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Here are the latest developments from the last few hours:
Deaths worldwide passed 475,0000, according to Johns Hopkins University figures, with the known toll currently at 477,584, and known infections standing at 9,263,466.
Seven US states have reported their highest coronavirus patient admissions in the pandemic so far, as cases surge in the US following the easing of restrictions.Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas – which also confirmed a record daily case increase on Tuesday – each admitted record numbers of infected people to hospital, the Washington Post reported.
Brazil confirmed more than 39,000 in a single day on Tuesday. The death toll in Latin America’s biggest economy stands at 52,645. A judge on Tuesday ordered Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, to wear a mask in public after the right-wing populist attended political rallies without one.The death toll in Latin America passed 100,000 on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, with Mexico the second-worst affected region in the nation. Mexico on Tuesday registered 6,288 new infections and 793 additional deaths, the health ministry said, bringing the totals for the country to 191,410 cases and 23,377 fatalities.
A Chinese pharmaceutical firm has won approval to run a large-scale “Phase 3” clinical trial of its novel coronavirus vaccine candidate in the United Arab Emirates. China is seeking to test potential vaccines overseas because of a lack of new patients at home. No other experimental vaccines has yet successfully completed a late-stage “Phase 3” test to determine efficacy in shielding healthy people from the virus.
A South African school confirmed 200 infections among pupils and staff. More than 200 pupils and staff who returned to a boarding school in South Africa’s impoverished Eastern Cape province this month tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday, officials said.Eastern Cape accounts for around 15% of South Africa’s 101,590 cases, making it the country’s third worst-affected province, AFP reports.
The next few weeks are critical to tamping down a ‘disturbing’ coronavirus surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress on Tuesday issuing a plea for people to avoid crowds and wear masks just hours before mask-shunning President Donald Trump was set to hold a campaign rally in one hot spot.
Russia will hold a second world war parade ahead of vote on Putin reforms on Wednesday despite rising cases. Putin announced the new dates for the parade and a vote extending his rule – initially planned for April – last month despite Russia still recording thousands of new cases every day. Russia has 598,878 cases, the third-highest globally – and 8,349 deaths, significantly lower than most other countries in among the 10 worst affected, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official government data.
Australia confirmed its first death in a month. The man in his 80s died in the state of Victoria, in the first coronavirus-related death in more than a month. Australia’s total death toll from the virus now stands at 103.
New Zealand recorded one new case, diagnosed in a traveller returning from abroad who remains in government-run isolation facilities. The country has reported 11 active cases, all in people returning to the country. Nine of them were diagnosed during their government-managed isolation and remain there.
Novak Djokovic tested positive for Covid-19 amid Adria Tour fiasco.The beleaguered world No 1 tested positive, along with his wife, Jelena, throwing tennis into turmoil as the sport’s official tour prepares to resume. They join three other leading players and two trainers infected by the disease towards the end of the Serb’s unsanctioned Adria Tour.
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