AMERICA’S COVID-19 DEATHS NEAR 38,000; JOBLESSNESS 22 MILLION

The USA reports the worst unemployment numbers ever due to the novel Coronavirus.

The Chinese city of Wuhan has raised its number of coronavirus fatalities by 1,290 to 3,869, most of China’s total. That brings the total mortalities nationwide to at least 4,642. Wuhan also revised up its number of confirmed cases by 325 to 50,333, accounting for about two-thirds of China’s total 82,367 announced cases. Almost 78,000 of the patients have already recovered.

US President Donald Trump has announced “a phased approach” to ease restrictions of movement on Americans, even as the coronavirus death toll in the country continues to rise nearing 38,000, and with cases soaring to 710,000 as of 02:00 GMT on Saturday.

The US government reported 5.2 million more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the four-week total to 22 million – the worst stretch of US job losses on record. The losses translate to about one in seven American workers.

The number of infections from the disease, also known as COVID-19, has now reached 2,275,783 worldwide, with nearly 156,104 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.

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