Officials at the epicenter of the worsening coronavirus crisis in the United States warned their hospitals were in danger of being overwhelmed by the upsurge. | AFP
In signs of progress, Formula One returned on Sunday with the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix held behind closed doors, while the Louvre museum in Paris will reopen on Monday after a 16-week virus shutdown.
“Our hospitals here in Harris County, Houston, and 33 other cities… they’re into surge capacities. So their operational beds are taken up,” said Lina Hidalgo, chief executive of Harris County, which includes Houston, Texas. Phoenix city mayor Kate Gallego said, “We opened way too early in Arizona” state. She suggested that a new stay-at-home order should be issued.
In South Africa, dozens of military medics were deployed on Sunday after a surge in infections in East Cape province. England’s pubs reopened after a three-month hiatus on Saturday, with police concluding that the thousands of people thronging the streets of London’s Soho nightlife district made it clear “that drunk people can’t/won’t socially distance.”
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