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World |
13,028,182 |
+194,677 |
571,080 |
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1 |
3,413,995 |
+58,349 |
137,782 |
|
|
2 |
1,866,176 |
+25,364 |
72,151 |
|
|
3 |
879,466 |
+29,108 |
23,187 |
|
|
4 |
727,162 |
+6,615 |
11,335 |
|
|
5 |
326,326 |
+3,616 |
11,870 |
|
|
6 |
315,041 |
+3,012 |
6,979 |
|
|
7 |
300,988 |
28,403 |
||
|
8 |
295,268 |
+6,094 |
34,730 |
|
|
9 |
289,603 |
+650 |
44,819 |
|
|
10 |
276,242 |
+12,058 |
4,079 |
|
|
11 |
257,303 |
+2,186 |
12,829 |
|
|
12 |
248,872 |
+2,521 |
5,197 |
|
|
13 |
243,061 |
+234 |
34,954 |
|
|
14 |
232,259 |
+2,779 |
2,223 |
|
|
15 |
212,993 |
+1,012 |
5,363 |
|
|
16 |
199,950 |
+138 |
9,134 |
|
|
17 |
183,795 |
+2,666 |
2,352 |
|
|
18 |
170,752 |
30,004 |
||
|
19 |
150,445 |
+5,083 |
5,307 |
|
|
20 |
107,590 |
+243 |
8,783 |
|
|
21 |
103,598 |
+470 |
147 |
|
|
22 |
100,166 |
+2,657 |
1,845 |
|
|
23 |
83,594 |
+7 |
4,634 |
|
|
24 |
82,070 |
+912 |
3,858 |
|
|
25 |
77,506 |
+2,312 |
3,150 |
|
|
26 |
75,699 |
+1,681 |
3,606 |
|
|
27 |
74,898 |
5,526 |
||
|
28 |
67,870 |
+661 |
5,047 |
|
|
29 |
64,932 |
+165 |
464 |
|
|
30 |
62,606 |
+137 |
9,782 |
|
|
31 |
58,253 |
+1,798 |
375 |
|
|
32 |
56,015 |
+1,318 |
257 |
|
|
33 |
54,894 |
+836 |
390 |
|
|
34 |
54,854 |
+401 |
333 |
|
|
35 |
54,222 |
1,372 |
||
|
36 |
53,521 |
+678 |
1,383 |
|
|
37 |
51,022 |
+101 |
6,137 |
|
|
38 |
47,200 |
+1,635 |
1,754 |
|
|
39 |
46,512 |
+291 |
1,660 |
|
|
40 |
45,961 |
+178 |
26 |
|
|
41 |
45,633 |
+1,301 |
909 |
|
|
42 |
44,532 |
+1,418 |
897 |
|
|
43 |
38,670 |
+1,206 |
362 |
|
|
44 |
37,891 |
+370 |
1,571 |
|
|
45 |
34,451 |
+85 |
1,010 |
|
|
46 |
32,941 |
+471 |
108 |
|
|
47 |
32,883 |
+66 |
1,968 |
|
|
48 |
32,558 |
+571 |
740 |
|
|
49 |
32,535 |
+456 |
1,884 |
|
|
50 |
31,969 |
+577 |
565 |
|
|
51 |
29,355 |
+757 |
1,219 |
|
|
52 |
27,583 |
+530 |
771 |
|
|
53 |
25,628 |
+17 |
1,746 |
|
|
54 |
24,518 |
+270 |
139 |
|
|
55 |
24,041 |
+520 |
306 |
|
|
56 |
21,502 |
+373 |
982 |
|
|
57 |
19,382 |
+174 |
642 |
|
|
58 |
19,195 |
+483 |
1,011 |
|
|
59 |
18,897 |
+114 |
708 |
|
|
60 |
18,360 |
+287 |
393 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci at a hearing on Capitol Hill.Credit...Pool photo by Al Drago
President Trump’s advisers undercut the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, over the weekend, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about statements he had made early in the outbreak that they said were inaccurate.
The move to treat Dr. Fauci as if he were a warring political rival comes as he has grown increasingly vocal in his concerns about the national surge in coronavirus cases. He has also noted his lack of access to Mr. Trump.
