LATEST: Free face coverings are being distributed at high-trafficked parks and hard-hit communities in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio says.
10:25 a.m.: NYC distributing free face coverings at busy parks
The mayor said there will be 14,000 tests conducted this week, but by the week of May 18 the city hopes to reach 43,000 per week. Out of the 44 countries in the WHO Europe's region that have enacted coronavirus-related restrictions, Kluge said 21 have already begun easing those measures and another 11 intend to do so in the coming days.
But he said France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom still have high caseloads while Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine have all seen increases in cases. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wears a face mask while answering questions during an upper house budget committee session at the parliament in Tokyo on April 30, 2020.
A U.S. government-sponsored clinical trial of the antiviral medication remdesivir began on Feb. 21 and includes more than 1,000 patients around the world. Sixty-eight sites have joined the study -- 47 in the United States and 21 in countries in Europe and Asia. Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has played a leading role -- the school and an affiliated hospital enrolled 103 patients, more than any other institution in the world.
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