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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
4,178,154 |
+79,875 |
283,734 |
|
1,367,638 |
+20,329 |
80,787 |
|
|
264,663 |
+1,880 |
26,621 |
|
|
219,183 |
+3,923 |
31,855 |
|
|
219,070 |
+802 |
30,560 |
|
|
209,688 |
+11,012 |
1,915 |
|
|
176,970 |
+312 |
26,380 |
|
|
171,879 |
+555 |
7,569 |
|
|
162,699 |
+6,638 |
11,123 |
|
|
138,657 |
+1,542 |
3,786 |
|
|
107,603 |
+1,383 |
6,640 |
|
|
82,901 |
+14 |
4,633 |
|
|
68,848 |
+1,146 |
4,870 |
|
|
67,307 |
+2,292 |
1,889 |
|
|
67,161 |
+4,353 |
2,212 |
|
|
53,081 |
+485 |
8,656 |
|
|
42,627 |
+245 |
5,440 |
|
|
39,048 |
+1,912 |
246 |
|
|
33,460 |
+1,938 |
3,353 |
|
|
30,334 |
+1,598 |
659 |
|
|
30,305 |
+54 |
1,833 |
|
|
29,559 |
+488 |
2,127 |
|
|
28,866 |
+1,647 |
312 |
|
|
27,581 |
+175 |
1,135 |
|
|
26,322 |
+401 |
3,225 |
|
|
23,336 |
+876 |
20 |
|
|
22,996 |
+236 |
1,458 |
|
|
22,973 |
+921 |
131 |
|
|
22,520 |
+1,189 |
14 |
|
|
18,198 |
+781 |
198 |
|
|
16,477 |
+23 |
252 |
|
|
15,996 |
+345 |
800 |
|
|
15,871 |
+38 |
618 |
|
|
15,777 |
+114 |
624 |
|
|
15,362 |
+231 |
961 |
|
|
15,232 |
+522 |
391 |
|
|
14,657 |
+887 |
228 |
|
|
14,032 |
+387 |
973 |
|
|
11,063 |
+568 |
463 |
|
|
10,874 |
+34 |
256 |
|
|
10,794 |
+184 |
719 |
|
|
10,429 |
+110 |
529 |
|
|
10,347 |
+465 |
388 |
|
|
10,114 |
+82 |
215 |
|
|
10,015 |
+595 |
194 |
|
|
9,400 |
+436 |
525 |
|
|
8,688 |
+1,065 |
58 |
|
|
8,282 |
+212 |
237 |
|
|
8,123 |
+28 |
280 |
|
|
8,105 |
+6 |
219 |
|
|
6,941 |
+12 |
97 |
|
|
6,656 |
+67 |
108 |
|
|
6,063 |
+153 |
188 |
|
|
6,034 |
+258 |
305 |
|
|
5,962 |
+82 |
267 |
|
|
5,723 |
+165 |
502 |
|
|
5,090 |
+115 |
31 |
|
|
4,941 |
+167 |
8 |
|
|
4,927 |
+60 |
169 |
|
|
4,402 |
+369 |
120 |
|
|
4,399 |
+248 |
143 |
Source： https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary, center, has tested positive for the coronavirus.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Three top officials leading the White House response to the pandemic began to self-quarantine over the weekend after two Trump administration staff members — a valet to President Trump and Katie Miller, the press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence — tested positive for the virus.
Among those who will be sequestered for two weeks is Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the nation’s leading infectious disease expert. So will Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Dr. Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
But Mr. Pence won’t isolate himself, a spokesman for the vice president said on Sunday night, contradicting a Bloomberg News journalist tweeting that Mr. Pence would self-quarantine.
“It is scary to go to work,” Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to the president, said on the CBS program “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
The devastation of the virus has been particularly acute for African-Americans. Many families, social scientists and public health experts now fear that racial bias may be contributing to the disproportionately high rate at which Covid-19 is killing African-Americans.
Acknowledging a history of implicit bias in medical care, the C.D.C. recently advised health care professionals to be careful not to let bias influence their treatment during the pandemic.
The National Medical Association, the country’s largest professional organization representing black doctors, is calling on federal health agencies to study the role bias may have played in the testing and treatment of African-Americans for Covid-19.