Aides to Mr. Trump released to The Washington Post and later other news outlets a list of remarks Dr. Fauci made about the virus when it was in its early stages. It featured several comments White House aides had privately complained about for months.
An official told The Post that several other officials were concerned about how often Dr. Fauci had been wrong.
For example, White House officials pointed to a statement by he made in a Feb. 29 interview that “at this moment, there is no need to change anything that you’re doing on a day-by-day basis.”
But they omitted a warning Dr. Fauci delivered right after.
“Right now the risk is still low, but this could change,” he said in the interview, conducted by NBC News. “When you start to see community spread, this could change and force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread.”
Dr. Fauci works for the Trump administration, but the list of his statements was laid out in the style of a campaign’s opposition research document. Its release to news organizations by the White House was extraordinary.
A poll conducted for The New York Times by Siena College last month showed that 67 percent of Americans trusted Dr. Fauci when it came to the virus; only 26 percent trusted the president.
In an interview on a podcast with FiveThirtyEight.com last week, Dr. Fauci said that a few states had the virus under control but that “as a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say we’re doing great. I mean, we’re just not.”
Last week, Mr. Trump told Fox News that Dr. Fauci had been wrong about many aspects of the pandemic. Dr. Fauci “is a nice man, but he’s made a lot of mistakes,” the president said.
A medical worker moving a patient at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on Sunday. Florida has recorded more than 269,800 cases, with more than 4,200 total deaths, according to a New York Times database.Credit...Saul Martinez for The New York Times
More than 15,000 new cases of the coronavirus were announced on Sunday in Florida, marking the highest single-day total of known cases in any state since the start of the pandemic.
Florida’s surge soared past the previous record, set in New York, of more than 12,000 cases in a day. That occurred in April, during the worst of the outbreak there, when testing was scarce. And Florida is reporting far fewer deaths than New York.
Florida also saw single-day records in the counties that include Florida’s largest cities, including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Fort Myers, West Palm Beach, Pensacola and Sarasota.
The U.S. outbreak is growing across 37 states. More than 60,000 new coronavirus cases were announced on Saturday, more than any day of the pandemic except Friday, when the country recorded more than 68,000 — setting a single-day record for the seventh time in 11 days.
On Sunday, the World Health Organization reported more than 230,000 new cases, a global record for daily infections, topping a previous record of more than 228,000 new cases it reported on Friday.
The country’s seven-day death average reached 700 on Saturday, up from 471 on July 5, but still well below the more than 2,200 deaths the country averaged each day in mid-April. And eight states set single-day death records over the last week: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Tennessee. Alaska reached a new single-day record. on Sunday, with more than 110 cases.
Florida has recorded more than 269,800 cases, with more than 4,200 total deaths, according to a New York Times database.
The increase has added strain on hospitals. In Miami-Dade County, Fla., six hospitals have reached capacity as virus cases spike. The increase in cases caused Mayor Carlos Gimenez to roll back reopening plans by imposing a curfew and closing restaurants for indoor dining.
“We’ve definitely had a sharp increase in the number of people going to the hospital, the number of people in the I.C.U., and the number of people on ventilators,” he said. “We still have capacity, but it does cause me a lot of concern.”
Public health experts said that the state has had widespread community transmission, which has intensified after stay-at-home orders were lifted and businesses reopened.
“Bottom line is, more people are mobile and they’re not necessarily taking the precautions we think would help,” said Dr. Marissa Levine, a professor at the University of South Florida College of Public Health.
The surge in cases had been fueled in large part by younger people, a segment of the population that became the most mobile in recent weeks, which is a factor in the lower death count compared to other places because the virus is likely to have a less severe toll, Dr. Levine said. But they have contributed to the virus spreading more widely.”
“It’s not hard for younger people coming home to parents or grandparents or working with older co-workers to spread,” Professor Levine said, “and I think that’s what we’re seeing.
The execution of a man convicted in the killing a family of can take place Monday, a federal court ruled on Sunday, even though the victims’ relatives protested that the pandemic would prevent them from attending.
A federal appeals court in Chicago ruled that the Justice Department can go forward with the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, who was sentenced to death decades ago for his part in the 1996 killings.
