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Updated: May 1, 2020 4:04:06 pm
Students wear face masks to protect themselves against the spread of the new coronavirus while cycling in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (AP Photo / Chiang Ying-ying)
Coronavirus Latest updates: The number of global infections due to the new coronavirus disease on Friday reached 3,256,846, and the US USA They reported the highest number of infections at 1,069,424. Italy has the highest number of deaths in the world with 27,967 deaths. Follow coronavirus LIVE updates
The head of the United Nations said on Friday that he expects many countries in the world to follow the notable example from South Korea, which he says has been extremely successful in addressing the coronavirus pandemic and plans to tackle climate change in his recovery from COVID-19. “We hope that this example from the Republic of Korea will be followed by many other countries in the world,” Guterres said at a press conference.
Meanwhile, South Korea’s exports plummeted in April due to the pandemic. Exports fell 24.3% yoy in April, data from the Commerce Ministry showed on Friday, the worst contraction since May 2009, but slightly slower than a 25.4% drop in a Reuters poll. It slipped 0.7% in the previous month. However, average exports per business day, excluding the calendar effect, fell 17.4%, much worse than a 6.9% drop in March.
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Here are the latest COVID-19 developments from around the world:
Speaker of Pakistan’s parliament tests positive for coronavirus
The Pakistan National Assembly speaker tested positive for Covid-19, after hosting an iftar dinner to celebrate Ramadan and meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan and other top officials earlier in the week. As of yet, it is not known whether PM Khan will be tested. Last month in April, Khan was tested for the virus and tested negative, after meeting with the head of Pakistan’s largest charity, who was later confirmed to have contracted the disease.
People pray in front of Iftar at a food distribution point during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan during a government-imposed national blockade to help contain the spread of the coronavirus, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo / B.K. Bangash)
The National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, is currently on recess, although opposition parties have asked that it meet to discuss the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, where the number of cases has increased to 16,817, including 385 deceased. (Read more)
Malaysia to reopen most companies starting Monday, before closing end
Malaysia decided to reopen most economic sectors and business activities starting next week on Monday, days before the two-month shutdown ends. As coronavirus cases in the country fell sharply in recent weeks, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin says the economy needs to be revived as the country has lost 63 billion ringgit ($ 14.7 billion) since a Partial closure on March 18. Malaysia has, so far 6,002 Covid infections and 102 deaths have been reported.
A man picks up supplies on barbed wire in the Selayang Baru coronavirus closed area, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Sunday April 26, 2020. (AP Photo / Vincent Thian)
The closure is scheduled to end on May 12, however, the prime minister decided to open restaurants starting Monday with strict social distancing rules and current health guidelines. Strict guidelines will include health screenings for staff and clients, and registration of visitor details.
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On May Day, the prime minister in a televised address said mass gatherings will remain banned, meaning places like schools, cinemas and houses of worship will remain closed, and group sports are banned. In addition, he mentioned that Muslims cannot return to their villages to celebrate the end of the fasting month, as interstate travel will continue to be prohibited.
United States President Donald Trump said Thursday that the World Health Organization should be “ashamed” of itself as it compared it to a public relations agency for China. The Trump Administration launched an investigation into the WHO’s role in the coronavirus and temporarily suspended financial assistance from the United States.
Protesters wearing protective face masks participate in a protest to demand government support for small businesses and the reduction of blocking measures implemented due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in front of the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers in the center Kiev, Ukraine April 29, 2020. REUTERS / Gleb Garanich
“I think the World Health Organization should be ashamed of themselves because they are like China’s public relations agency,” Trump told reporters in the East Room of the White House.
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“They should not make excuses when people make horrible mistakes, especially mistakes that are killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world.” I think the World Health Organization should be ashamed of itself, “said the President.
Families walk in the sun along a boulevard in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, April 26, 2020, as the blockade continues to combat the spread of the coronavirus. On Sunday, children under the age of 14 will be allowed to walk with their parents for up to an hour and within a kilometer from home, ending six weeks of seclusion. (AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti)
Half of the United States eases coronavirus restrictions as the number of unemployed increases
The White House let its 2-week economic reopening guidelines expire Thursday as half of all US states. USA They went ahead with their own strategies to ease restrictions on restaurants, retailers, and other businesses closed by the coronavirus crisis.
Huge pressure on states to reopen, despite a lack of large-scale virus testing and other assurances urged by health experts, was highlighted in new Labor Department data showing that some 30 million Americans have searched unemployment benefits since March 21. The number of unemployed amounts to over 18.4% of the working-age population in the United States, a level not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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A woman in facial masks walks in a park in Yokohama, near Tokyo, during the outbreak of the new coronavirus on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expanded a state of emergency to all of Japan from just Tokyo and other urban areas. as the virus continues to spread (AP Photo / Koji Sasahara)
Deflation fears return to Japan as pandemic hits prices
Consumer prices in Japan’s capital city fell for the first time in three years in April and activity at domestic factories plummeted, data showed on Friday, raising concerns that the coronavirus pandemic could lead the country to deflation. The bleak picture in the world’s third largest economy is already increasing calls for increased spending, even after parliament approved an additional budget to finance a $ 1.1 trillion stimulus package to cushion the pandemic’s hit.
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“The government will work with the central bank to ensure that Japan does not fall back into deflation,” Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said at a press conference on Friday. Basic consumer prices in Tokyo, a leading indicator of inflation trends nationwide, fell 0.1% in April from a year earlier, government data showed, lowering expectations of a 0.1% increase and then an increase. 0.4% in March.
It was the fir of April 2017.
A boy wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus plays with bubbles alongside a masked woman as they walk across pavement in Beijing on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. The Chinese city of Wuhan, which was the epicenter Original of the pandemic again, no new coronavirus cases or deaths were reported Tuesday and their hospitals remained empty of virus patients for the second consecutive day. (AP Photo / Andy Wong)
Several commercial airlines in the US The US, including American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines, announced Thursday that they have made it mandatory for passengers and crew members to wear masks on their flights. The announcement comes days after three European airlines, Lufthansa Airlines, Swiss Airlines and Austrian Airlines made mandatory masks for their passengers during their flights.
Jet Blue and United States Frontier Airlines had also made a similar announcement earlier this week. Southwest Airlines, which is the only major airline remaining in the United States to do so, said Thursday an announcement is looming. American Airlines said that starting May 11, it will require all customers traveling to wear a mask (or mask) while on board the plane.
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This new requirement is part of the airline’s ongoing commitment to prioritize the well-being of customers and team members against the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), he said.
In this Thursday, April 23, 2020 photo, Ruth Caballero, a nurse from the New York Visiting Nurse Service, knocks on the door of a COVID-19 patient’s home on her rounds of Upper Manhattan, New York. (AP Photo / John Minchillo)
China reports 12 new cases of coronavirus compared to four a day earlier
China reported 12 new cases of coronavirus by April 30, up from four the day before, data from the country’s health authority showed on Friday. Six of the cases were imported, the National Health Commission (NHC) said, compared to four the day before. Of the domestic transmission cases, five were in the northeast province of Heilongjiang and one in the northern region of Inner Mongolia.
China reported that there were no cases of domestic transmission the day before. The NHC also reported 25 new asymptomatic cases as of April 30, up from 33 the previous day. The total number of confirmed cases in the country has reached 82,874. With no new deaths on Thursday, the number remained at 4,633.
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