Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
On Saturday morning, Johns Hopkins University’s tally of US Covid-19 fatalities was at 18,777. Italy continued to lead in fatalities, with 18,849.
The US was also the first country to report 2,000 deaths in a single day, with 2,108 people dying in the previous 24 hours.
The US was poised on Saturday to reach 19,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths – more than any other country, new data indicates. The US outbreak, now exceeding a half-million confirmed cases, outpaces Spain, the country with the second-most confirmed cases.
Researchers at John Hopkins have tallied a total of 501,615 confirmed US cases; Spain follows with 161,852. Italy ranks third in confirmed cases, at 147,577. There have been 29,191 reported recoveries in the US, the researchers also said.
Worldwide coronavirus deaths now total 103,795. Confirmed cases have reached 1,712,674. Recorded worldwide recoveries total 353,706.
The US coronavirus crisis is widely recognized to have been exacerbated by slow federal responses and patchwork state-level approaches.
Questions about normalcy are especially fueled by the stalled US economy, as coronavirus-related business closures and slowdowns have caused 16 million people to lose their jobs.
Donald Trump has pushed for a reopening of the economy and reportedly hopes to do so by May.
Trump is expected to next week announce a council of medical and business leaders who will assist him with the “biggest decision I’ve ever had to make”: when to reopen America for business amid a global pandemic.
Health experts have warned that prematurely lifting stay-at-home restrictions could prompt a “deadly resurgence” of coronavirus.
Ref: Theguardian
