Epidemic COVID-19 March 5: Cases in Korea, the US increased rapidly, California declared a state of emergency

South Korea recorded an additional 438 new infections, while the number of COVID-19 infections in the US also increased rapidly. Italy had 107 deaths, an increase of 28 from the previous day.

According to the Yonhap News at 8:15 this morning, South Korea recorded 438 new cases of COVID-9 yesterday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 5,766.

America: 158 infections, 11 deaths

CNN on March 5, Vietnam time, cited data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the country has recorded 158 cases of COVID-19 infection, of which 11 deaths.

Of the new cases, 49 were repatriated US citizens. The remaining 109 cases were discovered and tested through the US public health systems distributed in 14 states.

The epidemic of COVID-19 in the US is progressing very rapidly, in a bad way, when just a few hours earlier, the number of infections that CDC recorded was only 129 people.

Immediately after the latest CDC update, the state of New York announced 5 new infections, bringing the total number of cases there to 11. All of these new cases are members of a family of a married couple. and 3 children, and contact with a Westchester County attorney who was hospitalized for COVID-19 infection.

Currently the state has asked about 1,000 people to quarantine themselves and the health department is looking to see how many people have been infected, because the above lawyer works in the Manhattan central district and has traveled and been exposed to many. people.

Among the new cases in the US, 49 are repatriated US citizens. The remaining 100 cases were discovered and tested through the US public health systems distributed in 13 states.

US health workers move a patient at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington - Photo: REUTERS

California declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 epidemic

The state of California, USA, declared a state of emergency after recording the first deaths from the COVID-19 outbreak and a total of 53 infections. Previously, the city of Los Angeles, California, had declared a medical emergency after local officials said, in the past 2 days, they discovered six new cases.

The US state of California recorded one COVID-19 death on March 4. The patient is elderly, returned from Diamond Princess cruise ship and tested positive afterwards. Local health officials are quarantining and monitoring everyone who has had close contact with the patient.

Meanwhile, the city of Los Angeles, California, has declared a medical emergency after local officials said, in the past two days, they discovered six new cases. Among these cases was an employee responsible for body temperature scanning of passengers at Los Angeles airport.

"This action allows us to work harder to protect our 10 million or more people and prevent COVID-19 from spreading in the community," said Kathryn Barger, Los Angeles supervisory board member.

Italy has an additional 28 deaths

Reuters news agency citing data from the Civil Protection Agency of this country said that as of the end of March 4, the total number of positive cases for COVID-19 in Italy was 3,089 cases, up sharply from 2,502 cases up to 3-3. The number of deaths in this country is 107, up 28 cases.

Also on March 4, there were 276 patients infected with COVID-19 in Italy recovered, up 116 cases, equivalent to 72.5%. This is the largest increase in the number of recoveries recorded in recent days in Italy.

Italy has closed all schools and universities, and taken urgent measures to deal with the epidemic.

China added 139 cases and 31 deaths

China reported on March 5 that it recorded an additional 139 cases of new COVID-19 infections on March 4, up from 119 cases on March 3. Thus, the total number of infections in mainland China has reached 80,409 cases. Meanwhile, the number of deaths decreased on March 4 to 31 compared with 38 cases on March 3.

To date, there have been 3,012 deaths caused by COVID-19 in China. Particularly at the Hubei epidemic center, there were 134 new infections and 31 deaths, according to Reuters news agency.

Medical staff outside a hospital in Italy - Photo: REUTERS

Epidemic spreads rapidly in many countries

The number of infections in Sweden soared to 52 after 16 new cases were discovered in Stockholm.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on February 4 announced that the country had confirmed the first two cases of COVID-19 infection. Both of these patients were Iranian students in Hungary.

Algeria's Ministry of Health - Population and Hospital Reform said the number of cases in the country has increased to 17, which includes 16 members in the same family as patients recorded in the previous days. .

In Iraq, the country's Ministry of Health confirmed the second death was a male patient over 60 years old with many serious chronic diseases.

Brazil also had a third death, a 46-year-old male patient positive for COVID-19 after traveling through Spain, Austria and Germany. All three of the deaths in Brazil ever went to Europe.

Meanwhile, Slovenia confirmed the first case was a patient traveling from Italy and Morocco to Slovenia.

Source: tuoitre.vn