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		</div><p>The United States is braced for one of its darkest weeks in living memory amid the coronavirus pandemic, as some hard-hit European areas were seeing glimmers of hope.</p>
<p>Italy, Spain and France saw signs that they are flattening the Covid-19 pandemic curve, but still reported hundreds of people dying each day.</p>
<p>Leaders cautioned, however, that any gains could easily be reversed if people did not continue to adhere to strict social distancing measures and national lockdowns.</p>
<p>In Washington, US surgeon general Jerome Adams offered a stark warning about the expected wave of deaths.</p>
<p><em>“This is going to be our Pearl Harbour moment, our 9/11 moment,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>More than 9,600 people have died of the virus in the United States, and it leads the world in confirmed infections at more than 337,000.</p>
<p>In New York City, the US epicentre of the pandemic, daily confirmed deaths dropped slightly, along with intensive care admissions and the number of patients who needed breathing tubes inserted.</p>
<p>But New York governor Andrew Cuomo warned it was “too early to tell” the significance of the new numbers.</p>
<p>US President Donald Trump later suggested the hard weeks ahead could foretell the turning of a corner.</p>
<p><em>“We’re starting to see light at the end of the tunnel,”</em> Mr Trump claimed at a White House briefing.</p>
<p>Italy still has by far the world’s highest coronavirus death toll – almost 16,000 – but the pressure on northern Italy’s intensive care units has eased so much that Lombardy is no longer airlifting patients out to other regions.</p>
<p>In Spain, deaths and new infections dropped again on Monday.</p>
<p>The country’s health ministry reported 637 new deaths, the lowest fatality toll in 13 days, for a total of more than 13,000 dead since the pandemic hit.</p>
<p>New recorded infections were also the lowest in two weeks.</p>
<p><em>“The growth rate of the pandemic is decreasing in almost all regions,”</em> Health Ministry official Maria Jose Sierra said.</p>
<p>Worldwide, more than 1.2 million people have been confirmed infected and nearly 70,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.</p>
<p>The true numbers are certainly much higher, due to limited testing, different ways nations count the dead and deliberate under-reporting by some governments.</p>
<p>More than 263,000 people have recovered worldwide.</p>
<p>In Asia, Japanese officials were considering declaring a state of emergency.</p>
<p>Infections are soaring in the country that has the world’s third-largest economy and its oldest population, but it is still not even among the top 25 hardest-hit nations in the world.</p>
<p>In South Korea, which has been praised for its heavy testing to combat the virus, vice health minister Kim Gang-lip expressed concerns over loosened attitudes towards social distancing that he said are putting the country at potential risk of an infection <em>“explosion”</em>.</p>
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