World agonises over new COVID curbs as infections approach 60 million

📆 26/11/2020 2:57 am
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Countries around the world agonised over new coronavirus curbs ahead of Christmas and other holidays as global infections approached 60 million on Wednesday and U.S. officials pleaded with Americans to stay home over Thanksgiving. The holiday weekend is expected to fuel a surge of infections in the United States, which leads the world with soaring COVID-19 infections and the daily toll on Tuesday climbing above 2,000, the highest 24-hour tally since early May. 'All the Thanksgiving travel ensures no one will catch us, either,' said Dr. Tatiana Prowell of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

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