Boris Johnson, Coronavirus, Wisconsin Elections.
Your Monday Evening Briefing |
Good evening. Here’s the latest. |
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1. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain was moved into intensive care on Monday, a day after the government announced he had been hospitalized with coronavirus-related symptoms. |
Mr. Johnson, 55, first experienced symptoms on March 26. He has asked the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to stand in for him if necessary. According to statistics released on Monday, more than 51,000 people had tested positive for the virus in Britain and 5,373 people had died. |
On Sunday evening, Queen Elizabeth II delivered a rare televised speech that evoked the darkest days of World War II. “I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge,” the queen said, “and those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.” |
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2. The death toll from the outbreak in the U.S. topped 10,000 today. |
About 40 percent of those deaths have been in New York State. After two days without major increases in the daily death count, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state may be reaching an apex of the outbreak, but he emphasized the situation was still dire. Above, a Queens resident carried some groceries. |
In other virus-related news: |
- The lack of coronavirus test supplies, and long waits for results, have caused serious problems for many hospitals, even as new and faster tests come onto the market.
- The governors of Rhode Island, Florida and Texas have implemented interstate travel restrictions, including stopping some drivers coming from out of state.
- Stocks rallied 7 percent as investors focused on hopes for an outbreak plateau. The Federal Reserve said it would provide a backstop to banks making loans to small businesses.
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3. Hot spots around the world. |
Japan is continuing to record new daily highs in confirmed infections, and the total number of cases has more than doubled, to 3,654, in the last eight days. |
Iran, a regional epicenter for the virus, will lift a nationwide business shutdown, and a majority of the work force will return to work by Saturday, the government announced. |
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4. Will there be a primary election in Wisconsin on Tuesday? |
On Monday afternoon, Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, ordered the state’s presidential primaries and local elections to be pushed back two months, as coronavirus cases rise in the battleground state. |
But Republicans immediately challenged the order in court, and shortly after 6 p.m., the state Supreme Court overruled the governor’s order, throwing tomorrow’s elections into chaos. Above, a woman filled out an early ballot in Dunn, Wis., last week. |
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5. A new coronavirus crisis: domestic abuse. |
Home isolation is giving more power to abusers. In Spain, one domestic violence hotline received 18 percent more calls in the first two weeks of lockdown than it had a month earlier. France reported a spike of about 30 percent in domestic violence since the outbreak began. |
The calls show “just how intense psychological as well as physical mistreatment can get when people are kept 24 hours a day together within a reduced space,” said one expert in Spain. |
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6. The Navy secretary assailed a fired aircraft carrier captain. |
Thomas Modly, the acting secretary of the Navy, above, told the crew of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt that their captain, who was removed last week amid a coronavirus outbreak on his ship, was “too stupid to be a commanding officer.” |
The leaked audio of the address, described by one crew member as “whiny, upset, irritated, condescending,” was another self-inflicted public relations failure for the Navy, our correspondents wrote. |
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7. A fired intelligence official urged whistle-blowers to “bravely speak up.” |
“Please do not allow recent events to silence your voices,” he said in a statement. |
Mr. Atkinson received a complaint last year about Mr. Trump’s conversations with Ukraine and raised it to an “urgent concern,” which eventually led to the president’s impeachment. |
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8. The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing another catastrophe. |
The latest aerial survey indicates that corals are under intense stress from their surrounding waters, which have been growing increasingly hotter. |
The ripple effect could be significant, scientists say. Hundreds of millions of people get their protein primarily from reef fish like the coral trout, which is already being affected by the bleaching. |
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9. Wellness suddenly feels urgent. |
Our critic-at-large, Amanda Hess, notes that although our health care system is buckling under the strain of the virus, the wellness industry is booming. |
Stuck at home, celebrities are rebranding themselves as coronavirus self-help advisers. Actors have transformed into home cooking instructors, pop stars are leading meditations and fashion bloggers are hawking loungewear. |
“There is something disquieting about the slick translation of the crisis into the logic of branding,” Hess writes. |
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10. And finally, Hollywood agents discover TikTok. |
Signing with an elite talent agency has long been a status symbol in the entertainment world. But the fame landscape is shifting, and big agencies are focusing on new talent: internet influencers from places like TikTok. |
“It used to be, I want to get famous on YouTube or Vine, so I can have a career in traditional entertainment,” said Greg Goodfried at United Talent Agency, above. “Now, this is a career.” |
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