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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
2,635,716 |
+79,956 |
184,066 |
|
848,717 |
+29,973 |
47,659 |
|
|
208,389 |
+4,211 |
21,717 |
|
|
187,327 |
+3,370 |
25,085 |
|
|
159,877 |
+1,827 |
21,340 |
|
|
150,648 |
+2,195 |
5,315 |
|
|
133,495 |
+4,451 |
18,100 |
|
|
98,674 |
+3,083 |
2,376 |
|
|
85,996 |
+1,194 |
5,391 |
|
|
82,788 |
+30 |
4,632 |
|
|
57,999 |
+5,236 |
513 |
|
|
45,757 |
+2,678 |
2,906 |
|
|
41,889 |
+933 |
6,262 |
|
|
40,190 |
+1,768 |
1,974 |
|
|
34,842 |
+708 |
4,054 |
|
|
28,268 |
+205 |
1,509 |
|
|
21,982 |
+603 |
785 |
|
|
21,370 |
+1,290 |
681 |
|
|
19,250 |
+1,413 |
530 |
|
|
16,671 |
+631 |
769 |
|
|
16,004 |
+682 |
1,937 |
|
|
14,925 |
+52 |
510 |
|
|
14,498 |
+556 |
189 |
|
|
12,772 |
+1,141 |
114 |
|
|
11,950 |
+438 |
299 |
|
|
11,296 |
+464 |
160 |
|
|
10,850 |
+452 |
537 |
|
|
10,694 |
+11 |
238 |
|
|
10,169 |
+313 |
426 |
|
|
10,141 |
+1,016 |
12 |
|
|
10,076 |
+511 |
212 |
|
|
9,710 |
+468 |
524 |
|
|
9,501 |
+729 |
857 |
|
|
8,238 |
+483 |
52 |
|
|
7,912 |
+217 |
384 |
|
|
7,418 |
+283 |
635 |
|
|
7,338 |
+97 |
187 |
|
|
7,281 |
+558 |
58 |
|
|
7,141 |
+608 |
10 |
|
|
7,132 |
+99 |
208 |
|
|
7,114 |
+224 |
134 |
|
|
6,710 |
+111 |
446 |
|
|
6,649 |
+4 |
74 |
|
|
6,592 |
+467 |
174 |
|
|
5,532 |
+50 |
93 |
|
|
5,300 |
+256 |
260 |
|
|
4,821 |
+163 |
141 |
|
|
4,356 |
+207 |
206 |
|
|
4,129 |
+115 |
149 |
|
|
3,772 |
+390 |
120 |
|
|
3,659 |
+169 |
276 |
|
|
3,654 |
+36 |
80 |
|
|
3,635 |
+170 |
65 |
|
|
3,446 |
+237 |
149 |
|
|
3,288 |
+144 |
159 |
|
|
2,910 |
+99 |
402 |
|
|
2,826 |
+15 |
49 |
|
|
2,778 |
+164 |
75 |
|
|
2,408 |
+7 |
121 |
|
|
2,248 |
+168 |
13 |
|
|
2,168 |
+70 |
225 |
|
|
2,135 |
+140 |
19 |
|
|
2,027 |
+54 |
7 |
|
|
1,950 |
+42 |
48 |
|
|
1,785 |
+7 |
10 |
|
|
1,716 |
+38 |
7 |
|
|
1,631 |
+29 |
83 |
|
|
1,614 |
+106 |
8 |
Disinfecting a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday.Credit...Rahat Dar/EPA, via Shutterstock
Clerics and governments across the Muslim world will greet the holy month of Ramadan this week under lockdown, working together to shut mosques and urging worshipers to pray at home. But in Pakistan, some of the most-prominent imams have rallied their devotees to ignore the anti-pandemic measures.
Most clerics complied with the government’s announcement of a lockdown late last month, keeping people at home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. But some of the most influential imams immediately called on worshipers to attend Friday prayers in even greater numbers. Devotees attacked police officers who tried to get in their way.
A checkpoint in the border city of Suifenhe, in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang, on Tuesday.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Several cities in China’s north have taken new epidemic prevention measures this week in an effort to stamp out a flare-up of the coronavirus.
The scale of new cases appears modest: Chinese state media tallied dozens of new infections, all of which experts said were linked to the return of Chinese from Russia and the United States. Still, it isn’t clear the spread has been entirely contained, and local governments put limits on travel and issued bulletins to increase vigilance.
Officials have stopped short of cutting off Harbin, a city of 10 million where the outbreak has been most severe, but the city said earlier this week that neighborhoods should ban outsiders from entering communities. Nearby Qiqihar also banned outsiders from visiting neighborhoods, and it warned residents against traveling to at-risk areas, including Harbin.
President Trump on Wednesday said that he disagreed “strongly” with the Georgia governor’s decision to allow barbershops, nail salons and other businesses in the state to reopen this week.
“I think it’s too soon,” he said at a White House briefing.
Mr. Trump also said that the coronavirus “won’t be coming back in the form that it was” this fall or winter, then mused that it might not come back at all. But the government scientists flanking him at the White House news briefing explicitly disagreed with his predictions.
