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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
4,621,414 |
+99,405 |
308,154 |
|
1,484,285 |
+26,692 |
88,507 |
|
|
274,367 |
+1,721 |
27,459 |
|
|
262,843 |
+10,598 |
2,418 |
|
|
236,711 |
+3,560 |
33,998 |
|
|
223,885 |
+789 |
31,610 |
|
|
218,223 |
+15,305 |
14,817 |
|
|
179,506 |
+636 |
27,529 |
|
|
175,699 |
+724 |
8,001 |
|
|
146,457 |
+1,708 |
4,055 |
|
|
116,635 |
+2,102 |
6,902 |
|
|
85,784 |
+3,787 |
2,753 |
|
|
84,495 |
+3,891 |
2,392 |
|
|
82,933 |
+4 |
4,633 |
|
|
74,613 |
+1,212 |
5,562 |
|
|
54,644 |
+356 |
8,959 |
|
|
49,176 |
+2,307 |
292 |
|
|
43,681 |
+200 |
5,643 |
|
|
42,595 |
+2,409 |
4,477 |
|
|
39,542 |
+2,502 |
394 |
|
|
37,218 |
+1,430 |
803 |
|
|
31,467 |
+965 |
2,594 |
|
|
30,514 |
+51 |
1,878 |
|
|
29,425 |
+1,153 |
14 |
|
|
29,207 |
+625 |
3,646 |
|
|
28,583 |
+264 |
1,190 |
|
|
27,730 |
+958 |
156 |
|
|
26,891 |
+793 |
21 |
|
|
23,956 |
+129 |
1,518 |
|
|
21,831 |
+747 |
210 |
|
|
20,065 |
+1,202 |
298 |
|
|
18,016 |
+401 |
907 |
|
|
17,330 |
+483 |
476 |
|
|
16,589 |
+10 |
266 |
|
|
16,496 |
+490 |
1,076 |
|
|
16,437 |
+190 |
1,070 |
|
|
16,203 |
+83 |
713 |
|
|
16,109 |
+51 |
628 |
|
|
14,216 |
+606 |
546 |
|
|
13,524 |
+785 |
247 |
|
|
12,860 |
+885 |
96 |
|
|
12,091 |
+215 |
806 |
|
|
11,739 |
+419 |
424 |
|
|
11,228 |
+399 |
592 |
|
|
11,018 |
+27 |
260 |
|
|
10,791 |
+78 |
537 |
|
|
10,438 |
+64 |
225 |
|
|
9,118 |
+174 |
260 |
|
|
8,406 |
+55 |
295 |
|
|
8,219 |
+23 |
232 |
|
|
7,479 |
+345 |
356 |
|
|
7,019 |
+30 |
98 |
|
|
6,855 |
+36 |
112 |
|
|
6,652 |
+45 |
190 |
|
|
6,629 |
+187 |
536 |
|
|
6,583 |
+385 |
12 |
|
|
6,228 |
+83 |
293 |
|
|
6,053 |
+414 |
153 |
|
|
5,745 |
+192 |
202 |
|
|
5,689 |
+118 |
34 |
|
|
5,638 |
+108 |
28 |
|
|
5,450 |
+288 |
171 |
|
|
4,625 |
+284 |
20 |
Source : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Commuters in Milan on Monday.Credit...Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times
Italy will lift travel restrictions beginning on June 3, under a decree adopted by the government on Saturday that will open the door to renewed tourism, one of the country’s hardest-hit sectors.
The measure, in a country that is emerging from one of Europe’s tightest coronavirus lockdowns, will permit freer movement by private and public transportation within the country’s regions.
If there are fresh outbreaks of the coronavirus, the government could reimpose restrictive measures, according to a statement. A 14-day quarantine will continue to be applied to people who have been in close contact with anyone infected by the virus.
On Monday, shops, bars, restaurants, hairdressers and other businesses will reopen, with stringent social distancing and hygiene rules. Regions are required to monitor their hospitals and the epidemiological situation on a daily basis, and group gatherings are still banned.
Religious services will also be allowed to restart on Monday, adhering to strict “protocols to prevent the risk of contagion,” the statement said. The easing of rules means that Mass will be again celebrated at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, which underwent a thorough cleaning with disinfectant on Friday.
The Vatican’s spokesman, Matteo Bruni, said on Thursday that those participating in religious functions at St. Peter’s and at Rome’s three other papal basilicas would be subject to temperature checks.
Italy has been among the hardest countries in Europe by the pandemic, with more than 220,000 confirmed cases and 31,600 deaths. The country’s tourism industry, which, along with cultural activities, accounts for an estimated 20 percent of the country’s economic output, has been effectively grounded during the lockdown, and the government allocated 5 billion euro (about $5.4 billion) toward these sectors.
