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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
4,337,602 |
+85,312 |
292,451 |
|
1,408,636 |
+22,802 |
83,425 |
|
|
269,520 |
+1,377 |
26,920 |
|
|
232,243 |
+10,899 |
2,116 |
|
|
226,463 |
+3,403 |
32,692 |
|
|
221,216 |
+1,402 |
30,911 |
|
|
178,225 |
+802 |
26,991 |
|
|
177,602 |
+8,459 |
12,404 |
|
|
173,171 |
+595 |
7,738 |
|
|
141,475 |
+1,704 |
3,894 |
|
|
110,767 |
+1,481 |
6,733 |
|
|
82,919 |
+1 |
4,633 |
|
|
74,292 |
+3,524 |
2,415 |
|
|
72,059 |
+3,237 |
2,057 |
|
|
71,157 |
+1,176 |
5,169 |
|
|
53,779 |
+330 |
8,761 |
|
|
42,984 |
+196 |
5,510 |
|
|
42,925 |
+1,911 |
264 |
|
|
36,327 |
+1,305 |
3,573 |
|
|
32,674 |
+1,733 |
724 |
|
|
31,721 |
+1,658 |
335 |
|
|
30,419 |
+910 |
2,327 |
|
|
30,380 |
+36 |
1,867 |
|
|
27,913 |
+234 |
1,163 |
|
|
27,272 |
+602 |
3,313 |
|
|
25,149 |
+1,526 |
14 |
|
|
24,873 |
+967 |
142 |
|
|
24,671 |
+884 |
21 |
|
|
23,242 |
+107 |
1,488 |
|
|
19,661 |
+783 |
203 |
|
|
16,921 |
+595 |
839 |
|
|
16,660 |
+969 |
250 |
|
|
16,529 |
+23 |
260 |
|
|
16,023 |
+375 |
425 |
|
|
15,968 |
+121 |
657 |
|
|
15,961 |
+79 |
623 |
|
|
15,778 |
+190 |
1,002 |
|
|
14,749 |
+484 |
1,007 |
|
|
12,272 |
+659 |
493 |
|
|
11,350 |
+264 |
751 |
|
|
11,350 |
+698 |
206 |
|
|
10,936 |
+27 |
258 |
|
|
10,900 |
+266 |
402 |
|
|
10,591 |
+78 |
527 |
|
|
10,277 |
+991 |
75 |
|
|
10,243 |
+67 |
220 |
|
|
10,093 |
+347 |
544 |
|
|
8,616 |
+168 |
249 |
|
|
8,198 |
+22 |
283 |
|
|
8,157 |
+25 |
228 |
|
|
6,964 |
+16 |
97 |
|
|
6,742 |
+16 |
109 |
|
|
6,563 |
+285 |
319 |
|
|
6,418 |
+137 |
188 |
|
|
6,067 |
+176 |
515 |
|
|
6,003 |
+19 |
275 |
|
|
5,531 |
+295 |
9 |
|
|
5,279 |
+72 |
32 |
|
|
5,154 |
+159 |
182 |
|
|
5,127 |
+427 |
22 |
|
|
4,963 |
+276 |
127 |
|
|
4,787 |
+146 |
158 |
|
|
3,894 |
+6 |
102 |
|
|
3,721 |
+148 |
17 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The New York Times
Manhattan has the largest business district in the country, and its office towers have long been a symbol of the city’s global dominance. With hundreds of thousands of office workers, the commercial tenants have given rise to a vast ecosystem, from public transit to restaurants to shops. They have also funneled huge amounts of taxes into state and city coffers.
But now, as the pandemic eases its grip, companies are considering not just how to safely bring back employees, but whether all of them need to come back at all. They were forced by the crisis to figure out how to function productively with workers operating from home — and realized unexpectedly that it was not all bad.
If that’s the case, they are now wondering whether it’s worth continuing to spend as much money on Manhattan’s exorbitant commercial rents. They are also mindful that public health considerations might make the packed workplaces of the recent past less viable.
“Is it really necessary?” said Diane M. Ramirez, the chief executive of Halstead, the real estate company, which has more than a thousand agents in the New York region. “I’m thinking long and hard about it. Looking forward, are people going to want to crowd into offices?”
