British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been hospitalized due to high temperature and continued symptoms. Officials denied the reports that he’s under the help of ventilator, but said that his conditions are not improving.
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Worldwide Coronavirus Statistics: 12,89,380 were infected; 70,590 have died and 2,70,372 have recovered.
*Data as per Monday 12:15 PM
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The daily number of coronavirus deaths has fallen in Spain for a fourth day (637), giving hope to the country.
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A four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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People across the UK are burning cellphone masts in the baseless belief that 5G is linked to the coronavirus. A cellphone mast in Birmingham, England, is believed to have been set ablaze by anti-5G arsonists, and telecommunications engineers have been abused in the street by people who believe in the theory.(Business Insider)
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Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China considers a renegade province, has found an opportunity to raise its global profile: by supplying virus-hit nations with masks and other equipment and sharing with the world its know-how on containing the pandemic.
As a part of this they will be donating 10 million face masks, President Tsai Ing-wen said last week, mostly to European nations including Italy and Spain.(TOI)
Chinese Mountaineers has begun expedition to Mount Everest as their life’s have come to normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.
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Worldwide Coronavirus Statistics: 12,37,420 were infected; 67,260 have died and 2,52,944 have recovered.
*Data as per Sunday 12:15 PM
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Italy’s death rate shows a two-week low and sure it’s a positive news. They have reported 525 deaths in the last 24 hours, but considering last week it’s a good sign. Spain too shows a decrease in death rate.
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Pope Francis marks Holy week in near-empty basilica (BBC)
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A man in France attacked several people with a knife on saturday, killing two and wounding seven. French Police have started an Investigation based on this.
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The death toll in New York State reached 3,565 on Saturday, an increase of 630 from the previous day.
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Worldwide, the number of Covid-19 cases is over 1.1 million; the death toll stands at 62,376 while 2,35,775 people have recovered.
*Data as per Saturday 12:15 PM
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Mr. Trump, in an appearance at the White House on Friday evening, described the recommendation of CDC as voluntary and said that he would not be wearing a mask.
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As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked Indians to switch off lights for nine minutes on April 5 in a show of solidarity, experts say that this act by 130 crore people could trip the line, and lead to a blackout. It’s a serious situation actually, and they are requesting users to switch off/on gradually and not at once.
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The city-state of Singapore will go quiet from next week as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called for schools and most workplaces, except for essential services and key financial institutions, to shut down for a month beginning April 7-8.
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China has mourned the victims of the coronavirus outbreak by observing a three-minute silence, bringing the nation to a halt.
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US President Donald Trump fired Micheal Atkinson, a senior official(Intelligence Chief) who first alerted Congress to a whistleblower complaint that led to his impeachment trial.
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What is this “Flattening Of The Curve“? Watch this video, It’s good actually.
Just for your understanding : COVID-19 is not airborne, for starters airborne virus means that it could be spread through air. COVID-19 Virus usually spreads when an infected person sneezes, coughs or speaks. They will not hang out in the air for long time, thus ending to floors and surfaces within no time.
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Worldwide, the number of Covid-19 cases is over 1.01 million; the death toll stands at 53,160 while 211,775 people have recovered.
*Data as per Friday 12:15 PM
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Magnus Carlsen has launched a chess tournament teaming up with chess24. The tournament is scheduled to run from April 18 to May 3 and the winner would be taking away more than $70,000.
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Hollywood Director Quentin Tarantino is planning to write a novel on ‘Once Upon a Time In Hollywood’.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be donating $100 million to help food banks that are facing shortages due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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William Lapschies, a 104-year-old in Oregon is the oldest-known survivors of COVID-19 (Washington Post)
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Italy and Spain starts to show some decreased (or in a way stable) hospitalisation and deaths and it’s a good news.
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The CIA is hunting for China’s authentic virus totals. Obtaining a more accurate count is critical to better understand how the virus will impact us.(NYT)
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The three-time Grammy winner Bill Withers is dead at 81. He defined 1970s soul with hits like “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean on Me.” He died from heart complications, his family told the Associated Press.
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Austrian authorities are facing a class action lawsuit involving as many as 2,500 tourists over their handling of a coronavirus outbreak in the popular Austrian winter sports resort of Ischgl, in Tyrol province. Hundreds of early cases of coronavirus in Germany, Iceland, the UK, Norway, Denmark and Ireland can all be traced back to the resort, according to Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine.(TOI)
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Google is providing free internet across the state of California after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced schools would remain closed. As a part of this plan, Google is setting up 100,000 WiFi access points to increase broadband access for the state of California.
