With almost 800 dead and the slope still rising, Romania hopes to relax. United States bets on Remdesivir



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It is less than two weeks before the date of the state of emergency expires and, according to the promises of political leaders, some of the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus would be removed.

The daily balance sheets do not seem to be in line with this scenario, which the authorities now tell us they issued to give us “a light” at the end of 2 months of isolation. In any case, it remains for this week to analyze the situation more clearly and make new announcements. But the government spokesman also said that the scenario is on the Executive’s table that as of May 15 nothing will relax, but the state of emergency will continue.

Romania currently registers 13,163 confirmed cases and 790 deaths caused by COVID-19, and the peak of the pandemic has not yet been reached. And, although we still have a long way to go before overcoming this wave of diseases, the authorities are already talking about a second one, which is expected in October-December.

Worldwide, there are more than 3.5 million cases of COVID-19, and the number of deaths worldwide has exceeded 247,000. The good news is that so far, more than 1.1 million people diagnosed with COVID-19 have been declared cured since the start of the pandemic.

Track all statistical data transmitted in real time on the Worldometers site.

Ziare.com introduced you, in format LIVE TEXT, the latest information on the coronavirus pandemic in Romania and worldwide:

23:10 – France will not impose the quarantine period “on any person, regardless of nationality, who comes from the EU, the Schengen area or the United Kingdom,” the French presidency, quoted by AFP, announced on Sunday.

22:45 – Registration for both kindergarten and preparatory class will be done online, and the calendar will be published on Monday, Education Minister Monica Anisie said Sunday night.

“We have a novelty. The novelty is both in kindergarten and in the preparatory class, that enrollment will take place online, and for the preparatory class we have reviewed the calendar and have already announced that the psychosomatic evaluation of children will be replaced by a declaration, responsibility of the parents or the legally established guardians and a complete form of the nursery the student attended, “said Anisie, on Digi24.

22:42 – The new coronavirus has caused 135 more deaths in France in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in this country to 24,895, but the downward trend continues in recent days, it announced on Sunday the French Ministry of Health. , reports AFP.

22:18 – The head of the Department of Emergency Situations, Raed Arafat, affirms that the decision is that schools reopen in September, but that no sick child will enter school and that fever should be a reason for the student not to be sent to the unit. education that day. He also stated that in schools with a larger number of students, breaks can be separated so that not all students leave at the same time.

21:51 – The antiviral drug Remdesivir, given intravenously, will be available this week for very serious patients with COVID-19 in the US. After the US Food and Drug Administration. USA (FDA) agreed to use it in an emergency. announced on Sunday that the manufacturing company, Gilead Sciences, reports to the EFE agency.

21:48 – The relaxation measures will be gradual and the authorities will notice the impact between them, says Raed Arafat. Transportation drivers should not allow passengers to board without a mask, and employees should take their temperature at work.

21:21 – 19 cases of coronavirus were identified in Buzau, including two one-year-old boys, all belonging to the family of a 41-year-old man confirmed on Sunday, who was determined to have contracted the virus. in one identified case, Barbulesti, Ialomita County. The 19 people were transferred by ambulance and transported to hospitals in Ramnicu Sarat and Bucharest.

20:38 – Russia on Sunday reported a record increase in the daily number of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus, after another 10,633 people tested positive in the past 24 hours, reports DPA.

After new confirmed cases, the total number of SARS-CoV-2 infections in this country reached 134,600, Moscow authorities said. 1,280 deaths associated with the new coronavirus have been reported in Russia.

20:07 – The Romanian Section of the International Federation of Educational Communities (FICE Romania) requests the Ministry of Education and Research to consider holding a single high school session in August and the National Assessment in the same period, but also resigning from the organization of national exams and consideration exclusively as their results of the general average of the study cycles for which they are provided.

20:01 – An LED light bulb placed on the facade of the Burj Khalifa building in Dubai, the tallest skyscraper in the world, will light up with every donation made to benefit the most vulnerable people during the coronavirus epidemic in the United Arab Emirates, reports AFP.

Administrators of this 828-meter-tall tower support a campaign launched Saturday by the Dubai government, which aims to provide 10 million meals a day to low-income people.

19:56 – Belarus intends to hold a major military parade on May 9 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, despite the COVID-19 epidemic.

19:51 – Authorities in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv have decided to postpone this year’s edition of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Parade, scheduled for June due to the coronavirus pandemic, reports DPA.

The gay parade in Tel Aviv has become the largest event of its kind organized in the Middle East, and its 2019 edition brought together more than 250,000 participants from around the world.

19:45 – The Italian Civil Protection announced that in the last 24 hours there were 174 deaths caused by coronaviruses in Italy, reaching a total of 28,884 Covid-19 victims. There are 1,501 people in intensive care, 38 fewer than on Saturday.

In the last 24 hours, 1,389 new cases of infection have been registered. The total number of coronavirus cases so far in Italy has reached 210,717. The Italians did more than 2.1 million tests, of which 44,935 in the last day.

19:29 – American doctors noted that several Covid-19 patients had strokes, even when they were young. The president of the Romanian Society for Neurology, Bogdan Popescu, says that, fortunately, Romania has fewer cases of coronavirus than the United States.

