Daily Mail: Worldwide coronavirus infection toll hits 100,000 as the World Health Organization's chief warns 'this is NOT a drill' and urges countries to 'pull out all the stops' to contain the killer virus
* The global toll is 100,094 as South Korea, Iran and Italy recorded more cases
* A 52-year-old man in Slovakia whose son visited Venice was confirmed today
* Serbia recorded a case too, a 43-year-old man who had visited Budapest
* A 25-year-old man Peruvian who had travelled Europe was also struck
* The Netherlands has reported its first death. The UK is believed to have a second
* At least 3,400 people have died from COVID-19, meaning 3.4% of infected die
Coronavirus has now infected more than 100,000 people worldwide as the head of the World Health Organization warned the outbreak is 'not a drill'.
WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom said countries need to 'pull out all the stops' to contain the deadly virus - but had concerns some are underestimating the threat.
Slovakia, Serbia and Peru today became the latest countries to confirm cases of the killer infection today.
The global toll surged into six figures, with South Korea, Iran and Italy all recording huge spikes amid fears the escalating crisis will only continue to worsen.
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The people who spoke to CNN Business said that they believed the Examiner's editor in chief, Hugo Gurdon, handed down the order because he was afraid such stories would lead to the network blacklisting Examiner staffers. Prior to January 1, the Examiner had published some stories critical of Fox News. But since then, the stories have been almost uniformly positive for the network, including several articles touting Fox News' ratings success. A rare exception was a recent story which quoted Trump criticizing the network.
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This number would give a sense of how widespread the disease is, and how forceful a response to it the United States is mustering. But for days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has refused to publish such a count, despite public anxiety and criticism from Congress. On Monday, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, estimated that “by the end of this week, close to a million tests will be able to be performed” in the United States. On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence promised that “roughly 1.5 million tests” would be available this week.
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“The CDC got this right with H1N1 and Zika, and produced huge quantities of test kits that went around the country,” Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC from 2009 to 2017, told us. “I don’t know what went wrong this time.”
Through interviews with dozens of public-health officials and a survey of local data from across the country, The Atlantic could only verify that 1,895 people have been tested for the coronavirus in the United States, about 10 percent of whom have tested positive. And while the American capacity to test for the coronavirus has ramped up significantly over the past few days, local officials can still test only several thousand people a day, not the tens or hundreds of thousands indicated by the White House’s promises.
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