25 May 2020

As US Covid death toll nears 100,000, Trump plays golf

From First Up, 5:10 am on 25 May 2020

While Brazil nears the peak of its epidemic, the US is approaching a grim milestone - one hundred thousand deaths due to Covid-19. The front page of Sunday's New York Times called it 'an incalculable loss' - before listing 1000 names of people who had died from Covid-19, across its cover and first three pages. In small news print, across six columns - the name and age of each person is listed - alongside details about their life: 87-year-old Lila Fenwick was the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Law. 91-year-old Romi Cohen saved 56 Jewish families from the Gestapo. Skylar Herbet - aged just 5 years-old was Michigan's youngest victim of Covid-19. To talk more about this, our US Correspondent Simon Marks joins us now