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LegitWater Daily [15•04•20]

•20,06,513 were infected; 1,28,886 have died and 5,01,758 have recovered. The total positive cases crossed 2 million today.

•China is racing to contain a new outbreak of coronavirus in communities along its northern border with Russia.

•U.S. retail sales suffered the biggest plunge on record in March, dropping 8.7 percent as the pandemic shut stores and wallets.(NYT)

•Airline stocks are set to surge after the ‘big 4’ accepted more than $15 billion in government bailouts. Delta, American, United, and Southwest expect to receive payroll support from the US Treasury(Business Insider)

•Apple has released a tool that shows how whether people are obeying lockdown and social distancing rules. The tool gathers location data from Apple Maps users to glean trends in people’s movements.

•New guidance issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) states that “emerging evidence now suggests” that the transmission of the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 which causes Covid-19 “is probable” from a pregnant mother to her foetus.

•WWE has been deemed an “essential business” in Florida, said Orange County mayor Jerry Demings on Monday, allowing the company to resume live TV shows from its Orlando training facility and Full Sail University in Winter Park during the coronavirus outbreak.

•Germany will begin reopening its economy on Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, with schools to restart in phases beginning in early May.

•As of April 15, 15 countries had not reported a Covid-19 case, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. They are: Comoros, Kiribati, Lesotho, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, North Korea, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tajikistan, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

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LegitWater Daily [14•04•20]

•19,42,360 were infected; 1,21,726 have died and 4,65,073 have recovered.

•Apple and Google say their coronavirus-tracking tech will remain “opt-in” only, and governments won’t be allowed to require people to use it. The two companies say only public health authorities will be able to build apps that use their API (Business Insider)

•President Donald Trump has claimed “total” power to lift the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, contradicting governors and legal experts. But legal experts say the president does not have the authority to reverse a public health restriction put in place at the state or local level.(BBC)

•There are 70 coronavirus vaccines in development worldwide, with three candidates already being tested in human trials, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), as drugmakers race to find a cure for the deadly SARS-CoV-2 pathogen. And the furthest along in the clinical process is an experimental vaccine developed by Hong Kong-listed CanSino Biologics Inc. and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, which is in phase 2. The other two being tested in humans are treatments developed separately by US drugmakers Moderna Inc. and Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., reported Bloomberg, citing a WHO document.(TOI)

•JPMorgan Chase’s first-quarter profit tumbled 69% and the bank set aside $6.8 billion to cover potential losses on loans to consumers and businesses struggling to stay afloat during the coronavirus shutdown.
The U.S.’s biggest bank was the first to report earnings since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. economy in March, when government orders to stay home led businesses and factories to close and put millions out of work.(WSJ)

•In the U.S., more than 582,594 confirmed cases and 23,649 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.

•In India Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended lockdown by another 19 days till May 3, as India continued to record a surge in the Covid-19 outbreak.

•Italian officials announced 3,153 new confirmed cases on Monday, the lowest daily increase since April 7, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 159,516. In Spain, the death toll reached 17,489

•Measles have started to show up in several areas.This may occur as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, officials say, because some vaccination programmes are having to be delayed.

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LegitWater Daily [13•04•20]

•18,70,076 were infected; 1,16,052 have died and 4,41,323 have recovered.

•Spain has suffered greatly from the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 17,200 deaths and 166,000 infections. But the country is now taking its first steps to loosen severe restrictions that forced businesses to shut.

•Bangladesh executed Abdul Majed, a former army officer convicted of assassinating its independence architect and first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, Saturday midnight. Majed was hanged at 12.01 am at the Dhaka Central Jail.

•Israel on Sunday approved a tight quarantine of several areas of Jerusalem, including the historic Old City, in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Israel’s health ministry has documented over 10,000 cases of the novel coronavirus and over 100 deaths.

•A small chloroquine study in Brazil was halted over the risk of fatal heart complications. Coronavirus patients who started taking a higher dose of the drug being touted by Trump developed irregular heart rates that increased their risk of a potentially fatal arrhythmia. (NYT)

•Trump retweets call to fire Anthony Fauci after the coronavirus expert says earlier measures ‘could have saved lives’.

