Coronavirus live news: deaths surge in Brazil and Russia as Trump says US is quitting WHO
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- Coronavirus latest: at a glance
Coronavirus infections in France are continuing to decline, health officials said on Saturday, with 14,380 patients currently in hospital, down from 14,695 a day earlier.
The number of serious coronavirus cases in intensive care in the country has fallen to 1,325 from 1,361.
New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Saturday that will grant death benefits to the families of police officers, public health workers and other front-line workers who have died of the coronavirus, the Associated Press reports.
“You gave your lives for us, we will be there for your families going forward,” Cuomo said as he signed the legislation at his daily briefing on the virus.
It is my honor to sign into law a bill that gives death benefits to all the frontline workers who gave their lives in service to all of us during this pandemic. Providing for their families is the least we can do.
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