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The fortune of the American president went from 3.1 billion dollars (2.5 billion) on March 1 to 2.1 billion dollars on March 18 (at the height of the stock market panic caused by the coronavirus pandemic) according to Forbes Magazines the annual list of billionaires.

The collapse induced by Covid-19 on the world stock markets led 267 of the richest people in the world to lose their billionaire status, according to the magazine’s 34th annual wealth ranking. There are now 2,095 billionaires worldwide and 1,062 of them have lost money compared to last year.

- Donald Trump “lost $ 1 billion in one month” after coronavirus lockup, ExBulletin.com, April 7, 2020.

3. For weeks, as the coronavirus spread through the Cook County jail and state prisons, Chicago’s downtown federal lockup continued to report no cases of the virus among its detainees.

That’s changed.

Six inmates in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center have now tested positive for the coronavirus, according to John Murphy, executive director of the Federal Defender Program in the Northern District of Illinois. That’s a sharp uptick from Tuesday, when the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed one inmate had tested positive for the first time.

It could also lead to renewed scrutiny about who is held there. Before the first positive test, Chicago’s federal judges did not appear inclined to release inmates for fear of the virus alone. But Wednesday afternoon, defense attorneys began making new bids for release on behalf of individual clients, citing the new number.