|  | | | | | | | | | What you need to know about the coronavirus today | | Worsening U.S. outbreak prompts tough actions
New Jersey adopted a stringent coronavirus face-mask order on Wednesday, and New York City unveiled a plan to allow public school students back into classrooms for just two or three days a week, as newly confirmed U.S. COVID-19 cases soared to a daily global record.
More than 47,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the two northeastern states, accounting for more than a third of the 132,000-plus Americans killed by the virus, according to a Reuters tally.
Coronavirus cases have been on the rise in 42 of the 50 states over the past two weeks, according to a Reuters analysis.
A controversial campaign rally held by President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last month likely contributed to a rise in the number of coronavirus cases there, a top local health official said on Wednesday.
| | |  | | | | | | | | Brazil's drug debate
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has placed his faith in hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to help his coronavirus-ravaged country and now himself beat COVID-19, turning them into the centerpiece of his government's virus-fighting playbook.
Amid mounting evidence that these drugs have no benefit for hospitalized patients, they are now flashpoints in Brazil's polarized politics.
People's views of the drugs have become something of a referendum on their president, much like masks in the United States.
Good news in South Korea
Just one person in a South Korean survey of more than 3,000 people showed neutralizing antibodies to the novel coronavirus, health authorities said on Thursday, indicating the virus has not spread widely in the community.
South Korea at one time had the most serious outbreak of the coronavirus outside China.
It has had 13,293 cases and 287 deaths and has won praise for handling the pandemic without a full lockdown of its economy.
Silver bullet?
As global public transport operators look for ways to keep the coronavirus at bay on planes, trains and buses, one of Japan's biggest rail firms is betting on the anti-microbial properties of silver to keep passengers safe on the world's busiest subway.
Tokyo's labyrinthine rail network of about 900 stations and roughly 85 lines has seen passenger numbers approach pre-virus levels since the city's de facto lockdown was lifted in late May.
Tokyo Metro, the city's main subway operator, has begun spraying its nearly 3,000 cars with a super-fine atomization of a silver-based compound to repel the virus from surfaces.
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