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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
4,425,656 |
+88,220 |
297,765 |
|
1,430,348 |
+21,712 |
85,197 |
|
|
271,095 |
+1,575 |
27,104 |
|
|
242,271 |
+10,028 |
2,212 |
|
|
229,705 |
+3,242 |
33,186 |
|
|
222,104 |
+888 |
31,106 |
|
|
189,157 |
+11,555 |
13,158 |
|
|
178,060 |
|
27,074 |
|
|
174,098 |
+927 |
7,861 |
|
|
143,114 |
+1,639 |
3,952 |
|
|
112,725 |
+1,958 |
6,783 |
|
|
82,926 |
+7 |
4,633 |
|
|
78,055 |
+3,763 |
2,551 |
|
|
76,306 |
+4,247 |
2,169 |
|
|
72,278 |
+1,121 |
5,302 |
|
|
53,981 |
+202 |
8,843 |
|
|
44,830 |
+1,905 |
273 |
|
|
43,211 |
+227 |
5,562 |
|
|
38,324 |
+1,997 |
3,926 |
|
|
35,298 |
+2,624 |
761 |
|
|
34,381 |
+2,660 |
346 |
|
|
30,486 |
+67 |
2,334 |
|
|
30,413 |
+33 |
1,870 |
|
|
28,132 |
+219 |
1,175 |
|
|
27,909 |
+637 |
3,460 |
|
|
26,539 |
+1,390 |
14 |
|
|
25,825 |
+952 |
146 |
|
|
25,346 |
+675 |
21 |
|
|
23,401 |
+159 |
1,497 |
|
|
20,386 |
+725 |
206 |
|
|
17,822 |
+1,162 |
269 |
|
|
17,204 |
+283 |
861 |
|
|
16,548 |
+19 |
264 |
|
|
16,425 |
+402 |
439 |
|
|
16,049 |
+81 |
678 |
|
|
16,002 |
+224 |
1,036 |
|
|
15,997 |
+36 |
624 |
|
|
15,438 |
+689 |
1,028 |
|
|
12,930 |
+658 |
509 |
|
|
12,074 |
+724 |
219 |
|
|
11,618 |
+268 |
772 |
|
|
11,196 |
+296 |
409 |
|
|
11,028 |
+751 |
82 |
|
|
10,962 |
+26 |
259 |
|
|
10,667 |
+76 |
533 |
|
|
10,431 |
+338 |
556 |
|
|
10,295 |
+52 |
222 |
|
|
8,783 |
+167 |
252 |
|
|
8,269 |
+71 |
290 |
|
|
8,175 |
+18 |
229 |
|
|
6,980 |
+16 |
98 |
|
|
6,879 |
+316 |
329 |
|
|
6,779 |
+37 |
111 |
|
|
6,512 |
+94 |
188 |
|
|
6,253 |
+186 |
522 |
|
|
6,054 |
+51 |
284 |
|
|
5,816 |
+285 |
10 |
|
|
5,417 |
+138 |
32 |
|
|
5,408 |
+281 |
24 |
|
|
5,406 |
+252 |
185 |
|
|
5,226 |
+263 |
132 |
|
|
4,971 |
+184 |
164 |
|
|
4,019 |
+298 |
17 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The New York Times
The Trump administration is moving to extend its virus border restrictions indefinitely, using the government’s broad public health authorities to severely limit immigration across its land borders until officials decide that there is no more danger of infection to Americans.
On March 21, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed a 30-day restriction on all nonessential travel into the United States from Mexico and Canada, closing legal points of entry to tourism and immediately returning people who crossed the border illegally to their home countries.
The restrictions have significantly hindered opportunities to seek humanitarian protections in the United States.
Since March 21, Border Patrol agents referred 59 migrants to be interviewed by asylum officers, according to a United States Citizenship and Immigration official. Only two seeking the protections were allowed to remain in the United States.
