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WHO Reports Most Coronavirus Cases in a Day As Cases Near Five Million ‘SUPER CYCLONE' ELECTIONS COMMISSION THE CURIOUS CASE THURSDAY BARRELS TOWARDS TELLS SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH ASIA'S MAY 21, 2020 BANGLADESH, INDIA IT CANNOT HOLD POLLS ‘LOW' CORONAVIRUS VOL: 4 - ISSUE 365 ON JUNE 20 DEATHS PAGE 02 HOT TOPICS GLOCAL PAGE 04 EYE ON ASIA 30. PAGE 03 Registered in the Department of Posts of Sri Lanka under No: QD/146/News/2020 A NASA Earth Observatory image Tropical Cyclone Amphan at 16:15 Universal Time (9:45 p.m. India COVID-19 and Standard Time) on Tuesday (19) as it moved north-northeast over the Bay of Bengal. The image is a curfew in Sri Lanka composite of brightness tempera- ture data acquired by the Moderate • One new case of COVID-19 was confirmed yesterday Resolution Imaging Spectroradi- (20), taking Sri Lanka’s tally of the novel coronavirus in- ometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra fection to 1028. Thirty five cases were confirmed by late satellite, overlaid on Black Marble Tuesday (19) night. Four hundred thirty five individuals night-time satellite imagery. Mil- are receiving treatment, 584 have been deemed complete- lions of people battened down yes- ly recovered and nine have succumbed to the virus. terday (20) as the strongest cyclone • Curfew to continue in the Colombo and Gampaha Dis- in decades slammed into Bangladesh tricts till further notice, but with the resumption of civilian and eastern India, killing at least life and economic activities. three and leaving a trail of devasta- • An 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. curfew is in force in all districts tion. Authorities scrambled to evacu- expects Colombo and Gampaha. ate more than three million people • Director General of Health Anil Jasinghe orders a total from low-lying areas, but the task ban on movement of sailors within the Welisara naval was complicated by the need to pre- facility, where nearly 600 security personnel have tested vent the spread of coronavirus. As positive. it made landfall, Cyclone Amphan • Colombo Municipal Council to begin parking fee collec- tore through coastal villages, flatten- tion in Colombo from today (21). ing mud houses, blowing off roofs, • The Health Ministry issues new recommendations for uprooting trees and laying waste to general public on wearing mask. Says there is no need for crop fields. In Bangladesh officials public to wear N95 masks. confirmed three deaths including a • A 95-year-old woman, the oldest coronavirus infected five year-old boy and a 75-year-old person recovers and is discharged from hospital. man, both hit by falling trees, and a • NIC last digit based system - those who have 7 and 8 as cyclone emergency volunteer who the last digit can walk to nearby shop for purchase of es- drowned. Two other fatalities were sential items, but not drive. reported by Indian media, includ- ing an infant crushed when the mud wall of the family's hut collapsed in Coronavirus toll heavy rain in Odisha state. Houses "look like they have been run over by a bulldozer”, said Babul Mondal, 323,370 deaths at 35, a villager on the edge of the Sun- derbans, a vast mangrove forest area 1100 GMT yesterday home to India's biggest tiger popula- PARIS - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 323,370 tion. Amphan is the first "super cy- people since the outbreak first emerged in China last De- clone" to form over the Bay of Bengal cember, according to a tally from official sources compiled since 1999, and packed winds gusting by AFP at 1100 GMT yesterday (20). up to 185 kilometres (115) per hour. At least 4,910,110 cases of coronavirus have been reg- Forecasters also warned there could istered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least be storm surges of several metres - Handout / NASA Earth Observatory AFP 1,813,300 are now considered recovered. The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Or- ganization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections. Many countries are testing only symptomatic or the WHO reports most coronavirus cases in most serious cases. The United States has the highest number of deaths overall with 91,938 from 1,528,661 cases. At least 289,392 people have been declared recovered. a day as cases near five million Britain has the second highest toll overall, with 35,341 deaths from 248,818 cases. It is followed by Italy with GENEVA - The World Health Or- eral TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus Tedros acknowledged having re- vent coronavirus infection. 