In global COVID-19 developments, an 11-week lockdown ended today in Wuhan, China's former outbreak epicenter, as illness levels stabilized in some countries such as Italy, but rose in others, such as Turkey and Russia.In another development, the disease modeling group at Imperial College London today released its latest forecasts for the week ahead covering 42 countries that have active transmission, which suggests the epidemic is stabilizing in 14 of them, including Italy, but growing rapidly in 26 countries spanning several continents.And global deaths today topped 80,000, reaching 81,200, just 1 day after the count exceeded 70,000 fatalities, according to the Johns Hopkins online tracker.
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