The latest official figures reveal that 26,097 people have died after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK. The figures now include deaths in care homes and the community. They show that the pandemic has claimed nearly 4,000 more lives than were recorded under the previous system.
The figures underline the devastating impact of the virus on care homes across the UK. In Scotland more than half of deaths linked to coronavirus are in homes for the elderly.
Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reports from Health Editor Hugh Pym, Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon and Social Affairs Correspondent Alison Holt.
There are three new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today. The number of cases has remained in single digits for 12 days. There are no further deaths. Full story: https://bit.ly/2zIQZqI
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British Columbia’s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and health minister Adrian Dix gave an update on the latest COVID-19 cases in the province and discussed the government’s ongoing response to the pandemic on Wednesday.
Henry reported 34 new cases of COVID-19, including single cases at two additional long-term care homes.
She also said the province’s coronavirus death toll now stands at 109 people, with more than half of them in long-term care or assisted-living facilities. Henry reported that four more residents of B.C.’s long-term care homes had died of COVID-19.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says a further reported 3,811 deaths from coronavirus ‘don’t represent a sudden surge’ as they were ‘spread from March 2 to April 28’.
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British Columbia’s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix gave an update on the latest COVID-19 cases in the province and to discussed the government’s ongoing response to the pandemic on Tuesday.
Henry confirmed 55 new cases of COVID-19 in B.C. and two additional deaths. There are 2,053 confirmed cases of the disease in the province, and 1,190 of those have fully recovered. The death toll stands at 105.
Ninety-four people are in hospital — a decrease of three patients from Monday — while 37 patients are in intensive care.
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams and associate chief medical officer of health Dr. Barbara Yaffe provided an update on the latest COVID-19 cases in the province and discussed the province’s ongoing response to the pandemic.
During the briefing, Yaffe announced that as of 4 p.m. on Monday, there were 525 new COVID-19 cases in Ontario, bringing the total number of cases to 15,381. In addition, there have been an additional 59 deaths in the province, which brings the death toll to 951 people.
U.K. Environment Secretary George Eustice and Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England provided an update on the COVID-19 battle in the U.K. on April 26.
Eustice said that the country now had a total of 152,840 COVID-19 cases and that 20,732 people had died in total. He said there were more than 669,000 tests that had been carried out. Eustice said in terms of reducing social distancing measures, the government must be confident they’ve met the five benchmarks laid out last week by First Secretary Dominic Raab.
This is a deeply tragic and moving moment, the Home Secretary said – but with more than 20,000 deaths in UK hospitals – the government is coming under more pressure to be transparent about the expert scientific advice it is getting.
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Opposition parties are demanding to know why the Prime Minister’s top political aide Dominic Cummings had been allowed to attend meetings of a key scientific advisory group. Number 10 insisted it was being provided with independent advice.
White House coronavirus task force response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx joins ‘Watters’ World’ to discuss the latest on the virus.
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British Columbia provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reported 95 new cases of COVID-19 in the province on Saturday, bringing the total number of cases in B.C. to 1,948.
Henry said that 40 of the new 95 cases reported in B.C. are at or related to the Mission Federal Correctional facility, bringing the total number of inmates testing positive to 10 in addition to 12 staff members.
The doctor also reported two new COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths in the province to 100.
The original heart of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic is marking a significant breakthrough.
More than three months ago, China reported its first death from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus. Now it says it has gone 10 days in a row without any reported deaths.
This comes as Singapore reported another 618 new cases, and now, has the highest coronavirus infection rate in Asia.
Al Jazeera’s Sarah Clarke reports.
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Donald Trump and members of the coronavirus task force brief reporters on-camera.
Today, the U.S. passed 50,000 deaths due to COVID-19. Chuck Todd says, “At this rate, in just a few days, more Americans will have died from Coronavirus over a span of roughly 9 weeks than died in the Vietnam War over a span of 12-years.” Aired on 4/24/2020.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, along with Dr. Deena Hinshaw, chief medical officer of health, and other provincial officials delivered an update on COVID-19 Wednesday and spoke about the ongoing work to protect public health.
Alberta confirmed five COVID-19-related fatalities, bringing the province’s total number of deaths from the virus to 66 as of April 22.