32,169 deaths and 226,699 cases, France with 28,022 ganization (WHO) expressed con- told a news conference. “We are very ceived a letter from Trump, but Tedros said he was committed to deaths and 180,809 infections and Spain with 27,778 fa- cern yesterday (20) about the rising concerned about rising cases in low declined to comment further. “The accountability. The WHO has an- talities for 232,037 cases. number of new coronavirus cases in and middle income countries.” answer is simply we have received nounced a review into the response France revised down its toll on Tuesday (19) after chang- poor countries, even as many rich Dr. Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s the letter and are looking into it,” he to the pandemic, which emerged in ing the way it recorded nursing-home fatalities. nations have begun emerging from emergencies program, said: “We will said. China late last year. China - excluding Hong Kong and Macau - has to date lockdown. soon reach the tragic milestone of In comments that could annoy “I said it time and time again that declared 4,634 deaths and 82,965 cases. It has 78,244 re- The global health body said five million cases.” Trump further, the head of the WHO calls for accountability more covered cases. 106,000 new cases of infections The WHO has come under fire WHO’s emergency program, Dr. than anyone. It has to be done and Europe has a total of 168,725 deaths from 1,938,946 cas- of the novel coronavirus had been from US President Donald Trump, Mike Ryan, told the press confer- es, the United States and Canada have 97,949 deaths and recorded in the past 24 hours, the who accuses it of having mishandled ence that people should avoid using when it’s done it has to be a compre- 1,607,773 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean have most in a single day since the out- the outbreak and favouring China. the malaria medicine hydroxychlo- hensive one,” he said of the review, 32,386 deaths and 578,921 cases, Asia has 12,879 deaths break began. This week Trump threatened to roquine, except for conditions it is while declining to give a timeline for and 384,874 cases, the Middle East has 8,384 deaths and “We still have a long way to go in withdraw from the WHO and per- proven to treat. Trump has said he it starting. 299,734 cases, Africa has 2,919 deaths from 91,443 cases, this pandemic,” WHO director-gen- manently withhold funding. is taking hydroxychloroquine to pre- -Agencies and Oceania 128 deaths from 8,426 cases. -AFP 2 dams fail in Michigan, Prototype vaccines Raising stakes for Israeli annexation forcing thousands to protect monkeys from Abbas says security evacuate DETROIT - Two dams in Cen- levels, and that it was continu- coronavirus cooperation to end tral Michigan were breached by ing to rise. The service said that WASHINGTON- A prototype naviruses affect monkeys — and rain-swollen floodwaters Tues- life-threatening flooding along JERUSALEM — Raising the security agreements. day (19), forcing the evacuation the river would continue during vaccine has protected monkeys whether vaccines might fight from the coronavirus, research- the pathogens. Their report was stakes over Israel’s drive to annex Abbas said his move was a re- of thousands of residents and the day. Bridges across the river land the Palestinians have long sponse to the new Israeli govern- prompting officials to warn of were closed and many roads were ers reported yesterday (20), a published in Science. finding that offers new hope for The scientists started by stud- claimed, President Mahmoud Ab- ment’s push to annex large por- life-threatening danger. under water, Midland County of- bas of the Palestinian Authority tions of the West Bank. The failures of the Edenville ficials said. effective human vaccines. ying whether the monkeys be- Scientists are already testing come immune to the virus after on Tuesday (19) angrily declared In the recent Israeli election, Dam and the Sanford Dam, about In Sanford, a village of about it free of its commitments under Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- 140 miles northwest of Detroit, 580 people in Midland Coun- coronavirus vaccines in people, getting sick. The team infected but the initial trials are designed nine unvaccinated rhesus ma- the Oslo peace process, including yahu campaigned for right-wing led the National Weather Service ty, water coursed through the security understandings that have support on a promise to extend Is- to issue a flash flood warning for streets, video from local news to determine safety, not how well caques with the new coronavi- a vaccine works. The research rus. protected Israelis and preserved raeli sovereignty over the Jordan areas near the Tittabawassee Riv- agencies showed. Some single- the authority’s political hold over Valley and Jewish settlements to- er, with downstream effects ex- story structures were submerged published yesterday offers in- The monkeys developed symp- sight into what a vaccine must do toms that resembled a moderate the occupied West Bank.
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