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Coronavirus: UK government borrowed $62bn in April

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The UK coronavirus death toll increases by 338 to 36, 042. Health secretary Matt Hancock confirmed “systems of certification” were being developed to allow people to begin a return to some form of normality. The UK government also confirmed it had ordered 10 million antibody tests to be rolled out over the next few months.

The new coronavirus test gives results in just 20 minutes is being trialed in the UK.

Self-isolate for 14 days of face £1, 000 fine, the UK to tell overseas visitors, who are asked to share their contact details under the measures, with health officials performing spot checks to ensure they are complying with the rules.

Road haulers and medical officials are going to be exempt from the new restrictions and the common travel area with Ireland will be unaffected.

The UK Government borrowed £62bn in April – the highest monthly figure since records began after heavy spending to ease the impact of coronavirus crisis. The deficit between the spending and tax income was larger last month than forecast for the whole year at the time of the budget. The soaring cost of support such as funding the furlough scheme paying the wages for 6.3 million people, which alone was £14bn in April. The Chancellor Rishi Sunak said things would be worse without government aid.

Tax receipts have fallen heavily, with the government deferring some payments, while Treasury income from VAT and air passenger duty is down significantly.

 

The office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the government’s independent forecaster has predicted that borrowing for the whole year could surpass £298bn more than five times the estimate at the time of the March Budget.

The scale of the economic consequences detailed on Friday in a separate retail sales data from the ONS reveals High Street sales crashed last month as shops closed for the lockdown. The mortgage payment holiday scheme for homeowners in financial difficulty during the pandemic has been extended for another three months. The total public sector debt rose to £1, 888 bn at the end of April – 118,4bn higher than April 2019.

The UK inflation rate fell in April to its lowest since August 2016 as the economic fallout of the first month of lockdown hit prices. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to 0.8% from 1.5% in March, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Falling petrol and diesel prices and lower energy bills pushed inflation lower. But the price of games and toys soared due to people spending more time at home during the lockdown.

Low inflation discourages employers from raising pay and may even encourage them to cut pay in troubled times and hits the Treasury’s tax intake.

