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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
3,218,184 |
+81,678 |
228,030 |
|
1,064,194 |
+28,429 |
61,656 |
|
|
236,899 |
+4,771 |
24,275 |
|
|
203,591 |
+2,086 |
27,682 |
|
|
166,420 |
+509 |
24,087 |
|
|
165,221 |
+4,076 |
26,097 |
|
|
161,539 |
+1,627 |
6,467 |
|
|
117,589 |
+2,936 |
3,081 |
|
|
99,399 |
+5,841 |
972 |
|
|
93,657 |
+1,073 |
5,957 |
|
|
82,858 |
+22 |
4,633 |
|
|
79,361 |
+6,462 |
5,511 |
|
|
51,597 |
+1,571 |
2,996 |
|
|
47,859 |
+525 |
7,501 |
|
|
38,802 |
+386 |
4,711 |
|
|
33,931 |
+2,741 |
943 |
|
|
33,062 |
+1,738 |
1,079 |
|
|
29,407 |
+143 |
1,716 |
|
|
24,675 |
+417 |
883 |
|
|
24,505 |
+183 |
973 |
|
|
21,402 |
+1,325 |
157 |
|
|
20,302 |
+681 |
2,462 |
|
|
20,253 |
+376 |
1,190 |
|
|
16,752 |
+1,223 |
1,569 |
|
|
15,834 |
+106 |
215 |
|
|
15,641 |
+690 |
14 |
|
|
15,525 |
+913 |
343 |
|
|
15,402 |
+45 |
580 |
|
|
14,885 |
+520 |
216 |
|
|
13,895 |
+159 |
413 |
|
|
13,181 |
+973 |
84 |
|
|
12,640 |
+422 |
624 |
|
|
12,564 |
+643 |
10 |
|
|
11,978 |
+362 |
693 |
|
|
11,929 |
+549 |
98 |
|
|
10,761 |
+9 |
246 |
|
|
9,866 |
+456 |
250 |
|
|
9,771 |
+260 |
784 |
|
|
9,008 |
+157 |
443 |
|
|
8,724 |
+227 |
173 |
|
|
8,212 |
+254 |
558 |
|
|
7,710 |
+50 |
207 |
|
|
7,579 |
+75 |
227 |
|
|
7,103 |
+641 |
163 |
|
|
6,746 |
+8 |
89 |
|
|
6,652 |
+236 |
293 |
|
|
6,207 |
+258 |
278 |
|
|
6,200 |
+179 |
176 |
|
|
5,945 |
+94 |
100 |
|
|
5,350 |
+354 |
103 |
|
|
5,268 |
+226 |
380 |
|
|
4,906 |
+166 |
206 |
|
|
4,321 |
+69 |
168 |
|
|
4,285 |
+158 |
214 |
|
|
3,848 |
+199 |
444 |
|
|
3,771 |
+133 |
111 |
|
|
3,769 |
+28 |
89 |
|
|
3,740 |
+300 |
24 |
|
|
3,138 |
+111 |
25 |
|
|
2,947 |
+9 |
54 |
|
|
2,921 |
+110 |
8 |
|
|
2,727 |
+78 |
300 |
|
|
2,576 |
+10 |
139 |
|
|
2,274 |
+143 |
10 |
|
|
Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
3,218,184 |
+81,678 |
228,030 |
|
1,064,194 |
+28,429 |
61,656 |
|
|
236,899 |
+4,771 |
24,275 |
|
|
203,591 |
+2,086 |
27,682 |
|
|
166,420 |
+509 |
24,087 |
|
|
165,221 |
+4,076 |
26,097 |
|
|
161,539 |
+1,627 |
6,467 |
|
|
117,589 |
+2,936 |
3,081 |
|
|
99,399 |
+5,841 |
972 |
|
|
93,657 |
+1,073 |
5,957 |
|
|
82,858 |
+22 |
4,633 |
|
|
79,361 |
+6,462 |
5,511 |
|
|
51,597 |
+1,571 |
2,996 |
|
|
47,859 |
+525 |
7,501 |
|
|
38,802 |
+386 |
4,711 |
|
|
33,931 |
+2,741 |
943 |
|
|
33,062 |
+1,738 |
1,079 |
|
|
29,407 |
+143 |
1,716 |
|
|
24,675 |
+417 |
883 |
|
|
24,505 |
+183 |
973 |
|
|
21,402 |
+1,325 |
157 |
|
|
20,302 |
+681 |
2,462 |
|
|
20,253 |
+376 |
1,190 |
|
|
16,752 |
+1,223 |
1,569 |
|
|
15,834 |
+106 |
215 |
|
|
15,641 |
+690 |
14 |
|
|
15,525 |
+913 |
343 |
|
|
15,402 |
+45 |
580 |
|
|
14,885 |
+520 |
216 |
|
|
13,895 |
+159 |
413 |
|
|
13,181 |
+973 |
84 |
|
|
12,640 |
+422 |
624 |
|
|
12,564 |
+643 |
10 |
|
|
11,978 |
+362 |
693 |
|
|
11,929 |
+549 |
98 |
|
|
10,761 |
+9 |
246 |
|
|
9,866 |
+456 |
250 |
|
|
9,771 |
+260 |
784 |
|
|
9,008 |
+157 |
443 |
|
|
8,724 |
+227 |
173 |
|
|
8,212 |
+254 |
558 |
|
|
7,710 |
+50 |
207 |
|
|
7,579 |
+75 |
227 |
|
|
7,103 |
+641 |
163 |
|
|
6,746 |
+8 |
89 |
|
|
6,652 |
+236 |
293 |
|
|
6,207 |
+258 |
278 |
|
|
6,200 |
+179 |
176 |
|
|
5,945 |
+94 |
100 |
|
|
5,350 |
+354 |
103 |
|
|
5,268 |
+226 |
380 |
|
|
4,906 |
+166 |
206 |
|
|
4,321 |
+69 |
168 |
|
|
4,285 |
+158 |
214 |
|
|
3,848 |
+199 |
444 |
|
|
3,771 |
+133 |
111 |
|
|
3,769 |
+28 |
89 |
|
|
3,740 |
+300 |
24 |
|
|
3,138 |
+111 |
25 |
|
|
2,947 |
+9 |
54 |
|
|
2,921 |
+110 |
8 |
|
|
2,727 |
+78 |
300 |
|
|
2,576 |
+10 |
139 |
|
|
2,274 |
+143 |
10 |
