brussels another horror day of the coronavirus pandemic saw the global death toll pass 94000 although there were tentative signs of hope that the crisis was peaking in the united states and europethe picture of the unfolding economic catastrophe also became clearer with the imf warning of a great depression and data showing 17 million americans lost their jobs but a european union financial rescue package agreement offered some relief to the barrage of bad newsanother 1700 people died in the united states on thursday while there were hundreds more deaths across europe driving the confirmed global toll above 94000nearly half of all pandemic fatalities have occurred over the past week but authorities in worsthit europe and the united states said a slight decline in daily deaths and infections gave reason to hope the worst could be overthe fire started by the pandemic is starting to come under control said prime minister pedro sanchez of spain where fatalities inched down to 683 from 757 a day before pushing that countrys total above 15000our priority now is not to turn back especially not to return to our starting point not to lower our guard france also reported that 82 fewer people were in intensive care for covid19 the first fall since the pandemic broke outcoronavirus outbreak complete coverageread our coronavirus live blog for all the latest news and updatesand anthony fauci the us governments top pandemic expert said the united states was going in the right directionthe us recorded 1783 deaths in the past 24 hours according to a tally by johns hopkins university as of 0030 gmt friday lower than the previous days record toll of 1973the us has seen more than 16500 confirmed deaths the secondhighest tally in the world after italy and more than 460000 confirmed casesmore on covid19coronavirus pandemic complete coverage21day lockdown what will stay open and what wonthow to quarantine yourself at hometrust the newspaper for your daily verified newsin new york the epicentre of the virus in the united states only 200 more people entered hospitals the lowest number since the pandemic struck even though 799 people died over the last day governor andrew cuomo saidwe are flattening the curve by what we are doing cuomo said adding we have to keep the curve flat but he declined to predict how new york would fare in the coming weeks telling reporters bluntly i have no idea further lifting spirits the health improved of british prime minister boris johnson the highest profile of the 15 million people infected by the virus and he ended three days of intensive carehowever britain announced another 881 deaths on thursday taking the total to nearly 8000on the economic front europe attempted a fightback with eu finance ministers agreeing in latenight talks to a 500 billioneuro 550 billion rescue package aimed at reducing pain across the 27nation bloc especially hardesthit italy and spaineurope has decided and is ready to meet the gravity of the crisis french finance minister bruno le