9 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: International updates

From Morning Report, 7:50 am on 9 April 2020

The latest international news about Covid-19.

More than 1.44 million people have now been infected worldwide, 82,000 have died according to Johns Hopkins University.

France has become the fourth country to register more than 10,000 deaths due to coronavirus.

After 76 days, the lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan has been lifted, though not everyone though will be able to leave their homes.

Flights in and out of the city, which is where the coronavirus first broke out, have resumed.

Wuhan, a city of 11 million, had more than 50,000 people infected and more than 2,500 of them died, about 80 percent of all the deaths in China.

In the UK, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has given an update on Boris Johnson's condition.

He is said to be stable in intensive care.

The World Trade Organisation is warning the coronaviris pandemic could provoke the deepest economic recession of our life time.

The grim prediction comes on the day France and Germany both confirmed they've seen a dramatic contraction in their economies.

Senior WTO figures in Geneva say global trade could fall by as much as a third because of the outbreak.