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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
4,982,937 |
+94,813 |
324,554 |
|
1,570,583 |
+20,289 |
93,533 |
|
|
299,941 |
+9,263 |
2,837 |
|
|
278,803 |
+615 |
27,778 |
|
|
271,885 |
+16,517 |
17,983 |
|
|
248,818 |
+2,412 |
35,341 |
|
|
226,699 |
+813 |
32,169 |
|
|
180,809 |
+882 |
28,022 |
|
|
177,827 |
+538 |
8,193 |
|
|
151,615 |
+1,022 |
4,199 |
|
|
124,603 |
+2,111 |
7,119 |
|
|
106,475 |
+6,147 |
3,302 |
|
|
99,483 |
+4,550 |
2,914 |
|
|
82,960 |
+6 |
4,634 |
|
|
79,112 |
+1,040 |
5,912 |
|
|
59,854 |
+2,509 |
329 |
|
|
55,791 |
+232 |
9,108 |
|
|
51,633 |
+2,414 |
5,332 |
|
|
49,579 |
+3,520 |
509 |
|
|
44,249 |
+108 |
5,715 |
|
|
43,966 |
+1,841 |
939 |
|
|
35,606 |
+1,637 |
15 |
|
|
34,151 |
+569 |
2,839 |
|
|
31,508 |
+936 |
175 |
|
|
30,799 |
+422 |
3,743 |
|
|
30,618 |
+21 |
1,891 |
|
|
29,432 |
+223 |
1,247 |
|
|
28,794 |
+451 |
22 |
|
|
25,121 |
+1,251 |
370 |
|
|
25,063 |
+873 |
227 |
|
|
24,251 |
+51 |
1,561 |
|
|
19,268 |
+383 |
948 |
|
|
18,876 |
+260 |
548 |
|
|
18,496 |
+486 |
1,221 |
|
|
17,200 |
+767 |
312 |
|
|
17,191 |
+155 |
1,137 |
|
|
16,935 |
+640 |
613 |
|
|
16,764 |
+1,073 |
121 |
|
|
16,659 |
+16 |
278 |
|
|
16,367 |
+62 |
768 |
|
|
16,321 |
+52 |
632 |
|
|
13,484 |
+720 |
659 |
|
|
13,223 |
+498 |
441 |
|
|
12,942 |
+224 |
837 |
|
|
11,078 |
+13 |
263 |
|
|
11,044 |
+76 |
551 |
|
|
10,733 |
+34 |
234 |
|
|
9,867 |
+261 |
281 |
|
|
8,809 |
+438 |
393 |
|
|
8,647 |
+61 |
302 |
|
|
8,267 |
+10 |
233 |
|
|
7,653 |
+581 |
178 |
|
|
7,532 |
+348 |
12 |
|
|
7,377 |
+176 |
561 |
|
|
7,068 |
+8 |
100 |
|
|
7,023 |
+71 |
193 |
|
|
6,978 |
+37 |
114 |
|
|
6,751 |
+311 |
35 |
|
|
6,401 |
+226 |
192 |
|
|
6,399 |
+19 |
301 |
|
|
6,340 |
+202 |
221 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany held a joint news conference with President Emmanuel Macron of France on Monday.Credit...Pool photo by Kay Nietfeld
In her time as chancellor of Germany, Steven Erlanger writes, Angela Merkel has seen the European Union put to the test by Brexit, a wave of migration, the Greek debt crisis and populism, and still she held to a largely steadfast course.
Then came the coronavirus.
Faced with a tarnishing of her own legacy and a deep recession gutting her own country and its main trading partners, Ms. Merkel this week agreed to break with two longstanding taboos in German policy.
Along with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Ms. Merkel proposed a 500 billion euro fund to help the European Union member states most ravaged by the virus.
The proposal, which is hardly a done deal, departs from two central elements of German orthodoxy, said Jean Pisani-Ferry, an economist and former French government adviser.
It would allow the transfer of funds from richer countries to those more in need. And it would do so with money borrowed collectively by the European Union as a whole.
