The US now has three million documented cases of COVID-19, representing roughly a quarter of the world's cases and the same percentage of its deaths.
The US now has 3 million documented cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, representing roughly a quarter of the world's cases and the same percentage of its deaths.
In an especially alarming indicator, the percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus is on the rise across nearly the entire country, hitting almost 27 per cent in Arizona, 19 per cent in Florida and 17 per cent in South Carolina. The US leads an unenviable group. Its 3 million cases for a nation of 330 million beats out Brazil's 1.6 million cases , India's 720,000 cases and Russia's 693,000 cases , according to statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Although he had on Tuesday said a new lockdown would be imposed in Belgrade at the weekend, Vucic said on Wednesday he had ultimately advised the government and health authorities not to introduce it. The government would announce a new set of sanitary measures on Thursday, he said.Earlier, police director Vladimir Rebic said that 43 police and 17 protesters were hurt and 23 protesters had been arrested.
Spain ended a nationwide lockdown in mid-June after restrictions on movement and public activity succeeded in reining in the country's virus outbreak after it had pushed the healthcare system to the breaking point and killed thousands of people.
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