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Latest developments Apple has said it will soon be producing US navy captain fired for voicing one million face shields a week for medical workers battling the coronavirus pandemic. The tech giant had already sourced 20 million surgical masks from around the world to help virus concern tests positive: report address a global shortage, chief executive Tim Cook said in a video posted to Twitter on Sunday. But the company had also designed its own Washington transparent protective face shield and begun mass production at its factories in the US whether other Pentagon leaders and China, he added. agreed with the firing, pointing he US naval commander to an ongoing investigation. British boxing great Nigel Benn revealed on Instagram one of whose widely publicised He told CNN that more than his brothers’ Mark has died of coronavirus. The 56-year-old -- former Tplea for help for his coro- half the Roosevelt’s 4,800-mem- world champion at two weights -- said Mark had been the “Joker” of the family. navirus-affected crew led to his ber crew had now been test - Japan’s prime minister Monday dismissal has reportedly himself ed for the coronavirus. In all, proposed a state of emergency for tested positive for the disease. 155 sailors tested positive but several major regions seeing a sharp Captain Brett Crozier’s COV- none required hospitalization, rise in coronavirus cases, as well as ID-19 test result was reported he said. a stimulus package worth $1 trillion Sunday by the New York Times, Crozier’s dismissal came as to cushion the impact on the world’s just hours after US Defense Sec- the Pentagon struggles, amid third-biggest economy. The official retary Mark Esper defended the the spreading pandemic, to declaration of the state of emergency would likely come as soon as Tuesday, Shinzo Abe captain’s firing. maintain the readiness of its air, told reporters. “Currently, we are seeing rapid increases of new infections particularly in Esper told ABC that Navy sea and ground forces world- Secretary Thomas Modly had wide. urban areas like Tokyo and Osaka,” said Abe. “made a tough decision, tough “We have had to cancel exer- Singapore has put nearly 20,000 migrant workers under quarantine for two weeks call” in deciding to fire Crozier US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has defended the firing of the captain of cises. We’ve had to constrain - after a growing number of coronavirus infections were detected in their dormitories. from his command of the air- an aircraft carrier who pleaded for action to protect the crew of his aircraft sic training, for example,” Esper carrier craft carrier USS Roosevelt, now said, before adding, “We think docked in Guam. those are all manageable.” Asked about a report that gun exhibiting symptoms before Esper pointed to the particu- President Donald Trump want- leaving the ship on Thursday. lar challenges facing the mili- ed Crozier fired, Esper replied, Hundreds of sailors cheered tary -- it is impossible to respect “This was the secretary’s call. Crozier as he left the ship, as social distancing in a crowded He came and briefed me ... It seen in video that quickly went bomber plane or in the confine- was the secretary’s call. I told KNOW WHAT viral. Some called him a hero. ment of a nuclear submarine, he him I would support it.” Democrats have also sharply told ABC. “We are not at war,” Crozier criticised the dismissal. He said the military overall wrote in a letter that leaked to Joe Biden, the leading Dem- was “ahead of the curve” in bal- The firing was widely Twinkling flames from candles and traditional lamps lit up India’s the press. “Sailors do not need to condemned as a callous ocratic candidate for president, ancing troops’ health and mili- die.” But some senior Pentagon condemned the firing on Sun- tary readiness. night sky Sunday in a nine-minute show to mark the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which has left the vast nation in lockdown. Across officials said Crozier erred by and unfair punishment day, telling ABC it was “close to The military has also major cities and towns in the world’s second-most populous country of 1.3 letting his plea go public. of a respected officer criminal.” been called to help the fight who was looking out for billion people, many heeded the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Crozier “demonstrated ex- “I think he should have a against the coronavirus inside turn off their lights at 9:00 pm local time. tremely poor judgment in the the welfare of his crew commendation rather than be the US. middle of a crisis,” needlessly when he implored his su- fired,”the former vice president Trump said Saturday that South Korea reported fewer than 50 new coronavirus cases for worrying family members and periors to let him quickly said. 1,000 military personnel, most- the first time in more than six weeks, having once been the hardest-hit undermining the chain of com- vacate the ship after it And a statement from Dem- ly doctors and nurses, would be country outside China, where the virus first emerged. mand, Modly said. ocratic leaders of the House deployed to help in New York Sri Lanka carried out a mercy mission to evacuate a sick Trump, speaking in a news docked in Guam. Armed Services Committee said City, the epicenter of the US from a cruise ship that entered the island’s territorial waters conference Saturday, supported Crozier might not have handled outbreak. German woman the dismissal. “He shouldn’t be the matter perfectly, but that his Troops have already been to take in food, water and other logistics, the navy said. It was not immediately clear if talking that way in a letter,” he dismissal was an “overreaction.” helping out at the Javits Con- she was infected with the