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The Ministry of Health of France announced new data on the spread of coronavirus infection, this is reported in the statement of the agency on March 29. To date, the number of deaths from infection has reached 2,000 606, and the number of infections has exceeded 40,000. Recall, the outbreak of coronavirus infection was first detected in Chinese Wuhan in December 2019, since then more than 32 thousand people have died from infection, hundreds of thousands have contracted.

Russian military virologists began special anti-epidemic activities in hospitals in the Italian province of Lomabradia, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported on March 28. On March 28, Russian military specialists began anti-epidemic activities in health institutions of Lombardy region, the statement reads. Russian experts together with Italian colleagues have already carried out full sanitary treatment in the sanatorium for the elderly Hkniger in Albino.

Dell Technologies withdrew its fiscal forecast for 2021 due to an inability to assess the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. This is reported by ZDNet. On February 27, 2020, the American computer manufacturer Dell Technologies published the financial results of the last quarter of fiscal year 2020 and the forecast for fiscal year 2021. During this period, the company planned to earn income from $91.8 to $94.8 billion. However, at the end of March Dell Technologies revised this forecast and abandoned it due to the spread of coronavirus infection. The company cannot predict the extent to which the global pandemic COVID-19 not adversely affect its business operations and financial results As a result of the growing level of uncertainty caused by the pandemic, the company decided to withdraw its previously released financial guidance for fiscal year 2021, Dell Technologies said. As previously reported by the news agency, on February 27, the research company International Data Corporation

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the complete isolation of the country from midnight on 25 March for at least three weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is today, March 24, the press service of the Government of India reports. Recall that in India on the morning of March 24 there were about 500 cases of coronavirus infection. India has a rather weak health system and is unlikely to cope with a real pandemic. In this regard, the authorities decided to go to the complete closure of the country in order to reduce possible channels of further coronavirus penetration.

In Vanuatu, parliamentary elections began on 19 March at 07:30 local time. More than 270,000 citizens of the Republic will be able to vote at 350 polling stations opened in all provinces during the day. There are 240 candidates from 17 parties, including 17 women, for 52 parliamentary mandates. According to official data, 278,877 citizens with the right to vote are on the voter lists. Voting will end at 4:30 p.m. local time. In the previous Parliament, none of the parties participating in the elections has more than six mandates. The new composition of Parliament will have to choose a Prime Minister and form a Government. We remind that Vanuatu is among the countries that after the aggression of Georgia in 2008 recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Read also: Earthquake of magnitude 6.1 occurred off the coast of Vanuatu