Number of deaths from coronavirus around the world has exceeded 200,000, according to the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University. The increase comes after the UK reported 813 more deaths today, becoming the fifth country to record more than 20,000. A total of 2,865,938 people have been infected with the virus. About a third of the cases are based in the United States.
The number of people who have died in British hospitals as a result of the coronavirus has exceeded 20,000, official figures have confirmed. An additional 813 deaths across the UK on Friday brought the total to 20,319 – making the UK the fifth country to exceed 20,000 deaths after the US, Italy, Spain and France, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Priti Patel, the UK Home Secretary, drew attention to efforts to tackle crime during the lockdown. The Home Secretary said authorities were removing websites attempting to carry out phishing scams, preventing the sale of fake personal protective equipment and stopping drug trafficking. She said there had been a total of £ 2.4million in losses to fraudsters during the lockdown.
Spain plans to relax its six week confinement – one of the toughest in the world – by allowing people to walk and exercise outdoors from the start of next month. In a televised address on Saturday evening, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez highlighted the drop in the country’s official death toll, which has been below 400 for each of the past two days, and the reduction in the spread of the virus.
France recorded 369 other deaths from Covid-19 but continued to see a steady decline in the number of patients hospitalized or in need of intensive care beds due to the virus. There have been a total of 22,614 coronavirus-related deaths in France, including 14,050 in hospitals, an increase of 198 in the last day.
The coronavirus in everyday life death toll in Italy fell to its lowest level since March 17, according to the latest official figures. Italy reported 415 deaths on Saturday – up from 919 at its peak on March 27. The deaths totaled 26,384, the second highest after the United States. The number of those infected fell from 680 to 105,847 as recoveries continued to exceed new cases.
Canada awarded fish and seafood processors C $ 62.5 million (US $ 44.34 million) to help protect the country’s food supply chain. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that the past few weeks had been “very difficult” for food suppliers as Covid-19 hit the job market, and said the government was “actively exploring” further measures.
Embraer hit back at Boeing after the US company withdrew from a $ 4 billion deal to acquire the Brazilian group’s regional jet business, saying it had “wrongly terminated” the deal. In a statement, Embraer said Boeing had “fabricated false statements as a pretext to seek to evade its commitments to close the transaction.”
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