9.25 am: India reports 34,884 new cases on Saturday, taking its total to 10,38,716 cases. The toll is at 26,273. 9.20 am: US President ...
9.25 am: India reports 34,884 new cases on Saturday, taking its total to 10,38,716 cases. The toll is at 26,273.
9.20 am: US President Donald Trump will not instruct Americans to wear masks despite the huge number of cases cropping up, reports The Guardian. The US on Friday recorded the world’s highest number of new cases in a day, at 77,300.
9.12 am: The WHO warns that the pandemic threatens to exacerbate conflict and humanitarian crises across parts of the world. “The greatest concentration of need is in Africa, but countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia – including middle-income nations – are also being ravaged by crippling levels of food insecurity.”
“Three months ago at the UN Security Council, I told world leaders that we ran the risk of a famine of biblical proportions,” says World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley. “Today, our latest data tell us that, since then, millions of the world’s very poorest families have been forced even closer to the abyss. Livelihoods are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate and now their lives are in imminent danger from starvation.”
Besides this, many virus hotspots named are in the stretch from West Africa and across the Sahel to East...
