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Kamis, 16 April 2020

Coronavirus in the U.K.: Map and Case Count - The New York Times

There have been at least 103,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United Kingdom, according to a New York Times database. As of Thursday morning, 13,729 people had died.

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Sources: Department for Health and Social Care, Public Health England, Public Health Scotland, Public Health Wales, Public Health Agency of Northern Ireland, Chief Medical Officer Directorate. Data for Scotland and Wales is reported by public health boards. Circles are sized by the number of people there who have tested positive, which may differ from where they contracted the illness.

Here’s how the number of cases and deaths are growing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland:

Cases by country and local area

Note: Detailed death data was not available for some areas.

New cases in Britain have continued to grow in recent weeks, even as they have leveled off or declined in Italy and Spain. But officials have expressed optimism that the rate of growth in cases and deaths was slowing, and researchers at Imperial College London estimate that social distancing measures are working to reduce rates of transmission. The nation continues to report around 5,000 new cases each day, the vast majority of which are in England.

Britain waited until March 23 to impose a national lockdown, later than other European countries, following a debate over how aggressively it should try to curb the spread of the virus. It also got a slow start in testing and contact tracing, with frontline doctors and nurses unable to get tested. The U.K. has pledged to carry out 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.

The epidemic has ravaged the nation’s political establishment, most prominently Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who ended up in intensive care with a serious case of the virus before being discharged on Sunday.

Britain’s National Health Service has so far been able to handle the increased number of patients, though there are persistent reports about a lack of protective gear. Scottish and Welsh officials have raised concerns over reports that the NHS in England is being prioritised for personal protective equipment, though Downing Street denies the accusations.

How Cases Are Growing

Here’s how the number of new cases is changing over time:

New reported cases by day in the United Kingdom

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New reported deaths by day in the United Kingdom

500 deaths

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April 15

7-day average

New deaths

Note: Scale for deaths chart is adjusted from cases chart to display trend.

The government’s daily death statistics do not include those who died in nursing homes. The Office of National Statistics publishes figures that include those victims, although they lag the hospital numbers by 12 days. As a result, the death toll is estimated to be at least 1,000 people higher than the daily number. The low level of testing means the number of cases is probably a multiple of the reported figures.

Where You Can Find More Information

Read more about the advent of telemedicine, the British volunteers supporting the vulnerable and healing Brexit wounds, and how the BBC is acting as pandemic “comfort food” for self-isolating Britons.

Other areas of debate include police drones and the demise of “individual liberty,” the medical rationing dilemma, and everything you need to know about Britain’s “top finance official” Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.

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Germany set to lift lockdown cautiously, while calls for UK exit strategy get louder - CNBC

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to make a press statement on the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Chancellery, in Berlin on March 22, 2020.

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Germany has set out a roadmap for cautiously lifting coronavirus lockdown measures, while in the U.K., the government is set to extend the country's lockdown, amid growing calls for an explicit exit strategy.

Germany announced Wednesday that small shops (with a retail space of below 800 square meters) will be allowed to re-open from Monday April 20, as long as hygiene and social distancing measures are in place, according to public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. In addition, larger car dealerships, bike shops and book shops can also reopen.

Schools in the country will open their doors on Monday May 4 giving priority to students that have to take exams. Large, mass gatherings will remain banned until August 31, however. A decision on lifting restrictions on social venues, such as restaurants and bars, is expected to be taken at a later date.

"We have to proceed with extreme caution," Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Berlin Wednesday, warning that the country is "walking on thin ice."

Germany has been praised for its handling of the coronavirus crisis; it has over 127,000 confirmed cases of the virus but has seen a fraction of the deaths reported in other western European nations. Its death toll is currently at 3,804, according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University, in contrast to Italy's 21,645 and Spain's 18,812.

The German response to the outbreak has included widespread testing and contact tracing, as well as a lockdown imposed on March 22 — factors which appear to have prevented its robust healthcare system being overwhelmed.

While Germany can see light at the end of the tunnel, the U.K. appears to be in a far more confused state. There is criticism mounting over the government's handling of the crisis, given a comparatively small amount of testing, and a lack of personal protective equipment.

Dominic Raab, who is deputizing for Prime Minister Boris Johnson while he is recovering from a serious case of Covid-19, is meeting government ministers Thursday, and is chairing a meeting of its emergency response committee.

It's widely expected that the country's lockdown will be extended for three weeks, amid stark warnings that the U.K. could end up being the worst hit country from the coronavirus in Europe.

