Italy is worried about being “encircled” by the increase in contagious diseases in coronavirus in its eastern european neighbors.
The pandemic of the new coronavirus that has killed at least 731 518 deaths in the world since the WHO office in China has reported the appearance of the disease at the end of December, according to a report drawn up by AFP from official sources on Monday to 11 hours. More than 19 884 260 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories since the beginning of the epidemic, including at least 11 879 100 are now considered as cured.
The number of diagnosed cases does not reflect, however, that a fraction of the real number of infections. Some countries test only for severe cases, others use the tests as a priority for tracing and number of poor countries do not have that capacity screening limited.
The United States, the country most affected
On the day of Sunday, 4117 new deaths and 213 167 new cases were recorded in the world. The countries that have recorded the most new deaths in their last balance-sheets are the India with 1007 new dead, Brazil (572) and the United States (532).
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The United States is the country most affected in terms of both numbers of deaths than cases, with 162 938 death for 5 044 864 identified cases, according to the counting of the Johns Hopkins university. At least 1 656 864 people were reported healed. After the United States, the countries most affected are Brazil, with 101 049 dead for 3 035 422 cases, Mexico with 52 298 deaths (480 278 cases), the United Kingdom with 46 574 deaths (310 825 cases), and India with 44 386 deaths (2 215 074 cases).
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Among the hardest-hit countries, Belgium is the one that suffers the most number of deaths relative to its population, with 85 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants, followed by the United Kingdom (69), Peru (64), Spain (61), and Italy (58). China (without the territories of Hong Kong and Macao) has officially counted a total of 84 668 cases (49 new between Sunday and Monday), whose 4634 death (0 new), and 79 232 healings.
Latin America and The Caribbean totaled Monday at 11: 00 GMT 220.067 death for 5 563 965 cases, Europe 213.353 death (3 355 187 cases), the United States and Canada 171.955 death (5 164 268 cases), Asia 72 391 deaths (3 480 272 cases), the Middle East 30 137 deaths (1 247 825 cases), Africa 23.269 death (1 049 405 cases), and Oceania 346 deaths (23 344 cases).
The balance-sheet was created from data collected by the offices of the AFP with national competent authorities and information from the world health Organization (WHO). Because of the corrections made by the authorities, or in publications of late data, the figures increase over 24 hours may not correspond exactly to those published the previous day.
Italy “surrounded”
Italy, which remains closed to nationals of Balkan and requires a quarantine for travellers from Romania and Bulgaria, is concerned about it being “encircled” by the increase in contagious diseases in coronavirus in its eastern european neighbors.
“France, Spain, the Balkans : Italy is encircled by contagion”, warned this Monday, the daily Il Corriere della sera, which published an infographic listing the number of new cases in the past two weeks in the european countries. Spain is far in the lead, followed by Romania, France, Germany, Great Britain and Poland.
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The peninsula, far behind, was registered on Sunday, two people died, toll the lowest since the 21 February, the date of the first deaths in the country. If the number of new cases is less good (+463 in 24 hours), the situation remains under control, according to the authorities. But “not to worry (of new cases from abroad) would be the point of unconsciousness,” said the minister of Health Roberto Speranza, the Corriere.
The fear is that new homes are created from imported cases from neighbouring countries, as these thirty young Italians of the Veneto region (North-East) on holiday in Croatia and returned with the virus, the story has been widely picked up by the Italian media.
“We must be ready : for the next two weeks, the number of contagions the return (from a trip abroad, editor’s note) will increase,” says Rodolfo Punzi, director of the department of infectious diseases hospital Cotugno of Naples (South), cited by La Stampa.
Italy has imposed a cordon sanitaire, with some countries closing their doors to travellers from Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and herzegovina, Northern Macedonia, and Moldova. Those coming from Bulgaria and Romania must observe a quarantine and a medical follow-up.
severe restrictions
In the first line when the arrival of the coronavirus in Europe, Italy is a good student with strict rules of mask-wearing and social distancing, even if the behaviors are released with the arrival of summer and vacation. The newspapers are full of photos showing beaches crowded during the week-end in Liguria (North-West), known for its seaside resorts.
For the only day of the samedi, a hundred establishments have been sanctioned by fines or orders of closure for non-compliance with standards of anti-contagion, compared to only 18 for the entire previous week.
Many seaside resorts of the country have imposed severe restrictions for access to the beaches, even if the monitoring of tens of km of coastline poses a problem in some municipalities. Has Ragusa in Sicily, the mayor has decided to make use of volunteers. “We’ll use it to monitor access to the coastline (…). Unfortunately young people are not aware of the danger,” says Peppe Cassi, quoted by La Repubblica.
Concerning the search for a vaccine, the hospital roman Spallanzani, a public institution specialized in infectious diseases, announced that it started this Monday consultations to select 90 volunteers “to participate in a clinical study on a vaccine against the Covid-19”.
Less dead in Europe
First to have experienced the epidemic, Italy is also the first to be output. As reported Les Echos, the country recorded more than 250 cases and seven deaths per day. Just as the major european countries heavily hit in the spring, which are more than residual flows of cases or deaths. With a slight increase of cases detected in France and especially in Belgium and Spain, the Covid-19 kills ten times less in Europe than in the month of April.
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in The United Kingdom, for example, if the coronavirus kills five times more than in the rest of Europe, in proportion to the population, its lethality, however, a steady decline, two times lower than at the end of June.