A federal judge suspended it late Friday, but the decision on Sunday by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit put it back on track.
As it happens, some family members of Mr. Lee’s victims, have long opposed his execution, but they had still planned to attend as witnesses. In the lawsuit filed last week, they argued that their health conditions made traveling hundreds of miles to be there especially dangerous, given the risks associated with the coronavirus.
One of the family members, Earlene Branch Peterson, 81, whose daughter and granddaughter were killed, has congestive heart failure, among other conditions; Monica Veillette, 43, a niece and cousin to the victims, is asthmatic; and Ms. Veillette’s mother, 61, has other health conditions that predispose her to the virus, they said in their suit.
They argued that traveling hundreds of miles from their homes in Arkansas and Washington State and entering the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., where the execution is to be carried out, would make it dangerous for them to attend.
“I can’t understand why in the face of a roaring national pandemic the government would seek to put the people who have the right to be there” in harm’s way, said Baker Kurrus, the family’s lawyer.
A liquor store in Johannesburg after alcohol sales were allowed to resume. They are now banned again. Credit...Michele Spatari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
As South Africa’s Covid-19 infections start to spike, the country’s president has announced the reinstatement of a ban on the sale and distribution of alcohol.
“As we head toward the peak of infections, it is vital that we do not burden our clinics and hospitals with alcohol-related injuries that could’ve been avoided,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a televised address from Pretoria.
South Africa has seen a surge in cases as the country enters its coldest month, with more than 264,000 known cases, and nearly 4,000 deaths, according to a New York Times database.
“There is now clear evidence that the resumption of alcohol sales has resulted in substantial pressure being put on hospitals, including trauma and I.C.U. units due to motor vehicle accidents, violence as well as related trauma that are alcohol induced,” Mr. Ramaphosa said.
The government is also reintroducing an overnight curfew, from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m.
When South African officials imposed a lockdown on March 27, closing schools, beaches and parks, they also banned the sale of alcohol and cigarettes.
Emergency room visits dropped by 65 percent, according to an initial study by the South African Medical Research Council. At South Africa’s largest public hospital, the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, emergency room cases dropped to less than a hundred a week in April from 279 a week in March.
The alcohol restrictions, health officials told local media, were not the only explanation, but they almost certainly played a part.
When the sale of alcohol resumed on June 1, the country’s police minister blamed the sale of alcohol for a spike in killings just days later.
The Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and his son, Abhishek, in Mumbai in 2018.Credit...Divyakant Solanki/EPA, via Shutterstock
On a day when India reported more than 28,000 new infections, one case in particular caught the whole country’s attention: that of Amitabh Bachchan, a Bollywood star and one of India’s most revered figures.
Mr. Bachchan, known as Big B, announced on Saturday to his 43 million followers on Twitter that he had tested positive and urged his recent contacts to get tested themselves. His son, Abhishek, and daughter-in-law, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, both actors, have also become infected.
India is now racking up more new reported infections each day than any other country except the United States and Brazil. It also has the third-highest total number of infections after those same two countries, with about 850,000 confirmed cases and more than 22,000 deaths. Hospitals in India are overflowing to the point that pregnant women have died in labor after being turned away.
The surge has led officials around India to reimpose restrictions after attempting to loosen things up to stimulate a critically wounded economy. The borders between states are being rigorously patrolled, and international travel is still closed. But the density of India’s population makes it difficult to practice social distancing in cities like Mumbai, home to Mr. Bachchan.
It’s hard to overstate how famous Big B is, having appeared in more than 200 films over the past 50 years.
“He’s like god,” said Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, a filmmaker who has worked with him. “I’ve never seen a star having such power, such credibility. He’s the biggest superstar this country has ever, ever seen.”
Mr. Bachchan’s illness may create more fear across India. But Mr. Dungarpur predicted that many Indians would find his struggle inspiring and say to themselves: “If Amitabh Bachchan can fight this, so can we.”
· Australian citizens and residents returning from overseas to New South Wales, which includes the city of Sydney, will be charged for their mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine starting July 18, the state premier said on Sunday. Mandatory hotel quarantines at a similar cost are already in effect in Queensland and the Northern Territory, and other parts of the country are likely to begin charging travelers as well amid a new outbreak in Melbourne, Australia’s second-biggest city. The border has been closed to nonresidents since March.
