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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
4,799,266 |
+82,257 |
316,520 |
|
1,527,664 |
+19,891 |
90,978 |
|
|
281,752 |
+9,709 |
2,631 |
|
|
277,719 |
+1,214 |
27,650 |
|
|
243,695 |
+3,534 |
34,636 |
|
|
241,080 |
+7,938 |
16,118 |
|
|
225,435 |
+675 |
31,908 |
|
|
179,569 |
+204 |
28,108 |
|
|
176,651 |
+407 |
8,049 |
|
|
149,435 |
+1,368 |
4,140 |
|
|
120,198 |
+1,806 |
6,988 |
|
|
95,698 |
+5,050 |
3,025 |
|
|
92,273 |
+3,732 |
2,648 |
|
|
82,947 |
+6 |
4,634 |
|
|
77,002 |
+1,138 |
5,782 |
|
|
55,280 |
+291 |
9,052 |
|
|
54,752 |
+2,736 |
312 |
|
|
47,144 |
+2,112 |
5,045 |
|
|
43,995 |
+125 |
5,680 |
|
|
43,781 |
+2,353 |
450 |
|
|
40,151 |
+1,352 |
873 |
|
|
33,182 |
+419 |
2,736 |
|
|
32,604 |
+1,632 |
15 |
|
|
30,587 |
+15 |
1,881 |
|
|
30,143 |
+466 |
3,679 |
|
|
29,650 |
+969 |
165 |
|
|
29,036 |
+226 |
1,218 |
|
|
28,038 |
+682 |
22 |
|
|
24,112 |
+64 |
1,543 |
|
|
23,358 |
+731 |
220 |
|
|
22,268 |
+1,273 |
328 |
|
|
18,529 |
+272 |
925 |
|
|
18,291 |
+433 |
514 |
|
|
17,514 |
+489 |
1,148 |
|
|
16,871 |
+167 |
1,107 |
|
|
16,617 |
+10 |
272 |
|
|
16,285 |
+48 |
744 |
|
|
16,242 |
+41 |
629 |
|
|
15,574 |
+635 |
574 |
|
|
15,515 |
+1,160 |
264 |
|
|
14,850 |
+1,048 |
112 |
|
|
12,513 |
+208 |
824 |
|
|
12,314 |
+204 |
428 |
|
|
12,229 |
+510 |
630 |
|
|
11,050 |
+13 |
262 |
|
|
10,927 |
+69 |
547 |
|
|
10,610 |
+114 |
230 |
|
|
9,449 |
+181 |
269 |
|
|
8,475 |
+20 |
298 |
|
|
8,249 |
+12 |
232 |
|
|
8,068 |
+263 |
373 |
|
|
7,045 |
+9 |
98 |
|
|
7,019 |
+198 |
548 |
|
|
6,956 |
+209 |
12 |
|
|
6,894 |
+22 |
113 |
|
|
6,870 |
+129 |
192 |
|
|
6,664 |
+262 |
169 |
|
|
6,347 |
+61 |
298 |
|
|
6,157 |
+307 |
34 |
|
|
6,060 |
+126 |
211 |
|
|
5,959 |
+338 |
182 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From:The New York Times
Groups at Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday. Some beaches, parks and trails reopened this weekend.Credit...Jeff Chiu/Associated Press
The pain of the coronavirus shutdown, in terms of wrecked economies and shattered lives, has been unmistakable. Now, governors across the country are contemplating the risks of reopening, particularly if it produces a surge of new cases and deaths.
“This is really the most crucial time, and the most dangerous time,” Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio, a Republican, said on the CNN program “State of the Union” on Sunday. “All of this is a work in progress. We thought it was a huge risk not to open. But we also know it’s a huge risk in opening.”
The push to reopen has been fueled by swelling frustration, as unemployment soars, businesses declare bankruptcy or announce they cannot survive the shutdowns, and fears intensify about enduring economic devastation. Some businesses have even reopened in defiance of state orders.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat, said on CNN, “I deeply understand the stress and anxiety that people have, that entire dreams have been torn asunder because of the shutdowns, their savings account depleted and their credit ratings destroyed.”
“The question is,” he added, “how do you toggle back and make meaningful modifications to the stay-at-home order?”
But governors also acknowledged concerns about a fresh resurgence of the coronavirus, and they are haunted by images of restaurants and stores packed with patrons with uncovered faces.
“This is a virus we’re still learning a lot about,” Mr. DeWine said.
The response to the virus has been defined by the balance between trying to curb the virus’s spread and trying to minimize the economic harm. In much of the country, the pendulum has swung toward favoring the economy.
