Italy now accounts for 36.2% of the world's Covid-19 deaths. FMTNews Covid19
A patient in a biocontainment unit is carried on a stretcher at the Columbus Covid 2 Hospital in Rome, Italy.
Governments and central banks continued meanwhile to throw huge sums of money into the economic battle, hoping that a deep global recession could somehow be dodged. Britain, falling in line with its neighbours in the European Union, also announced tougher restrictions, telling pubs, restaurants and theatres to close and promising to help cover the wages of affected workers.
Hours earlier, California, among the worst-hit US states with over 1,000 cases and 19 deaths, told its 40 million residents to stay at home. Trump also announced Friday that the US and Mexico have agreed to restrict non-essential travel across their border beginning on Saturday. The strict measures follow the template set by China, as a lockdown imposed in Hubei province where the virus first emerged appeared to have paid off.Europe now accounts for more than half of the world’s fatalities linked to Covid-19.
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