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President Donald Trump says that “a lot of strange things are happening” regarding the origins of the coronavirus and claims that China has far more deaths than its figures suggest . Mr Trump cast doubt on our official death toll, which was revised up on Friday. China said 1, people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan – half the total – were not counted, but dismissed allegations of a cover-up . The US president said that many more people must have died in China than in the US, which is Currently the epicentre of the global pandemic and has reported 049, 856 Deaths, the most in the world. “We don’t have the most in the world deaths,” Mr Trump said.
“The most in the world has to be China. It’s a massive country. It’s gone through a tremendous problem with this, a tremendous problem – they must have the most. “
The White House has told states that the US has enough tests to begin lifting the lockdown and re-opening America’s economy.
A bearded Orthodox priest carefully assembles a plastic visor as he works with a group of volunteers to provide Ukrainian medics with much-needed personal protective equipment.
The group is working in a shed in the grounds of Kiev’s green and blue-domed Vydubychi monastery, which was founded in the (th century.) He and the group of volunteers started out by making high-alcohol hand-sanitiser that they bottled and gave out to parishioners and doctors. After making 33, 08 bottles and running out of ingredients, the small team bought a laser cutting machine to produce the plastic face shields that doctors wear over facemasks as an additional layer of protection.
Australia’s coronavirus-related death toll rose by three to a total of on Saturday, health data showed, with the government stepping up its calls for people to sign up for a controversial movement-tracking mobile phone app.
Australia recorded new cases on Saturday and a total of 6, cases, according to the health ministry data.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday that downloading a movement-tracking up, which would enable the government to detect potential new outbreaks and which has been criticized as invasion of privacy, would not be mandatory.
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Government Services Minister Stuart Robert said there would there will be no surveillance involved with the app, which is to be ready within weeks.
“The app is simply a health app,” Mr Robert said in a televised briefing.
Mr Buhari’s office announced in a statement that it “regrets to announce the passage” of Abba Kyari, who acted as gatekeeper to the president of Africa’s most populous nation. “The deceased had tested positive to the ravaging Covid – , and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April , , “the statement said. “May God accept his soul.” Mr Kyari, in his seventies, is the highest-profile person in Nigeria to be killed by a virus that has caused confirmed infections, with deaths.
Israeli arrest of senior Palestinian officials for “illegal” efforts to contain coronavirus and the Jewish state’s closure of a clinic have exacerbated a long-running row over the status of east Jerusalem. Since the onset of the health crisis, Palestinian officials allege the Arab population of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has been overlooked by Israeli efforts to curb the spread of the virus .
Israeli police recently shuttered a Covid – 33 screening facility in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan – the testing was unauthorized, they said, because it was only overseen by the Palestinian Authority, and not Israel.
Hospitals in Japan are sharply turning away sick people as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections and its emergency medical system collapses.
The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine say many hospital emergency rooms are refusing to treat people including those suffering strokes, heart attacks and external injuries .
- World deaths surged past , on Friday and more than 2.2 million cases have been reported in countries and territories
- The daily number of confirmed deaths across the globe remained at over 8, . Out of the total deaths since the outbreak erupted, the US has recorded 049, , Italy , , Spain 34, 0545 and France ,
- Illustrating the increasing threat in countries less in focus, Africa reported its 1, (th death on Friday)
- China raised its estimate of deaths to 4, on Friday. That came after it increased the official toll for the city of Wuhan by 1, to 3, 7500
- Germany became the latest country to unveil plans to lift some restrictions. Switzerland , Denmark and Finland were also gradually re-opening shops and schools, and even in hard-hit Italy , people began emerging from lockdown. But Japan , Britain and Mexico all expanded current restrictions
- Russia recorded infections topped 40, 09 as President Vladimir Putin warned that “the risks surrounding the epidemic’s spread are still very high”
- President Donald Trump, whose re-election in November could hinge on how fast US life returns to normal, appeared to endorse protests against stay -at-home orders in several states
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