Italy coronavirus fatalities 1,016 persons

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KUWAIT, March 12 (KUNA) — Coronavirus claimed 1,016 lives in Italy, officials say, but Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio says he hopes his country will be the first in Europe to get over the emergency.

Another 188 people died over 24 hours, However, Di Maio said the measures imposed in the first area of the outbreak were proving effective.
Two weeks after the first 10 towns in northern Italy were declared a “red zone” and put under lockdown, he said they had no new infections.
This then served as a model to tighten measures across the country.

Italy has now seen 1,016 deaths, amid a total number 15,113 infections. Civil protection officials say 1,258 have recovered, although the number of cases has gone up by 2,651 since Wednesday. Italy is the world’s worst-hit country after China.

In the UK, anyone with a “new, continuous” cough or high temperature is now advised to self-isolate for seven days, as the UK government moves to the “delay” phase of its plan to tackle coronavirus.
Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was “the worst public health crisis for a generation” and warned many families they would “lose loved ones before their time”.

He said it was important to get the timing right for stricter measures.
In total, 10 people have now died in the UK with the virus.
Schools have been advised to cancel trips abroad, and older people and those with pre-existing health concerns have been told not to go on cruises.
There have been 596 confirmed cases across the country. However, the actual number of people infected could be between 5,000 and 10,000, the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said.
As part of the new measures, testing will only focus on identifying people with the virus in hospital.

Meanwhile, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported that there are a total of 621 cases, of which 163 cases have been reported on Wednesday.
No deaths have been reported. The average age for the cases is 46.2 years, 33.8 percent are women and 66.2 percent are men.
105 cases have been infected in Norway, 384 cases have been infected abroad and for 132 the site of infection is being clarified, it noted in a statement.

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