The Spectator

Portrait of the week: Salmond cleared, Olympics postponed and Britain told to stay home

issue 28 March 2020

Coronavirus

Sunday dawned with 233 people in the United Kingdom dead thus far from the coronavirus Covid-19 (a week earlier it had been 21), and more than 12,000 in the world. Three days later it was 442 in the UK and more than 18,000 worldwide. About 107,000 of the world’s 410,000 cases detected had recovered. A billion people in the world were confined to their homes, joined from Sunday by a billion more in India, where confusion reigned. Testing was uneven, but, in fatalities, Italy, with 6,820 by Tuesday, had gone far beyond China (with 3,277). Iran admitted to 1,934 deaths and Spain had 2,800. China was reporting few new home-transmitted cases and Wuhan was to lift its lockdown in April. Harvey Weinstein, serving 23 years in a New York state prison, was found to have coronavirus.

The government prohibited people leaving their homes except for ‘very limited purposes’.

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