South Africa has eased most Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. Some other updates: 🇳🇿 New Zealand reports 13 new cases 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago ramps up measures 🇫🇷 France mulls masks at work For more:
A man reacts as a health worker collects a sample for coronavirus testing in Eldorado Park outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, August 3, 2020 South Korea has reported 279 cases of the coronavirus, the most cases since early March, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.The new cases bring the country's tally to 15,318 infections, with 305 deaths.
Trinidad and Tobago's government will implement tougher measures aimed at reducing the spread of the coronavirus after the number of infections increased in August, the prime minister said. In a televised address, Ramaphosa said the government would end the ban on alcohol and tobacco, allow restaurants and taverns to return to normal business, subject to strict hygiene regulations, and remove the ban on travel between provinces.
"The move to level two means that we can remove nearly all of the restrictions on the resumption of economic activity across most industries," he said.Mexico will need up to 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses, according to a senior government official, and inoculation of its 120 million inhabitants could start as early as April if clinical trials and regulatory approvals for pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca Plc go as planned.
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