Trump clashes with Fauci over virus reopening as global death toll nears 300,000
[IsraelTimes] US president at odds with top medical adviser over opening schools in September as US surpasses 83,00 fatalities; UN predicts worst global economic downturn since Great Depression. So far, Trump has stuck with Fauci, but the doctor is increasingly in the background as the president pushes his reopening message.
Europe, meanwhile, pushed ahead with plans to gradually reopen for summer tourism, even as fears persist of a second wave of infections in the pandemic that has forced more than half of humanity behind closed doors in recent months.
Russia, now the country with the second-highest number of virus cases, recorded more than 10,000 new infections after authorities this week eased stay-at-home orders.
Fears were also growing of a second wave in China, with the northeastern city of Jilin put in partial lockdown and Wuhan, where the virus was first reported last year, planning to test its entire population after clusters of new cases.
Elsewhere, however, cases were surging.
Chile imposed a total lockdown in its capital Santiago after a 60% leap in infections over the past 24 hours.
Brazil — emerging as a new global hotspot despite President Jair Bolsonaro dismissing the pandemic as a “little flu†— registered its highest virus death toll in a single day, with 881 new fatalities.
Coronavirus may never go away, WHO says
[IsraelTimes] “This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away,†he tells a virtual press conference in Geneva. “HIV has not gone away — but we have come to terms with the virus.â€
Worldometers:
I find it comforting that the logarithmic world graphs are now flattening.
Coronavirus Cases:
4,429,744
Deaths:
298,174
Recovered:
1,659,791
Reopened Texas sees a surge in COVID-19 cases with 1,000 new daily infections over five consecutive days after state lifted lockdown measures two weeks ago
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