Live COVID-19 updates: Cases on USS Theodore Roosevelt rise to 550 -- Navy
People's Daily Online
(Xinhua) 13:37, April 12, 2020
BEIJING, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The world is now in a battle against COVID-19, a disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus that has spread to over 200 countries and regions.
The following are the updates on the contagious disease.
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WASHINGTON -- The number of COVID-19 cases on USS Theodore Roosevelt, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has risen to 550, the U.S. Navy said on Saturday.
In an update, the U.S. Navy said 92 percent of the USS Theodore Roosevelt crew members have been tested for COVID-19, with 550 positive and 3,673 negative results, and that a total of 3,696 sailors have moved ashore.
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NEW DELHI -- India has recorded 31 new deaths and 827 new cases due to the coronavirus on Sunday, according to the federal health ministry.
The death toll reached 273 and the total number of confirmed cases stood at 8,356, with 7,367 active cases in the country.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States and China have to facilitate bilateral cooperation on combating COVID-19, which is affecting over 180 countries and regions, to save the future of the global community, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai has said.
"Let's work together to respond to this global crisis, to save people's lives, to save the future of global economy, and to save the future of the global community. This is our paramount task," Cui said in an interview on April 3 with Ian Bremmer at weekly digital and broadcast show Gzero World, which was aired nationally on Saturday by American Public Television.
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SAO PAULO -- The Brazilian Ministry of Health said Saturday that the country registered 68 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 1,124.
Brazil has the highest number of deaths and cases in Latin America, with a mortality rate of 5.4 percent, according to the ministry.
In the last few hours, 1,089 new cases have been registered, bring the count to 20,727.
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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's confirmed COVID-19 cases have risen to 5,011 with 86 deaths, according to the data updated by the country's health ministry on Saturday night.
The country's eastern Punjab province continued as the most affected area with a total of 2,414 cases followed by southern Sindh province which has 1,318 confirmed cases.
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GENEVA -- The COVID-19 pandemic has hit over 22,000 healthcare workers across 52 countries and regions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday.
According to its daily situation report, 22,073 COVID-19 cases among healthcare workers have been reported to the WHO as of Wednesday, April 8.
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BEIJING -- Chinese health authority said Sunday that it received reports of 99 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Saturday, of which 97 were imported.
Two new domestically transmitted cases were reported, both in Heilongjiang Province, the National Health Commission said in a daily report.
No death was reported Saturday. And 49 new suspected cases, all imported ones, were reported on the mainland.
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NEW YORK -- The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States topped 20,000 Saturday afternoon, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
A total of 20,071 people have died of the disease among 519,453 confirmed cases in the country as of 4 p.m. local time (2000 GMT), the CSSE said.
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