NEW: New York's rate of positive tests has been below 1% for 12 straight days, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will now allow state-licensed pharmacists to order and administer vaccines to children ages 3 to 18.
A lab technician sorts blood samples for a COVID-19 vaccination study at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Florida, on Aug. 13, 2020. An Iranian woman wearing a face shield walks along a street in the capital of Tehran amid the coronavirus pandemic on Aug. 9, 2020. Pope Francis speaks during his weekly general audience, held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic, at the Vatican, on Aug. 19, 2020.
The country of 1.3 billion people has the world's fourth-highest death toll from COVID-19, behind the United States, Brazil and Mexico, according to a real-time tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The national total now stands at 1,299 cases, 96 of which are active, according to data published on the health ministry's website.
Health officials are still investigating how the outbreak in Auckland started after the country went 102 days without any local transmission. The new cluster of cases was discovered there last week, prompting authorities to impose a two-week lockdown in the region and to reschedule national elections.France's labor ministry announced Tuesday that face masks will be required in enclosed shared office spaces starting Sept. 1, citing an"upsurge" in COVID-19 cases.
There were 2,238 new cases of COVID-19 identified in France on Tuesday, according to the health ministry, which is requiring on-the-spot tests for travelers coming from over a dozen nations with active virus circulation, including the United States.There were 44,813 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the United States on Tuesday, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
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