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- Confirmed cases 422 941
- Deaths 18 907
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- India’s 1.3 billion people have joined the global lockdown
- Thailand cases rise as government prepares to invoke emergency
- South Korea reports 100 more coronavirus cases
- Bolsonaro accuses Brazil media of fuelling hysteria
- ‘Bunker down’: New Zealand declares state of emergency
- Libya confirms its first case
- Google gives temps 60-day contract extensions
- China reports 47 more cases in people coming from overseas
- South African government urge consumers to “stop panic buying”
Bolsonaro accuses Brazil media of fuelling hysteria
Brazil’s right wing president Jair Bolsonaro is accusing the media of stoking hysteria over the coronavirus, repeating his view that concerns about the virus are overblown.
The virus arrived, we are confronting it, and it will pass shortly,” he said in a televised address. “Our lives have to continue. Jobs should be maintained.”
About 2,200 people in Brazil have been confirmed to have the virus with 46 deaths reported.
‘Bunker down’: New Zealand declares state of emergency
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has declared a state of national emergency as the country prepared to go into a month-long lockdown at midnight (11:00 GMT).
The country has 205 cases, but Ardern says modelling suggests there could actually be thousands.
All non-essential services, schools and offices will be shut and people told to stay at home.
Make no mistake this will get worse before it gets better,” Ardern told parliament. “We will have a lag and cases will increase for the next week or so. Then we’ll begin to know how successful we have been.”
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