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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
2,723,044 |
+85,434 |
190,919 |
|
886,442 |
+31,900 |
50,236 |
|
|
213,024 |
+4,635 |
22,157 |
|
|
189,973 |
+2,646 |
25,549 |
|
|
158,183 |
+2,239 |
21,856 |
|
|
153,129 |
+2,481 |
5,575 |
|
|
138,078 |
+4,583 |
18,738 |
|
|
101,790 |
+3,116 |
2,491 |
|
|
87,026 |
+1,030 |
5,481 |
|
|
82,798 |
+10 |
4,632 |
|
|
62,773 |
+4,774 |
555 |
|
|
49,492 |
+3,735 |
3,313 |
|
|
42,797 |
+908 |
6,490 |
|
|
42,110 |
+1,920 |
2,147 |
|
|
35,729 |
+887 |
4,177 |
|
|
28,496 |
+228 |
1,549 |
|
|
23,039 |
+1,669 |
721 |
|
|
22,353 |
+371 |
820 |
|
|
20,914 |
+1,664 |
572 |
|
|
17,607 |
+936 |
794 |
|
|
16,755 |
+751 |
2,021 |
|
|
15,002 |
+77 |
522 |
|
|
14,803 |
+305 |
192 |
|
|
13,930 |
+1,158 |
121 |
|
|
12,368 |
+418 |
328 |
|
|
11,812 |
+516 |
168 |
|
|
11,183 |
+333 |
560 |
|
|
11,178 |
+1,037 |
12 |
|
|
11,057 |
+981 |
235 |
|
|
10,702 |
+8 |
240 |
|
|
10,544 |
+1,043 |
970 |
|
|
10,511 |
+342 |
454 |
|
|
10,096 |
+386 |
545 |
|
|
8,756 |
+518 |
56 |
|
|
8,073 |
+161 |
394 |
|
|
8,022 |
+741 |
60 |
|
|
7,775 |
+357 |
647 |
|
|
7,764 |
+623 |
10 |
|
|
7,401 |
+63 |
194 |
|
|
7,276 |
+162 |
139 |
|
|
7,187 |
+55 |
210 |
|
|
7,170 |
+578 |
187 |
|
|
6,981 |
+271 |
462 |
|
|
6,667 |
+18 |
75 |
|
|
5,603 |
+71 |
95 |
|
|
5,543 |
+243 |
265 |
|
|
4,992 |
+171 |
144 |
|
|
4,561 |
+205 |
215 |
|
|
4,284 |
+155 |
172 |
|
|
4,186 |
+414 |
127 |
|
|
3,953 |
+318 |
75 |
|
|
3,891 |
+232 |
287 |
|
|
3,665 |
+11 |
83 |
|
|
3,568 |
+122 |
155 |
|
|
3,435 |
+147 |
165 |
|
|
3,007 |
+97 |
407 |
|
|
2,926 |
+148 |
80 |
|
|
2,839 |
+13 |
50 |
|
|
2,463 |
+55 |
125 |
|
|
2,399 |
+151 |
14 |
|
|
2,289 |
+154 |
20 |
|
|
2,284 |
+116 |
239 |
|
|
2,217 |
+190 |
8 |
|
|
1,981 |
+31 |
50 |
|
|
1,789 |
+4 |
10 |
|
|
1,758 |
+42 |
7 |
|
|
1,716 |
+102 |
9 |
|
|
1,677 |
+46 |
83 |
|
|
1,592 |
+33 |
45 |
|
|
1,548 |
+30 |
20 |
|
|
1,523 |
+50 |
24 |
|
|
1,451 |
+3 |
16 |
A food drive in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday. City workers handed out meals to parents of students in the city’s school system.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times
The House on Thursday gave resounding approval to a $484 billion coronavirus relief package to restart a depleted loan program for distressed small businesses and provide funds for hospitals and coronavirus testing, and moved to increase oversight of the sprawling federal response to the pandemic.
President Trump said he was “grateful” for the action to refill the loan program and indicated he would sign the measure. It was the latest installment in a government aid program that is approaching $3 trillion, which passed with broad bipartisan support even as some Democrats condemned it for being too stingy. But the fight over what should be included foreshadowed a pitched partisan battle to come over the next round of federal relief, which is likely to center on aid to states and cities facing dire financial straits.
