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Within three weeks, fashion industry enterprises in Italy will increase the volume of medical masks production from the current 350 thousand pieces per day to 1.5 million, Sky reports on Monday, March 30, with reference to the statements of the heads of relevant business associations. Previously, a number of clothing companies in Italy decided to completely or partially repurpose production for the duration of the pandemic. On 22 March, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the suspension of all enterprises of the country, except strategic ...

Swedish scientists have developed a mathematical model for the spread of COVID-19 infection, which is expected to decline in summer, but by winter the infection can produce an outbreak of new infections. This is reported by Swiss Medical Weekly. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute built their calculations on seasonal fluctuations of the other four coronaviruses causing respiratory diseases. Scientists believe that the likely decline in morbidity in summer should not calm society. The health care system, having received a respite, will have to prepare for a new wave of infection in autumn-winter. Read also: WHO: Coronavirus will not disappear in summer This is a false hope Recall, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of March 28, the number of infected with a new type of coronavirus infection in the world reached 575,444, of which 86,498 in Italy, 85,228 in the USA, 64,059 in Spain. Read also: The number of coronavirus infections in the world exceeded 570,000 ...

In the Netherlands, the total number of COVID-19 with pneumonia caused by a new type of coronavirus (SARS- CoV -2) reached 9,762. This was reported to the Dutch National Institute of Health on 28 March. Thus, as of 14:00 (16:00 Moscow time) on March 28, the number of patients positively tested for coronavirus in the last 24 hours increased by 1159 people. It is noted that over the past 24 hours 93 patients died of coronavirus disease, the total number of recorded coronavirus deaths in the country was 639. Recall, in the Netherlands on March 27, 1,172...

US President Donald Trump, among measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection, is considering quarantine in New York and some other parts of the country. On March 28, he told reporters during a briefing on the South Lawn of the White House. I would like to see quarantine introduced in New York because it is a hotbed [of disease]. New York, New Jersey, perhaps another one or two places, some parts of Connecticut. I 'm thinking about it at the moment. We may not have to do this, the American leader said. Trump stressed that if a quarantine regime were introduced in these areas, it would last for a short time, about two weeks. The President of the United States also clarified that quarantine means restriction of movement in the country for citizens living in areas with the most unfavourable epidemiological situation. Recall, according to Johns Hopkins University, which monitors the situation with COVID-19 on the basis of official data, the number of infected coronavirus in ...

Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelius Veriga today, March 24, during a press conference on the spread of coronavirus infection did not rule out that if today's measures announced in the country as part of the general quarantine are ineffective, Lithuania will impose a complete ban on residents entering the streets, the correspondent news agency reports. It will be allowed only to go outside at your house for dogs to walk, to go to the store alone for food, to go to work only with the appropriate permission from the aut...