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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
2,082,372 |
+84,515 |
134,560 |
|
644,089 |
+30,206 |
28,529 |
|
|
180,659 |
+6,599 |
18,812 |
|
|
165,155 |
+2,667 |
21,645 |
|
|
147,863 |
+4,560 |
17,167 |
|
|
134,753 |
+2,543 |
3,804 |
|
|
98,476 |
+4,603 |
12,868 |
|
|
82,295 |
+46 |
3,342 |
|
|
76,389 |
+1,512 |
4,777 |
|
|
69,392 |
+4,281 |
1,518 |
|
|
33,573 |
+2,454 |
4,440 |
|
|
28,610 |
+3,348 |
1,757 |
|
|
28,379 |
+1,316 |
1,010 |
|
|
28,153 |
+734 |
3,134 |
|
|
26,336 |
+400 |
1,239 |
|
|
24,490 |
+3,388 |
198 |
|
|
18,091 |
+643 |
599 |
|
|
14,350 |
+124 |
393 |
|
|
12,547 |
+1,068 |
444 |
|
|
12,501 |
+455 |
130 |
|
|
12,370 |
+883 |
422 |
|
|
11,927 |
+482 |
1,203 |
|
|
11,475 |
+1,172 |
254 |
|
|
10,591 |
+27 |
225 |
|
|
8,626 |
+741 |
178 |
|
|
8,273 |
+356 |
94 |
|
|
7,858 |
+255 |
388 |
|
|
7,582 |
+380 |
286 |
|
|
7,216 |
+337 |
372 |
|
|
6,797 |
+174 |
150 |
|
|
6,681 |
+170 |
309 |
|
|
6,447 |
+47 |
63 |
|
|
6,383 |
+546 |
111 |
|
|
6,301 |
+190 |
166 |
|
|
5,862 |
+493 |
79 |
|
|
5,453 |
+230 |
349 |
|
|
5,399 |
+385 |
406 |
|
|
5,365 |
+432 |
33 |
|
|
5,136 |
+297 |
469 |
|
|
5,072 |
+85 |
83 |
|
|
4,873 |
+408 |
99 |
|
|
3,764 |
+392 |
108 |
|
|
3,751 |
+177 |
103 |
|
|
3,728 |
+447 |
36 |
|
|
3,711 |
+283 |
7 |
|
|
3,699 |
+447 |
10 |
|
|
3,614 |
+328 |
189 |
|
|
3,373 |
+66 |
69 |
|
|
3,237 |
+76 |
72 |
|
|
3,105 |
+126 |
131 |
|
|
2,643 |
+30 |
43 |
|
|
2,571 |
+294 |
112 |
|
|
2,506 |
+91 |
34 |
|
|
2,505 |
+155 |
183 |
|
|
2,192 |
+22 |
102 |
|
|
2,160 |
+90 |
336 |
|
|
2,049 |
+115 |
46 |
|
|
2,024 |
+136 |
127 |
|
|
1,741 |
+37 |
33 |
|
|
1,727 |
+7 |
8 |
|
|
1,671 |
+143 |
7 |
|
|
1,579 |
+67 |
134 |
|
|
1,415 |
+15 |
79 |
|
|
1,405 |
+50 |
3 |
|
|
1,400 |
+27 |
35 |
|
|
1,386 |
+20 |
9 |
|
|
1,302 |
+137 |
4 |
|
|
1,295 |
+63 |
16 |
|
|
1,253 |
+56 |
13 |
|
|
1,248 |
+28 |
61 |
|
|
1,231 |
+219 |
50 |
|
|
1,111 |
+44 |
17 |
|
|
1,110 |
+27 |
41 |
|
|
1,091 |
+21 |
30 |
|
|
1,017 |
+4 |
4 |
From:NYTimes
Migrant workers at a dormitory in Singapore last week.Credit...Ore Huiying for The New York Times
Singapore announced a record jump in coronavirus cases on Wednesday evening, with most of the 447 new confirmed cases coming from crowded dormitories for migrant laborers. While Singapore has been lauded for its rigorous contact-tracing program, which quickly identified clusters of local transmission, the coronavirus spread quickly through residences for migrant laborers, where up to 20 people are crammed in each room with shared kitchens and bathrooms.
Nearly half of Singapore’s roughly 3,700 coronavirus cases are among low-wage migrant workers, who have built the gleaming, modern city-state. About 200,000 such workers, many from India and Bangladesh, have been quarantined to their dormitories, with healthy residents gradually being transferred to other housing to prevent community transmission.
From:NYTimes
A scramble is underway to convert an ancient institution, the British Parliament, into a virtual one. After an absence of several weeks, lawmakers are anxious to return to the job, in cyberspace if nothing else.
“We need a functioning Parliament to hold ministers to account on their response to the coronavirus,” said Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour Party. “There are too many questions that have gone unanswered.”
