EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE China lifts Wuhan lockdown after 76 days Bernie Sanders opts out of About 55,000 people are expected to leave the city, where the pandemic began, on the first day Democratic presidential race Associated Press Reuters LONDON Former Vice­President Biden to face Trump in Nov. 3 election After 76 days in lockdown, the Chinese city at the heart Associated Press of the global pandemic reo­ Washington pened on Wednesday, and Senator Bernie Sanders, tens of thousands imme­ who saw his once strong diately hopped on trains and lead in the Democratic prim­ planes to leave. Elsewhere, ary evaporate as the party’s the economic, political and establishment lined swiftly psychological toll of fighting up behind rival Joe Biden, the virus grew increasingly ended his presidential bid clear and more difficult to on Wednesday, an acknow­ bear. ledgement that the former In the Chinese city of 11 Vice­President is too far million where the pandemic ahead for him to have any began, residents waved flags reasonable hope of catching and the city staged a light up. show with skyscrapers and The Vermont Senator’s End to a solid start: Senator Bernie Sanders waving to the bridges radiating images of announcement makes Mr. crowd at a campaign rally in Phoenix on March 5. * AP health workers helping pa­ Biden the presumptive De­ tients. mocratic nominee to chal­ dest candidate. shire but found new life as More than 50,000 people lenge President Donald Mr. Sanders, though, used the rest of the party’s more in Wuhan were infected, and Trump in November. strong polling and solid fun­ moderate establishment over 3,300 deaths were re­ “The path toward victory draising — collected almost coalesced around him as an ported, about 80% of all Ready to go: A worker from China’s Jilin Province, in red, with a colleague as she prepares to return home from Wuhan.* AP is virtually impossible,” Mr. entirely from small dona­ alternative to Mr. Sanders. deaths in China, according to Sanders told supporters as tions made online — to more official figures. he congratulated Mr. Biden. than quiet early doubters. Loss in Michigan “I haven’t been outside for Virus cases Johnson is WHO Europe EU science The former Vice­President is Like the first time, he attract­ Things only got worse the more than 70 days,” said “a very decent man whom I ed support from young vo­ following week when Mr. Tong Zhengkun. “Being in­ in Pakistan ‘responding warns against chief resigns will work with to move our ters and was able to make Sanders lost Michigan, doors for so long drove me progressive ideas forward.” new inroads within the His­ where he had campaigned crazy.” rise to 4,072 to treatment’ relaxing curbs over response Mr. Sanders initially ex­ panic community, even as hard and upset Ms. Clinton Some 55,000 people were ceeded sky­high expecta­ his appeal with African in 2016. He was also beaten expected to leave Wuhan by Press Trust of India Agence France-Presse Agence France-presse Agence France-Presse tions about his ability to re­ Americans remained small. in Missouri, Mississippi and train on Wednesday. By early Islamabad LONDON Copenhagen Brussels create the magic of his 2016 Mr. Sanders amassed the Idaho the same night and morning, more than 10,000 Pakistan’s COVID­19 cases Britain’s Prime Minister The World Health The head of the European presidential bid, and even most votes in Iowa and New the results were so decisive had left by plane, an airport increased to 4,072 on Boris Johnson was Organization’s European Research Council has overcame a heart attack last Hampshire, which opened that Sanders headed to Ver­ official said. Flights to Beijing Wednesday, as Army chief “responding to office said on Wednesday resigned, the EU October. But he found him­ primary voting, and cruised mont without speaking to and international locations General Qamar Javed treatment”, his that despite seeing confirmed on Wednesday, self unable to convert unwa­ to an easy victory in Nevada the media. have not resumed. Bajwa directed his top spokesman said on “positive signs” from some reportedly in protest at the vering support from pro­ — seemingly leaving him well The coronavirus outbreak People from Wuhan arriv­ commanders to provide Wednesday, as the 55­year­ countries, it was too early bloc’s handling of its gressives into a viable path positioned to sprint to the essentially froze the cam­ ing in Beijing must undergo full support to the federal old leader spent a third to scale back measures pandemic response. to the nomination amid Democratic nomination paign, preventing Mr. San­ two rounds of testing for the and provincial day in intensive care aimed at containing the Mauro Ferrari, who only “electability” fears fuelled while a deeply crowded and ders from holding the large virus. governments in combating battling COVID­19. Britain coronavirus. “Now is not took over as president of by questions about whether divided field of alternatives rallies that had become his the pandemic, which has on Wednesday reported a the time to relax the ERC in January, told his democratic socialist ide­ sunk around him. trademark and shifting the Need for caution killed 58 people in the record 938 new COVID­19 measures. It is the time to the Financial Times he ology would be palatable to But a crucial endorse­ primary calendar. It became “We are acutely aware that country. The Ministry of deaths in its daily update, double and triple our was “extremely general election voters. ment of Mr. Biden by in­ increasingly unclear where we must not relax as we have National Health Services 152 more than its previous collective efforts,” WHO disappointed” by the EU’s fluential South Carolina Re­ he could notch a victory that not claimed final victory,” said that 208 new cases highest toll, as the total regional director for response to the pandemic, Oldest contender presentative Jim Clyburn, would help him regain Hubei Vice­Governor Cao were added to the list in number of deaths passed Europe, Hans Kluge, told a which has hit Italy and The 78­year­old Senator be­ and a subsequent, larger­ ground against Mr. Biden. Guangjin said at a news con­ the last 24 hours. 7,000. press conference. Spain particularly hard. gan his latest White House than­expected victory in Though he will not be the ference on Wednesday. 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Japan, the world’s third­ Europe has been scram­ the supporters who chose to Super Tuesday, when he social policies that dominat­ end as at the beginning.” jump yet, for a statewide to­ about something like 100, largest economy, could con­ bling to put together billions him four years ago as an in­ won 10 of 14 States. ed the Democratic primary, Across the Atlantic, New tal of nearly 5,500. 200 people per day,” Bill de tract by a record 25% this of euros to save lives and pre­ surgent alternative to the In a matter of days, his top including a “Medicare for York City endured one of its New York’s Mayor ack­ Blasio said. quarter, the highest since vent bankruptcies. The party establishment’s former Democratic rivals All” universal, government­ darkest days yet, with the nowledged on Wednesday Across the U.S., the death gross domestic product be­ countries worst hit by the vi­ choice, Hillary Clinton. Des­ lined up and announced funded health care plan, tui­ death toll surging past that the true death toll is toll reached about 13,000, gan to be tracked in 1955. rus are among those that can pite winning 22 states in their endorsement of Mr. Bi­ tion­free public college, a $15 4,000, hundreds more than even higher because the ci­ with approximately The dismal prediction by least afford the costs, like Ita­ 2016, there were no guaran­ den. The former Vice ­Presi­ minimum wage and sweep­ the number killed on 9/11. ty’s count does not include 4,00,000 confirmed infec­ two economists said exports ly and Spain. But they dis­ tees he’d be a major presi­ dent’s campaign had ap­ ing efforts to fight climate New York state recorded 731 people who died at home tions. are expected to dive 60% in agree over how to tackle the dential contender this cycle, peared on the brink of change under the “Green new COVID­19 deaths on without ever being tested for More economic pain was the April­June period. challenge. especially as the race’s ol­ collapse after New Hamp­ New Deal.” Afghan