· Xu Zhangrun, a law professor in Beijing who has criticized the Chinese government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, was released from detention on Sunday, a week after the police took him away.
· In Hong Kong, a Department of Health spokeswoman said that the latest outbreak in the semiautonomous Chinese territory was worse than a peak in March because of a growing number of cases with unknown origins and clusters linked to housing estates, homes for older people and restaurants. Hong Kong recorded 38 new infections and 20 preliminary positive cases on Sunday. The authorities on Monday canceled the city’s annual book fair, which was scheduled for Wednesday and typically draws large crowds.
· With infections skyrocketing on the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority has ordered a new two-week lockdown, banning travel between different provinces and imposing an 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. curfew. Weddings and funeral gatherings have been forbidden. Active virus cases on the West Bank have soared from 72 on July 2 to more than 5,100 on Sunday.
· Voters in Poland are deciding a runoff between the presidential incumbent, Andrzej Duda, and his challenger, Warsaw’s mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski. Nationalism and populism have been more focal in their race than the coronavirus — the country has recorded more than 37,800 infections and more than 1,500 deaths — but precautions taken at polling stations, including social-distancing requirements, were a reminder of the lingering threat.
· Spain is holding its first elections since it was hit by the pandemic, with voting on Sunday in two northern regions, Galicia and the Basque Country. Both votes were initially set for April, but were rescheduled when the country went into lockdown in March. A prime concern is that turnout could fall to record lows as voters fear getting infected while lining up at polling stations. And regional authorities in Catalan have tightened a health lockdown and confined over 140,000 people to only leaving their homes for work and other essential activities, a week after they had already limited travel to and from the county of El Segria, the A.P. reported.
A classroom at West Side Elementary School in Marietta, Ga. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increasingly become the face of the administration’s efforts to amplify calls for schools to fully reopen.Credit...Audra Melton for The New York Times
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pushed ahead Sunday with the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on schools to resume in-person classes this fall, using a television show tour to downplay both the resurgence of the virus and guidelines issued by the administration’s own health officials.
“I think the go-to needs to be kids in school, in-person, in the classroom because we know for most kids, that’s the best environment for them,” Ms. DeVos said on CNN’s “State of the Union.
Ms. DeVos has increasingly become the face of the administration’s efforts to amplify calls for schools to fully reopen after President Trump railed last week against guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and threatened to cut off federal funding to schools that did not reopen their campuses.
On both CNN and “Fox News Sunday,” Ms. DeVos reiterated the administration’s stance that the C.D.C. guidelines, which call in-person classes the “highest risk” scenario and recommend a range of safety precautions to keep children and teachers safe, were not mandatory.
That drew a rejoinder from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who appeared on “State of the Union” after Ms. DeVos and said the C.D.C. guidelines “should be requirements.” “Going back to school presents the biggest risk for the spread of the coronavirus,” Ms. Pelosi said. “They ignore science and they ignore governance in order to make this happen.”
When asked about Mr. Trump’s threats to federal funding, Ms. DeVos gave conflicting answers. She said on Fox that if schools did not reopen, “they shouldn’t get the funds,” while saying on CNN that “there’s no desire to take money away — in fact, we want to see schools open and have been committed to ensuring the resources are there to do that.”
Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Miami-Dade County public schools, the fourth-largest public school system in the country, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that federal aid under the stimulus bill enacted in the spring might not be enough to cover the added costs of resuming in-school instruction safely this fall, including providing personal protective equipment like masks and gloves.
“I think for the purchase of P.P.E. and additional disinfection cycles, electrostatic disinfection of schools, alteration of schedules — we may need more bus routes to achieve greater social distancing between the riders — more than likely we will need additional resources earmarked specifically for local governments and school systems,” Mr. Carvalho said.
“We need the community’s collaboration” to get the virus outbreak under control, he said, adding, “We need the science to drive the practice, rather than politics influencing what is legitimately a community concern.”
Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican who has been critical of the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, said on “Meet the Press” that he would not be “rushed” into sending children back to school in the fall, despite the threats on federal funding.
