Coronavirus, live: the epidemic continues its advance through the world
The disease has already reached at least 60 countries and threatens less developed health systems. Although the number of infections began to decline in China, the country where the outbreak originated, the infected are on the rise in several continents
The coronavirus continues to expand throughout the world, with new cases of infections and fatalities in Asia, Europe, the United States and the first confirmed patients in Latin America. Governments analyze taking more drastic measures to stop the advance of the strain, which although it does not have a high mortality rate, presents difficulties for an early detection that helps to slow the spread.
The schedules are expressed in GMT :
2:00: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention of South Korea (KCDC) confirmed on Wednesday 32 fatalities from the outbreak of the coronavirus, while it has increased cases to 5,328 .
Wednesday:
23:00: The Ministry of Health of China increased to 2,981 deaths caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country and to 80,270 the number of infections.
21.00: The World Bank announced a fund of 12,000 million dollars to combat the outbreak of coronavirus.
20.00:The death toll from coronavirus amounts to 9 in the United States , all in the state of Washington.
19.30: Confirm the first case of coronavirus in Chile.
19.15: Spain reported its first death from coronavirus, which occurred in Valencia.
18.50:The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank decided to suspend their traditional assembly of the spring that takes place in April in Washington. For the coronavirus, the meeting will be done virtually.
18.15: The third case of coronavirus is confirmed in the state of Florida, United States. The first two cases were detected in Manatee and Hillsborough counties. The details of the third party are not yet known.
17.25: The number of fatalities in Italy rose to 79, while there are 2,263 confirmed cases.
17.00: They confirmed the first case of coronavirus in Argentina, located in the city of Buenos Aires.
16.50: Around 120 French schools were ordered to suspend classes, mostly in the Brittany and Oise regions north of Paris, which have been greatly affected by Covid-19.
16.25: The head of the WHO reported that of the cases of coronavirus in China, only 1% of patients have no symptoms
16.20: WHO warned of the "rapid depletion" of reserves of protective equipment
16.15: The club Borussia Dortmund announced Tuesday its decision to cancel the tour of the next summer in Asia as a result of the risks of the epidemic. "We are really sorry, because we know how much people there want us to be close to them," said Carsten Cramer, senior leader of the German team, quoted by Sport Bild magazine .
16.00: The New York authorities announced a second confirmed case of coronavirus in the state, a resident of Westchester County, just outside the Big Apple, who had no contact with any known outbreak of the epidemic. In addition, they closed two schools as a precaution.
15.35: The US Department of Homeland Security closed an office in the state of Washington, amid fears that one of its employees could have contracted the coronavirus. The DHS interim secretary, Chad Wolf, said at a congressional hearing that the employee had reported feeling bad after visiting a relative in King County, where four patients have died of the disease.
15.15:The United States Federal Reserve announced an emergency interest rate cut , responding to the growing economic risk caused by the coronavirus epidemic
15.00: French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday that the French State will confiscate "all reserves and the production of protective masks" for distribution to health personnel and people infected with the coronavirus.
14.40: Wall Street opened with a negative trend and its main indicator, the Dow Jones of Industrials, was down 0.26% in a first reaction of the markets to the joint message of the G7 countries, which pledged to take initiatives to support growth economic to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus, but did not announce concrete measures.
14.20: Rome had so far remained relatively oblivious to the social alarm generated in northern Italy because of the coronavirus, but the capital begins to resent almost empty monuments, an unusually spacious public transport and some shops and restaurants closed
13.45: The Ecuadorian authorities reauthorized the celebration of massive events in Guayaquil , where on Saturday the existence of a coronavirus infection center in the country was confirmed. The ban is maintained in the nearby area of Babahoyo.
