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something that does disturb me about some of these corona virus self-reports, is a small account given by those that have had corona virus or know someone who went through corona virus. Third-party reports, with minimal credibility, but there is a disturbing narrative I review, that comes from a common attribute. There is a dismissive often casualness to these reports, which comes from someone who has done minimal research into the significance.

A somewhat frequent trend is that those young people, who have the minimum side-effects (such was mild aches and soreness in the throat, sometimes headaches) go on to ‘recover’ from corona virus. Then go on to say, “Taste or the sense of smell has not returned. At all.”

To the “it’s just a flu” crowd, this is dismissed as typical allergy or side effects of a mediocre cold. But the account may have a more unsettling significance.

I have a family member, who several years prior, suffered a very mild stroke. A mild stroke can be missed, because it does not have outward significance to those who knew the individual. And, we only put together the context of this stroke and it’s impact on her health, years later, when she displayed early onset dementia. The stroke was only made knowledge years following, after a MRI scan revealed the mild onset of neuro damage that matches to a stroke pattern, though it was not outwardly visible. Though this family member, aware that her mind was damaged but not comprehending how, made the efforts to square away essential assets and put her future care in order. There is more to this story, but it is personal and not relevant to the corona virus tangent I am going through.

Now, of this early onset dementia, our first clue was that her sense of smell and taste was affected. Bear in mind, no neurological discrepancies were visibly apparent at the time - and this medical narrative comes before a time when resources for dementia or Alzheimer's was made readily available. The plot we built around our ailing individual, we had to piece together years later following the discovery of medical documents. However prior to the documents surface, as years endured, it became more apparent that memory loss was setting in, and she was aware of this.

What does this have to do with corona virus? From what we have gathered with the virus, is that it is systemic, it can infect and damage other organs and tissue of the body. It can infect the brain and optical nerves, it can affect the liver and kidneys. There is a distinct difference between pneumonia corona virus and the systemic corona virus - these health issues are one in the same - though it only establishes where corona virus has infiltrated and damaged. It is only when corona virus has infiltrated the lung tissue and presents itself in respiratory distress, that people think that they have contracted corona virus. And I tell my family this, when they have a little throat thrash - Corona virus WILL NOT present itself first as a cold or abrasive throat. You will not know you have it, and when you begin presenting the common and true respiratory distress, it may be too late.

And right here I want to make a very crucial note. Ebola first presents as a flu or cold. Meningitis first presents itself as a flu or cold. Measles first presents itself as a cold or flu. Invasive fungal sinusitis first presents itself as a flu or cold. A deadly bacteria microbial that killed a 6 year old in Texas, first presented itself as a cold or flu, or corona virus.

What all these illnesses have in common, is that, they present firstly as a common cold or flu, but if the medical institute which treats the infected fails to work fast enough to actually diagnose the individual, they will die. Yes. Ebola is fatal to many people without hospital intervention and antiviral treatments, and even still if it is not controlled quick enough the infected person will perish. Measles is deadly to children AND adults. Invasive fungal sinusitis is often fatal, unless the contaminated tissue is hacked out of the persons face - this usually results in disfigurement. The point being, because something has been described as a little flu or cold, does not mean it is harmless - it only means that we can see these symptoms presented. It is a prescript response the body has, to many viral or bacterial infections, due to an inflamed reaction to compromised tissue. That is what a sore throat is, tissue contaminated to invasive cells which the bodies white blood cells must destroy and remove - this results in abrasion or a ‘burn’. When you want to refurbish furniture, you first must remove tarnished and unsightly top coat through sanding. You can accidentally disfigure your furniture project if you are not careful, or need to do repairs on weaknesses or damage inflicted by age. The body is the same way, the cells destroy the infected cells and some cells which are not infected - this is the cytokine storm which puts individual infected with covid, into the hospital for essential medical intervention.

Now back to this topic of dementia and neuro damage. These young people as reported casually, having recovered a ‘mild’ infection from covid, and did not present any symptoms or barely ‘noticed’ any aches or whatever. They still report a loss of taste and smell. Why this is concerning to me, is it can mean that covid cells infiltrated the brain and got up to some not good businesses. NOW, I am NOT here to say, “omg, these people are doomed. Oh no.” What I will say, is that they ARE NOT CURED.

The body likely responded to some sort of infection, it might have only affected the sinus cells. Whether or not antibodies were produced is unknown. There is a possibility that the headache is a result of the body attacking compromised cells in the brain, and if that sounds scary, DO NOT LET IT MAKE YOU AFRAID. This is very important. This is only a cautionary segment, and a plea for those who have suspected they may have been exposed to covid, or have recovered from covid, to be cautious from here on out. Neuro cells can rebuild themselves, to a degree. Neuro cells or brain cells, are notorious for being permanent, non-replicable. But they can be fixed by small increments. It can also take months, or years, in an individual that is healthy. This is why I say those who have lost some sensory, must absolutely be careful. Covid cells have a very direct plan of attack, they are very illusive in the body, and cells that have gone through the trauma of protecting you from this virus may be weakened to some degree.

This is why I am adamant about directing focus to the lack of immunity or the relapses when they occur, to those that previously thought they recovered from covid. I saw a beautiful post on here a few days prior, about a woman who is HIV +, but is able to have children and a husband, without fear for them contracting the virus, because she has medicine to keep the viral count down. Thus, her family does not need to worry about HIV, her children can live a normal life, and she can have children. It’s a blessing.

