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COVID-19 news update Apr/14
source:WTMF 2020-04-14 [Medicine]

Country,
Other

Total
Cases

New
Cases

Total
Deaths

New
Deaths

World

1,933,800

+9,952

120,434

+816

USA

587,173

+232

23,644

+4

Spain

172,541

+2,442

18,056

+300

Italy

159,516

 

20,465

 

France

136,779

 

14,967

 

Germany

130,072

 

3,194

 

UK

88,621

 

11,329

 

China

82,249

+89

3,341

 

Iran

73,303

 

4,585

 

Turkey

61,049

 

1,296

 

Belgium

31,119

+530

4,157

+254

Netherlands

26,551

 

2,823

 

Switzerland

25,688

 

1,138

 

Canada

25,680

 

780

 

Brazil

23,723

+293

1,355

+27

Russia

21,102

+2,774

170

+22

Portugal

16,934

 

535

 

Austria

14,106

+65

384

+16

Israel

11,868

+282

117

+1

Sweden

10,948

 

919

 

Ireland

10,647

 

365

 

S. Korea

10,564

+27

222

+5

India

10,541

+88

358

 

Peru

9,784

 

216

 

Japan

7,645

+27

143

 

Ecuador

7,529

 

355

 

Chile

7,525

 

82

 

Poland

7,049

+115

251

+6

Romania

6,633

 

332

+1

Norway

6,605

+2

134

 

Australia

6,400

+41

61

 

Denmark

6,318

 

285

 

Czechia

6,059

 

147

+4

Pakistan

5,716

+220

96

+3

Philippines

5,223

+291

335

+20

Mexico

5,014

+353

332

+36

Malaysia

4,987

+170

82

+5

Saudi Arabia

4,934

 

65

 

Indonesia

4,839

+282

459

+60

UAE

4,521

 

25

 

Serbia

4,054

 

85

 

Panama

3,472

 

94

 

Ukraine

3,372

+270

98

+5

Luxembourg

3,292

 

69

 

Belarus

3,281

+362

33

+4

Qatar

3,231

 

7

 

Dominican Republic

3,167

 

177

 

Finland

3,161

+97

59

 

Singapore

2,918

 

9

 

Colombia

2,852

 

112

 

Thailand

2,613

+34

41

+1

Argentina

2,277

 

98

 

South Africa

2,272

 

27

 

Egypt

2,190

 

164

 

Greece

2,145

 

99

 

Algeria

1,983

 

313

 

Morocco

1,763

 

126

 

Moldova

1,712

 

36

+1

Iceland

1,711

 

8

 

Croatia

1,650

 

25

 

Hungary

1,512

+54

122

+13

Iraq

1,378

 

78

 

Estonia

1,373

+41

31

+3

New Zealand

1,366

+17

9

+4

Bahrain

1,361

 

7

+1

Kuwait

1,300

 

2

 

Slovenia

1,212

 

55

 

Kazakhstan

1,179

+88

14

+2

Azerbaijan

1,148

 

12

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1,077

+40

39

 

Lithuania

1,070

+8

24

 

Armenia

1,067

+28

16

+2

Uzbekistan

1,054

+56

4

 

Hong Kong

1,013

+3

4

 

Bangladesh

1,012

+209

46

+7

North Macedonia

854

 

38

 

Cameroon

848

 

12

 

Slovakia

816

+47

2

 

Oman

813

+86

4

 

Tunisia

726

 

34

 

Cuba

726

 

21

 

Afghanistan

714

+49

23

+2

Diamond Princess

712

 

12

 

Bulgaria

695

+10

35

+3

Cyprus

662

 

12

 

Latvia

657

+2

5

 

Andorra

646

 

29

 

Lebanon

632

 

20

 

Ivory Coast

626

 

6

 

Costa Rica

612

 

3

 

Ghana

566

 

8

 

 

 

India extends nationwide lockdown, ordering more than 1 billion people to remain at home.

Source: New York Times

People in Hyderabad, India, watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi address the nation about the coronavirus situation on Tuesday.

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India extended a nationwide lockdown on Tuesday for nearly three more weeks, preventing more than 1 billion from leaving their homes.

He lauded  the country for acting aggressively against the coronavirus and urged Indians not to “let our guard down.”

 

Trump retweets #FireFauci after top immunologist said lives would have been saved if President had followed his advice to shut US down in February

Source: Daily Mail

President Donald Trump hit out at at Dr Anthony Fauci by retweeting the #FireFauci hashtag (pictured) Sunday night, just hours after the nation's top immunologist said he received a lot of pushback for recommending a United States shutdown in February

 

The nation's top immunologist Dr Anthony Fauci said Sunday morning that more lives could have been saved if Donald Trump locked down the nation sooner

'There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then,' Fauci said

Trump put out guidelines for social distancing and locked down US in mid-March

But Trump reportedly knew about virus threat long before he shut down US

On Sunday night, Trump took a dig at Fauci by retweeting #FireFauci

The president not only retweeted hashtag, but he added his own comment: 'Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up'

In another Sunday night tweet, the president claimed Health Secretary Alex Azar did not warn him about the virus until after the ban on flights from China

Elite group of medical experts also said they had been sounding the alarm about coronavirus since January and discussed threat in email chain called Red Dawn

Trump also told governors on Sunday that it's their responsibility to get coronavirus testing 'perfected'

 

 

Turkey’s Parliament passes law to release tens of thousands of prisoners.

