Coronavirus: latest global developments

Coronavirus: latest global developments

At least 270,927 people have died of Covid-19 since the epidemic surfaced in China late last year, according to an AFP tally on Friday based on official sources.. Are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis.. Canada announces huge jobs losses too, with three million gone in the last two months, causing unemployment to shoot up to 13 percent -- a new rate second only to the 13.1 percent observed during a recession in 1982.. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for an "all-out effort" to end the "tsunami of hate and xenophobia" sparked by the pandemic, without naming specific countries.. Amid cancelled commemorations for the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, leaders offer sombre speeches invoking wartime spirit in fighting the pandemic.. "If we don't hold Europe together, including during and after this pandemic, then we are not living up to May 8."�. The United States is the worst-hit country, with 75,781 deaths.. Britain follows with 31,241, then Italy with 30,201 deaths, Spain with 26,299 and France with 25,987.. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratifies a host of amendments to Egypt's emergency law which an international rights group says expands "repressive powers".. Massimo Galli, head of