With nearly half of Britain’s population experiencing “high” levels of anxiety during the pandemic, psychiatrists say that they have seen an increase in first-time emergency cases during the lockdown, and that a sudden drop in routine appointments makes them fear for a “tsunami of mental health after the pandemic.”
In a survey of over 1,300 mental health doctors across Britain, the Royal College of Psychiatrists wrote on Friday that nearly half had seen a drop-off in routine care. In particular, one psychiatrist wrote: “In old-age psychiatry, our patients appear to have evaporated. I think people are too fearful to seek help.”
As many nations have eased confinement rules but retain some forms of lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said that “mental health needs must be treated as a core element of our response to and recovery from” the pandemic.
Troubles include depression and various mental issues stemming from isolation and increased stress. The Center for Mental Health, a British independent charity, has forecast an increase in post-traumatic stress disorder. Britain has been one of the worst-hit European countries in the pandemic, with over 236,000 confirmed cases and nearly 34,000 deaths as of Saturday.
“If the economic impact is similar to that of the post-2008 recession, then we could expect 500,000 additional people experiencing mental health problems,” the charity wrote.
A police officer checking the temperature of a commuter entering New Delhi from the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh last month.Credit...Rebecca Conway for The New York Times
Just before the coronavirus arrived in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced serious challenges, perhaps the biggest of his tenure.
Antigovernment protests roiled the country. Hindu-Muslim riots exploded in the capital just as President Trump was visiting. And India’s once-hot economy was slumping, shedding millions of jobs and casting a pall over the entire country.
Since then, as the world has been walloped by the coronavirus pandemic, many of these problems in India, especially the economic ones, have gotten worse. But once again, India has rallied around Mr. Modi, with recent opinion polls showing his already high approval ratings touching 80, even 90, percent.
Analysts say that Mr. Modi’s success may be durable.
His nationwide stay-at-home lockdown, which he dropped on the country with four hours’ notice, has been largely obeyed. He never played down the virus threat or said India had capabilities it did not. And unlike in the United States, where partisan politics has gummed up the response and created great discord, analysts say Mr. Modi has worked well with state-level officials across India, regardless of ideology.
It has not been a spotless performance, however. Mr. Modi’s government was caught off guard by an exodus of migrant workers pouring out of India’s cities, making desperate and sometimes fatal journeys hundreds of miles home. (On Saturday, more than 20 migrants were killed in a truck crash as they traveled home.)
And many economists believe that an $260 billion relief package that he announced this week will hardly be enough.
Hiromasa Tsuzaki, his wife, Yuriko, and their son, Rentaro, in their home in Tokyo.Credit...Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times
For working couples, Japan’s efforts to combat the coronavirus — encouraging teleworking and asking residents to stay inside — have highlighted disparities in the division of domestic work that are particularly pronounced in Japanese society.
Men in Japan do fewer hours of household chores and child care than in any other of the globe’s wealthiest nations. In a survey last year by Macromill, a market research firm, about half of Japanese working couples reported that men did 20 percent of the housework or less.
About half of working women in Japan are employed in part-time or contract jobs without benefits, according to government data, compared with close to one in five men. That has reinforced a sense among some men that their paid work takes priority over their wives’ jobs, leaving women to carry the bulk of household chores.
Men now at home during the pandemic are unlikely to share chores and child care equally, said Lully Miura, a political scientist who runs the Yamaneko Research Institute in Tokyo.
“Most of my friends on Facebook post the nice homemade dishes” made by their husbands, Ms. Miura said. “But this is not the majority of people.”
Brazil’s health minister, Nelson Teich, said on Friday that he was stepping down less than a month after taking the job, after clashing with President Jair Bolsonaro over the president’s decision not to embrace social distancing and quarantines.
Last month, Mr. Bolsonaro fired the previous health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who had butted heads with the president over the same issues. Mr. Teich addressed a news conference on Friday but did not provide a reason for his resignation.
While governors and mayors in much of the country have urged Brazilians to stay home as much as possible, Mr. Bolsonaro has implored them to go out and work, arguing that an economic unraveling would be more damaging to the country than the virus is. This week he classified beauty salons and gyms as essential businesses that should remain open.
He has repeatedly played down the pandemic, at one point dismissing Covid-19 as “a measly cold,” and has touted an unproven drug as an effective treatment. Asked in April about Brazil’s fast-growing death toll, he said: “So what? Sorry, but what do you want me to do?”
Brazil has more than 200,000 confirmed coronavirus infections and over 14,000 deaths. Those figures, among the highest in the world and rising sharply, still grossly underrepresent the extent of the epidemic, experts say, because Brazil has limited testing capacity.
Officially, the country is recording more than 800 coronavirus deaths per day, second only to the United States.
From CNN's Shanshan Wang in Beijing and Manveena Suri in New Delhi
Volunteers spray disinfectant at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar, India, on May 15. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images
India has now identified and recorded more cases of the novel coronavirus than mainland China, where the global pandemic originated.
