“We have two crises that are sandwiched on top of one other,” the mayor of Minneapolis said.
Protesters take a knee while marching through Harlem during a solidarity rally for George Floyd, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in New York.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms warned that “there is still a pandemic in America that’s killing black and brown people at higher numbers.” “Whether they’re fired up or not, that doesn’t prevent them from getting the virus,” said Bradley Pollock, chairman of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California, Davis.
On Sunday, many Americans were returning to in-person church services for the first time in many weeks as some emergency measures are lifted and mosques reopened across the Middle East, but in countries from India to Colombia the number of new infection was still on the rise. More than 6 million infections have been reported worldwide, with nearly 370,000 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The true death toll is believed to be significantly higher, with experts saying many victims died of the virus without ever being tested.
In Bogota, the capital of Colombia, authorities were locking down an area of nearly 1.5 million people as cases continue to rise.
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