Once the dust settles, and companies make their decisions, New York City could face a real estate reckoning.
The New York Times
Fenella Fletcher working at Wisteria Rockridge in Oakland, Calif.Credit...Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times
Shutting down a business for a public health emergency seven weeks ago, it turned out, was a fairly straightforward thing. Reopening one? That has turned out to be a lot trickier.
Like thousands of other small business owners, Elizabeth Wardman had to reinvent her small California flower shop on the fly when, on the eve of Mother’s Day, the state loosened some of the restrictions that had forced her to close. She is hoping to reach enough customers to keep at least a tiny portion of her operation alive, but to do so she has had to navigate health rules that aren’t always easy to follow, and can feel more than a little arbitrary.
California may have allowed florists to reopen for Mother’s Day — but Alameda County, where Ms. Wardman’s shop is, did not. A grocery store across the street could sell flowers. Open-air garden centers, allowed by the county to reopen just days earlier, could sell flowers. But Ms. Wardman, with her tiny shop, still could not.
A flood of delivery orders came in, but by Wednesday she had to stop accepting them; the store had furloughed its employees and didn’t have enough people to do the work. For the rest of the week, the phone rang unanswered.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Ms. Wardman said. “Every time it rings, you’re missing somebody. You’re letting business go.”
There is growing consensus among modelers estimating the number of cases and deaths from the virus in the next few weeks. But this convergence of estimates — 31,000 to 42,000 additional deaths through mid-June, for roughly 120,000 total deaths in the United States — comes as shifts in public policy are likely to create new uncertainty about the path of the pandemic after that.
Three weeks ago, predictions from five popular models were widely divergent. Now, their outputs look far more similar.
The researchers who created them say that they are getting better at understanding the dynamics of the pandemic as Americans largely shelter in place, and that improved knowledge could explain the growing consensus of the models. The near-term future of the pandemic is also a little easier to imagine, with deaths flattening instead of growing rapidly.
But politicians are starting to ease restrictions on public gatherings and business activities, which is likely to lead to changes in behavior and to increased transmission of the disease. By how much is still unclear.
The New York Times
New York State health officials are investigating about 100 cases of a rare and dangerous inflammatory syndrome that afflicts children and appears to be connected to the virus, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday.
So far, three deaths in the state have been linked to the illness, which is known as pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome and causes life-threatening inflammation in critical organs, he said.
More than half of the state’s pediatric inflammatory syndrome cases — 57 percent — involved children ages 5 to 14.
The dead included a 5-year-old boy who died last week in New York City, a 7-year-old boy and an 18-year-old girl, Mr. Cuomo said.
“This is a truly disturbing situation,” Mr. Cuomo said at his daily news briefing. “And I know parents around the state and around the country are very concerned about this, and they should be.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio said that 52 cases of the syndrome had been reported in New York City, with 10 potential cases also being evaluated.
The pediatric illness began to appear in the region in recent weeks, and doctors and researchers are investigating how and why it affects children. Connecticut reported its first cases on Monday. As of Tuesday, six children in the state were being treated for the ailment, officials said. As of Monday, health officials in New Jersey said they were investigating eight potential cases of the syndrome.
Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/coronavirus-live-news-updates.html
From CNN's Nadine Schmidt in Berlin
TUI Group -- one of the world's largest tourism operators -- is making significant cuts following a severe loss over the last few months, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Germany-headquartered travel group announced today that it will gradually resume its travel activities after suspending the vast majority of operations in March due to the coronavirus.
However, as many as 8,000 jobs worldwide could be cut or not filled at all in order to reduce administrative costs by up to 30%, a statement posted on the company website reads.
The statement said TUI's hotels in the German regions of Sylt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will reopen in the coming days, while hotels and clubs in European destinations are also ready to welcome tourists.
TUI is devising a 10-point catalog for increased hygiene, and protection measures are currently being implemented.
From CNN's Joshua Berlinger
Da Mao and Er Shun at the Toronto Zoo before they were transferred to the Calgary Zoo in 2018. Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images
The Calgary Zoo in Canada is sending two giant pandas back to China due to a shortage of bamboo.
The zoo said in a statement that it usually flies in bamboo from China to feed the animals, but the Covid-19 pandemic had disrupted flights and caused delays in supplies.
