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2020-05-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Coronaplague round-up: UK passes Italy with highest virus death toll in Europe, White House to wind down task force
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Dining out post-lockdown: Restaurant staff will now be required to change gloves between each table, wash their face masks nightly, temperature check customers and ask diners to serve themselves when food arrives
EU emerges from lockdown as global virus cases top 3.6m
[The News (Pak)] Millions of Europeans emerged with relief from coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
 ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
confinement on Monday, with hard-hit Italia leading the way out of the world´s longest lockdown.
At least 3.6 million people are now known to have been infected, but US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
offered hope for an end to the pandemic, saying he believed there would be a vaccine by year´s end. Around 251,000 people have died since the coronavirus emerged in China late last year and swept across the globe, given wings by the network of air routes that in normal times keep the modern world ticking. On Monday at least 3,000 perished due to the disease.
Lockdowns imposed on half of the planet have derailed economies, and politicians are now grappling with how to get the wheels turning again without sparking a second wave of infections. Italia second only to the United States in its Covid-19 corpse count and the first to impose a national lockdown was gingerly emerging into the spring sunshine on Monday, with construction sites and factories resuming work. Restaurants reopened for takeaway orders, but bars and ice cream parlours will remain shut. The use of public transport is being discouraged and everyone will have to wear masks in indoor public spaces.
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 247,503 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Monday. More than 3,521,600 cases were registered in 195 countries and territories. Of these, at least 1,073,568 are now considered recovered.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections. Many countries are testing only the most serious cases.
The United States has the highest number of total deaths with 67,682 out of 1,158,041 cases. At least 180,152 have been declared recovered. Italia has the second highest toll with 28,884 deaths out of 210,717 cases, followed by Britannia with 28,446 deaths from 186,599 cases, Spain 25,428 deaths and 218,011 cases and La Belle France with 24,895 deaths and 168,693 cases.
White House plans to wind down coronavirus task force in coming weeks: New York Times
[AlAhram] The White House plans to wind down its coronavirus task force in coming weeks, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, adding it is not clear whether another group might replace the task force headed by Vice President Mike Pence and made up of health and logistics officials.
Officials in President Donald Trump's administration are telling task force members and their staff to expect the group to wind down within weeks, according to the Times. Reuters did not immediately confirm the report.
The task force will finish up as the White House moves toward the first phase of Trump's plan to reopen the country after many states ordered people to stay at home in order to slow the spread of the potentially deadly coronavirus, the Times said, citing an anonymous official. The focus will now be on therapeutics, vaccines and other treatments.
Formed in March, the task force met frequently to address the rapidly spreading pandemic and then explained its work in nightly news briefings with Trump that often spanned more than an hour. The group's infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, became a household name across the country. While the briefings have stopped, Pence hosted a task-force meeting on Tuesday morning, according to the White House.
South Korea Returns Largely to Normal as Outbreak Controlled
[AnNahar] South Korea returned largely to normal Wednesday as workers went back to offices, and museums and libraries reopened under eased social distancing rules after new coronavirus cases dropped to a trickle.
The South endured one of the worst early outbreaks of the disease outside China and while it never imposed a compulsory lockdown, strict social distancing had been widely observed since March. But the South appears to have brought its outbreak under control thanks to an extensive "trace, test and treat" programme that has drawn widespread praise.
In a population of 51 million, its death toll is little more than 250, and new cases have slowed to just a handful -- 13 in the past three days, all of them arriving international passengers. More than 90 of the South's imported cases are returning citizens.
The South reported two new infections on Wednesday, taking the total to 10,806, the Korea Centers for Disease Control said. 
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