A decision on how and when to meet could come as early as Thursday. But going online is not easy for an institution so steeped in tradition that casting a vote requires lawmakers to pass through a narrow lobby where their names are recorded by officials in formal dress.
From:NYTimes
Crime, overcrowding and shortages are common in the San Roque slum in Manila.Credit...Jes Aznar for The New York Times
Even before the coronavirus arrived in Manila, a saying in the capital’s sprawling San Roque slum — “no one dies from a fever” — crystallized the many threats that its residents faced in their daily lives.
Drug-fueled petty crime. Food shortages. Overcrowding and poor sanitation. Fever, body aches and coughs were commonplace long before the virus came.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s lockdown of Luzon, the Philippines’ largest island and home to Manila, is moving into its second month, plunging San Roque’s people even deeper into poverty as the virus continues to rage. Yet the restrictions have not stopped runny-nosed children from playing tag in the slum’s labyrinth of alleyways, as parents shout halfhearted admonitions to stay away from one another.
From:NYTimes
A beach bar in Sydney, Australia, that closed this month because of the coronavirus.Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York Times
Australia will consider lifting some restrictions in four weeks if the number of new cases continues to drop and crucial public health benchmarks are met, officials said on Thursday.
Australia remains in “the suppression phase,” said Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Before restrictions can ease, the country will need to extend surveillance measures, improve contact tracing and respond to local outbreaks faster, he said.
Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine indicates that Australia has one of the best detection rates in the world, with 92 percent of all symptomatic cases identified, said Brendan Murphy, the chief medical officer of Australia. The rate of new daily cases has dropped in the country, but he cautioned that it was too soon to relax.
From: NYTimes
As President Trump pushes to reopen businesses, public health experts warn that the country is not conducting enough testing to do so without exacerbating the spread of the coronavirus.
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator for the White House, offered a road map on Wednesday on which states could be the first to ease stay-at-home orders and reopen businesses — with President Trump saying a target date could be before May 1. Governors and mayors would make the call on lifting restrictions after receiving guidance from the federal government, which would be announced Thursday, Dr. Birx said.
From: NYtimes
President Moon Jae-in’s governing party in South Korea won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections on Wednesday, as he leveraged his surging popularity over his country’s largely successful battle against the coronavirus to increase his political sway.
With more than 99 percent of the votes counted, Mr. Moon’s left-leaning Democratic Party had won 163 seats in the 300-member National Assembly, according to the National Election Commission. A satellite party the Democrats created for Wednesday’s elections won 17 seats.
Together, the two groups took three-fifths of the seats, giving Mr. Moon the largest majority in three decades.
From CNN's Vasco Cotovio in London
European Council President Charles Michel says the EU must must learn from the coronavirus pandemic “to improve our preparedness, and our coordination.”
"We must develop a more resilient system of governance, while upholding the principles of solidarity, unity and the fundamental values of freedom, rule of law at the heart of the EU," Michel tweeted Thursday.
From CNN's Max Ramsay in London
A total of 27 National Health Service workers have died from coronavirus, the United Kingdom's Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Thursday in an interview with the BBC.
He called the NHS workers' deaths “incredibly heartrending”.
The background: According to figures released Monday, a third of NHS staff and key workers who have been tested for coronavirus in the UK have returned positive results.
Not all NHS staff are being tested for the virus. Health workers who are asymptomatic -- and do not live with people who are -- do not meet the UK's criteria for testing.
The British government has been under intense pressure to ramp up testing for NHS workers and their families, and to improve their access to appropriate personal protective equipment.
From CNN's Fred Pleitgen in Berlin
Germany recorded 315 deaths from complications related to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the German center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute, wrote on its website.
This is the first time more than 300 deaths have been recorded in a 24-hour span.
Germany recorded 2,866 new infections, bringing the total reported cases in the country to 130,450.
For several days, there have been fewer new infections reported than additional recoveries. In the past 24 hours, 4,500 people have recovered from Covid-19, the institute says.
From CNN’s Barbara Wojazer in Paris
The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle arrives in the bay of Toulon, France, on April 12. Daniel Cole/AP
More than 600 sailors from the naval group of France’s flagship aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, have tested positive for coronavirus, the country's Ministry of Armed Forces announced Wednesday.
According to the statement, 668 crew members have tested positive for Covid-19.
A total of 1,767 sailors from the Charles de Gaulle and its escort vessels were tested. The majority of those tested were onboard the flagship aircraft carrier.
Some 31 crew members are hospitalized at the St. Anne military hospital in Toulon, France, and one crew-member is receiving treatment in intensive care.
Both the Charles de Gaulle, and its accompanying warship, Chevalier Paul, arrived in Toulon on Sunday, after an initial 50 cases were confirmed onboard.
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