13.30: The European stock exchanges reduce their profits strongly and in the middle of the session they rise between 1% and 1.8%, given the lack of realization of the G7, which after its meeting, has shown itself willing to take measures to fight against the coronavirus, although without explicitly commit to making any decision
13.15. G7 countries are ready to "use all appropriate tools" to reduce the economic impact of the new coronavirus epidemic, including "budgetary" measures, according to a common statement released Tuesday by their Economy ministers and central bank governors. "The ministers of Economy of the G7 (Germany, Canada, United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom) are ready to act, and even to take budgetary measures if necessary, to support the economy," says the text, which It was highly anticipated by the markets.
13.05: Another cruise in trouble. Myanmar authorities denied permission to disembark a luxury ship in one of its ports due to the risk of any of the travelers carrying the coronavirus, the Burmese Ministry of Health and Sports announced Tuesday, "as it has docked at countries in which the disease has spread ”. The ship "Silver Spirit" planned to dock next Wednesday at the port of Thilawa, after having made stopover in Thailand.
12.45: The Leipzig Book Fair was canceled, the second most important in Germany and which was to be held between 12 and 15 March, due to the coronavirus.
12.40. The Boris Johnson government anticipates that up to one fifth of employees in the United Kingdom could be temporarily absent from work due to the coronavirus when the outbreak reaches its peak, according to the official action plan. The United Kingdom has so far 39 confirmed cases of coronavirus again, but it is "very likely" that this number will increase significantly, the premier warned.
12.30: A Google employee in Ireland reported having flu symptoms, so the company asked all employees who were in contact with her to work from home and monitor her health status until the situation clears up.
12.15: One of the new infected in Iran is the head of the Emergency Service, Pir Hosein Kolivand, who is "well and is under treatment", according to his own organization. In addition, Persian Congressman Abdolreza Mesri, a former Iranian ambassador to Venezuela, said at least 23 of his colleagues are infected with the virus, so he asked them to avoid contact with the public, he told state TV.
12.10: Chinese doctors ask for higher criteria to discharge those infected. The cases of patients in China recovered from COVID-19 but who returned a positive infection cause the country's medical community to doubt the standards applied. Zhang Zhan, a doctor from the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care at Wuhan University of Renmin Hospital, said the requirement should be raised to three tests.
12.05: Uncertainty for the Olympic Games. The Japanese minister in charge of the event explained that the contract for the celebration only specifies that the great sporting event should be held during 2020 in Tokyo. Thus, he opened the door for the Games to be held later and not start on July 24, as planned. Asked if she believed that the Olympic Games should be celebrated if the outbreak of coronavirus is worse then than now, Hashimoto said: "We are doing everything possible to avoid having to face this situation."
11.50: China arranged for a plane to take back to the country Chinese citizens stranded in Iran, especially those in the province of Qom, the most affected by the epidemic.
11.30: - The main European exchanges are up close to 3%, waiting for the conclusions of the meeting to be held by the G7 to try to coordinate a common response to coronavirus
11.10: Coronavirus slows in Italy . The balance of infected people rose to 1,835, but the increase in infections was 16%, a lower figure compared to the 50% increase recorded on Monday. So far there are 52 dead, while 149 people have been discharged. According to experts, this week will be decisive to understand the progress of the epidemic in the country.
10.50: Iran reported 11 new deaths , bringing the number of fatalities to 77. For its part, the supreme leader of Iran ordered the armed forces of the Islamic Republic to assist his Ministry of Health in the fight against the expansion of the new coronavirus. Apart from China, Iran has the highest death toll from COVID-19, the disease that causes the virus.
10.40: Saudi Arabia confirmed its first case of coronavirus, according to the Kingdom Ministry of Health.
10.25: Ukraine confirmed its first case of coronavirus, allegedly a man who had recently traveled to Italy, according to the news agency Ukrinform. “Yesterday I told them there were four suspicious cases. Today this suspicion has been confirmed in one person, ”Vice Minister of Health Viktor Liashko explained to the press.
