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12.35pm BST
When the US economy will reopen remains the key question but Congress will be back in session for sure on Monday 4 May.
Many people think that’s not a good idea at all, not least because the Senate skews old, to say the least, in a time when a virus is disproportionately killing older Americans. Only 14 of 100 senators are under 50 and 28 are 70 or older, six of those past 80.
NY has given $116 billion more to the federal government than we received since 2015.
Kentucky *took* $148 billion more from the federal government than it gave.
Just give NY our money back, Senator McConnell. pic.twitter.com/kejNSU2oK5
12.34pm BST
…and welcome to another day of coverage of the coronavirus outbreak – and the politics of it under Donald Trump – in the US.
First, as ever, the figures according to Johns Hopkins University:
His autocratic tendencies are well-known. His sudden absence from public view prompted fierce speculation and rumour. One headline suggested that he was “brain-dead”.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s whereabouts remain unknown. But after a lost weekend, Donald Trump bounced back into the spotlight on Monday determined to prove that he is not only healthy but working very, very hard.
Related: Doctors on the return of sports: ‘Fans may not be in stadiums until well into 2021’