Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United Kingdom has gone up to 1,543 according to the health ministry said. The number has risen from Sunday’s count of 1,372. The number of deaths related to coronavirus in the country remains at 35. Britain will also be ramping up coronavirus testing, an important step in the war against the virus. The outbreak has also urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to soon discuss proposals for social distancing to protect its elderly. On the other end of the spectrum, Johnson’s decision that schools were to remain open left parents angry; so much so that a mother in Northern Ireland whose daughter has underlying health problems will be starting an emergency legal challenge against the decision. Johnson has also ordered the shut down of social life in Britain and instructed the most vulnerable to isolate for 12 weeks, ramping up the battle against a coronavirus outbreak just as it accelerates towards its peak. He has also asked manufacturers including Ford, Honda and Rolls Royce to help make health equipment including ventilators to cope with the coronavirus outbreak and will look at using hotels as hospitals.
Israel’s government will invoke emergency regulations to speed up the deployment of cyber monitoring in the fight against the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The plan to use anti-terrorist technology to track infected people and anyone with whom they have come in contact drew criticism from civil rights groups when Netanyahu first proposed it over the weekend.
Such a move would normally require parliamentary consent. Netanyahu moved to circumvent that process when he said in a nationally televised address on Monday night that his cabinet would invoke emergency regulations overnight to put the order into effect, for 30 days only.
“Israel is a democracy and we must maintain the balance between civil rights and the public’s needs,” Netanyahu said. “These tools will very much assist us in locating the sick and stopping the virus from spreading.”
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