“Fortunately, Romania has fewer Covid-19 cases than the United States, so our experience is not as extensive as that of American colleagues. In our experience, I have only had one case of stroke in patients with Covid-19. , which was in a 69-year-old person, nothing unexpected, it was not in a very young patient, “said Bogdan Popescu.

19:23 – The manager of the Targu-Jiu County Emergency Hospital, diagnosed with the new coronavirus, says he did not request hospitalization after the first positive test because he had no symptoms to declare himself “suspicious.” Also, says Dumitru Vienescu, he thought it might be a mistake.

19:19 – The Bucharest Medical College requires protective equipment for medical personnel in polyclinics. Heart disease, rheumatic diseases, other chronic diseases or cancer have not decreased since the beginning of the crisis, “on the contrary, they have worsened due to stress, psychological and physical impact.”

19:10 – The UK reports 315 new deaths from SARS-CoV-2 on Sunday. In total, 28,446 people died, according to Reuters. These include deaths in hospitals and other health care facilities.

19:04 – United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday on ABC this week that there was “enormous evidence” that the new coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan.

18:56 – The Japanese government has decided to allow the reopening of parks, museums, libraries and other public facilities in areas with large numbers of people infected with coronavirus and to relax restrictions on social distance, The Japan Times said Sunday, citing a high official. .

18:33 – The Federation of Free Trade Unions of Education (FSLI) is asking President Klaus Iohannis to enact the law which can help teachers teach online lessons, giving them funds to buy laptops, computers or tablets.

18:15 – Vienna airport will carry out tests starting Monday to detect coronaviruses, in exchange for a fee of 190 euros, for passengers who want to avoid the mandatory 14-day quarantine for people entering Austria, Reuters reports.

17:36 “The coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania give erroneous results,” President John Magufuli said Sunday, adding that samples from a goat and a papaya fruit tested positive, Reuters notes.

Magufuli, whose government has been criticized for not providing information about the pandemic and who has asked citizens to pray for the disappearance of the coronavirus, concluded that “some people with a positive result are probably not really infected” and that he had warned beforehand that he wouldn’t have to accept anyone’s help.

17:18 – Sources from the Matei Bals Institute declared to Mediafax that IPS Pimen, archbishop of Suceava and Radauti, is in serious condition, intubated, in the ATI section of the health unit.

According to the cited source, IPS Pimen was intubated on Friday night, after suffering pulmonary complications. Health Minister Nelu Tataru said on Saturday in Iasi that the Archbishop of Suceava and Radauti is in a stable condition, but doctors remain reserved, given the age and other diseases in the hierarchy.

17:07 – The mayor general of the capital, Gabriela Firea, announced, on Digi24, that she will propose that, after May 15, parks and cemeteries be reopened, but says that theaters and performance halls may not be reopened.

16:21 – EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell calls attention to the importance of the media on World Press Freedom Day and says that “it is worrying that the COVID-19 pandemic is being used in some countries as a pretext to impose restrictions, unjustified effects on press freedom. “

16:16 – Pope Francis has called for international scientific cooperation to discover a coronavirus vaccine, which will then be available to everyone.

Pope Francis thanked all those who “provided essential services” on Sunday and encouraged international cooperation to tackle the crisis and combat the virus, which has infected nearly 3.5 million people and killed more than 240,000 people. worldwide, Reuters writes.

16:10 – The Mayor of Craiova, Mihail Genoiu, demands that activity in the city be resumed, because “the world no longer has the patience to stay at home.” “We must absorb European money as much as possible, to support the economic environment,” says the mayor. In Dolj, the total number of patients with COVID-19 reached 127.

16:02 – A military plane full of protective masks purchased by Romania, through the Department of Emergency Situations, with European money, for the strategic reserve of the European Union (rescEU), arrived on Sunday in Spain, where these equipment were urgently needed .

15:38 – Interior Minister Marcel Vela thanked those who respected the restrictions imposed by the authorities on May 1 and says he also wants to relax some things from May 15, but only if the disease rate does not increase until then.

Marcel Vela cannot relax, although he wants to: the virus does not rest, it does not remain relaxed because May 15 is approaching

15:15 – Ionel Danca, government spokesman, said that at the executive table there is also the scenario that from May 15 nothing will relax, but prolong the state of emergency.

14:47Another 10 Romanians died of COVID-19, the total balance rises to 790 deaths.

14:45 – The Spanish authorities have announced that 164 people have died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours. It is the lowest balance in one day after nearly seven weeks, since March 18. The total number of deaths from coronavirus in Spain has reached 25,264. Confirmed cases of infection increased from 216,582 to 217,466.

14:30A doctor and 11 nurses from the ATI Department and the Surgery Department of the Dorohoi Municipal Hospital, as well as a patient admitted to the same medical unit were diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus., confirmed, for Agerpres, the director of the Botosani Public Health Directorate, Monica Adascalitei.

The medical staff and patient are among the group of more than 40 people who underwent the test on Friday, after coming in contact with eight other members of the medical staff at Dorohoi Hospital who were infected with the new coronavirus and who were hospitalized Thursday night. .

