Posted on 03/19/2020 10:34:19 AM PDT by NRx
Breaking: Italy on Thursday hit a grim milestone, surpassing China for the largest number of coronavirus-related deaths, at 3,405.
The novel coronavirus continued to spread globally, with Italy announcing a record number of deaths Wednesday and Spain reporting a similarly alarming death-toll spike Thursday. New numbers out of Iran are also grim.
But news from China on Thursday may offer a glimmer of hope: The country reported no new locally transmitted cases the previous day for the first time since the outbreak began late last year.
Here are some significant developments:
India barred incoming commercial flights for a week, and Australia and New Zealand closed their borders to everyone except citizens and residents. The United Arab Emirates went further, stopping expatriate residents from returning to the country. Meanwhile, Italy is extending lockdown measures.
Prince Albert of Monaco has tested positive for the coronavirus. That announcement came hours after the European Union’s top Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said he tested positive. U.S. Reps. Ben McAdams (D-Utah) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) both announced positive tests, as well; they are the first confirmed cases in Congress.
The European Central Bank announced an $820 billion emergency bond-buying program as President Trump and congressional leaders planned a $1 trillion stimulus package, including special assistance for small businesses and airlines. Trump also signed into a law a bill to ensure paid leave benefits for many Americans.
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Three thousand four hundred and five.
Pales compared to flu, cancer, car crashes etc...
only because they are more honest in their reporting
Way to go Italy ...i knew you could do it!
Winnie-the-Pooh man is lying about their number of deaths.
The Chinese government are liars and tyrants.
This tells me two things:
1) China isn’t telling the truth.
2) Italy’s government-run healthcare system isn’t very good.
It’s essentially all in one area of Italy as it was in China and South Korea.
Here Seattle. New York to some degree.
In this case they are more honest. Italian bookkeepers are very . . . professional by reputation.
That said, if there is any pressure in this case for Italy, I think that it would be to exaggerate the numbers. However if they wanted to increase numbers they could likely do that by doing a fuller survey of all the bodies that they are cremating.
Shhhhhh!
Germany’s death rate so far is about 0.2%, while Italy’s is 7.9%
Wapo propaganda for their comrades the PRCs.
No one knows or can know what’s happening in the land of PRC!
Italy can’t tackle it the way China did with severe & extreme controls on the the populace and massive rapid contruction projects.
> The Chinese government are liars and tyrants. <
Right. China has already put out a story saying the pandemic was caused by an infected U.S. serviceman who somehow got into Wuhan. Given that whopper, how can we believe anything those filthy liars say?
in less than three months. And accelerating rapidly. Yes, nothing to worry about here.
“Germany’s death rate so far is about 0.2%, while Italy’s is 7.9%”
Probably Chinese nurses in Italian nursing homes.
China’s numbers are what their Politburo releases to the public. Those number might be true.
“in less than three months. And accelerating rapidly. Yes, nothing to worry about here.”
Is it at 100 million yet?
We were told in January by the likes of you that by March first there’d be a hundred million cases
“Germany’s death rate so far is about 0.2%, while Italy’s is 7.9%”
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Everybody’s playing catch up.
WaPos, the CNN of print. They know it’s BS. The idea that Italy has more deaths then china is just preposterous.
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