For a day in Russia, 11 new cases of infection with the coronavirus COVID-19 were detected, the operational headquarters said. Five are in Moscow, one in the Moscow region, three in St. Petersburg, one in the Leningrad region and one in the Perm region. All patients in the past two weeks have visited Italy, France, Austria. One of the infected contacts with the sick earlier, noted at headquarters. All infected are hospitalized and are in infectious boxes. The people they contacted in Russia were identified, they will be examined and placed under medical supervision. One of those infected in Moscow is a teenager who attended school on March 2 and 3, and from the 4th she was at home. Now she is in the infectious diseases hospital, and her school has been quarantined since March 10th. The girl, allegedly, returned on March 1 from Italy: the operation center reported that the sick Muscovites arrived on flights No. 13216LX Munich - Moscow (via Zurich) on March 7 and No. 806DP Bergamo - M
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has contracted a coronavirus. This is reported by the local publication Journal O Dia. He said this in an address to the citizens of the country. The publication notes that the head of state told about the positive test for the virus "with tears in his eyes". On March 12, a number of Brazilian and Argentine media outlets indicated that Bolsonaro was being examined. Earlier, in the environment of the President of Brazil, they found someone infected with coronavirus — the infection was detected in the head of the special Secretariat for communications, Fabio Weingarten. According to the latest data, more than 137 thousand people are infected in the world. More than 5 thousand died, and 69 thousand more were cured. An outbreak of COVID-19 caused by a new type of coronavirus was first reported in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Its symptoms are fever, fatigue, and cough. In addition to China, cases were detected in more than 100 countries