US state of Georgia declares state of emergency

10:52, July 07, 2020

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  Japan's unemployment rate climbs for 3rd straight month in May

  TOKYO, June 30 -- The unemployment rate in Japan increased in May from a month earlier, as the coronavirus pandemic led to firms laying off staff as businesses stalled during the government's state of emergency period declared over the pandemic, the government said in a report on Tuesday.According

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  COVID-19: Fauci urges US states to pause reopening

  File photo: CGTNDr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, says states with spiking rates of COVID-19 should pause their reopening.At a health forum hosted by U.S. news outlet The Hill on Thursday, Fauci said he hopes "we dont have to resort to [another] shutdown."He recommended hard-hit states close bars, avoid large gatherings and get people to follow social distancing guidelines and wear masks.If those changes are made, he said there would "almost certainly" be a drop in new cases.Fauci also noted that California, Arizona, Texas and Florida make up 50% of new infections.Thursdays remarks contrast with comments Fauci made the day before. On Wednesday he told the Wall Street Journal that hard-hit states should "seriously look at shutting down."New U.S. cases are peaking at about 60,000 per day.In response to the COVID-19 surge, President Trump tweeted on Thursday:But with a higher percentage of positive test results and a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations, most experts agree the surge cannot be blamed solely on increased testing.

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  Fauci says hard-hit US states should pause reopening

  WASHINGTON, July 9 (Xinhua) - A top US infectious diseases expert said on Thursday that US states hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic should not be moving forward with reopening.In this file photo taken on June 30, 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on June 30, 2020 in Washington,DC. (Photo: AFP)"I would think we need to get the states pausing in their opening process, looking at what did not work well and try to mitigate that," said Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during an interview with the Hill.However, Fauci stopped short of calling for full lockdowns."I dont think we need to go back to an extreme of shutting down," he said, adding that hard-hit states should take measures including closing bars and avoiding large gatherings.The remarks stood in sharp contrast to those of US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly downplayed the worsening COVID-19 outbreak in the country and encouraged states to quickly reopen their economies.It was also not the first time Fauci has issued a public rebuke of Trump. Earlier this week, Fauci warned against a "false narrative" of a falling COVID-19-related death rate while the Trump administration and the president himself continued to tout alleged progress the United States has made in tackling the COVID-19 outbreak by citing a falling US mortality rate.