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Worldwide, the number of Covid-19 cases is nearing 9.38 lakh; the death crosses 50,000 and more than 1.94 lakh people have recovered.
*Data as per Thursday 12:15 PM
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This summer’s Wimbledon has been cancelled, the All England Lawn Tennis Club announced on Wednesday in a move that had become increasingly inevitable amid the Covid-19 outbreak. It’s the first time since World War Two.
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Shenzhen has become the first Chinese city to ban the sale and consumption of dog and cat meat.
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In US, more than 6.6 million people filed jobless claims in the week ended 28 March, the Department of Labor said.
Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) study recommends a minimum distance of over 27 feet or about 8 metres to avoid getting infected via droplet transmission.
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Worldwide, the number of Covid-19 cases are over 8.60 lakh; the death toll stands at 42,354 and more than 1.78 lakh people have recovered.
*Data as per Wednesday 12:15 PM
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President Trump and his top public health advisers delivered a shocking figure last night that the novel coronavirus could cause 100,000 to 240,000 fatalities in the U.S, even with these social distancing, lockdown and school closures.
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A portion of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre, the iconic venue that hosts the US Open, is to be transformed into a 350-bed temporary hospital to help New York’s strained healthcare infrastructure handle the pandemic.
Worldwide, the number of Covid-19 cases are over 7.86 lakh; the death toll has reached 37,820 and more than 1.66 lakh people have recovered.
*Data as per Tuesday 12:15 PM
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A van Gogh painting was stolen from a Dutch museum that was closed because of the coronavirus. And most surprising thing is that it was his birthday too.
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Amazon fired a New York warehouse worker who helped lead a protest on Monday against its coronavirus response. The worker, Chris Smalls, said he was fired in retaliation for his activism.
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Now connect a headset to this device you’re holding, lean back, closeyour eyes and listen to this soothing track, Neuroscience Says Listening to This Song Reduces Anxiety by Up to 65 Percent
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The Contagion (2011)
Watch this movie if you can, and it’s 75% part is relatable. It’s about controlling a pandemic similar to Covid-19, but it’s a deadly virus, death rate is too high I mean.
Worldwide, the number of Covid-19 cases are close to 7.24 lakh; the death toll has crossed 34,000 and more than 1.52 lakh have recovered.
*Data as per Monday 12:15 PM
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US oil futures briefly dropped below $20 per barrel on Sunday after Trump’s announcement that social distancing guidelines would be extended through the end of April.
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As the number of coronavirus cases is rising worldwide, putting pressure on hospital systems that are running low on items such as ventilators, many automakers are developing new products to ease the shortage. As I said last day, General Motors has already kicked off the production.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has give a green signal to a molecular test that can diagnose Covid-19 infections within minutes. The test is created by Abbott Laboratories and is highly portable, can be used in a wide variety of settings, from hospital emergency rooms to urgent care clinics to physicians’ offices. It weighs about 3 kilograms.
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Spain’s Princess Maria Teresa, of the House of Bourbon-Parma, has died aged 86 after testing positive for Covid-19, her grieving royal family announced.
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The Tokyo Olympic Games will start on 23 July, 2021 and will run to 8 August after it was postponed for a year because of, yeah you know, corona.
I have searched the internet for a few days for the articles themed to this. And I have found some articles too. The positive cases in all major countries are soaring as per now and sure this quarantine may extend to months I think. I’m from India and we’re too under 21 day national lockdown. Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared this so quick which inturn affected many migrant labourers. Ofcourse he must have given atleast 6 hour notice to this declaration, but there’s no point in speaking about it now.
Okay so now let’s jump into topic. The Chinese death rate seems so fishy to me after reading these articles, let’s just hope it doesn’t be an another “Chernobyl type death rate declaration”.
Worldwide, the number of Covid-19 cases is now over 6.65 lakh; the death toll is 30,852 and 140,225 have recovered. The death toll in Italy has crossed 10,000 — at 10,023, the highest in the world.
*Data as per Sunday 12:15 PM
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Millions of homeless people and migrant labourers have been left in the lurch after India announced a 21-day lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country. Many have opted to walk hundreds of miles to their villages as public transport has been suspended. In India Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared nationwide lockdown immediately without further steps and preparations, thus leading many migrant labourers without food and shelter.
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A 57-year-old female shrimp seller in China’s Wuhan city, the originating point of the coronavirus pandemic, has been identified as one of the first victims of COVID-19, which has claimed nearly 28,000 lives around the world so far, according to media reports. The coronavirus ‘patient zero’, who made a full recovery in January after month-long treatment, believes the Chinese government could have checked the spread of the disease had it acted sooner.
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