It is also a very important narrative for the corona virus, an illness we are still struggling to understand to the full of our capacity. This speculation I have that antibodies formed following a corona virus infection, may be short lived or unreliable to future infection. If a person is subjected to a high concentration of virus load, such as our healthcare workers, the prospect of infection and a lethal infection increases. This is why metropolitan areas need harsh restrictions due to the corona virus, the high concentration of people increases the infection rate - probability - of a positive infection. The more covid cells you encounter, the higher risk and possibly the more severe your infection because your body is not capable of keeping up with the infection onslaught. Healthcare workers MUST BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS - that is why they wear hazmat suits while treating covid sufferers. They are in a viral load element, and many can not go home to their families because the risks are too great.

If you suspect you have had covid or may have encountered someone with covid, reduce your interaction with people. Do not go out. Treat yourself like you are still struggling with the virus, even if you feel you are not. Behave like you are still taking the medication your doctor gave you, even though you feel better. Let your body do its job to its fullest, before you go out courting covid once more. If you keep subjecting your body to a trauma, then the cells become eroded and run down - it increases the probability of a severe infection which will have ultimate consequences.

“Young people seem to bounce back” is a highly irresponsible narrative. We do not grasp the full effects of corona virus infection in young people. We have no test group, nor a control group. But we can follow patterns. The cases increase, due to the false belief that corona virus is not serious. It likely comes from some young person believing, “I recovered and didn’t feel that bad, thus, the virus is not that bad. I am very healthy, and the virus didn’t stand a chance.”

Wherein the truth is, your body managed to get the virus under control to the point the young person felt good. And yes, because the young person may be healthy, but they are not exempted from a second, or third infection. IF THE ANTIBODIES ARE NOT THERE. This is where we reach the relapse, reinfection, and the ongoing lethargy that some people endure. The virus is still present, but it is managed by the body. The body is producing antibodies, but the virus is still producing cells which attack the body.

This may also explain the “negatives” of those that test negative, but still feel like crud. The negative of a covid test, might mean that there is not sufficient viral load to reach a positive result. I could be wrong. All I have right now are speculation, theories. But the doctors are telling us fundamental things, and not going into specifics why.

You do not want to contract corona virus. It does not care how healthy you are, it’s primary mission is replicate and spread, and feed on hemoglobin.

When people say, “Yeah, I still don’t have my sense of taste and or smell back.” I am very alarmed. Because when someone dismisses something so essential, my first concern is not, “That is common in colds”; I begin thinking, “This virus attacks any tissue, and the sinuses have been traumatized. How long does this last?”

We do not know enough about this virus to be complacent. It does not behave anything like a cold or flu, aside from symptoms which are a synonymous onset to every other kind of horrendous viral or bacterial infection with a high fatality rate. The cytokine storm is a very sudden, aggressive onslaught on anything compromised by corona virus cells - including cells that may have not been infected let alone compromised. Individuals who come across as very proud to have recovered so efficiently from a possible corona virus infection, may be health compromised or primed for a second more serious infection.

And last, if you are a person who does not know where you liver is located, then you probably shouldn’t conclude you’ve recovered from the corona virus. And final, if you lost your sense of taste or smell, you need to be more cautious from here on out because it is possible you are not fully recovered.

#corona virus #coronavirus #covid19 #covid #covid 19 #covid-19 #wear a fucking mask #wash your hands #watch your distance #viral behavior #rona #corona #beer #i feel like Im talking to a brick wall that believes it is a fluffy fog bank #you are not a fluffy fog bank youre a fucking brick wall #there is no way in hell i will try driving through you only an idiot would do that

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Coronavirus crisis ‘like no different’ as cases near 2m: Live updates | News

IMF says the worldwide economic system is predicted to shrink by Three p.c this yr, forecasting the steepest downturn because the Nice Melancholy of the 1930s

Whole variety of coronavirus cases in Russia has surged previous 20,000 as the nation posted a document variety of day by day cases.

Some 1.93 million folks world wide have now been confirmed to have the brand new coronavirus, in response to information compiled by Johns Hopkins College. Greater than 120,00Zero have died, whereas practically 450,00Zero have recovered.

France turns into the fourth nation on the planet to go the 15,00Zero coronavirus loss of life toll.

Sweden says the variety of coronavirus deaths within the nation has exceeded 1,000.

Listed below are the newest updates:

Tuesday, April 14

20:40 GMT – US army: Coronavirus doubtless occurred naturally however not sure

US intelligence signifies that the coronavirus doubtless occurred naturally, as against being created in a laboratory in China, however there’s no certainty both means, the highest US normal mentioned.

The remarks by Military Basic Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, might fan hypothesis in regards to the coronavirus’ origins – one thing China has dismissed as a conspiracy idea that’s unhelpful to the combat towards the pandemic.

Requested whether or not he had any proof that the virus maybe started in a Chinese language laboratory and was maybe launched unintentionally, Milley was non-committal at a Pentagon information briefing.

“There’s a lot of rumor and speculation in a wide variety of media, the blog sites, etc. It should be no surprise to you that we’ve taken a keen interest in that and we’ve had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that,” Milley informed a information briefing.

“And I would just say, at this point, it’s inconclusive although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural. But we don’t know for certain.”

20:15 GMT – IMF chief economist says 100 international locations search pandemic help

The Worldwide Financial Fund views its $1 trillion in lending capability as “quite substantial” to assist members take care of the coronavirus pandemic, however additional assets could also be wanted as the total brunt of the crisis reaches growing international locations, its chief economist informed the DailyKhaleej information company.

Gita Gopinath mentioned 100 of the IMF’s 189 members, of whom half have been low-income international locations, had now contacted the worldwide lender about receiving emergency funding to beef up their efforts to include the unfold of the novel coronavirus and mitigate its financial impression.

