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World |
4,521,989 |
+96,334 |
303,082 |
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1 |
1,457,593 |
+27,246 |
86,912 |
|
|
2 |
272,646 |
+1,551 |
27,321 |
|
|
3 |
252,245 |
+9,974 |
2,305 |
|
|
4 |
233,151 |
+3,446 |
33,614 |
|
|
5 |
223,096 |
+992 |
31,368 |
|
|
6 |
202,918 |
+13,761 |
13,993 |
|
|
7 |
178,870 |
+810 |
27,425 |
|
|
8 |
174,975 |
+877 |
7,928 |
|
|
9 |
144,749 |
+1,635 |
4,007 |
|
|
10 |
114,533 |
+1,808 |
6,854 |
|
|
11 |
82,929 |
+3 |
4,633 |
|
|
12 |
81,997 |
+3,942 |
2,649 |
|
|
13 |
80,604 |
+4,298 |
2,267 |
|
|
14 |
73,401 |
+1,123 |
5,472 |
|
|
15 |
54,288 |
+307 |
8,903 |
|
|
16 |
46,869 |
+2,039 |
283 |
|
|
17 |
43,481 |
+270 |
5,590 |
|
|
18 |
40,186 |
+1,862 |
4,220 |
|
|
19 |
37,040 |
+2,659 |
368 |
|
|
20 |
35,788 |
+490 |
770 |
|
|
21 |
30,502 |
+16 |
2,338 |
|
|
22 |
30,463 |
+50 |
1,872 |
|
|
23 |
28,582 |
+673 |
3,529 |
|
|
24 |
28,319 |
+187 |
1,184 |
|
|
25 |
28,272 |
+1,733 |
14 |
|
|
26 |
26,772 |
+947 |
151 |
|
|
27 |
26,098 |
+752 |
21 |
|
|
28 |
23,827 |
+426 |
1,506 |
|
|
29 |
21,084 |
+698 |
208 |
|
|
30 |
18,863 |
+1,041 |
283 |
|
|
31 |
17,615 |
+411 |
883 |
|
|
32 |
16,847 |
+422 |
456 |
|
|
33 |
16,579 |
+31 |
265 |
|
|
34 |
16,247 |
+245 |
1,053 |
|
|
35 |
16,120 |
+71 |
697 |
|
|
36 |
16,058 |
+61 |
626 |
|
|
37 |
16,006 |
+568 |
1,043 |
|
|
38 |
13,610 |
+680 |
525 |
|
|
39 |
12,739 |
+665 |
238 |
|
|
40 |
11,975 |
+947 |
88 |
|
|
41 |
11,876 |
+258 |
790 |
|
|
42 |
11,320 |
+124 |
422 |
|
|
43 |
10,991 |
+29 |
260 |
|
|
44 |
10,829 |
+398 |
571 |
|
|
45 |
10,713 |
+46 |
537 |
|
|
46 |
10,374 |
+79 |
224 |
|
|
47 |
8,944 |
+161 |
256 |
|
|
48 |
8,351 |
+82 |
293 |
|
|
49 |
8,196 |
+21 |
232 |
|
|
50 |
7,134 |
+255 |
353 |
|
|
51 |
6,989 |
+9 |
98 |
|
|
52 |
6,819 |
+40 |
112 |
|
|
53 |
6,607 |
+95 |
190 |
|
|
54 |
6,442 |
+189 |
529 |
|
|
55 |
6,198 |
+382 |
10 |
|
|
56 |
6,145 |
+91 |
287 |
|
|
57 |
5,639 |
+413 |
136 |
|
|
58 |
5,571 |
+154 |
32 |
|
|
59 |
5,553 |
+147 |
194 |
|
|
60 |
5,530 |
+122 |
24 |
|
|
61 |
5,162 |
+191 |
167 |
|
|
62 |
4,341 |
+322 |
18 |
|
|
63 |
3,915 |
+11 |
103 |
|
|
64 |
3,860 |
+142 |
49 |
|
|
65 |
3,380 |
+39 |
436 |
|
|
66 |
3,148 |
+184 |
142 |
|
|
67 |
3,143 |
+111 |
115 |
|
|
68 |
3,018 |
+1 |
56 |
|
|
69 |
2,954 |
+154 |
139 |
|
|
70 |
2,879 |
+121 |
35 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Uprooted trees in the central Philippines on Thursday, as Typhoon Vongfong battered the country.Credit...Alren Beronio/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Thousands of people fled to evacuation centers on Friday as Typhoon Vongfong barreled toward the Philippines’ main island of Luzon, dumping torrential rains and raising fears that the coronavirus could spread in packed evacuation centers.