coronavirus, but authorities for the cruise liner had previously said of Crozier. “I thought it was zier’s test result, cited two of his vention Center, which has been maintained there were no cases of COVID-19 onboard the vessel with 1,700 people. terrible what he did.” former classmates at the US Na- -Protection and readiness transformed into an enormous The Times, in reporting Cro- val Academy. It said he had be- Esper declined Sunday to say hospital. Virus-hit US girds for ‘Pearl Harbor moment’ US governors on Sunday appealed to the White House for a national strategy against the fast-spreading coronavirus, Tesla engineers show ventilator prototype on YouTube as deaths surged and health Reuters | New York authorities warned the coming tric’s healthcare unit, and could week could resemble a “Pearl then build 30,000 per month as Harbor moment.” US Surgeon General Jerome Adams sounded an even more dire ngineers at Tesla Inc needed. alarm. “This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, showed a prototype for a Musk said on March 31 that E quite frankly,” he told Fox News. “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9-11 ventilator on Sunday evening Tesla planned to supply FDA-ap- in a video published on the proved ventilators free of cost to moment, only it’s not going to be localized.” company’s YouTube channel, hospitals within regions where UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged as hospitals around the country the electric carmaker delivers. governments to include the overwhelmed by coronavirus The Financial Times has re- protection of women in their patients face device shortages. ported that the devices donated response to the deadly novel The design for the ventilators by Musk to some New York City coronavirus pandemic. Reports of relies heavily on Tesla car parts, hospitals were not the type of domestic violence have surged globally in the one of the engineers said, ena- ventilators that have been in de- wake of massive lockdowns imposed to contain bling the company to redeploy Screen grab of a youtube video on Tesla’s ventilator prototype mand for use in intensive-care the spread of the disease. “Violence is not confined to the battlefield,” said Guterres in a existing stock and produce the units. Rather, they were Bilevel statement and video released in multiple languages, days after his call for a worldwide devices quickly. “There’s still a lot of work to other medical equipment amid Positive Airway Pressure ma- ceasefire in the wake of the outbreak. “For many women and girls, the threat looms The video comes two weeks do,” said one of the engineers, the increasing number of coro- chines, typically used to treat largest where they should be safest. In their own homes,” he said. after Chief Executive Elon “but we’re giving it our best ef- navirus infections. sleep apnea but recently ap - Musk said Tesla planned to re- fort.” On March 30, Ford Motor Co proved by the FDA as an alterna- A major private hospital in Mumbai was shut to new open its New York factory to Governments globally have said it would produce 50,000 tive in the event of a ventilator patients and declared a coronavirus produce ventilators. appealed to automakers and ventilators in the following 100 shortage. containment zone on Monday after The timeline for production aerospace companies to help days at a plant in Michigan in Tesla did not immediately re- 26 nurses and three doctors tested was not specified in the video. procure or make ventilators and cooperation with General Elec- spond to a request for comment. positive, an official said. Mumbai city authority spokesman Vijay Khabale-Patil said that the Wockhardt Hospital has been declared a “containment zone” after the cases were confirmed. “Three hundred staffers have been quarantined and the hospital is shut,” he said.The United Nurses Association (UNA) in Monster storm strengthens in Pacific, lashing Mumbai accused hospital management of failing to protect staff by refusing to let them Port Vila | Vanuatu wear appropriate safety gear. The cyclone is now packing Germany has drawn up a list of measures, including an obligation to wear masks winds of up to 235 kilometres in public, limits on public gatherings and the rapid tracing of infection chains, that deadly Pacific cyclone in- per hour (145 miles per hour), Atensified as it hit Vanuatu prompting red alerts across sev- officials think should allow life to return to normal after lockdown’s scheduled end on yesterday, threatening a natural eral provinces. April 19. disaster that experts fear will It made landfall on the re - China will work to further prevent coronavirus cases imported through its land undermine the impoverished mote east coast of Espiritu San- borders, the Chinese government said in a statement on Monday after a meeting nation’s battle to remain coro- to island on Monday morning chaired by Premier Li Keqiang. navirus-free. and was heading directly for Spain’s pace of new coronavirus deaths slowed for the fourth day on Sunday as the Harold, Vanuatu’s second-largest town government contemplated a gradual easing of a lockdown since mid-March. which claimed 27 lives when , which has a popu- it swept through the Solomon lation of 16,500. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Islands last week, strengthened The slow-moving storm other top government figures will take a to a scale-topping Category 5 is expected to pass north of 30pc salary cut this year, a government minister said on superstorm overnight, Vanua- Cyclone Harold is strengthening and threatening Vanuatu, which is still the capital Port Vila early Monday, as the country tackles the coronavirus outbreak and its tu’s meteorology service said. recovering from the devastation unleashed by in 2015 Tuesday. impact on the economy.