New virus cases threaten world's moves back to work

And in India, the giant, in defiance of a recent surge in the number of infections, with 3,600 recorded on Monday, just below Sunday's record tally.

"This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal," he warned, ahead of planned testimony to a Senate committee Tuesday. "Each district should make plans and arrangements to conduct nucleic acid tests on the entire population in its jurisdiction within a 10-day time limit," according to an official statement.Cautious optimism in some quarters was also tempered by the increasingly dire economic situation, with Belgium's Brussels Airlines becoming the latest carrier to warn of massive job losses.

But the agency's emergencies chief Michael Ryan lamented that some governments were choosing to"drive through this blind" by not ramping up capacity to test for and trace the virus.The virus appeared to have gained a foothold in the White House at the weekend, with a second confirmed case. "You know something will happen in September," Calhoun said."Traffic levels will not be back to 100 per cent, they won't even be back to 25."In Europe, where infection rates and death tolls have significantly tailed off, millions of people have begun emerging from lockdown.

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