It will not be popular in Germany, and it may help populist opponents on the political extremes. But Ms. Merkel, in the twilight of her long political career, has put the interests of the 27-nation union — which embeds Germany into Europe as much as NATO does — before her domestic concerns.
Confronted with a pandemic that has cratered Europe’s economy, Ms. Merkel and Mr. Macron, who have often found themselves at odds over the years, dragged the rusty Franco-German motor out of the garage and got it running again.
Clothes vendors defying a partial lockdown in Jakarta, Indonesia, attracted police attention on Wednesday.Credit...Bay Ismoyo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Across Indonesia, malls and shopping streets are packed with people seemingly oblivious to the idea of social distancing.
Keeping with tradition, they have been shopping for new clothes to look their best on Indonesia’s most important holiday, Eid al-Fitr, which falls on Sunday. Many are wearing face masks, but others are not.
In Jakarta, the capital, crowds of shoppers swarmed the streets this week around the huge Tanah Abang market. The venue itself was closed to prevent the spread of the virus, and a banner read: “Stay home, Corona is destroyed. Leave home, Corona reigns.” But vendors had filled streets around it with stalls selling head scarves, long, flowing skirts and men’s shirts and trousers.
In the neighboring city of Bogor, where shopping streets were also crowded, officials complained that some shoppers were using government coronavirus aid to buy new holiday clothes, local news media reported.
Indonesia, the world’s fourth largest country by population, is 90 percent Muslim.
As the country’s count of confirmed cases nears 20,000, its leaders are wrestling with how to rein in the pandemic while minimizing damage to the economy.
President Joko Widodo, who reluctantly imposed nationwide restrictions, including barring people from returning to their home villages for the holiday, has more recently called for learning to coexist with the virus.
But in Jakarta, which has a third of the nation’s cases, the governor, Anies Baswedan, extended pandemic restrictions from Friday until June 4. He urged the public to stay home and avoid large gatherings.
“The next 14 days will be a defining moment for us, whether the number will stagnate, rise or decline,” he said.
Women in Paris after their release from a police station in 2011, when a ban on full-face coverings went into effect in France.Credit...Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
While face coverings are fast becoming the norm to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, the global politics that surround them are more complicated than ever — a reflection not just of this current crisis, but also of broader values and stereotypes.
This is especially true in the European Union, where the laws informally known as “burqa bans” that forbid full-face coverings, often on the basis of public safety, are being called into question.
“It’s a big contradiction,” said Alia Jafar, a British schoolteacher in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of the many face covering laws, which differ by country — especially because, to avoid charges of discrimination, the legal wording of most burqa bans is often framed more neutrally to apply to both men and women hiding their faces.
Ms. Jafar posted a picture on social media, which she shared with The New York Times, of two women in the street during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Both wore wide-brimmed hats, pulled low, with scarfs tied across their faces. Only their eyes peeked through. “It looks like the burqa,” Ms. Jafar said.
Yet this week France stood firm on its ban, which prohibits the wearing of clothing intended to hide the face in public spaces, despite the fact that masks are now being required on public transportation and in high schools. The French interior ministry confirmed to The Times that the face coverings rule of 2010 would stay in place.
The result is a Catch-22. Those who do not wear a mask can be fined, as can those who violate the face-covering law.
A 100-year-old who raised millions for British health workers by doing 100 laps on a patio will be knighted.
Captain Tom Moore outside of his home, where he completed his record-breaking walk to raise money for the N.H.S.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times
Tom Moore, the 100-year-old former British army officer who raised $40 million for Britain’s National Health Service by walking 100 laps of a patio next to his garden, is set to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, an honor that completes his transformation from media sensation into national hero.
He was recommended for a knighthood by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the government will announce the honor on Wednesday.
“Colonel Tom’s fantastic fund-raising broke records, inspired the whole country and provided us all with a beacon of light through the fog of coronavirus,” Mr. Johnson said in a statement. “On behalf of everyone who has been moved by his incredible story, I want to say a huge thank you.”
Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday morning, Mr. Moore said he was honored by the recognition.
