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Reaching Grim Milestone, United States Logs World’s Highest Coronavirus Death Toll The United States surpassed Italy on Saturday to become the country with the highest number of recorded coronavirus deaths, reporting more than 19,600 fatalities since the outbreak began, according to a Reuters tally. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-casualties/u-s-coronavirus-deaths-top-20000-highest-in-world-exceeding-italy-reuters-tally-idUSKCN21T0NA

Global Coronavirus Death Toll Hits 100,000, Cases Over 1.6 Million The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus reached 100,000 on Friday, as the tally of cases passed 1.6 million, according to a Reuters tally. The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan. 9. It took 83 days for the first 50,000 deaths to be recorded and just eight more for the toll to climb to 100,000. The toll has been accelerating at a daily rate of between 6% and 10% over the past week, and there were almost 7,300 deaths globally reported on Thursday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-death-toll/global-coronavirus-death-toll-hits-100000-cases-over-1-6-million-idUSKCN21S1SM

Bernie Sanders Drops Out of 2020 Democratic Race for President Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont ended his presidential candidacy on Wednesday, concluding a quest that elevated him as a standard-bearer of American liberalism and clearing the way for a general election between the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and President Trump at a time of national crisis. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.amp.html

UK Prime Minister Johnson in Intensive Care after COVID-19 Worsens British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taken into the intensive care unit in hospital after his COVID-19 worsened, his office said on Monday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-johnson-in/uk-prime-minister-johnson-in-intensive-care-after-covid-19-worsens-idUSKBN21O2PV

UK PM Johnson Admitted to Hospital with Persistent Coronavirus Symptoms British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital for tests on Sunday after showing persistent symptoms of coronavirus ten days after testing positive for the virus, although his office said it was not an emergency admission. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-johnson/uk-pm-johnson-admitted-to-hospital-with-persistent-coronavirus-symptoms-idUSKBN21N0VI

Confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases most in world, overtaking China and Italy Confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States reached 81,378 on Thursday, more than any other country, overtaking both Italy and China, a Reuters tally showed. China was second with 81,285 cases, and Italy was third with 80,539 cases. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN21D3PB

India's Prime Minister Decrees 21-Day Lockdown to Curb Virus India will begin the world's largest lockdown on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a TV address, warning citizens to stay inside or risk inviting the pandemic into their homes, and pledging $2 billion to bolster the country's beleaguered health care system. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/03/24/business/ap-as-virus-outbreak-india.html

On hold: Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021 The IOC announced a first-of-its-kind postponement of the Summer Olympics on Tuesday, bowing to the realities of a coronavirus pandemic that is shutting down daily life around the globe and making planning for a massive worldwide gathering in July a virtual impossibility. https://apnews.com/fc044c3fa987a60534a804046215f3de

California governor issues statewide stay-at-home order California’s 40 million residents should stay home indefinitely and venture outside only for essential jobs, errands and some exercise, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, warning that the coronavirus threatens to overwhelm the state’s medical system. The move, the most sweeping by any state so far, was an exclamation point at the end of a week of increasingly aggressive moves meant to keep the virus in check by forcing people to stay away from each other as often as possible. https://apnews.com/9ca4a191790dd6f80bd5acec569ec423

Trump declares virus pandemic a national emergency President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is declaring the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency, as Washington struggles with providing Americans with relief and officials race to slow the spread of the outbreak. Speaking from the Rose Garden, Trump said, “I am officially declaring a national emergency.” He said the emergency would open up $50 billion for state and local governments to respond to the outbreak. https://apnews.com/83b0c8e168548fd453b0c177dd1f203a

Asian shares plunge after Wall Street’s worst day since ’87 Shares plunged in Asia on Friday, with benchmarks in Japan, Thailand and India sinking as much as 10% after Wall Street suffered its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987. Markets worldwide have retreated as fears of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis deepen and the meltdown in the U.S., the world's biggest economy, batters confidence around the globe. https://apnews.com/f4dec5de0bcb4d32a1e28ada66e2fc6f

WHO declares that virus crisis is now a pandemic Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the U.N. agency, said the WHO is “deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity” of the outbreak. He also expressed concern about “the alarming levels of inaction.” https://apnews.com/52e12ca90c55b6e0c398d134a2cc286e