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Newer technology addresses challenges including busy phone lines and website crashes

Sioux tribes in the US state of South Dakota are refusing to remove coronavirus checkpoints they set up on roads which pass through their land.

The US has become the epicentre of the pandemic. But – armed with guns and choosing to be arrested – some Americans are rebelling.

The US unemployment rate has risen to 14.7%, with 20.5 million jobs lost in April, as the coronavirus pandemic devastated the economy.

The Treasury Department gave instructions for returning the checks, but did not say if there are legal consequences for failing to return the money.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director told CNN that he was concerned about some states "leapfrogging over the first checkpoint" as they looked to reopen.

A government-sponsored study showed the drug shortens patients' recovery times by 31 percent or an average of about four days.

The technology giants of Silicon Valley are among the few winners from the global pandemic. Their share prices are holding up or even surging ahead as investors bet they will come out of the crisis even stronger.

At a time when medical professionals are putting their lives at risk, tens of thousands of doctors in the United States are taking large pay cuts.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin offered a more optimistic assessment, saying that the economy would "really bounce back in July and August."

But is reopening the states too soon?

Pelosi said GOP opposition to state bailouts is "morally wrong."

Some of the $1,200 stimulus checks have not yet to arrived and already many are pushing for more – perhaps much more – in the coming months.

“The doors are still closed. There is still no smoke coming out of the chimneys in corporate America. It is not surprising that you continue to see significant layoffs,” said one economist.

A further 4.4 million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as the economic toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to mount

An autopsy in California has revealed that the first US coronavirus-related death came weeks earlier than previously thought.

The policy announcement comes during a time when the immigration system has already slowed down significantly.

President Trump says "we'll be the comeback kids", but scientists warn easing restrictions won't be quick or easy - the US still lacks the capacity to test and track infections on the scale needed.

President announced plan on Twitter, offered no details

The more than $400 billion in emergency funding focuses on small businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.