Latest on the novel coronavirus outbreak
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Updated: June 20, 2020
The novel coronavirus has spread across China and beyond.
June 20
China
- Beijing's outbreak data shared with world (Read more)
Outside China
- Washington D.C. to begin phase two of reopening next week (Read more)
- EU leaders enter tough negotiation for massive recovery plan (Read more)
June 19
China
-Chinese mainland reports 32 new cases on Thursday, with 25 in Beijing.
- Students from moderate- to high-risk regions of coronavirus infections should wear masks when taking the national college entrance exam (Read more)
- Although initial analysis showed the virus strain was from Europe, the Beijing strain is older than existing strains in prevalence in Europe at present : CDC researcher (Read more)
- Customs inspections find no virus in imported food since Beijing outbreak (Read more)
Outside China
- Global COVID-19 deaths surpass 450,000: Johns Hopkins University
- Influential COVID-19 model raises forecasts to over 200,000 deaths in US by Oct 1 (Read more)
- Germany reports 770 new COVID-19 cases after slaughterhouse outbreak (Read more)
- Johnson, Macron hold first face-to-face talks since coronavirus pandemic started (Read more)
- EU leaders mull COVID-19 recovery plan but divisions remain
- Turkey steps up measures against COVID-19 amid resurgence of cases (Read more)
- Governor orders all Californians to wear face coverings in public (Read more)
June 18
China
- Chinese mainland reports 28 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, with 21 in Beijing.
- Beijing closes workplaces, restaurants, hotels in high-risk areas (Read more)
- Beijing restricting people from leaving the city doesn’t mean the capital is locked down - official (Read more)
- An elementary student in Xicheng district tests positive for coronavirus
Outside China
- Global coronavirus cases exceed 8.3 million: Johns Hopkins University
- WHO chief highlights China-Africa cooperation on COVID-19 fight (Read more)
- Kazakhstan's first president Nursultan Nazarbayev has self-isolated after testing positive for COVID-19 (Read more)
- Several US states hit record highs for COVID-19 cases
- Italy's active COVID-19 infections drop to lowest level since mid-March (Read more)
- EU plans to speed up COVID-19 vaccine development through advance purchase (Read more)
- Turkey not to consider lockdown despite increasing COVID-19 cases: Minister (Read more)
June 17
China
- Beijing reports 31 new COVID-19 cases
- As of 9:10 am, two airports in Beijing have cancelled 1,255 flights, nearly 70 percent of all scheduled trips (Read more)
- The national railway operator will allow passengers who booked train tickets in and out of Beijing as of Tuesday to refund tickets without charging fees. (Read more)
- Beijing prepares for both online, offline schooling next semester
Outside China
- Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez says he has been diagnosed with novel coronavirus (Read more)
- Mexico, US extend ban on non-essential cross-border travel amid pandemic (Read more)
- Powell: US economy faced with 'uncertainty' (Read more)
- German govt launches official COVID-19 warning app (Read more)
- Chilean govt proposes more economic aid for poorest in pandemic (Read more)
- Poland resumes EU passenger air service, COVID-19 cases top 30,000 (Read more)
June 16
China
- Beijing will raise its public health emergency response from the third to the second level (Read more)
- Starting Wednesday Beijing halts return to campus, resumes online courses for middle, primary school students; suspends college students' return to campus
-Beijing asks libraries, museums, parks to limit visitors up to 30 percent of full flow
- Beijing halts cross-province group tours
- Chinese mainland reports 40 new COVID-19 cases, of them 27 being locally transmitted in Beijing
- Wuhan clears all asymptomatic cases of novel coronavirus (Read more)
- Beijing plans to roll out sweeping nucleic acid tests for residents living near a produce market in the capital's Xicheng district, after a market employee was confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 on Sunday (Read more)
- Shanghai to quarantine those arriving from local high- and medium-risk zones (Read more)
Outside China
- Global confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 8 million, reaching 8,001,138: Johns Hopkins University
- WHO working closely with China over COVID-19 cases (Read more)
- European nations relax border controls with vigilance while gearing up to cut tourism fallout (Read more)
- FDA revokes emergency use of anti-malaria drugs for COVID-19 (Read more)
- Italy's reconstruction chief outlines three pillars to post-pandemic era (Read more)
- COVID-19 causes much more hospitalizations, deaths for patients with underlying conditions: CDC (Read more)
June 15
China
- Chinese mainland reports 49 new COVID-19 cases, of them 36 being locally transmitted in Beijing
- Zhou Yuqing, deputy head of southern Beijing's Fengtai district, has been removed from the post for "failing" in his duty to prevent and control COVID-19 (Read more)
- Beijing completes nucleic acid testing sampling collection of 29,386 people who visited Xinfadi market over past 14 days (Read more)
- Beijing municipal authorities announced on Monday that up to 76,499 persons in the city received nucleic acid testing on Sunday, and 59 have tested positive (Read more)
Outside China
- Global coronavirus cases exceed 7.8 million: Johns Hopkins University
- UK reports lowest daily deaths, France 'turns page of first act of crisis' (Read more)
- WHO says blood donation key to strengthening COVID-19 response (Read more)
- Spain will reopen its frontiers with the European Union countries - with the exception of Portugal - on June 21, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says (Read more)