The coronavirus has been slow to come to Haiti. There have been only 58 confirmed cases and four deaths in the country.
Last week, Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe announced that factories would reopen at reduced capacity, a rare bit of encouraging news for a nation that has been lashed by deadly hurricanes, a cholera outbreak and a horrific earthquake in just the past decade.
But with Haitian workers returning from the Dominican Republic — which has been hit hard by Covid-19 — the odds are stacked against the country and its weak health care system.
Most Haitians lack access to clean water, let alone soap, and many live in tightly packed slums where social distancing is impossible. The nation’s health care system is so threadbare that Haitians regularly die of easily treatable ailments like diarrhea.
The alarming messages came fast and furious in mid-March, popping up on the phone screens and social media feeds of millions of Americans grappling with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
Spread the word, the messages said: The Trump administration was about to lock down the entire country.
“They will announce this as soon as they have troops in place to help prevent looters and rioters,” warned one of the messages, which cited a source in the Department of Homeland Security. “He said he got the call last night and was told to pack and be prepared for the call today with his dispatch orders.”
The messages became so widespread over 48 hours that the White House’s National Security Council issued an announcement via Twitter that they were “FAKE.”
From CNN Business' Brian Stelter
A pedestrian walks past a closed business, in Manhattan, New York, on April 10. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
To understand what the coming months will be like, try to tune out the politicians. There are way too many mixed messages coming from mayors, governors and presidential advisers. Tune into public health experts and CEOs instead.
Yes, CEOs: I think we're seeing a repeat of mid-March, when corporate leaders moved more swiftly than political leaders to shut down key sectors of American society. Now, in late April, we're seeing companies act much more realistically than elected officials like Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman.
To be sure, some elected officials are getting it right. But right now chief executives in the media and tech sectors seem to have a better grasp on consumer behavior and psychology than many political pros. Here are some examples:
From CNN's Nadine Schmidt in Berlin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the country is still at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, warning the situation will remain very difficult for some time.
In an address to the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, Merkel told lawmakers: "We will be living with this virus for a long time to come."
She also vowed to further boost testing for the virus: "Testing, testing, testing is the way forward," she said.
Merkel used the address to express concern that some German states are relaxing social distancing measures too fast.
"We cannot return to daily life like before the virus," she warned. "Let’s remain clever and careful during the pandemic."
From CNN's Nadine Schmidt in Berlin
From Monday next week, wearing a face mask on public transportation and in stores will be mandatory in all 16 states in Germany.
Over the past few weeks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has advocated that people wear masks.
Last week, the federal state of Saxony in the east of the country pushed ahead, making wearing of masks compulsory to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Since then, more and more state leaders have implemented the wearing of masks in their states. Bremen became the last federal region to support the initiative and its senate is set to approve the decision on Friday.
Germany has reported more than 150,000 coronavirus infections, according to Johns Hopkins University. The death toll has risen to 5,094, the country’s center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute said on Thursday.
From CNN's Fred Pleitgen and Nadine Schmidt in Berlin
Medical staff tend to a coronavirus patient in the intensive care unit at Magdeburg's community hospital in Magdeburg, Germany, on April 16. Ronny Hartman/AFP/Getty Images
Germany’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 5,094, the country’s center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute, said on Thursday. That’s an increase of 215 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the number of new infections remains relatively moderate, with 2,352 cases recorded in 24 hours. Around 3,800 additional patients have recovered from the disease.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to address the German parliament on her government’s response to the pandemic on Thursday morning local time.
Germany has reported more than 150,000 coronavirus infections, according to Johns Hopkins University.
From CNN's Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio
Philip Kahn received two Bronze Battle Stars for his service in WWII, his grandson said. Courtesy Warren Zysman
A 100-year-old World War II veteran who died from Covid-19 lost his twin brother to the flu pandemic a century earlier, his grandson said.
Philip Kahn is the oldest veteran in Nassau County, New York, according to his family, and had been fearful of another pandemic happening in his lifetime, his grandson, Warren Zysman, told CNN.
"It was something he brought up quite frequently," Zysman said. "I would have conversations with him, he would say to me, 'I told you history repeats itself, 100 years is not that long of a period of time.'"
Kahn and his twin brother, Samuel, were born on December 5, 1919. His brother died weeks later, his grandson said.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-23-20-intl/index.html
China said on Thursday it would donate a further $30 million to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is seeking more than $1 billion to fund its battle against the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 180,000 people worldwide, Reuters reports.
The pledge comes about a week after U.S. President Donald Trump suspended funding to the WHO and accused the Geneva-based organisation of promoting Chinese “disinformation” about the virus, which emerged in the central city of Wuhan last year.
Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman of China’s foreign ministry, tweeted:
The donation aimed to support the global fight against COVID-19, in particular strengthening health systems in developing countries, she said, adding that China had already donated $20 million to the WHO on March 11.
On Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he hoped the Trump administration would reconsider its decision:
I hope the U.S. believes that this an important investment, not just to help others, but for the U.S. to stay safe also.
The United States contributed more than $400 million to the WHO in 2019, or roughly 15% of the organisation’s budget.
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