10.20: The refuge currencies such as the yen and the Swiss franc advanced against the dollar, as investors moderated their expectations about the monetary stimuli promised by the world's authorities to soften the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak
9.15: Morocco confirmed the first case in its territory of the outbreak of the new coronavirus, which corresponds to a Moroccan citizen who recently arrived from Italy
8:30:The Pope Francis gave negative coronavirus test which was submitted as a precaution because he suffers from a few days ago a cold, according to the newspaper " Il Messaggero ".
7.10: The Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 1.22% and lost the profits harvested in the previous day, due to the persistent concern of investors about the spread of the new coronavirus inside and outside Japan
6:30: Australia may force people at risk to have COVID-19 (coronavirus) tests and impose restrictions on movement or stop them by applying the Biosafety Law, official sources said Tuesday.
5.30: South Korean President Moon Jae-in declared the "war" on the coronavirus and placed government agencies on permanent alert, when the total number of cases of the disease is around 5,000.
4:30:China on Tuesday reported seven cases of coronavirus in people who have returned from Italy. These cases were registered in Zhejiang Province (east), in Chinese citizens working in Italy, local authorities reported.
1.30: Health authorities in Ecuador confirmed a new case of coronavirus, which brings the number of infected in that country to seven, said the Ministry of Health
0.20: China reported on Tuesday 125 new infections of coronavirus, the lowest number since January 21 .
MONDAY
23.00: The Twitter company issued a recommendation to all its employees worldwide - some 5,000 people - to work from home until further notice for fear of the coronavirus. In an entry in the official blog of the company, the head of human resources of the social network, Jennifer Christie, indicated that “as a measure of extreme caution” all employees are asked to work from home “if they find it possible” to prevent the spread of the virus.
22.40: The vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, said that the treatment against coronavirus could be available in the summer, in mid-2020, and a vaccine from the end of this year and the beginning of 2021.
21.30: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the total number of coronavirus cases on the planet amounts to 88,948, of which 80,174 correspond to China and 8,774 to the rest of the world. While the number of people who have lost their lives as a result of the new disease amounts to 3,043.
19.50: The health authorities of the state of Washington, in the United States, confirmed on Monday the death of four people by coronavirus , bringing the total in the country to six, according to Fox News. As long as the balance at national level of infected reaches almost 90 confirmed cases.
18.43: The second case of coronavirus was confirmed in Florida, United States.
17.50: The death toll from coronavirus in Italy amounts to 52, of which 18 died in the last 24 hours, according to the balance released on Monday by the Italian Civil Protection. The agency said that more than 2,000 people have been infected with the virus , most are in the region of Lombardy, in the north of the peninsula, and 149 are already fully recovered.
14.50: Two hours after the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, the shares rebound strongly after a black week for shareholders. The Dow Jones, the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq rise more than 2%, in a day with some volatility.
14.40: Donald Trump asked the pharmaceutical companies to accelerate the search for a vaccine for the new outbreak of coronavirus. "We have asked them to accelerate whatever they are doing in terms of a vaccine," said the president. According to US Department of Health officials, it could develop as soon as 18 months.
14.35: Nike has decided to temporarily close its headquarters in Europe, located in Hilversum (Netherlands), to undertake a thorough cleaning after one of its workers has been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
14.30: A total of 148 guests left the facilities of the hotel on the Spanish island of Tenerife where they remained in quarantine after the positive coronavirus of five Italian tourists staying there. So far, more than 250 tests have been carried out both at guests of the hotel in Tenerife and in the rest of the Canary Islands and it is confirmed that only those five people have tested positive.
14.20: Swiss authorities reported that the suspension of the football championship by the coronavirus will last at least until March 23.
15.55: The WHO reported that on Sunday there were nine times more infections in the rest of the world than in China, the country where the outbreak
15.45: The Ukrainian government reported that the quarantine of Latin Americans evacuated to Ukraine from the Chinese city of Wuhan will conclude on Thursday. In the medical center Novye Sanzhari there are 72 evacuees, of which 27 are foreigners (including citizens of Argentina, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama) and 45 Ukrainians.
