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Coronavirus live news: Trump backs anti-lockdown protests as global deaths pass 150,000 – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

Coronavirus live news: Trump backs anti-lockdown protests as global deaths pass 150,000 – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

In the US, Democratic lawmakers want police departments to be vigilant about any racially biased policing during the coronavirus pandemic, as people in communities of color express fears of being profiled while wearing masks or other face coverings in public.

Senator Kamala Harris of California was among several senators to write to the Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray urging agencies to give anti-bias training to officers.

With the ongoing public health emergency, it is more important than ever for law enforcement to build trust with communities of color, the senators said in the letter, which was first shared with the Associated Press.

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people who go out in public wear a surgical mask or a cloth covering their nose and mouth to prevent the spread of the virus. And already, some black men have reported incidents of racial profiling while following the recommendations.

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, a benefit concert curated by Lady Gaga, will be broadcast across the US television networks ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as being streamed online, at 8pm EST tonight. In the UK, BBC One will show an adapted version of the concert on April.

The concert is being held in support of the World Health Organization’s Covid – (solidarity response fund and in celebration of health workers around the world.)

The lineup includes Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas, Lizzo, J Balvin, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Alanis Morissette, Burna Boy, Andrea Bocelli, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Elton John, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban and Lang Lang.

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Walmart said on Friday it would hire

, 13 more workers at its stores, clubs and distribution centers to meet a surge in demand for groceries and household essentials from consumers stockpiling during the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has reported.

The retailer said it had reached its earlier target of h iring 508, (workers six weeks ahead of schedule, taking in 5, 12 people per day on average at a time when mill ions of Americans are losing their jobs amid unprecedented “stay-at-home” orders.

Walmart said it had worked with more than 120 companies that furlored workers due to the pandemic to hire its , 11 new employees, many of whom came from the restaurant and hospitality industries. The majority of workers being hired are going into temporary or part-time roles.

Skyrocketing demand for food, hand sanitizer, toilet paper and other household products has also prompted retailers Kroger, Target and Amazon to hire by the thousands.

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Japan’s emergency medical system pushed to the brink

Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections and its emergency medical system collapses, Associated Press has reported.

In one recent case, an ambulance carrying a man with a fever and difficult breathing was rejected by 122 hospitals and forced to search for hours for a hospital in downtown Tokyo that would treat him. Another feverish man finally reached a hospital after paramedics unsuccessfully contacted (clinics.)

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.

Japan initially seemed to have controlled the outbreak by going after clusters of infections in specific places, usually enclosed spaces such as clubs, gyms and meeting venues. But the spread of virus outpaced this approach and most new cases are untraceable.

Apart from a general unwillingness to embrace social distancing, experts fault government incompetence and a widespread shortage of the protective gear and equipment medical workers need to do their jobs.

Japan lacks enough hospital beds, medical workers or equipment. Forcing hospitalization of anyone with the virus, even those with mild symptoms, has left hospitals overcrowded and understaffed.

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Migrants on US deportation flight were infected with coronavirus, Guatemala says

Here is some further detail from Guatemala, where President Alejandro Giammattei

has said that migrants who arrived in the country on Monday were infected with Covid – .

Giammattei said 24 randomly selected migrants who took the deportation flight from the US tested positive for coronavirus when examined by the centers for disease control and prevention, the US health protection agency.

He suggested more on the flight had tested positive for the virus. “A large part of it was infected,” the president said in a televised address.

Flights deporting Guatemalan migrants from the United States were on Thursday once again temporarily suspended after reports of the mass infection. Deportation flights had only started again on Monday following a five-day suspension.

An Argentine official has given some on-air sex education for onanistic lovers in the time of the coronavirus, Reuters has reported.

Jose Barletta, a doctor with the country’s health ministry, said in a televised broadcast that people needed to wash their hands after sex – whether it was in person or, as is equivalent the case, over digital channels.

“It’s more important than ever to wash your hands after having sexual relations, after masturbation, or virtual sex,” Barletta said. “It is important to disinfect keyboards, telephones, sex toys and whatever else you might be using, whether or not you are sharing these things with others.”

The coronavirus lockdown has led to an increase in sales of sex toys in countries ranging from Denmark to Colombia.

Argentina’s lockdown began on March and will run until at least April . The country has recorded 2, (confirmed cases of the coronavirus so far, of them fatal.

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A report by the

The country is likely welcome only million international tourists this year – far below the pre-coronavirus target of million . The number of domestic trips is also down dramatically: from 480 million expected trips to million, according to Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).

Yuthasak Supasorn, TAT governor told the Bangkok Post:

This revised forecast assumes tourism activities can resume in May, with the outbreak in Thailand levelling off while overseas infections subside … The industry needs to watch the situation closely before commencing business. ”

Thailand has recorded 2, 784 cases, with infections appearing to slow in recent weeks. Limited testing means the actual number of cases may be higher.


Volunteers use disinfectant to clean Wat Traimit temple in Bangkok. Photograph: Mladen Antonov / AFP via Getty  Images

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Syria’s Kurdish- led northeast confirms first case of coronavirus

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