Tag Archives: 2020

•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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•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)

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-an-easter-week-hushed-by-a-pandemic-the-pope-does-social-distancing-his-own-way/2020/04/08/fa5538d6-7963-11ea-a311-adb1344719a9_story.html%3foutputType=amp

•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)

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-europe-genomes.amp.html

•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)

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/livecoverage/coronavirus-2020-04-09

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

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/make-private-covid-19-tests-free-says-sc/amp_articleshow/75054574.cms

•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.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29010147/ben-stokes-named-wisden-leading-cricketer-world%3fplatform=amp

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

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/life-after-lockdown-has-china-really-beaten-coronavirus

•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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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)

‘How To Properly Wash Your Hands’ Wath the video till the end. It’s really interesting!
https://youtu.be/ngpWXg5PnH8

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•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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•Worldwide, over 12,89,380 were infected; 70,590 have died and 2,70,372 have recovered.

•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.

•The daily number of coronavirus deaths has fallen in Spain for a fourth day (637), giving hope to the country.

•A four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus.

•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)

•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)

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•Worldwide, over 12,37,420 were infected; 67,260 have died and 2,52,944 have recovered.

•Chinese Mountaineers has begun expedition to Mount Everest as their life’s have come to normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.

•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.

•Pope Francis marks Holy week in near-empty basilica (BBC)

•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.

•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.

•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 at not at once.

•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.

•China has mourned the victims of the coronavirus outbreak by observing a three-minute silence, bringing the nation to a halt.

•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.

•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.

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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.

•Hollywood Director Quentin Tarantino is planning to write a novel on ‘Once Upon a Time In Hollywood’.

•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.

•Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be donating $100 million to help food banks that are facing shortages due to the coronavirus outbreak.

•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.

•William Lapschies, a 104-year-old in Oregon is the oldest-known survivors of COVID-19 (Washington Post)

•Italy and Spain starts to show some decreased (or in a way stable) hospitalisation and deaths and it’s a good news.

•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)

•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

•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.

•What is this “Flattening Of The Curve'” ? Watch this video, It’s good actually.
https://youtu.be/dSQztKXR6k0

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