new cases/active cases USA 25000/955000 = 2.6%

Wesak is at 3:45 a.m. PDT  5-7-20

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 new cases/active cases  USA 25000/955000 = 2.6%  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us

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Pakistan, India, Russia, Brazil   new cases/active cases   —each is between 8-1%

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UK  4400/148500=  2.8%  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk

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4-10-20   With the support of the federal government, local officials have already allowed dozens of enterprises to reopen this week, with more expected to come back online starting April 13. Some plants that produce non-essential products were never shuttered, despite the fact that President Vladimir Putin declared the entire month of April to be a paid national holiday and ordered the shutdown of businesses.

In Moscow oblast, the region encompassing the capital city, which has the majority of COVID-19 infections and saw a jump of 859 in just one day, enterprises run by international giants Mars, Campina, Kimberly-Clark, Wilo, and PepsiCo, to name a few, never closed their doors.  Seven hundred miles to the south, in Rostov oblast, Guardian, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Mars, Tekhnonikol, a producer of industrial and consumer building materials, and the Segezha Group, an international holding company that makes packaging materials, have continued their operations uninterrupted. They are running at full capacity.

In every case, local officials insist that the conditions inside Russia’s factories are safe for workers and that necessary precautions are being taken to protect employees. In Yaroslavl oblast, for instance, where there are a dozen known cases and hundreds of people under isolation orders, officials report that four enterprises are being closely monitored for compliance with workplace safety laws. One government representative told the media that even in the case of “a single infection,” monitoring is so tight that they would “discover and localize the spread” immediately.

However, according to a 2010 article published in the Journal of International Circumpolar Health, “The occupational safety system in Russia has severely deteriorated in the last 2 decades, with legislators tending to promote the interests of industry and business, resulting in the neglect of occupational safety and violation of workers’ rights. The majority of workers are employed in conditions that do not meet rules of safety and hygiene. More than 60 percent of [occupational accidents] can be attributed to management practices—violation of safety regulations, poor organization of work, deficiency of certified occupational safety specialists and inadequate personnel training.”     https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/10/russ-a10.html