America's top infectious diseases expert has warned the United States is facing a
"serious problem" from a resurgent coronavirus as the illness puts the brakes on reopening two of the country's largest states.
Much of the Western world is pressing ahead with lifting restrictions on daily life despite warnings from health officials that haste could cost more lives. EU envoys have argued on drawing up criteria and sources told AFP a meeting on Friday ended with a tentative list of about 18 countries free to travel.
"We have an increase in cases because we have begun testing much more in Sweden the past week," said Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.The WHO on Friday called for another $27.9 billion in donations to speed up the development and production of tests, vaccines and other treatments, part of its ACT accelerator plan to pool international resources.
Much of the global count has come from Latin America, where Brazil, the hardest-hit nation in the region, has logged almost 55,000 deaths and more than 1.2 million cases. "It has swept away the successes of recent years... threatening the lives of millions of people," Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said.
From July 1"we're going to ask everyone to return to isolation at home and to only leave to fetch provisions for daily life," he said. Center-left leader Fernandez could not resist a dig at neighbor Brazil's far right President Jair Bolsonaro, saying that the prolonged quarantine had"saved lives."UK to ease rules for 'low risk' countries
"Our new risk-assessment system will enable us to carefully open a number of safe travel routes around the world," a UK government spokesman said. "But we will not hesitate to put on the brakes if any risks re-emerge, and this system will enable us to take swift action to re-introduce self-isolation measures if new outbreaks occur overseas," the spokesman added.Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appealed a court ruling Friday that requires him to wear a face mask in public during the coronavirus pandemic, calling it"unnecessary.
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