This year the holiday week is when the US death from COVID-19 is expected to exceed 100,000. "We were trying to capture that personal toll," Marc Lacey, the newspaper's national editor, told Reuters. It's about a death toll, reaching a number that's really just jaw-dropping." In some states, like Illinois and New York, restaurants are still closed to in-person dining and hair salons remain shuttered. Thomas Gill, a spokesman for the United States Lifesaving Association for beach lifeguards, said on Sunday that his home sands of Virginia Beach were not crowded.

Source: bd News24 May 24, 2020 22:41 UTC