She welcomed an settlement by worldwide collectors to droop debt funds for the poorest international locations by the tip of the yr as a “very, very good step,” however mentioned debt aid measures might need to be prolonged into 2021 because the worst of the pandemic’s results had not but been felt in lots of the poorest international locations.

19:50 GMT – Rio de Janeiro governor checks constructive for coronavirus

The governor of Rio de Janeiro state mentioned that he had examined constructive for the brand new coronavirus, turning into the newest Brazilian authorities chief to contract the illness as it spreads throughout the nation.

In a video posted on Twitter, Governor Wilson Witzel mentioned that he had not been feeling nicely in current days with a fever and sore throat, so he requested a check and acquired the constructive outcome on Tuesday

Wilson Witzel mentioned that he had not been feeling nicely in current days with a fever and sore throat [AFP]

19:35 GMT – EU to restrict export management of virus safety gear to simply masks

The European Fee plans to slender controls on the export of coronavirus protecting gear to only a single product – masks – as nicely as exempt the international locations of the western Balkans from the restrictions.

The EU govt, which abroad commerce coverage for the 27 EU member states, set out a draft regulation on Tuesday to use for 30 days from April 26. The changes have been designed to fulfill the EU’s international commitments in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.

The bloc’s present restrictions apply to protecting spectacles and visors, face shields, protecting clothes, gloves, as nicely as mouth and nostril masks.

These merchandise can solely be exported to a non-EU nation with an authorisation granted by particular person EU international locations. The restrictions have been on account of run from March 15 to April 25.

The restrictions got here in after numerous international locations, together with France and Germany, launched their very own export controls, angering fellow members such as Italy that have been most in want of such gear.

19:15 GMT – US State Division stories first coronavirus fatality in Washington

The US State Division reported its first coronavirus fatality among the many employees at its headquarters in Washington, bringing the entire loss of life toll in its international workforce as a result of outbreak to 5.

“The individual passed over the weekend,” William Walters, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Operations in Bureau of Medical Providers informed reporters in a teleconference. “He was hospitalised for some time fighting the coronavirus.”

Walters mentioned that the deceased particular person, a civil servant, had been out of the workplace for greater than two weeks. He didn’t present additional particulars together with in what position the person served on the State Division, citing privateness points.

Among the many different 4 fatalities within the State Division’s international workforce, three others have been domestically employed employees in international missions whereas a fourth particular person, a contractor working in New York, died of the sickness final week.

18:55 GMT – Trump to convene G7 leaders in video hyperlink to debate pandemic

US President Donald Trump will maintain a video teleconference with G7 leaders on Thursday to coordinate nationwide responses to the coronavirus pandemic, the White Home mentioned.

Trump, who’s head of the G7 this yr, needed to cancel the group’s annual summit, which he had deliberate to carry on the presidential retreat of Camp David, Maryland, in June.

The Group of Seven nations embrace america, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, Japan and Germany, and all seven of them have been hit onerous by the virus.

18:40 GMT – China in concern of second wave of COVID-19 outbreak

China reported 89 new coronavirus cases on April 13, of which 86 have been imported, the well being authority mentioned.

The excessive variety of imported cases within the nation awakens concern of a second wave of coronavirus cases due to Chinese language residents coming again to their homeland from overseas.

China has reported new #coronavirus cases – most of that are imported – amid fears of a second wave.

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18:25 GMT – Apple launches website to point out how lockdowns have an effect on motion

Apple Inc mentioned it could launch information that would assist inform public well being authorities on whether or not individuals are driving much less throughout lockdown orders to gradual the unfold of the brand new coronavirus.

The information is gathered by counting the variety of routing requests from Apple Maps, which is put in on all iPhones, and evaluating it with previous utilization to detect modifications within the quantity of individuals driving, strolling or taking public transit world wide, Apple mentioned.

The data is being up to date day by day and in contrast with a date in mid-January, earlier than most US lockdown measures have been in place, Apple mentioned.

Greater than 90 p.c of Individuals are underneath stay-at-home orders and varied lockdowns are underway in different international locations across the globe.

18:05 GMT – France’s coronavirus loss of life toll passes 15,000

France formally registered greater than 15,00Zero deaths from coronavirus infections, turning into the fourth nation to transcend that threshold after Italy, Spain and america, whereas the speed of improve of fatalities is barely up once more after steadying the times earlier than.

However the variety of folks in intensive care models fell to six,730 from 6,821 over 24 hours, with this whole declining for a sixth consecutive day, suggesting the nationwide lockdown, prolonged to Could 11 on Monday, is having constructive results in containing the illness.

Throughout a information convention Jerome Salomon, head of the general public well being authority, mentioned the quantity of people that died from the illness in French hospitals and nursing houses had risen by 5 p.c in a day to a cumulative whole of 15,729, versus 4 p.c on Monday and Sunday.

17:50 GMT – Austria reopens hundreds of retailers

Austria allowed hundreds of retailers to reopen on Tuesday, turning into one of many first international locations in Europe to loosen a lockdown imposed to gradual the unfold of the coronavirus.

Austria acted early in its outbreak to shut colleges, bars, theatres, eating places, non-essential outlets and different gathering locations roughly 4 weeks in the past. It has informed the general public to remain dwelling and work from there if doable.

The Alpine republic has fared comparatively nicely thus far, having reported 384 deaths in whole, fewer than some bigger European international locations have been struggling every day. The day by day improve in confirmed cases has fallen to low single digits in share phrases and hospitalisations have stabilised.

