MIAMI (AP) - Protests around the U.S. against police brutality have sparked fears of a further spread of the coronavirus, while South Korea is reporting a steady rise in cases around the capital after appearing to bring the outbreak under control.
The often-violent protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was pinned at the neck by a white Minneapolis police officer, are raising fears of new virus outbreaks in a country that has more confirmed infections and deaths than any other.
The protests come as more beaches, churches, mosques, schools and businesses reopen worldwide, 바카라사이트 increasing the risk of cross-infection
/>South Korea has reported 238 cases of the coronavirus over the past five days, most of them in the Seoul metropolitan area, causing alarm in a country that had eased up on social distancing and started to send millions of children back to school. Hundreds of infections have been linked to nightspots, restaurants and a massive e-commerce warehouse near Seoul. The 35 new cases reported Monday include 30 around Seou
/>Protests over Floyd´s death have shaken the U.S. from New York to Los Angeles. Demonstrators are packed cheek by jowl, many without masks, many chanting, shouting or singing. The virus is dispersed by microscopic droplets in the air when people cough, sneeze, talk or sin
/>"There´s no question that when you put hundreds or thousands of people together in close proximity, when we have got this virus all over the streets ... it´s not healthy," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday on CNN´s "State of the Union
/>Visitors walk past a thermography camera monitors as the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise amusement park opens after a two-month closure due to the preventative measures to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in Yokohama near Tokyo, Monday, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahar
/>The U.S. has seen more than 1.7 million infections and over 104,000 deaths in the pandemic, which has disproportionately affected racial minorities in a nation that does not have universal health car
/>In London, thousands of people marched Sunday, chanting "No justice! No peace!" while carrying signs reading "Justice for George Floyd" and "Racism is a global issue." Britain has had nearly 38,500 virus deaths, the second-most in the world after the United State
/>Other protests were held in Berlin and Copenhagen, Denmark.
/>Around 6.1 million infections have been reported worldwide, with about 370,000 people dying, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The true death toll is believed to be significantly higher, since many victims died of the virus without ever being teste
/>China, where the global pandemic is believed to have originated late last year, reported 16 new cases on Monday, all in travelers newly arrived from abroad. Eleven of those arrived in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Friday aboard the same flight from Cairo, the Chengdu city government said in a statemen
/>With local transmissions having fallen to virtually zero, much of China has reopened for business and Monday saw the further restart of classes in middle and high schools. Kindergartners and fourth- and fifth-graders will be allowed back next week as part of a staggered opening to prevent the further spread of the viru
/>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says that China has pledged to make available 30 million COVID-19 testing kits per month to African countries, which are facing a shortage of the materials to test for the diseas
/>The U.S. has sent to Brazil more than 2 million doses of a malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as potentially protecting against and treating the coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence. Brazil, Latin America´s hardest-hit country, continues to see a surge in virus cases, and last week Trump announced that the U.S. was restricting travel from the countr
/>Traffic jams and crowds of commuters are back in the Philippine capital, which shifted to a more relaxed quarantine in a high-stakes gamble to slowly reopen the economy while fighting the coronavirus outbrea
/>The situation continues to worsen in India, where 230 new deaths were reported Monday, bringing the country's total to 5,394, even as it eases restrictions on shops and public transport in more states beginning Monday. Subways and schools remain close
/>Neighboring Bangladesh also restarted bus, train, ferry and flight services Monday. The impoverished country's government says a gradual reopening is crucial to reviving the economy amid forecasts that economic growth is likely to plunge, leaving millions jobles
/>In Saudi Arabia, mosques reopened Sunday for the first time in more than two months, but Islam´s holiest site in Mecca remained closed. In Jerusalem, throngs of worshippers waited outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque before it reopened. Many wore surgical masks and waited for temperature checks as they entere
/>In Bogota, Colombia's capital, authorities were locking down an area of nearly 1.5 million people as cases continued to rise, while Egypt on Sunday reported its highest-ever number of infections and deaths from the virus - 46 over the previous 24 hours, with 1,536 confirmed case
/>In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Sunday that he would ask Parliament for a final two-week extension of the nation´s state of emergency that is set to expire on June 7. That allows the government to keep ordering lockdown measures to control its coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed at least 27,000 lives, many of them in overwhelmed nursing home
/>"We have almost reached safe harbor," Sánchez said.
