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#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
	World	9,345,569	+162,994	478,949
1	USA	2,424,168	+36,015	123,473
2	Brazil	1,151,479	+40,131	52,771
3	Russia	599,705	+7,425	8,359
4	India	456,115	+15,665	14,483
5	UK	306,210	+921	42,927
6	Spain	293,832	+248	28,325
7	Peru	260,810	+3,363	8,404
8	Chile	250,767	+3,804	4,505
9	Italy	238,833	+113	34,675
10	Iran	209,970	+2,445	9,863
11	Germany	192,778	+659	8,986
12	Turkey	190,165	+1,268	5,001
13	Mexico	185,122	+4,577	22,584
14	Pakistan	185,034	+3,946	3,695
15	Saudi Arabia	164,144	+3,139	1,346
16	France	161,267	+517	29,720
17	Bangladesh	119,198	+3,412	1,545
18	South Africa	106,108	+4,518	2,102
19	Canada	101,963	+326	8,454
20	Qatar	89,579	+1,176	99
21	China	83,418	+22	4,634
22	Colombia	73,572	+2,389	2,404
23	Sweden	60,837	+205	5,161
24	Belgium	60,810	+260	9,713
25	Belarus	59,487	+464	357
26	Egypt	58,141	+1,332	2,365
27	Ecuador	51,643	+1,003	4,274
28	Netherlands	49,722	+64	6,095
29	Indonesia	47,896	+1,051	2,535
30	Argentina	47,203	+2,272	1,078
31	UAE	45,683	+380	305
32	Singapore	42,432	+119	26
33	Kuwait	41,033	+742	334
34	Portugal	39,737	+345	1,540
35	Ukraine	38,074	+833	1,035
36	Iraq	34,502	+1,826	1,251
37	Poland	32,527	+300	1,375
38	Oman	32,394	+1,318	140
39	Philippines	31,825	+1,143	1,186
40	Switzerland	31,332	+22	1,956
41	Afghanistan	29,481	+324	618
42	Dominican Republic	27,936	+566	675
43	Panama	27,314	+562	536
44	Bolivia	25,493	+1,105	820
45	Ireland	25,391	+8	1,720
46	Romania	24,505	+214	1,539
47	Bahrain	23,062	+655	67
48	Israel	21,512	+430	308
49	Nigeria	21,371	+452	533
50	Armenia	21,006	+418	372
51	Kazakhstan	18,231	+499	134
52	Japan	17,968	+52	955
53	Austria	17,408	+28	693
54	Moldova	14,714	+351	490
55	Ghana	14,568	+414	95
56	Guatemala	13,769	+624	547
57	Azerbaijan	13,715	+508	167
58	Honduras	13,356	+584	395
59	Serbia	13,092	+102	263
60	Denmark	12,561	+34	603

 

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

 

 

 

New York City agrees to open beaches for swimming on July 1.

 

Rockaway Beach on Memorial Day weekend.Credit...Hilary Swift for The New York Times

New Yorkers will soon be able to seek relief from the summer heat in the waters of the city’s public beaches.

Starting July 1, the city’s 14 miles of beaches will open for swimming and be staffed with lifeguards, a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed on Tuesday night. The city’s dozens of public pools, however, will remain closed.

The decision about the beaches came as New York City entered the second part of the state’s four-phase reopening plan. This phase permits outdoor dining and some in-store shopping, and also allows hair salons, barbershops and real estate firms to reopen.

Typically, the city’s beaches open on Memorial Day weekend, at the end of May. Most other beaches in the New York region have been open for weeks, though many of them have limited access in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Mr. de Blasio’s decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, came as the City Council was threatening to force his hand. On Tuesday, Politico reported that Mark Levine, a councilman from Manhattan, was planning to introduce legislation that would have required the mayor to allow swimming at the beaches.

Henry Garrido, executive director of the lifeguards’ union, said the city pools were used to train and certify about 500 lifeguards this spring.

The current ban on swimming has not prevented all New Yorkers from going into the water. In Queens, where the beaches have been packed on weekends, people have routinely violated the rules and frolicked in the waves off Rockaway Beach.

 

 

Fauci and Redfield said they weren’t consulted on withdrawing from the W.H.O., and still work with it ‘day by day.’

 

Dr. Robert R. Redfield on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.Credit...Al Drago for The New York Times

Two of the nation’s top health officials expressed concern on Tuesday about Mr. Trump’s decision late last month to withdraw from the World Health Organization, but said that they had maintained longstanding relationships with the W.H.O. even as the White House moved to punish the agency over its relationship with China.