17:26 GMT – Scientists leverage lockdown as dry run for Mars mission

French house scientists are utilizing the COVID-19 lockdown as a dry run for what will probably be wish to be cooped up inside a spacecraft on a mission to Mars.

The guinea pigs within the experiment are 60 college students who’re confined to their dormitory rooms within the southern metropolis of Toulouse – not far faraway from the sort of situations they may expertise on an extended house mission.

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Scientists are keen to higher perceive the adversarial psychological results of tight residing quarters in lockdown situations [File: NASA/Handout via Reuters]

17:00 GMT – Uganda extends coronavirus lockdown for 3 extra weeks

President Yoweri Museveni prolonged Uganda’s preliminary 14-day lockdown by an additional three weeks, till Could 5, as a part of efforts to curb the unfold of the novel coronavirus.

Uganda and Rwanda have imposed a complete lockdown of their combat towards COVID-19, in east Africa’s most stringent response to the an infection.

16:35 GMT – Fauci: Could 1 goal for reopening US economic system overly optimistic

The highest US infectious illness professional Anthony Fauci mentioned {that a} Could 1 goal date for reopening the economic system was “a bit overly optimistic,” citing a scarcity of essential testing and tracing procedures.

“We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we’re not there yet,” Fauci, head of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses, informed the AP information company in an interview.

Fauci additionally informed the AP that the size of the day by day White Home coronavirus briefings was “really draining”. Trump, who’s operating for re-election in November, has at instances used the briefings to advertise his position and assault political opponents. Monday’s lasted two and a half hours.

Fauci: ‘Now we have to have one thing in place that’s environment friendly and that we will depend on, and we’re not there but’ [File: Al Drago/Reuters]

16:15 GMT – Italy’s day by day new cases lowest in a month

Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 602, up from 566 the day earlier than, posting a second consecutive day by day improve, however new infections slowed to 2,972 from 3,153, seeing the smallest day by day tally since March 13.

The overall loss of life toll because the outbreak got here to mild on February 21 rose to 21,067, the Civil Safety Company mentioned, the second-highest on the planet after that of america.

The variety of formally confirmed cases climbed to 162,488, the third highest international tally behind these of the US and Spain.

There have been 3,186 folks in intensive care on Tuesday towards 3,260 on Monday – an 11th consecutive day by day decline.

Of these initially contaminated, 37,130 have been declared recovered towards 35,435 a day earlier.

The variety of formally confirmed cases is 162,488 in Italy [Manuel Silvestri/Reuters]

16:00 GMT – Zimbabwe president threatens faux information writer with 20 years’ jail

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened a jail time period of as much as 20 years to the writer of a press release, purporting to bear his signature, that mentioned the lockdown to include the coronavirus outbreak had been prolonged.

Mnangagwa, who was talking at his farm after touring Gweru metropolis in central Zimbabwe, informed state broadcaster ZBC on Tuesday that the assertion, which circulated on social media final week and was instantly denied by the federal government, was faux.

Learn extra right here.

15:45 GMT – Turkey’s coronavirus loss of life toll rises by 98 to 1,296: minister

Turkey’s confirmed cases of the coronavirus elevated by 4,093 up to now 24 hours, and 98 extra folks have died, taking the loss of life toll to 1,296, Well being Minister Fahrettin Koca mentioned.

The overall variety of cases within the nation stood at 61,049, he mentioned.

A complete of three,957 folks have recovered thus far, and the variety of checks carried out over the previous 24 hours was 34,456, the minister mentioned.

15:25 GMT – Pakistan loosens lockdown by opening choose industries

Pakistan has prolonged its countrywide state of lockdown on colleges, purchasing malls, public gatherings and non-essential companies for 2 weeks, however has made exceptions for sure sectors of the economic system, with the intention to stave off rising unemployment and a stagnating economic system.

The development sector would start to reopen on Wednesday, mentioned Prime Minister Imran Khan at a information convention, following a gathering of the nation’s Nationwide Coordination Committee on the coronavirus.

Different industries or companies that might be allowed to reopen embrace cement and fertiliser vegetation, mines, glass producers, veterinary companies, bookshops and stationary shops, dry cleaners and sure agriculture-related companies.

Provincial authorities will, nonetheless, be free to increase their restrictions on these industries in the event that they consider it’s needed, Khan mentioned.

15:05 GMT – Coronavirus deaths in Sweden go 1,000

Sweden reported that greater than 1,00Zero folks had died from the novel coronavirus, as a bunch of consultants attacked the authorities’ strategy to the crisis.

Sweden’s Public Well being Company mentioned it had recorded a complete of 11,445 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,033 deaths.

And it warned that as a result of not all deaths had but been reported over the four-day Easter weekend, the true quantity may be increased.

Sweden has recorded a complete of 11,445 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,033 deaths [Reuters]

15:00 GMT – Denmark’s govt proposes faster reopening of society: PM

Denmark’s authorities needs to reopen society extra shortly than beforehand anticipated, as the variety of coronavirus-related hospitalisations continues to fall, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen mentioned.

“The number of hospitalisations have not risen, they have fallen. And the number of people in intensive care is also falling,” Frederiksen informed a information briefing, with out specifying the small print of the federal government’s proposal.

The proposal will likely be mentioned with different events in parliament in a while Tuesday, Frederiksen mentioned.

14:40 GMT – IMF says ‘worst recession since Nice Melancholy’ is probably going

The Worldwide Financial Fund didn’t mince phrases about its dire outlook for a coronavirus-ravaged world economic system.

