According to the World Health Organisation, the death toll
has, unfortunately, risen to 6.500, with a total number of infected cases rising to more
than 140.000. This terrible infection prompts countries to take unprecedented measures in order to prevent a fast-spreading epidemic.
Italy announced on Sunday, 3.509 new cases and 368 deaths in
just 24 hours.
A high-ranking Iranian cleric died from the
coronavirus. Several political and
religious personalities have been infected in Iran and, according to WHO’s
announcement, Iran has 14.000 infected persons and 724 deaths.
The situation
in France is “deteriorating very quickly” the head of the country’s Public Health authorities, Jerome Salomon said and added that the pandemic was ”very quick” with the number
of cases doubling “every three days”.
The French
President, Emmanuel Macron will be discussing the coronavirus outbreak with the
German Chancellor, Angela Merkle, the European Council President Charles Michel
and the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Layer, on Monday
afternoon the Elysée Palace announced. They will plan what is best for their countries and how to protect the Europeans from the virus.
France and
Germany have both seen large outbreaks of the coronavirus with more than 5.000
infected in each country.
Puerto Rico is
closing all businesses, except supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations and it is
initiating curfew from 9 pm to 5 am.
The Vatican will close Holy Week to the public to prevent large gatherings and further
infection.
Israel is
postponing Netanyahu’s trial because of the epidemic.
France is
shutting down restaurants, cafes, cinemas, theatres, clubs and ski resorts,
urging people to stay at home as much as possible.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has strengthened the UK with
“extraordinary intervention that you don’t normally have in peacetime” to
combat the coronavirus pandemic. He added that empty hotels across the country
would help ease the pressure on the hospitals that are filling up with
patients. He said that he was more
concerned that enough staff members and equipment were available to cope with
the influx of patients, rather than worrying about where those patients would
go to receive care”,
Eleven new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Northern
Ireland, bringing the total to 45. BBC
News N. I. health correspondent, Marie-Louise Conolly said that the figure does
not give a true picture of the total number of cases, as it is only people in hospitals that are being tested that are taken into account so that number could soon change.
People in Spain are restricted from leaving their homes, because they have, also, been hit hard by the disease.
The capital of the Philippines. Manila, is under partial lockdown.
President Trump has repeatedly described the coronavirus outbreak in
the USA as a problem that nobody anticipated. “It came out of nowhere,” he told
the press on the 6th of March 2020.
But apparently, Trump is wrong.
The US intelligence community, public health experts and officials had warned about pandemics and specifically
about a coronavirus pandemic, They also had said that it could be a major health problem around the world.
“This was foreseeable and foreseen weeks and months ago and only now is
the White House coming out of denial and heading straight into saying it could
not have been foreseen” Harvard University epidemiology professor Marc
Lipsitch, director of Harvard’s Centre
for Communicable Disease Dynamic, said last Saturday.
In Greece, extremely strong measure have been taken from the very beginning. We must not leave our homes and not receive any visitors. It is difficult and very lonely but we should obey orders to prevent the worse. Unfortunately, we now have 331 infected cases, 4 deaths and 52 seriously ill. But let us all be calm and optimistic, and hope and pray that these amazing scientist/researchers will soon find a vaccine or an antidote against this ghastly disease.
"The less travel. the more we can contain the virus. Therefore I propose to the heads of state and government to introduce a temporary restriction for non-essential travel to the EU," European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen told a press conference in Brussels after she had briefed the leaders of the G7 group, by telephone. "These travel restrictions should be in place for a 30 days initial period but can be prolonged as necessary. The travel ban will cover all EU member states and the four non-EU Schengen members (Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.)
And something very touching which I must share with you. All over Greece, people from the windows and balconies of their homes clapped their hands in unison, showing their admiration and gratitude to the doctors and nurses who work day and night, trying to heal their patients, even save their lives, while risking their own.
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| EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen |
"The less travel. the more we can contain the virus. Therefore I propose to the heads of state and government to introduce a temporary restriction for non-essential travel to the EU," European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen told a press conference in Brussels after she had briefed the leaders of the G7 group, by telephone. "These travel restrictions should be in place for a 30 days initial period but can be prolonged as necessary. The travel ban will cover all EU member states and the four non-EU Schengen members (Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.)
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| Clapping Hands with Gratitude to the Medical Staff *I thank ETHNOS forThis Picture |
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| People Clapping their Hands Showing their Gratitude to the Medical Staff |
And something very touching which I must share with you. All over Greece, people from the windows and balconies of their homes clapped their hands in unison, showing their admiration and gratitude to the doctors and nurses who work day and night, trying to heal their patients, even save their lives, while risking their own.
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| By Doris Joa |
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