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by MINILIK SALSAWI » 20 Apr 2020, 07:00
- Coronavirus-related deaths in the US exceeded 40,000 with nearly half of all casualties in New York, as protests against "stay at home" orders flared in a number of states.
- The number of deaths in Italy was the lowest in a week, while the pace of new infections also slowed. Spain registered its lowest daily death toll in almost a month.
- New Zealand will relax some of its restrictions - among the most stringent in the world - from next Monday.
- A group of more than 150 economists in Australia have urged the government to maintain social distancing restrictions as some urge a lifting of the lockdown to save the economy. "We believe a callous indifference to life is morally objectionable," they wrote.
- Globally, 2.4 million people have been diagnosed with the virus while more than 165,000 have died, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 625,000 people have recovered.
- China has said Australia's calls for an investigation into the origins and spread of the virus are baseless.
- Russia has reported 4,268 new coronavirus cases, fewer than 6,060 on previous day