# Country, Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Tests/ Population
Other Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests 1M pop
  World 5,217,306 26,810 335,053 880 2,096,632 2,785,621 45,600 669 43
1 USA 1,621,333 431 96,363 9 382,244 1,142,726 17,907 4,901 291 13,479,242 40,749 330790544
2 Russia 326,448 8,894 3,249 150 99,825 223,374 2,300 2,237 22 8,126,626 55,689 145927804
3 Brazil 310,921 20,082 125,960 164,879 8,318 1,464 95 735,224 3,462 212393298
4 Spain 280,117 27,940 196,958 55,219 1,152 5,991 598 3,037,840 64,977 46752851
5 UK 250,908   36,042   N/A N/A 1,559 3,698 531 3,090,566 45,552 67847158
6 Italy 228,006 32,486 134,560 60,960 640 3,770 537 3,243,398 53,635 60471198
7 France 181,826 28,215 63,858 89,753 1,745 2,786 432 1,384,633 21,218 65258007
8 Germany 179,134 113 8,310 1 159,000 11,824 1,016 2,139 99 3,595,059 42,923 83755045
9 Turkey 153,548 4,249 114,990 34,309 820 1,823 50 1,729,988 20,537 84237509
10 Iran 131,652 2,311 7,300 51 102,276 22,076 2,659 1,570 87 763,913 9,108 83871454
11 India 119,419 1,193 3,599 15 48,957 66,863 87 3 2,719,434 1,973 1378492893
12 Peru 108,769 3,148 43,587 62,034 886 3,304 96 736,500 22,373 32919665
13 China 82,971 4 4,634 78,255 82 8 58 3 1439323776
14 Canada 81,324 6,152 41,715 33,457 502 2,157 163 1,379,731 36,592 37705478
15 Saudi Arabia 65,077 351 36,040 28,686 281 1,873 10 651,158 18,737 34751777
16 Mexico 59,567 2,973 6,510 420 40,657 12,400 378 463 51 201,838 1,567 128781349
17 Chile 57,581 589 23,992 33,000 943 3,015 31 426,003 22,306 19098031
18 Belgium 56,511 276 9,212 26 15,123 32,176 268 4,878 795 757,328 65,376 11584152
19 Pakistan 50,694 2,603 1,067 50 15,201 34,426 111 230 5 445,987 2,024 220392002
20 Netherlands 44,700 5,775 N/A N/A 255 2,609 337 302,395 17,652 17130802
21 Qatar 38,651 17 7,288 31,346 171 13,442 6 175,482 61,028 2875446
22 Ecuador 35,306 2,939 3,557 28,810 191 2,005 167 101,580 5,768 17612428
23 Belarus 34,303 932 190 5 12,833 21,280 92 3,630 20 419,004 44,341 9449653
24 Sweden 32,172 3,871 4,971 23,330 352 3,188 384 209,900 20,798 10092371
25 Switzerland 30,694 1,898 27,900 896 55 3,549 219 361,692 41,825 8647657
26 Singapore 30,426 614 23 12,117 18,286 10 5,205 4 294,414 50,368 5845265
27 Bangladesh 30,205 1,694 432 24 6,190 23,583 1 184 3 223,841 1,361 164506480
28 Portugal 29,912 1,277 6,452 22,183 93 2,933 125 689,705 67,619 10199821
29 UAE 26,898 237 12,755 13,906 1 2,723 24 1,600,923 162,087 9876944
30 Ireland 24,391 1,583 21,060 1,748 54 4,946 321 295,626 59,945 4931601
31 Indonesia 20,796 634 1,326 48 5,057 14,413 76 5 229,334 839 273200237
32 Poland 20,379 236 973 1 8,731 10,675 160 538 26 697,230 18,420 37850989
33 Ukraine 20,148 442 588 9 6,585 12,975 256 460 13 267,185 6,106 43760843
34 South Africa 19,137 369 8,950 9,818 119 323 6 525,433 8,872 59224262
35 Kuwait 18,609 129 5,205 13,275 181 4,365 30 261,071 61,236 4263365
36 Colombia 18,330 652 4,431 13,247 136 361 13 214,536 4,221 50822230
37 Romania 17,712 127 1,159 3 10,777 5,776 200 920 60 352,647 18,318 19250875
38 Israel 16,690 7 279 13,915 2,496 47 1,932 32 531,124 61,472 8640028
39 Austria 16,436 32 635 2 15,005 796 31 1,826 71 390,488 43,384 9000787
