Wednesday 1 July 2020

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  • Turkey has mentioned greater than 200,000 coronavirus cases with 1,192 new situations diagnosed during the past day, health ministry records shows.
  • the european Union has reopened its borders to friends from 15 international locations however excluded the U.S., the place deaths are spiking as soon as once more.
  • greater than 10.5 million americans world wide had been clinically determined with the coronavirus, practically 5.four million have recovered, and at least 512,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins college.

  • here are the newest updates.

    21:forty five GMT - Brazil beginning worker's for Uber, different apps protest 

    Over a thousand food deliverymen on motorcycles gathered in Sao Paulo to protest their work situations, set by means of Uber and different apps, with their capabilities in high demand as a result of coronavirus lockdowns.

    The drivers are searching for enhanced pay and more desirable health measures, with Brazil now a coronavirus epicenter and birth people dealing with exposure to the virus.

    Drivers paraded through Sao Paulo's Paulista Avenue, the metropolis's leading thoroughfare, blocking traffic, and additionally protested in other Brazilian cities.

    read more here.

    21:30 GMT - instances spike in Sunbelt, other states again off on reopening

    Arizona recorded more coronavirus deaths, infections, hospitalizations and emergency-room visits in a single day than ever before in a disaster Wednesday across the Sunbelt that sent a shudder through other components of the country and led far away states to position their own reopening plans on hang.

    In Florida, hospitals braced for an inflow of patients, with the biggest clinical core in Florida's hardest-hit county, Miami's Jackson health system, scaling returned elective surgeries and other strategies to make room for victims of the resurgence underway across the South and West.

    individuals waiting in line at a mask distribution adventure, in a COVID-19 hotspot within the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida [Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo]

    vice president Mike Pence deliberate to talk over with Arizona, where instances have spiked due to the fact that dwell-at-domestic orders expired in mid-may also. Arizona pronounced record single-day highs of well-nigh 4,900 new COVID-19 circumstances, 88 new deaths, near 1,300 ER visits and a running complete of very nearly 2,900 people in the hospital.

    20:42 GMT - UAE says residents, citizens can not commute overseas for tourism yet

    United Arab Emirates authorities have said residents and citizens don't seem to be yet allowed to go back and forth abroad for tourism and entertainment functions and all travel overseas needs a permit.

    A spokesman for the countrywide Emergency disaster and catastrophe administration Authority (NCEMA) referred to commute abroad is simply allowed presently for analyze, medical medicine, diplomatic missions, enterprise and residents who are looking to discuss with or return to their home international locations.

    20:12 GMT - middle East at 'vital threshold' of coronavirus crisis: WHO

    The core East faces a "critical threshold" amid a rest of coronavirus measures following a surge in circumstances within the region, the area health corporation (WHO) has warned.

    The global health physique proven there have been more than a million circumstances of the COVID-19 ailment across the 22 countries that the WHO's japanese Mediterranean vicinity covers, stretching from Morocco to Pakistan.

    examine extra here.

    Egyptians pray interior the Salah El Din Mosque after months of COVID-19 lockdown [Mohamed Abd el-Ghany/Reuters]

    19:38 GMT - Israel approves transient cell phone monitoring of COVID-19 carriers

    Israel's parliament has voted to allow the country's domestic intelligence agency to tune the cellphones of coronavirus carriers for the subsequent three weeks amid a resurgence in new instances.

    the new legislations makes it possible for the Shin wager to access carriers' telephone region data for 14 days before they have been clinically determined. That facts is used to determine any individual they came into contact with, which proponents say is crucial to identify new situations.

    19:20 GMT - California closes bars, eating places in most of state

    Indoor actions at bars, restaurants, film theaters and other facilities can be banned in most of California for as a minimum three weeks as COVID-19 infections surge, Governor Gavin Newsom has mentioned.

    19:10 GMT - World bank chief says pandemic widening inequality hole

    World financial institution President David Malpass has spoke of that the pandemic is exacerbating inequality all over the world via hitting hardest those with no social security net in constructing countries whereas principal financial institution asset purchases in superior nations improvement the richest.

