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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
2,480,503 |
+73,928 |
170,397 |
|
792,759 |
+28,123 |
42,514 |
|
|
200,210 |
+1,536 |
20,852 |
|
|
181,228 |
+2,256 |
24,114 |
|
|
155,383 |
+2,489 |
20,265 |
|
|
147,065 |
+1,323 |
4,862 |
|
|
124,743 |
+4,676 |
16,509 |
|
|
90,980 |
+4,674 |
2,140 |
|
|
83,505 |
+1,294 |
5,209 |
|
|
82,747 |
+12 |
4,632 |
|
|
47,121 |
+4,268 |
405 |
|
|
40,743 |
+2,089 |
2,587 |
|
|
39,983 |
+1,487 |
5,828 |
|
|
36,829 |
+1,773 |
1,690 |
|
|
33,405 |
+750 |
3,751 |
|
|
27,944 |
+204 |
1,429 |
|
|
20,863 |
+657 |
735 |
|
|
18,539 |
+924 |
592 |
|
|
16,325 |
+697 |
445 |
|
|
15,652 |
+401 |
687 |
|
|
14,795 |
+46 |
470 |
|
|
14,777 |
+392 |
1,580 |
|
|
13,713 |
+222 |
177 |
|
|
11,135 |
+338 |
263 |
|
|
10,674 |
+13 |
236 |
|
|
10,507 |
+419 |
139 |
|
|
10,484 |
+1,122 |
103 |
|
|
10,128 |
+660 |
507 |
|
|
9,593 |
+306 |
380 |
|
|
8,936 |
+190 |
478 |
|
|
8,892 |
+544 |
176 |
|
|
8,261 |
+764 |
686 |
|
|
8,014 |
+1,426 |
11 |
|
|
7,515 |
+131 |
364 |
|
|
7,265 |
+484 |
43 |
|
|
7,156 |
+78 |
181 |
|
|
6,900 |
+154 |
194 |
|
|
6,760 |
+185 |
590 |
|
|
6,630 |
+312 |
125 |
|
|
6,625 |
+13 |
71 |
|
|
6,459 |
+200 |
428 |
|
|
6,264 |
+1,485 |
51 |
|
|
6,015 |
+567 |
9 |
|
|
5,710 |
+261 |
151 |
|
|
5,425 |
+36 |
89 |
|
|
4,964 |
+284 |
235 |
|
|
4,467 |
+194 |
126 |
|
|
3,977 |
+185 |
189 |
|
|
3,868 |
+85 |
98 |
|
|
3,558 |
+8 |
75 |
|
|
3,333 |
+189 |
250 |
|
|
3,300 |
+142 |
58 |
|
|
3,046 |
+191 |
143 |
|
|
3,031 |
+90 |
142 |
|
|
2,948 |
+492 |
101 |
|
|
2,792 |
+27 |
47 |
|
|
2,718 |
+89 |
384 |
|
|
2,548 |
+76 |
70 |
|
|
2,245 |
+10 |
116 |
|
|
1,995 |
+80 |
9 |
|
|
1,984 |
+68 |
199 |
|
|
1,907 |
+26 |
7 |
|
|
1,881 |
+10 |
47 |
|
|
1,852 |
+176 |
19 |
|
|
1,773 |
+2 |
10 |
|
|
1,627 |
+62 |
5 |
|
|
1,574 |
+35 |
82 |
|
|
1,535 |
+7 |
40 |
|
|
1,440 |
+9 |
12 |
|
|
1,436 |
+38 |
19 |
|
|
1,410 |
+144 |
7 |
Turkey has surpassed China in its number of confirmed coronavirus cases, as the tally rose to more than 90,000 by Monday, with deaths reaching at least 2,140, according to official government figures. But the true death toll may be much higher.
Data compiled by The New York Times from records of deaths in Istanbul indicate that Turkey is grappling with a far bigger calamity from the coronavirus than official figures and statements indicate. The city alone recorded about 2,100 more deaths than expected from March 9 to April 12, based on weekly averages from the last two years, far more than officials reported for the whole of Turkey during that time.
While not all those deaths are necessarily directly attributable to the coronavirus, the numbers indicate a striking jump in fatalities that has coincided with the onset of the outbreak, a preliminary indicator that is being used by researchers to cut through the fog of the pandemic and assess its full toll in real time.
The government maintains that it acted swiftly, stopping flights and border crossings from five of the most affected countries in February and closing schools, restaurants and bars in mid-March when the first case of infection was confirmed.
President Donald J. Trump listening during his coronavirus news conference on Monday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
President Trump said on Monday that he intended to close the United States to people trying to immigrate into the country to live and work, his most wide-ranging attempt yet to seal the country off from the rest of the world.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has said health concerns justified moving swiftly to bar asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants from entering the country, alarming immigration activists who have said that Mr. Trump and his advisers were using a global pandemic to further hard-line immigration policies.
Mr. Trump also defended his administration’s handling of coronavirus testing, saying the nation had excess capacity even as some governors insisted that they lacked crucial materials, including nasal swabs and chemical reagents.
Michael Ryan, left, head of the W.H.O.’s emergencies program, at a coronavirus briefing in March.Credit...Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
There is no approved treatment for or vaccine against infection with the coronavirus. More than two dozen companies have announced vaccine programs; at least three candidates already are in human trials.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has warned that a vaccine is at least 18 months away. Other experts say even that timeline is optimistic.