The shift has come as the national figures for reported new cases of the virus have declined in recent weeks, and as more states have allowed a wider array of businesses to return to operation. More than two-thirds of states have relaxed restrictions significantly. California, New York and Washington are among those partially reopening on a regional basis. Illinois, Michigan and New Jersey remain fully shut down.
REOPENING DILEMMA
The costs of the shutdown have driven many to the breaking point. But governors are increasingly worried about the costs of reopening, too.
From:The New York Times
A line in Brooklyn at a food donation site on Friday.Credit...Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
Jerome H. Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that while he expected the U.S. economy to recover from the sharp and painful downturn brought about by the coronavirus, that process would take time — potentially until the end of 2021.
“This economy will recover; it may take a while,” Mr. Powell said in a preview of the CBS program “60 Minutes,” which is scheduled to air Sunday evening. “It may take a period of time, it could stretch through the end of next year, we don’t really know.”
Asked whether the economy could recover without an effective vaccine, Mr. Powell suggested that it could make a start, but not get all the way there.
“Assuming that there’s not a second wave of the coronavirus, I think you’ll see the economy recover steadily through the second half of this year,” he said. “For the economy to fully recover, people will have to be fully confident, and that may have to await the arrival of a vaccine.”
The interview with Mr. Powell, which CBS said was recorded on May 13, follows a blunt speech he gave the same day, warning that the economy may need more financial support to prevent permanent job losses and waves of bankruptcies.
From:The New York Times
Jack McMorrow, 14, was hospitalized for heart failure from a severe inflammatory syndrome linked to the coronavirus.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times
When a sprinkling of a reddish rash appeared on Jack McMorrow’s hands in mid-April, his father figured the 14-year-old was overusing hand sanitizer — not a bad thing during a global pandemic.
When Jack’s parents noticed that his eyes looked glossy, they attributed it to late nights of video games and TV.
When he developed a stomachache and didn’t want dinner, “they thought it was because I ate too many cookies or whatever,” said Jack, a ninth-grader in Woodside, Queens, who loves Marvel Comics and has ambitions to teach himself “Stairway to Heaven” on the guitar.
But over the next 10 days, Jack felt increasingly unwell. His parents consulted his pediatricians in video appointments and took him to a weekend urgent care clinic. Then, one morning, he awoke unable to move.
He had a tennis ball-size lymph node, raging fever, racing heartbeat and dangerously low blood pressure. Pain deluged his body in “a throbbing, stinging rush,” he said.
“You could feel it going through your veins and it was almost like someone injected you with straight-up fire,” he said.
Jack, who was previously healthy, was hospitalized with heart failure that day, in a stark example of the newly discovered severe inflammatory syndrome linked to the coronavirus that has already been identified in about 200 children in the United States and Europe and killed several.
From：The New York Times
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that administers the country’s lawful immigration system, says it could be insolvent by summer, and has asked Congress for $1.2 billion to stay afloat.
The agency handles applications for green cards, citizenship and other programs, and it relies on fees paid by applicants for 97 percent of its $4.8 billion annual budget. Applications have plummeted because of travel and immigration restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic.
In addition to the money it is requesting from Congress, the agency plans to impose a 10 percent surcharge on its fees, on top of previously proposed increases. The cost of petitioning for naturalization would jump more than 60 percent, to $1,170 from $725, for most applicants.
Critics said the Trump administration’s policies, including new requirements for some green card applicants and more extensive reviews for H-1B visas, hit the agency from two sides — reducing revenue by dissuading people from applying, and increasing the amount of labor involved in handling each case.
“With extreme vetting, they are making every single application take longer to review, and processing fewer,” said Melissa Rodgers, the director of programs at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, who oversees a program to promote citizenship among legal immigrants. “Word gets out that it’s not worth applying,” she said.
From：The New York Times
Driving is picking up a little. Refineries in China are buying more oil. Saudi Arabia and Russia ended their price war and slashed production, and U.S. oil companies are decommissioning rigs and shutting wells.
All of those developments helped push up oil prices modestly in recent weeks — just enough for some of the best oil wells in the United States to break even, and what may seem like a minor miracle given that the price is more than $60 above where it was about a month ago.
“May, it seems, is a month when traders can finally sit back more comfortably for a moment and take a breath,” said Bjornar Tonhaugen, the head of oil market research at Rystad Energy, a research and consulting firm. “But we warn that the second half of the year will not be met with precrisis oil prices again.”
Even after the rally, oil prices are roughly half of what they were at the start of the year. And the average price for regular gasoline in the United States is 99 cents a gallon less than it was a year ago, according to AAA.
Energy experts say that oil prices may dip again if there is another surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. Prices could also fall when tankers filled with more than 50 million barrels of crude oil from Saudi Arabia reach the United States in the next two months.