The U.K.'s top medical expert stated Wednesday that the country is probably seeing its peak of the virus (the death toll currently stands at 12,868 in British hospitals, with 761 daily deaths reported Wednesday), but it is too early to consider lifting lockdown measures that have been in place since March 23.

"Our view is that it is probably reaching the peak overall," the U.K.'s chief medical adviser Chris Whitty said at the government's daily news conference Wednesday. "We are not yet at the point where we can say confidently and safely 'this is now past the peak and we can start thinking very much now about the next phases'."

The U.K. is not alone in its caution; France too has extended its lockdown until May 11. But the U.K. does appear to be behind its European peers with regards to a robust testing regime, which could allow the identification of those that are safe to return to work, and those that are not.

. In comparison, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said at a press conference last week that Germany was carrying out 100,000 tests per day.

Some economists, including JP Morgan's David Mackie, believe that exit strategies need to include "age-and morbidity-related restrictions," which could enable a significant proportion of the workforce return.

"As long there is limited interaction between those aged 60 or above, and those with relevant co-morbidities and the rest of the population, this should allow economic activity to recover, social welfare to improve, herd immunity to increase while also limiting pressure on healthcare systems and fatalities," he said in a note Wednesday.

"This may ultimately protect the old, and those with morbidities, more quickly than the arrival of a vaccine. This strikes us as a pretty good second-best policy in the absence of an ability to test widely. It is not perfect, but it may be the least bad outcome."

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Germany set to lift lockdown cautiously, while calls for UK exit strategy get louder - CNBC

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to make a press statement on the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Chancellery, in Berlin on March 22, 2020.

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"We have to proceed with extreme caution," Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Berlin Wednesday, warning that the country is "walking on thin ice."

It's widely expected that the country's lockdown will be extended for three weeks, amid stark warnings that the U.K> could end up being the worst hit country from the coronavirus in Europe.

. In comparison, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said at a press conference last week that Germany was carrying out 100,000 tests per day.

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Coronavirus: Brits in India slam UK government's 'shambolic' repatriation - BBC News

British tourists returning from India have called the UK government response "shambolic" and "embarrassing".

Some said it took hours to reach anyone by phone, communication was confusing and the British authorities were "incompetent and uncaring".

One man, who is still in India, said he was told he was being taken to a flight but later found out this was an error.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said repatriation was a "huge and complex" operation.

'No help'

Andy Hadfield, 56, from Derbyshire, who was in India for a two-month holiday, arrived back from Goa on Sunday, three weeks later than planned.

He said he had already had his scheduled flight home cancelled before India's lockdown was initially announced on 25 March and then spent hours waiting on the phone. But he said when he got through to a British official he was offered "no help whatsoever".

Describing his attempts to get a flight home, he said: "You pay them £681 and get nothing - it just says you're on a list but there is no promise of a flight.

"The Germans, Belgians, Italians were all getting flown back. It was embarrassing; everyone felt our government just didn't care."

He said when the plane carrying more than 300 people landed passengers were told, if necessary, to get home via public transport or have someone pick them up.

"It's shambolic," he said.

'Did not sleep'

Chandni Ladwa, 37, arrived back in Leicester from the Gujarat region on Monday. She said she flew out in early March before it was clear how serious the situation would become and when the FCO still said travel to India was ok.

She said she only found out she had a place on a return flight the day before it left and had to argue with the transport company the FCO was using "for hours" in the middle of the night to ensure she would get to the airport the next day.

Miss Ladwa said the company said it had not been given her details by the FCO. She said the taxi did arrive the next morning, but three hours late.

"There's a four-letter word for what I think of the government response," she told the BBC. "There was just no-one to speak to."

Amrik Mahil, 68, from Nottingham, is still in the Punjab area but was hoping to get a flight on Thursday because after that his medication for a blood clot would run out.

He has been in India since February and said he has not left the house he has been staying in for a month as there had been reports of assaults on people breaking the curfew.

Mr Mahil had been told he would be taken to the airport for the first flight out but was later told that was an error.

He added: "I did not sleep that night. The government needs to pull its finger out and get people home."

The FCO said it will have repatriated about 5,000 UK citizens from India by next week. But it estimated there were up to 20,000 in the country wanting to get home when the lockdown was first declared on 25 March.

A spokeswoman said it is keeping everyone updated through social media and has tripled its call centre capacity.

She added: "We are doing all we can. This is a huge and complex operation which also involves working with the Indian Government to enable people to move within India."

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Captain Tom, 99, raises $8 million with walk in his UK garden - Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - A 99-year-old war veteran has become a celebrity by raising at least 6.4 million pounds for Britain’s health service with a walk around his garden in the coronavirus crisis.

