The United States surpassed Italy as the country with the highest reported coronavirus death toll, according to a Reuters tally
The grim milestone was reached as President Donald Trump mulled over when the country, which has registered more than half a million infections, might begin to see a return to normality.
Most of the present restrictions on public life, however, including school closures and emergency orders keeping non-essential workers largely confined to their homes, flow from powers vested in state governors, not the president. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, however, later used his widely watched daily news conference to dismiss the mayor’s edict as merely an “opinion,” and say he would make his own decision on school closures.
A pastor wearing a protective mask is seen at The Green-Wood Cemetery during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon A handful of holdout U.S. churches planned to go ahead with in-person services on Easter Sunday, saying their rights to worship outweighed public health warnings.Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, and other health officials pointed to declining rates of coronavirus hospitalizations and admissions to intensive care units - particularly in New York state - as signs that social distancing measures are paying off.
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