“I certainly feel that I’ve been given a very outstanding honor by the Queen and the Prime Minister,” he said. “And I thank them all very much. I am certainly delighted.”
‘In a subsequent post on Twitter from his official account, Mr. Moore said he was “overwhelmed by the gratitude and love from the British public and beyond” and thanked the staff of the National Health Service for their work.
Mr. Moore’s campaign, which he began a few weeks before his 100th birthday, caught fire after it was posted on an online charity service. It became a hugely popular good-news story in a country especially hard-hit by the pandemic.
Mr. Moore, who served as a captain during the Burma campaign in World War II, has already received several awards for his achievement, including being named an honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College.
He said in an earlier interview that he wanted to recognize those on the front line, “just as we were backed up” during World War II.
Representatives of the World Health Organization largely ignored President Trump’s demands for punitive action at an annual meeting in Geneva.Credit...Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
President Trump’s angry demands for punitive action against the World Health Organization were rebuffed on Tuesday by the organization’s other member nations, who decided instead to conduct an “impartial, independent” examination of the W.H.O.’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
In a four-page letter late Monday night, Mr. Trump had threatened to permanently cut off all United States funding of the W.H.O. unless it committed to “major, substantive improvements” within 30 days. It was a significant escalation of his repeated attempts to blame the W.H.O. and China for the spread of the virus and deflect responsibility for his own handling of a crisis that has killed more than 90,000 people in the United States.
But representatives of the organization’s member nations rallied around the W.H.O. at its annual meeting in Geneva, largely ignoring Mr. Trump’s demand for an overhaul and calling for a global show of support.
That left the United States isolated as officials from China, Russia and the European Union chided Mr. Trump’s heated rhetoric even as they acknowledged the need to review the W.H.O.’s response as the virus spread from China to the rest of the world.
Public health experts noted that Mr. Trump’s threats to withdraw from the organization and permanently halt funding ignored the reality that any such moves would require the consent of Congress. But the president’s continued attacks on the W.H.O., experts said, threatened to hobble the organization and seriously damage international efforts to combat the virus.
From CNN's Max Ramsay in London and Al Goodman and Ingrid Formanek in Spain
People in Spain are now required to wear face masks in public spaces when a minimum two-meter (about 6.5 feet) distance can't be guaranteed, the Health Ministry announced in a decree today.
The rule applies to all people over the age of six, in both indoor and outdoor spaces. People who have respiratory problems or disabilities incompatible with masks are exempt.
"Any type of mask" is allowed as long as it covers the nose and mouth, though the ministry recommended "hygienic and surgical” masks.
Emergency order: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and other government ministers will meet today to vote on extending the national state of emergency by two weeks.
The state of emergency, with strict movement restrictions, started March 14 and has so far been extended four times, for a total of 10 weeks.
It has apparently helped curb the virus -- Spain has seen its daily new cases and deaths begin to slow -- but it has also attracted criticism from some quarters.
For weeks, some people banged pots from their windows in the evenings as a form of protest -- this escalated to marching on the streets last week to demand the government end restrictions on movement.
Analysis from CNN's Stephen Collinson
If America navigates its risky pursuit of a comeback without unleashing a vicious resurgence of coronavirus, it will be in spite of US President Donald Trump, not because of him.
By this weekend, all 50 states will have taken at least some steps to reopening societies and economies as the country stops trying to halt the virus in its tracks and tries to learn to live with it -- at least until a proven therapy or vaccine is developed.
But they will not be shepherded by a president offering advice on how to safely open, empowering his public health officials, or publicly shouldering the fear and concern of his compatriots.
Instead, Trump is undermining his own government's best practices by dosing himself with the drug hydroxychloroquine, discrediting studies that found it isn't effective in combating Covid-19 and refusing to wear a mask as recommended by his own health experts.
But in Trump country, every step the President takes that seems a dereliction of duty to his critics can be perceived by loyal fans as delivering on the promise of establishment-splintering leadership for which they voted in 2016.
Trump's strategy -- that effectively replaces the rallies that invigorate the base he believes is the passport to a second term -- is stirring a combustible political brew that is likely to further deepen national divides exacerbated by the pandemic.
