The downward trend in hospital pressure in several European countries shows that confinement is starting to pay off.
The assessment of the new Coronavirus exceeded, Friday, April 10, the sinister threshold of 100,000 deaths in a world which begins the Easter weekend cloistered and tries to circumscribe a pandemic still susceptible to “deadly resurgence” in the event of precipitated deconfinement.
Continuing its macabre march at a startling pace, the pandemic surpassed, on Friday, the 100,000 dead, a doubling in eight days.
United States
The United States officially became the most affected country on Saturday evening, with more than 20,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University, and Total Confirmed cases that exceed 500,000 official cases.
Italy recorded Saturday evening at 19,468 deaths from COVID-19, the most Significant European toll. Spain again recorded on Saturday a drop in the daily number of deaths, with 510 in twenty-four hours, bringing to 16,353 the total number of deaths in the country. La France, it has exceeded 13,000 victims.
In the UK, almost a thousand people died in one day. A total of 9,875 people died from COVID-19. Still hospitalized, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is no longer in intensive care but “needs to rest,” according to his father.
The number of deaths tripled in eight days in Belgium, with 3,019 deaths recorded.
Brazil exceeded 1,000 dead Friday.
Christians celebrate reclusive Easter at home
Hundreds of millions of Christians, reclusive at home, began the celebrations of an unprecedented Easter weekend without devotees, in particular on the immense Saint Peter’s Square in Rome, usually crowded with people.
For the most important celebration of the Christian tradition, it is on a screen that the faithful will follow the masses of Pope Francis himself confined. “Lord, do not leave us in the darkness and the shadow of death, protect us from the shield of your power,” murmured the pope, during the traditional rite of the Stations of the Cross, broadcast in Mondovision from a Holy place -Empty stone Friday evening.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis, during the traditional Stations of the Cross, retransmitted in Mondovision from an empty Saint Peter’s square, in Rome, on April 10.
In Jerusalem, for the first time in more than a century, the Holy Sepulcher will also be closed to the public throughout the Easter weekend. A simple mass in a camera was celebrated there for Good Friday, which commemorates the crucifixion of Christ.
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Trump wants to choose the right time to reopen the economy
Choosing the right time to reopen the economy will be “by far the biggest decision of my life,” said US President Donald Trump, whose country has the highest number of cases of the new Coronavirus. “I will have to make a decision, and I hope it will be the right decision,” he said in his daily press briefing on the crisis.
Like all world leaders, he must be careful not to lift containment measures too early, at the risk of seeing a new outbreak of the epidemic, or too late, which could add to an already announced economic bill. very painful. “Staying at home also leads to death (…). A different form of death, perhaps, “he added
To counter the fall in oil prices, the United States has also signed an agreement with Mexico to help them reduce their production, and Donald Trump spoke by telephone with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
While the world is about to experience the worst crisis since the IMF’s “Great Depression,” energy ministers from G20 countries have failed to agree on a cut in oil production to counter the fall in prices caused by the pandemic.
Containment begins to pay off
The timid downward trend in hospital pressure in several countries, however, shows that confinement is starting to pay off. And Spain announced on Friday its lowest daily death toll since March 24, with 605 deaths.
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Containment has been extended in Ireland and Italy until early May. And Turkey, which also deplores a thousand dead, has decided to confine thirty-one cities throughout the weekend.
As some European countries prepare for the end of containment, in the wake of China, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stressed that too rapid lifting of restrictions “could lead to a deadly resurgence” of the pandemic.
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