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More than 170,000 patients died.
In the world new coronavirus they have already infected more than 2.5 million people.
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In France, a 9-year-old coronavirus patient has not infected any of the 170 contact points.
This is stated in data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Research and Engineering, which monitors detected cases of coronavirus worldwide.
The absolute record for the number of patients beat the US. USA: Over 30% of all global cases of infection were found there (788 thousand). Then comes Spain, where the number of infected people exceeded 200,000, and Italy with 181,000 infected. Also among the top five are France (156,000) and Germany (147,000).
More than 170,000 people have died of coronavirus infection worldwide. Most in the United States, there are 42,000 deaths. Furthermore, 24,000 died in Italy, 21,000 in Spain and 20,000 in France.
At the same time, almost 660,000 people have recovered from the new coronavirus infection. The largest number of people recovering in Germany is reported by 95,000 people. Furthermore, more than 82,000 have already been recovered in Spain and 77,000 in China. Approaching the Chinese indicator and the United States: 73,000 people recovered there.
More about: Coronavirus
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.
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.
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