BERLIN, May 12 ― Global alarm was sounded yesterday over a potential second wave of coronavirus cases after Germany, relatively successful in slowing the outbreak, reported that infections had accelerated again after the first tentative steps to ease a lockdown. But in the United States, which...
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News that the “reproduction rate” ― the number of people each person with the disease goes on to infect ― had surged back to 1.1 in Germany cast a shadow over the reopening of businesses ranging from Paris hair salons to Shanghai Disneyland. A rate that stays above 1 means the virus is spreading exponentially.
Some of the hardest-hit states are led by Democratic governors, such as Pennsylvania; the Republican president has encouraged reopening in those states in defiance of their governors with tweets urging people to “liberate” them. Mickey Mouse welcomed thinned-out crowds in Shanghai, the first Disney theme park to reopen, with a strict limit on tickets. Parades and fireworks were cancelled, and workers and guests had to wear face masks and have their temperatures screened.
It is gradually reopening shops and factories, with restaurants and cafes expected to open their doors soon. “It's not over until it's over...We must never lower our guard,” President Moon Jae-In said on Sunday.
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