U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has been self-isolating but will be back at the White House on Monday, while three members of the Trump administration’s task force are in quarantine. Russia reported a record number of new cases in one day as it emerged as a new hub of the outbreak in Europe. Germany had the least new cases in six days and Spain recorded its lowest daily death toll in almost two months. France is loosening restrictions on businesses on Monday and the U.K. premier will flesh out his plan for lifting the lockdown, including possibly quarantining visitors.
South Korea reported a flare-up in cases tied to nightclubs in Seoul, and health officials are trying to track more than 5,500 people who visited the bars. Shanghai Disneyland reopened in one of the largest tests of whether mass gatherings can take place safely.
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- Europe faces more slog than snapback in economy
- Chinese city in northeast closed as infections rise
New Virus Cases in Indonesia Rise (6:13 a.m. NY)
The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia neared 1,000 as more cases were confirmed across the archipelago, with President Joko Widodo expressing disappointment over the slow progress in expanding testing for the disease. Eighteen people succumbed to the virus in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 991. The total number of positive cases rose by 233 to 14,265.
With the pandemic showing no signs of slowing, Jokowi, as Widodo is known, called for scaling up the nation’s diagnostic capacity, saying the daily testing of 4,000-5,000 specimens was “far below our target.”