A guard wearing a protective face shield and mask is seen during the reopening of the Christ the Redeemer statue after a months-long closure due to the outbreak of Covid-19, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 15 2020.A new directive from the health department that anyone who dies of natural causes outside a hospital be tested for Covid-19 before a death certificate is issued has thrown the funeral industry into confusion.
Sunday's numbers bring New Zealand's total active cases to 69, providing more ammunition to a conservative opposition that wants to delay a September 19 general election, which opinion polls show Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party winning. Ardern is expected to resist a delay but has said she will decide by Monday.
The daily number of new cases this week has been well below the peak of 725 on August 5. Melbourne, the state's capital, remains under a strict lockdown.China's new locally transmitted cases of the novel coronavirus fell to a one-month low as a cluster in the western region of Xinjiang receded, data released by the country's health authority on Sunday showed.
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