- Argentine president 'concerned' by rise in COVID-19 cases (Read more)
- UNICEF delivers COVID-19 medical equipment to Yemen's Sanaa (Read more)
June 14
China
- Beijing reports 8 new COVID-19 cases between midnight and 7:00 am on Sunday, all linked to Xinfadi market (Read more)
- Tianjin and Hebei province, Beijing's two neighbors, have taken measures to enhance prevention and control measures to lower the infection risk for the novel coronavirus, after the capital reported local infected cases in recent days (Read more)
- Beijing has demanded that hospitals offer more tests to screen fever patients for novel coronavirus infections as the city began to register new cases after a weeks-long lull (Read more)
- Chinese mainland reported 57 new COVID-19 cases, including 36 locally transmitted cases in Beijing and two in the northeastern province of Liaoning. (Read more)
The 19 imported cases were found in Guangdong province (17), Shanghai (1) and Chongqing (1). (Read more)
- Guangdong province reports 17 imported cases and four asymptomatic patients on Saturday. (Read more)
- China Southern flight CZ392 from Dhaka to Guangzhou was suspended for 4 weeks, after 17 passengers onboard were tested for coronavirus. (Read more)
- Two new COVID-19 cases reported in NE China's Liaoning province (Read more)
Outside China
- Russia has recorded 8,835 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 528,964 (Read more)
- Bangkok's nighttime entertainment venues remain temporarily closed despite end of curfew
June 13
Outside China
- Indian state crosses 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19
- Africa's confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 225,000 mark
- Poland reopens EU borders after 3-month lockdown
China
- Chinese mainland reports 11 new COVID-19 cases, 5 imported and 6 local cases in Beijing.
- Liaoning reports 2 new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases (Read more)
June 12
Outside China
- Global coronavirus cases exceed 7.4 million: Johns Hopkins University
- India's COVID-19 cases surge to overtake the number of cases in the UK, making it the world's fourth-worst affected country
- An influential COVID-19 model produced by the University of Washington has revised its projections, forecasting nearly 170,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States by Oct 1 (Read more)
- US biotech firm Moderna expects to begin a phase-3 study of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in July (Read more)
- Winter raises risk for COVID-19 spread in Southern Hemisphere: Australian microbiologist (Read more)
China
- Chinese mainland reports seven new COVID-19 cases Thursday, six imported and one local (Read more)
- Two new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Beijing's Fengtai district, senior district official says
June 11
Outside China
- Global coronavirus cases exceed 7.3 million: Johns Hopkins University
- US COVID-19 cases surpass 2 million: Johns Hopkins University
- WHO calls for more research on asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 (Read more)
- Latin America's coronavirus crisis reached a new milestone with total deaths exceeding 70,000 (Read more)
- Some European Union member states have announced new steps to reopen their borders with the improvement of the COVID-19 situation (Read more)
- France to enter four-month transition after state of emergency ends on July 10: gov't (Read more)
- Canada, US discuss extension of cross-border restriction to non-essential visits (Read more)
China
- Chinese mainland reports 11 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, all imported (Read more)
June 10
Outside China
- Studies show people with the coronavirus are most infectious just at the point when they first begin to feel unwell, WHO experts said (Read more)
- Gilead's remdesivir prevents lung damage in COVID-19 study on monkeys (Read more)
- New study shows temperature, humidity, surface affecting coronavirus survival time (Read more)
- More than half US states may undercount COVID-19 cases: media report (Read more)
- AMC Entertainment reports 2.17-bln-USD quarterly loss amid pandemic (Read more)
- National Guard troops in Washington DC test positive for COVID-19 (Read more)
- Surge sees Iran back atop Middle East cases (Read more)
- Global coronavirus cases exceed 7.1 million: Johns Hopkins University
- Lockdowns in 11 European countries may have prevented over 3 million deaths: Study (Read more)
China
- Chinese mainland reports three new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, all imported (Read more)
June 9
Outside China
- WHO urges health precautions at mass gatherings (Read more)
- Researchers find that face coverings and masks reduced the spread of the virus by up to 80 percent (Read more)
- New study shows northern California's COVID-19 resulted from multiple virus strains (Read more)
China
- Chinese mainland reports 3 new COVID-19 cases Monday, all imported
- Beijing cleared all its domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases as the last patient was cured and discharged from hospital on Monday (Read more)
June 8
Outside China
- Global confirmed COVID-19 cases reach 7,007,948 as of 0233 GMT on Monday, with a death toll of 402,709 - Johns Hopkins University
- The number of COVID-19 deaths in the US topped 110,000, reaching 110,028: Johns Hopkins University
- The number of confirmed COVID-19 positive cases across the African continent reached 183,474
- Trials for hydroxychloroquine as virus treatment resume after study retracted (Read more)
- New York starts to shake off virus; Europe recovering (Read more)
- COVID-19 cases exceed 170,000 in Iran, Turkey; Saudi Arabia's tally surpasses 100,000 (Read more)
- Pakistan's confirmed COVID-19 cases cross 100,000 mark