In their congressional testimony, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Redfield said that they were not consulted on the withdrawal, but that they remained in close touch with the organization.

“Despite any policy issues that come from higher up in the White House, we at the operational level continue to interact with the W.H.O. in a very meaningful way, literally on a day by day basis,” Dr. Fauci said, adding that he was still on a weekly call with the organization that puts him in touch with international medical officials.

Mr. Trump’s move to withdraw was one part of a broad effort to retaliate against China and assign blame over the origins of the virus. Like some Republican lawmakers, he has portrayed the W.H.O. as a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party.

Dr. Redfield said that Mr. Trump’s decision has potential financial consequences for the W.H.O., but that the C.D.C. has been able to circumvent those.

“We have the ability to provide funding to the operation through different mechanisms, so we can continue the public health work that we need to get done,” he said.

 

 

The European Union may bar U.S. travelers as it reopens borders, citing virus failures.

 

Travelers at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday.Credit...Etienne Laurent/EPA, via Shutterstock

European countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen borders after months of restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the pandemic, according to draft lists of acceptable travelers seen by The New York Times.

That prospect, which would lump U.S. visitors in with Russians and Brazilians as unwelcome, is a stinging blow to American prestige and a tacit repudiation of President Trump’s handling of the virus. The United States has more than 2.3 million cases and upward of 120,000 deaths, more than any other country.

Matina Stevis-Gridneff, our Brussels correspondent, reports that members of the European Union are still haggling over two potential lists of acceptable visitors based on how countries are faring with the virus. But both include China and developing nations like Uganda, Cuba and Vietnam — and neither includes the United States.

Travelers from the United States and the rest of the world have been excluded from visiting the European Union — with few exceptions, mostly for repatriations or “essential travel” — since mid-March. A final decision on reopening the borders is expected early next week.

A ban on American visitors reflects the shifting pattern of the pandemic.

In March, when Europe was the epicenter, Mr. Trump infuriated European leaders by banning citizens from most E.U. countries from traveling to the United States. He said the move was necessary to protect Americans.

In late May and early June, Mr. Trump said Europe was “making progress” and hinted that some restrictions would be lifted soon. But nothing has happened.

Today, Europe has largely curbed the outbreak, even as the United States has seen infections surge in just the past week.

 

 

Saudi Arabia limits the hajj pilgrimage to 1,000 people.

 

Tents for pilgrims near Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The country announced it would hold a limited hajj this year.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday that only about 1,000 people would be allowed to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage at the end of July, signaling the effective cancellation of one of the world’s largest gatherings of Muslims.

Saudi officials already said Monday that, as a measure to prevent the spread of the virus, the hajj would be limited to Muslim residents of Saudi Arabia, who last year accounted for over one-quarter of the 2.5 million people who performed the pilgrimage.

But the updated restrictions announced Monday — allowing a tiny fraction of the usual crowd — amounted to a declaration that this year’s hajj would be a token showing.

“This is a very precise process,” the Hajj Minister, Mohammad Benten, told reporters. “We are working with health ministry experts and organizers to guarantee safe pilgrimage.”

Saudi Arabia has had one of the largest virus outbreaks in the Middle East, with 161,000 cases and 1,346 deaths. Although the rate of infections has risen in recent days, the authorities lifted a nationwide curfew to allow economic activity to resume, but they retained a ban on international travel.

Pilgrims permitted to perform the hajj this year will have to be younger than 65 and in good health, said the health minister, Tawfiq Al-Rabiah. They will be required to undergo a virus test in advance and to self-quarantine after they return home.

The announcement sent a wave of sadness across Muslim communities. “I am heartbroken, sad and disappointed but what can one do?” said Qari Ali Gul, who runs a seminary in Peshawar, Pakistan. “This must be the will of God.”

 

 

Latin America has already been hit hard. But the worst may still be ahead.

 

Cemetery workers covering the grave of a woman, who died of the coronavirus, near Mexico City on Friday.Credit...Henry Romero/Reuters

The virus was always going to hit Latin America hard. Experts warned that the region’s combustible blend of inequality, densely packed cities, legions of informal workers living day to day, and health care systems starved of resources could undermine even the best attempts to curb the pandemic.

But by brushing off the dangers, fumbling the response, dismissing scientific or expert guidance, withholding data and simply denying the extent of the outbreak altogether, some governments have made matters worse, and Latin America has quickly become a focal point.

