LONDON—Britain became the first country in Europe to confirm more than 30,000 CCP virus deaths on May 5, and infections rose sharply again in Russia, even as other nations are beginning to make headway in containing the outbreak.
In the United States, some states took steps to lift lockdown restrictions that have thrown millions out of work, even as the country continued to record thousands of new infections and about a thousand deaths every day, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
