'This is a self portrait of America.' NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo displays a wall of homemade masks sent to New York, saying, 'a little bit more of this, and little bit less of the partisanship and the ugliness, and this country would be a better place.'
1:20 p.m.: Fauci touts promise of remdesivir
"It's highly significant," Fauci said."If you look at the time to recovery being shorter in the Remdesivir arm, it was 11 days compared to 15 days." Tune into ABC at 1 p.m. ET and ABC News Live at 4 p.m. ET every weekday for special coverage of the novel coronavirus with the full ABC News team, including the latest news, context and analysis.The United Kingdom's home secretary on Wednesday announced an adjustment to the total number of deaths in England to include people who died in senior citizen homes and those who died at home who weren't included in previous counts.
People walk past an entrance to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, London, April 29, 2020.In New York state, 330 people died from the coronavirus on Tuesday, including 16 people who died in nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during his daily press briefing on Wednesday."We're making progress," the governor said, adding,"we are not out of the woods yet. And we're proceeding with caution.
Police officers remove a homeless man from a subway train at the Pelham Bay Park terminal station in New York, April 28, 2020. Healthcare workers gather for lunch purchased by members of the New York City Police Department outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center, during the outbreak of coronavirus disease in Brooklyn, New York, April 28, 2020.The aim is to begin testing by next week at hospitals, fire houses, police stations and correctional facilities. The goal is to test all health care workers and first responders within one month, the mayor said.
A man and woman lean out a window to visit with family members on the sidewalk during the coronavirus pandemic on April 28, 2020, in New York.New York City ICUs had 734 people with COVID-19 symptoms on Monday, down from 745 on Sunday. A TSA officer wears a mask, amid the worldwide coronavirus outbreak, at Logan International Airport in Boston,March 11, 2020.The vast majority of the TSA cases are at New York City airports: 105 John F. Kennedy International Airport workers tested positive, 56 are positive from Newark Liberty International Airport and another 32 positive cases are employees working at LaGuardia Airport.
Artwork in support of the National Health Service is seen in the window of a building opposite St Thomas' Hospital in London, U.K., on April 28, 2020, amid the deadly outbreak of the novel coronavirus.The true death toll among U.K. front-line workers is suspected to be much higher. While presenting details of the lockdown exit plan to French parliament on Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said all departments within the administrative regions of France will be labeled either"red" or"green," based on certain criteria such as the local infection rate and hospital capacity. Red departments will have to be more strict in easing their lockdowns than green departments, Philippe said.
More than 4,000 sailors who tested negative have been quarantined in hotels and other facilities ashore. It will take several days to move all of them back on board the ship, according to a press release from the U.S. 7th Fleet. The country's official state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday that this year's plenary session of the National People's Congress would take place in Beijing on May 22, as decided by its standing committee.
China's National Health Commission has reported at least 82,858 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 4,633 deaths on the mainland since the novel coronavirus emerged in the central city of Wuhan back in December.A 30-year-old federal inmate died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, four weeks after giving birth while she was on a ventilator, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
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