From CNN's Mitch McCluskey in Atlanta
Cambridge University in England. Source: Shutterstock
The University of Cambridge is moving all classes online for the upcoming academic year, until the summer of 2021, the university announced on Tuesday, according to the UK Press Association.
Cambridge is the first British university to announce virtual teaching for the 2020-21 academic year.
"The University is constantly adapting to changing advice as it emerges during this pandemic. Given that it is likely that social distancing will continue to be required, the university has decided there will be no face-to-face lectures during the next academic year," a university spokesman told PA.
In-person lectures are expected to resume again after summer 2021, but smaller face-to-face teaching groups may take place earlier if it "conforms to social-distancing requirements," the spokesman said.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-20-20-intl/index.html
That’s it from me, Helen Sullivan for today. Thank you for following along – and, always, to those of you who reached out on Twitter and via email.
Here are the most important developments from the last few hours:
Global confirmed cases near 4.9 million. According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, at least 323,286 people are known to have died from Covid-19 while at least 4,897,567 are confirmed as having been infected since the outbreak began. The figures, which are based on official and media reports, are likely to significantly underestimate the scale of the pandemic due to differing testing and statistical recording regimes, as well as suspected undercounting.
Trump says the US having the highest cases worldwide is a ‘badge of honour’. The US president told reporters at a cabinet meeting that the high number of cases in the US – far higher than any other country – is a “badge of honour”, because it means the US is testing the most. Trump told reporters: “You know when you say that we lead in cases, that’s because we have more testing than anybody else.” He said he looks at the number “in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better.”
Singapore sentences man to death via Zoom call. A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state’s first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely.Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, received the sentence for his role in a 2011 heroin transaction on Friday, court documents showed, with the country under lockdown to try to curb one of the highest coronavirus rates in Asia.
UN chief praises Africa’s efforts to stem virus. UN secretary general António Guterres said on Wednesday that the developed world could learn lessons from the preventative measures taken by many African countries to stem the spread of the coronavirus. There have been fewer than 3,000 Covid-19 deaths from 88,000 cases of the disease registered throughout the African continent, relatively low numbers compared with over 320,000 deaths worldwide.
Brazil confirms record daily rise in deaths and cases. Brazil has confirmed a record 17,408 cases in the last 24 hours and a record 1,179 deaths. The country has 271,628 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 17,971 people have died. Hospital officials say more than 85% of intensive care beds in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are full.
Covid-19 crisis will push 60m into poverty says World Bank chief. Coronavirus shutdowns around the world could undo three years of gains in alleviating poverty, the president of the World Bank has said. David Malpass said that up to 60 million people could be pushed below the poverty line, according to World Bank estimates, as the global economy shrinks by around 5%.
US president claims hydroxychloroquine study is ‘Trump enemy statement’. Trump claimed a recent US study indicating hydroxychloroquine was not an effective coronavirus treatment was a “Trump enemy statement”. “If you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape,” Trump said. “They were very old. Almost dead. It was a Trump enemy statement.” There have only been limited studies on the drug in relation to Covid-19 so far.
New Zealand PM flags four-day working week. New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has suggested employers to consider a four-day working week and other flexible working options as a way to boost tourism and help employees address persistent work/life balance issues.
High schools open in South Korea. South Korean high schools opened on Wednesday for the first time since the pandemic began, with mask-wearing seniors returning to class in the vanguard of a phased plan to reopen all schools under strict protocols to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
China gears up for annual congress. China’s biggest political event of the year opens Friday after months of delay over coronavirus fears, with President Xi Jinping determined to project strength and control over the outbreak despite international criticism and a wounded economy.
WHO assembly passes a resolution to investigate global pandemic response. Member states have backed a resolution strongly supportive of the World Health Organization, after Donald Trump issued a fresh broadside against the UN body, giving it 30 days to make unspecified reforms or lose out on US funding. None of the WHO’s 194 member states raised objections to the resolution brought by the EU on behalf of more than 100 countries. The resolution backs the WHO’s leadership and said there needed to be an investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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