“It is very likely that this year the global economy will experience its worst recession since the Great Depression, surpassing that seen during the financial crisis a decade ago,” IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath wrote within the foreward for the fund’s World Financial Outlook.

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Gita Gopinath says that it may be very doubtless that this yr the worldwide economic system will expertise its worst recession because the Nice Melancholy [Reuters]

14:30 GMT – Czech toys don masks to assist medics deal with coronavirus

A well-liked line of toy figures within the Czech Republic have begun sporting face masks together with the remainder of the nation to boost funds to purchase gear for medical employees combating the novel coronavirus.

Toymaker Efko started equipping its small plastic Igracek collectible figurines – that are just like Lego or Playmobil – with masks in March.

It’s donating a part of its gross sales from the toys marked “help with Igracek” to buy protecting gear for medical doctors and nurses within the central Vysocina area the place the corporate is predicated.

“We thought if everyone else has to wear a mask, then so should Igracek,” mentioned Efko CEO Miroslav Kotik, including that 15 Czech crowns ($0.60) of the retail worth of the collectible figurines could be donated to the hassle.

14:00 GMT – Georgia to lock down 4 cities for 10 days: PM

Georgia will lock down 4 massive cities, together with its capital Tbilisi, for 10 days from April 15 in an effort to forestall the unfold of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia mentioned.

Gakharia mentioned the emergency state of affairs within the nation could be prolonged till Could 10.

12:55 GMT – Cuomo says Trump cannot pressure states to reopen

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took to morning TV reveals to push again towards President Donald Trump’s declare of “total” authority to reopen the nation’s virus-stalled economic system, noting {that a} president is just not an absolute monarch.

“We don’t have a king,” Cuomo mentioned on NBC’s At the moment.

“We have a president. That was a big decision. We ran away from having a king, and George Washington was president, not King Washington. So, the president doesn’t have total authority.”

The Democratic governor, whose state has change into the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in america, was reacting to Trump’s assertion Monday that “when somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total.”

Greater than 10,00Zero folks in New York state, the place Cuomo is governor, have died from the coronavirus [File: Mike Segar/Reuters]

12:40 GMT – Dutch coronavirus cases rise by 868

Confirmed coronavirus cases within the Netherlands rose by 868 to 27,419, well being authorities mentioned, with 122 new deaths.

Whole deaths within the nation are at 2,945, the Netherlands Institute for Public Well being mentioned in its day by day replace.

12:18 GMT – Sinn Fein chief says she is recovering from coronavirus

The chief of the left-wing Irish nationalist occasion Sinn Fein, Mary Lou McDonald, mentioned {that a} check taken on the finish of March confirmed she had the coronavirus, however she was no longer contaminated and would return to work subsequent week.

McDonald mentioned she was given the outcome on Monday after “weeks of being very unwell”. The check was taken on March 28.

McDonald’s occasion surprised Eire’s institution in February by successful probably the most votes in an inconclusive nationwide election.

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12:00 GMT – McDonald’s apologises after China retailer bans black folks

US chain McDonald’s has apologised after an indication telling black folks they have been banned from getting into a department in southern China prompted outrage on-line, following stories of discriminatory remedy in direction of Africans within the metropolis.

Tensions have flared between police and Africans within the southern metropolis of Guangzhou after native officers introduced a cluster of COVID-19 cases in a neighbourhood with a big migrant inhabitants.

Because the row escalated, posts broadly shared on-line confirmed an indication at quick meals chain McDonald’s saying black folks weren’t allowed to enter the restaurant.

11:40 GMT – That is the spirit! Japan hospitals discover option to beat sanitiser scarcity

Sturdy alcoholic drinks can be utilized “when absolutely necessary” as a substitute of hand sanitiser in Japanese hospitals, authorities mentioned, as provides run dry as a results of the coronavirus pandemic.

Spirits with an alcohol proof of between 70 and 83 p.c will be substituted to sterilise fingers underneath new guidelines set out in a well being ministry doc obtained by AFP information company.

Some vodkas are that sturdy, however conventional Japanese tipples such as sake and shochu don’t make the grade – at a most alcohol proof of roughly 22 and 45 p.c respectively.

10:50 GMT – Guinea to mandate mask-wearing towards virus

Guinean President Alpha Conde has determined to make the sporting of masks obligatory in a bid to curb the unfold of coronavirus.

Talking in a televised handle on Monday night, the president mentioned offenders could be “prevented from moving around” and slapped with a civil disobedience tax of 30,00Zero Guinean francs ($3.16, 2.eight euros).

The order takes impact from Saturday.

Conde referred to as on all corporations, ministries and NGOs to supply masks to their staff by Saturday. He additionally urged that masks be manufactured domestically and bought cheaply.

10:40 GMT – Starvation for ‘excellent news’ grows amid coronavirus crisis

Battered by grim headlines, horrifying statistics and deep uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, many individuals worldwide are attempting to raise their spirits by in search of out constructive information tales.

Websites specialising in upbeat information have seen a surge in current weeks, and Google searches for “good news” have jumped five-fold because the begin of the yr.

The Good News Community, created within the late 1990s, has seen visitors treble up to now month with greater than 10 million guests, in response to founder and editor Geri Weis-Corbley.

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10:20 GMT – Iran says virus deaths drop beneath 100 for first time in month

Iran mentioned the variety of lives misplaced within the nation to the novel coronavirus dropped to double figures for the primary time in a single month.

Well being ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour mentioned 98 deaths from the COVID-19 illness have been recorded up to now 24 hours, bringing the general toll to 4,683.