In its morning advisory, PAGASA, the national meteorology service, said the typhoon, the first to hit the country this season, was “bringing destructive winds and heavy to intense rainfall” to the southern edge of the island.
Luzon, home to about 60 million people, has been on an extended lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But with evacuation centers now full of people, officials worry that they will become breeding grounds for the further spread of the virus.
The typhoon, packing the power of a category 3 hurricane, made landfall in the Philippines by slamming into the eastern island of Samar Thursday afternoon. By Friday morning, it was wreaking havoc over the island of Masbate and parts of Quezon Province on the southern tip of Luzon, home to the country’s capital, Manila.
The Office of Civil Defense in Manila warned residents living along coastal areas of storm surges of up to six feet along the Philippines’ eastern seaboard, particularly in the Quezon and Aurora provinces and the Bicol region.
By midafternoon Friday, the typhoon had weakened as it wound its way up Luzon, with estimated maximum sustained winds of nearly 70 miles per hour. It was expected to bring heavy showers over Luzon’s eastern seaboard.
An assembly line of a factory for the joint venture company Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd in Beijing on Wednesday.Credit...Ng Han Guan/Associated Press
China’s factories maintained a brisk pace last month, but Chinese consumers were slow to resume shopping, according to official statistics released on Friday.
Many countries have been watching China’s economic performance closely because it is several months ahead of the rest of the world in coping with the virus. The Chinese economy shrank in the first three months of this year for the first time since Mao Zedong died in 1976.
Factories caught up on orders that they had struggled to fill earlier this year, when the coronavirus pandemic raced across the country. The country’s industrial production was up 3.9 percent from April of last year, better than most economists expected. Production had been down 1.1 percent in March from a year earlier and had plunged in February, when the virus outbreak was at its worst in China.
But shopping and fixed asset investment stayed weak. Retail sales were down 7.5 percent in April compared to a year earlier, marginally worse than economists’ expectations.
“We should be aware that given the continuous spread of the epidemic abroad, the stability and recovery of the national economy is still faced with multiple challenges,” said Liu Aihua, the director general of the agency’s department of comprehensive statistics.
Strong exports kept factories busy last month. Many factories were catching up on orders placed while Chinese cities were locked down. But orders for further exports have stalled, according to surveys of purchasing managers.
Despite the progress, tens of millions of migrant workers are unemployed. Many white-collar workers have suffered pay cuts. Weak consumption has some economists wondering how long China can sustain an economic rebound.
Security forces monitored the streets of Yemen last week during a 24-hour curfew meant to curb the spread of the virus.Credit...Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
It was just two weeks ago that war-ravaged Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, reported its first cluster of coronavirus cases. Since then infections appear to have exploded, realizing the worst fears of aid groups.
Save the Children, the global charity, reported Thursday that at least 385 people had died over the past week with Covid 19-like symptoms in the city of Aden, where the first cluster — five cases — surfaced at the end of April.
Several hospitals in Aden have closed, and some medical workers have refused to work because of a lack of protective equipment, Save the Children said. The two main public hospitals are providing only emergency services, and are not admitting patients, it reported.
“Our teams on the ground are seeing how people are being sent away from hospitals, breathing heavily or even collapsing,” Mohammed Alshamaa, Save the Children’s director of programs in Yemen, said in a statement. “People are dying because they can’t get treatment that would normally save their lives.”
Earlier Thursday, U.N. officialsalso sounded the alarm. “Humanitarian agencies have every reason to believe that community transmission is taking place across the country,” said Ramesh Rajasingham, the acting deputy emergency relief coordinator.
The five-year war in Yemen and the nine-year one in Syria have combined with the pandemic to create especially dire challenges for vulnerable civilian populations, who are often displaced and have limited or no access to food and medical care.
The World Food Program, the anti-hunger agency of the United Nations, said on Twitter on Thursday that a record 9.3 million people in Syria are “food insecure” — meaning they regularly don’t have enough to eat. Spiraling prices and the coronavirus have “pushed families beyond their limits,” the agency said.
From CNN's Nadine Schmidt in Berlin
Germany’s coronavirus reproduction rate has fallen to 0.75, according to the country’s disease and control center -- a small but hopeful decrease.
It had previously been 0.81, according to the Robert Koch Institute.
The reproduction rate, also known as the R-value, indicates how much the virus is spreading; an R-value of 1 means each infected person is transmitting it to one other person.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly warned that if the number rises above 1, the country's health system would eventually be overwhelmed.
The Robert Koch Institute says a total of 3.1 million coronavirus tests have been carried out in Germany since the outbreak began.
The country has reported 174,478 cases and 7,884 related deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. But this doesn't reflect the total number of active cases; at least 151,700 people have recovered from the virus, according to the institute.
