Hong Kong is set to announce the suspension of all schools after a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus cases that has fuelled fears of a renewed community spread in the city, the South China Morning Post has reported.
From Monday, only 4,000 Australian citizens or permanent residents will be allowed back into the country each day, down from around 8,000 currently, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. Australia closed its international borders to all but returning citizens and permanent residents in late March as coronavirus mounted.
Covid-19 has now claimed more than 550,000 lives across the world, and infected more than 12 million people since it first emerged in China iast December - among them Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and now Bolivia's Jeanine Anez. The US notched up half that figure in just one day yesterday, with 65,551 new cases recorded by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University - a new high.
"I would think we need to get the states pausing in their opening process," he said, although he added: "I don't think we need to go back to an extreme of shutting down"."For the 1/100th time, the reason we show so many Cases, compared to other countries that haven't done nearly as well as we have, is that our TESTING is much bigger and better," he tweeted.
And, in a potentially worrying discovery, scientists in Italy said there was "strong evidence" that Covid-19 positive mothers can pass the virus on to their unborn children.
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