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- Confirmed cases 785 807
- Deaths 37 820
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- Myanmar reports first COVID-19 death
- Australia optimistic measures beginning to slow infections
- ‘Stay away’: Japan puts 73 countries and territories off limits
- Spain to tighten movement restrictions from Tuesday
- Mexico announces health emergency as cases climb past 1,000
- First Catholic cardinal confirmed with COVID-19
- China reports 48 new cases
- Pentagon reports first coronavirus death of US soldier
- Italy has more than 100,000 cases but says new infections have slowed
- Los Angeles halts evictions for people and businesses who can’t pay rent due to COVID-19
Trumps flags tougher coronavirus curbs for US
The United States might toughen movement restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus, with the country now reporting twice the number of cases as China where the outbreak began late last year.
US President Donald Trump told the media that guidelines on social distancing – encouraging people not to gather in groups of more than 10 and avoid dining out – would remain in force until the end of April, and said they could be “toughened a bit”.
The US has nearly 163,500 confirmed cases, the highest in the world. More than 3,000 people in the US have now died from COVID-19.
Australia optimistic measures beginning to slow infections
Australia is optimistic that its strict measures on physical distancing are helping slow the spread of the coronavirus, but is urging people against complacency.
Health Minister Greg Hunt told a televised media conference the country had about 4,400 coronavirus cases, with the rate of growth in new infections slowing from 25-30 percent a week ago to an average of 9 percent over the past three days.
There were,
early promising signs of the curve flattening,” Hunt said.
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