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U.S. Memorial Day Kicks Off Amid Lockdowns As Some Countries Begin Reopening
May 25, 2020 1 min, 36 secs
authorities warned beach-goers to heed social distancing rules to avoid a resurgence of the virus that has infected 5.4 million people worldwide and killed over 345,000, including nearly 100,000 Americans, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and four other remaining areas on Monday, but said that does not mean the end of the outbreak.

“We are also a little sad today, as we have lost two of our more elderly regular customers,” Fernández said.

The Darkov mine near the Czech Republic’s border with Poland halted operations after 212 people — mostly miners and family members — tested positive for coronavirus.

Dutch authorities said Monday that 19 of the 147 employees who had tested positive live in Germany.

In Russia, infections topped 350,000 — the third highest in the world — as health officials reported 9,000 new cases and 92 new deaths, bringing the overall death toll to 3,633.

As millions of Australian children returned to school, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Monday that students and teachers had to observe one key message: Stay home if you are sick.

We have to take each day as it comes, each week as it comes and we keep our fingers crossed that Queenslanders will continue to flatten that curve,” Palaszczuk said.

Chinese state media reported Monday that more than 6.5 million coronavirus tests were conducted in the city of Wuhan — the country’s virus epicenter — over a 10-day period in a bid to test all its 11 million residents.

No new COVID-19 cases have been reported since the 10-day campaign started, although some people with no symptoms tested positive.

More than 3 million people had been tested prior to the campaign, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, said she was “very concerned” about scenes of people crowding together.

Officials in California said most people were covering their faces and keeping their distance as they ventured out.

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