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This according to the count made by John Hopkins University.
The total number of deaths in the world caused by the coronavirus has exceeded 200,000, researchers at Johns Hopkins University said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, India began mitigating the strict quarantine imposed on its 1.3 billion people by the coronavirus pandemic, by allowing the reopening of neighborhood stores where many people buy from cold drinks to data cards for their cell phones.
The relaxation in Indian confinement measures, however, was not applied in hundreds of quarantined cities and other critical foci of contagion that were most affected by covid-19, which has killed at least 775 people in India, where many people in poverty live in neighborhoods that are too dense to apply social distancing. In India there are more than 24,500 infected by the virus.
Shopping malls also remained closed across the country. For families who run small stores, being able to reopen their businesses was a relief.
“This is a good decision,” said architect Amit Sharma. “We have to open up a few things and let the economy begin to move. Poor people should have some source of income. This virus will be a long-term problem. “
Last week, the government also allowed the resumption of activity in factories and agriculture in rural areas to alleviate the difficult economic situation of millions of wage earners and day laborers who had been left unemployed by the confinement of the country imposed on March 24 . Restrictions on staying at home in India allowed people to only leave their homes to buy food, medicine or other basic items.
Elsewhere in Asia, authorities reported Saturday that there were no deaths of covid-19 for the tenth consecutive day in China, where the pandemic originated.
South Korea confirmed 10 new infections on the eighth day in a row with less than 20 infected a day and, for the second day, recorded no fatalities.
In Sri Lanka, however, social confinement was again intensified, confirming that the “one step forward, one step backward” pattern is also part of the countries’ fight against the pandemic, trying to juggle between protecting health public and try to revive the economy.
Sri Lanka had partially lifted the month-long curfew in more than two-thirds of the country, but re-imposed a 24-hour blockade across the country after a surge of 46 new infections on Friday, the largest increase in a day on the island of the Indian ocean. The new curfew remains in effect until Monday.
The global death toll rose to more than 200,000 on Saturday, according to a count compiled by John Hopkins University from government figures. The actual death toll is believed to be much higher.
Pope Francis asked people on Saturday to pray for funeral home workers, saying: “What they do is very hard and sad. They really feel the pain of this pandemic very closely. “
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