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• Some 251,059 folks all over the world have now died from COVID-19, in response to information compiled by Johns Hopkins College. The variety of confirmed circumstances exceeds 3.5 million, whereas almost 1.2 million folks have recovered.
• China’s state broadcaster CCTV attacked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s feedback on the origins of the coronavirus as “insane and evasive”.
• The US might see as much as 3,000 deaths per day from the coronavirus by June 1, in response to paperwork obtained by The New York Instances newspaper. 
• Italy was amongst nations in Europe and all over the world that started cautiously easing lockdowns imposed to curb the unfold of the coronavirus.

Listed here are the most recent updates:

Tuesday, Might 5

03:05 GMT – Germany studies 685 new circumstances, 139 extra deaths

Germany’s Robert Koch Institute says the variety of coronavirus circumstances within the nation has risen by 685, bringing the full to 163,860. An extra 139 deaths have been reported, bringing the full to six,831.

02:25 GMT –  Fugitive in China offers himself up after failing to get well being code

Well being monitoring via cellphone apps is on the centre of China’s return to regular life after the coronavirus outbreak.

The app is colour-coded in response to every individual’s well being standing, and permits them to maneuver round, get work and even purchase meals.

But it surely appears it has additionally ensnared a person who had been on the run for greater than twenty years after a killing. The International Instances says he turned himself in as a result of he could not get the code.