    Malpass informed a webcast adventure hosted through the Council of the Americas the pandemic become a "disaster" for the setting up world that would convey lengthy-time period damage and world financial output would not recover to its pre-pandemic stage for years.

    18:25 GMT - US situations rise with the aid of forty three,644 to 2,624,873

    the united states facilities for disorder manage and Prevention (CDC) has suggested 2,624,873 circumstances of coronavirus, an increase of forty three,644 instances from its previous count, and referred to that the variety of deaths had risen with the aid of 560 to 127,299.

    more US states step lower back from reopening as COVID-19 cases surge

    18:15 GMT - US delays American diplomats' return to China

    the us has postponed flights for dozens of american diplomats who had deliberate to come back to China later this month, after failing to reach contract with Beijing over concerns together with COVID-19 checking out and quarantine.

    17:58 GMT - Trump says he needs bigger direct funds to americans

    US President Donald Trump has mentioned he supports a further round of economic stimulus and wants to deliver bigger direct funds to americans, as well as incentives to work, to be part of it.

    "We want to create a really first rate incentive to work. So, we're working on that and that i'm certain we'll all come collectively," Trump noted in an interview with Fox enterprise community.

    "I need the money getting to people to be larger, a good way to spend it. I want the money to get there immediately, and in a non-complicated style."

    17:forty eight GMT - Deaths in France upward push with the aid of 18 to 29,861

    The variety of coronavirus-linked deaths in France has risen by 18 from the old day to face at 29,861, the nation's health department has stated.

    That determine is in line with the each day regular of 18 considered the closing week. In can also, France counted 143 extra deaths every day on commonplace.

    17:45 GMT - Turkey's complete cases upward push over 200,000: fitness ministry

    Turkey has suggested greater than 200,000 coronavirus circumstances with 1,192 new instances clinically determined during the past day, health ministry data suggests.

    The loss of life toll in the nation has reached 5,one hundred fifty, in response to the information.

    clinical people of the Bakirkoy District fitness Directorate arrive at a constructing all the way through an antibody checking out application in Istanbul, Turkey [Murad Sezer/Reuters]

    sixteen:32 GMT - Mexican finance minister says he's convalescing satisfactorily

    Mexican finance minister Arturo Herrera has stated in a video posted to Twitter that he's at domestic recuperating "satisfactorily" after he changed into diagnosed with coronavirus a number of days ago.

    16:25 GMT - usa adopts decision to halt all conflicts

    The United nations safety Council has unanimously adopted a decision urging a ninety-day world ceasefire to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

    The decision handed after months of fruitless negotiations in view that the starting of the pandemic and requires "a right away cessation of hostilities in all situations".

    the primary call for a worldwide ceasefire turned into voiced on March 23 by using UN Secretary-customary Antonio Guterres.

    The draft decision organized through France and Tunisia will now not encompass the combat towards ISIL, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and people and organizations linked to those corporations.

    16:06 GMT - Turkey asks european to correct 'mistake' of commute record exclusion

    Turkey has stated it's disillusioned through the eu Union's choice to exclude it from an inventory of international locations counseled for non-standard commute and called on the bloc to relevant the "mistake" as soon as possible.

    "The measures Turkey has taken to combat the coronavirus pandemic in addition to her efforts and success in this admire are evident," ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy stated in the commentary.

    "We expect the correction of this mistake regarding the travel restrictions for our citizens as quickly as viable."

    There have been very nearly 200,000 situations of coronavirus in Turkey, with a dying toll of greater than 5,100 and new day by day situations at the moment running at around 1,300.

    15:55 GMT - WHO warns some countries still face 'long, tough' battle

    international locations who fail to use all mechanisms obtainable to combat the coronavirus will battle to beat it, the area fitness firm (WHO) has referred to.

    "Some international locations ... have taken a fragmented strategy. These countries face an extended, tough road forward," Director accepted Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from WHO headquarters in Geneva.

