Here are the updates.
Brazil has recorded 3,7923 new cases of the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, including 1,091 deaths, reuters news firm mentioned by the country’s ministry of fitness.
Brazil has registered more than 1.5 million instances since the start of the pandemic, while deaths overall accumulated 64,265, according to the ministry.
The president of Rwanda marked the 26th day of the liberation of the country by committing to defeat the coronavirus pandemic, urging citizens to unite and all.
President Paul Kagame said the country going through a difficult time can still succeed on all problems by building a united front.
“The pandemic is a control for us. The way we treat it shows our point of preparation that is opposed to the one trying to disrupt our lives and our progress,” he said.
WHO said it discontinues trials of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and anti-HIV mixing lopinavir/ritonavir in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 after not decreasing mortality.
American tennis player Frances Tiafoe tested positive for COVID-19 and was forced to retire from the All-American Team Cup exhibition tournament in Atlanta.
Tiafoe played the first consultation on Friday and beat Sam Querrey in straight sets on the occasion with the 8 most sensitive American players.
“Unfortunately, I tried Friday night for Covid-19 and have to retire from the Special Occasion of the All-American Team Cup in Atlanta this weekend,” Tiafoe said on Twitter.
President Donald Trump has enacted an extension of a subsidy program for small businesses battered by coronavirus.
The Act extends the June 30 deadline to apply for the program until August 8, which was created in March and has since been amended twice.
About $130 billion of the $660 billion approved for the program remains eligible for companies to look for federal direct payroll subsidies and other prices such as rent, the application for the paycheck coverage program has practically sold out in recent weeks.
Malawi’s new president, Lázaro Chakwera, has ordered his opening rite to be reduced amid a wave of coronavirus cases, mitigating enthusiasm for his election victory.
Chakwera swore last Sunday for a five-year period, hours after overthrowing Peter Mutharika in a new election, and on Monday the country celebrates an official celebration.
Chakwera said the capacity of the national stadium would be 20,000 in part and that at least 100,000 masks would be distributed in the capital Lilongwe.
“We’re in a worst-case scenario that’s been three months. The coronavirus is spreading all over Malawi and is spreading to kill,” he said in a televised speech.
Greece has announced a fifth extension of the coronavirus lockdown in its immigrant camps, despite accusations that it has used the pandemic to restrict migrant movements.
The camp’s closure began on 21 March and now lasts until 19 July, the Ministry of Migration said.
Migrants can only leave camps from 7 a.m. to nine p.m. In teams of less than 10 and no more than 150 other people consistent with the time, he said.
Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Florida increased through a record 11458 on Saturday, the state branch of fitness said, the time in 3 days that their workload has increased to more than 10,000.
Workers at Bajaj Auto, India’s largest motorcycle exporter, demanded the closure of the transitority of one of its factories after 250 workers tested positive for coronavirus, their unions said.
The affected Bajaj Auto plant is located in western Maharashtra, the state with the highest number of COVID-19 instances. The corporation told the painters this week that those who are not shown for the paintings will not receive any payment.
The company added that 140 of the plant’s approximately 8,000 painters had contracted the virus and two had died. She also said the paintings would not be interrupted because society sought to be informed to “live with the virus.”
Formula One shared good news before the start of the season in Austria, as it showed that there had been no positive cases of more than 4000 coronavirus tests conducted on F1 over the past seven days.
Everyone entering the track at Spielberg’s Red Bull Ring must have received a negative result before travelling and everyone from drivers to team members, follow-up staff and media must undergo a test every five days through personal medical groups on the site.
Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix is held 4 months after the inaugural race in Australia was cancelled and the season postponed.
At least five members of Iran’s new elected parliament have the new coronavir disease.
MPs Mohammad Tala Mazloomi, Syed Mohammad Mohid, Hosseinali Haji Dalegani, Ali Asgar Zaheri and Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi took the COVID-19 test, the semi-official news firm Tasnim reported.
Iran experienced a drop in new viral infections in April, prompting the government to ease pandemic restrictions. The decision, however, exploded when a wave of the disease engulfed other parts of the country a few weeks later.
South Africa has reopened its restaurants and casinos as the lockdown slowly loosened, even as the number of coronaviruses continues to increase.
Saturday marked the 100th closing day for South Africa, which imposed some of the strictest housing maintenance measures in the world since 27 March in an effort to restrict COVID-19.
