With world’s highest COVID-19 death toll, U.S. states have all declared disaster

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In the United States, now the country hardest hit by the coronavirus, disaster has been declared in all 50 states.
The U.S. death toll is now the highest in the world.
And in Europe, the UK is seeing the sharpest rise in daily new infections... while Spain seems to be slowing down.
Lee Kyung-eun has the latest.
The U.S. now has the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths in the world.
As of Saturday local time, there were more than 20-thousand deaths, outnumbering the figure in Italy for the first time.
In total, the U.S. has more than half a million cases.
Every state in the U.S. has now declared a disaster.
The state of Wyoming became the last one to do so on Saturday.
The first was New York... 22 days earlier on March 20th.
Disasters have also been declared in Washington, D.C., as well as Puerto Rico and Guam.
All these places will therefore be entitled to support from the federal government.
CNN reports that it's the first time that all 50 states have been under disaster declarations simultaneously.
Over in Europe, as of Friday, the number of COVID-19 cases has exceeded 8-hundred-thousand.
The continent's highest rate of new infections is currently in the UK, which on Saturday confirmed more than 5-thousand... and whose death toll is approaching 10-thousand.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was confirmed to have the virus in late March, is reportedly in a stable condition after being discharged from intensive care on Friday.
In Spain, the pandemic seems to be slowing down.
The number of new fatalities fell for a fourth straight day to the lowest it's been since March 23rd.
Spain has therefore decided to ease its lockdown, allowing workers in construction and manufacturing to return to their jobs starting Monday.
Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News.

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