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		</div><p>China and South Korea both reported more coronavirus infections Friday after reopening economies damaged by devastating outbreaks.</p>
<p>Governments around the world are opting to accept the risks of easing pandemic-fighting restrictions, that left huge numbers of people without income or safety nets.</p>
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<p>In the US, some governors are disregarding or creatively interpreting White House guidelines in easing their states’ lockdowns and letting businesses reopen.</p>
<p>An Associated Press analysis found 17 states appeared to have not met one of the key benchmarks set by the White House for loosening up – a 14-day downward trajectory in new cases or positive test rates.</p>
<p>Worries over future waves of infections reflect the difficulty of fighting a disease that leaves many of those infected with scant or no symptoms, even as thousands lose their lives to pneumonia and other virus-related illness.</p>
<p>South Korea’s 13 fresh cases reported on Friday were its first increase higher than 10 in five days. A dozen were linked to someone who visited three nightclubs in Seoul last weekend.</p>
<p>“A drop of ink in clear water spreads swiftly,” vice health minister Kim Gang-lip said, urging vigilance to guard hard-won gains. “Anyone can become that drop of ink that spreads Covid-19.”</p>
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<p>After its caseload waned from hundreds a day to a handful daily in recent weeks, South Korea has relaxed social distancing guidelines, scheduled school reopenings and allowed professional sports to resume without fans in the stands.</p>
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<p>In China, where coronavirus first emerged, authorities reported 17 new virus cases on Friday, including 16 that tested positive but were not showing symptoms.</p>
<p>No new deaths have been reported for more than three weeks, and just 260 people remain in hospital to be treated for Covid-19.</p>
<p>The dire stakes of the pandemic have contributed to a surge in anti-foreigner sentiment, including denying medical treatment to migrants and refugees, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said.</p>
<p>He appealed for an end to the “tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering”.</p>
<p>The UN is urging governments, companies and billionaires to contribute to a 6.7 billion dollar (£5.4 billion) appeal to fight coronavirus in poor countries, warning that failure to help could cause a “hunger pandemic”, famine, riots and conflict.</p>
<p>Worldwide, the virus has infected more than 3.8 million people and killed over 268,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University based on official data.</p>
<p>But everywhere, limited testing, differences in counting the dead and concealment by some governments undoubtedly mean the true scale of the pandemic is much greater.</p>
<p>This week, University of Washington researchers nearly doubled their projection of deaths in the US to about 134,000 through to early August, largely because the loosening of stay-at-home restrictions will mean the virus spreads to more people.</p>
<p>As governments grapple with when to restart their economies, the Trump administration shelved a 17-page Centres for Disease Control and Prevention document with step-by-step advice to help local authorities do it safely.</p>
<figure id="attachment_154916" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-154916" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/712A75D5-4EF5-4AD1-90DA-83BF537F53E4.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-154916" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-154916" class="wp-caption-text">Workers set up their sprayers in Mexico City</figcaption></figure>
<p>Adding to pressure to ease restrictions are the hundreds of businesses collapsing by the day.</p>
<p>Over 33 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits over the past seven weeks, and a highly anticipated report on Friday is expected to show US joblessness as high as 16%, a level not seen since the Great Depression nearly a century ago.</p>
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<p>Public health experts say the guidance from the White House has been anything but clear, while pushing responsibility for expanding testing on to the states.</p>
<p>It’s like “an orchestra without a conductor,” said Lawrence Gostin, a public health expert at Georgetown University.</p>
<p>States share some blame, he said, but “the responsibility for co-ordinating and enforcing and implementing a national plan comes from the White House”.</p>
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