40 Japan 16,424 777 12,672 2,975 195 130 6 261,572 2,067 126516956
41 Egypt 15,003 696 4,217 10,090 41 147 7 135,000 1,322 102109848
42 Dominican Republic 13,657 448 7,366 5,843 113 1,260 41 61,330 5,660 10835780
43 Philippines 13,597 163 857 11 3,092 9,648 81 124 8 267,417 2,444 109415846
44 Denmark 11,182 561 9,643 978 23 1,931 97 504,266 87,093 5789998
45 S. Korea 11,142 20 264 10,162 716 15 217 5 802,418 15,653 51264480
46 Serbia 10,919 237 5,370 5,312 12 1,249 27 203,799 23,315 8741034
47 Panama 10,116 291 6,245 3,580 72 2,349 68 53,928 12,521 4306982
48 Argentina 9,931 416 3,032 6,483 171 220 9 116,689 2,584 45149718
49 Afghanistan 9,216 540 205 12 996 8,015 19 237 5 27,889 718 38824552
50 Czechia 8,757 3 306 5,932 2,519 29 818 29 387,127 36,157 10706852
51 Norway 8,309 235 32 8,042 14 1,534 43 223,045 41,178 5416564
52 Bahrain 8,174 12 3,873 4,289 9 4,825 7 262,107 154,713 1694155
53 Algeria 7,728 575 4,062 3,091 22 177 13 43759272
54 Kazakhstan 7,597 363 35 3,843 3,719 31 405 2 612,997 32,691 18751427
55 Morocco 7,300 89 197 1 4,347 2,756 1 198 5 122,870 3,333 36861343
56 Malaysia 7,137 78 115 1 5,859 1,163 9 221 4 491,729 15,215 32319132
57 Australia 7,095 14 101 1 6,479 515 7 279 4 1,170,682 45,969 25466640
58 Nigeria 7,016 211 1,907 4,898 7 34 1 40,043 195 205528166
59 Oman 6,794 424 32 1 1,821 4,941 31 1,335 6 72,000 14,143 5091036
60 Moldova 6,704 233 2,953 3,518 251 1,661 58 40,565 10,053 4034947
61 Finland 6,537 44 306 4,800 1,431 21 1,180 55 163,000 29,423 5539799
62 Ghana 6,486 217 31 1,951 4,504 8 209 1 187,929 6,063 30996750
63 Armenia 5,928 322 74 4 2,874 2,980 10 2,001 25 47,654 16,085 2962649
64 Bolivia 5,187 268 215 16 561 4,411 3 445 18 14,803 1,270 11654953
65 Cameroon 4,288 156 1,808 2,324 28 162 6 26466746
66 Luxembourg 3,980 109 3,741 130 6 6,370 174 64,981 104,002 624808
67 Iraq 3,877 140 2,483 1,254 97 3 149,701 3,732 40115676
68 Azerbaijan 3,749 44 2,340 1,365 42 370 4 252,496 24,928 10129036
69 Hungary 3,678 37 476 3 1,587 1,615 23 381 49 155,801 16,124 9662923
70 Honduras 3,204 104 156 5 397 2,651 13 324 16 11,820 1,196 9886537
71 Sudan 3,138 121 309 2,708 72 3 281 6 43727573
72 Guinea 3,067 18 1,575 1,474 18 234 1 10,304 787 13089690
73 Thailand 3,037 56 2,910 71 61 44 0.8 328,073 4,701 69781150
74 Uzbekistan 3,006 42 13 2,407 586 4 90 0.4 460,000 13,767 33413938
75 Greece 2,853 168 1,374 1,311 21 274 16 144,078 13,816 10428331
76 Senegal 2,812 33 1,251 1,528 6 168 2 32,883 1,970 16690729
77 Guatemala 2,512 247 48 3 222 2,242 5 141 3 25,464 1,424 17877078
78 Bulgaria 2,372 41 125 5 769 1,478 31 341 18 71,605 10,297 6953796
79 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,350 140 1,596 614 4 716 43 56,997 17,362 3282920
80 Tajikistan 2,350 44 1,008 1,298 247 5 9512290
81 Ivory Coast 2,301 29 1,100 1,172 87 1 21,069 801 26300113
82 Croatia 2,237 97 1,978 162 9 545 24 58,091 14,141 4107874
83 Djibouti 2,047 10 1,055 982 2,075 10 21,156 21,448 986363
84 Cuba 1,908 80 1,603 225 5 168 7 89,031 7,860 11327348
85 North Macedonia 1,898 111 1,378 409 21 911 53 23,316 11,191 2083383
86 DRC 1,835 61 303 1,471 21 0.7 89226763
87 Estonia 1,807 7 64 1,508 235 2 1,362 48 74,604 56,244 1326440
88 Iceland 1,803 10 1,790 3 5,287 29 58,225 170,748 341000
