Officials direct people as they arrive at a testing facility for Covid-19 at Jones Beach in Long Island, New York April 14, 2020. — Reuters pic
President Donald Trump, who has declared he will decide when to lift lockdowns, suggested some Democratic state governors were “mutineers” after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he would refuse any order that risked reigniting the outbreak. “The overall world outbreak — 90 per cent of cases are coming from Europe and the United States of America. So we are certainly not seeing the peak yet,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a briefing in Geneva.
Some Spanish workers expressed concern that the relaxation of restrictions could trigger a new surge of infections. But for Roberto Aguayo, a 50-year-old Barcelona construction worker, the restart came just in time. Thousands of shops across Austria reopened yesterday, but the government cautioned that the country was “not out of the woods.”