While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, April 5

A selection of news stories that happened overnight, April 5, 2020.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

New York reels as 630 die in a day; confirmed cases in US top 300,000 Coronavirus-related illnesses killed 630 people in the last day in New York state, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, in the bleakest 24 hours yet for the US state hit hardest by the pandemic.

"We're not yet at the apex, we're getting closer ... Our reading of the projections is we're somewhere in the seven-day range," Cuomo said."It's only been 30 days since our first case," he said."It feels like an entire lifetime."Trump says thousands of military personnel to be sent to help US states battle coronavirus

He added that 1,000 military personnel are being sent to New York City, including military doctors and nurses.Opec and Russia have postponed a meeting due on Monday to discuss oil output cuts until April 9, Opec sources said on Saturday, as a row between Moscow and Saudi Arabia over who is to blame for plunging crude prices intensified.

The United Kingdom's hospital death toll from the coronavirus rose by 20 per cent to 4,313 on Friday, the health ministry said. There were 41,903 confirmed cases as of Saturday, up 3,735.

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