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- Confirmed cases 1 347 235
- Deaths 74 767
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- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in intensive care after coronavirus condition ‘worsened’
- Philippines extends lockdown to end-April
- South Korea reports fewer than 50 cases for the second day running
- Los Angeles sees slowing growth in coronavirus cases
- China reports 32 new cases, no deaths for the first time
- WHO says there’s a global shortfall of 5.9 million nurses as world battles coronavirus pandemic
- New Zealand’s health minister demoted after taking family to beach
- Philippines Duterte extends Luzon lockdown until end of April
- South Africa; – the number of positive Covid-19 cases has gone up to 1 686, an increase of 31. The death toll is now at 12.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in intensive care after coronavirus condition ‘worsened’
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care as his coronavirus symptoms worsened, news outlets reported Monday.
Since Sunday evening, the Prime Minister has been under the care of doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital, in London, after being admitted with persistent symptoms of coronavirus,” a spokesman for No. 10 Downing Street said in a statement.
Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital,” the spokesman said. “The PM has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is the First Secretary of State, to deputize for him where necessary.”
The PM is receiving excellent care, and thanks all NHS staff for their hard work and dedication,” the spokesman added
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New Zealand’s health minister demoted after taking family to beach
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has demoted the country’s health minister for breaching nationwide lockdown rules, but rejected his offer to resign because it could jeopardise plans to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Health Minister David Clark drove his family to the beach in the early stages of a lockdown that started in late March.
Under normal conditions I would sack the minister of health. What he did was wrong, and there are no excuses,” Ardern said in Wellington.
Instead, she demoted Clark to the bottom of cabinet rankings and stripped him of his role as associate finance minister.
I expect better, and so does New Zealand,” she said.
Clark said in a statement that he had been “an idiot”.
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