The New York Times
President Trump wants a crash program to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, an undertaking viewed with some skepticism even inside the administration.
The idea would be to accelerate the process to create, test and mass-produce a vaccine — which doctors have repeatedly said would take a minimum of a year to 18 months — so that hundreds of millions of doses could be ready by the end of the year. Public health experts have warned that rushing the process could undermine the treatment’s effectiveness, and even lead to sickness or death.
The White House has made no public announcement of the effort, which is known internally as “Operation Warp Speed.” Some officials are apparently trying to talk the president out of moving too quickly, warning about the risks that would come with setting an unrealistic deadline.
Republican lawmakers in Louisiana are pushing back against the governor’s decision to extend the statewide stay-at-home order until May 15 and are considering using their legislative authority to find a way to override it.
The extension prompted an immediate backlash from Republicans, with some lawmakers weighing a petition that would officially challenge the governor’s order, The Advocate reported on Wednesday.
“We’re working on every possible solution to safely open our economy as quickly as possible and get our families back to work,” Clay Schexnayder, the Republican speaker of the State House of Representatives, said in a statement. “One of the ideas is to override the governor’s emergency declaration.”
Vice President Mike Pence visited the molecular testing lab at the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday.Credit...Jim Mone/Associated Press
Vice President Mike Pence defended his decision not to wear a face mask while touring a building at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota on Tuesday, saying he was regularly tested for the virus and was following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, even if he was violating the clinic’s policy.
While critics lashed out at Mr. Pence, the head of the coronavirus task force, former Mayo Clinic patients and their family members pointed to the institution they had long held in high esteem for permitting the vice president to flout the rules.
Kenneth Rinzler, a lawyer who had open-heart surgery at the clinic in 2010, wrote in a letter to the president of the institution that he was “beyond shocked” to see Mr. Pence in the building without a mask “and violating every basic tenet of social distancing.”
Susie Watson, the wife of a former bone marrow transplant patient at the clinic, was equally alarmed and wrote to the clinic asking why its administrators did not insist that Mr. Pence wear a mask.
“It really makes us wonder about your judgment,” she wrote in an email that she shared with The Times. “Wearing a mask should not be voluntary at Mayo. This is seriously upsetting, not to mention a huge public relations mistake for all the nation to see.”
A spokeswoman for the vice president did not respond on Wednesday to a request for comment. Mr. Pence defended his decision on Tuesday.
The New York Police Department dispersed a large group of mourners in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Tuesday.Credit...Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times
After a revered Hasidic rabbi died of the virus in Brooklyn on Tuesday, his fellow congregants informed the Police Department that they would hold a public funeral despite virus restrictions.
