The United States has been recording nearly 2,000 deaths a day from the Coronavirus, disproportionately older people with weakened immune systems and ethnic minorities with less access to health care and teleworking.
Worst-hit New York recorded another 758 Coronavirus deaths.
Nevertheless, the US may be ready to start gradually reopening next month, the government’s top infectious diseases expert said Sunday, as signs grew that the Coronavirus pandemic was peaking.
Trump has cast the decision on when to ease the lockdown as the biggest of his presidency as he faces competing pressures from public health experts and businesses along with some conservative allies who want a swift return to business as usual.
He wrote on Twitter Sunday: “We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy!”
Anthony Fauci, the veteran pandemic expert, said he was “cautiously optimistic” as admissions into hospitals and intensive care had begun to decline.
The United States, which has 4.25 percent of the world’s population, accounts for almost a fifth of the world’s nearly 110,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the disease first emerged in China late last year. Some 17 million people have lost their jobs in a matter of weeks.
