South Korea reports 441 new cases of Covid-19, its largest one day rise since March. Here are other updates: 🇦🇺 Australia’s Victoria state sees lowest rise in two months 🇦🇷 Argentina reports record 10,550 cases 🇨🇳 China sees eight new cases For more:
Visitors fill out a form which is mandatory to get into a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, August 26, 2020. South Korea reported 441 new coronavirus cases, the most daily infections since early March when the country had the first large outbreak, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The total number of confirmed Covid-19 infections for mainland China now stands at 85,004, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634. Strict lockdown measures have helped ease the daily rise of coronavirus infections in Victoria after the state hit a one-day high of more than 700 cases about three weeks ago.Neighbouring New Zealand said it has allocated extra funding of "hundreds of millions of dollars" to help secure access to a coronavirus vaccine as soon as one becomes available.
“It was becoming increasingly clear that the controversy concerning my recent visit to Ireland was becoming a distraction from my work," Hogan said. Abbott expects to ship tens of millions of tests in September, ramping to 50 million tests a month from the beginning of October.
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