However, the number of infections is spreading every day across thousands and the country now has the highest number of cases on the continent: 177,124, adding up to 2,952 deaths.
Mexican authorities will establish physical fitness checkpoints at access ports along their northern border this weekend, as Mexican and U.S. authorities fear that a wave of four Christmas crossings could spread the coronavirus.
Mexican consulates across the United States issued warnings last week on social media about reinforcement measures from July 2 to 5 and suggested others run so they wouldn’t cross for recreation or tourism.
A non-essential border ban has been in place since March in an attempt by either government to restrict coronavirus infections, but cross-border traffic has been charged.
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Animal rights activists in Germany have tried to block a slaughterhouse at the center of a primary coronavirus outbreak.
The slaughterhouse, owned by the Tonnies Group, has been connected to more than more COVID-19 instances in the region, resulting in a partial closure of two counties.
Police showed that 20 other people were demonstrating outdoors in front of the site.
The iconic Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona has reopened for visits exclusively to fitness staff after only 4 months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The basilica invited a first organization of fitness staff to make a stop at the temple designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Others will be able to make a stop on Sunday and July 11 and 12 in a reopening phase, the church calls a “homage” to doctors, nurses and other fitness professionals.
Tunisia’s revenue from the major tourism industry fell by 47% in the first part of this year amid an epidemic of the new coronavirus, according to figures from the country’s central bank.
The north african country’s tourism sector has been affected by the closure measures imposed more than 3 months ago in Tunisia to involve the virus.
Iranians who do not wear a mask will be denied the state and workplaces that do not comply with fitness protocols will be closed for a week, President Hassan Rohani said in introducing new measures to combat coronavirus.
Iran is battling coronavirus, with a total number of cases reaching 237,878 on Saturday and 148 more deaths that raised the country’s death toll to 11,408, said fitness ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari on state television.
A Ugandan man has died after setting fire to himself in a police station when officers allegedly demanded a bribe to release his motorcycle, which he was using as a taxi and which had been impounded over violation of coronavirus restrictions.
The case has angered Ugandans that they say it reflects widespread abuses through security personnel, adding beatings, arrests and extortions, which, in the existing climate, are disguised under coronavirus regulations.
The northeastern region of Catalonia has imposed restrictions on another 200,000 people near the city of Lleida amid the outbreak of new COVID-19 infections.
From four p.m. local time (18:00 GMT), no one will be able to enter or leave the area, Al Jazeera’s Nadim Baba reported from London, adding that the resolution is a surprise.
The move comes as Spain’s hospitality sector was hoping to salvage what remains of the all-important summer season. Regional health ministry data showed there were 3,706 cases in the Lleida region on Friday, up from 3,551 the previous day.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on Saturday suggested that citizens of the Japanese capital do not cross their borders on Saturday, as new coronavirus infections exceeded 100 percent for the third day, state-owned broadcaster NHK reported.
Tokyo has shown 131 new coronavirus infections, NHK said.
Cases in Tokyo peaked at two months due to the spread of the virus in nightclubs in the capital. Of Saturday’s total, one hundred were between 20 and 30 years old, Kyodo news firm, which mentioned Koike, reported.
Britain’s finance minister has suggested that others “eat in a place to eat to help” for the economy to move forward after a historic decline caused by the coronavirus crisis.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s comments came here the day when England nevertheless reopened its beloved pubs and the rest of the hotel industry after more than 3 months of closure.
The UK’s closure is one of the longest in Europe due to the highest death toll of 44,131 more people, which alone exceeds those in the United States and Brazil.
Nevertheless, people were allowed to drink in a pub, eat in a place to eat or cut their hair for the first time in more than 3 months, while England took its best steps to return to life in general.
Pubs were permitted to start serving from 6am, sparking worries of over-indulgence on what the media dubbed a “Super Saturday” of coronavirus restrictions being eased. Some hairdressers were reported to have opened at the stroke of midnight.
The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most visited museum and home to the Mona Lisa, reopens on Monday but with coronavirus restrictions in place and parts of the complex closed to visitors.
The Louvre has been closed since March 13 and this has already resulted in “losses of more than 40 million euros,” said its director Jean-Luc Martinez.
Of the more than 10 million visitors in 2018, nearly three-quarters were tourists.
Russia reported 6,632 new coronaviruses, bringing the number of infections nationwide to 674,515.
