Coronavirus latest: Brazil sees record daily death toll
– The global death toll from COVID-19 has risen to roughly 275,000, while more than 3.9 million people are known to have been infected
– Brazil, the hardest-hit country in Latin Amerca by the coronavirus crisis, has reported 751 new deaths, bringing its total to nearly 10,000
– The World Health Organization announced that it is $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) short of the $1.7 billion required to fund its global coronavirus response effort. The statement came shortly after the US withdrew funding from the WHO
– COVID-19 deaths in Italy surpassed 30,000, after health authorities reported 243 new fatalities. Only the US and UK have recorded more deaths from the virus
Updates in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC/GMT)
03:43 Magician Roy Horn, who was a part of the German entertainer duo “Siegfried Roy,” died at the age of 75 after contracting COVID-19, his spokesman Dave Kirvin said. Horn, an animal tamer and magician, gained notoriety for his appearances with white tigers and lions, alongside his partner Siegfried Fischbacher.
His career ended in 2003, when he was mauled by a tiger, inflicting injuries that he never fully recovered from.
“Roy was a fighter his whole life including during these final days,” his stage partner Fischbacher said in a statement.
03:25 South Korea registered 18 new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday — 12 of these were in Seoul.
While health authorities did not immediately release further details, the new transmissions are being linked to night clubs in the Itaewon entertainment district in Seoul.
On Friday, medical workers began contact tracing after a 29-year-old man who visited three nightclubs in the district last week later tested positive for the virus.
At least 15 of the new transmissions were linked to him.
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said the government will employ ”all available resources” to locate and isolate those infected.
An administrative order has also been released advising nightclubs and similar facilities across the country to close for a month.
The total number of confirmed cases in the country has risen to 10,840, with 256 deaths.
Read more: Coronavirus: How major sports are returning in South Korea
02:24 Argentina on Friday extended its lockdown in the capital but relaxed restrictions elsewhere in the country.
A day before they were set to expire, social distancing measures in Buenos Aires were extended to May 24.
President Alberto Fernandez made the announcement in a television address, saying that he was “extremely proud” of citizens for adhering to strict social distancing protocols. He added that the measures helped the country achieve its goal of flattening the infection curve.
The mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, announced that children will now be allowed to exercise outside on weekends when accompanied by their parents.
Argentines have been under a strict quarantine since March 20. In April, they were allowed to take short walks outside their homes during the day.
The country has reported a total of 5,611 cases of COVID-19 and 293 deaths.
02:07 The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany has risen by 1,251 to 168,551, according to figures from the Robert Koch Institute released on Saturday. The total number of deaths rose by 147 to 7,369.
01:44 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 28,974 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 1,248,040. The number of deaths has risen by 2,180 to 75,477.
The US is the world’s worst-affected country in the coronavirus pandemic.
00:50 Mexico has reported 1,906 new coronavirus cases and 199 fatalities, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 31,522 and the death toll to 3,160.
The new figures follow the murder of three sisters, all of whom were nurses working in Mexico’s government hospital system. The women were found to have been murdered by strangling, authorities in the northern border state of Coahuila said. No motive has been determined yet, but the triple-murder has raised fears that a trend in attacks on health care workers is escalating further.
In other parts of Mexico, nurses have been hit, kicked off public transport, and had cleaning fluids poured on them. Mexican health authorities have denounced the attacks and urged medical personnel not to wear uniforms or scrubs on the street to avoid being targeted.
Read more: Mexico drug cartels turn charities in coronavirus pandemic
00:00 Catch up on yesterday’s coronavirus news: EU wants bloc’s borders sealed until June 15
In reporting on the coronavirus pandemic, unless otherwise specified, DW uses figures provided by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center in the United States. JHU updates figures in real-time, collating data from world health organizations, state and national governments and other public official sources, all of whom have their own systems for compiling information.
Germany’s national statistics are compiled by its public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). These figures depend on data transmission from state and local levels and are updated around once a day, which can lead to deviation from JHU.
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