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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
4,009,291 |
+97,128 |
275,976 |
|
1,321,785 |
+29,162 |
78,615 |
|
|
260,117 |
+3,262 |
26,299 |
|
|
217,185 |
+1,327 |
30,201 |
|
|
211,364 |
+4,649 |
31,241 |
|
|
187,859 |
+10,699 |
1,723 |
|
|
176,079 |
+1,288 |
26,230 |
|
|
170,588 |
+1,158 |
7,510 |
|
|
145,892 |
+10,199 |
9,992 |
|
|
135,569 |
+1,848 |
3,689 |
|
|
104,691 |
+1,556 |
6,541 |
|
|
82,886 |
+1 |
4,633 |
|
|
66,434 |
+1,512 |
4,569 |
|
|
61,847 |
+3,321 |
1,714 |
|
|
59,695 |
+3,344 |
1,985 |
|
|
52,011 |
+591 |
8,521 |
|
|
42,093 |
+319 |
5,359 |
|
|
35,432 |
+1,701 |
229 |
|
|
30,207 |
+81 |
1,823 |
|
|
29,616 |
+1,982 |
2,961 |
|
|
28,818 |
1,704 |
||
|
27,268 |
+553 |
1,114 |
|
|
26,435 |
+1,791 |
599 |
|
|
25,972 |
+1,391 |
294 |
|
|
25,265 |
+642 |
3,175 |
|
|
22,541 |
+156 |
1,429 |
|
|
21,707 |
+768 |
20 |
|
|
21,101 |
+933 |
121 |
|
|
20,201 |
+1,311 |
12 |
|
|
16,793 |
+553 |
174 |
|
|
16,436 |
+55 |
245 |
|
|
15,774 |
+22 |
614 |
|
|
15,575 |
+98 |
590 |
|
|
15,366 |
+319 |
776 |
|
|
14,811 |
+312 |
923 |
|
|
14,195 |
+504 |
361 |
|
|
13,134 |
+709 |
206 |
|
|
13,112 |
+336 |
943 |
|
|
10,822 |
+12 |
256 |
|
|
10,463 |
+120 |
696 |
|
|
10,218 |
+135 |
522 |
|
|
10,051 |
+595 |
428 |
|
|
9,943 |
+95 |
209 |
|
|
9,376 |
+281 |
380 |
|
|
8,895 |
+663 |
178 |
|
|
8,476 |
+495 |
503 |
|
|
8,077 |
+46 |
273 |
|
|
8,070 |
+36 |
218 |
|
|
7,868 |
+137 |
225 |
|
|
7,208 |
+641 |
47 |
|
|
6,914 |
+18 |
97 |
|
|
6,535 |
+68 |
107 |
|
|
5,738 |
+65 |
260 |
|
|
5,711 |
+163 |
186 |
|
|
5,611 |
+240 |
293 |
|
|
5,369 |
+187 |
488 |
|
|
4,834 |
+256 |
31 |
|
|
4,728 |
+123 |
150 |
|
|
4,444 |
+245 |
8 |
|
|
4,012 |
+921 |
18 |
|
|
3,912 |
+386 |
117 |
|
|
3,871 |
+12 |
100 |
|
|
3,778 |
+215 |
109 |
|
|
3,178 |
+28 |
392 |
|
|
3,112 |
+154 |
16 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
A street in Seoul, South Korea’s capital, on Thursday evening.Credit...Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
The mayor of Seoul, South Korea, ordered all the city’s bars and nightclubs closed indefinitely on Saturday, after the discovery of a new cluster of dozens of coronavirus cases in a country that for weeks had reported around 10 new infections a day.
A 29-year-old man from Yongin, south of Seoul, tested positive on Wednesday. While investigating his contacts, South Korean epidemiologists learned that he had visited three nightclubs in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in the capital, last Saturday.
They immediately began tracing 1,500 people who were believed to have been in those nightclubs around that time the patient. So far, 27 patients have been found who went to the clubs or had contact with people who did, a senior disease-control official, Kwon Jun-wok, said during a news briefing on Saturday.
