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RSS FeedsCoronavirus live news: global cases pass 1.5m as UK and US suffer worst daily death tolls
(The Guardian South Korea)

 
 

9 april 2020 04:29:38

 
Coronavirus live news: global cases pass 1.5m as UK and US suffer worst daily death tolls
(The Guardian South Korea)
 


Boris Johnson still in intensive care but condition improves; virus fears halt Saudi military operations in Yemen; global trade could fall up to a third. Follow the latest updates. US sees highest one-day death tollCoronavirus latest: at a glanceUS coronavirus updates - liveAustralia coronavirus updates - live See all of our coronavirus coverage 3.21am BST You can get in touch with me at any time with questions, comments, jokes or tips on Twitter @helenrsullivan. 3.21am BST America´s Strategic National Stockpile is nearly out of the N95 respirators, surgical masks, face, shields, gowns and other medical supplies desperately needed to protect front-line medical workers treating coronavirus patients. 3.12am BST ProPublica is reporting that a Dutch company, Royal Philips NV, which was meant to sell 10,000 ventilators to the US but did not deliver has now entered a new deal with the government - charging four times as much per machine:The Dutch company that received millions of taxpayer dollars to develop an affordable ventilator for pandemics, but never delivered them, has struck a much more lucrative deal with the federal government to make 43,000 ventilators at four times the price.The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that it plans to pay Royal Philips N.V. $646.7 million for the new ventilators - paying more than $15,000 each. The first 2,500 units are to arrive before the end of May, HHS said, and the rest by the end of December.This is nuts:A company failed to deliver the inexpensive ventilators the govt long ago ordered. Now the Trump admin has given the company a *new contract, for vents costing four times as much.*And the vents won`t start coming until the end of May. https://t.co/lYipabpm5k 3.02am BST Chris Humphrey reports from Hanoi. Related: `In a war, we draw`: Vietnam`s artists join fight against Covid-19 2.55am BST 2.42am BST Social distancing and other mitigation efforts by the American people are working, raising ho ...


 
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