The local police precinct did not stand in their way, a testament to the Hasidic community’s influence in the Williamsburg neighborhood. But by 7:30 p.m., an estimated 2,500 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men had arrived to mourn Rabbi Chaim Mertz, packing together shoulder-to-shoulder on the street and on the steps of brownstones, violating social distancing guidelines and turning the funeral into one of most fraught events of the virus crisis for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Police began to disperse the mourners, and the mayor lashed out on Twitter at “the Jewish community, and all communities,” saying he had instructed the Police Department “to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups.”
Mr. de Blasio spent much of Wednesday on the defensive over his handling of the funeral and his use of the phrase “Jewish community” in his public criticism of the mourners.
“People’s lives were in danger before my eyes and I was not going to tolerate it,” he told reporters. “I regret if the way I said it in any way gave people a feeling of being treated the wrong way, that was not my intention. It was said with love, but it was tough love.”
The New York Times
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Tuesday waded into a struggle between New York City and the state agency that runs the city’s transit system over the issue of homeless people sleeping on subway trains.
At his daily briefing, Mr. Cuomo held up a front-page photograph in The Daily News of homeless people camping on subway trains.
“That is disgusting, what is happening on those subway cars,” he said, adding that what was shown in the image was “disrespectful to the essential workers” who rely on the subway.
“It’s not even safe for the homeless people to be on trains,” he added. “No face masks, you have this whole outbreak, we’re concerned about homeless people, so we let them stay on the trains without protection in this epidemic of the Covid virus? No. We have to do better than that, and we will.”
Mr. Cuomo’s remarks came as he announced that the number of coronavirus patients newly admitted to hospitals in New York State had fallen more than 70 percent since the outbreak’s peak this month. The number reported on Tuesday was below 1,000 for the first time in over a month.
Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/coronavirus-usa-cases-deaths.html
From CNN's Simon Cullen in London
Tom Moore completes the 100th length of his back garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, England, on April 16. Vickie Flores/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
British war veteran Tom Moore, who turns 100 today, has been promoted to honorary colonel in recognition of his efforts to raise money for the UK’s health service.
“His mature wisdom, no-nonsense attitude and humor in adversity make him an inspirational role model to generations young and old,” said Gen. Mark Carleton-Smith, chief of the general staff of the British Army.
Moore has been appointed as the first honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College Harrogate, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said.
The centenarian began a JustGiving fundraiser on April 8, initially hoping to raise £1,000 ($1,245) for NHS Charities Together, which raises funds for UK hospitals and patients. The World War II veteran completed the challenge after walking 10 laps of his garden each day, aided by a walking frame, and raised more than £29 million ($36.1 million).
He then became the oldest person to reach number 1 on the UK’s music chart, by debuting a rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone" last week.
More than 125,000 birthday cards have been sent to Moore, many from young children across the UK.
From CNN's Pierre Bairin in Paris
The French economy has shrunk by 5.8% in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter -- the biggest drop since the country began recording its quarterly GDP in 1949, said France's national statistics agency, INSEE, on Thursday.
Europe's third-largest economy’s slump is caused mainly by the coronavirus lockdown measures that have been in place since mid-March, according to an estimate released by INSEE.
A way out of lockdown: French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe outlined plans yesterday to gradually ease the country's coronavirus restrictions. France will be divided into red or green zones, depending on their case numbers, testing efficiency and health care capacity. The red zones will face stricter measures, while restrictions will be loosened more in the green zones.
From CNN's Simon Cullen in London
It’s "probable" that the UK won’t meet its target of conducting 100,000 tests per day by today, said the country's Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.
"Even if we don’t hit it -- and it's probable that we won't -- we will in the next few days hit that target," he told Sky News.
"We’re up to 52,000 people being tested. The capacity’s rising.
"I think it was right to set an ambitious target. And sometimes even if you don’t hit the target on the due date, the direction of travel is the most important thing."
Early in April, the UK government set itself the target of carrying out 100,000 coronavirus tests per day by the end of the month.
To put that in perspective, Germany is currently at a testing capacity of 141,815 tests per day.
From CNN’s Fred Pleitgen in Berlin
A medical worker instructs a woman in a car how to take a throat swab at a coronavirus testing facility in Berlin on April 24. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Germany's labs have increased their coronavirus testing capacity to 141,815 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests a day, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the national center for disease control.
That means the nation's labs can conduct 860,494 tests a week, said RKI. This estimate factors in that not all labs work seven days a week.
It's a twofold increase: last week, German labs only tested 467,137 tests.
