Infections from Covid-19 are on course to reach the one million mark after global cases doubled in the past week, according to the World Health Organization | Read more:
Funeral parties have been banned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, New York has locked up its famed street basketball courts, and hard-hit Italy has extended its economically-crippling lockdown until 13 April.
At about 2.35am GMT, 5,116 people had died, the tally showed, on the same day the US set a one-day record of 884 people dead from the disease in 24 hours.According to Johns Hopkins, the US leads the world in number of cases of new coronavirus, with 215,417. The victims of the new coronavirus have been disproportionately elderly, but a number of recent cases have highlighted that the disease can befall even youngsters with seemingly strong immune systems.
In Florida, Governor Ron De Santis ordered all 21 million residents of the Sunshine State to stay inside for one month, after having resisted a lockdown for weeks. The Food and Agriculture Organization, WHO and World Trade Organization warned in a joint statement that panic buying already seen in parts of the world could threaten food supplies.
It is crucial to "ensure that the economic crisis unleashed by the virus doesn't become a security crisis," he warned.New figures on infection rates and virus-related deaths would show whether there were signs the epidemic could be peaking in Europe, where at least 34,000 have died.
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