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The USNS Comfort Floating Hospital, designed for 1000 beds, arrived at the port of New York City. This is reported on March 30 by RIA Novosti. The vessel is equipped with 12 operational and intensive care equipment. Thanks to the floating hospital, in the city it will be possible to free some places in hospitals by transporting patients not infected with coronavirus to the ship. In addition, there is a medical team on the ship, it will take on part of the burden of treatment and care of patients and this will facilitate the work of doctors of the state of New York. In addition to the floating hospital, engineering troops arrived in the city to erect additional hospitals. Currently, the U.S. state of New York has the highest number of coronavirus infections detected. The state authorities are preparing for a peak in the epidemic, which, according to preliminary calculations, could come in three weeks. Earlier, the news agency reported that 32,308 cases of HIV infection had been detected

In Turkey, the number of cases of coronavirus infection has reached 1,815 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of COVID-19 patients in the country to 9,217. This was announced on March 29 by Minister of Health of the country Fahrettin Koja on his page on the social network Twitter. Koja also informed that as a result of the disease caused by the new type of coronavirus, 131 people died in Turkey, including 23 patients who died in the last 24 hours. More than 500 patients are in intensive care wards. We remind that earlier Turkish President Rekeep Erdoğan in his address to the nation reported on the termination of air traffic with all foreign countries due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The number of detected cases of coronavirus infection in the UK has increased by 17,089 over the past 24 hours. This is reported on Saturday, March 28, by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of the country. According to the agency, a total of 120,776 people were tested for coronavirus in Britain. In addition, 260 people died of coronavirus in the country in the last 24 hours. Thus, the total number of victims was 1,019. According to the news agency, on March 27, the number of victims of coronavirus infection in the UK increased by 31%, or 181,

Entertainment facilities are closing in Australia due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus, reports March 24 ABC. Restrictive measures will become effective on 26 March. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison made an announcement. Now libraries, sports halls, cultural institutions, beauty salons will be closed in the country. There is also a ban on visiting restaurants in shopping malls. Schools are still operating in the country. As previously reported by the news agency, more than 1.8 thousand people CoV infected in Australia with SARS-2 virus, seven people died.

According to the Nasdaq Riga Exchange, two-year government bonds of Latvia were sold at the auction in the amount of 32 million euros, the tvnet.lv portal writes. Demand at the auction exceeded supply by 2.6 times. In total, the participants submitted applications for 82 million euros. The coupon rate on the bond with repayment of the principal amount on March 20, 2022 was negative O, 129%