Aggressive testing ahead of reopening: Germany has said that extensive testing is a key factor in its strategy to combat Covid-19 and for loosening some of the restrictions that have been placed on public life.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to meet later today in a video conference with state governors to discuss possible further easing of restrictions.
Germany reported 1,478 new cases and 173 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to RKI.
From CNN's Swati Gupta and Esha Mitra in New Delhi
An laborer feeds her child at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on Wednesday, April 22. Channi Anand/AP
India has been under a nationwide lockdown since March 25 -- and it's set to lift on Sunday.
The lockdown has closed state borders and public transport, allowing only the transit of essential goods like food supplies and medical equipment.
This has also led to other problems, like thousands of migrant workers stranded with no job, no income, and no mode of transportation to get home.
From CNN's Anna Kam and Alex Lin in Hong Kong
The gate of the Foridden City, closed to visitors on April 19 in Beijing, China. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Some of China's most iconic sightseeing attractions are reopening this week after being shut for nearly three months during the pandemic -- but things won't be exactly as they were before.
In Beijing, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and the National Museum of China will all reopen by Friday, several news statements announced.
Many other tourist spots are opening on May 1, the first day of a five-day public holiday in the country.
From CNN's Julia Hollingsworth in Wellington, New Zealand
After almost five weeks under a strict lockdown, New Zealand eased restrictions this week.
Starting Tuesday, around 400,000 people have gone back to work, some children have returned to school, and takeaway shops and cafes have reopened.
But it’s definitely not back to pre-Covid life.
Wellington, the country’s capital city, remains extremely quiet, with few pedestrians out and few cars on the road. In the city center, it feels deserted -- like a public holiday.
In the city -- known for its coffee culture -- some cafes have reopened, but many remain shuttered. Those that have opened have strict rules -- some require customers to order through an app so it’s a contactless transaction, and customers aren’t allowed in the store.
On a regular, pre-Covid weekday, the New Zealand Parliament grounds would be packed with people eating their lunch. But on Thursday morning, the grass at the legislature looked overgrown, and there were few people around.
Many Wellington workers are public servants, meaning that many are not allowed back into the office under the eased restrictions.
Has New Zealand "eliminated" the virus? Case numbers in the country have dropped to the low single digits -- suggesting "we've achieved our goal of elimination," said Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand's director general of health, on Monday.
He added that "elimination" does not mean zero cases, but means "we know where our cases are coming from." Since April 1, there is only one case where authorities are still investigating the source of infection, he said.
From CNN’s David Goldman
How bad is the coronavirus economy? The worst ever, says US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
"We are going to see economic data for the second quarter that is worse than any data we have seen for the economy," Powell said. "There are direct consequences of the disease and measures we are taking to protect ourselves from it."
The recovery will be long and painful, but the economy could begin to bounce back significantly in the third quarter as businesses reopen, he added. While we won't go back to pre-coronavirus levels for quite some time, the third quarter could provide some economic relief.
"We will enter the new phase -- and we are just beginning to maybe do that -- where we will begin formal measures that require social distancing will be rolled back, gradually, and at different paces in different parts of the country. And in time, during this period, the economy will begin to recover," Powell said.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-30-20-intl/index.html
Cyprus is also poised to ease lockdown restrictions with the island’s Greek Cypriot president due to announce the time-frame in which the measures will be reversed this evening, writes Helena Smith, the Guardian’s Athens correspondent.
The war-split island’s internationally recognised Greek-run south has been under strict lockdown since early March with precautionary policies including a nightly curfew. So far the tough measures have paid off: Greek Cypriot authorities have recorded 15 deaths and 837 confirmed coronavirus cases in a population of some 800,000 – one of the lowest infection rates in the EU.
But speaking earlier on Wednesday finance minister Constantinos Petrides warned the Mediterranean island was also entering “the most difficult and dangerous [phase]” – one that could prove catastrophic if handled badly.
Treating coronavirus patients with the antiviral drug remdesivir showed no “significant clinical benefits” in the first randomised trial of its kind, according to research released on Wednesday, AFP reports.
In a study among more than 200 Covid-19 patients in Wuhan, China, published in The Lancet, doctors found no positive effects of administering the drug compared with a control group of adults.
The findings were released after US pharmaceutical giant Gilead, which makes remdesivir, said a separate large-scale trial with the drug had showed positive results.
“Unfortunately, our trial found that while safe and adequately tolerated, remdesivir did not provide significant benefits over placebo,” said Bin Cao from China-Japan Friendship Hospital and Capital Medical University in China, who led the research.
“This is not the outcome we hoped for.”
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