Unlike in parts of Asia, Europe and the hardest-hit U.S. cities, the virus is gaining steam across the region. Deaths have more than doubled across Latin America in a month, according to the Pan American Health Organization, and the region now accounts for several of the world’s worst outbreaks.

And as the virus storms through the region, corruption has flourished, the already intense political polarization in some countries has deepened, and some governments have curtailed civil rights. Economies already stretched thin before the virus lie on the precipice of ruin.

Not all is dire in the region. Nations like Uruguay and Costa Rica seem to have avoided the worst so far, while an almost military-style health care intervention in Cuba has left the island nation in better standing than most.

 

 

In other news from around the world:

• In Germany, the governor of the state of North Rhein-Westphalia announced on Tuesday a temporary lockdown of Gütersloh, the district that includes a pork processing plant which has registered 1,550 new infections since last week. Later in the day, the state’s health minister declared that a neighboring district to the west, Warendorf, would also go back into lockdown.

• A French drugmaker plans to accelerate clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine in the hope of earning approval for it by the first half of next year. The drugmaker, Sanofi, announced the plan on Tuesday. The company and its partner, GlaxoSmithKline, had originally projected that a vaccine would be available — at the earliest — in the latter half of the year.

• Peruvian health authorities reported more than 3,000 new cases on Tuesday, pushing the country past 260,000 total. Peru has one of the world’s worst outbreaks, as deep-rooted inequality and graft have thwarted the early steps its took to prepare for the pandemic.

• Novak Djokovic, the world’s top-ranked male tennis player, said on Tuesday that he had tested positive, after days of growing criticism about an exhibition tournament he organized where other players were also found to be infected.

• Singapore’s prime minister announced that the city-state would hold the first elections in Southeast Asia since the pandemic began.

 

 

 

Trump speaks to a mostly mask-free crowd in Phoenix.

 

The majority of the crowd at President Trump’s address in Phoenix did not wear a mask.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

 

President Trump on Tuesday spoke in front of an almost completely maskless crowd of students who gathered to hear him inside a megachurch in Phoenix.

The sight of mask-free spectators at a high-profiling gathering was reminiscent of the president’s Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Okla. — except this time, the crowd violated a city requirement. Phoenix residents must wear masks in public spaces as Arizona battles a spike in coronavirus cases.

The mayor of Phoenix, Kate Gallego, issued a statement ahead of Mr. Trump’s event urging him and other elected officials speaking there to set an example and wear masks. Mr. Trump, however, has refused to appear in public with a mask. The one time he has been photographed in a mask was during a private portion of a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan that was producing ventilators.

Pictures of the Turning Point Action Convention inside the Dream City Church showed many red “MAGA” hats and uncovered faces.

In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump suggested that individuals were wearing masks not as a safety precaution, but as a political statement against him.

Many attendees at the Tulsa rally discarded masks that were distributed as they entered the indoor BOK Center.

In Arizona, some public health experts had warned that Tuesday’s gathering carried extreme risk for the general public.

The state has been struggling with a sharp rise in cases since Gov. Doug Ducey moved in May to lift stay-at-home orders.

On Tuesday, the Arizona Department of Health Services said the state had 3,591 new cases, eclipsing the record set Friday when 3,246 new cases were reported. There were also 42 deaths, raising the state’s toll to 1,384. And the state reported records for the number of virus patients hospitalized, in intensive care and on ventilators.

The handling of the pandemic by Governor Ducey, a Republican, has come under intense criticism from Democratic leaders in the state’s largest cities. Until last week, he resisted allowing mayors to make wearing masks mandatory in their cities.

 

 

A judge in Brazil has admonished President Bolsonaro for failing to wear a mask.

 

A maskless President Jair Bolsonaro visiting a field hospital this month.Credit...Adriano Machado/Reuters

A federal judge in Brazil admonished President Jair Bolsonaro for failing to wear a mask in public spaces in the capital, a rare rebuke for a leader who has repeatedly dismissed the danger posed by the coronavirus even as his country became a major hot spot.

Although officials in the capital, Brasília, have ordered residents to wear masks whenever they are outdoors, Mr. Bolsonaro has often been seen venturing outside with his face uncovered. Sometimes he shakes hands and encourages crowds.

Now it may cost him. At least, financially.

In an order issued late Monday, Judge Renato Coelho Borelli warned the president that he was subject to a $400 fine for appearing in public without a mask.

The order came as Brazil’s virus caseload passed a million over the weekend. More than 50,000 people have died, and in recent days health officials have often reported more than 1,000 deaths a day.

Those figures put Brazil behind only the United States.

