#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
	World	7,984,169	+123,645	435,181
1	USA	2,162,228	+20,004	117,858
2	Brazil	867,882	+17,086	43,389
3	Russia	528,964	+8,835	6,948
4	India	332,783	+11,157	9,520
5	UK	295,889	+1,514	41,698
6	Spain	291,008	+323	27,136
7	Italy	236,989	+338	34,345
8	Peru	229,736	+4,604	6,688
9	Germany	187,671	+248	8,870
10	Iran	187,427	+2,472	8,837
11	Turkey	178,239	+1,562	4,807
12	Chile	174,293	+6,938	3,323
13	France	157,220	+407	29,407
14	Mexico	142,690	+3,494	16,872
15	Pakistan	139,230	+6,825	2,632
16	Saudi Arabia	127,541	+4,233	972
17	Canada	98,787	+377	8,146
18	Bangladesh	87,520	+3,141	1,171
19	China	83,132	+57	4,634
20	Qatar	79,602	+1,186	73
21	South Africa	70,038	+4,302	1,480
22	Belgium	60,029	+111	9,655
23	Belarus	53,973	+732	308
24	Sweden	51,614	+38	4,874
25	Colombia	50,939	+2,193	1,667
26	Netherlands	48,783	+143	6,059
27	Ecuador	46,751	+395	3,896
28	Egypt	44,598	+1,618	1,575
29	UAE	42,294	+304	289
30	Singapore	40,604	+407	26
31	Indonesia	38,277	+857	2,134
32	Portugal	36,690	+227	1,517
33	Kuwait	35,920	+454	296
34	Argentina	31,577	+1,282	833
35	Ukraine	31,154	+648	889
36	Switzerland	31,117	+23	1,938
37	Poland	29,392	+375	1,247
38	Philippines	25,930	+538	1,088
39	Ireland	25,303	+8	1,706
40	Afghanistan	24,766	+664	471
41	Oman	23,481	+1,404	104
42	Dominican Republic	22,962	+390	592
43	Romania	21,999	+320	1,410
44	Panama	21,418	+1,359	437
45	Iraq	20,209	+1,259	607
46	Israel	19,055	+83	300
47	Bahrain	18,227	+514	42
48	Bolivia	17,842	+913	585
49	Japan	17,429	+47	925
50	Austria	17,109	+31	677
51	Armenia	16,667	+663	269
52	Nigeria	16,085	+403	420
53	Kazakhstan	14,496	+258	77
54	Serbia	12,310	+59	254
55	Denmark	12,193	+54	597
56	S. Korea	12,085	+34	277
57	Ghana	11,964	+846	54
58	Moldova	11,740	+281	406
59	Algeria	10,919	+109	767
60	Czechia	10,024	+33	329

 

 

Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

 

 

Health experts predict the virus will afflict the U.S. for months to come.

Medical workers transported a patient  in El Paso, Texas., in May.Credit...Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

The coronavirus won’t be losing its grip on the United States any time soon, leading infectious disease experts said on Sunday, adding that they were uncertain how the viral spread would be affected by the patchwork of states reopening businesses and by large events like protests and President Trump’s upcoming campaign rallies.

“This virus is not going to rest” until it infects about 60 percent to 70 percent of the population, said Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

Experts have estimated that without a vaccine, about 70 percent of the population will need to be infected and develop immunity in order to stop the virus’s spread, a concept called herd immunity. The current number of confirmed American cases is over 2 million, less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, according to a New York Times database. 

Dr. Osterholm said that recent data show the rate of infection has been level in eight states, increasing in 22 states and decreasing in the rest. The increase is not simply due to more widely available testing, the experts said, noting that Covid-19 hospitalizations are rising in several states.

“At this point, hospitals are at risk of getting overwhelmed and that is basically signaling to me that those states are already behind,” said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of the special pathogens unit at Boston University School of Medicine, on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said that by July 4, coronavirus deaths in the United States would likely jump from the current level of about 116,000 to somewhere between 124,000 and 140,000.

