#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
	World	11,550,542	+175,499	536,445
1	USA	2,982,928	+44,530	132,569
2	Brazil	1,604,585	+26,209	64,900
3	India	697,836	+23,932	19,700
4	Russia	681,251	+6,736	10,161
5	Peru	302,718	+3,638	10,589
6	Spain	297,625		28,385
7	Chile	295,532	+3,685	6,308
8	UK	285,416	+516	44,220
9	Mexico	252,165	+6,914	30,366
10	Italy	241,611	+192	34,861
11	Iran	240,438	+2,560	11,571
12	Pakistan	228,474	+3,191	4,712
13	Saudi Arabia	209,509	+3,580	1,916
14	Turkey	205,758	+1,148	5,225
15	Germany	197,558	+140	9,086
16	South Africa	196,750	+8,773	3,199
17	France	166,960		29,893
18	Bangladesh	162,417	+2,738	2,052
19	Colombia	117,110	+3,721	4,064
20	Canada	105,536	+219	8,684
21	Qatar	99,799	+616	128
22	China	83,553	+8	4,634
23	Argentina	77,815	+2,439	1,507
24	Egypt	75,253	+1,218	3,343
25	Sweden	71,419		5,420
26	Indonesia	63,749	+1,607	3,171
27	Belarus	63,554	+284	423
28	Ecuador	61,958	+423	4,781
29	Belgium	61,909	+71	9,771
30	Iraq	60,479	+2,125	2,473
31	UAE	51,540	+683	323
32	Netherlands	50,621	+73	6,127
33	Kuwait	49,941	+638	368
34	Ukraine	48,500	+823	1,249
35	Kazakhstan	47,171	+1,452	188
36	Oman	46,178	+1,072	213
37	Singapore	44,800	+136	26
38	Philippines	44,254	+2,424	1,297
39	Portugal	43,897	+328	1,614
40	Panama	38,149	+1,166	747
41	Bolivia	38,071	+1,253	1,378
42	Dominican Republic	37,425	+1,241	794
43	Poland	35,950	+231	1,517
44	Afghanistan	32,951	+279	864
45	Switzerland	32,268	+70	1,965
46	Israel	29,958	+788	331
47	Bahrain	29,367	+510	97
48	Romania	28,973	+391	1,750
49	Nigeria	28,711	+544	645
50	Armenia	28,606	+706	484
51	Ireland	25,527	+18	1,741
52	Guatemala	23,248	+747	947
53	Honduras	22,921	+805	629
54	Azerbaijan	20,324	+523	250
55	Ghana	20,085	+697	122
56	Japan	19,522	+240	977
57	Austria	18,280	+115	706
58	Moldova	17,814	+142	585
59	Serbia	16,131	+302	311
60	Algeria	15,941	+441	952

 

Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

 

 

Health experts push back on Trump’s false claim that 99 percent of U.S. infections are ‘totally harmless.’

 

President Trump and Melania Trump at the White House on Saturday.Credit...Cheriss May for The New York Times

Public health experts and officials on Sunday disputed President’s Trump’s characterization of the seriousness of the coronavirus.

In an Independence Day speech on Saturday at the White House, Mr. Trump sought to dismiss widespread criticism of his administration’s slow and ineffective response to the virus. He repeated his false claim that an abundance of testing made the country’s cases look worse than they were, and he asserted that 99 percent of the nation’s cases were “totally harmless.”

Cases have risen steeply in recent weeks, and infections announced across the United States last week totaled more than 330,000 — a record high that included the five highest single-day totals of the pandemic. On Sunday, more than 40,000 new cases had been announced nationally by evening.

On Sunday, the former F.D.A. commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said that “certainly more than 1 percent of people get serious illness” if they are infected. Speaking on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” he estimated that when all cases were counted, including asymptomatic ones, between 2 and 5 percent of infected people become sick enough to require hospitalization.

