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2020-03-25 06:00
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New Zealand PM assumes emergency powers
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern assumed sweeping emergency powers ahead of a four-week lockdown beginning at midnight on Wednesday, and immediately ramped up border controls to allow detention of overseas arrivals.
Authorities now have the power to seal off areas and detain people to ensure self-isolation rules are followed.
Ardern in theory has the power to amend any legislation at will – but said she intended to remain accountable.
AFP
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India puts 1.3 billion under lockdown
People in the world’s second most-populous nation began their first day under a “total lockdown” ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, following a surge in cases.
“To save India, to save its every citizen, you, your family … every street, every neighbourhood is being put under lockdown,” said Modi in a nationally televised address.
The measure, to last three weeks, means that about 2.6 billion people worldwide – about a third of the global population – are now under some form of movement restriction.
AFP
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First known US child virus death was teen ‘in good health’
The first known death of a child due to the novel coronavirus in the US was a teenager in previously good health, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Tuesday.
The death of the youth from Lancaster, just north of Los Angeles, was reported hours earlier by public health officials, and comes despite the disease not typically proving severe for juveniles.
“A teenager in good health, succumbed to this virus,” said Garcetti.
– AFP
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With economy sinking, Trump’s own business is in peril
As if presiding over the threatened destruction of the US economy by the coronavirus pandemic is not enough, US President Donald Trump is watching another financial drama: The Trump Organization hotel, golf course and real estate business that made him a billionaire.
His five-star US and Canada hotels with more than 2 200 rooms are mostly empty, his golf courses in the United States, Scotland and Ireland are under pressure to close, and his cherished “Southern White House” – the beach-front Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida is shuttered.
Like other hotels around the country, Trump’s have been forced to lay off most workers and face the fact that the $435 million in revenues that the Trump Organization reported in 2018 is likely to plummet this year.
– AFP
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