/>During a Mass at the Vatican to mark Pentecost Sunday, Pope Francis cautioned people against being pessimistic as they emerge from coronavirus lockdown
/>Italy on Sunday registered 355 new coronavirus cases and 75 deaths, some of the lowest such numbers since the nation´s lockdown against the pandemic began in early Marc
/>Two hospitals for coronavirus patients were opened in Istanbul as Turkey´s number of new cases fell to its lowest since the peak of the outbrea
/>And at California's Yosemite National Park, closed to the public for nearly three months, student journalists who put out the Yosemite Valley School newspaper are charming their community with stories of cleaner water and more active and abundant wildlif
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/>Kirka reported from London and Gorondi reported from Budapest, Hungary. AP reporters from around the world contributed to this repor
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/>Follow AP pandemic coverage at website and website
/>Police officers wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus stand guard in front of the Chinese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joo
/>A police officer and a demonstrator hug as people gather in Shreveport, La., Sunday, May 31, 2020. They marched to the Caddo Parish Courthouse for Black Lives Matter. (Henrietta Wildsmith/The Shreveport Times via A
/>People hold for a Black Lives Matter rally at the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La., Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Henrietta Wildsmith/The Shreveport Times via A
/>In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Monroe County Sheriff's Office Captains Don Fanelli, left, and Don Hiller, right, dismantle a checkpoint at the top of the Florida Keys Overseas Highway Sunday, May 31, 2020, near Key Largo, Fla. The checkpoint was established March 27, 2020, to close the Keys to visitors in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The Florida Keys are to officially reopen to visitors Monday, June 1. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via A
/>Medical worker wearing protective face masks to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus wait for the arrival of the students at a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 1, 2020. With declining virus case numbers, students have gradually returning to their classes in the capital city. (AP Photo/Andy Won
/>A teacher wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus waits for arrival of the students outside a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 1, 2020. With declining virus case numbers, students have gradually returning to their classes in the capital city. (AP Photo/Andy Won
/>A student wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus waves to teachers as she arrives for the reopening of a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 1, 2020. With declining virus case numbers, students have gradually returning to their classes in the capital city. (AP Photo/Andy Won
/>People stroll down Juarez Avenue in central Mexico City, Sunday, May 31, 2020. Mexico's capital plans to reopen certain sectors of the economy and public life beginning Monday, despite the city still being in the most serious "red light" phase of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwel
/>Fernando Castro, 59, plays a violin to earn tips from passerby, on Juarez Avenue in Mexico City, Sunday, May 31, 2020. Castro said he spent nearly two months at home before returning to busking in mid-May. "Necessity made me come out. I had no more money or food," he said. "People have already begun to come back out. Curiously, many without face masks." Mexico's capital plans to reopen certain sectors of the economy and public life beginning Monday, despite the city still being in the most serious "red light" phase of the coronavirus pandemic.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwel
/>A man wears a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he walks alone on the beach Sunday, May 31, 2020, at Satellite Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Charlie Riede
/>A man wears a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he walks alone on the beach Sunday, May 31, 2020, at Satellite Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Charlie Riede
/>Worshippers attend an outdoor mass at the hippodrome in Cascais, outside Lisbon, Sunday, May 31, 2020. As the government eases the coronavirus lockdown rules, the Catholic Church in Portugal resumed the celebration of religious services Saturday with a set of safety rules to avoid the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
The often-violent protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was pinned at the neck by a white Minneapolis police officer, are raising fears of new virus outbreaks in a country that has more confirmed infections and deaths than any other.
The protests come as more beaches, churches, mosques, schools and businesses reopen worldwide, 바카라사이트 increasing the risk of cross-infection
/>South Korea has reported 238 cases of the coronavirus over the past five days, most of them in the Seoul metropolitan area, causing alarm in a country that had eased up on social distancing and started to send millions of children back to school. Hundreds of infections have been linked to nightspots, restaurants and a massive e-commerce warehouse near Seoul. The 35 new cases reported Monday include 30 around Seou
/>Protests over Floyd´s death have shaken the U.S. from New York to Los Angeles. Demonstrators are packed cheek by jowl, many without masks, many chanting, shouting or singing. The virus is dispersed by microscopic droplets in the air when people cough, sneeze, talk or sin
/>"There´s no question that when you put hundreds or thousands of people together in close proximity, when we have got this virus all over the streets ... it´s not healthy," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday on CNN´s "State of the Union
/>Visitors walk past a thermography camera monitors as the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise amusement park opens after a two-month closure due to the preventative measures to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in Yokohama near Tokyo, Monday, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahar
/>The U.S. has seen more than 1.7 million infections and over 104,000 deaths in the pandemic, which has disproportionately affected racial minorities in a nation that does not have universal health car
/>In London, thousands of people marched Sunday, chanting "No justice! No peace!" while carrying signs reading "Justice for George Floyd" and "Racism is a global issue." Britain has had nearly 38,500 virus deaths, the second-most in the world after the United State
/>Other protests were held in Berlin and Copenhagen, Denmark.
