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Full map including municipalities State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency , closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns , and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
As of 12 April, nearly 300 million people, or about 90 per cent of the population, are under some form of lockdown in the United States, [441] more than 50 million people are in lockdown in the Philippines, [442] about 59 million people are in lockdown in South Africa, [443] and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown in India. [444] [445]
By mid April, nearly 300 million people, or about 90% of the population, were under some form of lockdown in the United States, [518] with around 100 million in the Philippines [519] and about 59 million in South Africa, [520] while around 1.3 billion were under lockdown in India, which was the largest of all lockdowns. [521] [522]
Total unemployment claims over the four weeks ending on April 11 have hit nearly 22 million.
In some states, the sense of urgency to protect human lives seems to be decreasing in direct proportion to increasing desperation to revive the economy. The CDC and global experts agree that the ...
Observers stated that the lockdown had slowed the growth rate of the pandemic by 6 April to a rate of doubling every six days, [177] and by 18 April, to a rate of doubling every eight days. [178] As the end of the first lockdown period approached, state governments and other advisory committees recommended extending the lockdown. [179]
Wall Street's slide deepened on Monday as the rapidly spreading coronavirus forced more U.S. states into lockdown, overshadowing unprecedented moves by the U.S. Federal Reserve to shore up credit ...
By April, criticism of his administration's response grew, prompting Trump to blame many others for the state of the crisis, including the media, Democratic governors, the Obama administration, China, and the WHO. [119] His positions and statements undermined international confidence in the United States to lead the world in pandemic response ...