Kenney also said 70 Albertans are hospitalized with the virus, 18 of whom are in intensive care units.
Hinshaw reported that the province had identified its first COVID-19 case on a First Nation. She said Alberta Health Services is working with Sucker Creek First Nation to follow up on the case, and that the individual is currently self-isolating.
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams and associate chief medical officer of health Dr. Barbara Yaffe provided an update on the latest COVID-19 cases in the province and discussed the public health agency’s ongoing response to the pandemic on Wednesday.
Ontario reported 510 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday and 37 additional deaths, bringing the provincial total to 12,245 cases.
The death toll has risen to 659.
Meanwhile, 6,221 people have recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, which is 50.8 per cent of cases.
New figures reveal that 18,100 people have died in UK hospitals with coronavirus – a rise of 763 deaths.
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Quebec Premier François Legault and provincial health officials provided an update on Tuesday about the province’s new COVID-19 cases and the government’s ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The premier announced that the province’s updated death toll now stands at 1,041, which includes an increase of 102 more deaths as total COVID-19 cases top 20,000 in the province. The majority of deaths — 850 — to date originated in the province’s long-term care homes, according to Legault. He said there were 80 such facilities where the spread of the virus is not under control.
Another 823 hospital patients in the UK have died after contracting the coronavirus, taking the total to 17,337.
There were 18,206 tests carried out in the 24 hours up to 9am on Tuesday 21 April – far short of the 100,000 a day the government has promised by the end of April.
A further 778 COVID-19 deaths were reported in England, 70 in Scotland and 25 in Wales.
The totals in each country are now:
England – 15,607
Scotland – 985
Wales – 609
Northern Ireland – 194
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Analysis of recent UK #coronavirus figures shows that although the curve of coronavirus deaths is starting to flatten, the total will still reach 20,000 next week.
Today the government tested 21,389 people for COVID-19, far below their target of 100,000 per day by the end of this month.
Countries like Italy and France are carrying out many more tests than Great Britain.
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During a daily briefing alongside the coronavirus task force on Friday, U.S. President Trump discussed new coronavirus numbers out of China as well as reports on the origin of the virus.
Trump was asked about China doubling its figures of deaths in Wuhan on Friday in what the Chinese government said was a statistical correction, with Trump saying in reply that the U.S. can’t have the most deaths from the coronavirus, “the most in the world has to be China.”
The president was also asked about U.S. intelligence reports that they’re investigating the virus emanating from a lab in Wuhan, China. “They talk about a certain type of bat, but that bat wasn’t in that area. That bat wasn’t sold at that wet zone.”
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in UK hospitals has risen by 888, taking the total to 15,464.
The daily figure is slightly higher than it was yesterday but the overall trend in the last few days indicates that the rate of deaths is slowing down.
The UK has the fifth highest death toll in the world from COVID-19.
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According to data from 29 states, there have now been more than 5,600 coronavirus-related deaths in long-term care facilities, and more than 3,400 facilities in 39 states are reporting positive cases. NBC senior national correspondent Kate Snow reports for TODAY.
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Britain will stay in COVID-19 lockdown for another three weeks until five key tests are met to avoid a devastating second coronavirus peak, Dominic Raab said tonight.
The First Secretary of State told the nation that their efforts to stay home and stop the spread of coronavirus had been working , but more time is needed to get a full grip on the crisis.
He declared this evening: “The Government has decided the current measures must remain in place for at least the next three weeks.”
And he laid out five tests that Britain must meet before the rules can be changed.
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Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw gave an update on the most recent COVID-19 numbers in the province and on the government’s ongoing response to the pandemic on Thursday.
The province reported 162 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the provincial total to 2,158 as of April 16.
“We did expect to see higher one-day case numbers as we expanded our testing,” Hinshaw said.
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health said two more people died from the virus: a man in his 70s in the Calgary zone and a woman in her 80s in the North Zone. Both were residents of long-term care centres.
Apr.15 — Covid-19 has infected 2 million people around the world as the new coronavirus marked another grim milestone. Bloomberg’s Viviana Hurtado reports on “Bloomberg Markets.”
