Glimmer of hope in US, Europe even as global deaths top 94,000

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The unfolding economic catastrophe also became clearer with the IMF warning of a Great Depression. FMTNews

A Covid-19 patient waves from her room at the Kirkland Life Care Center in Washington last month.

“The fire started by the pandemic is starting to come under control,” said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of Spain, where fatalities inched down to 683 from 757 a day before, pushing that country’s total above 15,000. The US recorded 1,783 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University as of 0030 GMT Friday, lower than the previous day’s record toll of 1,973.

But he declined to predict how New York would fare in the coming weeks, telling reporters bluntly: “I have no idea.” He warned earlier in the day that France’s economy was expected to shrink six percent this year, even with the country’s own €100 billion relief plan. War-torn Yemen, which has been experiencing one of the world’s most acute humanitarian crises, on Friday reported its first case.

 

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