Coronavirus updates: Some businesses open as states test effects of easing lockdowns
Among them is Texas, which is allowing nonessential businesses to start reopening.
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Among them is Texas, which is allowing nonessential businesses to start reopening.
There's a growing divide in the U.S. about whether the country is moving too quickly or not fast enough to re-open.
The death toll has climbed to more than 58,000 nationwide as some businesses reopen.
There are more than 52,000 deaths in the U.S., according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.
U.S. COVID-19 deaths now top 50,000, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.
A "deeply concerning picture" about COVID-19 in long-term care facilities has emerged in recent weeks, according to the World Health Organization's Europe director.
CDC head says COVID-19 could strike again this winter and team with flu season to set up dangerous one-two punch for nation's health care system.
The concert comes as the global death toll from coronavirus topped 159,000, with more than 38,000 dead in the U.S.
The virus has sickened more than 2.2 million people worldwide.
The ranks of jobless Americans continue to surge, with about 5.2 million filing for unemployment benefits in the second week of April.
The United States accounts for about 30% of them, with almost 640,000. The disease has killed 137,000 people, including nearly 31,000 in the U.S.
He reported 752 new deaths due to the virus – close to the number of deaths the day before: 778 fatalities.
778 more people have died from the coronavirus in New York.
More than 7,800 people in New York state have died due to COVID-19.
"9/11 was so devastating, so tragic, and then in many ways we lose so many more New Yorkers to this silent killer," he said.