News Desk :
The death toll from coronavirus reached 1,61, 275 while infected 23, 51,338 in 210 countries and territories around the world and recovered 6,06,2012, according to worldometer.
Coronavirus has killed 1867 more people in the United States in the past 24 hours. With this, the death toll in the coronavirus infection in the country has reached 39,015. Of these, more than 17,000 people have died in New York alone. And more than 241,000 people have been infected with coronavirus in the state.
It is reported that, more than 29,000 people have been infected with coronavirus throughout the United States in the last 24 hours. The total number of infected people has risen 738,923. So far, 68,285 people have been healed in the country.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people have protested against lockdown in California and Texas in the United States. Many of them complain of being sick at home. They also demanded a quick end of the ongoing lockdown. In the meantime, restrictions are slowly being lifted from the states, said President Donald Trump.
US hospitals could need as many as half a million additional ventilators during the pandemic, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and demand for them has soared in US intensive care units as coronavirus patients flood in.
Trump continued to favorably compare the coronavirus testing situation in the US to the situation in other countries. He alleged that Democratic governors are deliberately not using testing capacity the federal government has created-and suggested that the only governors “complaining” about testing challenges are Democrats.
“Now they’re giving you the other-it’s called ‘testing, testing.’ But they don’t want to use all of the capacity that we’ve created. We have tremendous capacity … they know that, the governors know that. The Democrat governors know that. They’re the ones that are complaining,” he said. The per-capita U.S. death rate for COVID-19 is lower than many countries in Europe – according to data cited by the White House – thanks in part to the nation’s social distancing efforts, restrictions some states are in the process of reevaluating.
White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx presented data Saturday showing the U.S. is reporting 11.24 deaths per 100,000 people, a lower rate than Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, the UK and the Netherlands. She credited social distancing measures with keeping that rate low.
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 482 on Saturday, the lowest daily increase since April 12, while the number of new cases was stable at 3,491, the Civil Protection Agency said.
The death toll had risen by 575 on Friday, up from 525 the day before, with 3,493 new cases recorded.
The daily tallies of deaths and cases extend the broadly stable situation in place over the last 13 days.
This plateau is down considerably from peaks reached around the end of March, but the downtrend has not proceeded as fast as was hoped in a country that has been in lockdown for almost six weeks.
Saturday’s number of deaths marked the lowest daily rise since last Sunday, when it stood at 431.
The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 rose to 23,227, the second highest in the world after that of the United States. Total confirmed cases stood at 175,925.
Spain’s death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak rose by 410 on Sunday, down from 565 on Saturday, the Health Ministry said, the lowest daily increase in about a month in one of the world’s hardest hit countries.
The total number of deaths reached 20,453.
The daily increase was the lowest since March 22. It is far below the highest daily increase – 950 deaths reported on April 2 – in a sign of a slowdown of the spread of the virus after Spain imposed a strict lockdown in mid-March.
The overall number of coronavirus cases rose to 195,944 on Sunday from 191,726 on Saturday, the Health Ministry added.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday he would ask parliament for a 15-day extension of the lockdown until May 9, but said the restrictions would be more flexible, such as allowing children to leave their homes for short periods of time.
“We have left behind the most extreme moments,” Sanchez said at a press briefing. But he added: “These achievements are still insufficient and above all fragile. We cannot put them at risk with hasty solutions”.