Retired British Army Captain Tom Moore, 99, poses after he continued to raise money for health workers, by attempting to walk the length of his garden one hundred times before his 100th birthday this month as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Marston Moretaine, Britain, April 15, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra

Retired army captain Tom Moore, who has used a walking frame to move around since breaking his hip, has set himself the target of walking the 25 metres around his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday later this month.

The story has lifted the hearts of a nation stuck in lockdown for the last month and weary of the relentless wave of grim news. So far, more than 12,000 people with COVID-19 have died in British hospitals, the fifth-highest total globally.

Moore had originally aimed to raise 500,000 pounds but that target has been smashed as media attention from around the globe has zoomed in on his garden in Bedfordshire, central England.

His son-in-law Colin Ingram said Moore wanted to give something back after receiving such good care from the state-run National Health Service (NHS) when he broke his hip two years ago and in subsequent hospital visits.

“It was literally just something we were doing in the garden to keep him walking on his recovery from his hip operation,” Ingram told Reuters of how it started.

“We said we’d give him a pound a lap, and thank goodness I didn’t say I’d match any money he raised!”

Moore, pictured with his campaign medals from his time as an army officer in Asia in World War Two, has featured on UK news programmes and front pages, and his family are fielding interest from as far afield as the United States, France and Australia.

Raising money for the NHS has given Moore a new lease of life, said his son-in-law, and the veteran has no plans to stop, even though he is due to hit his 100-lap target on Thursday morning.

“He’s coming down in the morning sprightly and loving it. If the public wants to keep on donating then he’ll keep on walking,” Ingram said.

Reporting by Sarah Young; editing by Stephen Addison/Guy Faulconbridge/Pravin Char

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Women killed by men during U.K.'s coronavirus lockdown 3 times higher than average, data show - CBS News

London — Nearly three times as many women were killed by men during three weeks of coronavirus lockdown in Britain than the average for the same period over the last decade, according to data compiled by monitoring and advocacy groups. In the three weeks starting March 23, when people were asked to stay in their homes to stop the spread of COVID-19, 14 women were killed by men in the U.K., according to Karen Ingala Smith, who runs Counting Dead Women and is chief executive of Nia, a nonprofit dedicated to ending sexual violence and domestic abuse. That's the highest number recorded in over a decade.

Data gathered by Counting Dead Women and The Femicide Census show that, on average, 5 women are killed by men between March 23 and April 12 each year. The second highest number of deaths recorded for the same three-week period was in 2009, the first year for which The Femicide Census has data, when 11 women were killed.

Counting Dead Women uses media reports to track the number of women killed by men in the country. It provided data from 2019 and 2020 to CBS News. The Femicide Census uses numbers released by the government in response to Freedom of Information requests. It provided data from 2009 to 2018.

The United Nations, Pope Francis and domestic violence services around the globe have issued stark warnings about a potential rise in abuse against women as victims and survivors are told to stay home or put under quarantine alongside perpetrators.

"A lot of women will be feeling really terrified right now, living in homes where there's no escape for them," Fiona Dyer, chief executive of the London-based domestic violence charity Solace, told CBS News.

"Christmas on overdrive"

"It's not likely that more people are becoming abusive, it's that those abusive tactics are becoming more prevalent as both perpetrators and abusers are in the house 24/7," Dwyer told CBS News.

"Perpetrators will probably be stopping women from leaving the house at all, so they won't even be able to go out to exercise. The perpetrators will be doing the shopping, ensuring that those women are trapped within the house with very limited access to… telephones. What we see quite often is that telephones are smashed and computers are hacked into, and access to things like social media and everything else is often forced to be deleted," Dwyer said.

Solace saw a 49% increase in calls to its helpline as restrictions were introduced ahead of Britain's full lockdown in March, and shelters that normally operate with available bed space are now full. However, since the lockdown came into effect on March 23, the number of calls to Solace has decreased.

"It's essentially Christmas on overdrive," Dwyer said. "A lot of people stay together for the sake of children at Christmas, for the sake of families staying together over the Christmas period. … We always have an increase in demand for our services post-Christmas."

Lucy Hadley, campaigns and policy manager at Women's Aid Federation England, a national charity working to end domestic abuse towards women and children, told CBS News that services across the country are expecting a huge surge in demand once the lockdown is lifted.

"I think it's really important to make clear that the coronavirus doesn't cause domestic abuse. It's exacerbating those existing behaviors within relationships and making access to support and safety harder," Hadley said.

