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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.
- In Italy, where more than 20,000 people have died from the coronavirus, the country’s death toll is second only to the United States. While the pandemic continues to go around the world, many of the hardest-hit countries are now extending stricter lockdown measures.
- In the United States, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that the state’s death toll has topped 10,000. That accounts for over 40 percent of the total number of coronavirus deaths across the country, which is now more than 22,000.
- In France, President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the country’s lockdown will be extended until May 11th. France has been under a national lockdown for four weeks.
- More people across Japan are being asked to take drastic steps to slow down their surge in coronavirus infection.
- In the U.S., it has been nearly a month since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency. The number of deaths in the country has topped 21,000, the highest anywhere in the world.
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for the coronavirus.
- For residents in Tokyo we will find out soon which businesses will be asked to close during the state of emergency. The central government and the Tokyo metropolitan government have agreed on specific business areas.
- In Tokyo coronavirus cases continue to rise. A record 181 cases of infections were confirmed on Thursday. The infection route of 122 of those cases is unknown.
- The office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he has been released from an intensive care unit where he was being treated for coronavirus.
- Japan’s health ministry is finally to consider nationwide drive-through testing for the coronavirus. It is to help expand the country’s testing capacity to 20,000 samples per day.
- Japan’s central government and the Tokyo metropolitan government are in talks to decide which businesses will be asked to temporarily shut down under the state of emergency.
- In France, the coronavirus death toll has topped 10,000. That made France the fourth country to pass that mark after Italy, Spain and the United States.
- Prime Minister Abe Shinzo is calling for cooperation as many Japanese face the reality of limited outings and closure of some stores. Abe declared a state of emergency on Tuesday to fight against the rapid nationwide spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Chinese authorities have lifted the lockdown in Wuhan after two-and-a-half months. The world’s first coronavirus cases were reported in the city.
- The city of Paris is banning jogging and other forms of outdoor exercise during daytime in a tightening of restrictions on movement to contain the pandemic.
- Japan’s prime minister has officially declared a month-long state of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures to curb the spread of infections.
- Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko says the names of facilities to be closed down under a state of emergency declared by the prime minister will be announced on Friday.
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who has tested positive with the coronavirus is now in intensive care after his condition worsened.
- Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo is making final arrangements to declare a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic as early as Tuesday.
- Japanese companies are delaying the release of their earnings reports for the business year ending in March.
- New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has suggested the state may be hitting the apex of the outbreak there.
- Japan further tightened its border entry restrictions in an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
- Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University in the United States shows that the global total of confirmed infections from the coronavirus has now topped 1 million.
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned that the state only has enough ventilators for six days if people continue to come to hospitals at the current rate.