Tweets For Today

#UPDATES The US advises all Americans to wear masks in public to protect against the #coronavirus, fearing the illness that has infected more than one million people worldwide may be spreading by normal breathing https://t.co/010APYRHHt pic.twitter.com/cTXAP8lE5E

— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 4, 2020

#coronavirus outbreak, USA:

1 March: 69 cases, 1 death
14 March: 2179 cases, 47 deaths
21 March: 25,493 cases, 307 deaths
24 March: 53,740 cases, 706 deaths
27 March: 94,425 cases, 1,429 deaths
30 March: 161,807 cases, 2978 deaths
3 April: 266,578 cases, 6803 deaths

— Wars on the Brink (current focus coronavirus) (@WarsontheBrink) April 3, 2020

China mourns thousands who died in country's coronavirus epidemic https://t.co/d0cvOaAZUw pic.twitter.com/yo0lp04lqC

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 4, 2020

IMF sees coronavirus-induced global downturn 'way worse' than financial crisis https://t.co/Any8kUJvoG pic.twitter.com/FqlqWEKkx4

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 4, 2020

Countries across the globe are taking unprecedented steps to combat coronavirus

Here are some of the more unusual measures, ranging from the extreme to the creative

[Thread]https://t.co/MDaRiHRKOG #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/RQdfWXJRZQ

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 3, 2020

Following the exchange of threatening statements between Washington and Tehran, the Islamic Republic has deployed missile launchers on Qeshm island, in the straits of Hormuz. pic.twitter.com/mKp4Y4X03C

— Mike (@Doranimated) April 3, 2020