Senate Republicans rolled out their coronavirus relief plan Monday, which includes another round of direct payments to individuals and makes changes to unemployment benefits as the $600-per-week benefit included in the first stimulus bill expires this week. New coronavirus cases are beginning to decline in some of the hardest-hit states, as Americans follow public health warnings and precautions more closely. Major League Baseball postponed two games of its freshly started season on Monday after a Covid-19 outbreak among the Miami Marlins, and Warner Bros. landed on a staggered release schedule for its highly anticipated Christopher Nolan thriller “Tenet.”
Here are some of today’s biggest developments:
The following data was compiled by Johns Hopkins University:
- Global cases: More than 16.3 million
- Global deaths: At least 650,918
- U.S. cases: More than 4.2 million
- U.S. deaths: At least 147,303