Source: New York Times

 

Sparse traffic on a road leading to the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul on Sunday during a two-day lockdown.Credit...Chris Mcgrath/Getty Images

Turkey’s Parliament passed a law on Tuesday that would allow for the release of up to 90,000 prisoners to ease overcrowding and protect detainees from being infected by the coronavirus.

The new law is set to reduce sentences and give early release to 45,000 people in minimum-security prisons, and 45,000 from regular prisons, which amounts to nearly one third of the total prison population. Those released will be ordered to stay at home, as Turkey has been gradually restricting the movement of the population.

 

 

 

China approves human testing for two new vaccines.

Source: New York Times

 

Masks hang to dry at the Yaotai Community near an African migrant neighborhood in Guangzhou, China, last week.Credit...Alex Plavevski/EPA, via Shutterstock

 

China has approved clinical trials for two experimental vaccines to treat the coronavirus, the official news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday, in a global race to fight the pandemic that has killed at least 118,000 people worldwide.

The two vaccines are being developed by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products under the state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group, and the Beijing-based research arm of Sinovac Biotech, a biopharmaceutical company.

 

 

Indonesia reports its biggest daily jump in coronavirus deaths

Source:Reuters

 

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia on Tuesday reported its biggest daily jump in coronavirus deaths with 60 new fatalities, taking the total to 459, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said.

Yurianto confirmed 282 new coronavirus infections, taking the total in the Southeast Asian country to 4,839. A total of 426 people have recovered, he said.

More than 33,600 tests have been performed, Yurianto added.

 

 

 

Spain's overnight coronavirus death toll at 567; infection rate slows

Source: Reuters

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain’s overnight death toll from the coronavirus rose to 567 on Tuesday from 517 a day earlier, while the country reported its lowest increase in new cases since March 18.

Total deaths climbed to 18,056, while confirmed cases of the infection rose by 3,045 to 172,541, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

 

 

 

Global Coronavirus Infections Near Two Million; U.S. Governors Plan for Reopening

Source: Wall Street Journal

 

As some countries explore how to relax pandemic-fighting restrictions and others extend them for fear of a resurgence, global infections approached two million, more than doubling over the past two weeks.

Early Tuesday, confirmed cases world-wide of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, passed 1.92 million, more than a quarter of them in the U.S., according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

 

African experts are using Ebola lessons to fight COVID-19

Source: NBC News

Staff members of the Congolese Ministry of Health perform a COVID-19 test at a private residence in Goma, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in March.Alexis Huguet / AFP - Getty Images

African countries previously hit by deadly Ebola outbreaks are using the lessons they learned to fight the coronavirus pandemic, experts say, because they know how to rapidly track down, screen and quarantine potential patients.

"When a certain outbreak is over, you have a capacity left behind that you can build on or adapt. It could be for COVID-19 or something else tomorrow," said Dr. Mary Stephen, a technical officer for the World Health Organization at its regional office in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

 

 

 

1.4 million people in the United Kingdom have applied for welfare support

From CNN's Simon Cullen

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Therese Coffey leaves 10 Downing Street in London following a Cabinet meeting on March 17. Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Media/Getty Images

A total of 1.4 million people in the UK have claimed welfare support since the coronavirus pandemic began, the country's Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey said.

Coffey said the figure included those who’d applied for help under the government’s "universal credit" scheme, job seeker’s allowance, or employment support allowance.

 

 

 

"Positive trends" emerging in Germany, head of country's agency for disease control and prevention says

From CNN's Stephanie Halasz

A cyclist crosses the Oberbaum Bridge in Berlin in the early morning of April 14. Fabian Sommer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Germany is showing some positive trends in its bid to stop Covid-19 from continuing to spread, the head of the Robert Koch Institute -- the country's national agency for disease control and prevention -- said at a news conference Tuesday.

"We have some positive trends, citizens have helped here. I thank everyone. It is great that our efforts are showing results," said Lothar Wieler.

But he warned that there was no clear sign that the numbers of infections were decreasing. Wieler also said there were strong regional differences in Germany and advised citizens to remain disciplined.

Germany's cases top 125,000: Another 2,082 coronavirus infections were reported by the Robert Koch Institute on Tuesday, bringing the national total to 125,098. The total includes 2,969 deaths.

 

 

 

One third of NHS staff and other key workers tested in UK have coronavirus

From CNN's Simon Cullen

A sign calling for proper personal protective equipment for NHS staff is seen outside a home in Hackney, London on April 13. Hollie Adams/Getty Images

One third of National Health Service staff and other key workers who’ve been tested for coronavirus have returned positive results, according to data released by the British government.

According to the figures released Monday, 16,888 people who fall into the category of “key workers and their households” have been tested. So far, 5,733 – or 34% -- are confirmed to have the virus.

The government has been under pressure to ramp up testing for NHS workers and their families, amid concerns about a lack of appropriate personal protective equipment.

Health minister Matt Hancock has previously said that NHS staff who show symptoms -- or live with someone who does -- will be able to get tested under the government’s plan, with the ultimate goal to provide testing to all NHS staff regardless of symptoms.