    15:32 GMT - Occupied West bank under lockdown as situations start: respectable

    The Palestinian Authority has introduced a five-day lockdown across the occupied West financial institution after a surge in proven coronavirus situations.

    "ranging from Friday morning, all governorates of the West financial institution, the cities and the villages, could be closed for a period of five days," government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem referred to, adding that pharmacies, bakeries and supermarkets were exempted.

    A Palestinian boy pushes a cart as a truck sprays disinfectant on a highway amid the coronavirus outbreak in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West bank [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

    15:27 GMT - UK emergency remdesivir substances enough to deal with COVID-19: legitimate

    the united kingdom has ample supplies of Gilead's remdesivir for emergency use to treat hospitalised COVID-19 patients, England's deputy chief scientific officer has referred to, though he warned of potential difficulties securing future components.

    Jonathan Van-Tam, deputy chief scientific officer and lead for the department for health and Social Care, instructed a parliamentary hearing that new drugs corresponding to remdesivir have been likely to be in "distinctly brief provide in the first illustration" in comparison with present everyday ones being used comparable to dexamethasone.

    15:15 GMT - UK dying toll rises by means of 176 to forty three,906

    the united kingdom's loss of life toll from confirmed instances of the coronavirus has risen with the aid of 176 to 43,906, govt figures show.

    15:10 GMT - Oxford college has seen 'right variety of immune response' in talents vaccine trial: scientist

    a leading scientist at the back of the college of Oxford's talents COVID-19 vaccine has pointed out the crew has viewed the right type of immune response in trials, which have entered the phase III medical stage.

    speakme at a parliamentary hearing, Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology on the college, talked about the trial has enrolled 8,000 volunteers for the section III of its trial into the vaccine, AZD1222, which turned into licensed to AstraZeneca.

    She noted she couldn't give a timeline for when the vaccine should be would becould very well be able as it depends upon the outcomes of the trial.

    Fauci says 'no guarantee' US will have constructive COVID-19 vaccine

    14:50 GMT - NYC delays resumption of indoor eating at restaurants

    manhattan metropolis Mayor invoice de Blasio has mentioned that he is delaying the deliberate resumption of indoor eating at restaurants, fearing it will trigger a spike in coronavirus infections.

    The mayor, a Democrat, stated he was involved that if the metropolis welcomed diners returned into the enclosed areas of its eating places, it may experience the equal surge in sickness now being considered in other states.

    "truthfully, even a week ago, honestly, i used to be hopeful we may. however the information we've gotten from around the nation gets worse and worse the entire time," de Blasio observed.

    out of doors eating at eating places, which began about two weeks in the past, can proceed, he pointed out.

    Fauci on coronavirus: 'We are not in total control'

    14:forty five GMT - Zimbabwe reopens flora and fauna parks, eating places in leisure

    Zimbabwe has reopened its countrywide parks to the public and allowed eating places to serve meals within their premises.

    The govt's resolution, announced by the information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, got here amid an outcry from the national parks and private safari resorts that the endured lockdown changed into endangering both businesses and conservation efforts.

    eating places should be allowed to serve nutrition to sit down-in customers, however only with confined numbers, Mutsvangwa mentioned.

    14:15 GMT - more than 40,000 people forcefully evicted in East Africa

    more than 40,000 people across East Africa had been forcibly evicted from their homes for the reason that March, placing them susceptible to contracting the new coronavirus, charities have referred to, calling for a moratorium on all evictions all the way through the pandemic.

    The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) found that communities already displaced by means of violence, droughts and floods in Somalia were worst hit, whereas in Kenya and Ethiopia, americans dwelling in informal settlements had also seen their buildings demolished.

    "Evictions expose prone americans to better possibility of an infection as they are pressured into greater crowded and unsanitary circumstances," noted Evelyn Aero, NRC's legal tips regional consultant in East Africa.

    14:00 GMT - Swiss to quarantine guests from excessive-chance COVID countries

    The Swiss government will impose a quarantine requirement for people returning to the country from areas at excessive possibility for the coronavirus, ministers have referred to.