An additional three migrants have pending cases while 54 were turned away. The Washington Post first reported the asylum statistics. Since the rule was enacted, the administration has used the public health authority to immediately return more than 20,000 migrants to Mexico or their home countries.
The order — which was extended for another 30 days on April 20 — was part of a broad effort, led by Stephen Miller, the architect of Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda, to aggressively use public health laws to reduce immigration as the government battles the virus.
But a new order under review by several government agencies is meant to extend the restrictions indefinitely. Once issued by Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., the border restrictions would stay in effect until he decides the virus no longer poses a threat. The indefinite extension comes even as Mr. Trump has repeatedly pushed for states to reopen their economies, arguing that the threat from the virus will quickly recede.
The new order would require C.D.C. officials to review the dangers posed by the virus every 30 days.
The New York Times
The view of Manhattan from Brooklyn on Wednesday.Credit...Juan Arredondo for The New York Times
New York State health officials are investigating 102 cases of a rare and dangerous inflammatory syndrome that afflicts children and appears to be connected to the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Wednesday.
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.
A new study, published Wednesday in the journal Lancet, sheds light on the condition’s distinctive characteristics and provides the strongest evidence yet that the syndrome is linked to the coronavirus. In the study, doctors in Italy compared 10 cases of the illness with cases of a similar, rare condition in children called Kawasaki disease.
The authors found that over the five years before the coronavirus pandemic — January 2015 to mid-February 2020 — 19 children with Kawasaki disease were treated at Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo Province, which has an advanced pediatric department.
But between Feb. 18 and April 20 alone, the hospital, located at the epicenter of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak, treated 10 children with similar hyperinflammatory symptoms. Eight of them tested positive for coronavirus antibodies.
Ten cases in two months — about 30 times the rate of the Kawasaki disease cases, which occurred at a pace of about one every three months — suggests a cluster that is driven by the coronavirus pandemic, especially since overall hospital admissions during this time were much lower than usual, the authors said.
The New York Times
President Trump said on Wednesday that he would be keeping his distance from Vice President Mike Pence, whose press secretary tested positive for the virus.
“I haven’t seen Mike Pence, and I miss him,” Mr. Trump said. “He did not test positive, he tested the opposite. He’s in good shape. But I guess we said for a little while we’ll stay apart; you don’t know what happens with this very crazy and horrible disease.”
The White House on Monday ordered all West Wing employees to wear masks at work unless they were at their desks, and Mr. Pence and members of his security detail were photographed wearing them when they arrived on Wednesday morning.
The shift in policy came after two aides working near the president — a military valet and Katie Miller, the vice president’s press secretary — tested positive for the virus last week. Mr. Pence prompted outrage last month when he did not wear a mask during a visit to the Mayo Clinic, flouting their policy.
The White House frequently screens its staff members, but a study by researchers at NYU Langone Health found that the rapid test the administration uses can miss infections nearly half the time.
The New York Times
Hospitals across the country are filled with a curious sight these days: patients lying on their bellies.
The surprisingly low-tech concept, called proning, can improve breathing in patients with the respiratory distress that is the hallmark of the virus, doctors have found. Lying on one’s stomach helps open airways in lungs that have become compressed by the fluid and inflammation caused by infection.
When patients are on their backs, “the heart is now sitting on top of the lungs and compressing it even more,” said Dr. Michelle Ng Gong, the chief of the divisions of critical care and pulmonary medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Health System in the Bronx. “The rib cage cannot move in the usual way because it’s now up against the bed.”
But, she said, “when you flip the patient onto the belly, now the back of the lungs can start to open,” allowing more air sacs to function. A larger share of the lungs is also in the back of the body than the front, meaning that patients on their stomachs do not have to support as much lung weight.
Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-cases-deaths.html
From CNN's Darya Tarasova in Moscow and Nathan Hodge
Russia recorded 9,974 new cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, the country’s coronavirus headquarters said in a statement today.
