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US states loosen lockdowns

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More US states eased pandemic lockdown measures on Friday even as coronavirus deaths rose, while American authorities greenlighted an experimental drug for emergency use on patients.
Washington also renewed its warnings to Beijing a day after President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on China, with the White House accusing Chinese authorities of “slow-walking” coronavirus data and putting US lives at risk.
India meanwhile announced that the world’s biggest lockdown — on most of the nation’s 1.3 billion people — would continue for two more weeks.
But several European countries have begun to ease restrictions that have shut in half the world, joining some Asian nations that feel they have already turned a corner.
The United States also took a major step in that direction, with Texas becoming the largest state yet to ease lockdowns, despite reporting 50 deaths on Thursday, the most there since the outbreak began. Receptionist Diane Curtis headed to a mall in Houston to buy shoes and “get out of the house.”
“Eventually it’s like every other sickness that comes around,” she said of coronavirus.— AFP

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