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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
2,828,826 |
+105,825 |
197,099 |
|
925,232 |
+38,958 |
52,193 |
|
|
219,764 |
+6,740 |
22,524 |
|
|
192,994 |
+3,021 |
25,969 |
|
|
159,828 |
+1,645 |
22,245 |
|
|
154,999 |
+1,870 |
5,760 |
|
|
143,464 |
+5,386 |
19,506 |
|
|
104,912 |
+3,122 |
2,600 |
|
|
88,194 |
+1,168 |
5,574 |
|
|
82,804 |
+6 |
4,632 |
|
|
68,622 |
+5,849 |
615 |
|
|
52,995 |
+3,503 |
3,670 |
|
|
44,293 |
+1,496 |
6,679 |
|
|
43,888 |
+1,778 |
2,302 |
|
|
36,535 |
+806 |
4,289 |
|
|
28,677 |
+181 |
1,589 |
|
|
24,447 |
+1,408 |
780 |
|
|
22,797 |
+444 |
854 |
|
|
22,719 |
+11,536 |
576 |
|
|
21,648 |
+734 |
634 |
|
|
18,184 |
+577 |
1,014 |
|
|
17,567 |
+812 |
2,152 |
|
|
15,102 |
+1,172 |
127 |
|
|
15,071 |
+69 |
530 |
|
|
15,058 |
+255 |
194 |
|
|
12,712 |
+344 |
345 |
|
|
12,306 |
+494 |
174 |
|
|
12,075 |
+897 |
12 |
|
|
11,940 |
+883 |
253 |
|
|
11,633 |
+1,089 |
1,069 |
|
|
10,892 |
+381 |
494 |
|
|
10,708 |
+6 |
240 |
|
|
10,417 |
+321 |
567 |
|
|
9,281 |
+525 |
64 |
|
|
8,773 |
+751 |
63 |
|
|
8,525 |
+761 |
10 |
|
|
8,211 |
+436 |
689 |
|
|
8,210 |
+137 |
403 |
|
|
7,647 |
+477 |
193 |
|
|
7,483 |
+207 |
144 |
|
|
7,463 |
+62 |
199 |
|
|
7,273 |
+86 |
214 |
|
|
7,192 |
+211 |
477 |
|
|
6,675 |
+8 |
79 |
|
|
5,749 |
+206 |
267 |
|
|
5,691 |
+88 |
96 |
|
|
5,166 |
+174 |
146 |
|
|
4,881 |
+320 |
225 |
|
|
4,689 |
+503 |
131 |
|
|
4,395 |
+111 |
177 |
|
|
4,220 |
+267 |
79 |
|
|
4,092 |
+201 |
294 |
|
|
3,758 |
+190 |
158 |
|
|
3,695 |
+30 |
85 |
|
|
3,607 |
+172 |
176 |
|
|
3,127 |
+120 |
415 |
|
|
3,110 |
+184 |
84 |
|
|
2,854 |
+15 |
50 |
|
|
2,614 |
+215 |
15 |
|
|
2,518 |
+301 |
8 |
|
|
2,490 |
+27 |
130 |
|
|
2,416 |
+127 |
25 |
|
|
2,383 |
+99 |
250 |
|
|
2,009 |
+28 |
51 |
The New York Times
India eased lockdown restrictions on Friday in some parts of the country, allowing markets to reopen in rural areas and outside known hot zones, and alleviating financial stress for tens of millions of people.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown last month to contain the coronavirus, most businesses shuttered across the country, except for those selling food, medicine and other essential items.
In an announcement on Friday night, India’s Ministry of Home Affairs said it would allow shops in rural areas to reopen, except liquor stores and those in malls or other large complexes.
Britain’s Parliament, center right, in London.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times
As the drumbeat grows for transparency about the secretive group guiding Britain’s response to the coronavirus — the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, or SAGE — the government acknowledged that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s most senior aide, Dominic Cummings, has listened in on the panel’s meetings.
But a spokesman for Downing Street said on Saturday that Mr. Cummings was not a member of the group and did not influence policy.
“No. 10 officials and officials from other departments attend/dial in to SAGE to listen to its discussions and occasionally ask questions, which is essential at a time the government is dealing with a global pandemic,” Downing Street said in a statement.
Opposition leaders have demanded more transparency from the group, whose members are largely anonymous and whose meetings are held in private. The British government says it is being “guided by the science” coming from the group, but critics say the science is unclear.
