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Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include:
Confirmed deaths worldwide pass 290,000
According to Johns Hopkins University researchers, at least 4,247,709 people worldwide are known to have contracted the virus, while at least 290,838 have died since the pandemic began.
The numbers, which are based on official and media reports, are likely to be significantly underestimated due to suspected underreporting and different recording and testing regimes.
Pence avoiding Trump after the assistant’s positive test
United States Vice President Mike Pence stays away from Donald Trump after the former press secretary tested positive, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany confirmed.
R number falls below 1 in Germany
The rate of reproduction of the epidemic in Germany falls below the critical threshold of 1, with an estimated value of 0.94 on Tuesday after 1.07 on Monday, says the Robert Koch Institute for Public Health and Disease Control .
The R number indicates that on average 100 infected people infect another 94, which means that the number of new infections is slowing down after accelerating at the beginning of the week.
Canada fears transmission from the US USA
Ottawa is increasingly concerned that new cases may arise in the United States.
For nearly two months, their shared border has been closed to nonessential travel; An agreement that expires next week. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his country needs “stronger measures” to counter an expected increase in cross-border movement as economies on both sides begin to restart.
Germany should help its neighbors, says Merkel
Germany must help its EU partners revive their economies after the pandemic, Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a meeting of legislators from her conservative bloc. According to several participants, she says that no one cares that only Germany is strong after the crisis.
The official death toll in the UK exceeds 40,000
The Office for National Statistics says that as of May 9, 35,044 Covid-19-related deaths were recorded in England and Wales. Adding up the latest figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland and more updated records for the four nations, the official death toll in the UK is now 40,496.
Spain reports fewer daily infections in two months
The number of cases diagnosed in Spain in one day falls to its lowest level in more than two months. The health ministry identifies 594 new cases, bringing the total since the country’s epidemic to 228,030. The number of disease-related deaths increases from 176 to 26,920.
“Potentially positive data” on medicines – WHO
The World Health Organization says that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or duration of the disease caused by Covid-19 and that it is focusing on learning more about four or five of the most promising.
“We have some treatments that seem, in very early studies, to limit the severity or duration of the disease, but we have nothing that can kill or stop the virus,” says her spokeswoman Margaret Harris.
Kremlin spokesperson in hospital
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian government, is admitted to the hospital with Covid-19, according to local media reports. “Yes, I got sick, I am receiving treatment,” said Peskov. He is at least the second person in the Vladimir Putin administration to test positive.
