— Jonathan Gray ?? (@jwyg) April 8, 2020
Coronavirus cases near 1.5 million worldwide
Latest: https://t.co/omdjnkwLsy pic.twitter.com/oOiayiIrNc
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 9, 2020
How to put #Covid19 deaths into context? @sxbegle & @sayhitohyacinth dive in. https://t.co/wM3LZSGr05
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) April 9, 2020
A new data-sharing network is just one way companies, academics and public-health officials are teaming up to stem the spread of #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/RpWnMov6Dr
— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) April 10, 2020
Lessons from New Zealand
Before recording a single death to coronavirus, New Zealand imposed one of the most stringent lockdowns in the world
2 weeks later, curve of infection appears flattened & it could even have eliminated the virus from the countryhttps://t.co/lOWRrlN67y
— Antonello Guerrera (@antoguerrera) April 10, 2020
Australia to deploy helicopters, set up police checkpoints and hand out hefty fines in the country's Easter travel crackdown against the coronavirus https://t.co/gcwXMvNi5W via @LidKelly pic.twitter.com/psl1fimv47
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 10, 2020
Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan — once heralded for early successes in battling the pandemic — are now confronting a new wave of coronavirus cases https://t.co/Sfov7LRmcY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 10, 2020
Cities in China like Beijing are requiring #coronavirus test results from people before they leave Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus.@sharonchenhm takes us through the #COVIDー19 testing process pic.twitter.com/2nKKwBOK7n
— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) April 10, 2020
The city of Daegu, which had been the epicenter of South Korea’s coronavirus outbreak, reported zero new cases for the first time in weeks on Friday, as the national numbers of new cases continues to decline. https://t.co/8WYQO5X2lh
— CNN International (@cnni) April 10, 2020
Vietnam is challenging China’s dominance of coronavirus diplomacy with the donation of medical supplies to Europe and Southeast Asia and even winning plaudits from U.S. President Donald Trump for a shipment of protective suits https://t.co/jFMX2lTKXg via @pearswick pic.twitter.com/r077XtkK43
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 10, 2020
Coronavirus: Malaysia extends movement curbs by another two weeks to April 28 https://t.co/76iKHXjt4R
— The Straits Times (@STcom) April 10, 2020
Mosques usually filled for Friday prayers and streets normally clogged with cars and motorcycles are empty as authorities in Indonesia’s capital enforced stricter measures to halt the coronavirus’ spread after deaths spiked in the past week. https://t.co/3pCB9qqv7R
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 10, 2020
Indonesian doctor's death exposes heartbreaking risks of coronavirus battle https://t.co/1zuwEPQUE5 pic.twitter.com/tFpOG0IjV8
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 10, 2020
Coronavirus: Should the world worry about Singapore's virus surge? https://t.co/hmHssYZdVS
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 10, 2020
Tokyo seeks shop shutdowns, Kyoto warns tourists away as coronavirus threatens Japan economy https://t.co/8JVsSwUnh2 pic.twitter.com/NaJbyazjA0
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 10, 2020
Philippines records 18 more coronavirus deaths, 119 new cases https://t.co/DNrFEqL5Bs pic.twitter.com/dClGelHtUY
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 10, 2020
More than 70 nurses in the Indian city of Mumbai have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 250 nurses have been quarantined, according to a senior official from the United Nurses Association of Maharashtra state. https://t.co/H9Eycdguo5
— CNN International (@cnni) April 10, 2020
Bangladesh locks down southern district home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, to prevent coronavirus spread https://t.co/zeJMTzX5Al
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 9, 2020
Chinese city on Russian border enters lockdown even as rest of China cautiously opens up https://t.co/B5exgOeG1Y
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 9, 2020
Russians in #coronavirus lockdown “are sitting at home drinking,” says one Russian paper today & links this to “a big upsurge in violent crime.” Another reports “sales of hard liquor are up 47%.” Plus: "Time for love: sharp rise in Viagra sales in Russia." #ReadingRussia pic.twitter.com/6L4vhk9Ncs
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) April 10, 2020
(Erickson mutters in horror — But, surely not white people…)
Sweden adopted an unorthodox approach and avoided lockdowns https://t.co/74RBazCS9t
— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) April 9, 2020
The government is to ask millions of university students and furloughed workers to pick fruit and veg amid the coronavirus crisis in a national “Pick for Britain” campaign next week. https://t.co/JM6lf2G3uL
— Jess Brammar (@jessbrammar) April 10, 2020
What does life look like after the #coronavirus lockdown?