15.20: A world copper conference to be held this month in Santiago de Chile was suspended due to the risks of the global spread of the new coronavirus, one of the organizers told Reuters on Monday. The CRU-Cesco week brings together many of the biggest executives in the copper industry annually to discuss the progress and challenges of the sector.
14.50: Wall Street started the day with slight increases , reversing the trend after a black week for stock market indicators. The Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 advance around 0.6%.
14.40: The AFP agency reported a third death in France from the coronavirus. This is a woman over 80 years old, resident in Crepy-en-Valois (70 kilometers from Paris), the same town where a 60-year-old teacher worked who died last week.
14.15: The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) confirmed a case in Hong Kong of a dog with a coronavirus whose owner has also tested positive. According to the report consulted by Efe , the dog was quarantined on February 26 after its owner was hospitalized for the infection.
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13.55: Spain reached 119 cases of coronavirus, without any deceased person, two cured patients and three in serious condition, while the health authorities maintain level 1 alert, called “containment”, and do not exclude raising it in “very specific areas ”From the regions of Madrid and the Basque Country.
13:50: The European stock markets, which had opened this Monday in green after securing the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan that will take measures if the coronavirus crisis worsens, go back to red after the OECD perspectives are published, which contemplate , in its worst case scenario, a global recession in the first quarter.
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13.30: The authorities of Indonesia , the fourth most populous country in the world. This is a 64-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter, hospitalized in a hospital in Jakarta, said Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto
12.55: Donald Trump announced that he will meet with representatives of pharmaceutical companies at the White House on Monday to discuss progress towards a vaccine against the disease. In addition, he defended the criticism of the opposition and stressed that the decision to veto the entry of passengers who have been in China was taken weeks before the expert recommendation.
12.35: The European Union raised the risk of the coronavirus outbreak to "moderate to high"
12.30: The French president, Emmanuel Macron , announced the suspension of all exits from the Elysee palace that have nothing to do with the coronavirus crisis, which has also caused the closure of the Louvre museum and the cancellation of the Paris Book Salon. The president thus cuts all the planned trips this week "that were not urgent" to "be available for other priorities," an official spokesman told Efe.
12.10: Iran reported 12 new deaths , bringing the number of fatalities in the country to 66. In turn, the number of infections made a jump of more than 50%, after the authorities report 523 new cases, which gives a total of 1,501.
12.00: The Italian authorities confirmed that the Duomo of Milan reopens its doors after closing the public within the framework of prevention measures
11.45: - Those killed in Italy after being infected by the coronavirus amount to 41 , after the Lombardy Government reported that in that region the figure has increased from 24 to 31.
11.35: The Portuguese Government confirmed the first case of coronavirus infected in the country, a man who was in northern Italy on vacation. In addition, another man who recently traveled to Spain for work has tested positive in a first analysis and the result of a new test is expected to confirm his diagnosis.
11.20:The India Monday confirmed two new cases of coronavirus in people who had traveled to Italy and Dubai a month after having detected three positive in the south of the country
11.00: The Louvre Museum in Paris also did not open its doors on Monday, due to the fear of workers spreading the virus, according to an employee union spokesperson. It is the most visited cultural gallery in the world
10.50: Mohammad Mirmohammadi, an advisor to Iranian ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died of coronavirus. The member of the Council of Conveniences died in a Tehran hospital because of the virus , according to state radio. He was 71 years old.
10.25: The new coronavirus epidemic will significantly slow down the world economy in 2020, said the OECD, which decided to cut its forecast for world growth from 2.9% to 2.4%. China, a locomotive of global growth for three decades, should grow 4.9% in 2020, 0.8 percentage points less than in the previous forecast, said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
10.20: The virus currently affects 61 countries, which led the World Health Organization to raise its risk assessment to its highest level.
10.05: South Korea reported 599 new cases of coronavirus and eight new deaths, making a total of 4,335 infections and 26 fatalities caused by the pathogen, which continues to cause the majority of infections in the southeast of the Asian country
