(Reuters) – Indonesia reported its largest accumulation of COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, after the total number of cases shown in Brazil approached 2 million and deaths in Latin America surpassed those in North America.
DEATHS AND INFECTIONS
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EUROPE
The Italian prime minister said it was “crucial” for EU leaders to make a recovery plan until the end of July.
The UK’s health minister said the government will not present other people wearing a mask in offices, after France said it would make it mandatory in other closed public spaces starting next month.
Some 160,000 more people in Spanish Catalonia have been arrested again when the government analyses a new wave of infections.
Americas
Mexico reported 7,051 new infections and 836 more deaths on Tuesday, while proposing that the United States increase the ban on non-essential land transportation over its shared border for another 30 days.
Chile’s president has extended the emergency to closed-class middle-class citizens to avoid the law that would allow the country’s personal pension budget to be withdrawn.
U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized California’s two largest school districts for inciting academics to be informed from home for the next term in the face of the outbreak of the pandemic.]
ASIA PACIFIC
Health experts placed Tokyo on the highest alert for infections, alarmed by a recent increase in instances at record levels, while the governor of Tokyo said the scenario was “pretty serious.”
Authorities have shown more infections at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan, elevating U.S. Army general bases. At 136, Kyodo News reported.
Pyeongtaek, South Korea, which is home to the largest U.S. Army base. Overseas, he applied for evidence in the U.S. Before they arrived in the midst of an increase in imported cases.
Australia’s top populous states will impose stricter restrictions if COVID-19 is not temporarily controlled, state prime ministers said.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
Congo has given copper and cobalt mining companies one month to avoid confining staff away from their families and resuming their general activities.
Egypt has begun providing reusable cotton masks at about 50 cents in addition to the food provided in its state subsidy program.
Afghanistan faces a “disaster” as development stretches a fitness infrastructure that has already seriously weakened through decades of war, the Afghan Red Crescent said.
Medical developments
The experimental COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna Inc showed that it was and caused immune responses in the forty-five healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study.
Indian pharmaceutical company Zydus said it had begun human studies for its future COVID-19 vaccine, while infections continued in the third-largest affected country in the world.
ECONOMIC FALLOUT
Asian actions rose wednesday, driven by hopes of coronavirus vaccines, sentiment was cautious after Beijing promised retaliatory sanctions against the US, while the euro reached a maximum of four months at a major EU summit.
One in three international small businesses were forced to cut jobs to stay open in May, a global Facebook survey showed.
German stores are on their way to the worst recession since World War II, the industry association said.
According to one report, Israel experienced a sharp decline in high-tech outflows in the first part of 2020, with COVID-19 encouraging buyers to keep their money investing in acquisitions.
(Compiled through Sarah Morland, Devika Syamnath and Ramakrishnan M; edited through Arun Koyyur, Subhranshu Sahu and Tomasz Janowski)