Half a million more people have died from COVID-19, according to the latest count from Johns Hopkins University.
Global infections exceed 10 million, more than 2. 5 million in the United States
France votes in municipal elections, while Poland holds presidential elections
Nearly 500,000 have died due to COVID-19
Brazil 1. 3 million infections, with more than 57,000 deaths
All updates in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC/GMT)
21:00. More than 500,000 people worldwide have died from COVID-19, according to the most recent figures from Johns Hopkins University. The news comes as the total number of cases exceeds 10 million.
The United States remains the most affected country in the world, with some 125,000 deaths and 2. 5 million infections.
7:50 p. m. The state’s governor has ordered bars closed in Los Angeles and six other California counties as the U. S. struggles to crack down on a surge in coronavirus cases.
“Due to the expansion of #COVID19, CA is ordering the closure of bars in Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, San Joaquin and Tulare,” Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Twitter.
New coronavirus cases have increased in more than a portion of all U. S. states. In the US, reaching record levels. The influx of cases has been most pronounced in states that have followed recommendations from health officials to wait for a steady decline in cases before reopening their economies.
For the third day in a row on Saturday, the number of cases shown in the United States jumped to more than 40,000, one of the largest in the world.
19:35 The UAE will get passengers from Pakistan from June 29 until a special COVID-19 laboratory is set up to check for COVID-19, the Civil Aviation Authority announced on Sunday.
The resolution also applies to transit flights from Pakistan, where the number of instances is increasing rapidly, the General Civil Aviation Authority said in a broadcast via state media.
Dubai’s state-owned airline, Emirates, had announced in the past that it would postpone flights from Pakistan from June 24.
17:51 Much of the U. S. The U. S. continues to see a surge in coronavirus cases as the White House downplays the severity of new outbreaks and seeks to blame authorities.
U. S. Vice President Mike Pence blamed the expanding emerging infection rate and criticized continued media attention on the emerging number of cases.
“What the media doesn’t mention at all is because of the sacrifices that other American people have made. . . “To slow the spread and the common-sense measures they continue to take, we’ve continued to see the number of deaths decrease,” Pence said in an interview broadcast on CBS on Sunday.
He noted that many new cases at hotspots in Florida and Texas were found in others under the age of 35, and said it posed a lower mortality threat. When asked for a national response, Pence said the local government was better positioned to deal with the situation. .
Democrats have accused the Republican administration of ignoring an impending crisis, while fitness experts have warned that the situation could spiral out of control soon, with tens of thousands of new cases reported each day.
“It’s time for this administration to take this seriously,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. , told ABC television. “We have the worst record of any country in the world and the president says we’re making progress. “
More than a dozen states have new severe outbreaks, and in some regions the number of cases exceeds 50 percent. Last week, the United States broke its own record for new cases.
5:30 pm. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Africa reached a new record of more than 371,000, 9,484 deaths. The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the figures on Sunday.
South Africa accounts for more than a third of the continent’s cases. It reported 7210 new cases, its largest increase to date.
One from Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize said South Africa now has 131,800 cases shown, adding 2,413 deaths for a mortality rate of 1. 8%.
The Western Cape, Cape Town, accounts for 45% of cases. But Gauteng province, which includes the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, and the capital, Pretoria, is experiencing a resurgence of the virus, bringing it to 26% of the country’s cases. .
4:14 p. m. U. S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says “the window is closing” for the country to take steps to combat the coronavirus well.
Azar pointed to a recent spike in infections, especially in the south. He told NBC and CNN that other people want to “act responsibly” by taking social distances and wearing face masks, especially “in those hot areas. “
Azar argued that the United States is in a better position than it was two months ago to fight the virus because it is conducting more testing and has remedies to treat COVID-19.
But he acknowledges that hospitalizations and deaths may pile up in the coming weeks because it’s a lagging indicator.
Texas and Florida changed course in parts of their reopening and cracked down on bars on Friday as the number of coronavirus infections shown in the U. S. The U. S. reached a record 40,000.
13:42 Indonesian President Joko Widodo has threatened to reorganize his closet and potentially shut down government agencies if they don’t do enough to fight the pandemic.