Dr. Bhadelia said the rise in cases in some states in the South and West suggested that “we opened too early in those states.”

Dr. Osterholm added that so far there had not been widespread indications that protests over police killings of African-Americans and racial injustice had led to a spike in cases. He and other experts have noted that the protests are taking place outdoors and that many participants are wearing masks, factors expected to limit spread of the virus.

“On the other hand, yelling, screaming, being exposed to tear gas or smoke, which causes coughing, being put into a holding cell overnight in jail if you’re arrested — all are reasons why you would expect to see more cases,” Dr. Osterholm said.

The risk of viral spread at a rally like the one President Trump has planned for next weekend in Oklahoma is much higher, the experts said, because the rally will be indoors in a large arena and there will no requirement that attendees wear masks.

 

 

The White House won’t support extending expanded unemployment benefits past July, a top aide says.

Volunteers at a food donation site in San Antonio in May.Credit...Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times

The Trump administration does not plan to back the extension of expanded unemployment insurance benefits beyond the end of July, citing concerns that workers are opting to take the generous benefits instead of going back to their jobs.

Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said on Sunday that the White House would support new incentives to bring people back to work rather than push to renew the additional $600 in weekly jobless benefits when it expires at the end of next month.

“I mean, we’re paying people not to work,” Mr. Kudlow said on CNN. “It’s better than their salaries would get. And that might have worked for the first couple of months.”

President Trump and his economic advisers have been debating what another round of economic stimulus legislation could look like. They are in favor of a targeted approach to help industries that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, and the president has been calling for a payroll tax cut. White House officials have discussed a package that could cost $2 trillion or more.

One obstacle that could impede negotiations with Congress is a lack of transparency surrounding the $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program, which provides loans for small businesses. The Trump administration has refused to make public the names of the recipients of the loans, which are expected to turn into grants, despite promises to be forthcoming about who is receiving taxpayer money.

On Sunday, Mr. Kudlow said “there is a certain privacy element here” when it comes to releasing the names of businesses that took the loans. He suggested that it would ultimately be up to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to decide on any additional disclosures.

“Now, insofar as naming each and every company, I don’t think that promise was ever made,” Mr. Kudlow said. “And I don’t think it’s necessary.”

 

 

China’s economy rebounds. But even as bars and restaurants open, movie theaters remain closed.

A closed cinema in Beijing last month.Credit...Wang Zhao/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

China had nearly eradicated the Covid-19 virus within its borders last month, but that was not enough to get the country’s consumers spending again — and with a new outbreak in Beijing over the past several days, a full economic recovery could be even farther away.

Restaurants, bars and shopping malls were open across China last month except for a small area near the border with North Korea and Russia, which had a coronavirus outbreak in May. But retail sales nonetheless fell 2.8 percent nationwide in May compared to a year ago.

The weak result, which was worse than most economists expected, is likely to trigger renewed discussion over a politically difficult question: whether to reopen the country’s cinemas, which are practically the only large category of retail spending that remains completely closed.

The closure of cinemas has been a big blow to shopping malls, at a time when a lot of purchasing is already moving online. Malls in China and around the world rely heavily on cinemas to draw people out of their homes, with the hope that they will stay after the movies to dine or shop. Unlike the malls, car dealerships had a fairly good month in May, with sales up 1.9 percent from an already strong month last year.

But Xi Jinping, the country’s leader, said at the end of March that cinemas were not needed, and no one has dared to challenge his decision publicly since then.

“If anyone wants to watch a movie, just watch it online,” Mr. Xi said during a visit on March 31 to Hangzhou in east-central China’s Zhejiang province.

Exports were also weak in May. Beijing announced last week that they had fallen 3.3 percent.

Industrial production was up 4.4 percent last month compared to a year ago, also slightly below expectations. Factory output has consistently run well ahead of retail sales this spring, raising worries that unsold inventories may pile up and trigger another round of production cutbacks.

 

 

Desperate for health care, Afghans flocked to an herbalist for his ‘vaccine.’