For over a thousand years, Cairo’s oldest mosques kept their doors open — through the Black Death of the 14th century, the devastating cholera epidemics of the 19th century and the Spanish flu in the winter of 1918 that claimed 140,000 Egyptian lives.
Then the coronavirus hit.
On the first day of the lockdown at Al Azhar, a famed center of scholarship that opened in A.D. 972, tears flowed down the cheeks of the muezzin, Sheikh Mohamed Rashad Zaghloul, as he made the call to prayer in an empty hall.
Iraqi civil defense workers disinfecting a street in the Tweirij district in Karbala, Iraq, last week.Credit...Mohammed Sawaf/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Iran continued its gradual rebooting of its economy on Monday by reopening traditional bazaars and modern shopping malls and lifting travel restrictions around the country, while Iraq loosened a curfew it has had in place for nearly five weeks.
The Iranian government has called its plan “smart distancing,” rather than the strict social distancing measures imposed by most other countries hoping to flatten the rate of infection as they fight the coronavirus pandemic. But not much distancing was observed as commuters packed trains and buses and shoppers crowded the narrow, winding passageways that shape Tehran’s traditional bazaar.
Migrant workers are seen outside their dormitory rooms in Singapore on April 21. Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images
Singapore confirmed 1,111 new cases of the novel coronavirus today, the vast majority of whom are work permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories.
Only 20 cases were Singaporean citizens or permanent residents, according to the health ministry.
Less than a month ago, the city-state was being hailed as one of the countries that had got its coronavirus response right. But then the second wave hit, hard.
Since March 17, Singapore's number of confirmed coronavirus cases grew from 266 to at least 8,014, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
From CNN's Fred Pleitgen and Stephanie Halasz
Germany reported 1,785 new coronavirus infections today -- a relatively low number compared to just a week or two ago when new daily cases were double that figure.
The country also reported 194 deaths today. That raises its total to 143,457 reported cases and 4,598 deaths, according to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany's center for disease control and prevention.
Officials lifted some social distancing measures on Monday, raising concerns that new cases could spike.
Around 3,700 more patients have recovered from Covid-19, according to the Robert Koch Institute. The government has emphasized the importance of keeping the number of recovered patients higher than the number of new infections.
From CNN's Swati Gupta in New Delhi
A total of 53 journalists tested positive for Covid-19 last week in in Mumbai, India, according to the local council body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
BMC said it had tested 167 journalists in the city who were reporting on the crisis. Those who tested positive are now in isolation.
The positive cases include reporters, cameramen, photographers, and van operators, said Amey Ghole, head of the BMC Health Committee.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during her weekly news conference at the government headquarters in Hong Kong on April 21. Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
Hong Kong is extending social distancing measures and closures for another 14 days, with city leaders warning that it's too soon to relax the rules.
The city reported no new cases yesterday, a promising sign that its outbreak may be slowing after a second wave saw cases spike in March. But Chief Executive Carrie Lam warned at a briefing that Hong Kong couldn't let its guard down and risk having containment measures be in vain.
Social distancing measures due to end on April 23 have been extended through May 7.
People line up outside a social security office in Melbourne, Australia on April 20. William West/AFP/Getty Images
An estimated 780,000 jobs were cut in Australia after the country announced business closures and shutdown measures, according to new government data.
The data, collected and released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Australian Taxation Office, showed that jobs nationwide decreased by 6% between March 14 and April 4.
On February 20, the country had just over 13 million employed people in its labor force, according to the ABS. Assuming that number held steady over the next few weeks, that would mean about 780,000 jobs were lost.
People aged under 20 were worst hit; jobs in this demographic fell by 9.9%.
Geographically, the states of Victoria and Tasmania had the biggest decreases in jobs.
In terms of sector, the accommodation and food services industries were predictably the hardest hit -- more than a quarter of all jobs in these sectors were cut. The next highest cuts came in the arts and recreation services industries.
Supplies donated by Jack Ma are unloaded at the airport in Dakar, Senegal, on March 28. Sadak Souici/AFP/Getty Images
Alibaba founder Jack Ma, the billionaire who helped usher e-commerce into China, announced today that he is donating millions of masks and test kits to the World Health Organization.
In a post on Chinese social media platform Weibo, Ma said he and Alibaba would donate 100 million clinical masks, 1 million N-95 masks, and 1 million test kits to the WHO. "One world, one fight," the post read.
Source: The Guardian
The reports from Denmark that gatherings of 500 people will be allowed from 10 May were inaccurate. The Danish government has announced it will not allow gatherings of more than 500 people until at least 1 September. And that the ban on gatherings of more than 10 people will stay in place until at least 10 May. I’ve corrected this post.
Thank you to journalists and readers in Denmark for pointing that out.
Denmark moved fast to try and stem the coronavirus outbreak, first imposing lockdown restrictions on 12 March before there had been any deaths. 364 people are reported to have died in the country.
Source: The Guardian
Italy will announce its plans for the gradual reopening from lockdown before the end of this week, the country’s prime minister has said in a Facebook post. He said measures to stem the spread of coronavirus would be eased from 4 May.
Giuseppe Conte said:
I wish I could say: let’s reopen everything. Immediately. We start tomorrow morning ... But such a decision would be irresponsible. It would make the contagion curve go up in an uncontrolled way and would nullify all the efforts we have made so far.
We must act on the basis of a national (reopening) plan, which however takes into account the territorial peculiarities.
Medicine
