🇧🇷 Brazil now third highest for Covid19 cases. Here're more updates: 🇨🇱 Around 30 Chile politicians in quarantine 🇸🇻 El Salvador court suspends state of emergency 🇶🇦 Qatar confirms cases in jail For more details:
Gravediggers carry the coffin of Avelino Fernandes Filho, 74, who passed away from the coronavirus disease , during his funeral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 18, 2020. Brazil records 674 new Covid-19 deaths and announces a total of 254,220 confirmed cases, overtaking Britain to become country with the third-highest number of infections.Half of Chile senate, four ministers in quarantine
Finance Minister Ignacio Briones and Chief of Staff Felipe Ward both wrote on Twitter that they had tested negative for the virus but were in quarantine until a second test is conducted. Interior Minister Gonzalo Blumel and Social Development Minister Sebastian Sichel are also in isolation.El Salvador's Supreme Court said it has ordered the immediate suspension of the state of emergency declared due to the coronavirus pandemic by President Nayib Bukele, who has faced criticism of showing authoritarian tendencies and exceeding his powers.
The renewal would have kept the emergency declaration in force for the next 30 days, extending strict lockdown measures such as school suspensions and a ban on movement in certain areas with high numbers of infections.Qatar confirmed 12 cases of Covid-19 at a jail as campaign group Human Rights Watch warned other prisoners could be at risk of contracting the disease.
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