was made on Friday after returning from a trip to Florida, where he met his American counterpart, Donald Trump. Of the delegation that had accompanied Bolsonaro to the USA, thirteen members – including his secretary for communication, Fabio Wajngarten – have in the meantime been positive. In the South American country the second death for the new coronavirus: it is a 69-year-old man from Rio de Janeiro, with previous health conditions that placed him in the group most at risk. In this case, the infection would have come from the victim’s stepson, who returned from New York with a positive diagnosis for Covid-19. The government will ask the Congress of Brasilia to recognize the “state of public disaster “: if this is recognized, the Union will not have to achieve the budget target set for 2020. 1,375 prisoners escaped from four prison units in the State of Sao Paulo during the riots last Monday against a judicial decision to suspend the temporary release of over 34,000 of them to avoid the risk of contagion with the coronavirus. Of these, over 600 have since been recaptured by military police. A fifth prison had a beginning of rebellion, but no escapism.
Africa – 443 coronavirus cases.
Middle East – Six Arab countries registered a new increase in infections last night and subsequently announced new measures. In Jordan, where 40 cases of contagion have been registered so far, one of which healed, King Abdullah II passed a law that gives the government ample powers to impose a state of emergency to help it fight the spread of the virus. In Morocco, King Mohamed VI ordered the army to set up military field hospitals to fight the virus, while Tunisia is ready to declare a curfew. In Qatar, The Al Jazeera TV station reports that the Supreme Crisis Management Committee announced at a press conference that it had closed the Doha industrial area for 14 days to limit the spread of the virus and also announced the closure of all stores, except for those that sell food and medicine.
Israel – 427 contagions. 15 patients are in average serious or severe conditions, and the number of infections is growing exponentially. The authorities have decided on strict measures to stem the spread of the disease, warning that thousands of deaths are likely if people do not respect the rules. The Israeli government has asked for the majority of the population you work from home, that people keep distance between them and do not leave their homes except for essential reasons, such as buying drugs or food. The ministry of Defence it has transformed hotel structures, empty due to the decline in tourism, into Covid-19 patient centers. He also asked the security service Shin Bet to implement telephone surveillance, a step that sparked protests from parliamentarians and civil rights groups.
Turkey – 98 infections, one victim. Turkey will close its borders with Greece and Bulgaria tonight to curb the spread of the coronavirus. This was announced by the Interior Ministry of Ankara. “The land and rail border crossings will be closed from 21 GMT today”, 22 in Italy, as per circular issued by the Ministry of Interior of Ankara.
Japan – Japan has not yet peaked in coronavirus infections, with several regions of the archipelago that still show conflicting signs on the spread of the pandemic. This was highlighted by an investigation by the Kyodo agency, which cites the dynamics underway in Hokkaido, the prefecture north of the country, where the state of emergency was decreed at the end of February following the 128 cases of recorded infections, and the situation in the prefecture of Aichi, in central Japan, with the second number of infections most created by a ‘cluster’, a grouping of infected people, in an elderly care center. The daily increase in infections has settled at an average of 20-30 people per day between late February and early March, suggesting that the peak of the epidemic has yet to occur. While the number of infections shows a downward trend since 10 March, explains the Kyodo survey, an increase is likely to occur in the second half of March because many cases have not yet been identified by the health authorities. Similar conditions also in Tokyo, with the occurrence of new 12 cases yesterday, the greatest daily progress, bringing the total number of cases in the capital to 102. The study also reveals that over the past few weeks more than 20 people from abroad have resulted coronavirus positive, which is why Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today announced the entry ban for those coming from Italy, specifying that the measure also affects those arriving Iceland, Switzerland and some parts of Spain. On the other hand, a 14-day quarantine for those arriving from 38 other countries, the European ones as well as Iran and Egypt.
Philippines – The Manila government has declared one Six-month ‘calamity’ to deal with the coronavirus epidemic, which has so far caused it 14 dead in the country: the measure follows the announcement, on 9 March, of the state of public health emergency at national level. According to reports from the Philippine news agency PNA, the new status will allow the central government and regional governments to draw on an emergency fund to fight the virus. Furthermore, in this way the government will be able to enlist all the country’s forces – including the Army – where it is “necessary”. There have been 187 confirmed cases of contagion in the country so far. Last Thursday, President Rodrigo Duterte decided to close the capital Manila to prevent the spread of the virus. In a speech on TV to the nation he also announced that foreigners from areas where the virus has spread will not be able to enter.
Romania – The state of emergency it has a duration of 30 days and the measures must be taken very quickly: the president of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, said in a video conference with Prime Minister Ludovic Orban and the ministers responsible for managing the epidemic, to which he asked to specify the impact of the measures taken on the population, both as regards a short-term evaluation and for 30 days. President Iohannis’s decree on the state of emergency has already received the positive opinion of the parliamentary committees and will be voted on in parliament tomorrow in Bucharest. According to official data, 217 people are infected in Romania, 19 of whom are healed. About 3,300 people are in institutionalized quarantine and more than 16,600 in home isolation under medical surveillance. Meanwhile, dozens of criminal cases have been opened for the crime of procured epidemic.
Kosovo – In Kosovo, President Hashim Thaci today signed the decree on the imposition of a state of emergency in the country due to the spread of coronavirus. The decision, Serbian media reports, was made in opposition to the government, opposed to such a measure. To enter into force, the decree on the state of emergency will have to be approved by two thirds of the Members of Parliament. In Kosovo 19 infections have been registered so far from Covid-19.
Montenegro – In Montenegro, which was the only country in the Balkans so far untouched by the coronavirus epidemic, the first two cases of infection have been reported. The news was given by Prime Minister Dusko Markovic, as reported by the Serbian media. According to the health authorities, 340 people are under observation, most of them in the capital Podgoric
Pakistan – The number of coronavirus infections in the country continues to rise: today there have been 50 new cases announced in the last 24 hours, for a total of 245according to a spokesman for the Islamabad Ministry of Health. Premier Imran Khan asked the population to prepare to cope with a further spread of the virus: “I want to tell you that the infections will expand further in the country,” he said to his compatriots in a television broadcast broadcast last night. The premier also asked citizens not to panic: “Together – he said – we will win this war against the virus”. Most cases are concentrated in Tartan, a border town where hundreds of people were quarantined after returning from Iran.
Venezuela – The International Monetary Fund has announced that it does not intend to evaluate the $ 5 billion request for aid presented yesterday by the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, to address the coronavirus epidemic, motivating the decision with the “lack of clarity” on the legitimacy of the government of Caracas. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza announced on Twitter that Maduro had requested aid “to strengthen the response capacity of our health system in the containment of Covid-19”. “Unfortunately, the fund is unable to consider this request,” said an IMF spokesman. “The IMF’s commitment to the Member States is based on the recognition of the official government by the international community and at the moment there is no clarity” on this point as regards the Maduro government. In recent years Maduro had accused the IMF and other international institutions, including the World Bank, of being an agent in Washington’s service in an “economic war” against Caracas. Maduro announced in recent days control measures to address the coronavirus epidemic, including a “social quarantine” and the suspension of flights to Europe, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Panama. The executive also suspended lessons at all educational levels. The latest balance sets the provisional balance of infected people in the South American country at 36.
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