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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
2,004,383 |
+6,523 |
126,811 |
|
614,246 |
+360 |
26,064 |
|
|
174,060 |
18,255 |
||
|
162,488 |
21,067 |
||
|
143,303 |
15,729 |
||
|
132,210 |
3,495 |
||
|
93,873 |
12,107 |
||
|
82,295 |
+46 |
3,342 |
|
|
74,877 |
4,683 |
||
|
65,111 |
1,403 |
||
|
31,119 |
4,157 |
||
|
27,419 |
2,945 |
||
|
27,063 |
903 |
||
|
25,936 |
1,174 |
||
|
25,684 |
+422 |
1,552 |
|
|
24,490 |
+3,388 |
198 |
|
|
17,448 |
567 |
||
|
14,265 |
+39 |
384 |
|
|
12,200 |
+154 |
126 |
|
|
11,555 |
+68 |
396 |
|
|
11,479 |
406 |
||
|
11,445 |
1,033 |
||
|
10,591 |
+27 |
225 |
|
|
10,303 |
230 |
||
|
8,100 |
+215 |
146 |
|
|
7,917 |
92 |
||
|
7,603 |
369 |
||
|
7,202 |
263 |
||
|
6,879 |
357 |
||
|
6,623 |
139 |
||
|
6,511 |
299 |
||
|
6,440 |
+40 |
63 |
|
|
6,151 |
+40 |
163 |
|
|
5,988 |
+151 |
107 |
|
|
5,399 |
+385 |
406 |
|
|
5,369 |
73 |
||
|
5,223 |
335 |
||
|
4,987 |
82 |
||
|
4,933 |
28 |
||
|
4,839 |
459 |
||
|
4,465 |
94 |
||
|
3,764 |
+392 |
108 |
|
|
3,574 |
95 |
||
|
3,428 |
7 |
||
|
3,307 |
67 |
||
|
3,286 |
183 |
||
|
3,281 |
33 |
||
|
3,252 |
10 |
||
|
3,161 |
64 |
||
|
2,979 |
127 |
||
|
2,643 |
+30 |
43 |
|
|
2,443 |
+166 |
105 |
|
|
2,415 |
27 |
||
|
2,350 |
178 |
||
|
2,170 |
101 |
||
|
2,070 |
326 |
||
|
1,934 |
41 |
||
|
1,888 |
126 |
||
|
1,720 |
8 |
||
|
1,704 |
31 |
||
|
1,579 |
+67 |
134 |
|
|
1,528 |
7 |
||
|
1,400 |
78 |
||
|
1,386 |
+20 |
9 |
|
|
1,373 |
31 |
||
|
1,355 |
3 |
||
|
1,275 |
+43 |
15 |
|
|
1,220 |
56 |
||
|
1,214 |
+49 |
4 |
Source：The New York Times
President Trump after a coronavirus news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
As the United States continued to grapple with how to move forward from the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump announced Tuesday that his administration was halting payments to the World Health Organization while it reviewed the organization’s role in handling the virus.
The president, who has been under criticism for his handling of the response to the virus, blamed the W.H.O. for “severely mismanaging and covering up” the spread of the virus. “So much death has been caused by their mistakes,” the president told reporters during a White House briefing.
by:nytimes
Construction workers in Barcelona on Tuesday, after being allowed to return to work.Credit...Samuel Aranda for The New York Times
Slowly, tentatively, a handful of European countries began lifting constraints on daily life this week for the first time since the start of the coronavirus crisis, providing an early litmus test of whether Western democracies can gingerly restart their economies and restore basic freedoms without reviving the spread of the disease.
On Tuesday, Italy, the epicenter of Europe’s crisis, reopened some bookshops and children’s clothing stores. Spain allowed workers to return to factories and construction sites, despite a daily death toll that remains over 500. Austria allowed thousands of hardware and home improvement stores to reopen, as long as workers and customers wore masks.
by:theatlantic
A worker in Cannes, France, sprayed disinfectant last week. Scientists say that while hand washing is essential, there is not yet evidence that the virus can be transmitted by touching surfaces.Credit...Valery Hache/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The images are compelling: Fire trucks in Tehran or Manila spray the streets. Amazon tests a disinfectant fog inside a warehouse, hoping to calm workers’ fears and get them back on the job. Families nervously wipe their mail and newly delivered groceries.
These efforts may help people feel like they and their government are combating the coronavirus. But in these still-early days of learning how to tamp down the spread of the virus experts disagree on how best to banish the infectious germs.
by: NYtimes
Closed businesses in Brooklyn on Saturday.Credit...Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
The International Monetary Fund has warned that the global growth is headed for its worst performance since the Great Depression, with a new forecast predicting the world economy will contract by 3 percent in 2020.
The stark forecast, issued on Tuesday in the fund’s World Economic Outlook, took into account the weeks of shuttered factories, quarantines and national lockdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic that have caused economic output around the world to collapse.
by: NYtimes
Millions of voters, all wearing masks, lined up at polling places across South Korea on Wednesday to elect the country’s 300-member National Assembly, even as the country fought to control the coronavirus.
Voters had their temperatures taken before being allowed to enter polling places. That step was part of safety precautions enforced by disease-control officials who are trying to ensure that the election will take place without causing mass infections. Those with high temperatures were led to vote in booths separate from the others.
