Washington.
United States recorded almost 2,000 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, reaching 40,661 deaths this Sunday, according to a balance from the Johns Hopkins University.
The number of deceased (1,997) exceeds that of the previous 24-hour balance presented a day earlier by the university, which registered 1,891 people.
Epidemic declines in New York
The epidemic of the new coronavirus in the state of New York, the American epicenter, entered a downward phase for the first time, which could fuel the controversy between President Donald Trump and the state governors on the need to maintain or not the containment measures.
“We have passed the peak, and everything indicates that at this point we are in decline,” said the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo during his daily press conference.
As pressure increases to resume activities in the United States, the country most affected by the pandemic with more than 740,000 confirmed cases and 40,000 deceased, Cuomo called for caution “so as not to jeopardize” the progress made.
“Continuing with that decline will depend on what we do,” insisted the governor, who recently prolonged confinement measures in his state until May 15.
Other states have begun to relax distancing measures. Some Florida beaches were authorized to reopen this Sunday and were quickly filled with people. The governors of Texas and Vermont They also plan to reopen some activities, cautiously, starting Monday.
“There are so many things I would like people to know that you can do in addition to living in fear, panic and chaos. Being stressed all the time is the worst thing you can do to your immune system,” Misty Hudson, a resident of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
The pressure to resume economic activities It is strong, especially due to the significant increase in unemployment caused by paralysis. Demonstrations against a quarantine considered excessive have multiplied in recent days in various states of the country.
Most of these protests brought together just a few hundred people, and the one held this Sunday in Chicago did not gather more than three cars with protesters. But a protest on Saturday in Lansing, in Michigan, had about 3,000 participants.
Trump encouraged those protests with some of his statements. On Friday, he called for “liberation” of some states led by Democratic governors. On Saturday, after a dozen protests against confinement in various regions of the country, he considered that “some governors had gone too far.”
His comments were criticized by various governors, including Republicans.
Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, who was the scene of a demonstration on Saturday, considered that “there is no point in encouraging people to demonstrate against a plan on which one has just made recommendations.”
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