    The federal office of public fitness will hold and update a list of high-chance international locations from which travelers returning to Switzerland should be discipline to self-isolation, health Minister Alain Berset told a information convention, proposing Sweden as an example of a country which might currently fall on the list.

    The govt also pointed out it could impose a mask-donning requirement for people traveling on public transport from Monday.

    13:fifty five GMT

    hiya, here is Mersiha Gadzo in Toronto taking up the live updates from my colleague Elizabeth Melimopoulos in Doha.

    12:forty GMT - US inner most hiring rebounds, adding 2.4 million jobs in June: ADP

    Industries hit tough by way of the coronavirus pandemic confirmed signals of lifestyles in June, hiring 2.4 million workers, payroll features firm ADP said.

    With three million hires in might also, that capacity greater than five million of the 20 million people who lost their jobs in March and April are back at work.

    a significant portion of the hirings had been accounted for by using small agencies of fewer than 50 people, which brought 937,000 jobs in the month, the data showed, whereas 961,000 had been in leisure and hospitality - a sector nearly completely shut down with the aid of the efforts to contain COVID-19.

    Fauci says 'no guarantee' US may have constructive COVID-19 vaccine

    12:30 GMT - Germany for now has adequate remdesivir for COVID-19 therapy - govt

    Germany has for now secured enough substances of remdesivir, which is determined to turn into the primary COVID-19 medication permitted in Europe, and is banking on developer Gilead to meet future needs, the nation's health ministry stated.

    "The federal government has early on secured remdesivir for the remedy of coronavirus sufferers.

    presently, there are nevertheless adequate reserves," the ministry told Reuters in a written remark.

    eleven:50 GMT - Spain and Portugal reopen their shared border

    Spain and Portugal have reopened their shared border which has been closed because March 16 as Lisbon sought to give protection to itself from new situations that have been exploding across Spain.

    With its simplest land border closed for greater than three months, Portugal has weathered the epidemic superior than its neighbour - 1,576 deaths from forty two,141 cases compared with Spain's 28,355 deaths from almost 250,000 circumstances.

    eleven:30 GMT - Qatar eases greater coronavirus restrictions as 'height passes'

    Qatar is extra easing its coronavirus restrictions, permitting a partial reopening of restaurants, mosques, seashores and parks.

    starting from Wednesday, museums and libraries will even be authorised to operate in a constrained potential and beneath restrained working hours, the nation's Supreme Committee for crisis administration referred to in a statement.

    Qatar has allowed people to exercise outside with no face mask [File: Sorin/ Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

    eleven:10 GMT - Infographic: How coronavirus unfold throughout India

    The number of new coronavirus cases in India has greater than doubled over the past 20 days, with more than two-thirds of total cases stated in June alone.

    This sharp boost has taken India from the seventh most-affected nation on the earth on the conclusion of may also to fourth maximum nowadays. only Russia (653,479), Brazil (1.4 million) and the USA (2.6 million) have extra established circumstances.

    read extra right here.

    10:45 GMT - eu reopens its borders to outside guests 

    the european Union has reopened its borders to company from 15 nations however excluded the U.S., where deaths are spiking once again and a correct health authentic warned the nation became heading in the "incorrect route".

    The last listing of countries protected sufficient to allow residents to enter the eu did not include Russia, Brazil or the us, where the day by day death toll handed 1,000 on Tuesday for the first time on account that June 10.

    source: Al Jazeera

    10:30 GMT - Egypt reopens airports, museums, Giza Pyramids

    Egypt has reopened its airports, the Egyptian museum and the famed Giza Pyramids in Cairo for the first time in more than three months considering the coronavirus closure.

    The country wide carrier, EgyptAir, pointed out round 2,000 passengers left Cairo's international airport on 14 international flights on Wednesday.

    Two flights carrying over 350 Ukrainian travelers landed in the red Sea motel of Hurghada and the fundamental lodge and beach destination of Sharm el Sheikh in the southern part of Sinai Peninsula.