An unemployment office in Fayetteville, Ark., this month. Bipartisan leaders have been pleading with Washington for aid to help them keep workers on their payrolls.Credit...September Dawn Bottoms for The New York Times
During the Great Recession, tax collections fell so steeply that state and local governments furloughed and laid off police officers and cut aid to key services like health care, transportation and schools. Some cities turned off streetlights to save on electricity, and Hawaii cut its school aid so much that it closed them down altogether on many Fridays.
The current downturn is shaping up to be worse, and bipartisan groups of governors and mayors from around the country have been pleading with Washington for aid to help them keep workers on their payrolls as they grapple with a growing public health and economic crisis.
The New York Times
Islam’s call to prayer will play throughout a Minneapolis neighborhood during Ramadan as the authorities urge people to stay apart during the holy month.
The call, known as Adhan, will be played over a loudspeaker in the Cedar-Riverside area of the city five times a day until Ramadan’s conclusion next month.
“At a time when physical distancing requires we pray apart, it’s incumbent on leaders to create a sense of togetherness where we can,” Mayor Jacob Frey, who helped arrange a noise permit, said in a statement.
Health workers gave flu shots at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas, in January.Credit...LM Otero/Associated Press
As many Americans look to the summer months with some hope of a return to normalcy, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the coronavirus and the seasonal flu season will likely overlap later this year. This scenario would overwhelm hospitals and health care symptoms as the virus has in some communities, like New York City.
“We’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time,” Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a recent interview with The Washington Post.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said the virus may not come back at all, a theory his own infectious disease advisers have rejected.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up his criticism of the Chinese government, accusing the country’s leaders of trying to cover up the outbreak in its early days, making it “impossible to track the “disease’s evolution.”
“We strongly believe that the Chinese Communist Party did not report the outbreak of the new coronavirus in a timely fashion to the World Health Organization,” he told reporters at a briefing in Washington.
“Instead, it covered up how dangerous the disease is. It didn’t report sustained human-to-human transmission for a month until it was in every province inside of China. It censored those who tried to warn the world, it ordered a halt to testing of new samples, and it destroyed existing samples.”
He said that the Chinese government “still has not shared the virus sample from inside of China with the outside world, making it impossible to track the disease’s evolution.”
The two countries have clashed over the emergence of the disease, part of a broader struggle to control the narrative surrounding a pandemic that has claimed tens of thousands of lives around the world.
Malaysia has extended its nationwide lockdown order for an additional two weeks, now lasting through May 12, according to state news agency Bernama.
The restrictions were set to end on April 28.
The lockdown was first announced on March 18. Essential services were exempt, like health care, transportation and the food industry.
Malaysia has recorded 5,603 coronavirus cases, including 95 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced the extension yesterday evening, on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims, in a national address on television.
"If this downward trend in (active) cases continues, the government may give some relaxation," Bernama quoted the Prime Minister as saying. On the other hand, if the lockdown is extended further, it could prevent people from celebrating Eid al-Fitr when Ramadan ends toward the end of May, he warned.
Muhyiddin called the lockdown a sacrifice by the people, saying national efforts had paid off in reducing the number of new cases reported daily, according to Bernama.
From CNN's Simon Cullen
People enjoy warm and spring-like weather with high temperatures on April 22, in Stockholm. Anders Wilklund/AFP/Getty Images
So many people in Sweden have been exposed to the coronavirus that the country will likely be in a better place to withstand a second wave of infections, said state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
Sweden has taken a relatively relaxed approach to coronavirus-related restrictions when compared with other European countries.
"It has worked in some aspects," Tegnell told BBC radio. "It has worked because our health system has been able to cope. There has always been at least 20% of the intensive care beds empty and able to take care of Covid-19 patients."
Tegnell estimated an immunity level of between 15% to 20% had been reached in the Stockholm population, which he said would "slow down the spread (of a second wave)."
But he cautioned that it wouldn't be enough to achieve herd immunity, and that there's still a lot unknown about immunity to the disease.
Sweden has reported 16,755 cases of the coronavirus, including 2,021 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Asked whether the death toll would have been lower if Sweden had implemented tighter restrictions, Tegnell replied, "that’s a very difficult question to answer at this stage. At least 50% of our death toll is within the elderly homes and we have a hard time understanding how a lockdown would stop the introduction of the disease into the elderly homes."
