UA-Times has prepared an updated interactive map of Europe based on data on diseased coronaviruses on the evening of March 12. On Wednesday, World Health Organization (WHO) recognized the spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic, since this virus was detected in most countries of the world – 124 countries.

Italian government announced on Thursday the introduction of additional restrictive measures in the country for a period of two weeks. For this period, all shops, bars and restaurants are closed. Traveling around the country is allowed only if there are documents that justify such a move. Another tightening of security measures occurred after the number of victims of coronavirus exceeded 800, number of cases 12,000. “If we all abide by these rules, we will get out of this urgent situation faster, country needs responsibility from each of us, from all 60 million Italians who make big and small sacrifices every day.” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.

Ireland closes schools, universities and kindrgardens until March 29 and restricts public gatherings to slow the spread of coronavirus. This was announced on Thursday by Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. On Thursday, according to Reuters, Ireland confirmed the first death of a patient diagnosed with coronavirus, which was recorded on Wednesday. The number of confirmed cases of infection increased to 43, although at the beginning of the week there were 34 cases.

On Thursday, Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini announced the introduction of border controls, the cessation of international transport and the closure of schools. Sports and leisure centers, ski resorts, swimming pools and clubs will be closed, and shopping malls will be closed on weekends. 16 cases of infection are confirmed in slovakia.

In Germany, where there are already 2,344 cases, at least until the end of the Easter holidays on April 19, all cultural life ends. Performances in federal and state cultural institutions were canceled – the Philharmonic, Berlin Opera, German Opera, Komische Oper musical theater, the Drama German Theater, and the Friedrichstadt-Palast.

In Austria, due to the epidemic, world-famous cultural institutions such as the Burgtheater and the Vienna Opera house closed before the end of March.

The Ukrainian Ministry of health continues to assure that three case of coronavirus infection has been registered in the country. The virus was detected in a woman of retirement age from the Zhytomyr region and a man from the Chernivtsi region, whose wife returned from Italy over the past 14 days.

ID 000

00

0



Підтверджені випадки:

10 000+

1000—9999

100—999

10—99

1—9



Підозрювані випадки



10 000+1000—9999100—99910—991—9 Заразилися

Одужали

Померли





Starting tomorrow, March 13, USA will interrupt all transport links with Europe for a month. From midnight on Friday, sea and air links with 26 European countries, primarily with the EU, stop for a month. At the same time, communication with the UK is retained. Ukraine was not affected by the Trump order. “The European Union was not able to take the same precautions as the United States,” Trump said. “These are strict but necessary restrictions so that new cases of the disease do not penetrate our lands.” True, US citizens will be allowed to leave home from the EU, but regardless of how they feel, they will be quarantined for two weeks. In the States themselves, 1135 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection were registered, 38 patients died. In the New York suburb of New Rochelle declared a ‘Containment Area’ .

A joint European-Russian mission to send a rover to Mars that was due to launch this year, has been postponed to 2022, partly because of the coronavirus outbreak. In a joint statement, the Russian and European space agencies said that “further tests to the spacecraft with the final hardware and software are needed.” “In addition, the parties had to recognise that the final phase of ExoMars activities are compromised by the general aggravation of the epidemiological situation in European countries.”

Look what the map of Europe’s infection looked like a week ago, see the article “Interactive map of the distribution of coronavirus in Europe – from Venice to Moscow”.