That marks the first time in 12 days that the country has reported fewer than 10,000 new daily cases.
Russia has officially reported 252,245 total cases of coronavirus. The country has the second-highest number of confirmed cases in the world after the United States, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
People queue outside a benefits payment center in Sydney on March 23. Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday that nearly 600,000 people in the country have lost their jobs as a result of the financial impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a number he called "shocking, although not unanticipated."
"This is a tough day for Australia, a very tough day," Morrison said at a news conference. "We knew there would be hard news as the pandemic wreaks an impact on Australia as it is on countries all around the world. And so it has been the case."
Morrison said that although the rate of infections is decreasing in Australia, the country should prepare for further economic hardship.
"In the months ahead, we can brace ourselves and must brace ourselves for further hard news for Australians to take. But it's important on a day like today that we remember to support each other again," he said. "It is important as a country that we stand firm and we stand together."
Nearly 7,000 people in Australia have been infected by the virus, killing 98, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Last week, Morrison announced a three-step plan to reopen the country if infections continue to trend downward.
From journalist Alexandra Lin in Hong Kong and Steven Jiang in Beijing
Health officials in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where Covid-19 emerged at the end of last year, have started a 10-day screening effort to curb any new local epidemic by testing all of its citizens, according to the state-run Global Times newspaper.
Following an emergency notice that was issued on Monday, testing started on Wednesday; people who are classified as "high risk" will be tested first, according to the Global Times.
The city is home to around 11 million people.
Global Times cited a document from the health commission of Wuchang district, saying that "the testing period will last from Wednesday to May 20."
District health authorities were advised to complete forms for residents, which show "personal information of residents, personal ID, phone numbers, address, whether they have tested before and if they belong to a "key cluster," according to the Global Times.
Wuhan health authorities announced on Tuesday that all city residents would be targeted for large-scale testing, following the detection of six new cases in a local residential community last weekend. Priority for testing will be given to key groups and older communities with dense and fluid populations.
Wuchang district health authorities told Global Times that they have set up both indoor and outdoor sites for testing, and are asking each community to keep organized and avoid gatherings, with different time slots for testing.
Global Times reported that since Tuesday, around 70,000 people in Wuhan had undergone nucleic acid tests.
From CNN's Yoonjung Seo in Seoul, South Korea
People wait in line to test for coronavirus at a virus testing station in the nightlife district of Itaewon in Seoul on May 12. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images
South Korean authorities have identified another 12 locally transmitted infections of Covid-19 linked to nightclubs in the capital Seoul.
Authorities are particularly worried that the virus was widely transmitted when people started returning to the bars and clubs of the Itaewon nightlife district from the end of April.
A total of 131 positive cases have emerged in this cluster since May 6, according to the South Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The KCDC has conducted 35,000 tests -- 15,000 alone on Wednesday -- in an attempt to quickly trace and contain this outbreak.
Anonymous testing: The government is urging citizens who visited the area from April 24 through May 6 to get tested and is allowing people to remain anonymous. Some of the clubs where the virus spread are frequented by members of South Korea's LGBT community, which sparked a backlash against gay people in local media and lead some to fear they would be outed.
The government of the local city of Incheon, which borders Seoul, said that 14 of the 131 cases are linked to one private academy instructor who visited clubs in Itaewon. The patient initially hid his movement but his GPS location tracking revealed his place of work in Incheon, a city bordering Seoul.
From CNN's Livia Borghese in Rome
A banner reading "Without government aid, we cannot reopen on May 18. Thousands of employees at risk" is seen at a shop window on Tuesday in Rome. Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images
The Italian government has approved a 55 million euros ($60 billion) stimulus package to help the country recover from the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis.
The plan will offer financial assistance directly to families and businesses, while also helping the construction, health care, education, culture, retail, hospitality and tourism industries
A total of $27.6 billion will be allocated to support a worker's layoff fund -- which will be extended longer than the maximum length of nine weeks -- and other employment-related measures, including a $650 bonus for freelancers workers.
