Lockdown Imposed in China's Henan Province After Fresh Cases Emerge

Curfew-like measures came into effect on Tuesday, with some 600,000 people told to stay home, the county government's Weibo account said.

Henan is a province immediately to the north of Hubei, the province where the city of Wuhan is located (origin of the coronavirus).

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/coronavirus-henan-04022020155235.html

Edit: updated with a provincial map of China

Last year, NSO responded to that claim by saying that its products were "licensed for the sole use of providing governments and law enforcement agencies the ability to lawfully fight terrorism and crime".

"The software is here to solve a global pandemic," a spokesman told the BBC.

"This is about giving governments the ability to understand the situation they're facing and make informed decisions. It's a really powerful piece of software."

Zooming in, individual phones of people with the infection were mapped, and represented by an anonymised ID number. Details were also shown of other phones they had encountered and the relevant times and locations.

The engineer demonstrating the system said that it could be used to:
- predict where the next cluster of cases was likely to be
- when to move ventilators to hospitals most in need
- when to allow certain regions of a country to come out of quarantine

NSO said a number of governments around the world were piloting the system, but would not reveal their identity or whether any of them had started using it in the field.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52134452

🇺🇸 BREAKING: New York state reports 10,482 new cases of coronavirus and 397 new deaths in morning update, raising total to 102,863 cases and 2,935 dead. @COVID19Up

Specific country stats for 03.04.2020. US records a record rise in number of new cases (29,759 at the time of posting).

A chart for the US in the past week will be next followed by global stats.

Edit: updated image

United States COVID-19 cases stats for the period 27.03.2020-03.04.2020.

In this period of 8 days the US went from having 104,126 total cases to 265,506 cases, the greatest rise in number of cases in the world.

Timeline of global COVID-19 cases in the period 22.01.2020-03.04.2020 - today there have been 77,616 new cases and 6592 new deaths across the world.

Cases continue to rise at an above average rate due to the discovery of new cases in the US.

Trump to defy 'voluntary' advice for Americans to wear masks

US President Donald Trump has said he will not wear a face mask despite new medical guidance advising Americans to do so.

He could not see himself greeting "presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens" in the Oval Office while wearing one, he said.

He stressed that the guidance released on Friday was "voluntary".

"You do not have to do it," he said. "I don't think I'm going to be doing it."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52161529

Title: US sidestepped OWN SANCTIONS against Russia to save American lives from Covid-19... If only it cared as much about Iranian lives

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/484903-
us-russia-sanctions-covid/

Romanian Military issue Military Order #7: commercial flights between Romania and Belgium, Switzerland, United States*, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Turkey and Iran are hereby suspended for a period of 14 days (to be revised as necessary). This will not apply to cargo flights which will continue as normal.
https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/ordonanta-militara-7-romania-suspenda-zborurile-catre-sua-austria-belgia-elvetia-marea-britanie-irlanda-olanda-turcia-si-iran-1286532

Specific country stats for today, 04.04.2020.

Noteworthy is the fact that 4 countries have reported no new recoveries from coronavirus; Brazil, Australia, Japan and Netherlands have unfortunately not seen any new recoveries today.

Edit: big oversight - France have announced 25,615 new cases today!

A specific country analysis: Italy, UK, France, Spain, US and Germany.

US has reached 302,819 total cases.
France have added 25,615 new cases from previously unannounced cases.

Spain surpasses Italy in total cases (124,736 Spanish cases to 124,632 Italian cases).

Germany's death rate has started to catch up to their number of total cases.

Timeline of global COVID-19 cases from 22.01.2020 - 04.04.2020.

We have passed the milestone of 1.1 million total cases (nearly 1.2 million), and we have also passed the milestone of 60,000 deaths - now at 64,384 globally.

Cases continue to rise at a significant rate due to new French numbers + US passing 300,000 total cases.

COVID-19 fatality rates for countries with the high numbers of infections/high rate of deaths from the countries we have been looking at.

Note for France (red curve) the significant peak in case fatality rates prior to the release of April 4's number of new cases (+25,615), which stabilised the curve and put it back on the average rate of increase.

Period 19.03-04.04 2020

COVID-19 - lower end fatality rates from the countries we have been looking at.

Notably Germany which has one of the highest numbers of total COVID-19 cases in the world (95,637) also has one of the lowest death rates in the world.

Period 19.03-04.04 2020

🇬🇷 "There is a blood test available, which Yamarellos revealed “can diagnose which patient will need treatment very early on, and it is proposed that this test also be included in the protocol”. @COVID19Up STORY

A criminal investigation into the conduct of Carnival Australia amid the Ruby Princess debacle, which saw 2700 passengers disembark the ship in Sydney despite passengers showing coronavirus symptoms, will be launched by police.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/coronavirus-how-it-all-went-wrong-on-board-ruby-princess/news-story/6f1302fab112fa890aeb3b2bfb0e273c