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Australian states tightened borders and restricted pub visits on Tuesday, while Disney prepared to close its Hong Kong theme park and Japan stepped up tracing as a jump in novel coronavirus cases across Asia fanned fears of a second wave of infections.* Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of Covid-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120 000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said.

* The number of deaths from the coronavirus in Latin America has exceeded the figure for North America for the first time since the start of the pandemic, a Reuters count showed. * The Philippines reported Southeast Asia's biggest daily jump in Covid-19 deaths and warned of more fatalities ahead.* Bahrain will add $470 million in emergency spending to its 2020 state budget.

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