It's the same everywhere. Countries started reopening from lock down in efforts to save the economy but with increase in cases of COVID 19. Until a vaccine is discovered, COVID will continue rising.
If relaxed too soon, physical distancing measures might have been all for naught. If physical distancing measures in the United States are relaxed while there is still no COVID-19 vaccine or treatment and while personal protective equipment remains in short supply, the number of resulting infections could be about the same as if distancing had never been implemented to begin with, reports a team of mathematicians and scientists. Ref. Source 1i.
US State Department lifts warning against international travel nearly five months after COVID-19 pandemic began. "With health and safety conditions improving in some countries and potentially deteriorating in others, the Department is returning to our previous system of country-specific levels of travel advice," the State Department said Thursday. It issued a level 4 warning - its most severe - on March 19. Ref. USAToday.
COVID-19 hospitalizations analysis shows disparities across racial and ethnic groups. Adding to mounting evidence of COVID-19's disproportionate impact on some US communities, a new analysis of hospitalization rates shows Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaskan Native populations in the United States are significantly more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than whites. Source 2d.
New COVID-19 cases are declining across the US, official says, but that could quickly change if people aren’t careful. States across the US are now seeing a decline in coronavirus cases, a US top official said this week, though he warned things could quickly change again if Americans aren’t careful. Trends are now “going in the right direction,” said Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration physician overseeing US coronavirus testing, attributing the decline in… Source 4i.
The US surpasses 6 million coronavirus cases, leading the world in confirmed cases and deaths. The latest bleak milestone comes just seven months and 10 days after the first U.S. Case was confirmed. At least 183,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. Globally, there are 25 million cases and more than 846,000 people have died. Ref. USAToday.