A polling place at a high school in Paramus, N.J., last week.Credit...Erica Lee for The New York Times
Health care is shaping up as a driving force in deciding elections in November, its salience amplified by the pandemic and accompanying job losses that have left millions of Americans anxious about their own health and ability to pay medical bills.
The contrast between Republicans and Democrats could not be starker than it has been in recent weeks, as the Trump administration pushed forward with its lawsuit calling on the Supreme Court to jettison the Affordable Care Act once and for all, and House Democrats countered by passing a bill to expand it.
The fight is being waged at the presidential level, in all of the competitive Senate races and in House contests across the country. Democrats intend to press what they see as their advantage over Republicans, who for years have called for dismantling the health care law while failing to offer an alternative plan.
Democrats are eager to replay their 2018 strategy, when they won control of the House by emphasizing that Republicans were threatening to strip away protections for pre-existing health conditions.
“It’s 2018 again, but on steroids,” said Leslie Dach, the chairman of the liberal advocacy group Protect Our Care.
The battle is also likely to figure prominently in the coming negotiations over the next coronavirus recovery package in Congress, which Republicans are planning to use as a vehicle to try to redeem themselves with voters on health care by offering provisions aimed at meeting medical needs stemming from the pandemic.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan spoke with reporters in Midland after severe flooding in May.Credit...Rebecca Cook/Reuters
Beyond being the women who lead Michigan’s state government, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson have a lot in common.
All three are accomplished Democratic lawyers and Gen-Xers who were elected as part of a wave that has flipped much of Michigan’s leadership from red to blue. And they’ve all tussled with President Trump.
Trailing Joseph R. Biden Jr. in polls of voters in Michigan, a key battleground state, Mr. Trump has taken aim at Ms. Whitmer and her colleagues over their mission to expand voting rights. He has taken to calling Governor Whitmer — who is seen as a potential running mate for Mr. Biden — “that woman from Michigan.”
The three women have responded forcefully to Mr. Trump, zeroing in on his virus response. Ms. Whitmer said on Tuesday that it was “incumbent on every one of us to mask up, from the White House to the State House,” and added, “The fact that we’re behind the rest of the world is a disgrace.”
Ms. Nessel has joined or filed dozens of lawsuits to reverse Trump administration policies, including one lawsuit filed against the secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, over a new rule reallocating some virus relief money to private schools. Ms. DeVos is a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party.
Ms. Nessel also called Mr. Trump “a petulant child” after he declined to wear a mask while touring a Ford Motor Company plant in Ypsilanti in May. “I swear, some days I wake up and think Montgomery Burns is president,” she said, referring to the greedy boss in “The Simpsons.” Mr. Trump accused Ms. Nessel of scaring businesses away from Michigan with her language.
From CNN's Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn
Before the pandemic put a stop to most international travel, each year millions of people flocked to Southeast Asia's white sandy beaches, ancient temples and diverse wildlife.
Last year, 133 million tourists visited the region, spurred by an increase in arrivals from China, which is now the world's largest market for outbound travel.
In some places the crowds became so intense it caused locals, environmentalists and even governments to complain that overtourism was pushing the region's fragile ecosystems to breaking point.
Coral die-offs, vanishing marine life, damaged cultural sites and idyllic islands overflowing with plastic and human waste were all blamed on too many tourists -- and the unchecked development set up to attract and accommodate them.
Then the global coronavirus pandemic struck. Countries went into lockdown. International travel dramatically reduced. And the tourists were largely gone.
For countries like Cambodia, where tourism contributes an estimated 30% of GDP, the effect has been devastating. Asia-Pacific is estimated to lose $34.6 billion due to the pandemic, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) said.
As travel restrictions lift, countries that rely heavily on tourism will be competing for visitors as they seek to rebuild their economies. The temptation to attract as many tourists as possible could be difficult to resist.
But experts say the global pause on tourism has offered countries an unprecedented opportunity to examine how to rebuild their tourism industries in a way that benefits their economies and also protects the planet.
From CNN’s Junko Ogura in Tokyo
A ticket-clerk checks his phone at Yose theater Shinjuku-Suehirotei on July 10, in Tokyo. Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images
Japan recorded 411 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the country's health ministry said today.
In the capital Tokyo, 206 infections were reported on Sunday, the fourth straight day that cases have topped 200.
