• Coronavirus, almost 13 thousand dead in the US. In New York "half a million jobless"
  • 430 thousand people have arrived in the US from China since the beginning of the epidemic. Trump: I will watch Easter Mass on the laptop
  • In the US over 5,000 coronavirus deaths, New York was the hardest hit

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April 08, 2020

In the United States, there are at least 402,923 cases and 13,007 deaths from coronavirus. This is what emerges from the data aggregator of Johns Hopkins University. The total includes cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories, as well as cases from repatriated citizens. Wyoming remains the only state without death. So far, 4,114 new cases and 112 deaths have been recorded today.

The worst day for New York State: 779 dead
The daily death toll in New York State continues to rise: yesterday, it was 779, a new record. This was announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo. So far 6,268 people have died. "There is good news in what we see, that what we have done and are doing is working," said Cuomo. Social distancing "is working" and the curve is flattening out, he said, because people are strictly following directions. "The bad news isn't just bad, it's actually terrible," he said, declaring that 779 people died yesterday.

Cuomo: half a million jobless
At least half a million New Yorkers are already out of work or about to lose it: said Mayor Bill de Blasio, who in the daily press conference took stock of the impact that the pandemic is having on the 'big apple' population.

Cdc removes the chloroquine document from the site
The American CDC has meanwhile removed from its website a guideline on the use of chloroquine, the antimalarial drug considered among the most promising in the fight against Covid-19, which stated that the drug is 'effective', to replace it with a much more bland which only indicates that it is 'subject to clinical tests'. This was revealed by the The Hill website, which recalls how the main 'sponsor' of the drug is US President Donald Trump.

In the original version, the CoC also reported some possible dosages for the therapy, stating that "there is anecdotal evidence on the effectiveness", a formula considered 'unusual' by many experts. The first publication had been requested by Trump himself, who had asked the body to make the drug, and its analogue hydroxychloroquine, more available. The updated version, however, no longer reports the sentence and the dosages, while only saying that "the drug is being researched in clinical tests on patients infected with the coronavirus". In some studies, chloroquine seems to be able to reduce the duration of the disease, while others have found no advantages, especially if used in the advanced stage. In the USA, a person died after ingesting an aquarium cleaning product that contained the active substance.

Fed: maximum uncertainty, rates at zero until the end of the emergency
The effects of coronavirus will weigh on economic activity in the coming period. Creating effects of maximum uncertainty. In light of these developments, the Fed has decided to reduce the federal funding rate to 0% and expects to maintain this target until it is confident that the economy has resisted recent events and is well on its way to reaching its maximum employment targets and price stability. We read it in the Federal Reserve minutes relating to the meeting of 15 March. This action will help support economic activity, the labor market and inflation returning to the 2 percent target.

Over 80,000 deaths worldwide
Over 80,000 coronavirus deaths worldwide. This is indicated by the count of Johns Hopkins University, which currently fixes the number of deaths at 81.103. The contagious, again according to the JHU, are 1,413,415.

China registered 62 new cases of infection yesterday, of which 59 imported (rose to 1,042 in total) and 3 domestic in Shandong (2) and Guangdong (1). The National Health Commission (NHC) has reported two new deaths, one in Shanghai and one in Hubei, the province of which Wuhan, the outbreak of the pandemic, is the capital. The infections are overall 81,802, of which 1,190 under treatment, 3,333 deaths and 77,279 recovered. 137 new asymptomatics, 102 of which imported, while 1,095 are under observation. But also in China, fears about the second wave of Covid-19 are concentrated on the northern province of Heilongjiang after the daily peak of 25 cases imported with the arrival of travelers from Russia. Suifenhe, a city with more than 60,000 inhabitants on the Russian border and gateway to Vladivostok, today launched a lockdown like the one just removed in Wuhan, Hubei. The residents, reported the state television CCTV, are forced to stay in residential compounds and only one person per family will be able to go out every three days to buy the basic necessities.