Dr. Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, sidestepped repeated questions about that statement on three television news shows. “I’m not going to get into who is right and who is wrong,” he said at one point.

Dr. Hahn told CNN’s Dana Bash that it’s “too early to tell” if it’s safe for Republicans to hold their convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month. “We’ll have to see how this unfolds in Florida and elsewhere around the country,” he said.

Even some Republicans pushed back at the president’s assertions.

“The virus is not harmless,” Miami’s mayor, Carlos Giménez, said on “Face the Nation,” noting that positivity rates in Miami-Dade County — the share of coronavirus tests that come back positive — were now above 20 percent. Florida has reached record highs for new cases several times in the past 10 days, reporting more than 11,400 new cases on Saturday alone, according to a New York Times database. More than 10,000 new cases were announced in Florida on Sunday, and the state has now had over 200,000 total cases.

Mr. Trump and other administration officials have also highlighted the country’s declining death rate.

Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said improvements in care may have caused the decline, but also described deaths as a “lagging indicator.”

“By the time somebody gets infected, it takes a couple weeks before they get hospitalized and get really sick, and another week or 10 days before they die, ” he said.

He also said that many of the people now being infected were younger adults and less likely to develop severe illness.

Studies that have calculated the death rate based on broader antibody testing that takes silent cases into consideration suggest an infection death rate of less than 1 percent, Dr. Jha said.

“It’s always tricky to do this in the midst of a pandemic,” Dr. Jha said. “There are a lot of factors that go into it. But let’s say you took 1,000 Americans at random who were all infected. Our best guess is that between six and 10 would likely die of the virus.”

And the death rate does not capture all of the harm caused by the disease. As many as 15 to 20 percent of known Covid-19 patients may require hospitalization, and of the group admitted, 15 to 20 percent are transferred into intensive care, according to some estimates.

And many who have recovered are still struggling to regain their pre-disease lives, and may face long-term health issues.

 

 

Masks are now mandatory in Iran.

 

As the Iranian government battles a new wave of the virus, the authorities have, for first time since the pandemic began, ordered citizens to cover their faces in public.

The new rules took effect on Sunday.

A day earlier, President Hassan Rouhani urged businesses to refuse service to customers not wearing masks. And he said any government employee who showed up at work without one would be sent home and marked down as absent for the day.

In Tehran, the capital, municipal officials said the police, security forces and public transportation authorities would crack down on people violating the mask rule.

On Sunday, Iran marked its highest number of deaths, 163 people, from the virus in a single day since the pandemic started, according to the health ministry. Eighteen of the country’s 31 provinces are on a state of high alert for Covid-19, with nine declared as red zones, a spokeswoman for the ministry said.

A doctor overseeing pandemic patients at Tehran’s designated hospital for the disease said all the beds there were full.

But it remains to be seen if Iranians will adhere to the new rules.

Iran briefly imposed a lockdown during its annual New Year holiday period in early April and opened the country for business in early May. Since then, the majority of Iranians have resumed ordinary life — and then some.

While large gatherings such as weddings and funerals were still considered prohibited, a lavish Cinderella-themed wedding in the Lavasan hills near Tehran drew the ire of local officials. There were said to be 120 actors and 65 employees of the wedding hall re-enacting the fairy tell.

The health ministry said the groom had been arrested.

 

 

In other news around the world:

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Officials in India canceled a planned reopening of the Taj Mahal this week, dealing a setback to hopes that welcoming visitors back to monuments would boost local tourism until international flights resume. India’s coronavirus infections started to rapidly rise several weeks ago when the government began lifting a nationwide lockdown imposed in March, and some cities have already reinstated tough rules to keep their caseloads down. India has reported about 700,000 confirmed infections and nearly 20,000 deaths as of Monday.

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People crossing into Mexico from Lukeville, Ariz., over the weekend hit a roadblock briefly put up on the main road leading south from the border by residents fearful of the virus, The Associated Press reported. An inspection checkpoint set up near the border crossing will continue to operate to “safeguard the health of our community,” a local mayor, José Ramos Arzate, said in a statement. He noted that Arizona has an “accelerated rate of Covid-19 contagion,” and said people from the United States should be allowed in only for “essential matters.”

