Global deaths from fatal Covid-19 hit 3,93,775 while infected 67,37,606 in 210 countries and territories and recovered 32,73,795, according to worldometer.
Overall deaths from Covid-19 jumped to the United States 1,10,218 with total cases 19,25,267, according to worldometer.
With coronavirus lockdowns easing and unrest sweeping the nation, the United States got some encouraging news on the nascent jobs market recovery, but confirmation that racial inequality continues to be a feature of the US labour market.
The economy gained 2.5 million in jobs in May, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, pushing the unemployment rate down by 1.4 percentage points to 13.3 percent.
The headline numbers were a big shock to most analysts who were expecting millions more job losses.
May’s job gains – by far the biggest monthly spike on record – mostly reflect laid off workers who were recalled
to their jobs as coronavirus containment measures are rolled back across the country. The number of unemployed workers who were on temporary layoff decreased by 2.7 million in May to 15.3 million. Broken out by race, the white unemployment rate edged down from 14.2 percent in April to 12.4 percent in May, while the unemployment rate for African Americans ticked up slightly from 16.7 percent to 16.8 percent.
That racial divergence in joblessness is nothing new. The African American jobless rate has been higher than the white unemployment rate since the government started recording that data back in 1972.
Tens of thousands of people have participated in protests since the death of unarmed Black man George Floyd in policy custody in Minneapolis last month. Though centred on police brutality, the outcry is also an expression of mounting frustrations with deeply entrenched social and economic inequalities.
The jobs market is just one area of the economy where African Americans and other mixed races have the odds stacked against them. From the value of an education to gaining access to credit to buy assets like houses to grow wealth over time, and myriad other metrics, there is a concrete, consistent pattern of racial discrimination in the US economic ecosystem.
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 88 on Thursday, against 71 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the rise in the tally of new cases slowed to 177 from 321 on Wednesday.
The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 33,689, the agency said, the third highest in the world after those of the United States and Britain.
The number of confirmed cases amounts to 234,013, the sixth highest global tally behind those of the United States, Brazil, Russia, Spain and Britain.
Of the 177 new infections on Thursday, 84 were in the northern region of Lombardy which has been by far the hardest hit by Italy’s epidemic in terms of both cases and deaths.
The region with the second highest number of new cases was neighbouring Piedmont, with just 24. Nine of Italy’s 20 regions had no new cases on Thursday.
A day earlier the government ended restrictions on movement between regions despite complaints by some regional governors who fear that allowing people to travel out of Lombardy could spark new areas of contagion elsewhere in the country.
People registered as currently carrying the illness in Italy fell to 38,429 from 39,297 the day before.
There were 338 people in intensive care on Thursday, down from 353 on Wednesday, maintaining a long-running decline. Of those originally infected, 161,895 were declared recovered against 160,938 a day earlier.
The agency said some 2.525 million people had been tested for the virus as of Thursday, against 2.497 million on Wednesday, out of a population of around 60 million.
Spain’s total death toll from the coronavirus reached 27,133 on Thursday, health ministry data showed, five more than reported on Wednesday.
The ministry has stopped providing a daily death toll but said 56 people had died from the virus over the last seven days. Confirmed cases climbed by 195 from the previous day to 240,660. Spain is implementing a new methodology for logging deaths and cases, leading to fluctuations in its statistics and frequent revisions of data which officials warn are likely to continue for some time.
