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Global virus deaths pass 650,000 as new surges prompt fresh curbs

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Officials around the world reintroduced a raft of restrictions on Monday, July 27 – from beach closures to quarantine measures – to try to tamp down coronavirus hotspots as the official global death toll passed 650,000.

European countries trying to repair the economic damage caused by the earlier lockdowns struggled to balance keeping the lifeline of tourism open while guarding against new flare-ups of infection.

But as the grim figures kept rolling in, the World Health Organization argued against a wholesale closing of borders. Since emerging in China late last year, the virus has killed a total of 650,011 people – but more than 100,000 deaths have been recorded since July 9, and the global toll has doubled in just over two months.

They were reacting to Britain's decision late Saturday to require travelers returning from Spain to quarantine for two weeks. "We must prevent returning travellers from infecting others unnoticed and thus triggering new chains of infection," Spahn wrote on Twitter.

 

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