From CNN's Pierre Bairin in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron has summoned the CEO of global pharmaceutical giant Sanofi to a meeting next week, after the company suggested the US market could be prioritized for a Covid-19 vaccine.
Macron and CEO Paul Hudson will meet on Tuesday, said the Elysee Palace.
In a statement, Macron said any Covid-19 vaccine must be treated as a "public good for the world, and not subject to the laws of the market."
The Paris-headquarted company has clarified its earlier comments, saying it will also work with European governments to begin production as soon as possible.
Some background: Sanofi said its cooperation with the US’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will allow it to start production as soon as possible.
It says it's exploring similar opportunities within Europe.
“We have always been committed in these unprecedented circumstances to make our vaccine accessible to everyone,” the company said in a statement.
“We are having very constructive conversations with the EU institutions and the French and German government amongst others.”
From CNN's Ben Church
The eyes of the world will be on the German Bundesliga this weekend as it becomes the first major European soccer league to return amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The country has recorded more than 174,000 cases of Covid-19, including at least 7,861 deaths, according to the latest figures, but Germany's Football Association (DFB) has worked closely with league organizers (DFL) and hope strict safety protocols will protect those involved when matches are played.
If the measures work, it could provide a template for other sports to get back underway. If they don't, then questions will be asked as to why football returned so soon.
Philipp Köster, chief editor of soccer publication "11 Freunde," puts it more bluntly -- German football is on "parole."
"This is an experiment with an unknown outcome," Köster told CNN's Fred Pleitgen.
"It could indeed happen that we see two or more weeks of football and then everything gets canceled ... if there are many infections or serious infections."
From CNN's Manveena Suri in New Delhi
The World Bank has approved a $1 billion package for India to provide support for its poor and vulnerable populations, it announced in a news release.
The funding will be distributed in two installments -- $750 million for the 2020 fiscal year and $250 million for the 2021 fiscal year.
The nationwide program will be implemented through the existing Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (Prime Minister’s Welfare for the Poor Scheme) and help boost cash transfers and food benefits through other pre-existing programs to benefit the most vulnerable, especially migrant and informal workers.
“The response to the Covid-19 pandemic around the world has required governments to introduce social distancing and lock downs in unprecedented ways. These measures, intended to slow down the spread of the virus have, however, impacted economies and jobs -- especially in the informal sector," said Junaid Ahmad, the World Bank Country Director in India.
"India, with the world’s largest lockdown, has not been an exception to this trend. In this context, cash transfers and food benefits will help the poor and vulnerable access a ‘safety bridge’ towards a time when the economy will start to revive."
Last month, the World Bank announced a separate $1 billion in emergency response support for India's health sector.
From CNN's Manveena Suri in New Delhi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a video conference with Bill Gates. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video conference with philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday to discuss the global coronavirus pandemic, officials said.
“We discussed issues ranging from India’s efforts to fight coronavirus, work of the (Gates Foundation) in battling Covid-19, role of technology, innovation and producing a vaccine to cure the pandemic,” Modi tweeted.
In response, Gates thanked Modi for the “conversation and partnership.”
“Combating the pandemic requires global collaboration. India’s role is key as the world works to minimize social and economic impact, and pave the way to the vaccine, testing, and treatment access for all," he tweeted.
During the meeting, Modi also spoke about previous government initiatives like promoting cleanliness and hygiene, and drawing upon the ancient Indian healing system of Ayurveda to boost immunity, according to a news release on his website.
India has reported more than 82,000 cases of coronavirus and at least 2,649 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
From CNN's Jake Kwon in Seoul
A flight crew from Korean Air, many wearing protective masks, depart the international terminal after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on February 28, in Los Angeles. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Korean Air will require passengers to wear face masks on domestic flights starting next Monday, according to a company bulletin released on Friday.
The measure is in accordance with a recommendation from South Korea's Central Disaster Response Headquarters, the company said.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) also recommends that passengers and crew wear masks and other foreign airlines are taking the same measures, the bulletin said.
The airline's new rule mandates that passengers on domestic flights must wear masks or appropriate face coverings before boarding as well, including at the check-in counter and the waiting area by the gates.
Children under two years of age, people who cannot remove the mask without aid, and those who have difficulty breathing with a mask are exempt.
The company said plans are underway to expand the same measure to international flights after a review.
From CNN's Pierre Bairin and Simon Cullen
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced an “unprecedented” 18 billion euro ($19.4 billion) plan to support the country’s tourism industry.
Under the plan, tourism businesses will be eligible for grants of up to 10,000 euros ($10,800). There are also government-guaranteed loans totaling 6.2 billion euros ($6.7 billion).