From CNN's Kevin Liptak
President Trump says he'll soon reveal details and guidelines for reopening the country but appeared to acknowledge that individual state governors will ultimately determine when to reverse stay-at-home orders.
Only a day earlier, Trump insisted he had absolute authority to determine when states would be able to reopen their economies.
But his message Tuesday was different. He said governors would determine their own plans. And while he said he was authorizing them to do it, there wasn't any evidence they would require such sign-off.
Senate Republicans investigating WHO and China's coronavirus response
Julie Tsirkin, Kasie Hunt and Haley Talbot
Congressional Republicans are planning their own probe into the coronavirus outbreak – examining how the World Health Organization and Chinese government responded to the pandemic from the onset.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee, led by Chairman Ron Johnson R-Wis., will conduct a “wide-ranging” oversight investigation into the origins of the virus and the WHO’s response to the virus, according to a committee source familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he was halting funding to the organization for having fumbled the response to the pandemic by failing to challenge the Chinese government's early accounts of how the virus was spreading. "The outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death," Trump said.
Source: Wall Street Journal
By Sebastian Herrera
Amazon.com Inc. has fired at least three warehouse employees and reprimanded several others who say they were singled out after pushing for better working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, a contention the company denies.
The current and former employees, who don’t belong to a union, say they are being retaliated against as they pushed the company for better treatment after helping to process an extraordinary surge in orders during a time of elevated worker absences.
Source: ZDNet
Australia's Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy has said the country has been looking closely at what Singapore has done to prevent the further spread of COVID-19, including some of the technologies that the city-state has been put in place.
Murphy told a New Zealand parliamentary hearing that Australia is "very keen" to use Singapore's coronavirus contact-tracing app, TraceTogether.
"We've actually got the code from Singapore, we're very keen to use it and use it perhaps even more extensively than Singapore," he said.
Source: NationalPost
Health workers wearing protective face masks react during a tribute for their co-worker Esteban, a male nurse that died of the coronavirus disease, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, outside the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain, April 13, 2020. Susana Vera / Reuters
MADRID/LONDON — Spain and Austria allowed partial returns to work on Tuesday but Britain, France and India extended coronavirus lockdowns to try to rein in the most serious pandemic in a century which the World Health Organization said had “certainly” not peaked.
Nearly two million people globally have been infected and more than 119,200 have died, according to a Reuters tally of official figures. The epicenter has moved from China, where the virus first emerged in December, to the United States which now has the highest death toll at 23,568.
World leaders, in considering easing curbs on movement, have to balance the risks to health and the economy, as the lockdowns strangled supply lines, especially in China, and brought economic activity to a virtual halt.
Source: The Guardian
A worker checks the temperature of a customer at the entrance of a supermarket in Turin, Italy. Photograph: Massimo Pinca/Reuters
Italy, Spain and Austria have allowed partial returns to work as countries across Europe reported further falls in new Covid-19 cases and began taking their first cautious steps out of lockdown to revive battered economies.
With the number of coronavirus infections nearing 2m globally, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it expected the global economy to shrink by 3.0% in 2020 – with rich western economies set to contract by 6.1% - in the steepest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Workers in Spain returned to some factory and construction jobs as the health ministry said that while the country’s death toll had surpassed 18,000, the highest in Europe after Italy, its daily increase in new cases was the lowest since 17 March.
Most shops and services remained closed, however, and office staff must still work from home if they can. Salvador Illa, the health minister, said he would proceed “with the utmost caution and prudence … and always based on scientific evidence”.
Source: The Guardian
A women walks past street art painted by Kai ‘Uzey’ Wohlgemuth featuring a nurse as Superwoman in Hamm, Germany. Photograph: Lars Baron/Getty Images
Germany’s government will extend restrictions on movement introduced last month to slow the spread of the coronavirus until at least 3 May, Handelsblatt business daily reported on Wednesday, citing the dpa news agency.
The chancellor, Angela Merkel, is holding a video conference on Wednesday, first with cabinet ministers and later with the leaders of Germany’s 16 states, who will try to agree on whether to ease the measures given some improvement in the situation.
Meanwhile, around 725,000 companies in Germany had applied for short-time work by 13 April, the Labour Office said on Wednesday.
That marked around a 12% increase compared with the previous week, it said, adding that applications had come from almost all sectors but particularly retail and catering.
Short-time work is a form of state aid that allows employers to switch employees to shorter working hours during an economic downturn to keep them on the payroll.
Source: The Guardian
Migrant workers and homeless people stand in a queue for food aid on the banks of the Yamuna River during a 21-day nationwide lockdown in India. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
India will allow industries located in the countryside to reopen next week, as well as resuming farm activities, to reduce the pain for millions of people hit by a lengthy shutdown in its coronavirus battle, the government said on Wednesday.
The prime minister, Narendra Modi, ordered India’s population of 1.3 billion to stay indoors for a further 19 days, after a strict three-week lockdown, saying it was critical to save lives amid the pandemic.
But he said he felt the pain of the poor and on Wednesday the home (interior) ministry released guidelines allowing limited resumption of commerce and industry in the hinterland, which has been less affected by the pandemic.
“To mitigate hardship to the public, select additional activities have been allowed, which will come into effect from April 20,” it said.
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