•Violent storms, tornadoes shift to East Coast after leaving at least 19 dead, 1.3 million without power.(Washington Post)

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LegitWater Daily [11•04•20]

•The US has become the first country in the world to record more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day.(BBC)

•A Chinese study conducted in two hospital wards in Wuhan suggested virus particles can travel four meters, or 13 feet, from infected patients, twice the distance many governments recommend as a safe distance.(Washington Post)

•17,15,143 were infected; 1,03,874 have died and 3,89,374 have recovered.

•Apple and Google are teaming up to build software that would alert people if they had been in contact with someone who was infected.

•Major oil-producing nations collectively called the OPEC+, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, finally came to terms and agreed to cut oil production by 10 million barrels a day (equivalent to 10% of global oil supply), in May and June. Mexico had held out on the agreement on Thursday, but an intervention by the US resolved the standoff.

•Brazil has become the first country in the southern hemisphere to surpass 1,000 deaths with coronavirus. Experts say the actual figure is much higher

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LegitWater Daily [10•04•20]

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LegitWater Daily [09•04•20]

•15,02,618 were infected; 89,915 have died and 3,39,775 have recovered.

•Vatican insiders worry that Pope Francis is not taking social distancing seriously enough. He’s postponed his first overseas trip of the year, to Malta, and he’s conducting the ceremonies leading up to Easter largely via live stream. But he’s also made clear that he has no interest in full-on papal social distancing.(Washington Post)

•Genomes show most New York coronavirus cases came from Europe. “New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the first confirmed case, and that travelers brought in the virus mainly from Europe, not Asia,” the New York Times reports.(NYT)

•Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said his country is approaching a decline in the crisis, with 683 deaths yesterday, down from 757 the day before.

•U.S. cases of the new coronavirus grew to more than 430,000. There were 1,973 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. during the 24-period ended 8 p.m. (WSJ)

•In India, Supreme Court ordered the central government to issue directions to approved private laboratories to conduct Covid-19 tests free of cost.

•England allrounder Ben Stokes has been named as the leading Cricketer in the World in the 2020 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, and Australia’s allrounder Ellyse Perry was named as the leading woman player in the world.

•People in the Chinese city of Wuhan stepped out of their confinements after the end of the 76-day lockdown on Wednesday.

•Google has announced its Stadia gaming service is now free to anyone who signs up with a Gmail address. Until now, users needed to subscribe to the $9.99-a-month Pro version of the service, which lets you stream games at 4K HDR and provides access to a selection of games.(Business Insider)

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LegitWater Daily [08•04•20]

Worldwide 14,50,343 were infected; 83,568 have died and 3,08,617 have recovered.

Legendary musician John Prine(73) is the latest person to be killed by the coronavirus, he had overcome both throat and lung cancer, but lost his battle to coronavirus.

Bernie Sanders suspends campaign for nomination as US Democratic Party presidential candidate.

Foxconn, the world’s biggest iPhone maker is going to start making ventilators, and is joining companies like Ford, GM and Tesla in switching some of its manufacturing lines to make ventilators(Business Insider)

The US recorded the most coronavirus deaths in a single day with more than 1,800 fatalities reported on Tuesday.

Iran has urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to approve a $5bn (£4bn) emergency loan to help fight the coronavirus, as its death toll passed 4,000.(BBC)

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LegitWater Daily [07•04•20]

•Worldwide, over 13,65,004 were infected; 76,507 have died and 2,92,467 have recovered.

•Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in an intensive care unit on Tuesday, receiving supplemental oxygen, but official deny the report that he’s under the help of a ventilator.

•China reported no coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, the first time since it started publishing daily figures in January.

•New York State reported 731 more deaths, its largest one-day increase, after two days of lower numbers. But other indicators are easing.(NYT)

•Saudi Arabia announced late Monday that nine more cities would be added to the list of those on 24-hour lockdown, and warned that infections could top 200,000 if restrictions are not obeyed.

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