But the mayor, Park Won-soon, gave a higher figure, saying at least 40 patients were connected to the nightclubs and the 29-year-old patient, and said officials were still seeking more than 1,000 people believed to have been in the nightclubs.
The cluster has emerged as the country started relaxing social-distancing restrictions. Some customers of the nightclubs did not follow the government recommendation that all South Koreans in crowded places wear masks, officials said.
Mr. Park accused those nightclub patrons of sabotaging South Korea’s thus-far successful efforts to bring the coronavirus under control.
A protest in Buenos Aires on Thursday over the country’s economic woes.Credit...Juan Ignacio Roncoroni/EPA, via Shutterstock
Argentina is hurtling toward default on international loans in two weeks, a prospect that threatens to revive its reputation as a serial deadbeat and global financial pariah that could haunt the Latin American country long after the coronavirus pandemic is over.
If Argentina defaults, which as of Friday appeared likely, it would be the third time in two decades that the country has failed to meet loan payments after having amassed billions of dollars in foreign debt in a deepening spiral of economic dysfunction. Argentina would join Lebanon as the first defaulters in the financial tumult caused by the coronavirus.
Argentina’s 45 million people already were suffering through the third year of a serious downturn when the coronavirus scourge hit, accelerating the economic pain by forcing a lockdown that closed many businesses and left workers jobless.
That suddenly threw a wrench into the government’s plans to restructure $66 billion in debt owed to a range of mostly foreign creditors that include Wall Street investment banks and other private investors around the world. Some of that debt is a vestige of unpaid loans from Argentina’s default in 2001.
The country faces a $500 million interest payment May 22.
The center-left government, elected just seven months ago, says it cannot afford to meet obligations to international creditors while it is raising health care spending and providing emergency cash to Argentines already reeling from soaring inflation and rising poverty.
Ugandan police officers taking a man into custody during a patrol after a 7 p.m. curfew in April.Credit...Sumy Sadurni/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
In the midst of an aggressive campaign by the government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Kenya was hit by a blackout that affected neighboring Uganda on Saturday. The countries’ power grids are interconnected.
In a statement, Kenya Power and Lighting Company announced “a system disturbance which occurred on our transmission network at 5:49 a.m. this morning.” The cause of the power cut to the national grid was not immediately clear. But blackouts in the country are not uncommon, especially in rainy seasons.
“Our engineers are working to identify and address the hitch, towards restoring normal electricity supply,” the statement said.
The Uganda Electricity Transmission Co. Ltd., the largest energy distributor in the nation, said in a statement that the country had also suffered a nationwide blackout. “We have lost transmission across the nation,” the statement said. “Please bear with us as we investigate the cause and work on restoration.”
In January 2018, both countries suffered major blackouts.
Uganda has so far recorded 98 coronavirus cases but no deaths. The International Monetary Fund said this week that the country would receive an emergency loan worth $491.5 million to help cushion its economy from the impact of the outbreak as key sectors of the East African economy, including tourism, have taken a heavy blow from the crisis. The effect has been compounded by a lockdown of the entire population, a ban on public gatherings, the closing of schools, a ban on most vehicles from the roads and the closure of all but essential businesses.
A four-legged robot called Spot, which broadcasts a recorded message reminding people to observe safe distancing, at a park in Singapore on Friday.Credit...Roslan Rahman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
With all public and private gatherings banned in Singapore and people trying to cope by exercising outside, the authorities have found a human-free way to patrol a park and gently remind visitors to observe social-distancing measures.
The four-legged machine, named Spot and developed by Boston Dynamics, can shimmy, moonwalk and climb stairs. Spot also has a bark, of sorts: A speaker that allows the robot’s remote handlers to issue commands — in this case, a recorded message in a female voice.
“Let’s keep Singapore healthy,” Spot said Friday while sauntering down a path at a local park. “For your own safety and for those around you, please stand at least one meter apart. Thank you.”