“Unfortunately, we lost 98 of our compatriots infected with the disease … but after a month of waiting, this is the first day that the death toll has been double figures,” he informed a televised information convention

09:50 GMT – Spain’s virus loss of life toll tops 18,000

A lady sporting a face masks walks in an empty Plaza de Cibeles, Madrid, throughout a state of emergency to forestall the unfold of the coronavirus [Anadolu Agency]

Spain reported 567 deaths from the brand new coronavirus, a slight improve after a at some point decline, bringing the entire variety of fatalities to 18,056 – formally the third-highest on the planet behind america and Italy.

The variety of new infections rose by 1.eight p.c to 172,541 cases, in response to the well being ministry, the smallest improve because the nation imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 14 to curb the unfold of the virus.

09:30 GMT – Russia posts one other document day by day rise in new COVID-19 cases

The variety of coronavirus cases in Russia has crossed 20,000, whereas the loss of life toll is nearing 200, authorities mentioned.

A complete of two,774 extra folks examined constructive for COVID-19 over the previous 24 hours, bringing the general case depend to 21,102, Russia’s coronavirus process pressure mentioned in a press release.

The loss of life toll has risen to 170 after 22 extra fatalities, whereas recoveries reached 1,694 as 224 extra sufferers have been discharged from hospitals.

09:26 GMT – ‘Not a king’: Trump will get pushback for whole authority declare

US President Donald Trump has claimed he has “total” authority to determine how and when to reopen the economic system after weeks of strict bodily distancing tips geared toward combating the novel coronavirus.

However governors from each events have been fast to push again, noting they’ve main duty for guaranteeing public security of their states and would determine when it was secure to start a return to regular operations.

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08:45 GMT – UK accused of underreporting senior virus deaths

The boss of one of many UK’s greatest nursing dwelling operators says the variety of reported coronavirus deaths amongst aged residents is way increased than has been formally reported.

The federal government says outbreaks of COVID-19 have been reported in a single in eight UK care houses. However David Behan, chairman of dwelling operator HC-One, mentioned cases of the brand new coronavirus had been reported in 232 of the agency’s houses – two-thirds of the entire.

He says 311 residents have died with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.

08:20 GMT – Unique: Kerala CM says UAE quarantine services ‘insufficient’

The chief minister of India’s Kerala state has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repatriate Indian staff within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) amid the coronavirus pandemic, expressing alarm over the Gulf nation’s response to the well being emergency.

In a letter despatched on April 9, Pinarayi Vijayan revealed that quite a few complaints have been being acquired over “inadequate isolation and quarantine facilities” within the UAE, which is at present internet hosting greater than three million migrant staff from India, in response to the United Nations.

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There are greater than three million migrant staff from India within the United Arab Emirates [Jon Gambrell/AP]

08:01 GMT – Taiwan stories no new coronavirus cases for first time in a month

Taiwan reported no new cases of the coronavirus for the primary time in additional than a month, within the newest signal that the island’s early and efficient prevention strategies have paid off.

Taiwan has received plaudits from well being consultants for the way it has fought the virus, together with beginning as early as December 31 with checks on passengers arriving from China’s Wuhan metropolis, the place the primary cases have been reported late final yr.

Taiwan has reported 393 cases up to now and 6 deaths. A complete of 338 have been so-called imported cases, the place folks have been suspected of turning into contaminated abroad earlier than getting into Taiwan, and the remainder have been cases of native transmissions.

07:45 GMT – Anger as right-wing UK voices ‘predict’ Ramadan virus unfold

Considerations have been raised that right-wing voices in the UK might gasoline Islamophobia, after a commentator predicted a “spike” in coronavirus cases throughout Ramadan.

Andrew Pierce, a journalist for the Every day Mail tabloid, tweeted on Sunday: “If families gather for holy month of Ramadan there will be a huge spike in Covid cases. Doctors are very worried.”

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07:18 GMT – AstraZeneca to asses potential of blood most cancers drug

AstraZeneca Plc mentioned that it could begin a scientific trial to evaluate the potential of Calquence within the remedy of the exaggerated immune response related to COVID-19 an infection in severely ailing sufferers.

Calquence is a BTK inhibitor and at present used to deal with sure forms of blood cancers.

The drug has been authorised for the remedy of grownup sufferers with power lymphocytic leukaemia in america and numerous different international locations.

07:01 GMT – Turkey to launch prisoners to ease overcrowding

Turkey’s parliament has authorised laws that may free some 90,00Zero prisoners to ease overcrowding in prisons amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Nonetheless, that doesn’t embrace journalists and activists, who will stay behind bars.

The laws, authorised early on Tuesday, reduces some sentences and locations 45,00Zero convicts, at present serving phrases in open prisons, underneath momentary home arrest.

06:40 GMT – Malaysia arrests Myanmar staff for breaching lockdown restrictions

Malaysian police have arrested 62 migrant staff from Myanmar for breaching lockdown restrictions by allegedly staging a weekend road occasion marking Thingyan, the Buddhist New Yr.

“Some admitted to attending the event, and more arrests are being carried out to track the other suspects involved. Two mobile phones used by the suspects have also been seized,” mentioned Wan Kamarul Azran, assistant police commissioner of Sepang, Kuala Lumpur.

The Thingyan pageant is normally per week of live shows, road events and water fights throughout a lot of Myanmar – as nicely as among the many giant communities of migrants from Myanmar in neighbouring Thailand and Malaysia.

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06:20 GMT – UK’s Heathrow Airport sees passenger demand down by 90 p.c in April

Heathrow Airport, historically the busiest in Europe, forecast that passenger demand would plunge by over 90 p.c in April, as coronavirus restrictions cease most journey.

