News Desk :
Total fatalities from Covid-19 stood 3,30,399 globally with total cases 51,19,004 in 210 countries and territories while recovered 20,42,948, according to worldometer.
The total death toll from coronavirus climbed to 94,963 in the United States with total cases 15,93,486 which is the highest total in the world.
Two months into the pandemic battle, national politics have hardened into an ugly, dispiriting limbo amid a sense that during a generational crisis, there is no one in charge.
Haunted by an invisible pathogen that has drained trademark energy and optimism from American life, the ordeal has clearly not drawn the country together-it’s tearing it further apart. And there is still no clear path out of the darkness.
The stasis is deepened because as every state moves toward some kind of opening, there is no convincing metric to show conclusively whether the battle is being won.
In 18 states, coronavirus infections are rising, in 15 states the numbers are steady and in 17 infections are ebbing.
Aggressive openers such as Texas and Florida might offer hope-but now there are reports that infection figures from those states and others may not be as optimistic or believable as they seem.
At the apex of political power, a President who ought to be unifying the country seems to be using his office to indulge his own need for attention and is exclusively talking to the sizable minority that supports him no matter what.
Amid crushing economic pain caused by shutdowns, a divided Congress cannot
decide whether it wants to do more to help, compounding the impression that the fractured national political system and those in it are not equal to the moment.
Every four years, the instrument of political renewal, the presidential election, offers a pressure valve for partisan angst and, for all the nation’s acrimonious political divides, legitimacy to the winner.
This year the contest is stifled-with the presumptive challenger, Joe Biden, stuck in his basement. President Donald Trump is giving the distinct impression with false claims of voter fraud, which he escalated on Wednesday, that he’s trying to delegitimize an election he might lose-a scenario that could seed years of discord even if he is forced out of the White House.
In the best of times, and the worst of times, the presidency often sets the mood of the age, in Washington and beyond. But it’s as if Trump, endlessly preoccupied with his reelection prospects, is not engaged in the worst public health challenge in a century and the most debilitating economic crunch since the 1930s.
Each day, he gets further drawn into his obsessions and personal feuds. Impeachment did not slow his testing of constitutional constraints, it accelerated them, as his firing of agency inspectors general and his Justice Department’s efforts to rewrite the narrative of his abuses of power show.