The duo, named Er Shun and Da Mao, were supposed to stay in Canada until 2023 as part of a 10-year agreement with China, but the zoo decided to send them back early out of concern that delays could worsen if there's a second wave of coronavirus cases.
A panda's diet consists almost entirely of fresh bamboo, the Calgary Zoo said, and the animals typically eat about 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of it each day.
Much of the bamboo Er Shun and Da Mao ate before the pandemic was flown in directly to Calgary from China, but those flights have been canceled.
The zoo said it tried to find new bamboo suppliers to keep the pandas fed, but encountered several logistical issues. They also worry that these new supply lines could be disrupted at a moment's notice, leaving the pandas completely without food.
From CNN's Kocha Olarn in Bangkok
Policemen and volunteers measure body temperatures of visitors entering a market in in Bangkok on Tuesday. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP
Thailand today reported no new coronavirus cases for the first time since January 13, according to the country's Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration.
CCSA spokesman Dr. Taweesilp Visanuyothin told reporters that the total number of infections in the country now stands at 3,017.
A total of 56 patients have died, while 2,844 have recovered and been discharged.
FEMA returns Russian ventilators after same models caught fire in St. Petersburg
From CNN's Priscilla Alvarez
Firefighters respond to a fire at the Saint George hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 12. Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency returned a shipment of Russian ventilators after the same models reportedly caught fire in St. Petersburg, a FEMA spokesperson said.
When asked about the ventilators the spokesperson said they had been sent at the beginning of April to the United States.
“At the time, a severe ventilator shortage was projected in New York (NY) and New Jersey (NJ), so the ventilators were delivered to warehouses owned by the two states. Thankfully, the flattening curve meant these ventilators were not needed, but they were held in reserve in case the situations in NY and NJ worsened," the statement said.
"The ventilators have not been deployed to hospitals. Out of an abundance of caution, the states are returning the ventilators to FEMA. The conclusion(s) of the investigation being conducted by the Russian authorities into the fire in St. Petersburg will help inform our decision regarding any future use of the ventilators.”
FEMA later noted that none of the Russian-supplied ventilators brought into the US had burst into flames.
From CNN’s Sarah Dean and Sebastian Shukla in London
A woman walks along a London Underground platform on May 11 in London. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
London’s transport operator is in a “critical” financial situation and needs to reach an agreement with the government in the next 48 hours, London’s Deputy Mayor for Transport Heidi Alexander said Tuesday.
Alexander told a Transport For London (TFL) finance committee that the local government body may be forced to issue a Section 114 notice, which is the equivalent of a public body going bust, if an agreement is not reached.
“It’s clear the situation is now critical ... and that there is just no sustainable way forward without direct government support,” Alexander said.
Across London, tube travel has been reduced by 95% and bus travel by 85% during the coronavirus outbreak, TFL said in a statement on Monday. On April 24, the organization announced it had furloughed 7,000 staff -- around 25% of its workforce -- under the government’s coronavirus job retention scheme. It said this would save it an estimated £15.8 million ($19.3 million) every four weeks.
However, a TFL document submitted to Tuesday’s committee says its loss from the "steep decline" in revenue for the full year is anticipated to be over £4 billion ($4.9 billion) and the remaining gap to balance its proposed Emergency Budget for 2020/21 is around £3.2 billion. It says TFL is in ongoing discussions around how this should be funded with the Department for Transport and HM Treasury.
“We have done everything possible to help reduce the spread of coronavirus by working with the Government to rapidly reduce ridership to low levels not seen for 100 years while keeping transport available for essential journeys, such as NHS or supermarket staff heading to work. This was the right thing to do and has saved lives. But given that 80 per cent of our income is from fares, it has had a highly significant impact on our finances and will do for the coming months,” a TFL spokesperson told CNN on Tuesday.
“This is why our finance committee will discuss a proposed Emergency Budget that prioritises what is essential for maintenance of basic services to support coronavirus government planning. This is an interim measure until we can propose a revised budget later in the year. But it is clear that the long term impact of the coronavirus will mean that we need financial support now and into the future so that we can support the recovery of London and the UK. We are in constructive discussions with the Government over the necessary financial support, and a successful conclusion to these is now extremely urgent,” the statement continued.