Authorities said another 168 people had been killed in the past 24 hours, raising the official death toll to 10,027.
Voters in the Dominican Republic are expected to challenge a new president on Sunday to a new president in an election that could end with 16 years of uninterrupted rule through the left-center Dominican Liberation Party.
Opposition candidate Luis Abinader is the favorite, as he led the opinion polls despite being forced to abandon his crusade after testing positive for COVID-19.
Abinader, a 52-year-old businessman, had recovered enough for his crusade at a rally on Wednesday.
India reported its largest peak in a day of 22,772 cases of coronavirus and 442 deaths, to the country’s ministry of fitness.
Positive cases of coronavirus now amount to 648,315, while another 18,655 people have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
Australia’s most populous moment, Victoria, reported its largest accumulation of coronavirus cases since Last March on Saturday, forcing her to order larger homes from two other suburbs and send nine social housing towers in a total closure.
The southeastern state registered 108 new instances, up from 66 on Friday and more than 70 new instances in the last 4 days, forcing the government to re-impose blockades on more than 30 suburbs in the week.
South Africa has announced some other record number of coronavirus cases with 9064, Africa’s most evolved country with symptoms of tension to cope with the pandemic.
Thirty consistent with the penny of more than 177,000 instances in South Africa are now in Gauteng province, which Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has softened a law that would require widespread masking in the country to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, according to the official newspaper of the Diario government. He passed the law on wearing a protective mask in public, but weakened it through the veto language that would have forced Brazilians to cover their faces in places like schools and churches.
President Donald Trump’s eldest son friend has conducted a coronavirus screening, U.S. media reported.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News television personality who is dating Donald Trump Jr., had traveled to South Dakota to watch the US President’s speech. And the fourth birthday party fireworks from July 4 at Mount Rushmore.
Guilfoyle, 51, released to remote control without delay after discovering that he had the virus on a regime check of anyone who intended to come into close contact with the president, the New York Times reported.
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South Korea has reported 63 new cases of coronavirus, with a resurgence of several weeks as new groups appear in parts of the country.
Figures announced Saturday through the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention led to 13,030 infections, 283 deaths, to the national total.
Twenty-eight of the new instances were reported in Seoul’s densely populated metropolitan domain, which is home to approximately 51 million South Korean residents. Infections have also been reported in primary towns such as Busan, Daegu, Daejeon and Gwangju, where many schools have been closed and social restrictions have been tightened.
The United States has reported 57683 instances of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, according to a Johns Hopkins University account, making Friday the third consecutive day the country has registered more than 50,000 new instances.
The Baltimore-based university tracker showed the total number since the pandemic arrived in the United States at 2,793,022.
The university also recorded an additional 728 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths in the United States to 129,405.
A Colombian judge has prohibited the government from subjecting those aged 70 or older to special restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.
The approved sentence is described as discriminatory measures that prescribe the quarantine of the elderly until the end of August, while lifting restrictions on the movement of the rest of the population in mid-July.
Brazil has reported 42223 additional cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the ministry of fitness said, with a total of 1,539,081.
The number of coronavirus deaths increased from 1290 to 63174, in the ministry.
Air France management said it planned to eliminate 7,580 jobs at the airline and its regional unit Hop! by the end of 2022 because of the coronavirus crisis.
Planned task cuts make up 16% of Air France and 40% of Hop!
“Over the past 3 months, Air France’s business and profits have fallen by 95%, and at the height of the crisis, the airline has lost 15 million euros consistently with the day,” said the group, which expects a “very slow” recovery. .
Global cases of coronavirus have exceeded 11 million, according to news firm Reuters and Johns Hopkins University, setting a new level in the spread of the disease that has killed more than a million people in seven months.
According to WHO, the number of cases is more than double the number of serious influenza diseases recorded per year.
Many hard-hit countries are easing lockdowns put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus while making extensive alterations to work and social life that could last for a year or more until a vaccine is available.
Some countries are experiencing a resurgence in infections, leading authorities to partially reinstate lockdowns, in what experts say could be a recurring pattern into 2021.
Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alaska reported a record buildup of coronavirus cases Friday, and Florida’s most populous county imposed a curfew before Independence Day weekend.
The increase in cases, more pronounced in the southern and western states, has alarmed public fitness officials, who have called for caution before a fourth of July holiday weekend that would come with large gatherings of families and friends.
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