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Coronavirus today update: the US

A global pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now claimed the lives of more than 126,800 people around the world.

2,005,214 people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some governments are hiding the scope of their nations' outbreaks.

Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the U.S. has become the worst-affected nation, with more than 614,000 diagnosed cases and at least 26,064 deaths.

Coronavirus today updates: With 203,020 cases, the number of infections in New York state alone is higher than in any single country outside the U.S.

The state also has 10,842 deaths in total, according to data from Washington Post.

The second hardest-state in the country is New Jersey, with 68,824 infections and 2,805 deaths in total.

Louisiana, the third state with largest infection cases has 1,013 deaths, 21,518 infected patients have been reported.

Connecticut has a total of 13,989 cases, and 671 deaths.

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UN secretary general António Guterres said in a statement that now “is not the time to reduce the resources for the operations of the World Health Organization or any other humanitarian organization in the fight against the virus”, according to The Guardian.

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Coronavirus today updates: The US is "nearing the peak right now," according to the DCD director. Confirmed infections topped 613,886, including more than 26,047 deaths.

The country is still the No.1 country in the world to be hit by nCoV. Its total infections is three times higher than Spain’s, the second hardest-hit country, and only around 40,000 cases lower than North America’s and some 320,000 cases lower than all European countries’ total.

Hot spots have erupted in a few places with large outbreaks, none direr than in New York, where at least 195,749 cases have been reported and at least 10,058 have died since March 14. New Jersy comes in second, followed by Michigan and Louisiana.

The UK: sees a surge in new infections within 24 hours (over 5,250 new cases) and 778 more patients succumbed to the disease.

Such development makes the UK become the world’s sixth-highest infected country, with 93,873 infections and 12,107 deaths reports.

A third of NHS staff and key workers reported positive for nCoV, new British government data shows.

According to figures released Monday, 16,888 people who fall into the category of "key workers and their households," and who have shown symptoms or live with symptomatic people, have been tested. So far, 5,733 -- or 34 percent -- were confirmed to have the virus, CNN reported.

The government has been under intense pressure to ramp up testing for NHS workers and their families and to improve their access to appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).

Monday was supposed to be the day when Britain might have started to lift its lockdown, but with no sign yet that the epidemic there is abating, the government is expected to leave the restrictions in place until well into next month.

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The UK is expected to extend lockdown into May as its tally of confirmed cases surpasses China’s

When Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed the lockdown on March 23, he said the government would review it on April 13. But officials have signaled it is too soon to ease the measures.

The latest death figure was smaller than those reported late last week, but numbers are typically lower on the weekend because of a lag in reporting.

The number of known infections and fatalities is rising faster in Britain than anywhere else in Europe, putting it on track to reach the death totals in Italy and Spain.

Jeremy Farrar, a leading British medical researcher who is director of the Wellcome Trust, told the BBC on Sunday that Britain is “likely to be one of the worst, if not the worst, affected countries in Europe.”

Spain: reports nearly 2,500 new infections and 300 new deaths. Around 30% of patients have recovered, meanwhile of the remaining 86,981 active cases, over 7,370 patients are in critical condition.

Italy: the word third-biggest epicenter has nearly 160,000 cases on April 15. 20,465 have been reported. Even its total infection is only one-third of the US’s, its death tolls is only some 3,000 cases smaller.

Russia: recorded an additional 2,800 new cases of nCoV, the highest daily increase since the outbreak, bringing the country’s total cases to more than 21,000.

The number of infections and deaths increased to 21,102 and 170 respectively. Nearly 1,700 people have recovered.

Of the new infections, nearly 1,500 cases have been reported in Moscow, the most heavily affected and considered the country’s epicenter.

Moscow’s health system, in particular, was under growing strain, and state television reported hours-long lines of ambulances waiting to admit suspected coronavirus patients into hospitals. The authorities tightened their lockdown on the city of 13 million people, directing residents to apply online for permission to leave their homes.

Moscow is the hardest-hit region in Russia (Photo: Baomoi)

Iran: is the only country has four-figure new infections. With 1,574 new cases, Iran has 74,877 infections in total, 4,683 deaths, making it the second hardest-hit in Asia, and come up 8^th on global scale.

Coronavirus updates: Asia's total cases approach 82,300, more than 3,340 deaths reported.

Saudi Arabia has 435 new cases, followed by Singapore (334), Pakistan (341), Israel (282), the Philippines (291).

China, India, Korea, Japan reports meager increase, which are 89, 88, 27, 27 respectively.

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Coronavirus today updates: ASEAN countries has nearly 1,000 deaths in total

ASEAN countries report a total of 21,365 nCoV patients, an increase of 1,364 cases within 24 hours. 931 lives have been claimed.

On April 15, the Philippines have overtaken Malaysia’s No.1 place as the country with the highest total infections. With 291 new cases today, the Philippines’ total cases stand at 5,223 meanwhile Malaysia comes second in the list with 4,987 cases. Indonesia’s infections come pretty close with only over 100 cases fewer than Malaysia. Thailand reports 2,613, Singapore reports 2,918.

Vietnam, Brunei, and Campuchia are the three ASEAN countries with three-figures cases, which are 266, 136, 122 respectively.

Timor-Leste has the lowest infection number of the region, with 4 cases detected, the same as April 14.

Regarding death tolls, Indonesia has the highest (459), the Philipines (335), Malaysia (82).

Indonesia reported the highest new deaths (60), the Philippines to coming next (20).

Four countries with no deaths reported are Vietnam, Campuchia, Laos, and Timor-Leste.

Leaders of ASEAN countries today warned that the regional economy could suffer heavy losses due to COVID-19, calling for re-opening of trade routes to ensure employment, food supply as well as medical equipment storage.

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