Italy reports fewer than 100 new deaths from coronavirus. Once the worst-hit country in Europe, Italy was the first nation in the world to put a nationwide lockdown in place. The country began to slowly lift the strict lockdown earlier this month.
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Carbon emissions have dropped by 17% due to confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nature Climate Change journal reported on Tuesday. The impact on 2020 annual emissions depends on the duration of the confinement. If pre-pandemic conditions return by mid-June, the drop is estimated at 4%. If some restrictions remain worldwide until the end of 2020, the drop is estimated at 7%.New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he's asking the state to authorize line-of-duty benefits for the 270 city employees who have lost their lives to the coronavirus.
People gather outside a bar selling to-go drinks during the coronavirus pandemic on May 18, 2020 in New York City. People line up outside the New York City Housing Authority Grant Houses for food distribution in the New York area, May 18 ,2020.The city has seen 147 cases of the illness using the initial definition -- Pediatric Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome. Of those, 69 young people tested positive for the coronavirus and antibodies, and one young person died, the mayor said.
A cruise ship docks at a quay in Mahe island, the largest island contains the capital city of Victoria, Seychelles, Nov. 18, 2019.The Seychelles appears to have been largely spared from the scourge of the pandemic. The archipelago has just 11 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 and no reported deaths, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
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