In his order, the judge wrote that a “simple Google search” yields several photos of Mr. Bolsonaro walking around Brasília without a mask, “exposing other people to a disease that has caused national consternation.”

Several top aides of the president were found to have the virus in March after a presidential delegation returned from a trip to Florida, where Mr. Bolsonaro dined with President Trump.

The order was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by a Brazilian attorney, Victor Mendonça Neiva, who turned to the courts to call attention to the president’s cavalier handling of the health crisis.

Earlier this month, many weeks after it had become mandatory to wear a mask in Brasília, Mr. Bolsonaro stopped at a police checkpoint to shake people’s hands, hug children and take pictures with supporters. He wasn’t wearing a mask.

 

 

Mnuchin says another stimulus package could pass by the end of July and the tax filing deadline could again be extended.

 

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during a televised interview at the White House in Washington on Monday.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday that he could foresee another economic stimulus package passing in Congress by the end of July and that he was considering extending the tax filing deadline beyond the current date, July 15.

Speaking at an investing conference sponsored by Bloomberg, Mr. Mnuchin said that he would like to see the next stimulus legislation be more targeted toward individuals and businesses that have been hit hardest by the pandemic. He also downplayed the likelihood of including a major infrastructure investment in such a bill, noting that building roads and bridges would not necessarily help displaced workers get rehired quickly.

The comments came after Mr. Mnuchin told Senate Republicans on Tuesday that he agreed with the conference’s plans to wait until late July to address another relief package, as well as another round of stimulus checks to American taxpayers.

Mr. Mnuchin also contradicted earlier remarks made by Peter Navarro, a top White House economics adviser, that the Trump administration was willing to consider a $2 trillion package. He told senators that those comments were not representative of the administration’s position, according to two people familiar with the discussion, but unauthorized to disclose it publicly.

 

 

In other news from around the United States:

• A former director of the C.D.C., Dr. Julie Gerberding, warned a Senate committee Tuesday that the pandemic is “a harbinger of things to come,” and said there is no guarantee that a single vaccine will protect everyone from infection.

• In Florida, the Department of Health reported nearly 3,300 new cases on Tuesday, pushing the state’s total to 103,503. Since the state began reopening in May, cases have dramatically increased. On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said bars and restaurants will be able to continue to operate, but those that fail to limit capacity to 50 percent or follow other guidelines will “get a visit from the grim reaper in terms of business licenses.”

• Michigan’s governor asked an appeals court on Tuesday to put a hold on a federal judge’s order that will allow indoor gyms to open throughout the state. The judge agreed last week with the plaintiffs that the state did not provide sufficient justification for keeping gyms closed in all but the least populated parts of the state. The governor’s motion asks that the ruling not be put into effect until an appeal by the state is decided.

• Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut and Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey have joined Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York this week in publicly saying they are considering possible measures against travelers from states that are seeing large increases in cases. In March, Florida imposed a quarantine on people arriving from the New York region. “That’s something we’re seriously considering, that if you come in from a state that has a high transmission rate, you would have to self-quarantine or we would have to test you,” Mr. Cuomo said Tuesday on MSNBC, responding to a question about what New York might do.

• In Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Tuesday that in-person classes will resume at K-12 schools, community colleges and universities in the fall. Among other requirements that accompany this reopening, elementary schools must conduct temperature checks, and teachers and students must wear masks. Mr. Pritzker said K-12 districts would be provided with 2.5 million cloth face coverings.

• In New Jersey, amusement parks, water parks and playgrounds will reopen on July 2, the governor said Tuesday. Amusement parks and water parks must operate at 50 percent capacity, masks have to be worn when social distancing is not possible, and people must stay six feet apart in lines. The state reported 57 additional virus-related deaths. In New York State, there were 27 additional deaths, the governor said Tuesday.

• Citing the pandemic’s spread in federal prisons, Roger J. Stone Jr., Mr. Trump’s longtime friend and adviser, asked a judge for a two-month delay before he is forced to begin a 40-month sentence. Mr. Stone’s sentence is set to begin next week after his conviction on seven felonies committed in a bid to thwart a congressional inquiry that threatened Mr. Trump. Mr. Stone said that prosecutors had indicated they did not oppose the request.

 

Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/coronavirus-updates.html

 

 

 

Beijing reports lowest new coronavirus cases since shutting down wholesale food market 

From CNN's Shanshan Wang in Beijing

 

An epidemic control worker wears a protective suit as she performs a nucleic acid swab test for Covid-19 on a man at a government testing site on June 22, in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

 

China’s National Health Commission reported seven new cases of Covid-19 in Beijing on Tuesday.