Its president, Dr. Oliver Brooks, said, “I think what we will find is race is a factor.”
The virus has also been particularly lethal for residents of nursing homes, who in New Jersey accounted for half of the state’s Covid-19 fatalities, including 72 at the New Jersey Veterans Home at Paramus, a state-run home for former members of the U.S. military.
“The whole place is sick now,” said Mitchell Haber, whose 91-year-old father, Arnold Haber, an Army veteran, died last month at the home, which is about 12 miles northwest of New York City.
While the death toll approached 80,000 people in the United States, the Trump administration signaled the increasingly painful toll of the crisis on the economy on Sunday.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday that the jobs figures would get worse before they got better. He said the real unemployment rate — including people who are underemployed as well as those entirely without work — could soon approach 25 percent.
“There are very, very large numbers,” Mr. Mnuchin said on “Fox News Sunday.”
The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to issue a warning that China’s most skilled hackers and spies are working to steal American research in the crash effort to develop vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus.
A draft of the forthcoming public warning, which officials say is likely to be issued in the days to come, says China is seeking “valuable intellectual property and public health data through illicit means related to vaccines, treatments and testing.”
It focuses on cybertheft and action by “nontraditional actors,” a euphemism for researchers and students the Trump administration says are being activated to steal data from inside academic and private laboratories.
The efforts are part of a surge in cybertheft and attacks by nations seeking advantage in the pandemic.
More than a dozen countries have redeployed military and intelligence hackers to glean whatever they can about other nations’ virus responses. Even American allies like South Korea and nations that do not typically stand out for their cyberabilities, like Vietnam, have suddenly redirected their state-run hackers to focus on virus-related information, according to private security firms.
The decision to issue a specific accusation against China’s state-run hacking teams, current and former officials said, is part of a broader deterrent strategy that also involves United States Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. Under legal authorities that President Trump issued nearly two years ago, they have the power to bore deeply into Chinese and other networks to mount proportional counterattacks.
The forthcoming warning is the latest iteration of a series of efforts by the Trump administration to blame China for being the source of the pandemic and exploiting its aftermath.
The Central Business District in Sydney, Australia, on Monday.Credit...Dean Lewins/EPA, via Shutterstock
New Zealand and Australia have begun to ease social distancing restrictions with small numbers of family and friends allowed to visit each other’s homes or go to restaurants.
The Australian state of Victoria, which has moved extremely cautiously in responding to the coronavirus pandemic, will now allow visits of up to five people between homes and gatherings of up to 10 people outdoors, the state’s premier, Daniel Andrews, said on Monday morning.
New South Wales, the state that includes Sydney, will adopt roughly the same guidelines as of Friday, following a plan released by the federal government that outlined how the country could largely resume normal domestic life by July.
In New Zealand, where Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern favored an especially severe lockdown that has lasted for nearly two months, restrictions are set to ease on Thursday to an even greater degree than in Australia.
A plane carrying coronavirus-related supplies that crashed in Somalia oone week ago may have been shot down by Ethiopian troops, according to a new report from the office of the African Union Force Commander in Somalia.
The report, which was leaked on Twitter, said Ethiopian troops not affiliated with the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia brought down the Kenyan-registered private plane out of fear that it was about to carry out a “suicide” attack.
The Somali authorities and officials within the African Union verified the authenticity of the report, but did not confirm its findings. An investigation of the crash is still underway.
The incident adds to long-running tensions in the region, where a history of distrust and unresolved disputes between Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia — as well as the stubborn presence of the Shabab terrorist group — threatens security and stability.
The cargo flight plunged to the earth on the afternoon of May 4 in the town of Bardale, in southwestern Somalia, killing all six people aboard. The plane had approached the airfield in Bardale from the west instead of the east, which is more common.
As the coronavirus has hopscotched the world, a paradox has emerged: Rich nations are not necessarily better at fighting the crisis than poorer ones.
In Europe, the disease has been burning through Britain, France and Italy, three of the continent’s four biggest economies. But smaller, poorer nations in the region quickly imposed and enforced tough restrictions, stuck to them, and have so far fared better at keeping the virus contained.
The nations include many in the former Communist East, as well as Greece and Croatia, where the authorities are cautiously optimistic about their people’s endurance in the face of adversity.
