World coronavirus dispatch: US death toll very close to the 100,000 mark

From Latin America's biggest airline filing for bankruptcy, to Covid-19 signs you didn't know about, and why novel coronavirus is just the tip of an iceberg - read these and more in today's dispatch

In what may be the first sign of international travel opening up, Germany is considering lifting travel restrictions from 31 European countries starting June 15. People from 26 other European Union nations and Britain, as well as the four non-EU countries in the Schengen passport-free zone — Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland — may be allowed access to Germany. Read more here

Let’s look at the global statistics:

Total confirmed cases: 5,497,538

Change over yesterday: 89,237

Total deaths: 346,269

Total recovered: 2,232,593

Nations hit with most cases: The US (1,662,768), Brazil (374,898), Russia (353,472), the UK (262,547) and Spain (235,400).

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