Coronavirus: global deaths tally over 560,000 – as it happened




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Summary

Here the latest key developments at a glance:

  • Infections in the US state of Texas rose by 10,351 on Saturday to 250,462 in total, the highest single-day increase in the state since the pandemic started.
  • US president Donald Trump has appeared in public wearing a mask for the first time during a visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, after previously refusing to wear one and ridiculing some who did.
  • Brazil, the world’s second biggest coronavirus hotspot after the United States, recorded 1,071 new deaths from the outbreak on Saturday, taking the total official death toll to 71,469.
  • Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who is sick with coronavirus, said on Saturday that she and her two daughters had tested negative for the virus.
  • Thousands of Israelis were protesting in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the government’s handling of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in violent clashes with police.
  • The British government has drawn up a list of 20 councils in England facing the worst coronavirus outbreaks, with Bradford, Sheffield and Kirklees identified as areas in which localised lockdowns could be imposed.
  • South Africa’s confirmed coronavirus cases have doubled in just two weeks to over 250,000.
  • Lebanon’s number of new coronavirus infections increased for a third consecutive day to a record 86.
  • Florida’s Walt Disney World opened to the public for the first time in four months, despite a surge of coronavirus cases in the state.

That’s all from me, my colleagues in Australia are going to take over now. Goodnight!

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