( Reuters) – Here’s what you need to understand about the coronavirus today:
Public benches are taped off in Brockwell Park as the spread of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 8,2020 REUTERS/Reade Levinson
The unemployed stumble upwards
Beyond the daily casualty statistics, the big, sobering economic variety of the week arrive on Thursday at 08.30 ET (1230 GMT): New U.S. unemployed claims will likely expose that the variety of Americans looking for unemployment benefits in the last three weeks has actually now hit a shocking 15 million.
That will seal the view that the stay-at-home measures needed to control the novel coronavirus outbreak have actually thrust the world’s top economy into a deep recession and reinforce expectations of task losses of up to 20 million in April. The social costs are as yet incalculable.
From fine to flailing
The speed with which patients are declining and passing away from the new coronavirus is stunning even seasoned doctors and nurses as they rush to