The government is also spending $3.5 billion to shore up its national health care system in the event of a second wave of Covid-19 inside the country.
That money will be used to hire 9,600 new nurses and increase ICU capacity by 115%.
From CNN's Shasta Darlington in Sao Paulo and Claudia Dominguez in Atlanta
Members of the military clean at at a health clinic in Sao Goncalo, Brazil on Wednesday. Luis Alvarenga/Getty Images
Brazil's Ministry of Health said Wednesday that it recorded 11,385 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a 24-hour period -- the highest number in a single day in the country since the pandemic began.
Authorities there also reported 749 Covid-19 related fatalities.
The country has recorded 188,794 total cases, the sixth-highest in the world, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
A total of 13,149 people in Brazil have been killed by the virus.
From CNN's Jacqueline Howard
The novel coronavirus may never go away and may just join the mix of viruses that kill people around the world every year, Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization health emergencies program, said Wednesday.
"This virus just may become another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away. HIV hasn’t gone away," Ryan said.
"I’m not comparing the two diseases but I think it is important that we’re realistic. I don’t think anyone can predict when or if this disease will disappear," Ryan added.
With a vaccine, "we may have a shot at eliminating this virus but that vaccine will have to be available, it will have to be highly effective, it will have to be made available to everyone and we’ll have to use it," Ryan said. "This disease may settle into a long-term problem or it may not be."
Yet the future of coronavirus does not have to be all doom and gloom, according to WHO infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove.
"The trajectory of this outbreak is in our hands," Van Kerkhove said during Wednesday's briefing.
"The global community has come together to work in solidarity," Van Kerkhove said. "We have seen countries bring this virus under control. We have seen countries use public health measures."
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus echoed Van Kerkhove's sentiments on Wednesday and added, "We should all contribute to stop this pandemic."
From CNN's Gul Tuysuz
Children under the age of 14 were allowed to go outside on the street on Wednesday for the first time since the Turkish government announced a lockdown for the age group in early April.
The children were allowed out for four hours, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. local time.
Turkey has opted for an age-specific lockdown prohibiting people over the age 65 and below the age of 20 from leaving their homes. People in the 15 to 20 age group will be allowed out on Friday.
Turkey started slowly lifting some restrictions on Monday.
From CNN’s Niamh Kennedy in Dublin and James Frater in London
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wears a face mask during a plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels on May 13. Aris Oikonomou/AFP/Getty Images
The European Commission president on Wednesday outlined a plan to fund European recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, while warning that "we will not just go back to business as usual soon."
“We have had economic slowdowns before but we have never had an economic shutdown like the last three months,” President Ursula Von der Leyen said during an address to the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.
The recovery instrument will be focused on those member states who have been most affected and where needs are the greatest, the European Union’s top leader said, adding that the money for the recovery plan will be on top of the existing EU budget and will also be managed through rules of the budget.
That will give European lawmakers full scrutiny over how the money is managed and spent. Parliamentarians expressed concern last week over using rules where the Parliament would only “be informed” of decisions made on the recovery funds.
Von der Leyen did not mention exact numbers, but said she wants to present an “ambitious” relaunch plan for Europe.
In the plan presented by the EU leader, recovery will be financed across three pillars:
From CNN’s Mia Alberti in Lisbon
Belgium will move forward with the second phase of its reopening plan on May 18, when some school classes for primary and secondary students will resume and museums will be reopened under certain conditions, the prime minister announced Wednesday.
"We have decided that by May 18, museums and cultural facilities, such as historic buildings, will be able to open their doors again if they set up an online or telephone ticketing system and if they take the necessary steps to avoid the effects of crowds inside their establishment," Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes said.
Wilmes also announced that some other services, such as hairdressers or beauticians, could also reopen but only through appointments and the mandatory use of masks for both the customers and staff. Local authorities might also choose to reopen markets with a maximum of 50 food stalls.
