The WSJ notes that "the number of reported.......>

US: The WSJ notes that "the number of reported deaths in the U.S. from the new

coronavirus spiked to nearly double the prior record Thursday, as governors

extended their lockdown orders, and the Trump administration released new

federal guidelines to reopen the economy. In the 24 hours ending at 8 p.m.

Eastern time Thursday, 4,591 people were reported to have died from Covid-19,

according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from Johns Hopkins

University. The prior record was 2,569 on Wednesday. The number of new reported

U.S. cases, meanwhile, was roughly equal with that on Wednesday at 31,451. In

total, there have been more than 671,000 coronavirus cases and 33,000 deaths in

the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins. Globally, co2nfirmed cases of the virus

have reached more than 2.15 million, with the number of deaths world-wide

topping 144,000."