In the

United States, where the number of confirmed anchors exceeds 1 million, the number of unemployed people has risen sharply, accounting for 30 million people applying for unemployment benefits over the past six weeks. The federal government, which judged the economy to be serious, decided to end the social distance guidelines without further extension, but confusion remains.

Correspondent Sohn Seok-min reports in Washington.

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the United States, where GDP growth has been the worst since 2008, the number of claims for unemployment benefits has been worse.

The U.S. Department of Labor said the number of unemployment benefits claims in the fourth week of April was 3.84 million.

Since the third week of March when the Corona aftermath began in earnest, the cumulative number has reached 30 million.

That is 18.4% of the total workforce in the United States.

The New York Stock Exchange, which rebounded yesterday on the news that Ebola treatments are also effective for corona, turned to a downward trend today.

The Trump administration, which is exacerbated by deteriorating economic indicators, has not extended the federal-level social distance guidelines once presented to date.

[Trump / President of the United States: I think it will improve in the third quarter. I think it will be a turning point, and I think it will be a very nice turning point.]

Now, it is up to each state to decide whether or not to resume economic activity.

CNN said that 28 of the 50 states will begin partially normalizing by this weekend.

On the other hand, the state of California decided to close the beach from tomorrow to stop the crowd.