The western city of Osaka also reported an uptick in infections, with 32 cases.
This figure does not include the 62 cases detected on US military bases in Okinawa between July 7 to 12, which are all US personnel and their families, according to the Okinawa prefecture local government.
The total number of people infected by the virus in the country stands at 22,580, with 995 deaths.
From CNN's Swati Gupta in New Delhi
A civic authority worker sprays sanitizer on the main door of the residence of Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan as he tested positive for COVID-19 in Mumbai on July 12. Sujit Jaiswal/AFP/Getty Images
India has recorded its highest 24-hour jump in Covid-19 cases yet, with 28,701 infections announced on Monday morning by India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The latest jump brings the total positive cases in the country to 878,254 -- the third highest in the world, after the United States and Brazil, the health ministry said.
In total India currently has 301,609 active cases; more than 550,000 people have recovered since testing positive.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 11.8 million tests have been conducted across the country.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-13-20-intl/index.html
Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike said on Monday the Olympic Games must go ahead next year as a symbol of world unity in overcoming coronavirus.
Japan has not seen an explosive outbreak as suffered in some other places but a recent increase in cases in Tokyo, which accounts for more than a third of its more than 20,000 total, has fanned worries about a second wave of infections.
The 2020 Olympics were scheduled to start this month but were postponed.
Koike has pledged to win public support for the Games, although a media survey showed a majority think they should be cancelled or postponed again.
A Japanese houseboat sails past the Olympic rings in Tokyo on Friday. Photograph: Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images
“I want to host them as a symbol of the world coming together to overcome this tough situation and of strengthened bonds among humankind,” Koike told Reuters in an online interview.
She declined to specify a deadline for deciding if the Games could go ahead.
· The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 230,370 in 24 hours. The biggest increases were recorded in the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa.
· The Australian state of New South Wales has recorded 14 new cases of coronavirus in the 24-hours to 8pm last night. Eight of the new cases are connected to a cluster at a clyster at a restaurant and pub, the Crossroads Hotel. They include five people who had attended the hotel and three of their close contacts.Four of those cases had already been reported to the media so the number of cases connected to the cluster has increased to 13.Only four of the new cases were returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
· A 30-year-old patient died after attending a “Covid party”, believing the virus to be a hoax, a Texas medical official has said.
· Two Madagascar lawmakers die with coronavirus. Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina on Sunday said two lawmakers - one member of the senate and one deputy - had died after becoming infected with coronavirus. Eleven other deputies and 14 senators had also tested positive for the virus, Rajoelina said.
· Mexico’s deaths pass Italy’s to become fourth-highest worldwide. Mexico’s coronavirus death toll passed Italy’s on Sunday, AFP reports, becoming the fourth-highest globally, with at least 35,006 fatalities over the course of the pandemic so far. Mexico has 295,268 confirmed cases.Italy has 295,268 cases and 34,954 deaths.
· Philippines reports record new deaths. The Philippines’ health ministry on Monday confirmed 162 new coronavirus deaths, the country’s biggest single-day increase in casualties, as a health ministry official said authorities validated some earlier cases included in the tally.
· Ten million kids ‘may never return to school’ after virus. The coronavirus pandemic has caused an “unprecedented education emergency” with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children warned Monday.
· Super-rich call for higher taxes on wealthy to pay for Covid-19 recovery. A group of 84 of the world’s richest people have called on governments to permanently increase taxes on them and other members of the wealthy elite to help pay for the economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.
· A new report by Oxfam warns that the hunger crisis worsened by the pandemic could potentially kill more people each day than the infection itself, which has claimed more than half a million lives so far.
· The US state of Florida has registered 15,300 new infections on Sunday, the biggest daily increase in recorded coronavirus cases in any US state since the beginning of the pandemic.
· Current hospitalisations in the US state of Texas rose by 327 to a new high of 10,410, a record high for the 14th day in a row.
· South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has reinstated a ban on the sale of alcohol to reduce the volume of trauma patients so that hospitals have more beds to treat Covid-19 patients.
· The Palestinian Authority on Sunday imposed a night-time and weekend curfew on the occupied West Bank for the coming 14 days to try to rein in rising coronavirus numbers.
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