Saturday, 18 Apr 2020 11:23 PM MYT
Saturday ends another week in which millions of Americans went without paycheques. More than 20 million have filed for unemployment benefits in the past few weeks alone as closures of businesses and schools and severe travel restrictions to try to curb the highly contagious virus have hammered the US economy.
Emergency Medical Technicians wheel a man out of the Cobble Hill Health Centre nursing home during an ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the Brooklyn borough of New York April 17, 2020. — Reuters pic Also angering those governors, all Democrats, were a series of Twitter posts on Friday by the Republican president — “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA!” — that appeared to be egging on the protests.
Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday that the United States had the capacity to do a sufficient amount of testing for states to move into a phase one of reopening. To help slow the spread of the virus, Cuomo implemented state-wide mandatory wearing of masks for anyone out in public and unable to practice social distancing. The rules, which cover all those using public transport or for-hire vehicles, came into effect on Friday night.
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