Greetings, QuickTake readers! In this edition: Oil trades into negative territory, deaths rise in Canada's deadliest shooting, and anti-quarantine protests spread in the U.S.  Sweden is staying openSweden has kept most businesses open and placed few restrictions on daily life throughout the spread of the coronavirus pandemic—and that strategy may be flattening the curve of new infections, health officials say. Rather than imposing damaging mass lockdowns, the government has left open schools, gyms, cafes, bars and restaurants and relied instead on citizens to act responsibly and choose to practice social distancing. The country has reported more than 14,000 cases and 1,500 deaths, considerably more than the rest of Scandanavia but much less than in Italy, Spain and the U.K., and now, "we're sort of on a plateau," said Anders Tegnell, the physician behind the relatively relaxed plan. Why it's working: - Sweden has one of the world's best-run health-care systems that at no stage saw a shortage of medical equipment or hospital capacity.
- More than half of Swedish households are single-person, making social distancing easier.
- With universal access to fast Internet, more people work from home there than anywhere else in Europe.
$ignificant figures19. At least that many people were killed after a gunman went on a 12-hour rampage in Nova Scotia, one of Canada's deadliest mass shootings, that ended when the 51-year-old assailant was killed by police. 2.7%. U.S. virus cases rose that much from the day before to 766,664 Monday, lower than Sunday's growth rate of 5.6% and down from the average daily increase of 4.5% over the past week. 18 million. Gmail blocked that many coronavirus-related phishing emails that "used both fear and financial incentives" every day last week, plus more than 240 million COVID-related daily spam messages, Google said. Highly quotable"Backfire." Dr. Anthony Fauci pushed back against protesters who ignored governors' stay-at-home orders, saying "unless we get the virus under control, the real recovery economically is not going to happen." "It's a lie." A North Korean defector who was a doctor during the SARS epidemic cast doubt on Pyongyang's claim that it has had no virus cases, saying "diverse infectious diseases repeatedly occur" in the country. "We prevented a fourth election." What Benny Gantz said after he and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to form an emergency unity government to "protect democracy, fight coronavirus and care for all." This is not normalWipeout. U.S. stocks sank deeply into the red Monday as U.S. crude oil prices fell almost 300% below $0 for the first time in history to -$37.63, as demand dissolved under the economic coma of the virus pandemic.  The future is nowReal-time tools. Facebook unveiled its first county-by-county U.S. map of people with COVID-19 symptoms based on data from a voluntary survey to help officials decide which parts of the country can be reopened.  What's goodLife-saving mission. An all-female robotics team in Afghanistan is developing two types of cheap ventilators using spare Toyota car parts to help their war-torn country ease virus-related fatalities.  Now that you're caught up... Tell your friends to sign up to receive our newsletter five days a week. Follow QuickTake on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. BTW: Taiwan is rolling out face mask vending machines so citizens can collect their PPE with minimal human contact. Thanks for reading!
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