A New York Times analysis shows why some areas of the United States see reopening as long overdue.

Brazil, claiming without evidence that states are reporting an inflated number of cases, has removed coronavirus data from a Health Ministry website.

With states beginning to allow varying degrees of economic reopening, large protests against police brutality being held in dozens of cities and warmer weather inviting people outside, forecasters tracking the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States are approaching a difficult juncture.

But as many of them move ahead with reopening plans, their outcomes may depend on factors like how stressed their health care systems have been and how far they are along the curve.

In some relatively large states such as North Carolina and Arizona, increased testing suggests that infections are still climbing quickly and may spike further as more people venture out.

In another group are states that have achieved modest declines in new cases, but where the sheer number of people already infected remains the main source of concern?

Even as states such as Maryland or Connecticut have seen small declines in new infections, both still have alarmingly high counts per capita, which have taxed health care systems for weeks.

The fear for states in the second category is that with scores of people already infected, recent declines could be quickly erased through increased social contact in the months ahead, threatening health care systems anew.

In corners of the United States facing financial ruin, but where the coronavirus hasn’t arrived in full, a New York Times analysis of economic and infection data helps explain why some see reopening as long overdue.

But most agree the virus has not posed the local public health threat that so many were expecting — even while acknowledging that things could get worse and the numbers would most likely already be higher with more testing.

The virus has infected more than 6,600,000 people and has been detected in nearly every country.

Brazil’s government on Friday removed comprehensive numbers on coronavirus cases and deaths from the Health Ministry’s website, claiming without offering evidence that state officials had been reporting inflated figures to secure more federal funding.

Carlos Wizard, a businessman recently appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro to a top job in the ministry, told the O Globo newspaper on Friday that the government suspects state officials have been including deaths from other causes in the coronavirus tallies they report to the federal government.

The accusation outraged public health experts.

Several noted that Brazil has a sophisticated health surveillance system and that there is a broad consensus among epidemiologists that a lack of testing worldwide has resulted in a gross undercount of deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

As of Saturday, Brazil had more than 650,000 confirmed cases, second only to the United States, and more than 35,000 deaths.

The National Council of Health Secretaries, which represents municipal health officials, called Mr.

From London to Sydney, crowds of people around the world defied public health warnings and turned out in solidarity with U.S.

Health experts have warned that the demonstrations could accelerate the spread of the coronavirus, especially among people not wearing masks.

In Paris, the authorities barred people from gathering in front of the United States Embassy, but thousands protested there anyway in the late afternoon, as well as near the Eiffel Tower, echoing a protest earlier this week that drew nearly 20,000 people in memory of Adama Traoré, a Frenchman who died in police custody in 2016.

Russia on Saturday reported 8,855 new cases of the coronavirus, pushing the total number of infections to 458,689, and 197 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Cuomo reported 35 new coronavirus deaths statewide, a drop of seven from the day before and the lowest daily total in the last two months.

“There is no state in the United States that has gone from where we were to where we are.”.

When the coronavirus arrived in Japan, people did what they normally do: They put on masks.

Japan has reported more than 17,000 infections and just over 900 deaths, while the United States, with a population roughly two and a half times as large, has topped 1.9 million cases and is approaching 110,000 deaths.

“Japan, I think a lot of people agree, kind of did everything wrong, with poor social distancing, karaoke bars still open and public transit packed near the zone where the worst outbreaks were happening,” Jeremy Howard, a researcher at the University of San Francisco who has studied the use of masks, said of the country’s early response.

Businesses are reopening, and the rate of coronavirus deaths has edged down.

Middleton noted that although the coronavirus pandemic has been “such pressure for everybody,” communities have pulled together and people have stepped up to volunteer.

There have been at least 284,800 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Britain, according to the British public health authorities.

Negri’s nursing home, it fatally infected him, too.

But far more Americans — nearly six million, by one estimate — rely on paid home care than live-in nursing homes and assisted living combined.

Even more than nursing home employees, home care workers are poorly paid hourly workers and often lack health insurance; half rely on some form of public assistance.

Almost a third of home care workers, a heavily female work force, are themselves over 55, and most are black or Hispanic, groups that have proved particularly vulnerable to Covid-19.

People at high risk for developing severe disease if they become infected with the coronavirus — including those 65 and over, residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities, people with compromised immune systems, chronic lung or kidney disease, heart conditions or severe obesity — will want to take the greatest of precautions