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- The coronavirus pandemic has reached another grim milestone. Johns Hopkins University says more than two million people have now been infected around the world. Over 132,000 have died. Europe remains the second largest hotspot after the United States.
- The Japanese government is moving ahead with its decision to expand current areas under a state of emergency to everywhere across the country.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo plans to provide a blanket cash handout of 100,000 yen, or about 930 dollars, per person as part of economic measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak.
- The United States is halting funding to the World Health Organization as the deadly coronavirus spread throughout the globe. President Donald Trump says the country is cutting off payment until his administration reduces edges of response to the current health crisis.
- The head of Japan’s central bank has echoed the grim view of the International Monetary Fund that the world economy is in a very tough ride. Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda Haruhiko was responding to the IMF prediction that the world will have the worst year since the Great Depression.
- Authorities in Taiwan on Tuesday confirmed that there were no new cases of the coronavirus infection for the first time in more than a month.