Updated.
April 19, 2020 15: 01:14
Pop superstar Beyonce has actually told countless viewers during the One World: Together at Home show that coronavirus is eliminating a disproportionately high variety of black Americans.
The message came as United States President Donald Trump claimed the country was doing “considerably much better” than other nations at dealing with the health crisis.
Across the world there have been more than 2.3 million validated cases of COVID-19 and more than 160,500 deaths.
This story is being updated frequently throughout Sunday. You can likewise stay informed with the current episode of the Coronacast podcast
Sunday’s essential minutes:
- US doing ‘drastically much better’ than other countries: Trump
- Some US states make plans to reopen
- Australia’s coronavirus death toll increases
- ‘ Love letter’ to frontline workers
- Queensland school term starts tomorrow
- Extraordinary demand for influenza jab in Australia
- Greeks watch Easter mass from home
- US sending out contaminated migrants back to Guatemala
- UAE to issue $8,500 fines for spreading out coronavirus false information
- Queen Elizabeth II cancels birthday strategies
- Spain’s death toll reaches 20,000
- Italian church utilized as temporary morgue now empty of coffins
- Turkey surpasses Iran for most cases in Middle East
- Iran partly resumes capital as coronavirus deaths hit one-month low
United States doing ‘dramatically much better’ than other countries: Trump
The United States is performing “extremely well” compared to other nation’s handling the coronavirus health crisis, US President Donald Trump states.
According to Johns Hopkins University statistics, there have been 38,732 deaths credited to coronavirus in the United States from 726,645 verified cases.
Italy has taped more than 23,000 deaths, while the death toll in Spain has actually reached 20,000 and practically 20,000 in France.
China, where the infection originated, has had 4,632 deaths from 83,787 cases.
” The United States has produced a significantly much better health result than any other nation, with the possible exception of Germany,” Mr Trump said.
” On a per-capital basis, our death rate is far lower than other countries … But you do not hear that, you hear we have more death, but we’re a much larger nation.
” We’re not number one [in terms of death], China is top, by a lot, it’s not even close.
” They’re method ahead of us in terms of death. You know it, I understand it, they know it, but you do not want to report it.”
New York, the country’s hardest hit state with more than 13,000 deaths, has seen a drop in the death rate and hospitalisations.
About 540 people have actually passed away in the past 24 hours– the lowest number this month.
Guv Andrew Cuomo stated while the situation was enhancing, there was still misery around the state
” If you look at the previous 3 days, you might argue that we are past the plateau and we’re beginning to come down, which would be very good news,” Mr Cuomo stated.
In neighbouring New Jersey, both the number of brand-new hospitalisations and brand-new coronavirus cases were also a little down from the day before.
Guv Phil