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Coronavirus: latest global developments
PARIS, June 22, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Here are the latest developments in
the coronavirus crisis:
– Coronavirus ‘still accelerating’ –
“The pandemic is still accelerating” and its effects will be felt
for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general says.
“We know that the pandemic is much more than a health crisis, it is
an economic crisis, a social crisis and in many countries a political
crisis. Its effects will be felt for decades to come,” Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus tells an online conference.
– Brazil passes 50,000 death mark –
Brazil says it has registered more than 50,000 deaths from the
outbreak as well as about one million infections, as Latin America
remains the epicentre of the pandemic.
The pandemic has killed at least 468,518 people worldwide since it
surfaced in China late last year, according to an AFP tally at 1100
GMT on Monday, based on official sources.
The United States has the most deaths at 119,997 followed by Brazil
with 50,617, Britain with 42,632, Italy 34,634 and France with 29,640.
– New infections as sports resume –
Croatia’s Borna Coric announces he has tested positive after
playing in a tennis exhibition tournament featuring world number one
Novak Djokovic.
Five players from Serbian football club Red Star Belgrade also test
positive after playing a match attended by 16,000 people 12 days ago,
the largest gathering of that kind in Europe since the beginning of
the pandemic.
– Avoiding Melbourne –
Australians are warned to avoid travelling to Melbourne, as the
country’s second biggest city tightens restrictions amid fears of a
second wave of the epidemic.
Victoria state has recorded more than 110 cases in the past week —
many of them in Melbourne — prompting leaders of other regions to
warn against visiting the city’s six designated virus “hot spots”.
– Peru’s Machu Picchu closed –
The ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a jewel of Peruvian
tourism, will not reopen in July as originally scheduled due to
coronavirus concerns, local media report.
– French cinemas reopen –
Cinemas reopen in France on Monday for the first time since the
lockdown began in March.
And despite emergency measures which ban gatherings of more than 10
people, thousands thronged trendy districts of Paris late Sunday to
mark the annual midsummer Festival of Music, which usually brings
millions of people out onto the streets.
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