Adapting to the new reality

Domestic violence services in the U.K. are adapting as best they can to a world in which many victims and survivors can't escape even for a minute to call for help, and funding is drying up as charity shops are closed and events are cancelled to stop the spread of COVID-19.

"We run a live chat instant messenger service for women that are experiencing domestic abuse. We've seen demand for that rise by 41% since the middle of March when the lockdown started," Hadley told CBS News. "That tells us that women may be struggling to access those normal forms of support and help from police and other statutory agencies, but are seeking help and are wanting support from specialist women's services like ours."

At the moment, Women's Aid is only able to run its chat service two hours per day, but the organization is working to increase those operating hours, Hadley said.

At shelters, increased cleaning and social distancing measures have been introduced. Women and children are being given allotted times to use communal spaces like kitchens. Some frontline staff have even moved into shelters so they can continue to provide support during the lockdown, Dwyer said.

"If you need to escape your home because of an abusive partner and you're no longer safe to live there, it's absolutely vital that you can call the police if you're in an emergency and you know that a safe refuge space is out there," Hadley said. "Obviously it is more challenging to access during this period because… they are struggling to take new referrals, but that does not mean they're not."

"This has been going on forever"

"It's bad that the number of deaths is higher, but I don't think the number of extremely abusive, violent men is higher than it was a month ago," Smith told CBS News.

She launched the Counting Dead Women project in 2012 after learning a woman being supported by the sexual violence and domestic abuse charity she worked for had been killed.

"I just started Googling to find out what had happened to her, because we weren't told very much when we were told she'd been killed, and what I found was loads of names of women who had been killed in the first few days of that year. So I just started making a list of the names," she said.

She eventually helped found The Femicide Census, which uses Freedom of Information requests to compile data on women who have been killed by men in the U.K.

"I'm glad people are waking up to the fact that women are living with this, but we've got to look at this because we care about women killed by men all the time, not just because we care that it's higher than usual," she said.

"This has been going on forever, basically. Men have been killing their partners, and we're not seeing men who weren't abusive before coronavirus kill their partners. These are women that have been living with violence for months or years before this."

If you are a survivor or victim in the U.S. and it is an emergency, dial 911. Other resources include: The National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE, or text LOVEIS to 22522. If it is an emergency in the U.K., call the police at 999, or for additional resources in Britain, you can dial the National Domestic Abuse hotline at 0808 2000 247.

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Rita Ora rents farmhouse amid coronavirus pandemic, leaves UK locals in uproar: report - Fox News

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U.K. citizens are reportedly in an uproar after Rita Ora ditched her hometown of London for a farmhouse rental property over 100 miles away despite the mandatory lockdown, according to a new report.

The "Ritual" singer, 29, has been staying at a rental vacation home since March 21, prior to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's stay-at-home order, an unnamed agent for the singer informed The Sun.

While away from home, Ora and her crew have been causing a ruckus in public spaces by taking bike rides and "shooing away neighbors" off public paths, residents claimed, according to the outlet.

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Rita's crew has also been accused of using drones to "follow" residents in the area and, in one instance, the singer's pals were shouted at by a farmer for crossing their private property.

According to the outlet, residents aired their frustrations in an online group for locals, with one comment reading, "Surely she should respect the rules and have stayed in f------ London?"

Another neighbor claimed her 7-year-old son was "reduced to tears" when Ora's security staff yelled at him for being on a public path. The mother wrote that a drone allegedly from Ora's property followed her and her son "minutes later" as they walked away.

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A rep for the singer did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

Friends of the star, who were not named, alleged that Ora has been holed up at the vacation rental working on music and denied reports of any irresponsible behavior.

One pal was quoted as saying Ora is taking the coronavirus lockdown "deadly serious" and is self-isolating in quarantine.

Meanwhile, Ora has remained present on social media, giving her fans a peek at her behind-the-scenes recording sessions.

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On Monday, the British singer-songwriter announced she would be taking part in an upcoming special titled "One World: Together at Home" that will benefit the World Health Organization.

"Together we'll be performing to celebrate healthcare workers around the world in support of the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO. Please stay safe and stay at home!" Ora captioned a selfie with the hashtag #TogetherAtHome.

And just earlier this month, Ora's mother spoke with Hello! to reveal the singer has signed up as a National Health Service volunteer, which could involve administerial responsibilities to delivering medical supplies.

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"She's very keen to do her bit," Ora's mother shared. "She and her older sister Elena are among the 750,000 people who have applied to help out and prevent this illness coming through our door and overwhelming the NHS. They'll be among the people who deliver medical supplies, collect prescriptions, check on the elderly and make phone calls to lonely and vulnerable members of the community."

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