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Coronavirus live updates: A ‘lot of death’ coming, Trump warns as U.S. cases surpass 300,000

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Coronavirus live updates: A ‘lot of death’ coming, Trump warns as U.S. cases surpass 300,000

President Donald Trump warned “there will be a lot of death” as the U.S. faces its “toughest week” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic at his daily White House briefing on Saturday.

His comments came as the total number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. rose to over 300,000, with the number of deaths at more than 8,000, according to NBC News’ tally. Globally, the death toll is more than 59,100, according to Johns Hopkins University.

“There will be a lot of death, unfortunately,” Trump said.

New York, by far the hardest-hit state, is gearing up for the pandemic to peak there in an expected in four to 10 days. The CDC is also recommending now that Americans wear cloth masks when out in public.

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Arata Yamamoto

55m ago / 8:04 AM UTC

Tokyo governor urges Japanese government to declare state of emergency

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has once again urged the central government of Japan to declare a state of emergency, after 118 new cases of the virus were confirmed on Saturday.

“Until now, I have ‘asked’ everyone to exercise ‘self restraint.’ But we really need to be able to issue a ‘demand’, or even ‘instructions’ with firm legal foundation,” she said at a press conference on Saturday.

In order to do that, the national government needs to declare a state of emergency, she said.  

The number of cases in Japan is on the rise — particularly in its capital city — with more than 3,000 cases in the country. The government’s “slow” reaction to the pandemic has also caused unease among business owners in Japan.

Alicia Victoria Lozano

2h ago / 7:23 AM UTC

Massachusetts prisons locked down after inmate deaths

Massachusetts prisons are on lockdown following the deaths of multiple inmates, the state’s Department of Corrections said Saturday.

Beginning Friday, the corrections department is strictly limiting movement within its facilities to allow for greater social distancing. Staff have also been instructed to use personal protective equipment if they need to be within 6 feet of an individual or in an area with inmates who have tested positive for coronavirus. Inmates will eat meals in their units.

Previously, screening areas were implemented throughout the state’s 16 prisons. People seeking to enter the facilities must have their temperatures taken and “surveyed for risk factors,” according to the corrections department.

An inmate in his 50s died earlier this week from COVID-19, NBC Boston reported. On Saturday, another inmate died from the virus, according to Boston radio station WBUR.

The Associated Press

2h ago / 7:22 AM UTC

Italians told to keep staying home as infections level off

An almost deserted Piazza del Popolo in Rome on Saturday.Sipa USA via AP

ROME — The government is demanding Italians stay home and not take the leveling off of new coronavirus infections as a sign the emergency is over. The demand follows evidence that more and more Italians are relaxing restrictions.

Top government and regional officials took to national television Saturday after photos were published in leading daily Corriere della Sera and La Stampa showing huge crowds of people out shopping in Naples, Rome, Genoa and even the Veneto city of Padua.

Lombardy vice governor Fabrizio Sala claimed cell phone date showed 38 percent percent of the region’s people were out and about. That’s the highest figure since March 20.

The Associated Press

2h ago / 7:21 AM UTC

First case confirmed in Falkland Islands

LONDON — The first case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the Falkland Islands, a remote British territory in the South Atlantic.

The islands’ government says the patient was admitted to a hospital on Tuesday from the Mount Pleasant Complex, a Royal Air Force base. The patient was in stable condition and  not on a ventilator. The Falklands’ chief medical officer Dr. Rebecca Edwards, said authorities were working with the British military on tracing people who may have come into contact with the patient.

The U.K., which maintains a permanent military presence on the islands, has sent in extra army medics to help with the fight against the new coronavirus.

The islands have a population of about 3,000 and lie off the coast of South America. Britain and Argentina fought a 1982 war over the islands, known to the Argentines as the Malvinas.

The Associated Press

2h ago / 7:20 AM UTC

NY gets 1,100 ventilators with help from China, Oregon

New York secured a planeload of ventilators from China on Saturday, and Oregon was sending a shipment of its own to battle the coronavirus pandemic at its U.S. core, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. But the governor’s startling plan to force hospitals elsewhere in the state to give spare ventilators to the fight in New York City apparently hadn’t yet materialized, a day after he ordered them to surrender 20 percent of any unused supply to the National Guard for temporary redistribution.

The state got 1,000 ventilators after the Chinese government facilitated a donation from billionaires Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai, the co-founders of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Cuomo said. He added that the state of Oregon had volunteered to send 140 more breathing machines.

The influx offered some hope after the governor repeatedly warned that the state’s supply of the vital machines would be exhausted in days if the number of critically ill coronavirus patients kept growing at the current rate.

“It’s going to make a significant difference for us,” Cuomo said.

Ventilators! Governor Cuomo called, and they listened. Medical supplies including 1000 ventilators, and skids of boxed face masks were delivered by China Cargo and Asiana Saturday April 4th. Ground ops crew from WFS handled the arriving freight from the 747 at JFK Airport, pic.twitter.com/oMIkYERJNU

— AirportVoice (@AirportVoice) April 4, 2020

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