/>Around 6.1 million infections have been reported worldwide, with about 370,000 people dying, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The true death toll is believed to be significantly higher, since many victims died of the virus without ever being teste
/>China, where the global pandemic is believed to have originated late last year, reported 16 new cases on Monday, all in travelers newly arrived from abroad. Eleven of those arrived in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Friday aboard the same flight from Cairo, the Chengdu city government said in a statemen
/>With local transmissions having fallen to virtually zero, much of China has reopened for business and Monday saw the further restart of classes in middle and high schools. Kindergartners and fourth- and fifth-graders will be allowed back next week as part of a staggered opening to prevent the further spread of the viru
/>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says that China has pledged to make available 30 million COVID-19 testing kits per month to African countries, which are facing a shortage of the materials to test for the diseas
/>The U.S. has sent to Brazil more than 2 million doses of a malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as potentially protecting against and treating the coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence. Brazil, Latin America´s hardest-hit country, continues to see a surge in virus cases, and last week Trump announced that the U.S. was restricting travel from the countr
/>Traffic jams and crowds of commuters are back in the Philippine capital, which shifted to a more relaxed quarantine in a high-stakes gamble to slowly reopen the economy while fighting the coronavirus outbrea
/>The situation continues to worsen in India, where 230 new deaths were reported Monday, bringing the country's total to 5,394, even as it eases restrictions on shops and public transport in more states beginning Monday. Subways and schools remain close
/>Neighboring Bangladesh also restarted bus, train, ferry and flight services Monday. The impoverished country's government says a gradual reopening is crucial to reviving the economy amid forecasts that economic growth is likely to plunge, leaving millions jobles
/>In Saudi Arabia, mosques reopened Sunday for the first time in more than two months, but Islam´s holiest site in Mecca remained closed. In Jerusalem, throngs of worshippers waited outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque before it reopened. Many wore surgical masks and waited for temperature checks as they entere
/>In Bogota, Colombia's capital, authorities were locking down an area of nearly 1.5 million people as cases continued to rise, while Egypt on Sunday reported its highest-ever number of infections and deaths from the virus - 46 over the previous 24 hours, with 1,536 confirmed case
/>In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Sunday that he would ask Parliament for a final two-week extension of the nation´s state of emergency that is set to expire on June 7. That allows the government to keep ordering lockdown measures to control its coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed at least 27,000 lives, many of them in overwhelmed nursing home
/>"We have almost reached safe harbor," Sánchez said.
/>During a Mass at the Vatican to mark Pentecost Sunday, Pope Francis cautioned people against being pessimistic as they emerge from coronavirus lockdown
/>Italy on Sunday registered 355 new coronavirus cases and 75 deaths, some of the lowest such numbers since the nation´s lockdown against the pandemic began in early Marc
/>Two hospitals for coronavirus patients were opened in Istanbul as Turkey´s number of new cases fell to its lowest since the peak of the outbrea
/>And at California's Yosemite National Park, closed to the public for nearly three months, student journalists who put out the Yosemite Valley School newspaper are charming their community with stories of cleaner water and more active and abundant wildlif
/>_
/>Kirka reported from London and Gorondi reported from Budapest, Hungary. AP reporters from around the world contributed to this repor
/>_
/>Follow AP pandemic coverage at website and website
/>Police officers wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus stand guard in front of the Chinese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joo
/>A police officer and a demonstrator hug as people gather in Shreveport, La., Sunday, May 31, 2020. They marched to the Caddo Parish Courthouse for Black Lives Matter. (Henrietta Wildsmith/The Shreveport Times via A
/>People hold for a Black Lives Matter rally at the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La., Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Henrietta Wildsmith/The Shreveport Times via A
/>In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Monroe County Sheriff's Office Captains Don Fanelli, left, and Don Hiller, right, dismantle a checkpoint at the top of the Florida Keys Overseas Highway Sunday, May 31, 2020, near Key Largo, Fla. The checkpoint was established March 27, 2020, to close the Keys to visitors in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The Florida Keys are to officially reopen to visitors Monday, June 1. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via A
/>Medical worker wearing protective face masks to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus wait for the arrival of the students at a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 1, 2020. With declining virus case numbers, students have gradually returning to their classes in the capital city. (AP Photo/Andy Won
/>A teacher wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus waits for arrival of the students outside a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 1, 2020. With declining virus case numbers, students have gradually returning to their classes in the capital city. (AP Photo/Andy Won
/>A student wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus waves to teachers as she arrives for the reopening of a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 1, 2020. With declining virus case numbers, students have gradually returning to their classes in the capital city. (AP Photo/Andy Won
/>People stroll down Juarez Avenue in central Mexico City, Sunday, May 31, 2020. Mexico's capital plans to reopen certain sectors of the economy and public life beginning Monday, despite the city still being in the most serious "red light" phase of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwel
/>Fernando Castro, 59, plays a violin to earn tips from passerby, on Juarez Avenue in Mexico City, Sunday, May 31, 2020. Castro said he spent nearly two months at home before returning to busking in mid-May. "Necessity made me come out. I had no more money or food," he said. "People have already begun to come back out. Curiously, many without face masks." Mexico's capital plans to reopen certain sectors of the economy and public life beginning Monday, despite the city still being in the most serious "red light" phase of the coronavirus pandemic.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwel
/>A man wears a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he walks alone on the beach Sunday, May 31, 2020, at Satellite Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Charlie Riede
/>A man wears a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as he walks alone on the beach Sunday, May 31, 2020, at Satellite Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Charlie Riede
/>Worshippers attend an outdoor mass at the hippodrome in Cascais, outside Lisbon, Sunday, May 31, 2020. As the government eases the coronavirus lockdown rules, the Catholic Church in Portugal resumed the celebration of religious services Saturday with a set of safety rules to avoid the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)