Deaths in Britain are now over 32,000, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics -- the highest single-country toll in Europe.
A restaurant employee proposing food and drink deliveries poses on May 5, 2020 in central Rome, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. Picture: Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP
But the United States, where the pandemic has already claimed 68,700 lives, warned of a further surge in fatalities and Russia became the new hotspot of infections in Europe. Many governments in the West were stepping up the pace in easing stay-at-home measures in a bid to revive badly hammered economies, with experts warning of a global recession not seen in decades.
“The threat is apparently on the rise,” Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin has warned, urging residents to respect confinement rules in the capital. But the claim from US President Donald Trump was rejected on Monday both by the WHO and top US epidemiologist and government adviser Anthony Fauci. The economic fallout prompted the US Treasury to announce it will borrow a record $3 trillion in the April-June period, largely to finance spending on virus relief programmes.
In India, police had to wade in to separate people jostling to buy alcohol for the first time in 40 days as the world’s biggest lockdown eased.
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