“I see that many of us paint as if things are normal. That’s what irritates me. Don’t you have feelings? It’s a crisis,” Widodo said in comments to his office.
“I will take all ordinary measures for our 267 million people, for the nation. It can be the dissolution of agencies, maybe a reorganization, I idea of everything,” he said.
Widodo said he can also consider more emergency decrees if necessary.
Indonesia recorded its largest daily backlog of infections on Saturday, with 1,385 new cases. It has a total of 54,010 cases and 2,754 deaths, the highest in East Asia outside China.
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12:54 p. m. The English city of Leicester may face a total lockdown due to a spike in cases, British Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Sunday.
“There will be help in Leicester and in fact the fitness secretary has contacted a lot of us over the weekend for some of the measures, the help for testing, the resources that will also go to the local authority,” he said. BBC.
Reports from the Sunday Times newspaper said the government is on track to reimpose strict lockdown regulations on Leicester “in the coming days” after a surge of 658 new cases reported in the two weeks leading up to June 16.
The increases were linked to new outbreaks at food production plants and reports of giant outdoor gatherings at takeout restaurants.
Boris Johnson’s government is set to ease virus lockdown restrictions by opening pubs, restaurants and hairdressers, among others, across England from the Fourth of July, despite forecasts of a momentary wave.
11:02 a. m. China imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people in a province surrounding the capital, Beijing, to involve a new coronavirus group, as the government warned the outbreak is still “serious and complicated. “
After China appears to have largely controlled the virus, many other people have become inflamed in Beijing and cases have emerged in neighboring Hebei province in recent weeks.
Health officials said Sunday that Anxin County, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) from Beijing, will be “fully closed and controlled,” the same strict measures imposed at the height of the pandemic in the city of Wuhan earlier this year.
Only one user from the circle of relatives will be allowed to pass out once a day to buy essential items such as food and medicine, the county’s Epidemic Prevention Task Force said in a statement.
The move comes after 14 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours in Beijing, bringing the total to 311 since mid-June and increasing to millions of residents.
10:20 In the German district of Gütersloh – site of a large coronavirus outbreak at a slaughterhouse in Tönnies – the number of positive tests in other people not related to the slaughterhouse has increased “significantly”.
The district said it’s most likely due to a backlog of testing in the area. Many of those tested showed no symptoms. In the previous seven days and on Friday, 75 cases were discovered without connection to the meat company Tönnies. .
This 28 more than in the comparable era the day before.
07:35 The Swiss government says it ordered the quarantine of another three hundred people after an outbreak of “superspreading” of the novel coronavirus at a nightclub in Zurich. Authorities said a man who had been at the Flamingo Club a week ago tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, and five other people accompanying him later tested positive.
According to a club guest list, the government contacted the others and quarantined them for 10 days.
Swiss officials say the incident shows how vital it is to respect hygiene and distance rules as lockdown measures are lifted. to restart its economy.
In its most recent report released on Sunday, Switzerland reported 69 new cases overnight from Friday to Saturday for a total of 31,555 cases; An additional 1,681 people died.
07:17 France is celebrating the circular moment of municipal elections in 5,000 villages on Sunday, after voting postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
Voters will have to decide on mayors and municipal councillors at polling stations that operate according to strict hygiene standards. It is mandatory to wear masks, soap or hand sanitizer and maintain a distance of 1 meter (about 3 feet) between each user in line. Voters were asked to bring their own pens to mark the record.
The spread of the coronavirus has slowed particularly in France in recent weeks, with almost all restrictions on social and commercial activity having been lifted in the past month.
Still, the virus is expected to hurt Sunday’s turnout.
France has reported only about 200,000 recorded cases and 29,781 deaths in the pandemic.
07:09 The number of coronavirus infections in Pakistan surpassed the 200,000 mark on Sunday as the government imposed restrictions on the country’s major cities in a fight against the spread of the virus.
The number of shown cases of COVID-19 has risen to 202,944 and similar deaths to 4,118. At least 4,072 new cases and 83 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry showed on Sunday. More than 92,000, or forty-five according to the percentage of those infected, have recovered while 2,805 are in critical condition in hospitals.
Infections accelerated after Prime Minister Imran Khan lifted lockdown restrictions last month, with more than 100,000 new cases reported in the past 20 days.
