•22,56,844 were infected; 1,54,350 have died and 5,71,851 have recovered.
•Paul O’Neill, 84, a former U.S. Treasury secretary and Alcoa chief executive whose independence and blunt speaking style led to clashes with President George W. Bush, died early Saturday at his home in Pittsburgh.
•China has revised its official death toll from the novel coronavirus, raising the number of fatalities attributed to the pandemic by more than a third. Officials in Wuhan, where the virus was first reported late last year, on Friday added 1,290 coronavirus deaths to the city’s toll. They also added 325 confirmed cases to the city tally.
•NASA on Friday has set the date for when it will fly its astronauts from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre again: May 27. The announcement marks a significant milestone in NASA’s winding, at times tortuous, journey to regain its human spaceflight wings since it retired the Space Shuttle programme in 2011.
•The One World: Together At Home show will see more than 100 artists including the Rolling Stones and Billie Eilish play live from their homes. The eight-hour event run by the Global Citizen movement and the World Health Organization (WHO) is being live-streamed and broadcast on TV. American TV personalities Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon will host the show, which will also feature Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Martin, Pharrell Williams, Rita Ora, Sam Smith, Elton John and Paul McCartney.(BBC)
You can watch here (it’s Live)
https://vm.tiktok.com/WpbadT/
•Facebook will alert users who interact with COVID-19 misinformation and redirect them to the WHO website. The new policy only applies to misinformation which the company believes will cause “immediate physical harm,” such as claims about fake cures.(Business Insider)
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