China is convening its biggest political gathering and President Donald Trump says he is considering holding the Group of Seven summit in June as doubts simmer over how safe is safe enough with the pandemic still not under control.
Workers in protective suits handle a COVID-19 test sample while testing foreign journalists covering a press conference for China's National People's Conference at a hotel in Beijing, Thursday, May 21, 2020. This year's version of China's biggest political meeting of the year will be unlike any other.
In March, the president canceled the meeting because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying leaders would confer by video conference instead. The District of Columbia remains under stay-at-home orders at least through June 8, though Maryland began relaxing the restrictions last week. At the same time, leaders of the G-7 member nations are in some cases still grappling with the virus in their own countries or in various states of reopening their economies.
The number of fresh coronavirus cases in China has dropped recently, though clusters of infections have popped up in some areas. China reported two newly confirmed cases on Thursday. The pandemic is “the most massive workers’ safety crisis in many decades, and OSHA is in the closet. OSHA is hiding,” said David Michaels, an epidemiologist who was the agency’s assistant secretary of labor under President Barack Obama. Michaels called on OSHA to make the guidelines mandatory and enforceable, which would include the threat of fines.from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
At the same time, worries over risks of going back to work are overshadowed for many by worries over losing their jobs, or of being unable to find new ones.
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