Health
US tops 5 million confirmed Covid-19 cases, to Europe’s alarm – The Tribune India
France, Germany impose tests on arrival for travellers from ‘at risk’ countries, the US included
Rome, August 9
With confirmed coronavirus cases in the US hitting 5 million on Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe.
Perhaps nowhere outside the US is America’s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe’s epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February, and the country still has …
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