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Let's move on to the news of Corona 19. In the United States, with over 1 million confirmed cases, the number of unemployed people has also increased sharply, accounting for 30 million people applying for unemployment benefits over the past six weeks. There is still confusion as the federal government ends the social distance guidelines today.

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 claims for unemployment benefits in the fourth week of April was 3.84 million, and the cumulative number has reached 30 million since the third week of March when the Corona aftermath began in earnest.

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

The New York Stock Exchange, which had rebounded yesterday on the news that Ebola treatments are also effective for corona, has turned downward 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.