Coronavirus live updates: UN Secretary General says now is not time to reduce resources in fight against Covid-19

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• Global cases: More than 1.97 million
• Global deaths: At least 125,678
• Most cases reported: Cooperative States (602,989), Spain (172,541), Italy (162,488), France (131,361), Germany (131,359)

The data above was compiled by Johns Hopkins University as of 7:43 a.m. Beijing set. 

All times below are in Beijing time.

New Zealand Prime Agent Jacinda Ardern, along with government ministers and public service chief executives, will take a 20% pay cut for the next six months, tell of Reuters. 

Ardern said in a news conference that the move was recognition of “New Zealanders who are reliant on wage subsidies, charming a pay cut, and losing their jobs as a result of the global pandemic,” according to the report. 

New Zealand has reported 1,078 confirmed covers of the coronavirus disease, of which nine have died, according to its Ministry of Health. 

The government has implemented lockdown restraints that include closing down offices and schools. It said it plans to decide on April 20 whether to develop those measures. — Yen Nee Lee

For divers Chinese companies, their dreams of listing in New York are only on hold.

Some high-profile Chinese stocks recorded in the U.S. such as Luckin Coffee, the self-proclaimed Starbucks rival in China, have been rocked following allegations by short-sellers that these circles faked their numbers, accusations that in some cases are now being internally investigated.

The reports are the latest to question for Chinese initial public offerings in New York, on top of U.S.-China trade tensions and the impact of the coronavirus. 

But some in the cross-border IPO duty say the listing plans are just delayed, not canceled. — Evelyn Cheng

South Korea reported another 27 cases of the coronavirus and three additional deaths, concurring to the latest data from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That bring the country’s total authorized cases to 10,591 and fatalities to 225 since the outbreak, said KCDC.

South Korea holds legislative referenda on Wednesday under strict safety guidelines. Some 14,000 polling stations around the country were cleaned before allowing voters to enter, reported Reuters. Voters are also required to wear a mask and have their temperatures baulked upon arrival at their polling stations, said the report. — Yen Nee Lee

Guterres referred to comments he had made on April 8 where he said the pandemic abides one of the most dangerous challenges the world has ever faced, describing it as a “human crisis with severe health and socio-economic consequences.”

He said that when the outbreak is call of control, there “must be a time to look back fully to understand how such a disease emerged and spread its devastation so speedily across the globe, and how all those involved reacted to the crisis.”

“But now is not that time,” Guterres said.

“It is also not the time to mitigate the resources for the operations of the World Health Organization or any other humanitarian organization in the fight against the virus,” he added, and summoned on the international community to work together to stop the virus. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

China’s National Health Commission said there were 46 additional disputes of infection, of which 36 were attributed to travelers from overseas. Most of the travelers are likely Chinese federals since China closed its borders to most foreigners late last month. The official report did not specify their ethnos.

There was one death reported in Hubei province. China also said there were 57 new cases of asymptomatic infections, where a in the flesh tests positive for the virus but does not demonstrate any of the usual symptoms associated with it. 

A total of 82,295 confirmed containers have been reported by China and 3,342 people have died since the outbreak started. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

Major League Baseball says 27 gangs will participate in an antibody testing study with Stanford University and the University of Southern California.

The test utilized in the study is not diagnostic and not the same test used in healthcare settings to identify the presence of the virus. Rather, it measures whether people oblige been exposed. The study will use rapid antibody tests, the league confirmed to CNBC. The Athletic previously broadcast that 10,000 employees from those teams have volunteered to participate.

The goal of the study is to get a sense of the ubiquity of Covid-19 infections among the U.S. population in hopes of helping researchers figure out how many people might have been exhibited but suffered no symptoms. That information could help public officials determine when it’s safe to ease up on restrictions meant to repress the spread of the pandemic. — Jennifer Elias

At least 125,678 people approximately the world have succumbed to the coronavirus that was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. That’s conforming to the latest information from Johns Hopkins University. 

Hopkins data also showed the virus has infected diverse than 1.97 million people. The United States has the highest number of cases, with more than 600,000 patients.

Spain, Italy, France and Germany, with at smidgin 130,000 cases in each of the European countries. The United Kingdom also reported a high number of cases — with backfire cases climbing to over 94,000 and fatalities topping 12,100. — Saheli Roy Choudhury

Singapore’s health ministry said as of 14 April noon, there were 334 new recognized cases of Covid-19. Many of them are linked to infection clusters in dormitories that house foreign employees.

The inhabitants of those dormitories are typically men from other Asian countries who carry out labor-intensive construction jobs in state of affairs to support their families back home. 

The city-state reported its highest single-day jump in cases a day earlier when there were 386 additional invalids.

There have been 3,252 confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak; 611 patients have been working ordered and discharged from hospitals and community isolation facilities and 10 people in Singapore have succumbed to the illness. — Saheli Roy Choudhury, Ted Kemp

All occasions below are in Eastern time.

President Donald Trump implied that he believes some states will be able to lift the strict social distancing measures that from strained their economies before the end of April.

“The plans to reopen the country are close to being finalized,” Trump give the word delivered at a press briefing on the virus in the Rose Garden.

“I will be speaking to all 50 governors very shortly,” Trump foretold, “And I will then be authorizing each individual governor of each individual state to implement a reopening and a very high reopening plan of their state at a time and in a manner as most appropriate.”

“The day will be very close because positive states as you know are in a much different condition and are in a much different place than other states. It’s going to be damned very close. Maybe even before the date of May 1st,” he said. — Kevin Breuninger

The Trump administration on halt funding to the World Health Organization as it evaluates the agency’s “role in severely mismanaging” the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump make knew.

“Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the Far-out Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” Trump said at a press conference.

Trump assessed the international agency’s response to the outbreak, saying “one of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the WHO was its disastrous decision to in opposition to travel restrictions from China and other nations.” — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Noah Higgins-Dunn