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Help stop coronavirus
1. HANDS Wash them often
2. ELBOW Cough into it
3. FACE Don’t touch it
4. SPACE Keep safe distance
5. FEEL sick? Stay home
China reported its first day with no new locally transmitted coronavirus infections, three months after the first case was detected. But the march of the affliction gathered pace while nations throughout the world braced for a surge of infections and, ultimately, deaths.
For the Fusco family in Freehold, N.J., the dangers of the virus and its pernicious exploitation of human connection were laid bare when Grace Fusco, 73, died Wednesday night, hours after her son and five days after her daughter. Four other family members are hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, from an infection, traced to a routine family gathering.
No one is safe.
Two members of Congress tested positive and were in isolation on Thursday. While older people remain at gravest risk worldwide, a C.D.C. report found that 38 percent of those who required hospitalization in the U.S. were aged 20 to 54.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, warned that as testing becomes more widespread, people would see the numbers soar.
The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 176 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harboured in Yokohama, Japan).
- Confirmed cases in India have climbed to 153 with death toll across the world nearing the 8000-mark.
- In Italy, the death toll has crossed 2500 while India reported the third death with the passing of a senior citizen in Maharashtra.
- Amid reports of over 250 Indians in Iran being infected with the novel coronavirus, the government said it was aware of such rumours but couldn’t confirm.
The World Bank has announced increasing to $14 billion the amount of fast-track financing to assist companies and countries in their efforts to respond to the rapid spread of Covid-19, adding $2 billion to the initial package. Global oil prices have gone into meltdown as the novel coronavirus hits the global economy, slashing demand even as producers boost their output after the talks collapsed.
Here are the countries that have so far confirmed coronavirus cases:
- Afghanistan – 73 cases
- Albania – 55 cases, 1 death
- Algeria – 72 cases, 6 deaths
- Andorra – 39 cases
- Argentina – 79 cases, 2 deaths
- Armenia – 78 cases
- Australia – 452 cases, 5 deaths
- Austria – 1,332 cases, 4 death
- Azerbaijan – 34 cases, 1 death
- Bahrain – 241 cases, 1 death
- Bangladesh – 14 cases, 1 death
- Belarus – 36 cases
- Belgium – 1,243 cases, 10 deaths
- Brazil – 346 cases, 3 deaths
- Bulgaria – 81 cases, 2 deaths
- Burkina Faso – 27 cases, 1 death
- Canada – 598 cases, 8 death
- China – 80,928 cases, 3,245 deaths
The region of Macau had confirmed 10 cases before they all recovered, while Hong Kong reported 148 confirmed cases, including four deaths, according to China’s National Health Commission.
- Colombia – 65 cases
- Croatia – 102 cases
- Cuba – 4 cases, 1 death
- Czech Republic – 434 cases
- Denmark – 977 cases, 4 death
- Egypt – 196 cases, 6 deaths
- France – 9,134 cases, 264 deaths
- Germany – 9,367 cases, 29 deaths
- Greece – 387 cases, 5 deaths
- Hungary – 50 cases, 1 death
- India – 166 cases, 4 deaths
- Indonesia – 309 cases, 25 deaths
- Iran – 17,361 cases, 1,135 deaths
- Italy – 35,713 cases, 2,978 deaths
- Japan – 1,614 cases, 36 deaths
- Malaysia – 900 cases, 2 deaths
- Netherlands – 2,051 cases, 58 deaths
- Norway – 1,470 cases, 3 deaths
- Philippines – 187 cases, 14 deaths
- Russia – 147 cases, 1 death
- South Korea – 8,565 cases, 91 deaths
- Spain – 17,147 cases, 767 deaths
- Sweden – 1,196 cases, 8 deaths
- Switzerland – 2,772 cases, 21 deaths
- Thailand – 272 cases, 1 death
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