Rio de Janeiro's samba schools—which usually spend the year sewing costumes for Carnival celebrations—are now making gear, like scrubs, for hospital workers treating COVID-19 patients. Other samba schools across the city are expected to join the effort.
4:30 p.m.: Detroit 'seeing the beginning of a glimmer of light'
Riders wears protective masks during the COVID-19 outbreak waiting for a bus in Detroit, April 8, 2020. Detroit buses will have surgical masks available to riders starting Wednesday, a new precaution the city is taking from the new coronavirus.3:52 p.m.: Virginia primary pushed back, governor wants local elections moved to November
A security guard directs customers to enter the Walmart Supercenter as the coronavirus pandemic continues on Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Miami. Sen. Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tour the Edison Field Medical Station at the site of the N.J. Convention & Exposition Center in Edison, N.J., April 8, 2020. The Exposition Center was converted into a makeshift hospital to handle a possible overflow of patients due to the spread of COVID-19.Murphy said he is signing an executive order moving the state's primary from June 2 to July 7.1 p.m.
A sign thanking front-line workers is seen on an apartment window, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 8, 2020. Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center employees transport a deceased patient to a refrigerated truck on April 8, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.The number of deaths may continue to rise as those hospitalized for the longest periods pass away, he said.
Johnson, 55, is sitting up in bed and speaking with doctors, Sunak said Wednesday evening local time. The prime minister has been receiving"standard" oxygen treatment in the ICU and has been breathing without any other assistance. An Orthodox Jewish man wearing a protective face mask and gloves is seen in the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, April 8, 2020.11:55 a.m.: Mayor tells police to crack down on stay-at-home violators, his wife gets busted
Ambulance personnel get ready to evacuate patients from the Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside, Calif., April 8, 2020. A patient is wheeled to a waiting ambulance outside Elmhurst Hospital Center, Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York.
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