Britons told to stay at home while Trump goes against tide, saying economy will reopen in weeks, not months
Around one in five people around the globe are under lockdown, ordered to stay home as the world enters a critical week in responding to the accelerating coronavirus pandemic.
As of Tuesday there have been at least 378,679 confirmed cases of people with the virus across the world. More than 16,500 people have died while almost 101,000 have recovered.
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Beijing tightened its quarantine restrictions as it reported 78 new cases (all but four were imported, authorities said) and seven deaths, although some questioned China’s claim of so few domestic infections.
More state borders closed in Australia, with Queensland adding to restrictions put in place by Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania. The country has reported eight deaths.
Myanmar reported its first confirmed cases of coronavirus in two men who had recently travelled to the United States and the United Kingdom.
South Korea maintained its downward trend in reported new cases, with 67 people confirmed to have been infected with the virus on Monday. Two people died.
The Philippines reached more than 500 reported cases.
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, appealed for an immediate global ceasefire, calling for an end to all armed conflicts so that the world could instead focus on fighting Covid-19.
Amid growing speculation the Tokyo Games might be cancelled or postponed, the Japanese Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto told reporters the world needed to put an end to the coronavirus before they could be held in their “complete form”.
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