Fresh tensions between Beijing and Washington emerged as virus restrictions continued to shape and remake lives around the world, and in very different ways.
Globally, more than 5.3 million people have been infected by the virus, which most scientists believe jumped from animals to humans — possibly late last year at a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
While once hard-hit European nations relax lockdowns as they work to salvage battered economies, other countries such as Brazil are emerging as new centres of the pandemic. In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez sought to reassure potential visitors, saying that from July 1, “entry for foreign tourists into Spain will resume in secure conditions.”Cafes and restaurants in Greece were gearing to reopen on Monday — but only those with outdoor service.
French churches were holding their first Sunday masses in more than two months after the government bowed to a court ruling that they should be reopened — with proper precautions. Cummings was seen visiting his parents in Durham, 250 miles from his London home in March, despite suffering from virus symptoms. The Observer and Sunday Mirror reported he had broken lockdown restrictions again in April.But Tory MP Craig Whittaker tweeted that “you cannot advise the nation one thing then do the opposite.”
And any notion of normality collided with the grim message that the country, harder-hit by the coronavirus than any other, is steadily approaching 100,000 dead.
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