EU leaders are meeting in Brussels to try to agree on a coronavirus recovery package for the bloc Israel announces new weekend restrictions following a surge in cases The US is seeing more than 70,000 new cases a day India reaches 1 million cases, behind only the US and Brazil All updates in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC/GMT) 23:59 We have now closed this live updates article. For the latest developments see here: Coronavirus latest: US schools unlikely to fully reopen this year, cases surge 19:25 The World Health Organization has announced that over 10% of global infections are accounted for by health care workers. “Many health workers are also suffering physical and psychological exhaustion after months of working in extremely stressful environments,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Health worker infections total over 1.4 million cases around the world, while overall there have been some 13.8 million people infected by the coronavirus. 18:50 An EU leaders’ summit looked unlikely to reach any definite conclusions on the coronavirus recovery package before discussions ended for the day. Before the talks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she expected the talks to be “very very difficult.” While largely maintaining social distancing, leaders donned masks and greeted each other with… Read full this story
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