미 코로나19 환자 46만명…누적 사망 1만6천명, 세계 두번째로 많아져<br /><br />The United States is one of the countries that's been hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.<br />It now has the second highest number of fatalities in the world - at well over 16-thousand - with infections still rising sharply.<br />Yoon Jung-min has the details.<br />The number of COVID-19 infections in the United States has topped 460-thousand as of Thursday.<br />According to Johns Hopkins University, the total death toll was over 16-thousand,... which is the second highest in the world.<br />The state of New York reported about 10-thousand new infections on Thursday,... bringing the total in the state to more than 159-thousand.<br />A number of states have been strongly asking people to keep social distancing,... while 15 states have ordered schools to remain closed.<br />The U.S. is stressing the importance of social distancing during services ahead of Easter this weekend.<br />During a briefing at the White House on Thursday,... U.S. President Donald Trump said that more than two-million coronavirus tests have been completed so far.<br />With the pandemic hurting many businesses in the U.S.,... Trump announced that his administration will come up with a package to support airlines,... as well as farmers.<br />"The airline business has been hit very hard as everybody knows, and we are going to be in a position to do a lot to help them so that they keep their employees and they save their businesses."<br />The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Thursday that it's going to inject another 2-point-3 trillion U.S. dollars to help the American economy.<br />The Fed said it will offer up to 500-billion dollars in loans through purchasing municipal bonds and expanding an existing corporate lending program.<br />The move comes as nearly 17-million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the past three weeks,... as the COVID-19 outbreak wreaks havoc on the U.S. economy.<br />Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News.<br />
