PBS高端访谈:美国新冠死亡人数开始下降（在线收听）

JUDY WOODRUFF: The pace of COVID-19 deaths across the United States is slowing tonight, but the total is nearing a new threshold, 100,000. At the same time, the nation's reopening keeps moving ahead, led by a major American financial institution. Stephanie Sy begins our coverage.

朱迪·伍德拉夫：美国范围内新冠的死亡率正在下滑，不过总死亡人数已经接近一个新的大关了——10万人。与此同时，美国也在持续重新开放着，主要的领头羊是一家大型的美国金融机构。请听斯蒂芬妮发回的报道。

STEPHANIE SY: An opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange that may go down in history. Governor Andrew Cuomo did the honors wearing a mask, the now telltale symbol of the pandemic. With that, the trading floor partially reopened for the first time in two months. The normally buzzing space saw only a few brokers return in person, and most employees will continue to work remotely for now. Cuomo said the opening, after Memorial Day, marked a critical moment.

斯蒂芬妮：纽约证券交易所今日的开业将记入史册。州长安德鲁·库默带了疫情期间具有象征意义的口罩出现，标志着该交易所近2个月以来的首次开张。平时喧嚣的空间，现在只有部分经纪商到场，大多数员工都还保持着远程办公的状态。库默说，在阵亡将士纪念日之后开张意义非凡。

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D-NY): We're going to turn the page on COVID-19, and we're going to start focusing on reopening and how we reopen and how smart we are in reopening.

州长安德鲁·库默：我们准备在新冠的基础上开启新的一页，开始聚焦于重新开放以及重新开放的方式和技巧。

STEPHANIE SY: But even as some New York suburbs entered the first phase of relaxed restrictions, Cuomo also highlighted data that low-income and minority communities are still experiencing double the infection rates of the rest of the city. In California, churches are starting to open their doors.

斯蒂芬妮：不过，虽然纽约的一些郊区已经步入放松管制的第一阶段了，但库默还是强调说数据表明，低收入群体和少数群体的感染率依然是该市其他地区的2倍。加州的一些教堂也开始重新开放啦。

REV. AMOS BROWN, Third Baptist Church of San Francisco: We reserve the right ourselves to determine the things that we should do that would be in the interest of our people.

布朗，旧金山第三浸礼会教堂：我们保留权利来决定应该做什么才是对美国人民最好的。

STEPHANIE SY: After heated debate, the state laid out a plan this week to let individual counties decide when houses of worship should reopen. Meanwhile, at the White House today:

斯蒂芬妮：在经过激烈的辩论后，该州本周列了一项计划，让各郡自行决定是否允许做礼拜的场所重新开放。与此同时，今天在白宫：

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: We need people that are going to be leading us in faith. And we're opening them up. And if I have to, I will override any governor that wants to play games. If they want to play games, that's OK. But we will win.

STEPHANIE SY: One top White House staffer, Katie Miller, Vice President Pence's press secretary, returned to work today, after a series of negative COVID tests. She tested positive earlier this month, prompting the White House to mandate face masks for all staff. But even as the slow march toward normal progresses, there are new fears over meatpacking facilities, where workers continue to get sick. The Washington Post reported today that there are 11,000 COVID-19 cases linked to three major meat producers, Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, and JBS. Each of those companies has taken steps to slow the spread of the virus. Still, plant closures and worker shortages have strained the nation's meat supply. Overseas, in India, the number of new infections climbed for the seventh straight day. Cases have surged since the country lifted lockdown orders. Despite that, limited domestic air travel resumes there this week, with employees disinfecting bags and some travelers wearing conspicuous safety gear.

唐纳德·特朗普，美国总统：我们需要有人引领我们的信念。我们正在将这些场所开放。如果必须要不顾任何敷衍塞责州长的意见的话，那我也会不顾他们的意见的。如果他们想敷衍塞责的话，那ok，不过我不会让他们得逞的。副总统迈克·彭斯的新闻秘书、白宫高级职员凯蒂·米勒今天复工了。之前她做了一系列新冠检测，都是阴性。本月初，她检测为阳性，这促使白宫强制要求所有员工都佩戴口罩。在迈向正常生活的努力步履维艰时，关于肉类加工场所的恐惧又油然而生，很多工人都生病了。今天，《华盛顿邮报》报道称，1.1万个新冠病例都与3个大肉类厂商有关：泰森食品、史密斯菲尔德食品、JBS。这几家公司都采取措施来减缓病毒传播了。不过，许多厂子的关停和工人的紧缺让美国缺少了肉类供应。而在海外的印度，新感染病例的数量已连续7天攀升。自从印度放松封锁禁令以来，感染病例一直在增加。虽然如此，本周，国内有限的航班还在继续运行，航空公司的工作人员对各种包裹都进行了消毒，部分旅客甚至还佩戴着十分明显的安全装置。

BASHIR AHMAD ZARGAR, Passenger: Coronavirus is very dangerous. We have to accept it, and we have to take all those measures which the government is asking us to do.

巴希尔，乘客：新冠很危险。我们必须要接受它已存在的事实，我们必须采取政府要求的所有措施。

STEPHANIE SY: In Russia today, authorities reported the highest daily death toll there yet. The country has the third highest number of infections in the world, but the government has reported a relatively low mortality rate. Russian officials have denied that they are deliberately underreporting COVID deaths. On the global economic front, French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled an $8.8 billion plan to save the hard-hit French auto industry. And in South America, the continent's largest air carrier, LATAM Airlines, filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection, citing a collapse in demand, that as a U.S. ban on foreign travelers from Brazil took effect today. For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Stephanie Sy.

斯蒂芬妮：今天，俄罗斯当局报道了目前为止最高的日死亡人数。俄罗斯感染人数居世界第三，但俄罗斯政府在报告中披露的死亡率却相对较低。俄罗斯官员否认自己有虚报死亡人数的做法。从全球来看，法国总统马克龙公开了一份价值88亿美元的计划来拯救受到重创的法国自动化行业。而南美洲大陆最大的航空公司拉塔姆航空申请了破产保护，称其需求量下滑，因为美国禁止巴西游客入境的禁令今天生效。感谢收听斯蒂芬妮发回的报道。