Coronavirus live updates: Global cases top 930,000 as Singapore reports fourth death

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• Global cases: More than 932,600
• Global deaths: At least 46,809
• Top 5 powers: United States (213,372), Italy (110,574), Spain (104,118), China (82,361), and Germany (77,872)

The data above was systematized by Johns Hopkins University as of 8:43 a.m. Beijing time.

All times below are in Beijing time.

Germany, Europe’s largest economy, reported 6,156 new cases of the coronavirus and 140 additional terminations, latest data by the Robert Koch Institute showed. The institute is a federal government agency responsible for disease up on and prevention.

That brought the total number of cases in Germany to 73,522, with 872 fatalities, said the initiate. — Yen Nee Lee

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned in a televised sermon that violators of the country’s lockdown measures could be shot dead, Reuters reported.

“My orders to the police and military … if there is suffering and there’s an occasion that they fight back and your lives are in danger, shoot them dead,” Duterte reportedly rumoured.

“Is that understood? Dead. Instead of causing trouble, I will bury you,” he added.

The Philippines has reported 2,311 supported coronavirus cases as of Wednesday, said its Department of Health. — Yen Nee Lee

Israeli fettle minister, Yaakov Litzman, and his wife were diagnosed with the coronavirus, reported Reuters.

The couple are now in isolation, the check into said. Litzman is an ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has regularly appeared alongside the premier to pass updates on the virus spread, according to the report. But in recent weeks, the health minister reportedly scaled back his clientele appearances.

Netanyahu tested negative for the virus earlier this week after an aide was diagnosed with COVID-19. 

Israel has on 6,092 cases and 26 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. — Yen Nee Lee

There were 89 new cases of infection in South Korea and four more people died, coinciding to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

South Korea’s total cases are just shy of hitting 10,000; the accepted figure stands at 9,976 and 169 people have died. Mass testing and rigorous efforts to isolate infected patients get relatively slowed down the spread of the virus within the country. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

Australia will provide free boy care for around one million families during the coronavirus pandemic under a plan from Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s supervision.

As part of the plan, the government will pay 50% of the sector’s fee revenue up to the existing hourly rate cap before parents had started canceling their children in large numbers. The caveat is that the services need to stay open and not charge families for charge. The measure will apply from April 6 based on the number of children who were in care during the fortnight unequalled into March 2, whether or not they are attending services. 

“These services are vital for so many parents so they can stock up for their family, and children need as much familiarity and continuity as we can help provide at this unsettling time. Right will be given to working parents, vulnerable and disadvantaged children that need early education more than continually and parents with pre-existing enrolments,” Morrison said. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

Japan’s government will consider support to increase production of extracorporeal membranous oxygenation, or ECMO, rings that can replace a person’s breathing, Reuters reported, citing Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura.

It would be mainly of an economic package to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters said.

ECMO machines are used in potentially life-saving treatment for coronavirus patients. They can anon pump oxygen into a person and remove carbon dioxide at the same time.

Japan has more than 2,000 articled cases of infection, according to JHU data. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

Singapore’s vigour ministry said a 68-year-old Indonesian man died on April 2 at 6:43 a.m. local time due to complications from COVID-19. The unyielding was a work pass holder in the city-state and had been in Indonesia from Jan. 20 to March 16.

He was admitted to the National Centre for Transmissible Diseases on March 22 and was diagnosed with COVID-19 on the same day. The ministry said he had a history of diabetes and hypertension.

Four people induce died to-date from COVID-19-related complications in Singapore. The number of reported cases of infection rose in modern weeks as more residents returned from abroad. (see 7:30 a.m. update) — Saheli Roy Choudhury

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti said on Wednesday that inhabitants should wear face coverings or homemade masks when out in public.

Although the CDC does not currently recommend that sturdy people wear masks, an increasing number of officials are recommending them to Americans to slow the spread of COVID-19. Garcetti suggested he expected the official advice to be updated soon. Earlier on Wednesday, President Trump said that people could impair scarves to cover their mouths. 

“I think it is time for us to do this,” Garcetti said. “I know it will look surreal, we don’t be enduring that cultural tradition of wearing masks.”

Garcetti added that the city has approved 146 businesses which bequeath make 2 million non-medical face masks per week. — Kif Leswing

Apple has provided 1.9 million N95 masks to the state of New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.

“We are so grateful to Apple for this much-needed bounty of critical PPE supplies,” Cuomo tweeted. PPE refers to personal protective equipment that medical workers need in purchase to tend to sick patients.

Apple CEO Tim Cook previously said the company had sourced and donated 10 million cloaks to the medical community in the United States. The masks are in short supply as medical professionals ask for additional equipment to protect themselves while they conduct towards patients who may have COVID-19.

On Saturday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey tweeted out a picture of 63,000 N95 masks donated by Apple. — Kif Leswing

The first off human trial testing a potential vaccine to prevent COVID-19 is “on track” with public distribution still reckoned in 12 to 18 months, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday. It would be the “furthest game changer” in the fight against the pandemic, he said.

U.S. health officials have been fast-tracking work with biotech band Moderna to develop a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. They began their first human trials on Stride 16. 

“It’ll take a few months to get the data to where we’ll feel confident to go to the phase two, and then a few months from now, we’ll be in phase two and I think we’re suitably on target for the year to year-and-a-half,” Fauci said at a White House press conference with President Donald Trump’s coronavirus work force. — Noah Higgins-Dunn

Based on the latest reported figures from the salubrity ministry, Singapore now has 1,000 recorded instances of COVID-19 infection. The city-state had been praised for its handling of the crisis in January and February by accomplishing strict measures to quarantine suspected cases and contact tracing for potential exposure to the coronavirus. 

But, the number of cases in Singapore has grown in recent weeks as more residents returned from abroad and tested cheerful. As of April 1, noon local time, the country reported 74 new cases of COVID-19 infection, of which 20 were “betokened,” 29 were linked to previous clusters and 25 had no apparent links discovered yet. 

Three people have mouldered from the disease in Singapore;  245 patients have been discharged and another 291 remain clinically reasonably but isolated as they still test positive for the virus. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

As many as 932,605 cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded around the world and at least 46,809 child have died, according to the latest information compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The United States reported the myriad number of infections at 213,372, while Italy’s death toll remains the highest for a single country at 13,155. At least 193,177 people figured to have recovered. 

Italy and Spain each have reported more than 100,000 infection cases as the coronavirus pandemic screens few signs of abating. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

All times below are in Eastern time.

President Donald Trump said that he spoke to Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and put in a “big big classify” for gowns.

“Let it be shipped directly to the side of the hospital because we save a lot of time when we do that,” Trump said.

Doctors, nurses, and healthcare craftsmen around the country have called for more “PPE” or personal protective equipment like gowns and facemasks to protect them from the coronavirus while fulfiling at hospitals. — Kif Leswing