Hospitals in Tokyo are turning away potential patients. Japan continues to get worse. Russia and Turkey too.
Hospitals in Mexico City are turning away potential patients.
May oil future for West Texas Intermediate (a particularly high quality and high price form of crude oil) hit $2/barrel this morning. Later in the day, some futures prices did drop below zero.
Police in South Africa fired rubber bullets at rioters demanding food.
Some countries feel they are far enough past their peak to begin re-opening: Germany, Denmark, Czechia, Norway, India and Ghana.
Indonesia continues to be in complete denial. Outbreak is believed to be large and growing in Jakarta, but they're still not running many tests.
An outbreak in Harbin in northeastern China has been traced to a college student who returned from the U.S. after her college went online.
There are rumors and counter-rumors all over the internet that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is dead or near death. It has not been reported that this is related to COVID-19. It was noted on the 15th that King Un did not make a public appearance on a major national holiday.
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