COVID-19 Pandemic Update: Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In NYC Pass 100k, Deaths Pass 6k; UK Reports Most Deaths Outside US For 2nd Day

Summary:

• UK death toll passes 10,000
• Boris Johnson released from the hospital, says “I owe my life to the NHS”
• Pope delivers Easter blessing at an empty St. Peter’s Basilica
• US deaths cross 21k
• France, Italy report drop in cases
• France reports
• Pope says debts of poor nations should be ‘forgiven’
• Japanese report record single-day jump in cases for 5th day running
• Jordan extends lockdown until end of April
• China says new imported cases linked to flight from Russia
• NY deaths, hospitalizations continue to fall.
• FDA’s Hahn, Dr. Fauci says the US will begin reopening on May 1
• Germany reported the smallest increase in cases in more than a month
• Spain deaths accelerate, snapping a 3-day streak of declines
• Canada deaths rose by 74
• China announced 99 new cases, most in a month
• Asian nations worry about Indonesia being “weak link”
• Bill Gates warns we’re in “uncharted territory”
• Spain leads rebound in European deaths, cases, snapping a streak of declines