Iran Press/America: Many public health officials and politicians, however, continued to raise concerns that increased activity would put Americans at greater risk of a new surge of infections.
US stocks plunged in the last hour of trading Tuesday to halt a three-day winning streak and dampen the euphoria from Monday’s monstrous gains. The Dow Jones industrial average slid 390 points or 1.6 percent.
Asian American health-care workers have reported a rise in bigoted incidents. The hostility has left Asian Americans, who represent 6 percent of the US population but 18 percent of the country’s physicians and 10 percent of its nurse practitioners, in a painful position on the front lines.
President Trump has privately expressed opposition to extending unemployment benefits for laid-off workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Trump administration announced an indefinite extension of travel restrictions at the US land borders, and indefinitely extended the emergency enforcement rules that have allowed US Customs and Border Protection to rapidly “expel” more than 20,000 unauthorized border crossers since late March.
Most elderly COVID-19 patients put on ventilators at two New York hospitals did not survive, according to a sweeping study published Tuesday that captured the brutal nature of this new disease and the many ways it attacks the body.
The global death toll nears 324,911, with 4,986,395 confirmed cases, according to the World Health Organization, which declared the outbreak a pandemic.
COVID-19 was first detected in China's Wuhan in late December and has since spread across the world.
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