Most shops opened across Belgium on Monday.
Sporting events have been suspended until July 11. There is still no reopening date for restaurants and bars.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-14-20-intl/index.html
Here are the main developments from the last few hours:
Deaths worldwide near 300,000. The number of lives lost worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic is nearing 300,000, according to Johns Hopkins University figures, with 297,220 deaths reported. There are 4,348,246 confirmed infections.The true figure is likely to be significantly higher as a result of underreporting or differing definitions of what constitutes a death from coronavirus.
Moscow ascribes over 60% of coronavirus deaths in April to other causes. The city of Moscow said on Wednesday it had ascribed the deaths of more than 60% of coronavirus patients in April to other causes as it defended what it said was the superior way it counted the number of people killed by the novel virus. At 242,271, Russia has the second-highest number of confirmed cases in the world after the United States, but with 2,212 coronavirus deaths, it also has one of the world’s lowest reported mortality rates.
Trump criticises Fauci’s warnings over reopening. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday has criticised a warning given by top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci this week about the dangers of reopening the economy too quickly. “To me it’s not an acceptable answer especially when it comes to schools,” Trump told reporters at the White House, noting he was surprised by the response Fauci gave to lawmakers in testimony to the US Senate on Tuesday.
Italian doctors find link between Covid-19 and inflammatory disorder. Doctors in Italy have reported the first clear evidence of a link between Covid-19 and a rare but serious inflammatory disorder that has required some children to undergo life-saving treatment in intensive care units. The mysterious condition emerged last month when NHS bosses issued an alert to doctors after hospitals admitted a number of children with a mix of toxic shock and symptoms seen in an inflammatory disorder known as Kawasaki disease.
China begins testing every resident in Wuhan. Chinese authorities have plans to test every resident in Wuhan, after a small outbreak was reported this week. The city in Hubei province, where the virus is believed to have originated with the first recorded cases, had reported few daily cases since early March and none since early April, until a cluster of six was confirmed at the weekend. There is serious concern over the outbreak in Wuhan, despite the small size. He Qinghua from the bureau of disease prevention and control, told a press conference disease control was generally stable across the nation, but there were still challenges.
Hong Kong to test hundreds of families. Hong Kong authorities are going to screen hundreds of families, local media is reporting, after its 23-day run of no local infections was broken with the diagnosis of Covid-19 in a 66-year-old woman with no recent travel history, and her five-year-old granddaughter.
Japan is expected to lift the state of emergency for 39 of 47 prefectures. Japan is expected to lift the state of emergency for 39 of its 47 prefectures on Thursday, local media reported. The world’s third-largest economy declared a nationwide state of emergency a month ago, urging citizens to reduce person-to-person contact by 80% in an effort to slow the pace of new infections and ease the strain on medical services.
Japan suicides decline as lockdown causes shift in stress factors. Suicide in Japan fell by 20% in April compared to 2019, the biggest drop in five years, despite fears of the coronavirus pandemic causing increased stress and many prevention helplines either not operating or being short-staffed. People spending more time at home with their families, fewer people commuting to work and the start of the school year being delayed are seen as factors in the fall.
New Zealand announces NZ$50bn fund. Finance minister Grant Robertson has unveiled an unprecedented NZ$50bn fund to save jobs and reduce unemployment to pre-coronavirus levels within two years. The huge figure, announced alongside the annual Budget on Thursday, equates to about 17% of the nation’s GDP and 17 times more than what a New Zealand government usually allocates to new spending in its budgets. Underscoring the massive challenges facing the economy as it emerges from lockdown, Robertson said the fund was “the most significant financial commitment in modern history”.
Virus may never be eradicated – WHO. The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization has said, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a “massive effort” to counter it. “It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,” said Michael Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies chief. WHO mental health experts have warned of a global mental health crisis.
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