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More than 763,000 Americans have contracted the new infection.
On Sunday, April 19, another 1,513 deaths were recorded in the United States. a new type of coronavirus.
The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the country has increased to 40,527. Overall, more than 763,000 Americans have contracted the new infection since the outbreak, according to CNBC.
New York state is reported to be the hardest hit, with more than half a thousand deaths recorded each day. However, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the state had reached a “plateau.” According to him, the demand for social distance was facilitated.
Cuomo noted that 507 deaths from COVID-19 complications were recorded in the state per day, 33 fewer than the previous number. According to the official, the number of patients requiring hospitalization is also decreasing. At the same time, the governor urged residents of the state to remain vigilant and continue to comply with quarantine restrictions.
Remember that scientists have examined coronavirus mutations in the United States and found that the spread of the disease in New York began long before the first reported case. Read more about this at TSN.ua materials.
Meanwhile, United States President Donald Trump said he plans to increase the production of buffers needed for the COVID-19 tests to 20 million per month. This came after the governors of several states complained about the lack of materials to evaluate the population for a new type of coronavirus.
According to Trump, victims of the new coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States can probably become at least 60-65 thousand Americans. The White House has previously spoken of more than 200,000 coronavirus deaths.
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There are 2 million out of 180,000 coronavirus patients worldwide. A quarter of them have already recovered. 145,000 people died from complications. Europe is the most difficult situation in the United Kingdom and France. There is quarantine for another three weeks. But in other European countries, the epidemic has slowed down. Then they relax the restrictions. These include Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
Remember outbreak of new coronavirus It started with the seafood and animal market in Wuhan, China. It causes cold-like symptoms, but it quickly affects the lungs and other organs. The pathogen belongs to a large family of coronaviruses. The disease has spread to dozens of countries.
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The World Health Organization has officially named China’s coronavirus disease: COVID-19. In China itself, it was previously called NCP (new coronavirus pneumonia)which means pneumonia caused by a new type of coronavirus. The first vaccine This type of coronavirus will appear no earlier than a year and a half.
It seems the source of the coronavirus outbreak is an animal. At the same time, it is known that the virus can be transmitted from person to person. droplets in the air. It is suspected that the disease can be transmitted even during the incubation period, when the carrier of the disease does not suspect that he is infected.
In Ukraine, on March 3, the Deputy Minister of Health, Viktor Lyashko, said that in Chernivtsi recorded the first case of COVID-19 infection. The infection was found in a man who returned from Italy. On the afternoon of March 12 in Ukraine, two more cases of coronavirus infection were officially confirmed. Infections were recorded in the Chernivtsi and Zhitomir regions. A Zhytomyr woman died of infection, becoming the first victim of COVID-19 in Ukraine. In the Chernivtsi region on March 16 laboratory two more cases were confirmed infection with a new coronavirus and this number continued to rise. At the same time, the first Chernivtsi patient was successfully treated and was discharged from the hospital.
Basic guidelines to avoid coronavirus infection:
- avoid contact with animals;
- not eat raw or poorly processed meat;
- avoid contact with people who have signs of the disease;
- wash your hands regularly and thoroughly.
Learn more about what is known about the mysterious ailment, how it originated, and why doctors worry: read TSN.ua.
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