“(Tourism in France) is probably facing the worst test in its modern history, even though it is one of the jewels of the French economy,” Philippe said Thursday, adding that French residents would be able to go on domestic summer holidays in July and August.
Philippe said cafés and restaurants in green zones -- where the coronavirus epidemic is not as bad -- would reopen on June 2 as long as the situation doesn’t deteriorate.
For Paris and other areas in red zones, a decision to reopen cafés and restaurants would be made during the week of May 25.
He also thanked the tourism industry for guaranteeing that full refunds would be given for cancellations related to coronavirus.
From Shasta Darlington in Sao Paulo
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wears a face mask as he arrives at the flag-raising ceremony before a ministerial meeting at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, on May 12. Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro warned that more restrictive social isolation measures would break the country and said there wouldn’t be enough money to pay public sector workers.
This story about lockdown, closing everything, that is not the path,” he told journalists gathered outside the presidential residence, “That is the path to failure, to breaking Brazil.”
Brazil reported its highest daily spike in new cases on Thursday, with nearly 14,000 infections.
Bolsonaro said quarantine measures already introduced by many governors across the country were making the crisis worse. “Brazil is turning into a country of poor people.” He warned, “there won’t be enough money to pay public sector workers.”
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Brazil has risen to nearly 203,000, according to the country’s health ministry.
Brazil has the sixth highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. It stands behind the US, Russia, UK, Spain, and Italy, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-15-20-intl/index.html
Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include:
Global death toll passes 302,000. The global toll from Covid-19 has passed 300,000, with nearly 4.5 million people infected. According to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, at least 302,452 people have now died as a result of the outbreak. The institution says it has counted 4,443,597 confirmed cases worldwide. It’s important to point out that the actual death toll is believed to be far higher than the tally compiled from government figures.
China marks one month with no new coronavirus deaths announced. China has gone a month without announcing any new deaths from the coronavirus. The National Health Commission reported four new cases of the virus on Friday, all local cross-infections in the northeastern province of Jilin where a cluster of uncertain origin has been detected in recent days. The last time the commission reported a death was on 14 April.
Trump threatens to cut China ties. US President Donald Trump signalled a further deterioration of his relationship with China over coronavirus, saying he has no interest in speaking to President Xi Jinping at the moment and going so far as to suggest he could cut ties with the world’s second largest economy. Chinese state media has responded saying his comments are “lunacy”.
Trump visits a mask distribution centre without wearing a mask himself. Donald Trump toured a mask distribution centre in the political swing state of Pennsylvania on Thursday but without wearing a mask himself. Trump, who is running for re-election in November, has resisted wearing a mask in public despite his administration’s guidance to Americans to wear them and new White House rules requiring staff to wear them at work.
Mexico sees record one-day increase in cases. Mexico’s health ministry on Thursday confirmed 257 additional coronavirus deaths and 2,409 new infections, the biggest one-day rise in cases since the pandemic began.The new infections brought confirmed coronavirus cases to 42,595 and 4,477 deaths in total, according to the official tally.
Brazil confirmed cases pass 200,000. The number of cases in Brazil passed 200,000 on Thursday.The country now has 202,918 confirmed cases, with 13,944 added in last 24 hours, according to health ministry.The tally means it is the sixth-worst-affected country worldwide in terms of cases, according to Johns Hopkins data. 844 new deaths were reported in last 24 hours, bringing the total to 13,993.
South Korea, China and Japan health ministers to hold video conference. The health ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will get together by video conference on Friday to discuss ways to work together in the global campaign against the novel coronavirus, South Korean officials said. The meeting is the first between top health officials of the East Asian neighbours since the outbreak emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
Doctors in Italy and France report spike in rare inflammatory syndrome linked to coronavirus. Doctors in northern Italy, one of the areas hardest hit by coronavirus, and in France have reported spikes in cases of a rare inflammatory syndrome in young children that appears similar to one reported in the US, Britain and Spain, according to a report in the Lancet.The condition shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever, rashes, swollen glands and, in severe cases, heart inflammation.
Covid-19 reaches refugee camps in Bangladesh. A Rohingya man has become the first person to test positive for Covid-19 in the vast refugee camps in Bangladesh that is home to almost one million people. Local health coordinator Abu Toha Bhuiyan initially said two refugees had been put into isolation. The World Health Organization later said one case was of a Rohingya man, and the other was of a local man who lived near the camp and was being treated at a clinic inside the area.
36 million Americans are now unemployed. Another 3 million Americans filed for benefits, bringing the country’s total unemployed to 36 million. The latest figures from the Department of Labor show the rate of claims is slowing but the record-breaking pace of layoffs has already pushed unemployment to levels unseen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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