We have all been encouraged to see several states ease, or begin talks of easing, the long and difficult quarantine which has successfully slowed the progress of COVID-19. We pray that the trajectory witnessed in several states continue its downward trend until this menace is totally eradicated.
Notwithstanding our eagerness to “return to normal,” Agudas Yisroel of America is reminded its constituents via Matzav.com that the road to recovery will, and should be, deliberate. Easing restrictions abruptly and without closely monitoring its impact risks forfeiting the gains achieved by enduring this difficult quarantine.

As the Supreme Court held oral arguments by telephone over a case involving robocalls, a toilet was heard flushing in the background on an unmuted line.
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Britain on Tuesday reported the highest coronavirus death toll in Europe, surpassing Italy, even as officials cautioned that it was difficult to compare figures across nations.
Britain said that 29,427 people have died of the coronavirus in the country, a count that for the first time surpasses the tally in Italy. Italy, which until now was the hardest-hit country in Europe, on Tuesday reported that the virus has killed 29,315 people there.
The grim milestone for Britain – even fuzzy as it is – leaped to the top of news websites and broadcasts here, and it was the first question for Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab at Tuesday’s evening news conference.

China has published a short animation titled “Once Upon a Virus” mocking the U.S. response to the new coronavirus using Lego-like figures to represent the two countries, Reuters reports.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was confident the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab, but declined to describe the evidence. In the animation posted online by China’s official Xinhua news agency, red curtains open to reveal a stage featuring Lego-like figures in the form of a terracotta warrior wearing a face mask and the Statue of Liberty.
Reuters provides a brief transcript extracted from the video:
“We discovered a new virus,” says the warrior.

Former President George W. Bush on Saturday tweeted a video encouraging Americans to be their best selves during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Pentagon has officially released three short videos showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” that had previously been released by a private company.
The videos show what appear to be unidentified flying objects rapidly moving while recorded by infrared cameras. Two of the videos contain service members reacting in awe at how quickly the objects are moving. One voice speculates that it could be a drone.
The Navy previously acknowledged the veracity of the videos in September of last year.
They are officially releasing them now, “in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos,” according to Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough.

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US Surgeon General Jerome Adam’s says he resents reporters question on misinformation regarding masks.
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President Trump discusses his conversation with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo around increase in testing.
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All are asked to daven for a refuah shleimah for Rav Shmuel Miller, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedolah Beis Yisroel of Lakewood, who is in need of rachamei Shomyaim.
His situation has taken a turn for the worse, unfortunately. The rosh yeshiva, who has been suffering from the impact of COVID-19, is in the ICU and on a respirator.
Rav Miller is a son of Rav Avigdor Miller zt”l. He led his yeshiva for decades in Brooklyn before relocating it to Lakewood several years ago.
Please be mispallel for Shmuel ben Chana Ettil.
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