News Desk :
Total death jumped to 2,50,097 in COVID-19 while infected 36,06,946 in 210 countries and territories and recovered 11,69,555, according to worldometer.
The United States has the most coronavirus deaths in the world at more 68,633, with 1,450 recorded over the 24-hours late Sunday while total cases jumped to 11,89,845.
Trump, speaking at a live TV event, promised an early coronavirus vaccine and an “incredible” future for the country as he sought to relaunch his disrupted election campaign.
Florida is set to ease its lockdown Monday, as other US states wrestle with pressure from demonstrators — some carrying weapons — who have rallied against the restrictions.
In New York, the epicenter of the US outbreak, an emergency field hospital erected in Central Park is set to close as virus cases decline.
But dozens of New Yorkers were fined for violating social distancing guidelines as they flocked to beaches and parks in balmy weekend weather.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says there is “enormous evidence” that the virus originated in a lab in China, in a comment likely to add to tensions with Beijing over the outbreak.
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 174 on Sunday, against 474 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, posting the smallest daily toll of fatalities since March 10.
The daily number of new cases also declined sharply to 1,389 from 1,900 on Saturday.
In recent weeks of the epidemic that emerged in Italy on Feb 21, the daily death count has tended to fall on Sundays only to rise again the following day.Nonetheless the latest data still offers encouragement to the country as it prepares to gradually ease its eight-week-old lockdown – the longest in Europe – from Monday.
Saturday’s jump in the daily death tally, which bucked a gradual declining trend, appeared to have been due to the addition of hundreds of deaths in the northern Lombardy region in April, which had not previously been recorded.
Italy’s total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 28,884, the Civil Protection Agency said, the second highest in the world after that of the United States.
The number of confirmed cases amounts to 210,717, the third highest global tally behind those of the United States and Spain.
People registered as currently carrying the illness fell to 100,179 from 100,704 on Saturday.
There were 1,501 people in intensive care on Sunday, down from 1,539 the day before, maintaining a long-running decline. Of those originally infected, 81,654 were declared recovered against 79,914 on Saturday.