89 El Salvador 1,725 85 33 562 1,130 26 266 5 67,663 10,438 6482643
90 Lithuania 1,604 11 61 1,111 432 17 588 22 259,043 95,025 2726052
91 Somalia 1,594 61 204 1,329 2 101 4 15839369
92 Gabon 1,567 12 365 1,190 6 706 5 8,622 3,885 2219485
93 New Zealand 1,504 1 21 1,455 28 1 312 4 250,246 51,941 4817906
94 Slovakia 1,503 1 28 1,256 219 2 275 5 154,529 28,305 5459361
95 Mayotte 1,475 19 894 562 11 5,422 70 5,200 19,116 272030
96 Slovenia 1,468 106 1,340 22 3 706 51 74,228 35,705 2078908
97 Kyrgyzstan 1,350 37 14 939 397 5 207 2 98,281 15,093 6511813
98 Maldives 1,216 4 91 1,121 9 2,254 7 11,775 21,828 539443
99 Kenya 1,109 50 375 684 1 21 0.9 52,507 979 53631400
100 Guinea-Bissau 1,109 6 42 1,061 565 3 1,500 764 1962465
101 Hong Kong 1,066 2 4 1,029 33 1 142 0.5 168,291 22,468 7490261
102 Sri Lanka 1,055 7 9 620 426 1 49 0.4 49,124 2,295 21403517
103 Tunisia 1,046 47 883 116 3 89 4 45,308 3,838 11804800
104 Latvia 1,030 5 22 712 296 2 545 12 96,366 51,033 1888294
105 Lebanon 1,024 26 663 335 3 150 4 67,510 9,886 6828619
106 Albania 981 12 31 777 173 3 341 11 12,933 4,494 2878129
107 Mali 947 60 558 329 47 3 3,483 173 20179688
108 Niger 924 60 753 111 38 2 5,949 247 24095961
109 Cyprus 923 17 561 345 10 765 14 95,349 79,036 1206392
110 Costa Rica 903 10 592 301 3 177 2 21,929 4,309 5088953
111 Equatorial Guinea 903 10 22 871 646 7 854 611 1397254
112 Venezuela 882 10 262 610 2 31 0.4 697,691 24,528 28444376
113 Zambia 866 7 302 557 1 47 0.4 19,432 1,061 18321393
114 Paraguay 836 11 256 569 117 2 21,987 3,087 7122661
115 Burkina Faso 812 52 669 91 39 2 20833816
116 Andorra 762 51 639 72 3 9,864 660 3,750 48,542 77252
117 Uruguay 749 20 594 135 4 216 6 36,537 10,522 3472430
118 Haiti 734 71 25 3 21 688 64 2 2,519 221 11386865
119 Georgia 723 2 12 495 216 6 181 3 45,707 11,455 3989972
120 Diamond Princess 712 13 651 48 4
121 Jordan 684 9 457 218 5 67 0.9 156,663 15,371 10191845
122 San Marino 658 41 235 382 1 19,397 1,209 3,779 111,399 33923
123 Malta 599 6 468 125 1 1,357 14 56,224 127,372 441416
124 Chad 588 58 186 344 36 4 16368402
125 Sierra Leone 585 35 205 345 74 4 7957977
126 Channel Islands 558 45 508 5 3,213 259 5,342 30,757 173685
127 Jamaica 534 5 9 181 344 180 3 9,178 3,101 2959765
128 Tanzania 509 21 183 305 7 9 0.4 59527001
129 Nepal 487 30 3 49 435 1 17 0.1 117,465 4,040 29076092
130 South Sudan 481 4 4 473 43 0.4 3,356 300 11178970
131 Congo 469 16 137 316 85 3 5501846
132 Réunion 449 1 411 37 2 502 1 17,200 19,226 894609
133 Taiwan 441 7 408 26 19 0.3 70,338 2,954 23812157
134 CAR 436 18 418 90 11,294 2,343 4820066
135 Palestine 423 2 346 75 83 0.4 44,876 8,821 5087326
136 Madagascar 405 2 131 272 1 15 0.07 5,670 205 27605453
137 Ethiopia 399 5 123 271 3 0.04 69,519 607 114622829
138 Cabo Verde 356 3 95 258 641 5 892 1,606 555311
139 Togo 354 12 118 224 43 1 14,767 1,789 8255653
140 Isle of Man 336 24 303 9 2 3,954 282 4,353 51,221 84984
141 Mauritius 332 10 322 0 261 8 98,075 77,131 1271542
142 Montenegro 324 9 314 1 2 516 14 10,167 16,188 628058
143 Vietnam 324 266 58 2 3 275,000 2,828 97241403
144 Rwanda 320 217 103 25 54,400 4,213 12913795
145 Nicaragua 279 17 199 63 42 3 6615686
146 Sao Tome and Principe 251 8 4 239 1,148 37 175 800 218686
147 French Guiana 249 1 137 111 836 3 297751
