World Views

SOUTH KOREA reported 32 additional cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, a continued downward trend in new infections in the country. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement the additional cases increased the country’s total to 10,512. It says 7,368 of them have been recovered and released from quarantine and that 13,788 are under tests to determine whether they’ve contracted the virus.

USA Social restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus could have saved lives if they›d been started earlier, said the nation›s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci (pictured), seeming to draw the ire of President Donald Trump. Trump reposted a tweet that referenced Fauci’s comments and that said “Time to #FireFauci.” Fauci said yesterday [Macau time] that the economy in parts of the country could have a “rolling reentry” as early as next month.

GUAM People in Guam are used to a constant U.S. military presence on the strategic Pacific island, but some are nervous as hundreds of sailors from a coronavirus-stricken Navy aircraft carrier flood into hotels for quarantine. Officials insist they have enforced strict safety measures. An outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt began in late March.

USA The $2.2 trillion package that Congress approved to offer financial help during the coronavirus pandemic has one major exclusion: millions of immigrants who do not have legal status in the U.S. but work here and pay taxes. Roughly 4.3 million mostly unauthorized immigrants who do not have a Social Security number file taxes using what’s known as a taxpayer identification number.

TURKEY introduced a new coronavirus lockdown over the weekend that took many by surprise and led to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu offering his resignation yesterday. The 48-hour curfew across 31 cities marked a major development in Turkey, which had previously adopted a more relaxed approach to fighting the virus than its neighbors in Europe and the Mideast.

EGYPT’s chief prosecutor ordered 23 people to remain in detention for 15 days pending an investigation into blocking a road to a cemetery in a Nile Delta village to prevent the burial of a physician who died from the coronavirus. Public Prosecutor Hamada el-Sawy described preventing her burial as a “terrorist act.” The 64-year-old physician died on Friday in a quarantine-designed hospital in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his gratitude to the staff of the National Health Service for saving his life when his treatment for the coronavirus could have “gone either way” as the U.K. yesterday became the fourth European country to surpass 10,000 virus-related deaths. He listed a number of the frontline staff members who cared for him during his week-long stay at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London but singled out two nurses he identified as Jenny from Invercargill on New Zealand’s South Island and Luis from Portugal.