Workers making masks at a factory in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday.Credit...Hedayatullah Amid/EPA, via Shutterstock

As the virus spreads and the death toll climbs in Afghanistan, officials say they simply do not have the capacity to contain the pandemic as they try to manage a bloody war with the Taliban — and stave off the possibility of famine in the overwhelmingly poor country.

The government is largely dependent on aid from donor countries that are themselves grappling with the pandemic. Without a social safety net, many Afghans quickly stopped obeying lockdown orders and returned to work. Infections mounted last month after markets were flooded in the run-up to Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that ends the holy month of Ramadan.

Hospitals have been overwhelmed. People hoard oxygen cylinders at home, deepening the state of panic at health facilities. Death notices flood social media, few mentioning the cause. Crowded funerals follow.

Perhaps nothing has underscored the public desperation so much as the popularity of a “vaccine” touted by a herbalist in Kabul. For weeks, thousands of people swarmed Hakeem Alokozai’s shop. His customers included laborers, officers of the security forces and even lawmakers in the country’s Parliament.

“The rush was such that sometimes people brought blankets and slept on the road the night before to be first in line the next morning,” said Sediqullah Nekzad, a tailor next door to the clinic. “Hundred percent, it worked — one time they brought a patient in an ambulance who was plugged into oxygen. An hour later, I swear to god, he walked on his own feet. I saw it with my own eyes.”

But the Health Ministry tested his wares, and found that they included several types of opiates — opium, morphine, papaverine, codeine — mixed with a few herbs. Mr. Alokozai’s big-ticket supporters quietly backed off.

The first attempts to close the clinic were met with furious protests, but Mr. Alokozai eventually went into hiding.

 

 

With major sports shut down, gamblers turn to stocks — and appear to be moving markets.

The New York Stock Exchange this month.Credit...Sasha Maslov for The New York Times

Millions of small-time investors have opened trading accounts in recent months, a flood of new buyers unlike anything the market had seen in years, just as coronavirus pandemic lockdown orders halted entire sectors of the U.S. economy and sent unemployment soaring.

Some Wall Street analysts see people who used to bet on sports as playing a big role in the market’s recent surge, which has largely erased its losses for the year.

“There’s zero doubt in my mind that it is a factor,” said Julian Emanuel, the chief equity and derivatives strategist at the brokerage firm BTIG.

Stymied sports bettors are sitting on a substantial amount of money. Last year, gamblers legally wagered more than $13 billion on sports, according to Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, a research and consulting firm.

Betting collapsed when the outbreak shut down the major sports leagues. Sports betting revenues in March dropped about 60 percent from February, the company said. They may have fallen as much as 80 percent more in April.

Some of the new stock traders are behaving like aggressive gamblers.

There has been a jump in small bets in the stock options market, where wagers on the direction of share prices can produce thrilling scores and gut-wrenching losses. And transactions that make little economic sense, like buying up the nearly valueless shares of bankrupt companies, are off the charts.

 

 

Efforts to slow the coronavirus sped up the spread of other diseases.

Health workers immunizing against measles in Manila last month.Credit...Aaron Favila/Associated Press

 

As poor countries around the world struggle to beat back the coronavirus, they are unintentionally contributing to fresh explosions of illness and death from other diseases — ones that are readily prevented by vaccines.

This spring, after the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic could spread swiftly when children gathered for shots, many countries suspended their inoculation programs. Even in countries that tried to keep them going, cargo flights with vaccine supplies were halted by the pandemic and health workers diverted to fight it.

Now, diphtheria is appearing in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Cholera is in South Sudan, Cameroon, Mozambique, Yemen and Bangladesh.

A mutated strain of poliovirus has been reported in more than 30 countries.

And measles is flaring around the globe, including in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Nigeria and Uzbekistan.

As the pandemic lingers, the W.H.O. and other international public health groups are now urging countries to carefully resume vaccination while contending with the coronavirus.

But the obstacles to restarting are considerable. Vaccine supplies are still hard to come by. Health care workers are increasingly working full time on Covid-19, the infection caused by the coronavirus. And a new wave of vaccine hesitancy is keeping parents from clinics.