Spot’s deployment comes as other countries wrestle with similar issues of crowds seeking some relief from isolation in city parks and other open spaces. New York City, hard-hit by the coronavirus, plans to limit entry to some parks to prevent crowds and the spread of infections.
The Singapore government said that although Spot would be fitted with cameras and sensors to estimate crowd sizes, the robot would not collect personal data, a key concern that has arisen as countries seek more technological solutions to limiting in-person human interaction.
If Spot manages to last through a two-week trial, more robots could be deployed to patrol parks in Singapore, where a relentless surge in infections linked to migrant worker dormitories has shown no sign of stopping. The city-state has had more than 22,000 infections, with 753 recorded on Saturday.
A Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York in February.Credit...Johannes Eisele/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
A vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a halt to all armed conflicts because of the coronavirus pandemic was blocked on Friday by the United States, apparently because it contained language indicating support for the World Health Organization.
President Trump has accused the W.H.O., an arm of the United Nations, of a bias toward China and a failure to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, which was first seen in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December. Mr. Trump suspended American funding of the W.H.O. last month, a significant financial blow to the organization. The suspension was widely criticized by public health advocates who see the W.H.O. as critical in overcoming the pandemic, which has infected nearly four million people and killed more than 274,000.
Diplomats said the Security Council resolution, which had undergone several revisions aimed partly at satisfying American objections, had nearly reached the stage where it could be put to a vote. But the United States delegation informed other council members in an email on Friday that it still could not support the measure.
Even though the resolution does not specifically mention the W.H.O., the diplomats said it expressed the need to support the “specialized health agencies” of the United Nations.
Tensions between China and the United States over the coronavirus have paralyzed any possible action to fight the pandemic by the Security Council, which is the most powerful body at the United Nations. Its resolutions have the force of international law.
Even though the cease-fire resolution would most likely have done little to halt armed conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya and other trouble spots, it was seen as an important expression of backing for Secretary General António Guterres, who has been calling for such a cease-fire since March.
From:The New York Times
The American economy plunged deeper into crisis last month, losing 20.5 million jobs as the unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent, the worst devastation since the Great Depression.
Job losses have encompassed the entire economy, affecting every major industry. Areas like leisure and hospitality had the biggest losses in April, but even health care shed more than a million jobs. Low-wage workers, including many women and members of racial and ethnic minorities, have been hit especially hard.
“What would typically take months or quarters to play out in a recession happened in a matter of weeks this time,” said Michelle Meyer, head of U.S. economics at Bank of America.
Hoping to stem some of the economic fallout, three mostly rural California counties allowed some businesses to resume in violation of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reopening guidelines. Mr. Newsom warned the counties that they risked forgoing disaster funding if they continued to flout his rules.
He also ordered ballots to be sent to the state’s 20.6 million voters for the November election, making California the first state to alter its voting plans for the general election in response to the pandemic. The decision shows that officials believe the outbreak is unlikely to subside by the fall.
Patients with mild to moderate Covid-19 appeared to improve more quickly if they were treated with a three-drug cocktail, compared with a group receiving just a two-drug combination, scientists reported on Friday.
In the new study, published in The Lancet, researchers at six public hospitals in Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong followed 127 adults with Covid-19, including 86 on the three-drug cocktail and 41 in a comparison group.
Their study was a preliminary Phase 2 trial, intended to see if a treatment works. (It does not determine whether the treatment is better than other options, but there are few other options for the coronavirus.)
The patients who were started on the cocktail within seven days of having their first symptoms stopped shedding the virus — meaning they were recovering and no longer infectious — earlier than patients in the comparison group, the researchers found.
The patients on the triple-drug combination also appeared to get better faster, and they had significantly shorter hospital stays than the comparison group, according to the study.
Included in the cocktail were three antiviral drugs: lopinavir-ritonavir (sold under the brand name Kaletra), taken orally; ribavirin, an antiviral drug used to treat hepatitis C, also taken orally; and interferon beta-1b, an injectable drug used to treat multiple sclerosis that regulates inflammation and suppresses viral growth.