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In rewarding Tokyo’s first female governor, Yuriko Koike, with a second term on Sunday, voters appeared to be endorsing her highly visible leadership during the pandemic. The sprawling metropolis has avoided the kind of death toll seen in other big cities. But a recent resurgence in cases in Tokyo has made clear that her challenge is far from over. Even as Ms. Koike, 67, cruised to victory on Sunday, with exit polls by the Japanese news media showing her winning 60 percent of the vote, Tokyo reported 111 new infections, its fourth straight day over 100.

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Croatia’s ruling party came first in a general election on Sunday despite criticism over the country’s recent handling of the pandemic. Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic’s center-right party, the Croatian Democratic Union, had its best showing in more than a decade.

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A military plane carrying Canadian troops to Latvia as part of a NATO mission turned around midflight after the military learned that someone who might have come in contact with the passengers tested had positive for the virus. About 70 passengers and aircrew members were on board the flight Thursday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

 

 

How deadly is the coronavirus? Scientists are searching for a definitive answer.

 

More than six months into the pandemic, the coronavirus has infected more than 11 million people worldwide, killing more than 525,000. But despite the increasing toll, scientists still do not have a clear answer to one of the most fundamental questions about the virus: How deadly is it?

A firm estimate could help governments predict how many deaths would ensue if the virus spread out of control. The figure, usually called the infection fatality rate, could tell health officials what to expect as the pandemic spreads in densely populated nations like Brazil, India and Nigeria.

In poorer countries, the number could help officials decide whether to spend more on oxygen concentrators and ventilators, or on measles shots and mosquito nets.

At present, countries have very different case fatality rates, which measure deaths among patients known to have had Covid-19. In most cases, that number is highest in countries that have had the virus the longest.

According to data gathered by The New York Times, China had reported 90,294 cases as of Friday and 4,634 deaths, a case fatality rate of 5 percent. The United States, which has had a record number of new daily cases six times in the past two weeks, has had 2,811,447 cases and 129,403 deaths, about 4.6 percent.

Ten sizable countries, most in Western Europe, have tested bigger percentages of their populations than the United States has. Their case fatality rates vary wildly: Iceland’s is less than 1 percent, New Zealand’s and Israel’s are below 2 percent. Belgium, by comparison, is at 16 percent, and Italy and Britain are at 14 percent.

Before last week, the World Health Organization had no official estimate for the infection fatality rate. Instead, it had relied on a mix of data sent in by member countries and academic groups, and on a meta-analysis done in May by scientists at the University of Wollongong and James Cook University in Australia.

Those researchers looked at 267 studies in more than a dozen countries and then chose the 25 they considered the most accurate, weighting them for accuracy, and averaged the data. They concluded that the global infection fatality rate was 0.64 percent.

That percentage of the world’s population equals 47 million people, including two million Americans.

 

 

In Australia, thousands are told they can’t leave their homes, effective immediately.

 

Police officers enforcing a lockdown at public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday.Credit...David Crosling/EPA, via Shutterstock

The Australian state of Victoria has locked down nine public housing towers in Melbourne, its capital, telling about 3,000 residents that they must not leave their homes for any reason for at least five days.

The strict quarantine — which is the first of its kind in Australia during the pandemic and is being monitored by hundreds of police officers — started immediately on Saturday afternoon after 23 coronavirus infections were found in 12 of the towers’ households. Public health officials said everyone in the towers would be tested over the next few days.

“There is a lot of intermingling of the people between those towers for work, for family, for community events,” said Dr. Paul Kelly, Australia’s acting chief medical officer.

He called the towers “vertical cruise ships” with the potential to cause a major surge in cases at a time when Australia’s infections are already rising because of an outbreak across several Melbourne suburbs.