14:11 – The Belgian authorities have announced that in the last 24 hours there have been 79 new deaths caused by coronaviruses. The total reached 7,844,398 new cases of infection were also confirmed. The total is 49,906 cases registered so far.

13:46A 60-year-old ambulance driver from Suceava died of the coronavirus., said, on Sunday, for Mediafax, Carmen Dorobat, manager of the Hospital of Infectious Diseases of Iasi. According to her, the man had other pathologies and his respiratory function failed.

This is the seventh coronavirus medical death since the beginning of the epidemic in Romania.

13:20 – Until this date, in Romania, 195,508 tests were processed.

13:07 – In the territory of Romania, 13,349 people are in institutionalized quarantine. other 20,123 people are in solitary confinement at home and is under medical supervision.

12:59In the last 24 hours, 431 new cases of coronavirus were registered in Romania, bringing the total balance to 13,163., announces the Strategic Communication Group. 255 patients are currently hospitalized in ATI.

Among confirmed positive people, 4,869 were declared healed and discharged.

12:19 – A woman living in London kept a video diary during the days when both she and her husband and their 3-month-old baby suffered from COVID 19. This is how each of them fought the disease and how they managed to get it. win, in a few weeks.

11:42 – Images of Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Koen Geens trying to put on a face mask went viral and sparked social media reactions from political opponents, as well as Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who took the defense.

11:25More than 40 people in the homes of two older people in Galati have lost their lives since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic. The figure has increased sharply since Friday when six people died, according to Mediafax.

11:01Six employees of the Bucharest Transport Company were positive for COVID 19, starting with March 11 until now, and one of them is already cured and isolated, STB reports through a press release sent to Agerpres.

10:53 – The authorities of the American city of Stillwater in Oklahoma managed to impose on citizens the obligation to wear protective masks for a period of only 3 hours. The reason: Throughout this time, several citizens who found it unconstitutional to be forced to wear masks indoors swore and beat store staff, CNN reported.

Authorities said the obligation to wear masks was unconstitutional and that it was unfortunate and risky for people to react violently. But that, in the context, ceases to impose obligations and that wearing masks in stores is still a simple recommendation.

10:43 – German Chancellor Heiko Maas calls for caution in increasing travel warnings worldwide.

“When people can fly not only abroad again, but also return safely enough, then we can gradually reduce the warnings for these trips,” Maas said.

ten and twenty oneAnother 9 Romanians died from the new coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 780. Here are more details.

10:16 – In the USA In the USA, 1,453 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total balance to more than 66,000 deaths. At the same time, the total number of COVID-19 cases is 1.1 million.

10:06 – The Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported that more than a million tourists visited 130 sights in Shanghai on Friday and Saturday, CNN reported.

It is difficult to say whether the numbers are real or not. Authorities recently announced that, as in Wuhan, the site of the Covid 19 pandemic west of Shanghai, things would return to normal. However, a CNN team found that this is not the case at all. Therefore, although some restrictions have been lifted in Wuhan, many people are still afraid to leave their homes because they fear a second wave of the pandemic.

09:53 – As US lawmakers resume their work on Monday, President Donald Trump has announced that he will make Covid 19 test technology available to both parliamentary chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The leaders of the two parliamentary chambers declined, claiming that they would prefer to use the resources in the front line of fighting the pandemic, according to CNN.

In response, Trump stated that the refusal of the parliamentarians is a strictly political reason. In addition, the President of the United States wrote to Tweeter that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, whom she called “Nancy’s madness”, will use the pandemic as a pretext for not coming to work, starting Monday.

09:46 – The NYPD still has thousands of employees with Covid 19. More precisely, according to the latest reports, 2,160 employees are on sick leave, and most are infected (we’re only talking about the police, not to mention accounts and employees. civilians from police stations – ed.). Or, this means that 6% of the police in the big American city are sick, according to CNN.

Do you find a large number? It really is. But it’s declining. In the past few weeks, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has had to deal with nearly a fifth of staff, given that 19.8% of employees were ill.

Meanwhile, however, many healed and returned to work. Of the 5,225 members of the NYPD infected with Covid 19 since the start of the pandemic, 4,405 recovered and returned to work.

37 New York City police officers died from Covid 19.

09:19 – The Spanish authorities have announced that, starting Monday, the use of protective masks will be mandatory in the country’s public transport. The relaxation of the restrictions began yesterday, so that the Spanish could go out to exercise outdoors, for the first time in the last seven weeks.

09:02Russia reported 9,623 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, the largest increase since the start of the pandemic. A total of 124,054 are infected, the majority in Moscow. The death toll in Russia rose to 1,222 after 57 people died in the past 24 hours.

08:49 – The total number of COVID-19 cases in Germany reached 162,496, after 793 new cases of contamination were registered. In the last 24 hours, 74 people died, bringing the total number of deaths to 6,649.

08:40 – The Chinese authorities have announced that they have registered two new cases of contamination with the new coronavirus and no deaths. China has a total of 82,877 cases of contamination and 4,633 deaths.

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