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UK
Total cases 60,733 - includes 5,491 new cases today
Total deaths 7097 - includes 938 new deaths today
 
UK prime minister Boris Johnson has improved sufficient to leave intensive care. He has returned to regular ward.
 
Spain:
Spain recorded 605 deaths between Thursday and Friday, another fall on the previous 24 hours.
The number of people who have died from the disease rose to 15,843 on Friday, up from 15,238 on Thursday.
The total number of coronavirus cases rose to 157,022 on Friday from 152,446 on Thursday.

Japan:
Japan has reported 473 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 6,003 on Friday, according to a report on public broadcaster NHK.
Earlier this week, Japan declared a state of emergency to fight the spread of the coronavirus in major population centres. It has so far recorded 112 deaths from the virus. On Friday, Kyoto became the latest prefecture to ask to be placed under the state of emergency, with the governor saying that infections were rising, and Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike said that the metropolitan government would request many businesses, including night clubs, karaoke parlours and pachinko pinball parlours to close from Saturday. The measure currently covers seven regions, including Tokyo, and gives authorities the power to ask people to stay indoors and request that businesses close. However there are no enforcement mechanisms and no penalties for those who fail to comply.
 
UK:
The death toll from coronavirus in Britain has risen by 980 to 8,958 people, British health secretary Matt Hancock has revealed.
Mr Hancock said 19,116 coronavirus tests were carried out across the UK yesterday, of which 5,706 came back positive.
These figures refer to all those who died in a hospital setting only.
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Deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam said the UK was still in a "dangerous phase" in regard to the number of new coronavirus cases.
"It's impossible to say we have peaked. London has gone down in the last day, but Yorkshire and the North East has gone up."
 
us stating antibody tests next week ,some one in the uk is working on a breath test instead of current nasal test missed part of that story so don't know if ready yet?
 
  • The US has recorded 1,920 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The university also said the death toll has passed 20,000 in the US.
  • The death toll in France has risen by 635 to 13,832.
  • The daily death toll in Spain rose again – after three days of the numbers falling – with a further 619 deaths raising the total to 16,972.
(from The Journal daily summary)
 
The Danes and the Austrians must be confidant as they are considering lifting the lockdowns a little.
 
USA:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he believes "the worst is over" as hospitalisations appeared to be reaching a plateau and the daily increase in deaths came to 671, the lowest total in about a week. Mr Cuomo, who has been working closely with the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut in response to the novel coronavirus, also said that he would announce a coordinated plan on reopening businesses and schools. Mr Cuomo was speaking at a daily press briefing after the government's top infectious diseases expert said the United States may be ready to start gradually reopening next month as signs grew that the coronavirus pandemic was peaking.

UK:
A total of 11,329 patients have died in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, as of 5pm yesterday, the Department of Health said, up by 717 from 10,612 the day before.
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Global total of cases now over 2m.
Global deaths over 126,700
Global recovered almost 485,000.

Compare to posts on April 2.
 
This would not be a good time for Donald to cut funding to the WHO, according to RTE news, when the USA death count is only getting worse and there are over 549,000 active cases and UK is also very high with over 81,000 Europe is easing slightly it seems. WHO needs as much if not more funding to get Covid 19 finally sorted out.
 
Spain's daily number of deaths from the coronavirus fell to 523 on Wednesday from 567 the day before, the health ministry said - well below a peak of 950 reached on 2 April.

 
What about China. Latest death toll is 1,290. 351 new cases, what is this telling us I wonder.
 
The death toll from the coronavirus in Spain, the country hit hardest by the pandemic after the United States and Italy, has exceeded 20,000 on Saturday, the health ministry said. A total of 20,043 people have now succumbed to the disease, which killed 565 people in Spain in the past 24 hours, slightly down on the 585 reported yesterday.
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Health officials say Spain has passed the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak, which killed up to 950 people on 2 April , and pressure has eased on hospitals. But the toll, which covers only people who tested positive for the virus, is increasingly contested in some regions. Officials there say thousands more people have died after showing symptoms of the disease without having been tested because there are not enough tests. For example, Catalonia has reported that more than 7,800 people have died while the national toll for the region referred Saturday to more than 3,800.
 
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