Some residents of the towers objected to being quarantined without notice. Abdi Ibrahim, who lives there with his five children, including 7-month-old twins, told The Australian that the lockdown had been imposed so quickly that it gave him no time to buy groceries for his family. He also had to cancel his Sunday shift at a logistics company.

“If I don’t work, I don’t get paid,” he said, adding: “We are so isolated — you know what I mean, it’s like a prison.”

Officials said they would provide tower residents with food, cash compensation and rent relief.

As the towers were being locked down, officials also added two more Melbourne postal codes to the 10 others already under stay-at-home orders, affecting a total of more than 300,000 people. Unlike residents of the towers, people in these areas are allowed to leave their homes for work or education, exercise, medical care, caregiving or shopping for essential supplies.

Australia’s total case count remains relatively small, but public health officials have become increasingly alarmed by the outbreak in Melbourne. About 200 new cases emerged in and around the city over the past two days, a growth rate not seen since March.

 

 

A large-scale study in Britain will look at lasting effects on those who survive Covid-19.

 

Monique Gretry, 72, during a physical rehabilitation workout in the recovery ward for Covid-19 patients at the MontLegia CHC hospital in Liege, Belgium.Credit...Francisco Seco/Associated Press

Some survivors of Covid-19 have a long road to recovery even after discharged from the hospital, and the illness can leave long-lasting effects that are just beginning to be recognized and understood. It is still too early to know the trajectory for these patients, but scientists are beginning research that could predict those effects, and have an impact on how doctors treat the illness.

In Britain, the National Institute for Health Research, the University of Leicester and university hospitals in the city of Leicester have started a study of about 10,000 patients, which the university says makes it the largest of its kind in the world.

“As we continue our fight against this global pandemic, we are learning more and more about the impact the disease can have not only on immediate health, but longer-term physical and mental health too,” Matt Hancock, the health secretary said, in a statement on Sunday.

Chris Brightling, a professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Leicester and chief investigator for the study, said that “it is vitally important that we rapidly gather evidence on the longer-term consequences of contracting severe Covid-19 so we can develop and test new treatment strategies for them and other people affected by future waves of the disease.”

Mr. Hancock told the BBC on Sunday that long-term effects are a “really serious problem for a minority of people who’ve had Covid, thankfully not me,” describing them as a “post-viral fatigue syndrome.”

 

 

Free outdoor movies, an Italian tradition, may be few and far between this summer.

 

Social-distancing markings at an outdoor movie showing in Rome last week.Credit...Riccardo Antimiani/EPA, via Shutterstock

Since the dawn of cinema, Italy’s torrid summers have made outdoor movie showings under the stars a favorite entertainment choice of the season.

But this year, several nonprofit cultural and social organizations have struggled to get their summer film festivals going after film distributors refused to rent them many requested titles, from the Harry Potter series to “BlacKkKlansman” to “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

The reason? These nonprofit organizations screen films for free, even as Italy’s fabled film industry is reeling with many theaters closed because of the virus.

“The distributors told us that if we show them for free, they can’t give us films,” said Luca Sansone of the Laboratorio di Quartiere Giambellino Lorenteggio. The shows free films in a Milanese low-income neighborhood “where people don’t go to the movies because it costs too much,” he said.

Those in the business say that the pandemic dealt such a blow that it put the survival of Italy’s film industry at risk, and that giving unfettered free access to films would only make matters worse.

“We lost more than 30 million tickets and more than 200 million euros in takings, just in box office receipts,” said Mario Lorini, president of an association of cinema owners.

Cinemas were given the green light to reopen on June 15, but only 540 have done so. New safety and social distancing guidelines limit such indoor spaces to 200 people, and many cinema owners say they cannot break even under such rules.

 

 

In a town divided, one side can drink while the other remains dry.

 

The Cross Keys, which is on the English side of Llanymynech, served its first customers since March on Saturday.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times

How much more cautious is Wales than England when it comes to lockdown? Try buying a drink in Llanymynech, which straddles the English-Welsh border.

