Latest Update: UN warns on hunger, as coronavirus cases top 2.5m: Live updates

Good day and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

I’m Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur.

A lot more than two.5 million people today about the globe have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. A lot more than one hundred seventy,000 have died, with the US accounting for about a quarter of all deaths, according to information compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The United Nations is warning worldwide hunger could double as a end result of the coronavirus pandemic, placing 265 million people today at risk. 

Singapore has extended a month-very long lockdown that the govt has dubbed a “circuit-breaker” right until June one just after a surge in situations.

Here are the most recent updates:

Wednesday, April 22

01:thirty GMT – China, South Korea update coronavirus scenario

China and South Korea have both claimed their most recent information on the coronavirus.

China claimed thirty new situations on the mainland, 23 of which involved people today returning from overseas. The Nationwide Health Commission also mentioned the amount of asymptomatic situations rose to forty two, from 37 the earlier day.

In South Korea, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states the nation had eleven new situations, the fourth day in a row exactly where the amount has been below 15. Six of the situations were being amid overseas travellers.

00:15 GMT – Captive audiences gasoline Netflix growth

Netflix states it has a lot more than doubled its personal projections for new customers as people today living under lockdowns turned to the streaming large to retain them entertained.

Netflix states subscribers jumped by 15.eight million in the three months from January to March. It previously predicted  the amount of paying customers would increase by seven million.

00:00 GMT – Cuomo states Trump agrees to enable New York double testing 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo states he had a “productive” assembly with US President Donald Trump and that the point out was aiming to double its coronavirus screening to 40,000 exams a day.

I had a effective assembly with President Trump right now.

We agreed that the point out will be accountable for taking care of the precise exams in our laboratories.

The federal govt will take on the duty of source chain challenges that are past states’ regulate.

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 21, 2020

Cuomo and Trump met on Tuesday and the president agreed the federal govt would enable procure the chemical reagents essential to ramp up screening.

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Read through all the updates from yesterday (April 21) below,