Those countries could draw on deep reservoirs of resilience born of relatively recent hardship. Compared to what their people had been through not long ago, the stringent lockdowns seemed less arduous, apparently prompting a larger social buy-in.
In Greece, where the strictures of the country’s debt crisis are fresh in most minds, the specter of one in three people being out of work is nothing new. In Croatia, many remember being barricaded indoors and hearing air raid sirens blaring for weeks on end during the conflict in the Balkans in the 1990s.
Ive Morovic, a 45-year-old barber in Zadar, Croatia, believes the focused way in which Croats have responded to the pandemic harks back to wartime and the legacy of communism.
“People today are afraid, and the discipline we all learned helps us get in line and creates some sort of forced unity,” he said.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/world/coronavirus-news.html
From CNN's David Culver and Lilit Marcus
Performers dressed as Disney characters welcome visitors during the reopening of Disneyland Shanghai on May 11 in Shanghai, China. Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
After three and a half months of closure following the initial outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus, Shanghai Disneyland has reopened its doors to visitors.
However, not everything at the theme park looks the same as it did before.
Normally, the park has a capacity of 80,000 people and 12,000 cast members -- Disney parlance for employees. But for reopening day on May 11, the cast members far outnumbered the guests, who were at less than the recommended 30% capacity.
Visitors to Shanghai Disneyland are now required to wear masks, have their temperatures taken and socially distance.
However, that did little to dampen the excitement of the Disney superfans who gathered to enjoy the park on its reopening day.
From CNN's Maija Ehlinger in Atlanta and CNN's Natalie Gallón in Mexico City
Aircraft of Colombian airline Avianca are seen on the tarmac at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota on August 28, 2019. Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
Colombian carrier Avianca, the world's second-oldest airline, filed for bankruptcy due to the "unforeseeable impact of the Covid-19 pandemic," according to a statement released on its website on Sunday.
The decision to file for bankruptcy was made with the intention to "protect and preserve operations" during the continuing pandemic.
According to the statement, Avianca directly employs 21,000 people throughout Latin America. Nearly 90% of countries where Avianca operates are under total or partial travel restrictions, according to additional information on the Avianca website.
From CNN Business' Chris Isidore in New York
Nearly empty lines are seen at the Delta ticket counters at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on May 4 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jim Mone/AP
US airline workers have been largely spared from the carnage that's pushed the country's unemployment to record highs since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. But those same workers -- roughly 750,000 pilots, flight attendants, baggage handlers, mechanics and others -- will soon be among the most at-risk for losing their jobs.
The federal bailout for the airline industry barred layoffs, involuntary furloughs or pay cuts for employees. But executives have been blunt that job cuts are coming once that prohibition lifts on October 1, with estimates that up to a third of the sector's jobs could disappear.
The airlines have already requested that workers take voluntary unpaid or low-paid leaves. About 100,000 workers at the four largest carriers -- American (AAL), United, Delta (DAL) and Southwest -- have done so, equal to about 26% of those companies' staffs at the end of 2019.
But even with that level of voluntary leaves, $25 billion in grants and low-interest loans from the federal bailout known as the CARES Act, airlines are hemorrhaging millions of dollars a day. The first-quarter losses in the industry topped $2 billion. The second quarter will be much worse.
From CNN's Jonny Hallam and Chandler Thornton in Atlanta
A doctor conducts a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing site in Berlin, Germany, on April 30. John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images
Germany's coronavirus reproduction rate is estimated to have risen over the crucial value of 1, reaching 1.13, according to the country's disease and control center, the Robert Koch Institute.
Prior to Saturday, Germany's reproduction rate was below 1, the institute reported.
The reproduction rate refers to how many people each person infected with coronavirus will infect on average.
The background: The increase in reproduction rate indicates a rise in infections across Germany, a few days after Chancellor Angela Merkel announced an easing of lockdown measures.
On Wednesday last week, Merkel announced a gradual reopening of all shops and schools, as well as the resumption of the Bundesliga soccer league, although there will be no spectators.
The Robert Koch Institute said there is still a "degree of uncertainty" with these estimates but the increase in reproduction rate "makes it necessary to observe the development very closely over the coming days."
