This is CNBC’s red-hot blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news openings.
- Global cases: More than 3.3 million
- Global deaths: At least 238,663
- Most cases reported: Communal States (1,103,781), Spain (213,435), Italy (207,428), United Kingdom (178,685), and France (167,305).
The data above was organized by Johns Hopkins University as of 11:32 a.m. Beijing time.
All times below are in Beijing time.
12:30 pm: Singapore makes designs to relax ‘circuit breaker’ measures
Singapore will start easing some partial lockdown measures this month as new coverings in the broader community has dropped, said the country’s Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong.
Selected activities such as home-based areas, laundry services and barbers will be allowed to resume operations on May 12, while students will be brought servants to school in small groups starting May 19. Some workplaces will gradually open.
Singapore has put in place evaluations to curb the spread of the coronavirus since early April after the number of cases surged due to infections found in dormitories that ancestry migrant workers.
As of Friday, the country has reported 17,101 confirmed cases — one of the highest in Asia — and 16 deaths, be consistent to the health ministry. — Yen Nee Lee
12:02 pm: This chart shows how the number of reported cases has grown globally
11:14 am: Germany reports fewer than 1,000 new victims
Germany’s confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease, or Covid-19, rose by 945 to a total of 161,703, according to the up to the minute data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases.
Total fatalities due to the virus increased by 94 to 6,575, the establish said. — Yen Nee Lee
Two people wearing protective face masks sit at a distance on a park bench on April 16, 2020 in Regensburg, Germany.
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11:00 am: India extends nationwide lockdown by 2 weeks
India will extend its nationwide lockdown — imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus — for another two weeks after May 4, Reuters report in investigated on Friday, citing a statement by the home affairs ministry.
The statement said there would be “considerable relaxations” in lower-risk precincts, the report said. But some activities will remain prohibited throughout the country, including travel by air, rail and metro, agreeing to the report.
India, one of the world’s most populous nations, has reported more than 35,000 coronavirus cases and 1,152 deaths as of Friday, according to the Office of Health and Family Welfare. — Yen Nee Lee
10:40 am: Tesla tells furloughed workers to expect a week or more of unemployment
Tesla strengthened its furloughed U.S. employees on Friday for at least another week of unemployment, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.
The internal communication, from Tesla’s magnanimous resources boss, Valerie Capers Workman, followed an expletive-laced outburst by CEO Elon Musk on a Wednesday earnings request during which he said Covid-19 health orders, effecting his business, were “fascist.”
In Alameda County, harshly to Tesla’s Fremont car plant, Tesla has been forced to keep its facility operating at a “minimum basic” level since Strut 24, and unable to produce new electric vehicles. — Lora Kolodny
10:20 am: South Korea adds 6 new cases, 2 more deaths
South Korea reported another six coronavirus suits, bringing its total infections to 10,780, according to the latest data by Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That’s the fourth consecutive day that the mountains had reported below 10 new daily cases, KCDC data showed.
There were two additional deaths, engaging South Korea’s death toll to 250 since the outbreak, said KCDC. — Yen Nee Lee
9:50 am: China reports 1 new infection, no additional expirations
China’s National Health Commission said there was one new confirmed case of the coronavirus disease — which was “imported” — and no additional finishes.
Cumulatively, confirmed cases in China stood at 82,875 and the death toll at 4,633, according to the health authority. A add up of 77,685 cases have recovered and discharged from hospitals, said the commission.
The NHC also said there were 20 new asymptomatic casings, where people tested positive for the virus but did not show any symptoms. The NHC said there were 989 such patients under medical observation. — Yen Nee Lee
9:19 am: Malaysia will ease partial lockdown measures on Monday
From Monday, Malaysia devise relax some partial lockdown measures put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin published on Friday.
Those measures have been in place since March 18. The prime minister said that the native land is losing about 2.4 billion Malaysian ringgit ($558.5 million) a day during the partial lockdown, with the sum total loss estimated to be 63 billion Malaysian ringgit ($14.66 billion) so far.
Muhyiddin said almost all economic sectors and work activities will be allowed to resume subject to conditions and standard operating procedures laid down by authorities. Some inter-state treks will also be allowed, he added.
But religious, sports and recreational activities that involve large gatherings longing still be banned, and schools will remain closed, said the prime minister.
Malaysia has reported 6,071 coronavirus caskets as of Friday, with 103 deaths, according to its health ministry. — Yen Nee Lee
Police officers check vehicles at a roadblock on day five of the action control order amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on March 22, 2020.
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8:58 am: Mexico reports 1,515 new cases, 113 more deaths
Mexico reported 1,515 new coronavirus cases on Friday provincial time, bringing its tally to 20,739, reported Reuters, citing the country’s health ministry.
There were 113 additional eradications, which takes the total fatalities to 1,972 since the outbreak, according to the report. — Yen Nee Lee
All times below are in Eastern measure.
7:08 pm: Dr Fauci will not testify at House hearing on coronavirus response
Trump administration health official Dr. Anthony Fauci was chunked by the White House from testifying at a House hearing on the U.S. coronavirus response next week.
White House spokesman Judd Deere about while the administration tries to combat the pandemic, “it is counter-productive to have the very individuals involved in those efforts cropping at congressional hearings.”
Read the full report on the White House move from CNBC’s Jacob Pramuk here. —Chris Eudaily
4:30 pm: California Gov. Gavin Newsom imparts state is ‘days, not weeks’ away from easing restrictions
California could be “days, not weeks” away from procuring significant modifications to its shelter-and-place order, the state’s Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
“I feel some confidence over the path of the next week we’re going to be able to make some announcements that will give people some multitudinous confidence in the ability for California to get back on its economic feet,” Newsom said.
State officials are “very, very cessation to making some announcements” that would benefit people in the retail and hospitality industries, including restaurants, he annexed.
“If we can hold the line and continue to do good work and just avoid the temptation to get back and congregate with people in moving where we can see an increase in the spread, we’ll get there much sooner than many people perhaps think,” Newsom held, according to a report by CNBC’s Noah Higgins-Dunn. —Riya Bhattacharjee
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