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

Trump predicts ‘a lot of death’ as cases pass 300,000

Mr Trump's calls to relax restrictions on life came on the day confirmed coronavirus infections in the US surpassed 300,000, the highest number in the world.

As of Saturday, there were almost 8,500 deaths from Covid-19 in the US, with most in New York state - the epicentre of the outbreak.

On Saturday, New York state recorded 630 more coronavirus deaths, another daily record that takes its toll to 3,565. The state now has almost as many cases - over 113,000 - as the whole of Italy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52168682

More than 20 million people applied for unemployment benefits n the last two weeks of March after being thrown out of work by the business shutdowns due the coronavirus pandemic. And the numbers are expecting to keep surging, with some economists predicting the loss of 20 million jobs — or more.

The unemployment rate in March rose to 4.4% from a 50-year low of 3.5% in February, but about 1.4 million people told the Labor Department they were employed but not at work “for other reasons.” Adjusted for inaccuracies in how some households responded to the government’s monthly survey the jobless rate climbed to about 5.4%.
Yet if all the recent job losses were factored in, the unemployment rate was probably twice as high.

“If we assume that every person who was laid off or furloughed over those two weeks immediately applied for unemployment insurance, then the unemployment rate at the beginning of this week was around 10.5%,” said economist Michael Farren, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

A rate that high would already exceed the 10% peak during the worst of the 2007-2009 Great Recession. And it wouldn’t be long before it topped the previous post-World War Two high of 10.8% in 1982. Accurate records only go back to 1948.

How high can it go?

If 20 million to 25 million people lost their jobs in the next two months, the unemployment rate could climb to around 16%, some economists estimate, but others think that figure would be too low.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-soaring-us-unemployment-rate-could-approach-great-depression-era-levels-2020-04-03

UK coronavirus - Abu Dhabi 'charges NHS millions a month in rent' to use its ExCel centre as Nightingale hospital
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11331194/coronavirus-abu-dhabi-nhs-rent/