Italy, Europe’s worst-hit country, has recorded the lowest number of new coronavirus-related deaths in more than three weeks.
Officials say 431 more people died from COVID-19 in the past day, the lowest toll in a 24-hour period since March 19, bringing the total to 19,899.
For the ninth day in a row, the number of patients admitted to intensive care with the virus has decreased, and the total number of hospitalizations has also decreased.
As Italy entered its fifth week of lockdown, more than 4,000 people were diagnosed, proceeding to the general flattening of the so-called curve.
But officials noted that the country has also increased the number of people tested in recent days, with more positive cases but allowing more effective quarantine measures for those who know they are infected.
On Sunday, the country surpassed the one million test mark, double the number since last March.
A total of 156,363 people have been shown to have the virus; it is claimed that the actual number may be up to 10 times higher, especially in the worst-hit region of Lombardy.
Meanwhile, Italy’s civil cover company has arranged for rescued migrants to be quarantined for coronavirus infections on board ships or on land.
More than 1. 8 million people worldwide have been infected and more than 113,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University, which tracks the pandemic.
Spain has now surpassed Italy in terms of cases, with more than 166,000 (second only to the United States) and almost another 17,000 people in Spain have died from the virus.
The death toll in the country rose Sunday for the first time in three days, to 619, bringing the total to 16,972.
More than 60,000 have recovered.
Spain also recorded its lowest expansion in infections shown in three weeks as it prepares to ease strict lockdown measures and allow some staff to return to work.
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Those who can paint from home are strongly calling on the government to continue to do so.
Retail shops will close, with the exception of supermarkets, greengrocers, bakeries, butchers, kiosks and pharmacies.
In the UK, a further 737 people with COVID-19 have died in hospitals, bringing the total to 10,612, surpassing the 10,000 mark.
The total number of infections in Britain now stands at 84,279.
In the Republic of Ireland, the number of deaths increased from 14 to 334. There are 9,655 infections.
The United States now has 542,023 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University, and another 21,489 people have died, more than in any other country in the world.
In France, the number of deaths, which come from hospitals and nursing homes, rose from 561 to 14,393 on Sunday.
But for the fourth day in a row, fewer people were admitted to intensive care.
However, the country’s health government said it was vital to remain vigilant as hospitals were still receiving huge numbers of patients.
Russia on Sunday reported its largest increase in cases (2,186) since the outbreak began.
Moscow and many other regions have been under lockdown for nearly two weeks, but the number of cases has reached 15,770, while the death toll has risen to 130.
Authorities in the capital have cracked down on those who take to the streets for no reason, such as to buy food or medicine, seek medical treatment, walk the dog or take out the garbage.
According to a study of their mobile phone tracks, about 3. 5 million people in a city of 12. 5 million people left their homes for more than six hours on Friday and more than 1,300 fines were issued for breaking the rules.
Moscow is preparing to introduce virtual rentals next week to boost and help enforce the lockdown.
In Japan, two teams of personnel issued a joint warning about a “collapse of emergency medicine,” which could lead to the collapse of medicine as a whole.
The Japan Association of Intensive Care Medicine and the Japan Society of Emergency Medicine said health care services were under pressure amid a surge in coronavirus patients.
They said many hospitals were turning away other people taken by ambulance, adding to those suffering strokes, central seizures and external injuries.
He said some of those who had been accepted were later found to be carriers of the virus.
Japan, which has declared a state of emergency and is asking people to stay home, has about 7,000 cases and 108 deaths, but the numbers are rising.
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There is better news for Australia, however, as its medical leader said the country is “in a position” in its fight against the disease, and the death toll rose from just three to 59.
It now has 6,289 cases shown.
Brendan Murphy said that “there is no position in the world that I would be in more than Australia at the moment”.