Hubei, where the novel coronavirus emerged late last year, will allow healthy residents to leave the province from midnight, officials said, two months after they were ordered to stay indoors.“Every day, we saw the number of seriously ill patients decreasing, the situation improving, people being discharged from the hospital. The doctors and nurses are becoming more and more relaxed as the days go by.
“I’m scared for me and patients that this could go on” for months, said Lauren, who declined to give her surname.The financial impact of economies grinding to a halt continued to unnerve policymakers, who opened the spigots and flooded the markets with yet more cash — their latest effort to keep the wheels turning.
The upswings came despite US politicians’ failure to sign off on a nearly $2 trillion package that President Donald Trump says is aimed at supporting ailing enterprises, and helicoptering cash to American families.The British government, which has faced accusations it dithered over the health crisis and needlessly allowed schools to remain open far longer than European counterparts, came into line on Monday.
The number of coronavirus deaths has topped 16,200, with more than 377,000 declared infections in 175 countries and territories, according to an AFP tally. New infections in the continent’s hardest-hit country dipped to just shy of 5,000, down from over 6,500 on Saturday.