    Egypt has reopened its airports, the Egyptian museum and the famed Giza Pyramids in Cairo [File: Emilio Morenatti/ The Associated Press]

    10:15 GMT - N Korea reopens colleges, however stays on preserve towards COVID-19 chance: WHO

    North Korea has reopened faculties, however has stored a ban on public gatherings and made it mandatory for individuals to put on masks in public places as part of its response to the coronavirus hazard, an international fitness firm (WHO) professional referred to. 

    whereas North Korea has no longer tested any infections, its Ministry of Public health has been sharing weekly updates with the WHO on steps it is taking to dodge the pandemic, talked about Edwin Salvador, the agency's representative to the reclusive nation.

    in the newest replace provided on June 19, the ministry pointed out all educational associations at the moment are open, with little ones required to put on masks and washing stations put in.

    basic faculty babies donning face masks as a shielding measure in opposition t the COVID-19 attend a category at Hasin fundamental faculty [FIle: Kim Won Jin / AFP]

    10:00 GMT - Slovakia's daily coronavirus situations start returned to twenty

    The variety of new coronavirus infections in Slovakia have jumped returned up to twenty, the optimum every day determine considering every week ago and the 2d highest given that late April.

    The nation become among the first to put in force strict measures against the COVID-19 disease in March, which helped it to keep case numbers low. Most of those measures have now been eased.

    09:45 GMT - Airbus to reduce 15,000 jobs to live on coronavirus disaster

    Airbus is reducing 15,000 jobs inside a yr, including 900 already earmarked in Germany, asserting its future is at stake after the coronavirus outbreak paralysed air shuttle.

    Airbus is relocating all of a sudden to counter hurt caused by means of a forty p.c droop in its fifty five-billion-euro ($sixty one.8bn) jet business following the pandemic, balancing belt-tightening in opposition t aid provided through European governments and future priorities.

    09:30 GMT - Erdogan says ecu's remedy of Turkey over coronavirus is political

    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that the ecu treated Turkey in a restrictive means over the coronavirus pandemic in what he mentioned changed into a political stance.

    He didn't deliver extra particulars but his comments got here after the ecu excluded Turkey, together with the U.S. and other nations, from its initial "safe list" of nations from which the bloc will enable non-simple travel from Wednesday.

    Turkey has reopened restaurants and cafes apart from many different public areas, because the executive eases coronavirus restrictions [File: Reuters]

    09:15 GMT - Austria concerns travel warnings for Western Balkan countries

    Austria has issued shuttle warnings for Western Balkan nations that aren't part of the eu on account of a rise in coronavirus infections there, overseas Minister Alexander Schallenberg and his ministry noted. 

    Schallenberg noted the measure utilized to six nations. His ministry said on Twitter those are Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. 

    09:00 GMT - Australia to lock down 300,000 in Melbourne suburbs 

    Australia has fared stronger than many international locations in the pandemic, with around 7,920 cases, 104 deaths and fewer than four hundred lively circumstances, however the recent soar has stoked fears of a 2nd wave of COVID-19, echoing considerations expressed in other nations.

    Globally, coronavirus circumstances surpassed 10 million on Sunday, an important milestone in the unfold of a disorder that has killed more than half 1,000,000 people in seven months.

     Victorian premier Daniel Andrews introduced lockdowns for residents of Melbourne suburbs identified as COVID-19 hotspots following a spike in new instances [Daniel Pockett/Getty Images]

    08:45 GMT - Beirut airport reopens to overseas flights

    Lebanon's only overseas airport has reopened following a more than three-month shutdown as a part of the nation's lockdown to evade the unfold of the coronavirus.

    The airport will operate at 10 p.c skill originally, bringing in around 2,000 travellers a day.

    the primary flight to reach became Emirates from Dubai. Others scheduled on Wednesday are from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, London and Paris.

