* Newsletter updated at 8am on March 19
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According to Reuters, the total number of deaths in Italy alone reached 2,978. The total number of identified viral infections was 35,713. The total number of cured cases is 4,025 people.
About 2,257 people are being cared for in an intensive care unit
In Pakistan, Health Minister Zafar Mirza reported the first death from COVID-19 in the country. Pakistan's total corona virus cases are currently 260.
Portugal declared a state of emergency
Portugal declared a 15-day national emergency on March 18, with effect from midnight to dawn on March 19, in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. The measure can also be extended for several months. This action will allow the government to take tough measures to force people to limit movement, stop demonstrations and enforce quarantine.
It is the first time a country with a population of around 10 million in Europe has declared a state of emergency since the 1970s.
Currently, Portugal has 448 COVID-19 infections and 2 deaths. Health experts of this country warn that the number of people infected in Portugal will increase, at least until the end of April 2020. Portugal has banned gatherings of 100 or more people, closed schools and nightclubs, restricted the number of guests entering restaurants at the same time, and restricted visitors to nursing homes.
Red Cross staff in Italy examining a homeless person in Rome - Photo: REUTERS
France nearly 90 deaths in 24 hours
In the past 24 hours, France has recorded 89 more deaths due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 1,404 new cases, bringing the total number of deaths to 264 and the number of cases to 9,134. In addition, of the 3,626 patients hospitalized, 921 were in a state of special care.
On March 18, the first day of serious home isolation, French police fined more than 4,000 cases of breaches of the home requirement to curb the spread of its own COVID-19 epidemic, according to AFP. permission.
On TV channel TF1, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said that on March 17, the authorities only fined a reminder of 35 euros, but from March 18 onwards, the fine was 135-375 euros for those who like to joke. with the law.
The Republic of Mauritius, an island nation in Africa, has just confirmed the first three cases of a new strain of corona virus. According to the Mauritius government statement on March 19, the ages of the three patients were 21, 25 and 59 respectively, the cases returned from abroad. Two people worked on a yacht and the other returned from England.
Australia is still panicking shopping
According to News of Australia on March 19, corona virus positive cases in Australia was 596 with 43 cases completely cured and 6 deaths. Currently in Australia there are still panic shopping, difficult to buy toilet paper.
There has been a Vietnamese-American death
Washington State has just had 2 Vietnamese Americans who have died of Covid-19. These may be the first Vietnamese people to die from this virus in the world, according to VOV.
Information about these two deaths has been confirmed by the Vietnam Embassy in the US. The first patient was a woman born in 1946 and died of COVID-19 on March 16 (US time) in Seattle, Washington, which currently has the highest Covid-19 mortality rate in America. She showed signs of infection with the SARS-CoV2 virus in a nursing home on March 9 and died after a week of hospitalization.
The second case is an elderly, blind, living in a nursing home in Washington state. The patient died 24 hours after hospital admission with fever and positive for corona virus.
The first US congressman positive for corona virus
Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart, Representative of the Republican Party of Florida, is the first member of the US Congress to be confirmed corona virus infection.
Diaz-Balart said he was feeling better and urged people to take the outbreak seriously, to follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines to avoid be infected and infect others.
Mr. Diaz-Balart began quarantining himself on March 13 and stayed in Washington instead of returning home to Florida because his wife had a background illness. On March 14, he developed symptoms, including fever, headache and found out that he was positive not long ago.
According to Reuters, the Panama Ministry of Health confirmed the number of corona virus infections of the new strain increased by 23 cases, from 86 the day before to 109 today.
New Zealand recorded eight more new infections, all involving people returning from abroad. The total number of COVID-19 infections was 28 in Kiwi.
Source: tuoitre.vn