A Bangkok mosque on Thursday, hours before Ramadan began in Thailand. Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times
With the number of confirmed coronavirus infections nearing three million worldwide, the death toll is creeping toward 200,000. And as Saturday dawned, much of the world was still under some form of lockdown.
As Ramadan — the holy month of fasting, celebration and prayer for many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims — got underway, many mosques across the Middle East were shuttered.
And in Australia and New Zealand, the crowds that usually turn out for dawn services on Anzac Day were notably absent. The holiday commemorates the 1915 landing at Gallipoli and the deaths of roughly 75,000 people from the two countries who fought and died during World War I.
Still, many governments are starting to ease restrictions — or planning to. On Friday, the Czech government lifted a ban on travel, and Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès of Belgium said her country would begin a gradual easing of lockdown measures in May.
In other places, people were defying medical advice to stay home. In Pakistan, the government bowed to pressure from clerics and allowed mosques to remain open during Ramadan. And a women’s cricket league in the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu was holding its season final — a rare exception to a near-total shutdown of global sports.
A copy of “Mona Lisa” alongside Julia Tabolkina's recreation of it for the Izoizolyacia Facebook page.Credit...Julia Tabolkina, via Associated Press
“Composition VI,” an abstract painting by the Russian master Wassily Kandinsky, has now been restaged in the messy room of a Connecticut teenager.
His mother, Julia Vasilenko, a piano teacher, arranged cymbals, a guitar and a toy boat among the room’s contents to symbolize Kandinsky’s musical and marine motifs. A blue latex glove reminds the viewer of the present day.
People sheltering in place are seeking new ways to connection online, and amid the pandemic’s bleakness, some report a surge in creativity. Maybe this is why a Facebook group featuring lo-fi recreations of famous paintings has more than half a million members, just a few weeks after it was created.
The group — Izoizolyacia, combining the Russian words for “visual arts” and “isolation” — was started in Moscow by a project manager at a tech company. Its predominant language is Russian, but more than a third of its members live outside Russia.
A crowded street during the first day of Ramadan in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Friday.Credit...Ulet Ifansasti for The New York Times
President Trump has promised in a tweet to provide ventilators to Indonesia, where a rising number of coronavirus cases threatens to overwhelm the country’s poorly equipped and understaffed health care system.
“Just spoke to my friend, President Joko Widodo of the Republic of Indonesia,” Mr. Trump wrote on Friday. “Asking for Ventilators, which we will provide. Great cooperation between us!”
In reply, Mr. Joko’s spokesman, Fadjroel Rachman, tweeted on Saturday, “Thank you very much for great cooperation between the USA and the Republic of Indonesia Mr. President.”
Indonesia, with a population of 270 million, is the world’s fourth largest country but has only about 8,400 ventilators to help patients with the coronavirus, which has spread to all 34 provinces.
The Montmartre neighborhood of Paris near the Sacré-Cœur Basilica.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
Adam Nossiter, The Times’s Paris bureau chief, moved to the city at age 3 when his father was assigned to cover the European economy for The Washington Post. He moved back in 1983, in 1999 and then in 2015 when The Times posted him there. We asked him to share his thoughts on a Paris transformed by the pandemic.
Before Paris became a theme park for the global affluent, there was an older Paris I knew as a child, where sculpted horse heads announced butcher shops and you were likelier to find céleri rémoulade at the corner than $30,000 handbags aimed at tourists.
Echoes of that Paris have come back over the last month as the coronavirus stalked the city. It’s a paradox that the empty streets have made it easier to imagine Paris as a place where people actually live, and not just a polyglot destination for shopping and playing.
An ad hoc network of companies, wealthy individuals, academics and former diplomats has emerged to help the United States get the Chinese-made goods it needs to save coronavirus patients and protect front-line workers — and, perhaps, to help polish China’s dented image along the way.
The United States faces a desperate shortage of medical gear, including masks and ventilators, and Chinese factories are able to produce them. But a snarled supply chain and complicated politics stand between production and delivery, and people with stakes in keeping the U.S.-China relationship alive are stepping in to help.
Analysis from CNN's Angela Dewan
Barber Tommy Thomas gives long-time customer Fred Bentley a haircut after the Georgia governor allowed select businesses to open in Atlanta on April 24. Julio-Cesar Chavez/Reuters
People in the US state of Georgia can now get their nails done, their hair cut -- even get a tattoo or a massage -- after just three weeks of a state-wide stay-at-home order. That's an awful lot of touching, considering a highly contagious and deadly virus is going round.
