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Corona 19, which began in Wuhan, China, was first known to the world at the end of last year, and today (9th) 100 days have passed. If you look at the flow so far, the number of confirmed people around the world is now close to 1.5 million, and the death toll is close to 90,000. Until February of this year, it was concentrated in China, followed by Korea, Iran, Europe and Italy, and now Spain, Britain, and the United States are struggling with the virus. Among them, New York, USA has almost 150,000 confirmed patients, more than all the patients in Spain. In particular, the United States was found to have suffered a lot of damage from black people in a relatively poor environment, so New York State decided to test the socio-economically vulnerable groups first.

Correspondent Correspondent Kim Yun-soo of Washington.

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This is a video posted by a bus driver in Michigan, USA, on social media.

Wipe off the sweat that seems to be uncomfortable somewhere.

[Hargrove / bus driver: We are here to do our job as a public service worker. I am trying to live an honest life to care for my family.]

The driver posted a video and was confirmed four days later and died last week.

The proportion of blacks in the Michigan population is only 14%, while blacks account for 41% of Corona19 deaths.

In Chicago, where the black population is 30%, 72% of the deaths were black.

New York State decided to test the vulnerable population first, as damage was concentrated on blacks with relatively low income levels and access to health care.

[Andro Cuomo / New York Governor: Even in the case of natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, people who climb on the roof (asking for help) are not white rich people. Why do poor people always have to pay the most expensive price?]

The White House Corona Response Team named Philadelphia and Baltimore, and Washington, DC, as the most prominent areas of New York to be a hotspot.

All of them are big cities with a high proportion of blacks.

The surge in patients in the United States, which has soared to 430,000, has been showing some signs of calm this week.

President Trump said that if the upward trend draws a downward curve, he wants to reopen America's daily life, but there are also concerns that the early easing of social distance could be a fuel to fire.

(Video coverage: Eunha Park, Video editing: Yonghwa Jung)