After bitter negotiations, the US Senate on Wednesday unanimously backed a $2 trillion bill intended to flood the economy with cash to stem the impact of an intensifying epidemic that Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called “a strange and evil disease”. The massive rescue package, which would be the largest ever passed by Congress, goes to the House of Representatives for a vote on Friday.
But the message may not have reached the U.S. ambassador to Britain. In an interview with the London Times, he doubled down on criticism of China, accusing it of trying to cover up the epidemic and putting millions at risk.There are more than 470 000 cases in 200 countries and territories, Reuters figures tallied at 0200 GMT on Thursday showed. Ninety of these places have 100 cases or more.
The United States has taken over from Italy as the country reporting the most new cases. It now accounts for roughly a third of all new cases reported in the past day, with almost 15,000 infections, and over 260 new deaths.Leave now, Australia tells cruise ships Cruise ships have become a flashpoint after 147 of 2,700 passengers who were allowed to disembark from Carnival Corp’s Ruby Princess later tested positive for COVID-19.A junior British health minister defended Prince Charles and Britain’s coronavirus testing procedures on Thursday, saying the heir to the throne did not “jump the queue” when he was tested and found positive for the disease.
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