From CNN's Simon Cullen
In this file photo from March 17, Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrive for a coronavirus news briefing at 10 Downing Street in London. Matt Dunham/AP
There's no decision yet on when UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will return to work, said Health Secretary Matt Hancock, speaking to Sky News.
"I spoke to the prime minister yesterday -- he's in good shape. And I’m sure he’ll come back as soon as his doctors recommend it," Hancock said. "The decision hasn’t been taken, but the prime minister is taking calls and staying in touch."
Johnson has spoken to US President Donald Trump and the Queen by phone this week, while he continues to recover at the prime minister’s countryside retreat, Chequers.
By CNN's Emiko Jozuka in Tokyo
The mayor of Japan's third largest city is facing a public backlash after he said men would make more effective grocery shoppers than women as officials struggle to prevent overcrowding at stores amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of confirmed cases of the virus has spiked in recent weeks -- dashing hopes that the government's initial virus response had succeeded in controlling its spread. As of Friday, Japan had recorded 13,100 confirmed cases, including 330 deaths, according to the country's health ministry. On March 1, Japan had reported just 243 cases.
From CNN’s James Frater, Anna Stewart and Mia Alberti
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a video conference call with members of the European Council at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on April 23. Ian Langson/Pool/Getty Images
European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to create a massive coronavirus recovery fund worth trillions rather than billions of euros.
But they did not endorse "coronabonds," the controversial debt-pooling instrument that countries such as Italy and Spain hoped for.
French President Emmanuel Macron said it was critical that the EU worked together in the face of the crisis, warning that "if we abandon part of Europe, all of Europe will fall."
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a fierce critic of the Europe-wide response to the pandemic that has hit his country so hard, expressed satisfaction with Thursday’s virtual summit.
From journalist Thomas Etzler
A woman shops at the recently-opened farmers' market in Prague on Monday, April 20. Petr David Josek/AP
The Czech government on Thursday laid out its plans to lift restrictions that had been imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Starting Monday, some shops, gyms without locker rooms and showers, libraries and outdoor areas in zoos and botanical gardens will be reopened.
Religious services for a maximum of 15 people will also be allowed.
From May 11, all shops in shopping malls and those larger than 2,500 square meters (26,900 sq ft) will reopen, as will restaurants, bars and cafes that have outdoor patios.
Hairdressing salons, barber shops, beauty salons, massage parlors, museums and galleries will also open on May 11.
From May 25, hotels, theaters, tattoo and piercing parlors will reopen, and weddings "under specific hygienic terms" will be allowed to go ahead, the statement says.
The Czech Republic has reported 7,187 coronavirus cases, including 210 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-24-20-intl/index.html
Omar Rodriguez organizes bodies in the Gerard Neufeld funeral home in Queens, N.Y., on April 22, 2020.Spencer Platt / Getty Images
More than 15,000 New York City residents have likely died from complications brought on by coronavirus, in another grim milestone announced by health officials on Thursday.
There have been 10,290 confirmed deaths connected to the coronavirus pandemic in the five boroughs and at least another 5,121 fatalities have been labeled as probable COVID-19 cases, the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported as of 1:30 p.m. ET.
SOURCE: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-blog/2020-04-23-coronavirus-news-n1190201
Justin McCurry in Tokyo writes:
Tiptoeing through the tulips or breathing in the scent of roses are popular spring rites in Japan, but there is concern that flower festivals could become the source of new infection clusters.
This week workers began severing the buds of about 3,000 rose bushes at Yono park in Saitama, north of Tokyo, in an attempt to keep flower viewers away.
Members of the public flock to Tokyo city parks to view the blooming cherry blossoms in March. The practice of traditional ‘Hanami’ parties was officially banned this year due to the coronavirus. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images
The local government had already cancelled the annual rose festival, but the park is still open to the public, prompting the decision to rid the venue of its main attraction – 180 varieties of rose bushes that reach their peak from around the middle of May.
“It’s very painful, but we decided to take action after looking at the situation in other cities,” a local official told the Mainichi newspaper, adding that it would take about a week to remove all the buds.
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