But there are signs that demand for petroleum products is beginning to rise again, especially the demand for gasoline.
Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/us/coronavirus-cases-deaths.html
From CNN's Elinda Labropoulou in Athens
Acropolis hill is seen on May 17 in Athens, Greece. Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
The Acropolis in Athens reopened for visitors today after temporarily closing due to the coronavirus outbreak.
More than 200 archaeological sites in the country will resume business today, according to the Greek Ministry of Culture.
They are the first cultural sites to return to normal operations, followed by open-air cinemas on June 1, museums on June 15 and art events on July 15, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said.
The sites will operate from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time with safety measures, according to the instructions of the country's National Public Health Organisation.
These include keeping a distance of 1.5 meters (5 feet) between people and ensuring a maximum number of visitors per archaeological site.
There will also be special rules for sanitary facilities, while mask wearing and the use of hand sanitizer are recommended.
From CNN
Images show people enjoying the sun in parks and beaches in many European countries over the weekend, as coronavirus restrictions begin to ease.
In France, people sat in front of the Eiffel Tower and gathered on the grass at the Vincennes woods on the first weekend after lockdown measures were loosened on May 11.
People sit on the Champs de Mars at sunset in front of the Eiffel Tower, on May 17, in Paris. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images
In Germany, a group of people joined a yoga class in Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld on the first weekend people were allowed to gather in groups of eight people to practice sports, according to Getty Images.
Group of "Yoga on the move" class participants practice Yoga in Tempelhofer Feld on May 17 in Berlin. Maja Hitij/Getty Images
In Greece, people flocked to public beaches after many were reopened to the public. Social distancing measures required all shade umbrellas to be planted at least 4 meters (13 feet) apart, and a maximum 40 beachgoers allowed in every 1,000 square meters (10,700 square feet) of beach.
Beachgoers enjoy the sun and sea at public beach during the official reopening of beaches to the public on May 16 in Varkiza, Greece. Milos Bicanski/Getty Images
In the UK, queues of cars could be seen parked near natural beauty spots as people were allowed to spend more time outside and drive longer distances. Officials had warned against flocking to parks and beaches.
Cars are seen parked in the car parks and along the road-side at Birling Gap near Beachy Head on the south coast of England on May 17. Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
From CNN’s Swati Gupta in New Delhi
A doctor collects samples for a coronavirus swab test in Gauhati, India on Sunday. Anupam Nath/AP
India recorded 5,242 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours -- the country’s biggest single-day spike in confirmed infections.
The total number of confirmed cases in the country stands at 96,169, including 3,029 deaths, according to India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The state of Maharashtra -- home to Mumbai -- has reported the most cases, with 33,053 infections and 1,198 deaths.
India says it has ramped up its testing capacity and to date, more than 2.3 million people have been tested across the country, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.
On Sunday, India announced it was extending its lockdown until the end of the month.
From CNN’s Junko Ogura in Tokyo
Japan's third-largest city recorded no new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the first time since March 9 that the figure had fallen to zero.
The total number of infections reported in Osaka now stands at 1,770, the Osaka prefectural government said.
In the capital Tokyo, five new cases were reported on Sunday -- that's the lowest since the city was placed under a state of emergency on April 7. The total number of cases recorded in Tokyo has reached 5,050.
Across the country, 28 new coronavirus cases and five deaths were recorded on Sunday, Japan’s health ministry said.
The total number of reported cases in Japan is 16,844, with 712 from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. The number of Covid-19-related deaths is 762, with 13 from the cruise liner.
Japan's restrictions: Tokyo, Osaka, and six urban prefectures remain a under state of emergency. The government will assess their status on May 21, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said last week as he announced the lifting of emergency measures for 39 of 47 prefectures.
From CNN's Sarah Faidell
The World Health Organization's World Health Assembly will be held virtually from May 18-19. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
More than 100 countries have proposed a draft resolution calling for an independent “evaluation” into the coronavirus pandemic.
The resolution is to be presented to the World Health Organization during its 73rd World Health Assembly held virtually today and tomorrow.
The motion has international support: Countries including Australia, India, New Zealand, Russia and the UK back the proposal, as do the European Union and its member states.
But not from the United States: The US is not one of the signatories.
Where does China fit into this? The draft does not specifically mention China or Beijing, but China has been facing mounting international scrutiny for its initial handling of the Covid-19 outbreak.
In April, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne called for an independent investigation into the spread of Covid-19 and said “transparency from China most certainly” would be addressed. Chinese officials called the idea of an independent investigation politically motivated.
