HuffPost reporters all over the world are tracking the pandemic and the procedures being taken to flatten the curve of transmission.
Check out the current updates on the coronavirus pandemic listed below. ( To see the latest updates, you may need to revitalize the page. Perpetuity are Eastern. For earlier updates on the pandemic, go here)
Apple And Google Establishing Coronavirus Tracking Program– 4/10/2020, 6: 40 p.m. ET
Tech titans Apple and Google are introducing a system to help alert individuals if and when they enter contact with someone with a favorable COVID-19 medical diagnosis.
The program will utilize bluetooth technology to build a contact tracing network, which the companies anticipate to be offered on an app by mid-May. For those who download it, the system will keep data on which phones have actually remained in close distance to each other and send that details to public health authorities. Then, people who’ve been diagnosed with COVID-19 can report their status to the app, which will alert anyone they’ve remained in close contact with that they may be contaminated.
” Everyone at Apple and Google think there has actually never ever been a more vital minute to work together to solve among the world’s most important issues,” a declaration from the business said “Through close cooperation and partnership with developers, federal governments and public health suppliers, we hope to harness the power of technology to help countries around the globe slow the spread of COVID-19 and accelerate the return of everyday life.”
— Lydia O’Connor
San Francisco Caps The Cut Delivery Apps Can Take From Dining Establishments– 4/10/2020, 3: 15 p.m. ET
San Francisco Mayor London Type announced that the city is instituting a short-term cap on how much of a commission delivery apps can charge the dining establishments they partner with.
The charge will be capped at 15%.
” Restaurants are having a hard time to make it through and delivery is their primary alternative for remaining open,” Type tweeted “I’m instituting a cap on the fees that shipment services can charge restaurants during this emergency, because it can make the difference between them surviving or laying-off staff.”
— Lydia O’Connor
Italy Extends Lockdown Up Until May– 4/10/20, 3: 09 p.m. ET
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte extended the country’s across the country lockdown to May 3 in order to avoid a prospective 2nd wave of infections. The restriction were set to expire on April 13.
Conte stated a restricted variety of companies would be permitted to reopen before May 3, with more gradually reopening after.
— Marina Fang
U.S. COVID-19 Cases Appear To Be ‘Leveling Off,’ However ‘This Is Not The Time’ To Stop Social Distancing, Birx And Fauci Say– 4/10/20, 2: 57 p.m. ET
There is growing proof that the variety of infections is “leveling off” and the rate of boost “seems to be stabilizing,” said the top public health officials leading the COVID-19 reaction in the U.S.
States and cities especially hard struck by the pandemic have reported encouraging indications this week.
But the specialists cautioned that Americans need to continue to practice social distancing and abide by stay-at-home orders in their states in order to avoid additional spikes or a potential 2nd wave of infections, especially in states and cities where the virus spread later on.
” It’s really about the encouraging indications that we see, but as encouraging as they are we have not reached the peak,” said White House coronavirus coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx.
” This is not the time … that we can be pulling back at all,” Dr. Anthony Fauci added.
Birx stated “a lot of the motion has been driven” by decreases in New york city City and the New York metropolitan area, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said Friday that daily admissions to intensive care, one of the indications utilized to track the pandemic, had decreased for the very first time. Throughout the week, the rate of hospitalizations has likewise slowed significantly.
— Marina Fang