Live COVID-19 updates: Finance minister says Britain's GDP may fall by 25-30 pct in Q2
People's Daily Online
(Xinhua) 13:03, April 13, 2020
BEIJING, April 13 (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.
WASHINGTON -- Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington D.C., said on Sunday coronavirus cases in the U.S. capital will likely peak in June.
"We, like all cities and states around the country, are looking at various models to see what they tell us about when our medical surge will happen," Bowser said in an interview on Fox News. "And we expect that could happen in Washington D.C. in June."
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WELLINGTON -- A fifth person has died of COVID-19 in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
New Zealand reported 15 new confirmed and four new probable cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed and probable infections to 1,349 in the country.
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LONDON -- Britain's gross domestic product (GDP) could fall by 25 to 30 percent in the second quarter amid the COVID-19 pandemic, British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak said during the weekend, according to local media reports.
Sunak made the remarks when discussing with his colleagues about the virus's impact on the economy as members of the cabinet pressed for easing lockdown restrictions next month.
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SEOUL -- South Korea reported 25 more cases of the COVID-19 compared with 24 hours ago as of midnight Monday local time, raising the total number of infections to 10,537.
The daily caseload hovered around 30 in recent days, with 39 on Thursday, 27 on Friday, 30 on Saturday and 32 on Sunday each. Of the new cases, 16 were imported from overseas.
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NEW YORK -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 550,000 on Sunday afternoon, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
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