These activities may give some people in Georgia a sense that life is returning to normal, but Gov. Brian Kemp's decision to allow such businesses to reopen Friday is a risky roll of the dice. In a state that has performed a relatively small number of coronavirus tests, Kemp is driving Georgia through this pandemic blindfolded.
As governments around the world begin easing their lockdowns -- and as new infections are inevitable -- they will get another chance to get their responses right.
Many are embracing that second chance, but some US states are not. There are now fears that reopening too quickly, or too boldly, could mean a second wave of infections in the US as fierce as the first.
From CNN's Swati Gupta in New Delhi
Closed stores at a market in New Dehli on April 20. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
India's Ministry of Home Affairs says some stores will be allowed to reopen, despite the nationwide lockdown.
Since the restrictions began in late March, only essential commodity stores have been able to open every day.
But in an order late Friday, the ministry allowed businesses in some market complexes to open -- even if they are selling goods not deemed essential.
Stores will have to operate with half their usual staff, and must ensure they wear masks and adhere to social distancing rules, the order said.
People wearing face masks at New York's Grand Central Station on April 24. Pablo Monsalve/VIEWpress/Getty Images
There are at least 890,524 cases of coronavirus in the United States, including at least 51,017 deaths, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
As states begin to include “probable deaths” in their counts, so will JHU. In the upcoming days, these changes may show as surges in the number of deaths in the country.
On Friday, JHU had 21,579 new reported cases and 1,130 more deaths in the US.
The totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases and those in the US military, veterans hospitals and federal prisons.
From CNN's Lauren Fox
A United States agency review has shed light on the early missteps of the administration in repatriating individuals in January from Wuhan, China, to March Air Reserve Base in California.
While the summary report makes clear that all individuals coming back from Wuhan were asymptomatic, it echoes some of the concerns raised in February by a whistleblower.
The report was sent to Congressional offices on Friday.
Margaret Beazley, Governor of New South Wales, speaks to the media in front of a near empty Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park in Sydney, Australia on April 25. Mark Kolbe/Getty Images
Wreaths have been laid at the Anzac memorial in Sydney in a scaled-back ceremony without the usual crowds.
Mass public gatherings are banned in Australia, where people typically attend services or marches on April 25 to commemorate soldiers lost during wartime.
Laying a wreath Saturday, New South Wales state governor Margaret Beazley commemorated the World War I fallen.
Singapore's migrant workers are suffering the brunt of the country's coronavirus cases
From CNN's Jessie Yeung, Joshua Berlinger, Manisha Tank and Isaac Yee
Migrant workers at a factory converted into a dormitory in Singapore on April 24. Ore Huiying/Getty Images
Rubel, a 28-year-old migrant worker in Singapore, is afraid. The dormitory he and other foreign workers live in has been locked down, and nobody is allowed in or out as government officials scramble to contain the country's novel coronavirus outbreak.
What's going on in Singapore: In recent weeks, the Asian city-state has had a dramatic spike in coronavirus infections, with thousands of new cases linked to clusters in foreign worker dormitories. To control the spread, the government has attempted to isolate the dormitories, test workers and move symptomatic patients into quarantine facilities.
But those measures have left hundreds of thousands of workers trapped in their dormitories, living cheek by jowl in cramped conditions that make social distancing near impossible.
From CNN's Nikki Carvajal
The United States will send ventilators to Ecuador, El Salvador and Indonesia, President Donald Trump tweeted Friday.
"Just spoke to my friend, President Joko Widodo of the Republic of Indonesia. Asking for Ventilators, which we will provide," the President wrote. "Great cooperation between us!"
Trump said he had a "great conversation with President Lenin Moreno" of Ecuador. He added that the US "will be sending them desperately needed Ventilators, of which we have recently manufactured many, and helping them in other ways. They are fighting hard against CoronaVirus!"
Trump also praised El Salvador for helping the US on immigration.
"Will be helping them with Ventilators, which are desperately needed," Trump wrote. "They have worked well with us on immigration at the Southern Border!"
From CNN's Nada Bashir
The United Kingdom will host a summit on June 4 to encourage the international community to “come together” to support the development of a Covid-19 vaccine, Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced Friday.
“Diseases have no borders, so we must come together to make sure that Gavi [The Vaccine Alliance] is fully funded and its expertise is at the heart of efforts to secure broad access to any COVID-19 vaccine,” Raab tweeted.
Gavi is an international organization that aims to bring the public and private sectors together to improve access to vaccines.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-25-20-intl/index.html
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