Last week, China struck back at what it calls “lies” from US politicians, which it said were fabricated to “shift the blame to China for their inadequate response to Covid-19.” China has repeatedly denied accusations of an initial cover-up and delayed release of information about the virus.
From CNN's Laura He and Kaori Enjoji
People walk through a shopping street on May 17 in Utsunomiya, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
Japan's economy has entered recession, and the coronavirus pandemic will likely make things even worse.
The world's third-largest economy shrank 0.9% in the January-to-March period compared to the prior quarter, according to government data released Monday.
It's the second straight quarter of declines -- meaning Japan has now entered recession.
Japan's economy was already struggling before the outbreak: Economic activity contracted late last year as the country absorbed a sales tax hike and grappled with the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis, a powerful storm that hit last fall.
Tom Learmouth, Japan economist for Capital Economics, said in a research note today that "much worse" is to come in the second quarter, forecasting a 12% quarter-on-quarter plunge.
From CNN’s Sarah Dean
Nearly half of the doctors in the United Kingdom working during the coronavirus pandemic fear for their health, according to a new survey by the Royal College of Physicians.
The survey found 48% of the 1,582 respondents reported feeling concerned or very concerned for their health.
This figure rose to 76% among doctors from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.
The results, released on Monday, come amid ongoing issues surrounding the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the UK.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-18-20-intl/index.html
Here are the latest developments from the last few hours:
Global infections pass 4.7 million. There are 4,716,513 confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide. At least 315,187 people have died over the course of the pandemic The number of deaths in the US is approaching 90,000, with 89,562 confirmed fatalities and 1,486,757 infections, according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker.
US Federal Reserve Chair says unemployment could reach 25%. US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Sunday that US unemployment could peak at 25%, but expressed optimism that the economy could begin to recover from a devastating recession in the second half of the year, assuming the coronavirus doesn’t erupt in a second wave.
Japan falls into recession. Japan dived into its first recession since 2015, according to official data on Monday, with the world’s third-largest economy contracting by 0.9% in the first quarter as it wrestled with the fallout from the coronavirus. The cabinet office reported a drop of 3.4% annual pace in seasonally adjusted real gross domestic product, or GDP, the total value of a nation’s goods and services, for the January-March period, compared with the previous quarter.
South Africa reports highest daily increase in cases. South Africa on Sunday reported 1,160 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily number since the first case was recorded in March “As of today, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa is 15,515, with 1,160 new cases identified in the last 24 hour cycle of testing,” the health ministry said in a statement. The Western Cape province, popular with tourists, accounted for nearly 60% of the national numbers.
Mayor of São Paulo, Brazil, says hospitals ‘near collapse’. In Brazil, the BBC has reported that the mayor of São Paulo, the country’s largest city, has warned that hospitals have reached 90% capacity and are “near collapse”; they could run out of space in two weeks’ time, he said. Brazil has the fourth-highest number of infections worldwide, with 241,080, according to Johns Hopkins University figures. It has recorded 16,118 deaths. Meanwhile, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro greeted hundreds of supporters and joined some in a series of push-ups who gathered before the presidential offices Sunday.
Death tolls fall in UK, Spain and Italy. In a possible glimmer of hope, Sunday saw lower death tolls reported in the UK, Spain and Italy. The UK’s daily coronavirus death toll was the lowest since lockdown began, with 170 deaths recorded. However, the Sunday and Monday figures tend to be lower than other days because of weekend testing rates. Meanwhile, Spain recorded its lowest single-day death toll in two months. Italy on Sunday recorded its lowest daily toll, 145, since lockdown was declared. There were 153 deaths registered during the previous 24 hour period.
Move Rohingya on Bangladesh island to refugee camps, says UN chief. Hundreds of Rohingya rescued by Bangladesh and sent to a flood-prone island after being stranded at sea for weeks should be moved to existing refugee camps, the UN secretary general has said.
WHO committee to discuss Taiwan exclusion. The World Health Organization (WHO) is to raise the question of Taiwan’s participation as an observer at the World Health Assembly, which opens virtually on Monday, before one of its committees. Diplomatic allies of Taiwan, including Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay, have formally requested to invite Taiwan to the meeting as an observer. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has also said publicly he wants Taiwan in the room.
India extends lockdown by another two weeks. India has extended its lockdown to 31 May, but with some easing of restrictions. States are being given greater power to reopen markets and standalone stores, bus and other public transport travel being allowed between and within states. However, shopping malls, air travel, cinemas, schools and places of worship will remain closed. Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and other key regions are still fighting to control the rising curve of coronavirus infections. The health ministry on Sunday reported a record jump of nearly 5,000 cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the number of confirmed cases to 90,927, with 2,872 deaths.
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