“Immunization is one of the most powerful and fundamental disease prevention tools in the history of public health,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the W.H.O., in a statement. “Disruption to immunization programs from the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to unwind decades of progress against vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.”

 

 

Despite acting early to fight the virus, Peru is one of the world’s worst hot spots.

 

President Martín Vizcarra of Peru ordered one of Latin America’s first and strictest lockdowns, and rolled out one of the region’s biggest economic aid packages to help people stay home. He shared detailed health data with the public, increased testing and rushed to add hospital beds and ventilators.

But like India, which acted early but now ranks fourth in reported cases, Peru has become one of the world’s worst coronavirus hot spots.

Its hospitals are overwhelmed, its people fleeing the cities. The crisis has torn away Peru’s veneer of economic progress, exposing the deep-rooted inequality and corruption that thwarted its pandemic response.

“They asked us to stay at home, but a lot of people have no savings, so that was impossible,” said Hugo Ñopo, who works for Grade, a Peruvian research group. “They asked us to wash our hands, but one in three Peruvian households lacks access to running water.”

Only half of Peruvian homes have refrigerators, he said, so many families must return daily to crowded markets, a major source of contagion.

Peru’s tragedy is unfolding amid a broader explosion of the virus in Latin America, which over the past two months has been transformed from a haven into a center of the pandemic. The hardest hit is Brazil, with more than 850,000 known cases — second only to the United States — but altogether about 1.5 million people in Latin America have tested positive. Experts say the actual number of infections is much higher.

Throughout the region, the pandemic is straining health systems and economies that were already fragile. In Guatemala, at least 58 people on President Alejandro Giammattei’s staff have tested positive, although the president said he had tested negative. And in Chile, the health minister resigned this weekend amid criticism of his handling of the pandemic.

And with winter arriving in the southern part of the region and hurricane season in the northern part, the World Health Organization warned last week that adverse weather conditions could lead to a new spike in infections.

 

 

Around the world, the pandemic has added an obstacle for women seeking safe abortions.

A protest in Poland in April against an effort to tighten the country’s abortion rules.Credit...Jakub Kaczmarczyk/EPA, via Shutterstock

 

From the outset of the pandemic, advocacy groups and the United Nations warned that women’s access to reproductive services could be imperiled as movement among jurisdictions became far more difficult.

In many places, that is proving true. In Europe, closed borders added an obstacle for women in countries with strict abortion regulations, such as Poland, if they wanted to seek the procedure elsewhere. The complications were deepened when countries including Germany and Austria did not label abortions as essential, time-sensitive procedures while tackling the health care demands of the pandemic.

But the pandemic also cracked open windows in some parts of the continent. France, Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales in Britain all permitted at-home abortions with medication administered by prescription and the guidance of a medical professional via telephone or online.

Across the Atlantic, where the debate over abortion is more politicized, disruptions to services were more deliberate.

Anti-abortion governors in Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Iowa and Alabama listed abortions as “nonessential” procedures, arguing that performing them would threaten supplies of medical resources and protective equipment.

The medical community pushed back, setting off a flurry of lawsuits to keep services running.

In the meantime, some women ended up racing across state lines to avoid the new limitations. One traveled from Arkansas to Oklahoma to Kansas before she could terminate her pregnancy.

 

Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-national®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu

 

 

 

Germany lifts travel warning for 27 European countries

CNN's Al Goodman, Ingrid Formanek and Laura Perez Maestro

 

Northbound traffic from Germany into Denmark queues at the border between the two countries near the town of Krusa on June 15. Claus Fisker/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

Germany has lifted its travel warning for 27 countries in continental Europe.

Spain is not included in the list, but some German tourists can now travel to the popular Balearic island of Mallorca.

Frankfurt airport this morning remained quiet, however. Only two flights are leaving for Palma de Mallorca today the departure display showed, according to CNN affiliate n-tv. 

Spain’s Balearic Islands are set to see 10,900 German visitors in the second half of June in a “pilot project” to test tourism safety measures during the pandemic, the Balearic regional president said. 

