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Donald Trump has said the coronavirus “will go away without a vaccine” and expects 95,000 or more deaths in the US. USA, since Mike Pence’s press secretary tested positive for coronavirus.
The president’s comments, at an event with Republican lawmakers, culminated a week of terror in the U.S, in which it was revealed that unemployment had risen to 14.7%, compared to 3.5% in February, with 20 million people losing their jobs in April.
The news that Mike Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, had a Covid-19, which had recently turned negative, again brought the danger of the virus into the inner circle of the White House. Katie Miller is married to White House immigration adviser and speech writer Stephen Miller. On Thursday, one of Trump’s personal aides tested positive for the virus.
The president again seemed to reset expectations for the final death toll in the United States, saying he expected 95,000 or more to die. The current figure is just over 77,000, with nearly 1.3 million infections, including almost 29,000 new infections added to the count on Friday.
The U.S. state department on Friday accused China and Russia of stepping up cooperation to spread false narratives about the coronavirus pandemic, saying that Beijing was increasingly adopting techniques perfected by Moscow.
“Even before the Covid-19 crisis we evaluated a certain level of coordination between Russia and the PRC in the field of propaganda,” said Lea Gabrielle, coordinator of the state department’s global engagement center that tracks foreign propaganda.
“But with this pandemic, cooperation has accelerated rapidly,” he told reporters, in a continuing war of words between Washington and Beijing.
The leaders of the foreign affairs committees of the US Congress. USA They intervened writing to almost 60 countries asking for their support TaiwanThe participation of the World Health Organization, citing the need for the greatest possible effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The move is likely to further inflame Sino-US relations as Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations and has been excluded from the WHO, due to China’s objections, which it considers Taiwan will be part of its territory.
Taiwan has attempted to join a ministerial meeting this month of the WHO decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, with the backing of Washington and several United States allies. Taiwan has argued that its exclusion from the WHO has created a dangerous gap in the global fight against coronavirus.
China reported a new case of coronavirus on Saturday and 15 new asymptomatic cases. The total number of infections in the country was 82,887, with total deaths unchanged at 4,633, the national health authority said.
In Italy, the head of the infectious diseases department of the famous Sacco hospital in Milan, Massimo Galli, said the northern city was “a bit of a bomb” in terms of the spread of the virus.
“We have a lot of infected people going back into circulation,” he told La Repubblica, after photographs of people sitting along Milan’s canals enjoying snacks in the sun, many without wearing masks or abiding by the rules. physical distance, they were sprinkled on the first pages. from the country’s newspapers.
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said the behavior was “shameful” and threatened to close the well-known snack area if people persisted in ignoring the rules. Almost 40% of Italy’s infections are in the Lombardy region, of which Milan is the capital.
On Friday, Italy became the first country in the European Union to pass 30,000 deaths from the virus. Brittany, who left the EU in January, reached that milestone on Wednesday and deaths on Friday totaled more than 31,300.
Travelers to the UK will be quarantined for two weeks when they arrive as part of measures to prevent a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic, Boris Johnson is expected to say Sunday when he presents his roadmap of the blockade. It will announce the introduction of quarantine measures for people arriving at Eurostar airports, ports and train stations, including Britons returning from abroad.
People will be asked to provide the address at which they will isolate themselves for two weeks upon arrival by completing a digital form, according to a report published in the Times newspaper.
Russia More than 10,000 new cases of coronavirus were registered on Friday for the sixth consecutive day, after emerging as a new hotspot for the pandemic. The total number of infections was almost 188,000. The country also recorded 98 new deaths from the virus, for a total of 1,723, and although some officials were considering easing the current blockade, the WHO warned that Russia was in a “late epidemic.”
WHO Director of Emergencies Michael Ryan said in a virtual briefing that he must “learn some of the lessons” that came at great cost in other parts of the world.
In other coronavirus news:
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Global infections it stood at 3,937,813, with 276,863 deaths, according to tracker Johns Hopkins.
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Roy Horn of the double act Siegfried and Roy died after hiring Covid-19, according to US media reports. He died in Las Vegas on Friday, at age 75.
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the U.S issued a new rule on Friday that tightens visa guidelines for Chinese journalists, saying it was in response to the treatment of American journalists in China.
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Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that he was aiming to present plans next week to reopen the economy, as key sectors such as car manufacturing are looking to start their business again after more than a month of quarantine measures.
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Argentina It will extend a quarantine that covers its capital, Buenos Aires, but will relax restrictions in the rest of the country.