Austria and Denmark are the first European countries to plan gradual reopenings. @ButtlerM and @wablm explain how it will work pic.twitter.com/bzSCC0BhJf
— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) April 10, 2020
Tunisia's police are testing a locally-built robot to ensure residents abide by the rules set out to curb the spread of #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/fIaDxbutlH
— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) April 10, 2020
As Brazil suffers it's highest death toll from coronavirus in a 24 hour period to date, President Bolsonaro rants about chloroquine. @telesurenglish pic.twitter.com/mnMiUQ3K2E
— BrianMier (@BrianMteleSUR) April 9, 2020
Canada lost a record one million jobs in March, as country locked down to tackle coronavirus https://t.co/jcwskiLyKm
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 9, 2020
Powerful @richardhorton1 #COVID19 op-ed:
"The global resp to #SARSCoV2 is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. The signals were clear. That the warning signs went unheeded is unsurprising. Catastrophes reveal the weakness of human memory."https://t.co/Ptxz8dw2oj— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 9, 2020
Wow
"Just three months ago, we expected positive per capita income growth in over 160 of our member countries in 2020. Today…we now project that over 170 countries will experience negative per capita income growth this year."https://t.co/dwft1WndY6
— Ali Wyne (@Ali_Wyne) April 10, 2020
.@HelenBranswell has covered the WHO for many years. Here's her authoritative fact check of the Trump/WHO tensions.https://t.co/spYsmsQVLJ via @statnews #coronavirus
— Rick Berke (@rickberke) April 8, 2020
Amir Khalid
Well of course the lockdown here was going to be extended. It’s quite obviously too soon to ease it; indeed, given the need to avoid triggering another wave of infections I expect it to last at least through Ramadhan and quite likely into Haj season.
Malaysia’s worldometer numbers for today. 118 new cases, running total 4,346; three deaths, running total 70. The DG of Health seems quite confident that national measures have been effective so far. For three days now there have been more recovered Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital than new diagnoses. That seems a positive sign.
OzarkHillbilly
Coronavirus stars: BBC sports commentator Andrew Cotter’s dogs Olive and Mabel go viral
If you haven’t watched them yet, do so now.
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, that was awesome!
Sloane Ranger
Pick for Britain. Government to ask students and furloughed workers to pick harvest because no seasonal workers available.
Will these volunteers be paid or is it going to be sold as a patriotic duty? If paid, will it be at the rate foreign seasonal workers got or a rate British people would expect for such hard, back breaking work?
Will they be given PPE?
Either way, fresh produce is going to be more expensive.
Welcome to this foretaste of post Brexit Britain.
mrmoshpotato
@Sloane Ranger: It was necessary to keep the island from sinking, but one fat Polish plumber too many and…
(That was Russell Howard’s mocking take on Brexit if I recall.)
YY_Sima Qian
The reason for lock down of Suifenhe, as I alluded to in previous days: 2497 Chinese nationals have crossed from Russia into China at the border crossing from 3/21 to 4/9, all having flown from Moscow to Vladivostok. Over that same span, there have been 151 confirmed cases and 148 asymptomatic cases among them. That is a 12% infection rate! That is an indication of the extent of the epidemic in Russia, particularly the European part.
The article on recent developments in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. All three had seen a stream of importations from Wuhan in late Jan., an indirect indication of the rapidly escalating epidemic there. The stream shut off from early Feb., with China shutting down Wuhan, then Hubei Province, then much of the rest of China. All three places were proactive and fairly rigorous in restricting travel from the then epicenter, screening, and contact tracing. However, all three were late in recognizing the danger from new outbreaks in Europe and the US (and later, the Middle East and Latin America), and did not screen or restrict travelers/returnees as early as they did with Mainland China.
Taiwan is different from Singapore and Hong Kong, in that the spike in importation has not led to a corresponding spike in domestic cases, even though mandatory self-quarantine of visitors/returnees was not implemented until later, and there have been several instances of people violating quarantine to go socializing in crowded spaces. Some people in Taiwan (admittedly sympathetic to the opposition and suspicious of the ruling party) have been skeptical of the official case count. How could there not have been a single significant cluster, when social distancing has been limited until recently, and the percentage of domestic cases that cannot traced to the source of transmission has been uncomfortably high. Like Japan, and unlike South Korea, Taiwan has been very restrictive in testing, and the testing rate is low. On the other hand, there is no sign of stressed hospitals or upsurge of pneumonia patients, which would indicate an uncontrolled outbreak. For now, there is little reason to doubt the official numbers (at least inaccuracies are probably not due to intentional deception), but the situation bears watching.
hells littlest angel
the graph/Great Wave of Kanagawa tweet gave me a good long bellylaugh. Thanks!
RoonieRoo
I really wonder is there is a possible future where countries that get the virus well controlled ban the entrance of people from countries that were lax, do not have testing and not as good control. In other words, I find a dark amusement in a world where Americans are banned from flying in to other countries, especially if the nightmare of re-electing the orange shitgibbon comes to pass.
Another Scott
@hells littlest angel: Interesting. That juxtaposition gave me a feeling of dread.
Cheers,
Scott.
glc
@Another Scott: I liked Frank Donnarumma’s version in the replies.