Global coronavirus cases reach 3.8 million

A flower vendor wearing a face mask amid the spread of coronavirus walks outside the closed Jamaica flower market in Mexico City, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Maria Torres, center, attends the burial of her son Roberto Palma, a 55-year-old who died from the new coronavirus at El Angel Cemetery, in Lima, Peru, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Judy DeFrancesco, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., who retired from her job with an oil and gas firm just four days before coming down with COVID-19 in mid-March, celebrates with her neighbors as the woman returns to her home Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Wheat Ridge, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks past stuttered businesses in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

A man wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus walks past a closed Dolce & Gabbana store in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

A homeless man gestures to the camera after waking up from sleeping overnight outside the Cathedral, amid the spread of the new coronavirus in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

More than 3.8 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the coronavirus so far with nearly 270,000 deaths.

In the United States, there have been 1.25 million total cases and more than 75,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

On Thursday, it was reported 3.2 million Americans filed new unemployment claims last week. It's estimated that 33.5 million people have lost their jobs in the 7 weeks since the pandemic forced many businesses to close.

African Americans make up nearly half of the U.S. COVID-19 cases, a new study has found. Hispanics are also nearly twice as likely as whites to have lost their jobs in the pandemic.

A member of the U.S. Navy who works at the White House as one of President Trump's personal valets has tested positive for COVID-19.

Trump was told Wednesday and was later tested again for the virus. A White House statement later said that both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have tested negative.

A new report from the House Oversight and Reform Committee has found that while White House policies closed the U.S. to Chinese visitors, many returning overseas Americans were not rigorously screened for the virus.

Only 10% of more than 250,000 travelers had their temperatures checked when arriving back to the United States between January-March.

AROUND THE WORLD

The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus could kill 83,000-190,000 Africans and infect 29 million-44 million in the first year if it is not contained. Mega-famines are possible if efforts aren't made to fight the impact of the pandemic, the organization said.

Russia's coronavirus case tally surged to 177,160 on Thursday after a record daily rise in infections, meaning it now has the fifth highest number of registered cases in the world and more cases than in Germany or France.

The number of new cases of the novel virus jumped by 11,231 in the last 24 hours, the country's coronavirus task force said. Russia's official death toll, which remains far lower than in many countries, rose to 1,625 after 88 people died overnight.

The Bank of England said Britain could be headed for its biggest economic slump in more than 300 years due to the coronavirus lockdown - worse than the fall-out from two world wars and pandemics such as the Spanish flu in the early 20th century.

Britain could reportedly see the output for 2020 shrink by 14%. That would be an annual decline not seen since the early 1700s.

Some health officials warn a second coronavirus outbreak is possible as countries ease their quarantines.

Story with information from Reuters.

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