    A passenger wearing a protective face mask pushes a trolley at Beirut overseas airport on its reopening day [Aziz Taher/ Reuters]

    08:30 GMT - Greece reopens islands to flights in bid to keep tourism season

    Greece has organized to welcome tourist flights to its island locations for the first time in months, because it raced to salvage a tourism season shredded by the coronavirus pandemic.

    greater than one hundred flights from different european international locations and a select group of non-ecu nations are anticipated at 14 regional airports together with Corfu, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes and Crete, airport operator Fraport pointed out.

    Flights from the United Kingdom, considered one of its most profitable shuttle markets, are not as a result of restart until July 15 on the earliest, based on eu suggestions. The equal applies to the us, Russia, Turkey and Sweden.

    Mykonos hopes to save its vacationer season as Greece eases go back and forth restrictions [Getty Images]

    08:15 GMT - Russia reviews 6,556 coronavirus situations 

    Russia has suggested 6,556 new instances of the unconventional coronavirus, taking its nationwide tally to 654,405.

    The nation's coronavirus response centre referred to 216 individuals had died of the virus within the remaining 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 9,536.

    08:00 GMT - Burundi adjustments tack as president proclaims COVID-19 'greatest enemy'

    Burundi's new President Evariste Ndayishimiye has declared the coronavirus the country's "largest enemy", in an enormous about-flip for a nation which has generally left out the hazards of the virus.

    Former president Pierre Nkurunziza, who died last month, and even Ndayishimiye himself, had in the past downplayed the gravity of the pandemic, announcing God had spared Burundi from its ravages.

    Burundi held a full-blown campaign ahead of a may also election, and unlike its neighbours has taken few measures to combat the unfold of the virus.

    A purple move employee stands among supporters of Burundi's President elect Evariste Ndayishimiye as they attend his inauguration ceremony [File: Reuters]

    07:45 GMT - Beijing lifts some lockdowns as virus situations drop

    Beijing has lifted a number of lockdowns imposed to handle a fresh coronavirus outbreak and stated simply three new cases within the city, elevating hopes that the cluster had been introduced beneath control.

    The chinese language capital had closed off dozens of residential compounds and carried out mass testing ultimate month after tons of of infections raised fears of a virulent disease resurgence.

    however 5 residential communities which have had no new virus cases during a handle period had been released from lockdown on Tuesday, state media pronounced, because the metropolis relaxed curbs.

    07:30 GMT - Thailand eases restrictions, reopens colleges

    Thailand has further eased COVID-19 restrictions, permitting the reopening of schools and amusement venues comparable to eating places and massage parlours that had been shut due to the fact mid-March.

    It is also permitting in overseas visitors on a managed groundwork, limiting entry to those with latest household or work ties, students, technical specialists and buyers. Scheduled passenger flights to Thailand have been suspended in early April.

    The variety of foreign company allowed into the nation daily is proscribed to 200, and they are imagined to go back and forth on repatriation flights bringing Thai citizens domestic. 

    college students of Sam Khok school in Thailand donning face masks and face shields take a seat internal ancient ballot boxes repurposed into partitions as they attend a class [Reuters]

    07:15 GMT - Tokyo Disneyland reopens

    Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea have reopened after being closed for four months due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    the two parks have new guidelines, together with limiting the number of entrants in three shifts to preserve social distancing. No handshakes, hugging or photos all in favour of Mickey Mouse and different characters are allowed.

    friends take a photograph after the reopening of Tokyo Disneyland together with Tokyo DisneySea [Reuters]

    07:00 GMT - El Al airways hit challenging in first quarter via coronavirus crisis

    El Al Israel airlines has mentioned a first quarter loss on a steep drop in salary and mentioned it has needed to give up a few of its fleet and liberate most of its personnel on unpaid go away to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.

    Israel's flag service is searching for state-backed loans to aid it through the disaster, as foreigners are barred from coming into the nation and incoming Israelis have to enter quarantine.

    The government argues that the airline's issues, including a bloated staff, excessive salaries and a susceptible stability sheet, begun well earlier than the pandemic.