From CNN Health’s Shelby Lin Erdman
Smokers and former smokers, including e-cigarette users, have a significantly greater risk of developing severe cases of Covid-19 and dying from the illness than their non-smoking counterparts, according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco.
“Smoking is associated with substantially higher risk of COVID-19 progression,” Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, said in a statement.
The meta-analysis, or study of studies, looked at 19 peer-reviewed papers from China, South Korea and the United States. It found 30% of smokers developed more severe forms of Covid-19 compared to 17.6% of non-smokers.
From CNN’s Paula Newton
People wait in line at a mobile Covid-19 testing clinic on May 12, in Montreal. Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press/AP
Canada is looking to strengthen surveillance at US border crossings as discussions continue between the two countries about when and how to reopen the border to nonessential travel.
“We are looking at stronger measures to make sure that we’re following up appropriately on people who come over,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a news conference in Ottawa Tuesday.
The Canadian government is looking at administering questionnaires, contact tracing apps, temperature and medical history checks.
“We’re going to be very, very careful about reopening any international travel, including the United States before we feel that it is time,” Trudeau said.
Some background: Canada and the US agreed to close the border to nonessential travel in March and the current agreement, already extended, expires May 21. There is still no decision on whether the border agreement will remain in place beyond that date.
Canadian premiers and mayors across the country have expressed concern about fully reopening the border as the US continues to deal with Covid outbreaks and significant community spread.
“Preventing transmission from outside of Canada into Canada, once we have controlled the spread within Canada, will be an essential part of ensuring that we don’t fall back into a second wave that could be as serious as this wave we’re going through, or even more so,” Trudeau said.
From CNN’s Mia Alberti and Livia Borghese
The worst-hit Italian region of Lombardy has reported a small increase in the number of Covid-19 cases for the second day in a row.
This comes after a few days where active case numbers were decreasing, according to the Italian Civil Protection Agency.
On Tuesday, active cases in the region increased by 264, making a total of 30,675. However, Lombardy officials said the increase in cases could be explained by additional data that was collected over the past few days.
Across Italy, at least 30,911 people have died from Covid-19, according to the Italian Civil Protection Agency on Tuesday. That is an increase of 172 since the day before and a variation in line with previous days.
The total number of cases recorded in Italy, including deaths and recoveries, is now at least 221,216.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-13-20-intl/index.html
Here are the latest developments from the last few hours:
Confirmed deaths worldwide pass 290,000. According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, at least 4,261,955 people around the world are known to have contracted the virus, while at least 291,964 have died since the pandemic began. The numbers, which are based on official and media reports, are likely to be significant underestimates due to suspected underreporting and differing recording and testing regimes.
More than 147,000 Americans could die by early August – study. A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts more than 147,000 Americans could die from Covid-19 by early August, up nearly 10,000 from the last projection, as restrictions for curbing the pandemic are increasingly relaxed, researchers said on Tuesday. The current US death toll stands at 82,376.
Brazil reports record deaths. Brazil reported a record 881 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours on Tuesday, its health ministry said, taking its total to 12,400 and making it the world’s sixth worst-affected country in terms of deaths, according to John Hopkins University figures. Its total of 177,589 confirmed cases is the world’s seventh-highest.
US Senate threatens sanctions on China over Covid-19 accounting. US Republican senators proposed legislation Tuesday that would empower President Donald Trump to slap sanctions on China if Beijing does not give a “full accounting” for the coronavirus outbreak.
Wuhan prepares to test 11 million residents. The Chinese city of Wuhan, the original centre of the pandemic, plans to test all 11 million residents for coronavirus, according to local media.
Twitter announces employees will be allowed to work from home ‘forever’. Twitter will allow its employees to work from home “forever”, chief executive officer Jack Dorsey said in a company-wide email Tuesday. A spokesperson from Twitter confirmed the decision to the Guardian.
India PM announces US$270bn virus economic package. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a stimulus package for labourers and small businesses on Tuesday worth about 10% of India’s GDP. The package came as the country was set to mark its 50th day in the world’s biggest lockdown as the number of virus cases topped 70,000 with 2,200 deaths.
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