Countries are considering putting away their welcome mats to tourists and regional meetings put on hold as the pandemic strengthens its grip in many of the worst-affected countries.
A woman wearing a face mask stands on a beach in Vung Tau city, Vietnam, Sunday, July 26, 2020. Vietnam on Sunday reimposed restrictions in one of its most popular beach destinations after a second person tested positive for the virus, the first locally transmitted cases in the country in over three months.
“This is what is driving these numbers up, and the lockdown will not end until people stop going to work with symptoms and instead go and get tested,” Andrews said. At the same time, some countries that have let limited international travel resume are reconsidering as clusters of cases grow into new outbreaks.after some of its most beloved summer venues turned into coronavirus hot spots facing renewed pandemic lockdowns.
The country in past days have reported dozens of cases among crew members of a Russia-flagged cargo ship docked in the southern port of Busan and hundreds of South Korean construction workers airlifted from virus-ravaged Iraq. — India added three new facilities to ramp up testing capacity as it recorded nearly 50,000 fresh virus cases. Its tally of more than 1.4 million is the world's third-highest after the United States and Brazil. The three facilities in Mumbai, Kolkata and suburban New Delhi that start operations Monday are each capable of analyzing as many as 10,000 tests per day.
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