4月1日、4月相場は新たな悪材料と2番底に注目 事実を確認して相場に臨む 個別銘柄の仕込み場が続く 積立投資、ドルコスト平均法はリスクが高い時、暴落時に買うことで結果的にリスクが下がる

4月1日、4月相場は新たな悪材料と2番底に注目 事実を確認して相場に臨む 個別銘柄の仕込み場が続く 積立投資、ドルコスト平均法はリスクが高い時、暴落時に買うことで結果的にリスクが下がる

Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should I call the doctor?

What are the symptoms caused by the Covid-19 virus, how does it spread, and should you call a doctor?

It is caused by a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has transferred to humans from animals. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a pandemic.

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‘No profit, no food’: lockdown in Kabul prompts hunger fears

Residents of Afghanistan’s capital face stark choice between providing food for their families and limiting risk of coronavirus

The streets of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, were packed on Friday; a hectic bustling in the markets and shops, pious whispers ringing from prayer gatherings at the mosques, the skies full of kites that children were flying.

But on Saturday the city of around six million people went into lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus in one of the poorest and most war-torn countries in the world.

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China pivots to tackle ‘silent’ Covid-19 carriers as US says a quarter of cases may have no symptoms

Authorities in China will release tally of asymptomatic patients and order them into quarantine for 14 days as infections rise again

Chinese authorities have shifted their focus to tackling “silent”, or asymptomatic, carriers of the coronavirus as part of the next phase of the pandemic, amid concern among US health chiefs that a quarter of patients do not suffer symptoms.

The National Health Commission in China said it would start releasing a tally of asymptomatic patients from Wednesday and would order those cases into quarantine for 14 days, after the mainland witnessed its first rise in infections in five days.

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Coronavirus live news: US deaths could reach 240,000 as UN says world faces worst crisis since WW2

US has one 1 in 5 cases globally; global cases pass 860,000; record daily fatalities in UK, France, Spain and Russia

Japan is struggling to hold the line against the growing threat of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s prime minister has warned, with a risk of a surge in Covid-19 cases.

So far the country has 2,200 coronavirus cases and 66 deaths, relatively few compared to other nations, but infections are rising. There were 105 reported on Wednesday, 65 of them in the capital, Tokyo.

Many experts expressed very strong sense of crisis and opinions over the spread of infections in Tokyo and the current state of medical preparedness. We must prevent infections from spreading further no matter what. We have come to the edge of edges, to the very brink.”

A smartphone app designed to keep tabs on people who have been ordered to stay at home because of the coronavirus has been unveiled in Russia, as the country expands its lockdown.

In Moscow – the centre of Russia’s Covid-19 outbreak where a partial lockdown was announced on Sunday – authorities have developed a smartphone app for residents who have contracted the virus to download that would allow them to be monitored, Reuters report.

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Myanmar blocks hundreds of news sites and threatens editor with life in jail

Fears abuses may go unreported after journalist arrest under terrorism laws for interview with rebel group Arakan Army

Myanmar has cracked down on journalists, blocking news websites and maintaining a longstanding internet ban in some areas, prompting warnings it is becoming increasingly hard to monitor abuses in the country.

On Tuesday, Myanmar charged a journalist under a terrorism law for publishing an interview with the Arakan Army, a rebel group that demands greater autonomy for the state’s ethnic Rakhine people. The group had recently been labelled a terrorist organisation.

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China’s coronavirus health code apps raise concerns over privacy

Apps, which allow people to move around after lockdown, have become an integral part of Chinese authorities’ management of citizens

As millions of people in China emerge from weeks of lockdown, their freedom of movement is largely dependent on phone apps.

The “health code” service – run on the ubiquitous platforms Alipay and WeChat and developed for the Chinese government – give users colour-coded designations based on their health status and travel history, and a QR code that can be scanned by authorities.

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Virus shock to New Zealand’s economy will be ‘quantum greater’ than GFC

Finance minister warns the nation unemployment will be worse than that during the fallout from 2008

New Zealand’s finance minister has warned the nation is facing an economic shock “a quantum greater” than that of the 2008 global financial crisis, with jobless numbers likely to exceed those at the time of the meltdown.

“GDP is going to take a serious hit, as will unemployment,” Grant Robertson told a parliamentary committee set up to scrutinise his government’s actions on the Covid-19 pandemic on Wednesday. He added that he could not yet provide specific forecasts for either measure, which he said were being finalised by the Treasury.

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