� Global: Total confirmed cases ~3,725,000; Total deaths: ~261,000; Total recoveries: ~1,227,000. (Johns Hopkins University)

🇺🇸 U.S.: Total confirmed cases ~1,217,000; Total deaths: ~72,200; Total recoveries: ~190,000

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Private payrolls dropped more than 20.2 million jobs in April, according to ADP’s private jobs report. It was the worst monthly job loss in the report’s history. (CNBC / Axios)

Experts warn that Trump’s push to reopen the country risks a “death sentence� for many Americans. Trump has praised governors of states that have started to loosen restrictions on social distancing and business activity, even though he admitted that people will suffer as a result. “Will some people be affected badly? Yes,� Trump said on Tuesday. “But we have to get our country open, and we have to get it open soon.� (The Guardian)

The World Health Organization warned world leaders that there can be “no going back to business as usual� following the coronavirus pandemic. “The only way to control and suppress this virus, this COVID-19, is to actually find [cases], quarantine those contacts, isolate the cases and it will be brought under control,� Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s lead scientist on Covid-19, said during a press conference. (CNBC)

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1/ Trump contradicted his plan to shut down the coronavirus task force, vowing that the group would “continue on indefinitely� because of “how popular the task force is.� In a series of tweets, Trump said that the task force will be “very focused� on “SAFETY & OPENING UP OUR COUNTRY AGAIN,� as well as on the development of a coronavirus vaccine. He added that he would be announcing “two or three new members to the task force� soon. Trump’s change of plans come a day after he told reporters during a visit to a mask factory in Phoenix that he would wind down the task force. (Politico /