It's the lowest number of daily new cases reported in the Chinese capital since a wholesale food market was shut down on June 13 after becoming the center of a new outbreak.

Across mainland China, the NHC reported 12 new coronavirus cases, including three imported infections and nine locally transmitted cases.

The local cases include the seven from Beijing along with two from Hebei province. No new deaths were reported.

In addition, three new asymptomatic cases were reported by the NHC. Currently 100 asymptomatic infections are under medical observation. 

Mainland China has reported more than 84,000 coronavirus cases, including at least 4,640 deaths, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

Latin America and the Caribbean surpass 100,000 coronavirus deaths

From CNN's Matt Rivers in Mexico City

 

A member of the medical team of the Brazilian Armed Forces tests an indigenous person of the Marubo ethnic group for coronavirus in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil on June 20. Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images

 

Latin America and the Caribbean have surpassed 100,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally and government figures.

As of Tuesday evening local time, the total number of reported Covid-19 deaths in 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries is at least 100,145. 

Brazil, one of the countries hit hardest by the virus, accounted for more than half of the total, with a confirmed death toll of 52,645. Mexico has reported that 23,377 people have died as a result of the virus.

 

Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-06-24-20-intl/index.html

 

 

 

Summary

Here are the latest developments from the last few hours:

• · Deaths worldwide passed 475,000, according to Johns Hopkins University figures, with the known toll currently at 477,584, and known infections standing at 9,263,466.

  · Seven US states have reported their highest coronavirus patient admissions in the pandemic so far, as cases surge in the US following the easing of restrictions.Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas –which also confirmed a record daily case increase on Tuesday – each admitted record numbers of infected people to hospital, the Washington Post reported.

  · Brazil confirmed more than 39,000 in a single day on Tuesday. The death toll in Latin America’s biggest economy stands at 52,645. A judge on Tuesday ordered Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, to wear a mask in public after the right-wing populist attended political rallies without one.The death toll in Latin America passed 100,000 on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, with Mexico the second-worst affected region in the nation. Mexico on Tuesday registered 6,288 new infections and 793 additional deaths, the health ministry said, bringing the totals for the country to 191,410 cases and 23,377 fatalities.

  · A Chinese pharmaceutical firm has won approval to run a large-scale “Phase 3” clinical trial of its novel coronavirus vaccine candidate in the United Arab Emirates. China is seeking to test potential vaccines overseas because of a lack of new patients at home. No other experimental vaccines has yet successfully completed a late-stage “Phase 3” test to determine efficacy in shielding healthy people from the virus.

  · A South African school confirmed 200 infections among pupils and staff. More than 200 pupils and staff who returned to a boarding school in South Africa’s impoverished Eastern Cape province this month tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday, officials said.Eastern Cape accounts for around 15% of South Africa’s 101,590 cases, making it the country’s third worst-affected province, AFP reports.

  · The next few weeks are critical to tamping down a ‘disturbing’ coronavirus surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress on Tuesday issuing a plea for people to avoid crowds and wear masks just hours before mask-shunning President Donald Trump was set to hold a campaign rally in one hot spot.

  · Russia will hold a second world war parade ahead of vote on Putin reforms on Wednesday despite rising cases. Putin announced the new dates for the parade and a vote extending his rule – initially planned for April – last month despite Russia still recording thousands of new cases every day. Russia has 598,878 cases, the third-highest globally – and 8,349 deaths, significantly lower than most other countries in among the 10 worst affected, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official government data.

  · Australia confirmed its first death in a month. The man in his 80s died in the state of Victoria, in the first coronavirus-related death in more than a month. Australia’s total death toll from the virus now stands at 103.

  · New Zealand recorded one new case, diagnosed in a traveller returning from abroad who remains in government-run isolation facilities. The country has reported 11 active cases, all in people returning to the country. Nine of them were diagnosed during their government-managed isolation and remain there.

  ·  Novak Djokovic tested positive for Covid-19 amid Adria Tour fiasco.The beleaguered world No 1 tested positive, along with his wife, Jelena, throwing tennis into turmoil as the sport’s official tour prepares to resume. They join three other leading players and two trainers infected by the disease towards the end of the Serb’s unsanctioned Adria Tour.

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Source：https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/24/coronavirus-live-news-update-dr-fauci-disturbing-us-case-surge-brazil-covid-19-infections-cases-latest-updates?page=with:block-5ef2e8c48f082875f4491522#liveblog-navigation