Heathrow mentioned that its passenger numbers have been down 52 p.c in March in contrast with the identical interval final yr, with lots of these being Britons returning dwelling from overseas.

The airport, owned by a bunch of traders together with Spain’s Ferrovial, the Qatar Funding Authority and China Funding Corp, mentioned it was now solely utilizing one in all its two runways, as flights proceed for cargo.

Good day, that is Usaid Siddiqui in Doha taking up from my colleague Kate Mayberry.

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I’ll shortly be handing the weblog over to my colleagues in Doha. Hold checking in to observe our persevering with protection of the pandemic.

05:30 GMT – Heilongjiang clamps down on folks getting back from Russia

Authorities in China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang have established a hotline to reward residents for reporting folks crossing the border illegally, after a leap within the variety of coronavirus cases imported from Russia.

In keeping with a discover, folks supplying verified details about unlawful cross-border crimes will get 3,00Zero yuan ($426). Those that apprehend any unlawful migrants and hand them over to authorities will get 5,00Zero yuan ($710).

Russia has change into China’s largest supply of imported cases, with 409 cases discovered to have originated there. State-owned World Occasions mentioned in an editorial Chinese language residents ought to keep put in Russia and never attempt to return dwelling.

Heilongjiang had 79 new cases of imported coronavirus on Monday. All have been Chinese language residents travelling again from Russia, state media mentioned on Tuesday.

05:10 GMT – Medical gear stockpile, fund underneath dialogue at ASEAN meet

Leaders of the 10 members of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met on-line on Tuesday to debate their international locations’ response to the coronavirus, together with discussions on a regional stockpile of medical gear for emergencies, and the creation of a regional fund to combat the pandemic.

“It is in these grim hours that the solidarity of the ASEAN community shines like a beacon in the dark,” Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc mentioned in a gap speech.

Containment efforts had positioned the pandemic “actually under control,” he mentioned, warning towards complacency.

Additional talks – with China, Japan and South Korea – will happen in a while Tuesday.

Malaysia urged for the @ASEAN Financial Ministers to fulfill urgently to formulate an ASEAN Financial Restoration Plan – not simply on the monetary features of the economic system; but in addition social welfare security nets, meals safety, and schooling for our mixed 600 million peoples within the area pic.twitter.com/Mx417HEI2L

— Hishammuddin Hussein (@HishammuddinH2O) April 14, 2020

04:50 GMT – Germany stories fourth day of slowing cases

Confirmed new cases proceed to gradual in Germany, the place the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has simply introduced 2,082 extra cases, bringing the entire to 125,098.

That is the fourth day of decline after 4 days of will increase in new cases.

An extra 170 folks died from the virus, RKI mentioned on Tuesday.

04:30 GMT – India’s PM Modi extends nationwide lockdown till Could 3

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has simply introduced the nation’s nationwide lockdown will likely be prolonged till Could Three to battle the coronavirus.

03:15 GMT – Persistence a advantage: Australia, New Zealand sticking with lockdowns

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has mentioned the nation stays “many weeks away” from lifting any restrictions regardless of the sharp slowdown in coronavirus cases.

“Patience has got to be our virtue here,” Morrison mentioned.

Australia confirmed 63 new infections on Sunday and Monday – the bottom two-day improve in a month – bringing its whole cases to six,366.

The plaza in entrance of the Sydney Opera Home has been left virtually abandoned amid a authorities lockdown in Australia that has helped gradual the unfold of the coronavirus. [Joel Carrett/EPA]

Cases in New Zealand are additionally falling, with solely eight new cases on Tuesday – the bottom in additional than three weeks.

“Our goal has to be go early and go hard, so that we get into a position where we can ease up restrictions with confidence,” New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, including that no motion could be taken for a minimum of one other week.

Each international locations have closed their borders to foreigners and imposed 14-day quarantines on returning residents.

New Zealand has enforced a strict stay-at-home lockdown whereas Australia imposed tight restrictions on motion, gatherings and public actions.

02:55 GMT – Philippines militaristic strategy to pandemic punishes poor

The Philippines has locked down its foremost island of Luzon, together with the sprawling capital, Manila to try to curb a coronavirus outbreak that’s now the most important in Southeast Asia.

However for the nation’s poor, the lockdown has left them with out meals or an revenue and susceptible to detention in the event that they enterprise out to seek out both. You may learn extra on this story by Ana Santos.

02:40 GMT – Southeast Asia urged to do extra for refugees, migrant staff

A bunch of Southeast Asian members of parliament is looking on regional governments to do extra to assist migrant staff and refugees who haven’t solely misplaced their jobs as a results of the coronavirus however are additionally at larger threat of publicity and sickness.

“Because of their living conditions, work situation or limited access to healthcare they are at high risk of both catching the virus and falling into extreme poverty,” mentioned Charles Santiago, a Malaysian MP and chair of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights. “The recent images of migrant workers rushing to get home have only highlighted how the measures taken by one country deeply affect another.”

Now we have reported on the state of affairs for the hundreds of individuals from Myanmar who dwell and work in Thailand, the strict quarantines of migrant employee dormitories in Singapore and the fears going through refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia, which isn’t a signatory to the UN Conference.

Singapore has put two employee dormitories underneath strict isolation amid a spike in cases amongst migrant staff employed for building, roadworks and different jobs that Singaporeans are unwilling to do [Edgar Su/Reuters]

02:30 GMT – South Korea stories 27 new cases of coronavirus

South Korea’s Korea Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention says it confirmed 27 new cases of the coronavirus, the 13th successive day with lower than 100 new cases.

