Spain records lowest number of daily deaths over past two weeks

Spain recorded 605 COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, the lowest in a 24-hour period since March 24, as its total number of confirmed cases rose to 157,022 as of Thursday night, according to official government data.

The total number of COVID-19 infections cases rose 4,576, a smaller increase than the 5,756 new cases reported the previous day.

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BRUSSELS

Belgium has recorded a total of 3,019 deaths related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, since the beginning of the pandemic, according to fresh figures released Friday by health authorities.

A further 325 COVID-19 patients had died in hospitals in the last 24 hours. In addition, 171 deaths were reported in nursing homes in Flanders between March 18 and March 31. In combination, that was a total of 496 deaths, according to Sciensano, a research institute and the national public health institute of Belgium.

TEHRAN

Iran on Friday reported 1,972 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 68,192, said Iran’s Health Ministry.

The death toll of COVID-19 in Iran rose by 122 in the past 24 hours to a total of 4,232, said Kianush Jahanpur, head of Public Relations and Information Center of the ministry, during his daily updates on state TV.

LOS ANGELES

Honolulu, capital city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, on Thursday announced a nighttime curfew for the three-day Easter weekend holiday to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The curfew will run from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. each day starting from Friday. People will be allowed to walk in their communities, while “anything with wheels,” including cars, bicycles and scooters, is prohibited during the curfew, the order said.

MOSCOW

Russia has tallied a total of 11,917 cases of COVID-19 in 82 out of 85 regions of the country as of Friday, with the number of infections rising by a new daily record of 1,786, official data showed.

The death toll rose to 94 from the previous day’s 76, with 795 recovered so far, including 97 in the last 24 hours, Russia’s coronavirus response center said in a statement.

Source: Xinhua