Coronavirus deaths in Italy reach 17, Nigeria and the Netherlands confirm first cases
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According to the latest update by the Italian authorities, seventeen people have died of the coronavirus in Italy
Emergency commissioner Angelo Borrelli said also some 650 people have been infected, said the civil protection chief while 45 have recovered. In Sicily there has been the fourth confirmed case after a woman tested positive in Catania
The Lombardy region remained the most effected with 403 cases, of whom 40 discharged after recovering and 14 dead. Those hospitalised with symptoms are 248, 56 of them in intensive care, and 284 are in domestic isolation.
Meanwhile Nigeria’s health ministry said on Friday it has confirmed a coronavirus case in Lagos state.
A patient in the Netherlands has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus Covid-19, Dutch health authorities said on Thursday, the first confirmed case in the country.
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health said in a statement the patient in the southern Dutch city of Tilburg had recently traveled in northern Italy and is now being treated in isolation.
A man wearing a protective suit decontaminates a primary school where a child was diagnosed with coronavirus, Thessaloniki, Greece. The health ministry on Thursday announced two new cases of COVID-19 in the country, raising the number of patients taken ill with the virus to three. EPA-EFE/DIMITRIS TOSIDIS
France reported that the number of cases there had jumped to 38, from 18 a day earlier.
In Spain, where there are 17 cases, the latest patient, announced Thursday, was a soccer fan from Valencia — one of thousands who had traveled to Milan, the capital of Lombardy, earlier this month to watch a Champions League match.
Denmark, Estonia, Norway and Romania all reported infections for the first time, joining Italy, Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, North Macedonia, Spain, Sweden and Britain.
Hopes the coronavirus would be contained to China vanished on Friday as infections spread rapidly around the world, countries started stockpiling medical equipment and investors took flight in expectation of a global recession.
Share prices were on track for the worst week since the global financial crisis in 2008 as virus-related disruptions to international travel and supply chains fueled fears of recession in the United States and the Euro zone.
The U.S. stock market fell into correction territory with the benchmark S&P 500 index down more than 4% on Thursday, extending a market rout that has now sliced more than 10% off of its closing peak on Feb. 19. Asian stocks on Friday tracked Wall Street’s plunge.
