Coronavirus live update: Vietnam goes three straight days without new infection
Coronavirus today update April 19 sees Japan medical facilities are on the verge of collapsion with a surging addition of COVID-19 patients. Meanwhile in Vietnam, the Health Ministry confirmed no new infection for three consecutive days, keeping total count at 268.
As of April 18, the US is still the No.1 country worldwide with the highest number of infections, 710,272 cases – nearly four times higher than Spain, the second hardest-hit country. The addition of new infections in the country has been surging for days, with some 30,000 cases.
Meanwhile, its death tolls stand at 37,175.
New York is the No.1 state with the highest number of infections, over 223,699 cases in total, which has surpassed Spain, the second worst-hit country in the world and 15,406deaths. New Jersey is the second state to be affected most from the virus, followed by Connecticut, Louisiana, Michigan, Massachusetts.
Trump tweets support for anti-lockdown protests
After saying governors would decide when to reopen, Trump urges supporters to 'LIBERATE' some states led by Democrats, Al Jazeera reported.
In a provocative series of tweets on Friday, United States President Donald Trump appeared to support protest movements popping up around the country calling for an immediate end to the lockdowns imposed on Americans in an order to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump began his tirade with a call to "LIBERATE MINNESOTA". He quickly followed with two more missives calling for similar action in Michigan and Virginia. All three states are currently headed by Democratic governors, and Michigan is considered crucial to the president's re-election bid in the November general election.
The tweets - which were posted just moments after a report on Fox News Channel about the protests - marked a reversal from Trump's tone on Thursday, when he said he would defer to state governors about when and how quickly to remove the quarantine orders. When asked about the protests on Thursday, Trump said he sided with the governors.
Responding to Trump's tweets, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat, accused the president of encouraging "illegal and dangerous acts".
31,927 infections, 1,310 fatalities reported. The country sees 10,543 have recovered, meanwhile, 20,074 are still active, 557 in critical condition.
Ontario and Quebec reported the most new cases of the novel coronavirus in Canada, with Ontario seeing its largest single-day increase since the outbreak began.
Spain: death toll surpasses 20,000
The number of people who have died after contracting COVID-19 rose by 565 on Saturday to reach 20,043. This marked a smaller daily increase than on Friday, when the government said 585 more people had died, according to Independent.
More than 191,700 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the country to date, according to Saturday’s figures. The number of confirmed infections is up from 188,068.
The France-Vietnam Medical Federation (Fédération Santé France Vietnam - FSFV) has become a bright spot in the movement of solidarity and friendship between the two nations, and a bridge connecting French, Vietnamese and French-Vietnamese doctors, said its President Dr. Dao Thu Ha.
Ten Vietnamese universities have secured spots in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025, recently released by the UK-based education organization Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
The diplomatic situation among the countries located in the Indo-Pacific Ocean and the shifting balances between them affect the global trade map with a direct impact on the availability of products and their prices when they reach our hands. It is something much more tangible and complex than the butterfly effect because what is happening right now at this point on Earth concerns all of us much more than we can understand at first glance, as this area is the cradle of the world’s trade routes.
France has offered advanced pumpjet propulsion technology for India's Project 66 and Project 77 submarines, enhancing stealth, maneuverability, and operational effectiveness, strengthening India's underwater capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region
India-China needs to move from disengagement to de-escalation to further build trust and confidence, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told Chinese Defence Minister, Admiral Dong Jun in Laos on Wednesday.
India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant highlighted the 2023 New Delhi declaration, describing it as "very ambitious" and "progressive" in the run-up to the G20 Summit in Brazil.
Union Minister for Power and Housing and Urban Affairs, Manohar Lal Khattar, jointly inaugurated the first trilateral power flow transaction from Nepal to Bangladesh through a virtual event hosted by Nepal's Ministry of Energy, Water Resources, and Irrigation on Friday.
Falling in love with Vietnamese food after several trips to the S-shaped country, Sahil Sambhi established a restaurant that serves Vietnamese cuisine in his homeland, India.
At the recent international conference, named "Cooperation for peaceful and developed borders, seas and islands," held in Hanoi, Erik Franckx, Honorary Professor at prestigious universities in Belgium, former President of the Belgian Society of International Law, talked about practical experiences on Belgian land border issues and drew lessons in handling complex border issues.