Russia reports its highest one-day jump in new coronavirus infections as some other countries and U.S. states where numbers of cases are stabilizing allowed businesses and public activities to reopen.
The now open Urban Outfitters in downtown Athens, Ga, on Friday, May 1, 2020. Following Gov. Brian Kemp's decision to end the states shelter-at-home order people are out and about despite COVID-19 cases continuing to grow in the state.
South Korea reported six new cases on Saturday, none of them in the hard-hit city of Daegu in the southeast. Authorities are easing anti-virus controls and shifting emphasis to reducing the economic shock. The virus has killed more than 230,000 people worldwide, including more than 64,000 in the United States and more than 20,000 each in Italy, Britain, France and Spain. Health experts warn a second wave of infections could hit unless testing is expanded dramatically.
As the crisis stabilizes in some European countries and American states, governments are easing the shutdown of businesses that plunged the global economy into its deepest slump since the 1930s and wiped out millions of jobs.and other governments plan to allow factories, offices, other businesses, churches and some other public facilities to reopen gradually and under strict controls.
On Friday, more than a dozen U.S. states including Texas and South Carolina allowed restaurants, stores and other businesses to reopen in the biggest one-day push yet to revive their economies.
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