Germany has reported more than 171,000 coronavirus cases, including over 7,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
From CNN’s Rishabh Pratap in New Delhi
Indian Railways announced passenger services will partially resume in the country starting Tuesday. The railways will start with special trains on 15 selected routes, including the New Delhi-Mumbai route, according to the Railways Ministry.
Indian Railways will then start additional special services on other routes, based on availability. Priority will be given to 20,000 coaches for Covid-19 care centers and then up to 300 trains every day to bring home stranded migrant workers across the country, the statement added.
Only passengers with valid confirmed tickets -- which can be purchased on Monday afternoon -- will be allowed to enter the railway stations and it will be mandatory for the passengers to wear a face cover and undergo screening at departure. Only asymptomatic passengers will be allowed to board the train.
The background: Indian railways stopped passenger services for the first time in 167 years on March 24 after a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus was announced. The lockdown is scheduled to continue to at least May 17.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-11-20-intl/index.html
Taxes on basic goods are to triple to 15%, spending on major projects cut by $26bn and a ‘cost of living allowance’ for individuals is to be scrapped.
“We are facing a crisis the world has never seen the likes of in modern history, a crisis marked by uncertainty,” said the Saudi finance minister and acting minister of economy and planning, Mohammed Al-Jadaan.
“These measures that have been undertaken today, as tough as they are, are necessary and beneficial to maintain comprehensive financial and economic stability.”
Saudi Arabia has experienced a substantial coronavirus outbreak, reporting 39,000 confirmed cases and 246 deaths. But the country has also been hit hard by the fall in oil prices, with crude now trading at around $30 a barrel, less than half the price at the end of 2019.
This is far below the range Saudi Arabia needs to balance its budget. The kingdom has also lost revenue from the suspension of Muslim pilgrimages to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which were closed to visitors due to the virus.
The decision to cut $26 billion in expenses, or about 100 billion Saudi riyals, includes cancelling, extending, or postponing some operational and capital expenditures for government agencies, as well reducing costs for major Vision 2030 projects that are the centerpiece of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plans for the country.
The cost-of-living allowance, is also to be withdrawn from June, a supplement that had cost the state about $13.5 billion a year.
VAT will also rise from 5% to 15% in July. The tax on most goods and services was only introduced in Saudi Arabia in 2018.
New Zealand to move to level 2 lockdown, easing some restrictions. Jacinda Ardern said parties, weddings, stag dos, and funerals will be capped at 10, both inside and outside, as the director-general of health had deemed these events “high-risk”, with the country’s largest Covid-19 clusters spreading from a wedding, a St Patrick’s day party and a conference. It came as the country reported three new cases.
South Korea has reported 35 new cases on Monday, 29 linked to Seoul clubs and bars which were attended by a man in his 20s. More than 1,500 people have been contacted as possible contacts.It was the single biggest daily toll since 9 April, and the country’s containment measures are being put to the test, Yonhap News reports.
Japan could lift a state-of-emergency in many regions this week if new coronavirus cases are under control, the economy minister said on Monday, as it inches towards a gradual return of economic activity.
In Ghana, one worker at a fish-processing factory in the Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers, according to President Nana Akufo-Addo.
The first Disneyland resort has reopened, in Shanghai. Chinese state media reports the park is reopening to guests with restrictions on numbers and traffic flow. Children’s playgrounds and indoor theatres are staying closed for the time being.
An untraced coronavirus outbreak in a Chinese city near the Russian border and a spate of new cases in Wuhan has prompted fears of a fresh wave of infections in China. Wuhan has recorded its highest number of new infections since 11 March, reporting five new cases for 10 May, among 17 new cases nationwide, the highest in almost two weeks. Five locally transmitted cases were in three provinces bordering Russia and/or North Korea - Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning.
Scientists have found evidence for mutations in some strains of the coronavirus that suggest the pathogen may be adapting to humans after spilling over from bats.
US vice president Mike Pence is self-isolating, or at least distancing somewhat, from others at the White House. His office said Pence was not in quarantine and plans to be at the White House on Monday, local time, but was taking precautions.
In the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has announced plans to ease restrictions, but they’ve been labeled divisive, confusing and vague after he said some places could reopen and the government was “actively encouraging” people to return to work, without giving details of how.
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