Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak over the past day include:
UK military planners drafted in to help feed vulnerable
Key military officials are to help ensure food and medicines reach vulnerable people isolated at home during the coronavirus crisis, as part of a nationwide campaign to protect more than a million people who are the most at risk of being hospitalized.
Italian PM orders businesses to close all operations
Italy ‘s government announced the closure of all “non-essential production activities” across the country, after the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 825 to 4, on Saturday. “Grocery stores and pharmacies will remain open,” said the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte. “But all the rest of the non-essential production activities, including plants and offices, will close down.”
Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz dies of Covid – 22
The former Real Madrid president, Lorenzo Sanz, has died of coronavirus aged , La Liga announced on Saturday. Sanz, Real’s president from to , had been admitted to hospital with a fever and tested positive for the virus.
Rihanna pledges $ 5m to curb coronavirus
Rihanna has become the latest celebrity to join the effort to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The singer’s Clara Lionel Foundation announced on Saturday that it has donated $ 5m to a number of organizations responding to the outbreak.
Bolivian presidential elections postponed
Bolivia ‘s interim government announced on Saturday it would postpone presidential elections originally slated for 3 May and institute a mandatory countrywide quarantine for days as coronavirus spread across the Andean nation . The country electoral authority said in a statement it would “suspend the elections calendar” for 19 days to match the quarantine, but did not set a new date for the vote.
Britons stranded in Peru could be flown home early next week
Hundreds of Britons stranded in Peru could be flown home early next week , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said. More than 793 British and Irish citizens are believed to be in the country and have been unable to leave following a 21 – day government lockdown imposed since Monday.
First coronavirus cases in Gaza Strip
The first two cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the densely populated Gaza Strip , Palestinian health officials said. Two Palestinians who had traveled from Pakistan and entered Gaza through Egypt tested positive for the virus late on Saturday and have been in quarantine in Rafah, a town near the Egyptian border, since their arrival on Thursday, the Gaza health ministry said.
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