{"id":74133,"date":"2020-05-13T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=74133"},"modified":"2020-05-13T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T04:01:28","slug":"covid-19-new-cases-threaten-worlds-moves-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=74133","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: New cases threaten world\u2019s moves back to work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MOSCOW, May 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — World powers including Russia and
India pushed on with easing coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday,
despite upsurges in infections in parts of the world and warnings of a
second wave epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese authorities, meanwhile, moved to test the entire 11-million
strong population of the city of Wuhan, cradle of the global pandemic,
after new cases were reported there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Russia, the government began to gradually ease lockdown rules,
after reporting more than 10,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus
every day for over a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in India, the giant railway network ground back to life, in
defiance of a recent surge in the number of infections, with 3,600
recorded on Monday, just below Sunday\u2019s record tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various economic and social lockdowns have paralysed much of the
global economy, and many areas are now cautiously moving back to work,
but world markets were trading cautiously amid fears of a second wave
epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States \u2014 where at least 81,000 people have died \u2014 has
the world\u2019s highest case-load, but President Donald Trump is keen to
reopen the economy quickly amid soaring job losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He faces resistance, however, and Washington\u2019s top epidemiologist
Anthony Fauci has warned of \u201cneedless suffering and death\u201d if
Americans return to work and group leisure activities before the
pandemic is under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: \u2018Open America
Again,\u2019 then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the
country,\u201d Fauci told the New York Times in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will not only result in needless suffering and death, but
would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal,\u201d he
warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virus appeared to have gained a foothold in the White House at
the weekend, with a second confirmed case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Wing staff were told Monday they had to wear masks, and Trump
said he might limit contact with his deputy after an aide to Vice
President Mike Pence tested positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, who is desperately seeking to reboot the economy ahead of the
November election, said the US was making \u201ctremendous strides\u201d in
ramping up testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe people want our country open,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States logged a second consecutive day of fewer than 900
coronavirus deaths on Monday, just as the World Health Organization
warned of the need for \u201cextreme vigilance\u201d against a second wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a cautious return to
work from Tuesday, but the gradual effort was overshadowed by a fire
in a Saint Petersburg coronavirus hospital that left five people dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Observers were also nervously eyeing Wuhan, where the virus was
first reported late year, after the Chinese city registered the first
cluster of new COVID-19 infections since it reopened after a 76-day
lockdown on April 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach district should make plans and arrangements to conduct nucleic
acid tests on the entire population in its jurisdiction within a
10-day time limit,\u201d according to an official statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cautious optimism in some quarters was also tempered by the
increasingly dire economic situation, with Belgium\u2019s Brussels Airlines
becoming the latest carrier to warn of massive job losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virus has now killed more than 286,000 people around the world while the number of infections has surpassed 4.1 million, but seems to be slowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe good news is that there has been a great deal of success in
slowing the virus and ultimately saving lives,\u201d WHO chief Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the agency\u2019s emergencies chief Michael Ryan lamented that some
governments were choosing to \u201cdrive through this blind\u201d by not ramping
up capacity to test for and trace the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, France reported a 27 percent plunge in economic activity
for April compared with pre-pandemic forecasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese auto giant Toyota said it expected a 79.5 percent drop in
annual operating profit this fiscal year, calling the effect of the
virus \u201cwide-ranging, significant and serious\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industry chiefs say the business landscape could look very different
in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s most likely,\u201d Boeing CEO David Calhoun told a reporter when
asked if a major US airline could go bust over the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou know something will happen in September,\u201d Calhoun said.
\u201cTraffic levels will not be back to 100 percent, they won\u2019t even be
back to 25.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Europe, where infection rates and death tolls have significantly
tailed off, millions of people have begun emerging from lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spaniards revelled in being able to visit outdoor terraces and cafes
after months under one of the world\u2019s toughest lockdowns, although
virus hotspots such as Madrid and Barcelona remain under wraps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very emotional, almost as if we were opening for the first
time,\u201d said a smiling Raffa Olivier after setting up tables outside
his ice-cream parlour in the seaside town of Tarragona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shopping districts were once again populated in Greece, while in the
Netherlands, Switzerland and Croatia youngsters headed back to the
classroom after weeks at home. — NNN-AGENCIES
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