Job Losses Continue as House Passes Relief Bill
States begin lifting restrictions:
Approximately one month after much of the U.S. went into stay-at-home mode, thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, Michigan, and Colorado to voice their disdain for the restrictions.
In the past four weeks, more than 22 million people filed for new unemployment claims in the U.S., after 5.2 million were added to the tally this last week.
As global cases passed two million, the U.S. reported a plunge in retail sales in the month of March.
Thanks to expanded testing, the U.S. now has over 560,000 confirmed cases, driving the global total near two million.
Total new jobless claims passed 16 million for the last three weeks as social distancing measures and stay-at-home orders extracted a harsh economic toll.
Total confirmed cases in the U.S. have exceeded 400,000 after more than 33,000 new cases were recorded in the last 24hrs.
Global confirmed cases are nearing 1.3 million while deaths in the U.S. approach 10,000.
Global cases surpassed one million on 02 April after the U.S. recorded nearly 30,000 new cases. The U.S. now has nearly 250,000 confirmed cases amid community spread in at least 46 states. New York remains the hardest hit state in the country. Cases in the U.S. are doubling every three to four days and there are approximately 1,000 deaths per day. Models predict this number will peak at 2,600 deaths per day on 16 April before starting to slowly decline.