The project starts on June 15 -- two weeks before the rest of Spain reopens for tourism -- and includes the islands of Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera.

 

 

Guatemala declares "maximum alert" in four  regions as coronavirus cases surge 

From CNN's Daniel Silva Fernandez and Michelle Mendoza

 

Municipal firefighters disinfect each other outside the Hospital General de Enfermedades after transferring a patient in Guatemala City on June 12. Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images

Guatemala has declared a state of "maximum alert" in four administrative regions, the country's President Alejandro Giammattei announced Sunday. 

The alerts went into effect in the regions -- called departments -- of Guatemala, El Progreso, Sacatepéquez and San Marcos. It comes in response to the increase in coronavirus cases in those particular areas, the President said in an address to the nation.  

The new measures will last for 15 days and include full-day curfews on Sundays, and from 6 p.m. until 5 a.m. the rest of the week. Vehicles with odd and even number plates are only allowed to drive on alternate days. 

The entire country has been on a state of "high alert" since February 25. 

Guatemala has so far registered 384 coronavirus-related deaths, with 9,845 people infected with the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University data. 

 

 

Boris Johnson desperately needs his lockdown gamble to pay off

From CNN's Luke McGee

 

 

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Westfield shopping centre in east London on June 14. John Nguyen/AFP/Getty Images

The UK is taking a tentative step in its slow emergence from coronavirus lockdown. As of Monday, lockdown measures will be eased in England, allowing non-essential shops to reopen along with some public spaces like zoos and theme parks.

It's impossible to overstate how important it is for Prime Minister Boris Johnson that this goes well after a painful few weeks.

His pandemic response has been attacked across the political spectrum, as has his handling of recent Black Lives Matter protests across the country, with critics accusing Johnson of using language that enflames racial division, leading ultimately to ugly scenes as far-right extremist groups took part in violent counter-protests at the weekend. So, from the government's perspective, this easing of lockdown must not end in disaster.

The worst-case scenario is that unlocking leads to a second wave of coronavirus infections, resulting in more deaths and the country being locked down again. It will be very hard to sell this to a public which, despite largely obeying measures since March, has the highest death rate in Europe.

 

 

Hong Kong Disneyland, closed for five months due to Covid-19, is ready to reopen

From CNN's Lilit Marcus

 

A security guard checks an empty square usually filled with visitors at Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong on January 26. Ayaka McGill/AFP/Getty Images

On June 18, Hong Kong Disneyland will become the world's second Disney park to reopen.

One of the smallest Disney theme parks, it closed on January 26 due to the global coronavirus crisis and has remained shut since then, with a few exceptions -- namely its hotels and a few on-site restaurants.

Shanghai Disneyland was the first park to reopen, welcoming guests back on May 11. Its reopening gave clues as to what Disney parks around the world would look like post-coronavirus, with social distancing regulations enforced and both guests and employees (aka cast members) sporting face masks.

And it looks like Hong Kong Disneyland will follow similar procedures.

Guests will be required to book reservations online at least one week in advance in order to maintain crowd control. Upon arrival, they will have to submit to temperature checks, fill out a health declaration form and wear face masks.

Magic Access members, who are the park's annual pass holders, will get priority for booking reservations.

 

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-06-15-20-intl/index.html

 

 

 

Summary

• Cases worldwide pass 7.9 million. According to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official government figures, there have been 433,394
  known coronavirus deaths worldwide since the start of the pandemic. The number of confirmed cases stands at 7,912,981.

• Beijing authorities have locked down residential compounds and fired officials over a new Covid-19 outbreak as health officials warned the risk of the outbreak worsening was “very high”. Xu Hejian, a spokesman for the Beijing city government, said on Sunday that Beijing had entered “an extraordinary period”. From Monday, 10 residential neighbourhoods around a second seafood market, Yuquandong market in Haidian where one asymptomatic case was found over the weekend, were shut.

• China reports 49 more virus cases as Beijing tests thousands. Chinese health officials reported 49 new coronavirus cases on Monday, including 36 more in the capital, Beijing, where a fresh cluster linked to a wholesale food market has fuelled fears of a second wave of infections.