    06:00 GMT - Tokyo confirms 67 new circumstances

    Tokyo has confirmed 67 new circumstances of coronavirus an infection, the maximum day by day tally within the jap capital on the grounds that the state of emergency become lifted in late may also, public broadcaster NHK pronounced.

    hello, here is Elizabeth Melimopoulos in Doha taking on the are living updates from my colleague Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur.

    05:00 GMT - Brazil coronavirus deaths reach pretty much 60,000

    Brazil has reported 1,271 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, bringing its complete because the beginning of the pandemic to fifty nine,656.

    The country is the worst-affected on earth after the U.S., with more than 1.4 million validated cases of the virus to date.

    04:15 GMT - Google delays reopening of places of work in the US

    Google has talked about it is going to postpone the hole of its offices in the US as a result of the surge in coronavirus situations there.

    Spokeswoman Katherine Williams advised Reuters the tech gigantic's workplaces would stay closed until at least September 7, with body of workers carrying on with to do business from home.

    Google had deliberate to open at 10-percent ability from July 6, rising to 30 p.c in September counting on circumstances.

    04:00 GMT - Saudi Arabia tripling VAT as part of coronavirus-austerity drive

    individuals in Saudi Arabia have been on a browsing spree in the run-as much as a tripling in VAT on Wednesday.

    retailers say revenue of electronics, gold, cars and building substances have risen particularly.

    the dominion announced in might also it could triple the VAT cost to fifteen percent and halve the charge-of-dwelling allowance given to residents as part of a kit of austerity measures because it feels the squeeze of sliding oil fees and the coronavirus pandemic.

    03:20 GMT - decide in Brazil dismisses order for Bolsonaro to wear masks

    A choose in Brazil has disregarded a court ruling that requires President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a masks when out in public.

    decide Daniele Maranhao Costa noted the ruling become now not critical as a result of masks are already mandatory in Brasilia, the federal capital.

    Bolsonaro, who has been dismissive of the virus, even as the toll climbed, has always broken actual distancing measures, shaking hands, taking selfies and hugging supporters all through rallies.

    02:30 GMT - US information biggest one-day rise in cases

    the united states recorded greater than 47,000 circumstances of coronavirus on Tuesday - the biggest one-day spike due to the fact the pandemic all started - in response to a Reuters count.

    Some 1,199 people also died from COVID-19 on Tuesday, the first time the death toll has passed 1,000 considering June 10.

    01:30 GMT - circumstances in 14 US states more than double in June

    Alarming facts from the USA indicates that coronavirus situations in 14 states greater than doubled in June, with Arizona reporting a 294-percent enhance.

    Arizona also has the optimum expense of individuals checking out nice for the virus - at 24 percent all through the past week. The WHO considers positive testing rates of above 5 p.c a priority.

    US case raises in June:

  • Arizona - 294 %
  • South Carolina - 200 percent
  • Arkansas - 179 percent
  • 01:15 GMT - South Korea begins using remdesivir treatment

    South Korea has began the usage of remdesivir, an experimental drug originally developed for Ebola, to deal with its severely sick COVID-19 sufferers.

    Yonhap news agency says the Korea centers for sickness control and Prevention signed an contract with Gilead Sciences, which holds a patent for the drug. It did not expose the amount of remdesivir it will purchase or the rate.

    01:00 GMT - North Korea has verified 922 individuals

    The WHO has instructed NK information that North Korea has verified just 922 individuals for COVID-19.

    this is the first update on the coronavirus circumstance in North Korea for 2 months.

    "As per the replace acquired on June 19, 922 people have been established for COVID-19 and all established terrible," WHO consultant to the DPRK Edwin Salvador told the publication.

    He delivered that 443 people had been quarantined when you consider that may additionally 7 and that as many as 255 stay under quarantine. All are reportedly North Korean nationals.

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    hi there and welcome to Al Jazeera's carrying on with insurance of the coronavirus pandemic. i am Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur.

    examine all the updates from the day gone by (June 30) right here.

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