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Registered nurse Tammy Fellenz, wearing an NFL Green Bay Packers headband, takes a patient's nasal swab at a coronavirus disease drive-thru testing site at Froedtert North Hills Health Center in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, U.S., October 18, 2020. REUTERS/Bing GuanWorldwide coronavirus cases crossed 40 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally based on official reporting by individual countries.
The United States, India, and Brazil remain the worst affected countries in the world. COVID-19 cases in North, Central, and South America represent about 47.27% or nearly half of global cases. Record one-day increases in new infections were seen at the end of last week, with global coronavirus cases rising above 400,000 for the first time.
After more than 100 days in a strict lockdown that allowed only for two hours of outdoor activity a day, the 5 million people living in Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, will be able to spend as much time exercising outdoors as they wish. State Premier Daniel Andrews set Nov. 1 as the date for the next stage of lifting restrictions, but said some could be eased earlier if cases remained low and had a known source.
Senior minister Michael Gove, however, said a two- or three- week national lockdown - named a “circuit breaker” by some - was not being considered. “The spread and the nature of the disease does not merit that approach at the moment,” he told Sky News on Sunday.China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection.
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