CORONAVIRUS LATEST: —AMC, the largest movie theater chain in the world, is reopening more than 100 of its locations in the U.S. —Europe reporting average of 26,000 new cases per day. —Study shows children play larger role in spread of virus than thought.
9:19 a.m.: US jobless claims jump back up over 1 millionand filed for unemployment insurance last week, according to data released Thursday from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Prior to the pandemic, the previous record for weekly unemployment filings was 695,000 in 1982. That was smashed by nearly tenfold in the last week of March as 6.9 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance in a single week.AMC, the largest movie theater chain in the world, is reopening more than 100 of its locations in the United States on Thursday for the first time in more than five months.
An outside view of the closed AMC Theater in Burbank, California, on May 12, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic.The company expects to reopen approximately 300 additional theater locations around the country over the next two weeks, as part of a"phased plan" to reopen all 600 U.S. locations. The remainder of its U.S. theaters will reopen"only after authorized to do so by state and local officials," according to a press release from AMC.
Passengers arriving from four Mediterranean countries at Italy's Milan Malpensa Airport wait in a line to be tested for COVID-19 on Aug. 20, 2020. Italy's health minister issued an ordinance requiring the tests for all travelers arriving in Italy from Croatia, Greece, Malta or Spain. A health worker holds up a test tube with a COVID-19 test sample taken from someone at Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts, on Aug. 11, 2020.
Now, more than 2.8 million people in India have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began -- the third-highest count in the world.
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