For a small village, there is an impressive selection of pubs, three in all, but choose wisely if you want a pint: Only two of them — those on the English side of the border — can serve customers.

“It is ridiculous,” John Turner, owner of the still-shuttered Dolhin Inn, said over a beer at a rival pub across the boundary line, “but there’s got to be a border at some point. It just so happens we are on it.”

England allowed restaurants, cafes and bars to reopen on Saturday after more than 100 days of lockdown. That was good news for fully two-thirds of the pubs in Llanymynech.

But the Welsh government has delayed pub openings until July 13 — and even then is allowing drinking only in gardens or other outdoor spaces.

The rules are different because the Welsh government in Cardiff has power over issues like health, education and public administration. And like Scotland, Wales has generally taken a more cautious approach to virus controls than England has, keeping travel restrictions in place, for example, and waiting longer to open nonessential shops.

Wales plans to reopen the hospitality trade more slowly, partly in light of criticism from some scientists that England is taking an unnecessary risk by opening pubs, restaurants and many other businesses at the same time — and on a Saturday, when people tend to drink more.

 

 

‘Farming never stops’: Migrant workers in the U.S. fear the virus but toil on.

 

An estimated 22,000 seasonal workers tend and harvest crops in New Jersey, nicknamed the Garden State for its robust agriculture industry. Many of these laborers follow the ripening crops up the Eastern Seaboard, starting in Florida, where migrant living quarters have been ravaged by the coronavirus, and working their way north to Maine.

Making life even more perilous, they have been deemed essential workers — exempt from stay-at-home orders and a 14-day quarantine rule in New Jersey for people coming from states where the virus is spreading quickly. Each influx of workers brings the risk of a fresh outbreak.

Barring rain, they work seven days a week.

In New Jersey, 3,900 farmworkers had been tested as of Thursday and 193 were positive for the virus, according to the state’s Department of Health. Of these, 14 who had nowhere to remain isolated were placed into quarantine at a state-run field hospital at the Atlantic City Convention Center.

“It’s a little dangerous,” said Felix Nieves, 56, a supervisor at Atlantic Blueberry Company in Hammonton. The 1,300-acre farm is considered the biggest blueberry producer in the Northeast.

The first round of testing at Atlantic Blueberry was done early in the season, before most workers arrived. Three of the first 56 people tested were found to have the virus.

Atlantic Blueberry purchased 3,000 bandannas and gave each worker two — one to wear, one to wash — and hung fire-retardant cloth between beds in the dormitories where hundreds of laborers live during the season. The farm also bought additional buses to create extra space on the shuttles that run to and from the fields.

“Farming never stops,” Mr. Nieves said. “The fruit will not wait for this to pass.”

 

 

The global economy has slowed, but green energy powers on.

 

Two hours by boat from the seaside town of Lowestoft on the east coast of England, over 100 giant windmills loom more than 500 feet above the sea. High atop the new towers, technicians in red-and-black protective suits have been working to hook them up to the British power system.

Britain has been under various stages of lockdown since March. But work on this wind farm, called East Anglia One, has charged ahead. Contractors rented holiday cabins and reached agreements with hotels near Lowestoft, the operations base, so that they could house some of the offshore workers there and keep them isolated. Workers were taken out by boats to the wind farm for 12-hour day and night shifts.

Producers of clean energy are pushing hard to get their projects up and running; they want to make money on their investments as soon as possible. And while the virus has reduced demand for electricity overall — the oil and gas industry in particular has been rocked by plummeting prices — renewable power tends to win out over polluting energy sources because of low costs and favorable regulatory rules.

The green energy industry suffered major setbacks during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. But analysts say that businesses have consolidated since then, and the industry has continued to bring down costs. The turbines at East Anglia One are 15 times as powerful as those installed in the first offshore wind farms almost 30 years ago, and so they produce much more revenue per unit.