• Hong Kong’s Disneyland to reopen on 18 June. Hong Kong’s Disneyland theme park said on Monday it will reopen on 18 June to a reduced number of visitors and with enhanced health measures after the coronavirus outbreak forced it to close in late January. The Chinese-ruled city has reported only a handful of new cases recently, with its total so far standing at 1,110 infections and 4 deaths.

• Republicans insist Trump Tulsa rally won’t spread coronavirus – despite local concern. Republican lawmakers are downplaying concerns that a Donald Trump indoor rally planned for Tulsa, Oklahoma, for next weekend could contribute to the spread Covid-19, amid an increase in cases in the city. The Tulsa city-county health department director, Bruce Dart, said he worried the rally could be dangerous for attendees as well as the president. “I wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn’t as large a concern as it is today,” Dart told Tulsa World.

• UK economy to shrink by 8% in 2020, forecasters say. The British economy will shrink by 8% this year and is unlikely to recover from the damage wrought by the coronavirus crisis until 2023, according to a leading economic forecaster. After official figures showed Britain’s economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April – putting the country on course for the worst recession in more than three centuries – the EY Item Club was moved to produce its first interim report between two quarterly updates to reflect the deteriorating outlook.

• Thousands of UK stores will reopen in England on Monday as the government lifts restrictions on non-essential shops that were imposed at the height of the pandemic in March. The lockdown has cost non-food retailers £1.7bn a week in lost sales, according to the Office for National Statistics. The number of people venturing out to shop in May was just 20% of those out and about last year, according to the monthly British Retail Consortium-Shopper Trak survey. Despite the lifting of restrictions, the BRC experts predict only a modest pick-up in the coming days.

• Demand for flu vaccine soars as countries plan for second Covid-19 wave. Fears of a second wave of coronavirus have sparked a global scramble for influenza shots from countries that hope to vaccinate great swathes of the population to reduce pressure on their health services.Health officials in the UK are considering whether to offer flu shots to everyone as part of planning for a resurgence of coronavirus in the autumn, but with other countries hitting on the same strategy, demand for flu vaccines has soared.

• Brazil has registered a further 612 deaths, taking the country’s death toll to 43,332, Reuters reports. The health ministry announced 17,110 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s total to 867,624.

• Colombia cases topped 50,000. Confirmed coronavirus cases in Colombia have risen to over 50,000, the country’s health ministry said on Sunday, while neighbouring Ecuador approached the same milestone, Reuters reports. Colombia has reported 50,939 cases of the coronavirus and 1,667 deaths.

• Chilean copper miners’ unions have demanded a re-evaluation of the operational continuity plans of the country’s biggest mines during what they said was an “alarming” increase in coronavirus cases among workers.

• Veteran Congolese politician Pierre Lumbi, once an adviser to former president Joseph Kabila and a leading opposition figure, has died from the coronavirus, Reuters is reporting.

• France has reported nine new coronavirus deaths, taking the total to 29,407 and marking the fifth day with under 30 fatalities, Reuters reports.

• England’s coronavirus lockdown should not be further lifted until the government’s contact-tracing system has proven to be “robust and effective”, the World Health Organization has said after widespread criticism of the first results of the new tracking operation.

• French president Emmanuel Macron has said that all of France will move into the ‘green zone’ regarding coronavirus risks from Monday. Gatherings will remain tightly controlled but restaurants will reopen in the Paris region.

• The number of new coronavirus cases in Turkey rose to 1,562 in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Sunday, almost double the level to which they had fallen in early June when Ankara lifted travel restrictions and reopened facilities.

• Egypt will reopen all its airports on 1 July, the civil aviation minister said on Sunday, after suspending regular international flights in March.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/15/coronavirus-live-news-beijing-enters-extraordinary-period-as-it-races-to-contain-new-covid-19-outbreak?page=with:block-5ee70e6c8f08bc1dd58e2bbb#liveblog-navigation