- There were 1,436,198 confirmed cases (82,837 new) globally, and 85,522 people (6,287 new) have lost their lives by 10:00 CET April 9, according to the daily COVID-19 situation report released by the World Health Organization.
- At the media briefing on COVID-19 on April 9, the WHO Director-General said, “It requires a whole-of-government and whole-of-society response.”
- The Chinese mainland reported 42 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 Thursday, according to the National Health Commission on April 10. And 38 of them were imported cases, bringing the total number of its kind to 1,141. Also on Thursday, 47 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases were reported on the mainland.
- Xinhua reported that a Chinese medical team arrived in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan on Thursday to assist Kazakhstan's ongoing efforts in the fight against COVID-19.
- China has sent 12 teams of medical experts to 10 countries to help them combat COVID-19, according to the regular press conference of the Foreign Ministry on April 9.
Xinhua reported that a Chinese medical team arrived in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan on Thursday to assist Kazakhstan's ongoing efforts in the fight against COVID-19. The 10-member team also brought medical assistance including 4,800 N95 respirators, 49,600 disposable surgical masks, 2,000 protection suits, 2 ventilators, and other medicines.
Medical team members gather at Diwopu International Airport in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
At the regular press conference of the Foreign Ministry on April 9, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said, “So far, China has sent 12 teams of medical experts to 10 countries, namely Italy, Serbia, Cambodia, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Venezuela, the Philippines, and Myanmar, to help them combat COVID-19.” According to the spokesperson, China has been making such efforts to reciprocate the goodwill that China received earlier during the pandemic, to act on international humanitarianism and to implement the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind.
The Chinese mainland reported 42 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 Thursday, according to the National Health Commission (NHC) April 10. And 38 of them were imported cases, bringing the total number of its kind to 1,141. Also on Thursday, 47 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases were reported on the mainland, while fourteen were confirmed of being infected with the virus and 40 were discharged from medical observation, according to the NHC. A total of 1,097 asymptomatic-infected patients were still under medical observation. The overall confirmed cases on the mainland had reached 81,907 by the end of Thursday, including 1,116 patients who were still being treated, altogether 77,455 patients who had been discharged after recovery, and 3,336 people who died of the disease. By Thursday, 973 confirmed cases including four deaths had been reported in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), 45 confirmed cases in the Macao SAR, and 380 in Taiwan including five deaths. A total of 293 patients in Hong Kong, ten in Macao and 80 in Taiwan had been discharged from hospitals after recovery.
There were 1,436,198 confirmed cases (82,837 new) globally, and 85,522 people (6,287 new) have lost their lives by 10:00 CET April 9, according to the daily COVID-19 situation report released by the World Health Organization (WHO). No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
At the media briefing on COVID-19 on April 9, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “More than 1.3 million people have been infected, and almost 80,000 people have lost their lives. This pandemic is much more than a health crisis. It requires a whole-of-government and whole-of-society response.”