World coronavirus dispatch: Symptomless spread is 'rare', says WHO

From England's study of coronavirus in schools, to why World Bank says it may be worst economic crisis since WW-II, and Alibaba recruiting 5,000 people - read these and more in today's world dispatch

The global economy will this year contract the most since World War II, and emerging nations’ output will shrink for the first time in at least six decades, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank has said. Global GDP will probably shrink 5.2 per cent in 2020, and emerging and developing economies will shrink 2.5 per cent, their worst performance since 1960, when collation of data began. Read here. 
 

Let’s look at the global statistics

Total confirmed cases: 7,119,736

Change over previous day: 104,657

Total deaths: 406,542

Total recovered: 3,294,675

Nations hit with most cases: The US (1,961,185), Brazil (707,412),