These decisions fly in the face of most advice from public health experts, who point out that while the number of infections and deaths is leveling off, the problems are far from over. Georgia, Oklahoma, Alaska, and South Carolina have already begun the process of lifting restrictions, while Colorado, Mississippi, Minnesota, Montana, and Tennessee will join them this week. Some states have already lifted restrictions: in California, tens of thousands of residents flocked to the beach and flouted social distancing rules this weekend after Orange County's Board of Supervisors voted earlier this week to reopen some beaches.

will officially pass the one-million mark as authorities across the country argue about when to lift restrictions on movement. One analysis over the weekend suggests the global death toll - which currently stands at 207,000 - could be underestimated by as much as 60%.

and elsewhere is likely significantly higher, as the methods for counting deaths differ from state-to-state and the lack of adequate testing capacity means that early deaths during the outbreak may not have been included. Public health experts say the true death toll in the U.S. There are also disparities in how each country is reporting deaths with some nations omitting deaths in nursing homes, while other countries are including “probable COVID-19 deaths. has reported fewer deaths per capita than Europe as a whole. However, on a per capita basis, the U.S death toll trails that of Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and the U.K. In terms of deaths, Italy is the second worst-hit country with 26,644 deaths, according to data gathered by Johns’ Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.

The next worst-hit country in terms of infections in Spain, with 226,619 infections.

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