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Experts have said mass transit is an enormous barrier to getting people back to work in Manhattan, where the car is only used by 12% of workers commuting to jobs in the US financial capital.

The funds came from the $2.3 trillion CARES Act passed by Congress to blunt the economic toll of the pandemic, which has killed more than 64,000 Americans and thrown at least 30 million people out of work.

The 1,000-bed Navy vessel, headed back to its home base in Norfolk, Virginia, never neared its capacity, even as the city quickly became the world's epicenter for Covid-19 infections.

Overwhelmed by coronavirus deaths, New York City funeral home rented four trucks to hold about 50 corpses.

Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui called the media reports an 'unfortunate ploy' and said Pakistan plans to enhance regional cooperation in South Asia.

Of the domestic transmission cases, five were in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang and one in the northern region of Inner Mongolia.

Adolf Hitler killed himself on this day in 1945.

The only deadlier flu seasons were in 1967 when about 100,000 Americans died, 1957 when 116,000 died and the Spanish flu of 1918 when 675,000 died in the US.

The research, published in the journal Nature, analysed distribution of population outflows from Wuhan, China during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak.

US has got back over 71,000 American from 127 countries and the largest number of remaining requests for the same are from India and Pakistan.

The order is designed to give companies such as Tyson Foods Inc and others more liability protection in case employees catch the virus as a result of having to go to work.

The actual number of cases is thought to be higher, with state public health officials cautioning that shortages of trained workers and materials have limited testing capacity.

The new rules will require licenses for US companies to sell certain items to companies in China that support the military, even if the products are for civilian use.

Manisha Singh, who has previously served as the Acting Under Secretary of Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, will represent US in the America's next envoy to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Though Germany began to lift lockdown measures last week, Merkel has urged caution and slammed growing impatience to shake off the curbs on public life introduced a month ago to slow contagion.

American Physicians of Indian-Origin (AAPI) President Dr Suresh Reddy said that even at some point when the restrictions are relaxed, life will not be what people were used to before the pandemic.