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Coronaplague Roundup: Europe coronavirus death toll tops 100,000, Turkey’s cases overtake Iran
2020-04-19

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Canada requires ALL air passengers to wear face masks to slow the spread of coronavirus as officials keep the US-Canada border closed for 30 more days




Turkey's coronavirus cases overtake Iran, highest in Middle East
[Jpost] Turkey's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen to 82,329, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Saturday, overtaking neighboring Iran for the first time to register the highest total in the Middle East.

An increase of 3,783 cases in the last 24 hours also pushed Turkey's confirmed tally within a few hundred of China, where the novel coronavirus first emerged.

Koca said 121 more people have died, taking the death toll to 1,890. A total of 10,453 people have recovered from coronavirus so far, and the number of tests carried out over the past 24 hours came to 40,520, the minister said.

The Interior Ministry also said it was extending restrictions on travel between 31 cities for a further 15 days starting at midnight on Saturday.

'Heartbreaking' Report Shows Virus Ravaging NY Nursing Homes
[Newsmax] New York, by far the nation’s leader in coronavirus nursing home deaths, released details Friday on outbreaks in individual facilities after weeks of refusing, revealing one home in Brooklyn where 55 people died and four others with at least 40 deaths.

The state’s accounting of multiple deaths at 68 nursing homes was based on a survey and is substantially incomplete. It accounted for less than half of the 2,477 nursing home deaths that have been reported in the state. It also didn't include people who got sick in nursing homes, but then died at hospitals.

But it was the first time the state provided any information about homes that, according to an Associated Press tally, account for nearly 40% of the nation’s 6,461 deaths in such facilities.

Japan has 10,000 coronavirus cases days after declaring state of emergency
[NYPost] Japan officially recorded 10,000 cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, as the deadly pandemic continues to sweep across the globe. The news was confirmed by state broadcaster NHK and comes just hours after a full state of emergency was declared for the nation at large, Reuters reported.

Only around 200 deaths have so far been reported, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is urging residents to stay home amid fears that rural health systems could fail as cases spiked.

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#2  Coronavirus reaches 22,61,264 new cases globally and 1,54,789 deaths

"Math is hard"
/Journolism Barbie
Posted by: Frank G   2020-04-19 08:15  

#1  Turkey's coronavirus cases overtake Iran, highest in Middle East

I'm a bad person. A really, really, bad person

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