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President Donald Trump said as many as 100,000 Americans could die from Covid-19, after the death toll passed his earlier estimates, but added that he was confident a vaccine would be developed by the end of the year. About half the states have now moved towards partial lifting of shutdowns as the number of new coronavirus cases has begun to drop or level off and citizens clamour for relief from restrictions that have sent the economy into a tailspin.

New Covid-19 fatalities in Spain rose by

164 to tally up to 25,264 on Sunday, marking the lowest one-day increase since March 18. Churches will reopen tomorrow with confessions seeing priests and the churchgoers staying as far apart as possible while wearing face masks and gloves. If any baptisms are held, the baby will not be anointed with water but with a disposable cotton swab. Marriages are unlikely to restart until June.

MyTrace is a preventive countermeasure and contact tracing application developed by the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry with local expertise to help the Health Ministry detect and contain the spread of Covid-19.

MyTrace adopts a community-driven approach where participating devices exchange proximity information whenever the app detects another nearby device with MyTrace installed via Bluetooth. The app enables identification of people who have been in close proximity to an infected person. Data collected will be stored for 21 days in the mobile phone.