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Fatalities from Covid-19 jumped to 4,09,438 globally with total cases 72,32,357 in 210 countries and territories while recovered 35,62,286, according to worldometer.
Deaths toll from Covid-19 in the United States hit 1,13,125 while infected 20,27,438, according to worldometer.
New York City — the epicenter of America’s coronavirus outbreak — began partially reopening its shattered economy Monday after almost three months of lockdown, as the World Health Organization warned the health crisis was “worsening” worldwide.
Some 400,000 New Yorkers were allowed to return to work as retailers began offering limited in-store and curbside pickup, with construction and manufacturing also permitted to resume operations.
Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 136,000 cases had been reported in the past 24 hours, “the most in a single day so far,” with the majority of them in the Americas and South Asia. “Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening,” he told reporters.
COVID-19 caused more than 21,000 confirmed and probable deaths in New York after America’s most populous city quickly became ground zero of the US epidemic in late March.
New York’s bars will be allowed to open in phase three, but movie theaters and museums have to wait until phase four, likely in late July and with reduced capacity.
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy climbed by 65 on Monday against 53 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases rose to 280 from 197 on Sunday.
The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 33,964, the agency said, the fourth highest in the world after those of the United States, Brazil and Britain.
The number of confirmed cases amounts to 235,278, the seventh highest global tally behind those of the United States, Russia, Brazil, Spain, Britain and India.
People registered as currently carrying the illness fell to 34,730 from 35,262 the day before.
The northern region of Lombardy, where the outbreak was first identified, remains by far the worst affected of Italy’s 20 regions, accounting for 194 of the 280 new cases reported on Monday.
There were 283 people in intensive care on Monday, down from 287 on Sunday, maintaining a long-running decline. Of those originally infected, 166,584 were declared recovered against 165,837 a day earlier.
The agency said some 2.643 million people had been tested for the virus as of Monday against 2.627 million on Sunday, out of a population of around 60 million.
Spain reported 48 new cases of COVID-19 infection on Monday and no new deaths.
According to the Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare, 27,136 people have died from COVID-19, the same number the ministry published on Sunday.
The ministry also said that 56 people have lost their lives to the virus in the past seven days, down from 72 it reported on Saturday, although the count is affected by delays in the reporting system of the country’s 17 autonomous communities.
Monday saw a further drop in the number of new COVID-19 cases, with 48 new infections reported, down from 102 a day earlier). This takes the total number of confirmed cases to 241,717, although once again the data should be treated with caution as the Health Ministry also confirmed 2,157 new cases over the past seven days.