“The outlook for renewables looks really quite resilient, despite all the Covid restrictions,” said Sam Arie, a utilities analyst at UBS, an investment bank. “We have seen a few companies with minor interruptions,” he added. “But relative to other sectors the impacts here have been very limited.”

 

Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-national&variant=show&region=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu

 

 

 

California reports more than 11,700 new cases, the biggest one-day jump in the US so far

 

A waiter wearing protective gear serves food to customers on the patio at Pann's restaurant and coffee shop on July 4, in Los Angeles. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

California recorded 11,786 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday -- the highest one-day jump in cases seen anywhere in the US so far, according to data by Johns Hopkins University.

California, New York, and Florida are now the only three states to have recorded daily case totals above 10,000.

California also reported 39 new deaths on Sunday, according to JHU.

The new figures raise the state's total to 264,681 confirmed cases and 6,373 related deaths, according to JHU.

 

 

The Taj Mahal will stay shut while monuments across India reopen

From CNN's Esha Mitra.

 

 

A low number of tourists are seen at Taj Mahal in Agra on March 16. Pawan Sharma/AFP/Getty Images

India's iconic Taj Mahal will remain closed, even as other monuments reopen around the country, due to the high risk of coronavirus, announced the Agra city district magistrate on Sunday.

All centrally protected monuments are reopening today, with new rules to prioritize "sanitation, social distancing & other health protocols," according to the Ministry of Tourism.

While the Taj Mahal is among India's centrally-protected monuments, the district magistrate's order said that the monument would stay closed because it's located in a "buffer zone" -- an area between two containment zones where restrictions are in place to limit the spread of coronavirus.

Several other monuments in Agra, such as the Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri, will also remain closed, according to the order. 

There are 3,691 centrally protected monuments nationwide, according to the Ministry of Culture. They have largely been shut since March 17.

Of these, about 820 monuments considered places of worship were allowed to reopen in early June. The rest finally reopen today, with new protocols like e-ticketing and a daily cap on visitor numbers.

 

 

India now has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world

From CNN's Manveena Suri in New Delhi and Maija Ehlinger in Atlanta

 

A vendor selling toys waits for customers in a market area in New Delhi on July 5. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

On Monday, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced 24,248 new coronavirus cases recorded in the past 24 hours, raising the national total to 697,413 cases.

With the new figures, India surged past Russia's 680,000 total cases to become the third worst-hit nation globally.

Only the US, with 2.8 million cases and Brazil, with 1.6 million, have more confirmed cases, according to data by John Hopkins University.

This comes as the southern state of Kerala implements a strict week-long lockdown in the capital Thiruvananthapuram.

The lockdown began Monday morning and all non-essential businesses and public transportation are shut down, according to a notification issued by district authorities.

 

Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-06-20-intl/index.html

 

 

 

Security agencies in Egypt have tried to stifle criticism about the handling of the coronavirus health crisis by the government of Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the Associated Press reports.

 

At least 10 doctors and six journalists have been arrested since the virus first hit Egypt in February, according to rights groups. Other health workers say they have been warned by administrators to keep quiet or face punishment. One foreign correspondent has fled the country, fearing arrest, and another two have been summoned for reprimand over “professional violations”.

Coronavirus infections have surged in the country of 100 million, threatening to overwhelm hospitals. As of Monday, the health ministry had recorded 75,253 infections, including 3,343 deaths – the highest death toll in the Arab world.

 A mural on a street in Cairo. Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA

“Every day I go to work, I sacrifice myself and my whole family,” said a frontline doctor in greater Cairo, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, like all doctors interviewed for this story. “Then they arrest my colleagues to send us a message. I see no light on the horizon.”

A government press officer did not respond to requests for comment on the arrests of doctors and journalists but did send the Associated Press a document entitled “Realities defeating evil falsehoods,” which details what it says are el-Sissi’s successes in improving the economy and fighting terrorism.

