A woman wearing a face mask crosses a barricade in Wuhan, China, on Tuesday.
Photo: noel celis/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesHospitals across the U.S. braced for a surge in new patients Tuesday after the coronavirus death toll there surpassed 10,000, while some Asian leaders called for extended lockdowns to fight the pandemic and European countries with falling infection rates began easing their restrictions.
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Confirmed infections in the U.S. were more than double that of any other nation, at more than 368,000, according to data Monday from Johns Hopkins University. In the 24 hours ending 8 p.m. on Monday, 1,164 people died from the Covid-19 respiratory disease caused by the virus, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Johns Hopkins University data—roughly even with the prior four days’ death counts.
Health officials have worked to increase hospital capacity—turning arenas into temporary wards and seeking to reopen shutdown hospitals. They have also sought to fill in gaps of much-needed medical equipment; California, Washington and Oregon have said they would loan ventilators to other states.
Even as other parts of America and the world redoubled efforts to keep people from leaving their homes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Monday that voting in Wisconsin would proceed as scheduled on Tuesday. The court, in a 5-4 vote, overturned lower court orders extending by six days the deadline for mailing absentee ballots.
In the U.K., which is bracing for the outbreak to reach its crescendo, Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained in intensive care Tuesday, struggling with severe symptoms of the virus. A government spokesman said Mr. Johnson, 55, was in a stable condition and breathing without the help of a ventilator but receiving oxygen. Mr. Johnson was in isolation for 10 days before being admitted to a London hospital Sunday night. He has delegated his duties to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
Globally, the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 rose to more than 1.36 million across 184 countries and regions on Tuesday, while deaths topped 76,373, according to Johns Hopkins.
Wuhan, the Chinese the city where the virus was first detected, prepared to lift its travel ban at midnight on Tuesday, marking the end of more than two months of a complete lockdown covering about 11 million people. China said it had its first day since Jan. 20 with no deaths from Covid-19.
Many nations were still laboring to control the spread of infection.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday issued an order for a monthlong state of emergency covering Tokyo, Osaka and five prefectures. People were asked to stay at home unless absolutely necessary and all public gatherings will be suspended for about a month. Mr. Abe said the move was necessary because infections were increasing rapidly and hospitals were facing a crisis.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday approved the extension of a community quarantine across the island of Luzon to April 30. In India, a top local official on Tuesday called for the national government to extend the country’s nationwide lockdown, which is currently due to end on April 15.
In Europe, some countries that credit strict containment measures with helping to curb the contagion began taking steps to reopen their societies after a month of lockdown.
Pedestrians watch a live broadcast of a news conference by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday.
Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/Associated PressThe Czech Republic began relaxing coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday, citing a daily case count that has flattened over the past two weeks.
Shuttered shops are allowed to reopen, provided they set up handwashing stations and let in only a few customers at a time. Tennis and other noncontact sports will be permitted. Next week Czechs will be allowed to leave the country for business or medical travel or to see family members, ending a month-old border closure. Schools will reopen on May 15, provided the coronavirus case count remains manageable.
Face masks will remain mandatory for all Czechs going out in public. And the relaxed restrictions come with stepped-up testing and the use of mobile phone data to track people who may have been exposed to the virus.
In Denmark, which imposed one of Europe’s earliest and strictest lockdowns, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said her government would allow a “cautious, gradual and controlled reopening” of society starting next week.
Danish kindergartens and primary schools will reopen for children in good health on April 15 and for older students on May 10. The government will speak to private employers about allowing some people to return to workplaces next week while staggering their working hours, the prime minister said. Bars, restaurants and leisure facilities will stay shut and stay-home orders for noncritical public servants will continue until May 10.
Ms. Frederiksen said the opening would proceed as long as people follow social-distancing guidelines, which remain in force, and guided by stepped-up testing and surveillance.
Austria will start easing its lockdown next Tuesday, accompanied by a government mandate to wear face masks in all shops and on public transport, Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz said. Shops smaller than 400 square meters (about 4,300 square feet) that had been ordered shut will be allowed to reopen next week, followed by other businesses on May 1.
Italy, Spain and France, Europe’s worst-hit countries, remain locked down. French health authorities said Monday that 605 patients had died of Covid-19 in the previous 24 hours, the highest daily total yet. Although the daily toll of confirmed new infections and deaths has been slowing this month in Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would ask parliament to extend the country’s lockdown to April 25.
Iran’s parliament convened on Tuesday for the first time in two months and voted down a bill to quarantine parts of the country, arguing that it would cause further harm to the economy. Some factories closed in the country’s lockdown reopened this week and President Hassan Rouhani said some other businesses will be allowed t do so starting this weekend.
Iran’s daily rate of infections and deaths have flattened over the past two weeks, but Mr. Rouhani’s critics have warned that reopening the country too soon risks a second wave of infections that would overwhelm the health system.
China has reported a leveling off of its infection numbers since late February but has mostly kept strict controls in place around Wuhan, including a ban on traveling outside the city.
Chinese state media reported that around 276 trains will leave Wuhan, heading for Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Fuzhou and Nanning on Wednesday. Based on the ticket sales for Tuesday, an estimated 55,000 passengers will be leaving the city, with about 40% of them heading toward the Pearl River Delta region in southern China.
China first sealed Wuhan off on Jan. 23, followed by most other cities and towns in Hubei province, cutting off all transportation to and from the area and restricting movements inside the city. Travel bans in Hubei province were relaxed on March 25, and last week, shopping malls in Wuhan were reopened.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported Tuesday that more people have been seen on Wuhan’s streets and shops are beginning to reopen for business. But the state-owned newspaper People’s Daily warned that while Wuhan will end its controls on outbound traffic, people shouldn’t relax nor let their guards down.
“This day is not the final victory day. We need to remind ourselves that while the restrictions on Wuhan have been lifted, we can be pleased but we cannot relax,” it said.
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