Global Death Toll From Coronavirus surpasses 200,000

The worldwide death toll topped 200,000, according to a tally compiled by John Hopkins University from government figures.

The actual death toll is believed to be far higher.

The US states of Georgia, Oklahoma and Alaska started loosening restrictions on businesses despite warnings from experts that such steps might be coming too soon.

Some owners said they weren’t yet ready to reopen or were doing so only on a limited basis, worried about a second surge of COVID-19 infections.

In India, easing restrictions meant reopening neighborhood stores that many of the country’s 1.3 billion people rely on for everything from cold drinks to mobile phone data cards.

But the loosening didn’t apply to hundreds of quarantined towns and other places hit hardest by the outbreak that has killed at least 775 people in the country and terrified its multitudes of poor who live in slum conditions too crowded for social distancing.

Sri Lanka had partially lifted a month-long daytime curfew in more than two-thirds of the country.

It reimposed a 24-hour lock down countrywide however after a surge Friday of 46 new infections, the highest increase in a day on the Indian Ocean island.

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The new curfew remains in effect until Monday (local time).

Spain will get their first fresh air in weeks on Sunday when a ban on letting them outside is relaxed.