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The Munich City Council and the Bavarian region (southern Germany) agreed to “judge the risks to be simply too high,” with more than 6 million visitors expected, including a third from abroad and from Asia in particular, the chief said. of the Bavarian State government, Markus Söder.

Germany began a cautious exit from isolation in the country on Monday. On Tuesday, the Robert Koch Institute confirmed 194 new deaths, bringing the number to 4,598. The number of confirmed cases increased from 1,785 to 143,457.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte visited Facebook on Monday to reassure Italians about plans to reopen the economy, but also to warn that the country needed to remain vigilant.

The government is finalizing plans to gradually reopen the country’s economy starting May 4, he said. Conte cautioned that it had to be a slow process.

“I wish I could say, ‘We are going to reopen everything. Right away. We are leaving tomorrow morning.’ This government put the protection of citizens’ health first, but it certainly is not insensitive to the goal of preserving the efficiency of the production system. But this decision would be irresponsible, it would cause the contagion curve to rise uncontrollably and nullify all efforts we have made so far, “he wrote.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced at the end of the night of Monday (20) that he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration to the country in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the disease of the new coronavirus.

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In a message posted on Twitter, Trump said the United States faces an “invisible enemy” and that the country needs to protect jobs: The unemployment rate among Americans has soared in the past month due to the pandemic.

Currently, the United States is the most affected by the new coronavirus pandemic. This Monday, the death toll exceeded 42,000.

China has recorded 11 cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, four of them abroad, fewer than 12 confirmed infections on Sunday and 16 on Saturday, the National Health Commission said Monday.

According to updated data, the country follows a downward trend in cases imported from abroad, after registering a significant increase last week due to Chinese citizens returning from Russia.

Six of the seven new local cases were reported in the northern Heilongjiang province, on the border with Russia, where an increase in imported infections had previously been detected. The other local case was in the southern province of Guangdong.

There were no new deaths, but three new suspected cases, two imported and one in Heilongjiang. The number of cases abroad is 811, 44 of them in serious condition.

In Hubei province, the initial focus of the pandemic, no new infections were reported and three patients were discharged from the capital, Wuhan. There are currently 102 active cases in the province, all in Wuhan, and 19 of them are in serious condition.

China represents 1,003 active cases, 82 of which are in serious condition. In total, since the start of the pandemic, 82,758 cases have been registered in the country, of which 77,123 have recovered from the disease and 4,632 have died.

Russia officially reported 5,662 new cases on Tuesday morning (21), bringing the national total to 52,763, according to the country’s headquarters for the coronavirus response.

Another 51 patients died overnight, bringing the number of coronavirus deaths in Russia to 456, the report adds.

Moscow still leads the way in new cases, but health officials warned Monday that Russia’s regions are two to three weeks from the country’s capital. President Vladimir Putin warned Monday that the peak “is still ahead.”

The Health Ministry reported on Monday 113 new deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours. The total number of deaths from the disease reached 2,575. Therefore, the case fatality rate is 6.3%.

Initially, the portfolio revealed that Brazil had registered 385 new deaths. However, the ministry corrected the numbers in sequence and reported that a typing error occurred.

According to the same balance, the number of cases reached 40,581, an increase of 5% compared to that registered on Sunday. The states with the most deaths are: São Paulo (1,037), Rio de Janeiro (422), Pernambuco (234), Ceará (198) and Amazonas (185).

Other highlights of this Tuesday

• Colombia extends the running of the bulls until May 11 due to a pandemic
• Mexico reported 511 new cases of Covid-19 with a cumulative total of 8,772, with 26 deaths
• Argentina reached 3,031 confirmed cases, with 142 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours.