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• India’s confirmed variety of infections overtook that of China’s tally regardless of a strict nationwide lockdown.

• Brazil posted one other each day file for coronavirus circumstances as Minister of Well being Nelson Teich resigned after lower than a month on the job.

• The Italian authorities handed a brand new decree to permit journey throughout the nation, in addition to to and from different European international locations beginning on June 3.

• Globally, greater than 4.5 million folks have been contaminated and greater than 307,000 have died from COVID-19, in keeping with Johns Hopkins College. About 1.6 million folks have recovered.

Listed below are all the newest updates:

Saturday, Could 16

11:10 GMT – Soccer makes comeback in Germany

After a two-month break because of the pandemic, skilled soccer resumed in Germany  with 4 video games within the second division happening behind closed doorways.

Objective celebrations had been marked by fist bumps and elbow-to-elbow touching, as gamers had been warned to maintain their feelings in verify, and to desist from spitting, handshakes and hugging.

All gamers and crew employees who weren’t on the pitch wore masks. Substitutes took their positions within the stands, slightly than beside the fields as customary.

Life-size cardboard figures with the photographs of soccer followers are positioned on the stands of a soccer stadium in Moenchengladbach, Germany for a sport performed with out spectators [Thilo Schmuelgen/Reuters]

11:37 GMT – Spain each day dying toll lowest in 2 months

The variety of each day deaths from coronavirus in Spain dropped to its lowest stage in two months.

The well being ministry introduced 102 extra COVID-19 fatalities elevating the general toll to 27,563. The tally of confirmed infections reached 230,698 after the nation counted 539 new infections.

Regardless of the slowdown within the unfold of the virus, Madrid, Barcelona and elements of Castille and Leon is not going to be becoming a member of the remainder of the nation in a extra relaxed lockdown, officers stated.

11:05 GMT – Circumstances in Qatar prime 30,000

Qatar reported 1,547 new coronavirus infections within the final 24 hours, bringing its whole to 30,972.

Ministry of Public Well being proclaims 1,547 confirmed new circumstances of COVID-19, and 242 folks new recovered from the illness within the final 24 hours, bringing the overall variety of recovered circumstances within the nation to three,788. The Ministry additionally proclaims one new dying because of the virus. #QNA pic.twitter.com/siotxGiFa2

— Qatar Information Company (@QNAEnglish) Could 16, 2020

The well being ministry additionally introduced the dying of a 74-year-old affected person who turned the 15th individual to die within the nation because of the virus.

10:15 GMT – Tanzania lowers 2020 progress projection

Tanzania’s authorities has lowered its 2020 financial outlook because of the impression of the coronavirus, with Finance Minister Philip Mpango forecasting progress of Four % in comparison with an earlier projection of 6.9 %.

The pandemic has significantly hit the nation’s tourism trade, a serious supply of revenues and employment.

Tanzania has not imposed a widespread lockdown, reporting up to now 509 infections and 21 associated deaths.

09:37 GMT – Greeks return to seashores, however hold umbrellas aside

Because the summer time season kicks in, Greeks flocked to the seaside with the opening of greater than 500 seashores.

Nonetheless, sun-seekers should respect a sequence of guidelines issued by the federal government, together with a four-metre distance between umbrella poles and an entry allowance of most 40 folks per 1,000 sq. metres.

The nation is steadily lifting limiting measures hoping to strike a steadiness between granting well being safety and resurrecting its austerity-hit financial system.

A person sporting a face masks disinfects a sunbed through the official reopening of seashores to the general public following the easing of measures towards the unfold of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19), in Athens, Greece [Costas Baltas/Reuters]

08:55 GMT – International locations report new whole figures:

Philippines: 12,305 circumstances ( 214), 817 deaths ( 11)

Malaysia: 6,872 circumstances ( 17), 113 dying ( 1)

Indonesia: 1,7025 circumstances ( 529), 1,089 deaths ( 13)

08:22 GMT – Fears over coronavirus unfold in Yemen

Throughout war-torn Yemen, the official figures for coronavirus infections and associated deaths stand at 106 and 15, respectively.

Nonetheless, native well being authorities instructed The Related Press newsagency that the numbers are doubtless a lot greater as tons of of individuals within the southern metropolis of Aden have died with signs of what seems to be the coronavirus.

A well being employee takes the temperature of individuals using a taxi van, amid considerations of the unfold of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19), on the primary entrance of Sanaa, Yemen [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]

Regardless of 5 years of bloody battle, a gravedigger within the port city instructed AP the fixed stream of useless was unprecedented.

Consultants worry a extreme outbreak would have devastating penalties in Yemen, a rustic with a gutted well being system and restricted testing capability.

07:45 GMT – Newest figures for Singapore, Russia

Singapore’s variety of infections elevated by 465 to 27,356, in keeping with the well being ministry. Most newly contaminated persons are migrant employees residing in dormitories, whereas 4 are everlasting residents.

In the meantime Russia, which has grow to be one of many pandemic’s hotspots, reported greater than 9,000 new infections, down from 10,598 yesterday.

The nation’s coronavirus taskforce stated the general variety of circumstances stood at 272,043. It added that 119 folks had died during the last 24 hours, bringing the official dying toll from the virus to 2,537

06:55 GMT – Slovakia lifts final Roma settlement quarantine

After greater than a month in isolation, residents of the final of Slovakia’s 5 Roma settlements underneath quarantine had been free of restrictions.

“I wish to thanks for enduring this and for being affected person and accountable. Keep cautious,” a member of the European Parliament Peter Pollak, who’s himself a Roma, instructed residents of the Zehra settlement.

The transfer got here in any case inhabitants had been examined and the remaining 16 contaminated folks and their households had been moved to a short lived quarantine centre.

With 1,480 circumstances and 27 deaths, Slovakia has recorded the bottom dying toll per capita in Europe as the federal government moved shortly to impose powerful restrictions within the early days of the outbreak in Europe.

A member of the Slovak navy checks an individual for the brand new coronavirus COVID-19 outdoors a Roma settlement within the japanese Slovakian village of Janovce, Slovakia [Joe Klamar/AFP] 

06:30 GMT – Thailand, Cambodia report no new circumstances

As enterprise exercise steadily returns in Thailand, the nation reported zero new coronavirus infections and deaths.

“In the present day there are two zeros … thanks all Thais who’ve given their cooperation,” stated Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for COVID-19 Scenario Administration.

From Sunday, purchasing centres and malls will reopen and a nighttime curfew might be shortened by one hour.

In the meantime in Cambodia, all 122 confirmed sufferers have now recovered after authorities stated the final contaminated individual had been discharged from hospital. The nation, although, is not going to be easing restrictions because the well being ministry urged continued vigilance.

Howdy, that is Virginia Pietromarchi taking up the reside weblog from my colleague Zaheena Rasheed.

I am handing over the weblog now to my colleague, Virginia Pietromarchi, in Doha, Qatar. Here is a abstract of this morning’s key developments:

• At the least 23 migrant employees killed as India’s circumstances exceed that of China’s.
• Italy will enable worldwide journey beginning on June 3
• Prime well being official says coronavirus deaths within the US prone to exceed 100,000 by June 1

05:49 GMT – Truck collision on Indian freeway kills 23 migrant employees

At the least 23 migrant employees had been killed in India when a truck they had been travelling in crashed right into a stationary truck on a freeway in northern Uttar Pradesh state.

One other 20 had been injured within the accident, Justice of the Peace Abhishek Singh instructed The Related Press information company. The employees had been on the best way from India’s capital, New Delhi, to their villages in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal states, he added.

On this nonetheless picture taken from video, a police rescue crew works to carry a truck on the web site of an accident in Auraiya, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Could 16, 2020 [ANI via Reuters]

Tens of 1000’s of migrant labourers have been getting back from huge cities to their villages after dropping jobs due to the countrywide lockdown. 

05:36 GMT – Vigilance urged as Australia eases lockdown

The president of the Australian Medical Affiliation urged folks to stay vigilant as Australia started stress-free a two-month lockdown with eating places, cafes and bars reopening in most elements of the nation.

“If we do the flawed issues, we threat undoing all of the features that we have made,” Tony Bartone stated. “So, the message is, sure, respect all of the efforts, respect the chance to launch a few of these measures, however let’s not have a celebration, let’s not go to city.”

New South Wales and Queensland states eased restrictions this weekend however Victoria, which remains to be struggling to curb the virus’s unfold, retained most of its lockdown measures.

Australia has recorded simply over 7,000 circumstances and 98 deaths. 

05:18 GMT – Italy to carry journey restrictions 

The Italian authorities is easing journey restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic, permitting folks to maneuver freely contained in the area the place they reside as of Monday, and between areas beginning June 3.

The federal government decree additionally permits worldwide journey to and from Italy from June 3.

Social distancing guidelines are being applied within the sectors of the financial system which have reopened, together with factories and a few companies. Colleges stay closed and crowds aren’t permitted, although folks might be allowed to attend Mass in church buildings with some restrictions ranging from subsequent week.

04:43 GMT – India surpasses China in coronavirus circumstances

India’s coronavirus circumstances surpassed China’s with the well being ministry reporting 85,940 infections and a couple of,752 deaths.

In whole, China has reported 82,933 circumstances and 4,633 deaths.

A well being official checks the physique temperature of passengers as they arrive to board a particular practice to New Delhi in Chennai on Could 15, 2020 [Arun Sankar/ AFP] 

The worst-hit Indian states are Maharashtra with 29,100 circumstances, Tamil Nadu 10,108, Gujarat 9,931 and New Delhi, 8,895.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities is attributable to announce this weekend a choice on whether or not to increase the nation’s 54-day-old lockdown. 

04:31 GMT – South Korea hopeful of containing nightclub cluster

South Korean officers confirmed 162 coronavirus circumstances linked to club-goers within the densely populated Seoul metropolitan space, but additionally expressed cautious hope that infections are starting to wane.

Authorities have up to now examined 46,000 folks after well being employees detected a slew of infections linked to golf equipment and different nightspots in Seoul’s Itaewon leisure district. 

“Regardless of huge testing, there appears to be no pattern of the fast virus unfold tied to the Itaewon outbreak,” stated Yoon Tae-ho, a senior well being ministry official. “If we move this weekend nicely, we count on the Itaewon-linked unfold to come back underneath the management of quarantine authorities.”

South Korea’s Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention reported 19 new circumstances of the coronavirus on Saturday. 9 had been linked to Itaewon and the remaining concerned passengers arriving from overseas.

03:23 GMT – Trump to revive partial funding to WHO, says Fox Information

US President Donald Trump’s administration is about to revive partial funding to the World Well being Group, Fox Information reviews, citing a draft letter.

The Trump administration will “conform to pay as much as what China pays in assessed contributions” to the WHO, Fox Information says, quoting from the letter.

BREAKING: The Trump Admin is on the point of resuming U.S. funding of the World Well being Group. pic.twitter.com/NCm2BZctRc

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) Could 16, 2020

Trump suspended US contributions to the WHO on April 14, accusing it of selling China’s “disinformation” in regards to the coronavirus outbreak. The company denies the declare.

The US was the WHO’s greatest donor. If the US matches China’s contribution, because the Fox report provides, its new funding stage might be about one-tenth of its earlier funding quantity of about $400m per yr.

02:49 GMT – Virus spreading to Brazil’s Indigenous territories at ‘scary pace’

A Brazilian rights group says the coronavirus has hit 38 indigenous teams within the nation and is spreading to Indigenous territories “with scary pace”.

A survey by the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples’ Affiliation (APIB) finds 446 circumstances of the brand new coronavirus and 92 deaths among the many affected teams, primarily within the Brazilian Amazon.

The grim information got here a day after the Indigenous neighborhood of Parque das Tribos, outdoors the northern metropolis of Manaus, held a funeral for its chief, Messias Kokama, who died of COVID-19.

02:05 GMT – US Home passes $Three trillion coronavirus support invoice

America Home of Representatives narrowly handed a $Three trillion invoice aimed toward salving the heavy human and financial toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

The invoice, crafted by Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats, handed principally alongside social gathering traces in a 208-199 vote.