Patients given the three-drug cocktail tested negative for the coronavirus within seven days, on average, compared with an average 12 days among those treated with the one drug. The cocktail also cut the duration of Covid-19 symptoms in half, to four days from eight days.
From CNN's Swati Gupta in New Delhi
Medical staff collect coronavirus test samples at Ernakulam Medical College in Kerala, India, on April 6. Arun Chandrabose/AFP/Getty Images
The southern Indian state of Kerala announced Saturday that it had flattened its coronavirus curve.
The state crossed its 100th day since its first Covid-19 case was reported and currently has only 16 active cases, Kerala's State Finance Minister Thomas Isaac tweeted.
Kerala was the first state in India to report a positive case earlier this year. Since then, state officials have worked on aggressive isolation and treatment protocols.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has no plans to defer the Tokyo Olympics again, according to John Coates, the head of the IOC's inspectorate for the Games.
"We're proceeding on the basis that ... there is no Plan B of deferring the Games again or anything like that," Coates said Saturday.
In March, the IOC and the Japanese government postponed the Games until July 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
"We've got a task force at the IOC, a task force in Japan. This is a massive exercise, and we are working through now getting the same ... 43 venues," said Coates, who who also heads Australia's Olympic Committee.
The background: Last month, Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori said the Olympics could be canceled if the Covid-19 pandemic continues into next year.
Mori reiterated that organizers are still working towards holding the Games next year.
Fans cheer during the game between Fubon Guardians and Uni-President Lions at Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium in New Taipei City on May 8. Hsu Tsun-Hsu/AFP via Getty Images
Taiwan's professional baseball league played before spectators Friday for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
A thousand fans were allowed to attend Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium in New Taipei, where the home-team Fubon Guardians won 7-6 against the Uni-President Lions, state-run news agency Focus Taiwan reported.
Special rules: Fans had to wear face masks, sit in designated seats based on social distancing guidelines, and could not eat or drink, according to the article published on Friday.
From CNN's Max Foster and Rob Picheta
Queen Elizabeth II addresses the nation and the Commonwealth on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, from Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, on May 8. Buckingham Palace/AP
Queen Elizabeth II has likened the British public's response to the coronavirus pandemic with the efforts of its soldiers during World War II, in a televised speech delivered exactly 75 years after her father marked the end of fighting in Europe.
Speaking on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the Queen remembered her own experiences at the end of fighting on the continent and praised the "strength and courage" of British and Allied troops who brought about Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945.
"Never give up, never despair — that was the message of VE Day," the monarch said. "I vividly remember the jubilant scenes my sister and I witnessed with our parents and Winston Churchill from the balcony of Buckingham Palace."
Acknowledging the impact on modern British life of the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced this year's public commemorations to be canceled, she also drew parallels between the UK's wartime generation and their modern compatriots.
"Today it may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. Instead we remember from our homes and our doorsteps," she said at the conclusion of her speech. "But our streets are not empty; they are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other.
"When I look at our country today, and see what we are willing to do to protect and support one another, I say with pride that we are still a nation those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognize and admire," the Queen added.
The speech marked the second time the 94-year-old monarch has addressed the country since the coronavirus outbreak began — usually a rare occurrence saved only for her annual Christmas Day message.
From: CNN
Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization health emergencies program, said the lives of people across the world could face “significant alteration” until a coronavirus vaccine is developed.
“There is a path out, but we must remain ever vigilant. And we may have to have a significant alteration to our lifestyles, until we get to a point where we have an effective vaccine, or an effective treatments," Ryan said at a briefing Friday.
To reopen, “many countries are taking a very careful step-wise approach, relying on the patience and perseverance of their citizens to continue to suffer what is a difficult process both socially psychologically and economically for many people,” he said. “I think everyone is doing that because we want to protect those we love.”
Ryan sees the path out involving partial school openings, partial returns to workplaces and careful measures in high-density areas.
But for events like concerts and sports, he said, “it's going to be much more difficult to make those perfectly safe."
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-09-20-intl/index.html
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