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun throughout an anti-virus assembly on Tuesday referred to as officers to supply stronger assist for scientists’ efforts to develop vaccines and coverings for the virus, which he mentioned could be a boon for the nation’s biomedical business.

02:00 GMT – Johns Hopkins revises coronavirus cases decrease

Johns Hopkins College has revised downwards the variety of confirmed cases of coronavirus globally. It’s now 1.918 million. Earlier, it mentioned greater than two million folks world wide had been identified with the virus.

01:40 GMT – China approves early-stage human trials for 2 vaccines

China has authorised early-stage human checks for 2 experimental vaccines to fight the brand new coronavirus, state media outlet Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

The vaccines are being developed by a Beijing-based unit of Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech, and by the Wuhan Institute of Organic Merchandise, an affiliate of state-owned China Nationwide Pharmaceutical Group.

Excellent news! China authorised scientific trials for 2 forms of inactivated #vaccines for #COVID_19 on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/4nx41wiN20

— China Every day (@ChinaDaily) April 14, 2020

In March, China gave the inexperienced mild for an additional scientific trial for a coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by China’s Academy of Navy Medical Sciences and Hong Kong-listed biotech agency CanSino Bio.

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01:00 GMT – China reported 89 new coronavirus cases

China has confirmed 89 new cases on April 13, in contrast with 108 the day prior to this.

The Nationwide Well being Fee says 86 cases have been imported – lots of these cases are coming by the northeast province of Heilongjiang, which borders Russia.

The variety of whole confirmed cases in China because the starting of the outbreak now stands at 82,249 and the loss of life toll is 3,341, with no new reported deaths on April 13. All arrivals to China from abroad should undergo a 14-day centralised quarantine.

00:00 GMT – WHO to launch new recommendation on coronavirus

The World Well being Group (WHO) will launch its newest strategic recommendation on tackling the pandemic in a while Tuesday.

It is going to embrace steering for governments contemplating lifting restrictions imposed to curb the unfold of the virus.

In a media convention on Monday night, Director-Basic Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned six standards wanted to be thought of:

Transmission is managed.

Techniques are in place to detect, check, isolate and deal with each case and hint their contacts.

Dangers are minimised in care houses and different at-risk environments.

Preventive measures are in place in colleges, places of work and different locations folks must go.

Importation dangers will be managed.

Communities are absolutely educated and capable of take care of the “new norm”.

Whereas #COVID19 accelerates very quick, it decelerates rather more slowly. That is particularly regarding for international locations with giant poor populations, the place #StayAtHome orders & different restrictions utilized in some high-income international locations might not be sensible.

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) April 13, 2020

22:15 GMT (Monday) – Trump performs campaign-style video defending virus response

In his day by day coronavirus briefing, US President Donald Trump performed a campaign-style video defending his response to the pandemic amid criticism of the White Home’s dealing with of the crisis.

The video was put collectively by a White Home workforce.

Trump has denied seeing a January 30 memo by a senior US official warning of tens of hundreds of deaths and financial devastation from the brand new coronavirus. He has additionally claimed he didn’t learn about US intelligence warnings reportedly made as early as November about an an infection that had the potential to result in a “cataclysmic event”.

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence watch a multimedia presentation created by the White Home to defend the president’s response to the outbreak [Leah Millis/Reuters]

22:00 GMT (Monday) – Fauci says Trump listened to his coronavirus recommendation

High US well being professional, Dr Anthony Fauci, says Trump did hearken to his recommendation when he really helpful that mitigation efforts be taken to cease the unfold of the coronavirus.

Fauci made the feedback after saying in a separate interview that lives might have been saved if the nation had shut down sooner.

Trump retweeted a name to fireside Fauci after that interview, however the White Home mentioned on Monday Trump didn’t intend to sack him.

I am Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur.

You may learn all of the updates from yesterday (April 13) right here.

Pakistan loosens lockdown by opening choose industries, maintains restrictions on public gatherings

The building sector would start to reopen on Wednesday, mentioned Prime Minister Imran Khan at a press convention following a gathering of the nation’s Nationwide Coordination Committee on the Coronavirus. Different industries or companies that might be allowed to reopen embrace cement and fertiliser vegetation, mines, glass producers, veterinary companies, bookshops and stationary shops, dry cleaners and sure agriculture-related companies.

Provincial authorities will, nonetheless, be free to increase their restrictions on these industries in the event that they consider it needed, Khan mentioned . In current days, there have been variations between Khan’s federal authorities and the provincial authorities in Sindh province, dwelling to the nation’s largest metropolis, over how strict the lockdown needs to be.

Portuguese corporations endure huge blow from coronavirus outbreakYou can now obtain all free belongings in a single place. This consists of Watermark, Keyframe, Screener, XML, and Shotlist.LISBON, April 14 (DailyKhaleej) – Round 80% of Portuguese corporations nonetheless working or briefly shut as a result of coronavirus outbreak reported a pointy drop of their revenues, at instances exceeding 75%, as authorities tightened lockdowns, a survey confirmed on Tuesday. Round 78% of companies blamed the income free-fall on restrictions applied by Portugal’s Socialist authorities as a part of a state of emergency to include the unfold of the coronavirus. The emergency was initially declared on March 18 however is about to be prolonged till Could 1. The lodging and restaurant sector suffered the toughest blows, a survey launched by the Nationwide Institute of Statistics (INE) and the Financial institution of Portugal revealed, with companies within the business regularly reporting income declines of greater than 75% in the course of the second week of April.

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