India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported Saturday that it had identified 85,940 people who tested positive for the virus. It came after China's National Health Commission earlier reported that it had 82,941 cases since the outbreak began.
The two countries are in very different stages of the outbreak. India is still under lockdown and public health authorities there are identifying hundreds of patients a day, while China appears to have flattened the curve. Chinese authorities are only recording a handful of new cases a day throughout the country.
From CNN’s Paula Newton in Ottawa
The Canadian government will continue to pay up to 75% of employee wages until the end of August for some businesses, acknowledging the possibility of mounting bankruptcies as reopening in Canada proceeds slowly.
“Business owners, please take confidence from this announcement. You now have some runway to catch your breath as you get restarted, so please, bring back your employees,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a news conference Friday.
While business organizations welcomed the extension, many say they are alarmed at the continuing damage being inflicted -- especially on small and medium-sized businesses -- during the economic shutdown.
Dan Kelly, president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), told CNN that "it has been absolutely soul crushing to see what has happened to entrepreneurs who pride themselves on being self-sufficient and resilient people."
“If the current restrictions last until the until the end of May, 40% of small businesses are saying that they are not sure whether they would ever be able to reopen their doors, that’s how worrisome this current situation is," Kelly said.
In surveys conducted over the last few weeks, the CFIB says more than 1 in 4 small and medium-sized business reported having lost 90 to 100% of revenue because of pandemic-related lockdowns.
And yet, in a problem acknowledged by both business groups and the Canadian government, the wage subsidy already on offer has not met expectations, with fewer businesses applying than expected.
Nearly 8 million Canadian workers now collect about $1,400 a month as part of an emergency benefit available to anyone who lost their job because of Covid-19. That program may now be keeping prospective employees at home.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau said the government will look "carefully at the relationship between these two benefits."
From CNN's Maggie Fox
Older men, people who live in densely populated but deprived areas, who are obese and who have chronic kidney disease, are more likely not only to develop serious illness from the coronavirus, but to catch it in the first place, British researchers reported Friday.
Their detailed look at people who sought coronavirus tests from all over England turned up some surprises. People living in larger households were less likely to test positive, but blacks were disproportionately likely to be diagnosed with the virus, the team reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
“In our sample, we found increasing age, male sex, increasing deprivation, urban location, and black ethnicity were associated with increased odds of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test,” Simon de Lusignan, from the University of Oxford, and colleagues wrote. “Chronic kidney disease and increased BMI (a sign of obesity) were the only clinical factors independently associated with a positive test.”
The team analyzed data from 587 people with positive results and 3,215 with negative results, collected by physicians across England. They found 18% of people ages 40 to 64 tested positive, compared to 4.6% of children age 17 and younger. Men were somewhat more likely than women to test positive.
And people living in poorer areas were more likely to be infected. “Of 668 people in the most deprived areas, 29.5% tested positive, compared with 7.7% in the least deprived areas,” the researchers wrote.
“People in urban areas were more at risk than those in rural areas. Of 1,816 people tested in urban areas, 26.2% tested positive, while in rural areas 5.6% tested positive.”
One surprise: Smokers were less likely to test positive. The researchers don’t think smoking protects people from infection, however.
“Smokers are more likely to have a cough, meaning they might also be more likely to be tested for SARS-CoV-2 than non-smokers, even if they are SARS-CoV-2 negative,” they wrote. “ This more frequent testing could increase the proportion of smokers with negative SARS-CoV-2 results in our sample, which would bias our results. However, the proportion of smokers in our study was low.”
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-16-20-intl/index.html
A nine-year-old child from Marseille, France, is reported to have died of Kawasaki disease, the rare inflammatory disorder which has been linked to Covid-19. The boy is the first victim of the disorder in France and the second in Europe after a teenager died of the syndrome in London last week. Although Kawasaki disease is said to mainly affect children under five, those diagnosed in France are aged from one to 14. About 230 suspected cases have been reported across Europe.
Afghanistan’s health ministry has warned of a surge in deaths if the country’s lockdown is not adhered to. Confirmed cases of Covid-19 reached 6,402 amid war raging on across the country. “If people continue to not heed, we will witness a big catastrophe among families,” said Wahid Majroh, the deputy health minister.
Russia has recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll. The country reported 9,200 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday, with 119 deaths over the last 24 hours. The latter figure is the highest daily figure of deaths the country has recorded so far.
Burundi is pushing on with plans to hold a controversial election on Wednesday despite concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic. It could be the first truly peaceful transfer of authority in the east African nation since independence in 1962.
The Trump administration has fired the state department’s inspector general, Steve Linick. He is reported to have been investigating the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, for a potential abuse of office.
Spain has reported lowest rise in Covid-19 deaths since mid-March. Spain’s overnight death toll from Covid-19 was 102 on Saturday, the health ministry has said, marking the country’s lowest 24-hour rise in eight weeks.
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