The United States is quickly becoming the epicenter of the pandemic that first emerged in China late last year. coronavirus
Europe has so far shouldered the majority of all deaths and infections – though there were signs of hope the curve could be starting to flatten in some of the hardest-hit countries.
But Britain on Saturday recorded its second highest daily toll, as virus-stricken Prime Minister Boris Johnson madeWith 18,849 dead, Italy has the highest global death toll, but it is likely soon to be surpassed by the United States where fatalities continued to mount this week. But President Donald Trump said that with the US infection trajectory"near the peak" and social distancing working well, he was considering ways to re-open the world's biggest economy as soon as possible.
New York hospitals are straining to treat a steady influx of patients, and the unclaimed dead – up to 25 a day – are now being buried in unmarked mass graves in a public cemetery in the state.Easter weekend kicked off in near-empty churches around the world as parishioners remained locked in their homes.
"We will remember this spring as the one in which, for the first time in history, the pope presided over the general audiences and conducted the Angelus by livestream," Giuseppe Conte wrote in Italy's Catholic daily Avvenire. And Turkey announced with little warning Friday that a 48-hour lockdown order would be in place in dozens of cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, as its virus death toll crept past 1,000.
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