The large measure would price greater than the prior 4 coronavirus payments mixed. It will ship virtually $1 trillion for state and native governments, one other spherical of $1,200 direct funds to people and assist for the unemployed, renters and householders, school debt holders and the struggling US Postal Service.

However Republicans, who management the Senate, have promised it will likely be “useless on arrival” of their chamber.

Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks previous the Statuary Corridor on the US Capitol on Could 15, 2020, in Washington, DC, the USA [Olivier Douliery/ AFP]

01:53 GMT – US deaths projected to exceed 100,000 by June 1

Robert Redfield, director of the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, says forecasting fashions point out the variety of coronavirus-related deaths within the US will improve within the coming weeks.

The overall dying toll is projected to surpass 100,000 by June 1, he added in a tweet.

CDC tracks 12 totally different forecasting fashions of attainable #COVID19 deaths within the US. As of Could 11, all forecast a rise in deaths within the coming weeks and a cumulative whole exceeding 100,000 by June 1. See nationwide & state forecasts: https://t.co/PI1AtLCCmt pic.twitter.com/iylBnom5U0

— Dr. Robert R. Redfield (@CDCDirector) Could 15, 2020

01:34 GMT – Air Canada to put off greater than 20,000 folks

Canada’s largest airline stated it plans to put off at the least 20,000 workers due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Air Canada stated the pandemic has pressured it to cut back scheduled flights by 95 %, and it doesn’t count on regular site visitors to return any time quickly.

“We subsequently took the extraordinarily troublesome determination as we speak to considerably downsize our operation to align with forecasts, which regrettably means decreasing our workforce by 50 to 60 %,” the airline stated in a press release.

01:09 GMT – LATAM Airways to chop 1,400 jobs

LATAM Airways stated it might lay off 1,400 workers in Latin America, blaming a drastic stoop in enterprise on the coronavirus pandemic.

“The consequences of COVID-19 are profound and make decreasing the scale of the LATAM group inevitable to guard its sustainability within the medium time period,” ssupport Roberto Alvo, government director of the Chilean-Brazilian provider.

The roles might be minimize from operations in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

00:39 GMT – ‘Most troublesome second’ as Mexico reviews file each day circumstances

Mexico’s well being ministry reported 2,437 new coronavirus infections on Friday in a recent one-day file rise in circumstances.

The brand new infections introduced confirmed coronavirus circumstances within the nation to 45,032. The dying toll rose by 290 to 4,767. Mexico’s highest each day toll was on Tuesday, when well being authorities reported 353 fatalities.

“We’re for the time being of the quickest progress in new circumstances,” stated Assistant Well being Secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell. “That is probably the most troublesome second.”

00:28 GMT – Brazil reviews 15,305 new infections

Brazil’s well being ministry confirmed 15,305 new circumstances of the novel coronavirus on Friday in a file for a 24-hour interval.

It additionally reported 824 associated deaths. Brazil has registered 218,223 confirmed coronavirus circumstances for the reason that begin of the pandemic and 14,817 deaths.

00:04 GMT – US Home permits proxy voting

The US Home of Representatives authorised a historic change to its guidelines permitting legislators to vote by “proxy” from distant areas quickly.

The change, proposed by Democrats and handed in a 217-189 vote, upends greater than 200 years of precedent in Congress. Proxy voting has been allowed earlier than inside committees however not for votes within the full Home or Senate.

Below the brand new guidelines, Home legislators will not be required to journey to Washington, DC to take part in flooring votes. They are going to be allowed to vote by proxy – assigning their vote to a different legislator who might be on the Capitol to solid it for them. Ultimately, a provision permits for direct distant voting, as soon as the know-how is authorised.

Simply as importantly, the Home committees – the bread and butter of legislative work – will be capable of absolutely perform remotely.

The brand new rule will stay in place solely throughout the coronavirus disaster.

Howdy and welcome to Al Jazeera’s persevering with protection of the coronavirus pandemic. I am Zaheena Rasheed in Male, Maldives.

Yow will discover all the important thing developments from yesterday, March 15, right here.