Officials say the country is still at least a month away from the expected peak of the pandemic. Violations of lockdown rules have led the government to close markets, buy groceries and residential spaces in various parts of the country.
6:57 The number of new infections in the Czech Republic has risen to 260, the highest since April 8, the Health Ministry’s knowledge showed on Sunday. That’s nearly triple the 93 recorded Thursday.
The data showed a significant increase in the number of new cases recorded in the Karvina region, by far the most affected region of the country today.
Public health director Jarmila Razova told public radio that the building could be linked to extensive testing in several places where the disease is spreading rapidly. These include a mine in the east of the country and a company in the north.
In total, the country of another 10. 7 million people has shown 11,298 cases of COVID-19, with 347 deaths as of the end of Saturday.
05:28 The German state of Bavaria will accentuate COVID-19 on a “massive” scale, according to the state’s fitness ministry.
“A cornerstone of our Bavarian testing concept is that everyone who needs to be tested for SARS-COV-2 infection can know if they have been infected,” regional health minister Melanie Huml said in Munich.
The tests are concentrated in slaughterhouses and meat processing plants with the aim of “preventing primary outbreaks as in Gütersloh,” he added.
The government presented tests for all Bavarian citizens as soon as possible, even for other people without symptoms.
04:05 The Australian state of Victoria has had returning travellers tested for the coronavirus after the state recorded an increase in the number of infections. Australia also calls for all returning citizens to be quarantined in hotels for two weeks.
People in quarantine will be tested twice, first on the third day and then on the eleventh day of their two-week quarantine period. Those who still refuse to get tested will have to quarantine for 10 days, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrew said.
Victoria, the country’s most populous state at the time, has shown 49 new cases in the past 24 hours, its biggest backlog in more than two months.
03:07 The British government is imposing a lockdown on the city of Leicester after a sharp rise in the number of coronavirus cases, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock revised the law to shut down the city of about 350,000 people, after confirming more than 650 cases in the two weeks to June 16, the newspaper said, citing senior government sources.
Hancock sent a cell testing unit to the city last week to control the outbreak and is contemplating “all options” on how to respond to the new wave of infections.
02:55 The number of COVID-19 cases shown in Germany increased from 256 to 193,499, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for Infectious Diseases. 3 deaths were recorded, bringing the total to 8957.
Germany yesterday recorded 687 new and six deaths.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday warned others who oppose ignoring the risks posed by the coronavirus, saying the pandemic is not over and the situation in the country remains dire.
Read more: Coronavirus outbreaks: Will Germany be Europe’s next major hotspot?
01:35 China has shown 17 new coronavirus cases, 14 of which have been reported in Beijing. Authorities in the capital have temporarily shut down the wholesale food market, which is believed to be the latest outbreak.
Schools in the Chinese capital have been closed and some neighborhoods have been quarantined. As many other people travel on the four-day holiday weekend, anyone leaving Beijing must have tested negative for the virus in the past week. The city also has increased testing capacity to 300,000 consistent with the day.
According to the figures, the total number of infections in China amounts to 83,500. The death toll in the country has remained unchanged at 4,634 since mid-May.
Mexico reported 4,410 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 212,802. The country’s Health Ministry also reported 602 more deaths. So far, another 26,381 people in Mexico have died due to the coronavirus The government said the actual numbers may be significantly higher than the number of cases shown.
00:00 The United States has shown more than 2. 5 million cases of coronavirus, more than any other country. It also recorded 125,435 deaths, about a quarter of the global tally, which stands at more than 495,000.
Southern and western states have noted the maximum noticeable increase in the number of cases, as many have begun to ease lockdown measures. Texas and Florida have reimposed some restrictions, while Washington Gov. Jay Inslee postpones the state’s reopening plan.
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In reporting on the coronavirus pandemic, unless otherwise stated, DW uses figures provided through the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center in the United States. JHU updates numbers in real time, combining knowledge from global fitness organizations. , state and national governments, and other official public sources, all of which have their own data collection systems.
Germany’s national statistics are compiled through its public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). These figures feature the transmission of knowledge from state and local degrees and are updated approximately once a day, which can lead to deviations from JHU. .
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