The United States health authorities reported 1883 new fatalities from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, which brings the total number of deaths to 64,700 cases.
The latest figure reflects a slight decrease from the data reported in the previous days.
On his part, US President Donald Trump raised his estimates of the number of possible deaths due to the virus, and expressed the hope that it will be less than one hundred thousand cases, which is higher than his previous estimates at 60 - 70 thousand.
On another hand, Trump announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has authorized the "Gilead" company's new experimental drug "Remdesivir" to treat people with corona in an emergency.
Meanwhile, Trump headed to Camp David, Maryland for the weekend at the presidential resort, the first time he leaves the White House since March 28 over isolation measures.
In another development, the White House said that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, will not testify this week before Congress regarding the US President’s management of the Corona crisis. The White House considered that Fauci's testimony at this time was “counterproductive”.
The House Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies wanted Fauci, who has emerged as one of the most trusted voices on the virus, to appear at a Wednesday morning hearing on how the government has handled the coronavirus pandemic. The panel was “informed by an administration official that the White House has blocked Dr. Fauci from testifying,” committee spokesman Evan Hollander said in a statement.
Meanwhile, more than 35 states have either started lifting isolation measures or are about to do so, while demonstrations are increasing to "reopen America."
Although it reported 800 deaths, Texas reopened shops, restaurants and libraries, provided it did not operate with more than 25% of its capacity. Similar demonstrations erupted in the cities of Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.
In New York, about 12,000 tenants, who feared losing their homes, demonstrated, and similar moves were to be organized across the country.
On his part, New York State Governor Andrew Como said that all schools in the state will remain closed for the rest of the school semester due to Corona.
Mean while, Sky News reported that scientists from the University of Minnesota's Infectious Diseases Research Center suggested that the Coronavirus epidemic would last for at least two years, and they expected that the virus could not be contained before a third of the world's population became immunized against infection.
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