El-Sissi has said the virus’s trajectory was “reassuring” and described critics as “enemies of the state”. The Worldometers website, which collects official coronavirus statistics from countries around the world, shows a downward curve in new daily infections in Egypt since the end of June, with 1,218 recorded on Sunday, as well as 68 deaths.

In recent weeks, authorities have marshalled medical supplies to prepare for more patients. The military has set up field hospitals and isolation centres with 4,000 beds and delivered masks to citizens, free of charge, at metro stops, squares and other public places.

 

 

Summary

Here are the key developments from the last few hours:

· Global cases near 11.5m. There are 11,419,638 confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, as the number of infections continue to rise by around 1m per week. There are 15 countries with more than 200,000 known cases each.

· The Australian state of Victoria recorded its largest jump in cases at any point in the coronavirus crisis, with 127 cases reported on Monday, as the premier announced the border with neighbouring New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, would be closed from midnight on Tuesday. The decision marks the first time the border between the two states will be closed in 100 years.

· India registered a record daily number of coronavirus cases on Sunday and opened a sprawling treatment centre in the capital to fight the pandemic. The health ministry reported just under 25,000 cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours – the biggest daily spike since the first case was detected in late January.

· Iran suffers record one-day deaths. The latest figures published by the Iranian health ministry on Sunday showed a record 163 had died in the past 24 hours, higher than any daily figure in the country over the course of the pandemic so far.

· Peru on Sunday jumped past 300,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, the fifth-highest in the world, as the Andean nation of nearly 33 million people slowly reopens its battered economy. Peru’s death toll from the virus now stands at 10,589, the 10th-highest in the world.

· The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday reported 52,228 new coronavirus cases, and said the number of deaths had risen by 271 to 129,576.

· Mexican health authorities reported 4,683 confirmed new infections of the novel coronavirus on Sunday, pushing its tally to a total of 256,848, and 273 more deaths to a total of 30,639. Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez Gatell has repeatedly said that the actual number of both infections and associated death is probably significantly higher.

· Tokyo governor, Yuriko Koike, has won a second term to head the Japanese capital, propelled to an election victory by public support for her handling of the coronavirus crisis despite a recent rise in infections that has raised concerns of a resurgence of the disease.

· Saudi Arabia announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 hajj season, banning gatherings and meetings between pilgrims, the state news agency said on Monday.

· British prime minister Boris Johnson will inject £1.57bn into Britain’s beleaguered arts and heritage sectors in a long-awaited coronavirus rescue package described by the government as the biggest one-off investment in UK culture.

· Asia shares climb as China blue chips hit 5-year peak. Asian shares scaled four-month peaks on Monday as investors counted on super-cheap liquidity and fiscal stimulus to sustain the global economic recovery, even as surging coronavirus cases delayed re-openings across the United States.

· It is not clear whether it will be safe to hold the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville next month, a top health official from US president Donald Trump’s administration said, as Florida sees record numbers of coronavirus cases.

· Greece has announced it will prohibit Serbian tourists from entering the country as of 6am tomorrow. The ban, due to last until at least 15 July, follows a surge in incidence of coronavirus in the Balkan state.

· Kazakhstan on Sunday imposed a second round of nationwide restrictions that are to last at least two weeks, in a bid to counter a huge surge in coronavirus cases since the previous lockdown, which has overwhelmed the country’s healthcare system.

· Brazil has recorded 26,051 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours as well as 602 deaths, pushing cumulative deaths to a total of 64,867.

· India has withdrawn a planned reopening of the Taj Mahal, citing the risk of new coronavirus infections spreading in the northern city of Agra from visitors, as the country’s infections are rising at the fastest pace in three months.

· Dozens of military medics were deployed on Sunday to help combat the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, the country’s third most affected region, amid a surge in infections.

 

Source：https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/06/coronavirus-live-news-india-sees-record-new-cases-as-texas-warns-of-overwhelmed-hospitals?page=with:block-5f02ad3a8f0832109a719b53#liveblog-navigation