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Coronavirus Update: 2nd, April, 2020. 
Source: WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC,, JHU CSSE, DXY

	Location	Confirmed	Cases/million	Recovered	Deaths
	Worldwide	937,567	133.06	194,311	47,256
	New Zealand	723	161.31	92	1
	United States	216,362	661.48	8,878	5,133
	Italy	110,574	1,750.55	16,847	13,155
	Spain	104,118	2,101.26	22,647	9,387
	China	81,589	59.41	76,408	3,318
	Germany	78,027	949.96	11,722	931
	France	56,325	833.63	7,882	4,025
	Iran	47,593	587.62	15,473	3,036
	UK	29,474	454.19	0	2,352
	Switzerland	17,785	2,621.22	4,013	488
	Turkey	15,679	187.31	333	277
	Belgium	13,964	1,354.78	2,132	828
	Netherlands	13,614	836.03	0	1,173
	Austria	10,711	1,366.90	1,436	146
	South Korea	9,976	195.46	5,828	169
	Canada	9,731	281.63	1,541	111
	Portugal	8,251	772.8	43	187
	Brazil	6,836	33.16	127	240
	Israel	6,211	544.67	241	31
	Australia	5,108	223.16	422	24
	Sweden	5,084	505.78	103	259
	Norway	4,900	919.52	0	45
	Czechia	3,589	337	61	39
	Russia	3,548	24.78	235	30
	Ireland	3,447	659.94	5	85
	Malaysia	3,116	93.77	767	50
	Denmark	3,107	559.92	894	104
	Chile	3,031	173.41	234	16
	Ecuador	2,748	165.99	58	93
	Philippines	2,633	25.26	51	107
	Poland	2,554	68.7	35	43
	Romania	2,460	114.6	252	92
	Japan	2,384	18.8	472	57
	Luxembourg	2,319	2,896.63	80	29
	Pakistan	2,291	11.4	107	31
	India	1,964	1.55	150	50
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Trump warns coronavirus more "vicious" than flu, despite his previous comments.

Trump warns coronavirus more "vicious" than flu, despite his previous comments

1st April, 2020:  President Trump acknowledged Tuesday that Covid-19 is worse than the seasonal flu, despite claiming otherwise multiple times in the past.

“It’s not the flu. It’s vicious,” Trump said of Covid-19 Tuesday while discussing a personal friend of his who is in a coma battling coronavirus.
Some context: The tone is new for Trump who on March 9 tweeted: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!”

Two days after Trump made that comment, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that coronavirus is “10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.” 

Today members of the coronavirus task force warned that Americans should be “prepared” for over 100,000 deaths.

Coronavirus and a fake news pandemic.

Coronavirus and a fake news pandemic.

Megyn Kelly is probably the most famous female journalist in America today (though Oprah Winfrey might object). Kelly was for years an anchor on Fox News; her dealings with its boss, the sexual predator Roger Ailes, is the subject of a recent film called, yes, Bombshell. Charlize Theron played Kelly.
On Thursday morning, Kelly tweeted: "I'm so frustrated right now… that we can't trust the media to tell us the truth without inflaming it to hurt Trump… that Trump has misled so many times we no longer know when to trust his word… that even I as a journalist am not sure where to turn for real info on COVID".

If trust in the media is your concern, perhaps working for Fox News wasn't the smartest place to start, as many of Kelly's nearly 20,000 respondents pointed out. I'm not one to encourage a social media pile-on; indeed I hardly tweet these days, so corrupting has that platform become for our public domain. But everything about Kelly's tweet is at once remarkable and awful.

Full article here...

Fact check: Sunlight does not kill the new coronavirus. #coroanvirus, #covid19virus, #coronavirusnz, #davidlimnz, #drmobileslimited

The claim: Sunlight kills the new coronavirus

An article on a holistic health blog that has been circulating Facebook tells people to go outside to prevent catching the new coronavirus because sunlight kills it.

“In my opinion, keeping the beaches closed and having people quarantined inside their homes is a bad decision. Getting more sunshine is a proactive step we can all take at protecting ourselves from the current coronavirus outbreak,” wrote David Friedman, the author of the blog post. “Instead of staying quarantined inside your house, go outside on your back deck and soak up some virus destroying sunshine!"

The claim has been shared elsewhere. Similar posts of graphics offering tips have spread throughout social media.

Full details here.