South Korea has announced plans to strap tracking wristbands on people who defy quarantine orders, and Christians were urged to stay at home over the Easter weekend as the global coronavirus death toll passed 100,000. Plans for broader use of wristbands were scaled back after objections by human rights and legal activists. China has reported 3,339 deaths and 81,953 confirmed infections, though critics say the real totals might be higher. Public health officials and religious leaders urged Roman Catholics and Protestants to stay at home on Easter Sunday, their faith’s most important holiday. “I understand intellectually why it’s happening,” said governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, where deaths rose by 777, to more than 7,800.

Source: Irish Independent April 11, 2020 07:30 UTC