The biggest single-day increase in global COVID-19 cases has been recorded, with almost 308,000 new infections in the past 24 hours.
, despite warnings the gathering could violate restrictions on crowd sizes.
The Trump campaign said temperature checks would be done at the door of the Nevada rally and attendees would be provided with face masks and encouraged to wear them. Last week, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned this would not be the last pandemic, saying the world needed to learn from the COVID-19 crisis.“But when the next pandemic comes, the world must be ready – more ready than it was this time.”as many countries, including Australia, were still dealing with deadly second waves of the virus.
“WHO fully supports efforts to re-open economies and societies. We want to see children returning to school and people returning to the workplace – but we want to see it done safely,’ Dr Tedros said during a media briefing.
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