148 Liberia 240 23 131 86 48 5 5043542
149 Eswatini 220 2 112 106 190 2 4,994 4,310 1158822
150 Myanmar 199 6 108 85 4 0.1 16,550 304 54369777
151 Yemen 197 33 5 159 7 1 120 4 29748378
152 Martinique 192 14 91 87 512 37 375296
153 Faeroe Islands 187 187 0 3,829 9,084 185,984 48843
154 Mauritania 173 5 7 161 37 1 2,583 557 4634928
155 Mozambique 162 48 114 5 7,063 227 31149023
156 Uganda 160 66 94 4 81,682 1,793 45562477
157 Guadeloupe 155 13 109 33 3 387 32 2,866 7,163 400117
158 Gibraltar 151 146 5 4,482 5,833 173,127 33692
159 Brunei 141 1 136 4 2 323 2 18,193 41,630 437013
160 Mongolia 141 1 28 113 27 43 12,153 3,714 3272228
161 Benin 135 3 61 71 11 0.2 26,792 2,217 12084945
162 Guyana 127 10 57 60 3 162 13 1,329 1,691 786139
163 Bermuda 125 9 80 36 2 2,006 144 5,784 92,838 62302
164 Cambodia 123 122 1 7 15,830 948 16692685
165 Cayman Islands 121 1 55 65 1,844 15 7,959 121,262 65635
166 Trinidad and Tobago 116 8 108 0 83 6 2,805 2,005 1398999
167 Aruba 101 3 95 3 4 946 28 2,048 19,191 106717
168 Bahamas 97 11 44 42 1 247 28 1,910 4,862 392826
169 Monaco 97 4 90 3 1 2,474 102 39211
170 Barbados 90 7 70 13 4 313 24 4,438 15,445 287337
171 Liechtenstein 82 1 55 26 2,151 26 900 23,612 38116
172 Sint Maarten 77 15 59 3 1 1,798 350 437 10,205 42821
173 Malawi 72 3 27 42 1 4 0.2 1,803 95 19070499
174 Libya 71 3 35 33 10 0.4 4,351 634 6860692
175 French Polynesia 60 60 0 214 3,686 13,130 280731
176 Angola 58 3 17 38 2 0.09 6,136 187 32740203
177 Syria 58 3 36 19 3 0.2 17449901
178 Zimbabwe 51 4 18 29 3 0.3 28,019 1,888 14838265
179 Macao 45 45 0 69 648331
180 Burundi 42 1 20 21 4 0.08 284 24 11847387
181 Saint Martin 40 3 33 4 1 1,037 78 38590
182 Eritrea 39 39 0 11 3540846
183 Comoros 34 1 8 25 39 1 867421
184 Botswana 29 1 19 9 12 0.4 14,855 6,332 2346068
185 Antigua and Barbuda 25 3 19 3 1 256 31 183 1,870 97839
186 Gambia 24 1 13 10 10 0.4 1,476 613 2408415
187 Timor-Leste 24 24 0 18 738 561 1315521
188 Grenada 22 17 5 4 196 3,007 26,737 112466
189 Bhutan 21 6 15 27 14,843 19,260 770656
190 Laos 19 14 5 3 5,044 694 7263530
191 Namibia 19 1 14 5 7 2,681 1,057 2535571
192 Belize 18 2 16 0 45 5 1,363 3,435 396791
193 Fiji 18 15 3 20 1,300 1,451 895730
194 New Caledonia 18 18 0 63 5,454 19,124 285193
195 Saint Lucia 18 18 0 98 867 4,724 183536
196 St. Vincent Grenadines 18 14 4 162 175 1,578 110902
197 Curaçao 16 1 14 1 98 6 485 2,957 164020
198 Dominica 16 16 0 222 433 6,017 71967
199 Saint Kitts and Nevis 15 15 0 282 391 7,355 53158
200 Falkland Islands 13 13 0 3,749 426 122,837 3468
201 Turks and Caicos 12 1 10 1 310 26 109 2,820 38658
202 Vatican City 12 2 10 14,981 801
203 Montserrat 11 1 10 0 2,204 200 36 7,212 4992
204 Suriname 11 1 9 1 19 2 404 689 586049
205 Greenland 11 11 0 194 1,767 31,132 56759
206 Seychelles 11 11 0 112 98280
207 MS Zaandam 9 2 7
208 British Virgin Islands 8 1 6 1 265 33 167 5,528 30209
209 Papua New Guinea 8 8 0 0.9 2,402 269 8927298
210 Caribbean Netherlands 6 6 0 229 424 16,186 26196
211 St. Barth 6 6 0 608 9874
212 Western Sahara 6 6 0 10 595583
213 Anguilla 3 3 0 200 14988
214 Lesotho 1 1 0.5 2140374
215 Saint Pierre Miquelon 1 1 0 173 5797
Total: 5,217,306 26,810 335,053 880 2,096,632 2,785,621 45,600 669.3 43