- New Zealand will drop social distancing restrictions form midnight on Monday as it moves to a level 1 national alert from Level 2 (Read more)
China
- Chinese mainland reports four new imported COVID-19 cases Sunday (Read more)
- Nine COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals on Chinese mainland (Read more)
June 7
China
- Chinese mainland reports six new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, all but one from overseas [Read more]
Outside China
- Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 400,000, reaching 400,225 as of 7:33 am (1133 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
- Places of worship in New York state in the US will be permitted to reopen with 25 percent occupancy during phase two of reopening; Places of worship in the state's seven regions that are already in phase two will open on Sunday
- British places of worship to reopen partly on June 15
- Film, TV productions in California permitted to resume from June 12
- COVID-19 cases nudge 170,000 in Iran, Turkey with different speed
June 6
Outside China
- Spanish govt to levy fines on violators of face mask rules (Read more)
- WHO upgraded its guidance on the use of face masks for control of the COVID-19 disease as the global pandemic continues to spread across Latin America (Read more)
- Italy confirms downward trend in new infections, facemasks ready for high school exams (Read more)
- UN preparing for gradual reopening of headquarters in New York (Read more)
China
- Chinese scientists have launched a phase I clinical trial for the world's first neutralizing antibody treatment against COVID-19 (Read more)
- Graduating students of universities in Beijing return to campuses (Read more)
- Beijing lowers its public health emergency response from the second to the third level starting on June 6 (Read more)
- Beijing to resume municipal sports after emergency response lowered (Read more)
- Chinese mainland reported three new COVID-19 cases on June 5, all imported
June 5
Outside China
- 'Historic commitments' at Global Vaccine Summit as $8.8b pledged (Read more)
- European Central Bank pumps $675 billion into pandemic fund (Read more)
- Italy confirms downward trend in new infections, facemasks ready for high school exams (Read more)
- UK PM urges funding, global cooperation in virtual Global Vaccine Summit (Read more)
- COVID-19 pandemic still threatening Canadians' health, Trudeau says (Read more)
China
- Chinese mainland reports 5 new COVID-19 cases, all from overseas (Read more)
- The remaining confirmed cases in Hubei have been reduced to zero (Read more)
June 4
Outside China
- WHO especially worried about Central and South America: WHO chief (Read more)
- US Senate sends small business loan reform bill to Trump (Read more)
- Germany unveils 130-billion-euro stimulus package to boost virus-hit economy (Read more)
Turkey does not expect second wave of COVID-19: Health minister (Read more)
- WHO resumes hydroxycholorquine trial after 'threat' queried (Read more)
- Spanish parliament approves sixth extension of State of Alarm (Read more)
China
- China will allow domestic and overseas airlines to increase the number of international passenger flights in and out of the country if the epidemic risks are controllable: Civil Aviation Administration of China (Read more)
- Chinese mainland reports one imported new COVID-19 infection on Wednesday (Read more)
June 3
Outside China
- New Zealand could return to normal life as early as next week (Read more)
- Brazil registered another record number of novel coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours: 1,262 deaths
- Mexican health authorities reported an additional 3,891 cases of the novel coronavirus, a new record of daily cases, and 470 more deaths
- Mass protests in US may speed up COVID-19 transmission (Read more)
- COVID-19 RNA in wastewater reflects epidemic situation: Finnish study (Read more)
China
- The city of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province, is prepared to conduct coronavirus tests across the city
- Shulan, a county-level city administered by Jilin city in Jilin province, has been downgraded to low-risk for COVID-19 (Read more)
- Chinese mainland reports one imported new COVID-19 infection on Tuesday (Read more)
June 2
Outside China
- The number of COVID-19 cases in the US tops 1.8 million, reaching 1,804,206: Johns Hopkins University
- US health experts and government officials warned that large street protests over racial inequities and excessive police force could worsen the spread of the coronavirus
- Russia will start giving patients its first drug approved to treat COVID-19 next week (Read more)
- Poland scraps school reopening plan as COVID-19 cases top 24,000 (Read more)
- COVID-19 has not changed in terms of transmissibility or severity: WHO officials (Read more)
- Mexico's coronavirus death toll surpasses 10,000
- Chile's cases exceed 100,000
China
- A woman surnamed Li who hid her health condition from flight crew and tested positive for COVD-19 after arriving in Beijing on a flight from the US in March has been detained (Read more)
- Chinese mainland reports 5 new COVID-19 cases, all from overseas (Read more)
- Eight COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals on Chinese mainland
- After nearly 10 million tests in Wuhan, no confirmed cases but 300 asymptomatic patients (Read more)
June 1
Outside China
- Brazil's COVID-19 cases top 500,000, death toll nears 30,000 (Read more)
- Egypt sees daily record of 1,536 COVID-19 infections, tally nears 25,000 (Read more)
- China extends help in Jordan, Sudan to fight COVID-19 (Read more)
- COVID-19 hotspots in South Africa may be placed on higher alert level: president (Read more)
China
- Wuhan reports no new asymptomatic patients on Sunday for first time
- Chinese mainland reports 16 new COVID-19 cases, all from overseas
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