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8:00 am- China diagnoses three new cases in the last 24 hours
China has diagnosed, in the last 24 hours, three new cases of local infection by the new coronavirus, in the northeast of the country, officials in the Asian country said.
According to the National Health Commission of China, two cases were registered in Liaoning province and the other in Jilin province, where about 30 cases were detected last week. Northeastern China borders Russia and North Korea.
In recent weeks there has been a sudden increase in cases of covid-19 in the region, due to the arrival of Chinese infected with the disease from Russia, according to the authorities.
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7:43 am – At least 40 killed in Mexico with adulterated alcohol
At least 40 people died in Mexico after drinking adulterated alcohol, sold since several locations banned the sale of alcoholic beverages during confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic, officials said.
Mexico has reported nearly 300 deaths and more than 4,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.
7:24 am – 1800 more dead in the United States in 24 hours
The United States recorded an additional 1813 deaths from Covid-19 within 24 hours, a number close to that seen the day before (1894), according to the John Hopkins University count.
The total number of fatalities from the new coronavirus rises to 84,000 in the country, with the world’s leading economic power still identifying 22,000 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number to about 1.39 million infected since the beginning of the pandemic.
The United States, by far the most affected country in the world in absolute terms, is expected to reach 113,000 deaths by June 6, according to an average of 20 epidemiological models made by researchers at the University of Massachusetts.
6h47 – State of play
The highest figures of the State will meet again this Thursday with the medical and scientific community to take stock of the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic in Portuguese territory.The pandemic assessment meeting is scheduled for 10 am.
The meeting at Infarmed’s headquarters in Lisbon will be attended by the President of the Republic, the President of the Assembly of the Republic, the Prime Minister, representatives of political parties and social partners.
This is the sixth meeting since the start of the pandemic and the first after the end of the state of emergency.
The number of people who lost their jobs with the pandemic has doubled in the last month.
A survey by the Catholic University for RTP also shows that more than a third of the Portuguese lost income due to the paralysis of the economy.
Borders closed by mid-June
Land borders with Spain will remain closed until June 15.Tests are being carried out on employees of
daycare centers in Portugal. Among 29,000 workers across the country, the minister
do Trabalho states that ten thousand people have already been tested.
The Government approved a resolution that prolongs the reinstatement, on an exceptional and temporary basis, of border control. This border control, imposed because of the pandemic, has been carried out since March 16 at nine authorized crossing points.
Only the transport of goods and cross-border workers is permitted.
Users return home in Alverca
The users of Lar da Misericórdia de Alverca, who were in a hotel, have already returned to the institution. The transfer process was promoted by the municipal Civil Protection services and had the support of firefighters.
Users returned home after the institution’s building had been disinfected. None is infected with the new coronavirus.
However, the home has 27 cases of Covid-19.
The president of the Union of Portuguese Mercies, Manuel Lemos, warns that not all homes are ready for the resumption of visits already next Monday.
The picture in Portugal
The daily epidemiological bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health recorded yesterday 1175 deaths due to Covid-19, 12 more than on Tuesday, and 28,132 infected, an increase of 219.
By comparison with the figures from the previous day, there was an increase in deaths of 1.03 percent.
As for the number of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus – 28,132 -, DGS data reveals that there are 219 more cases than on Tuesday, which translates into a 0.8 percent rise.
The North region has the highest number of deaths (667), in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley (257), Centro (221), Algarve (14), Azores (15) and Alentejo, which records one case.
The international framework
On an international scale, according to the daily report by the agency France Presse, the Covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than 295,000 deaths and infected more than 4.3 million people in 196 countries and territories.
Amnesty International Brazil has come to demand, in the last few hours, that Brazilian authorities implement urgent measures to protect the most vulnerable populations, such as indigenous people and slum dwellers, from the effects of the pandemic.
The non-governmental organization considers the measures adopted so far to be “inadequate”, which has forced the most vulnerable populations to mobilize and create their own solutions to face Covid-19.
“From the slum to the indigenous, from the deprived person to the quilombolas [descendentes de negros que fugiram da escravidão], from health professionals to the informal worker, from women to the elderly who live in institutions like asylums, concrete and urgent measures need to be adopted by federal, state and municipal authorities to minimize the serious impacts of covid-19 “, appeals the NGO.
The executive director of Amnesty International Brazil, Jurema Werneck, urged the authorities to develop “measures hand in hand with these populations” before Covid-19 – a disease that leaves inequalities in Brazil even more exposed.
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