Summer spike in cases
coronavirus
13 Aug 2020
/ 09:41
Russia has reported the largest number of new cases in Europe in the past 24 hours. More than 900,000 people have now tested positive in the country, after 5,102 new infections were recorded.
- The first quarter-final game of football's UEFA European Champions League is to be played in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday evening. UEFA has released a COVID-19 protocol that outlines the rules and regulations teams must abide by to prevent infection.
- Germany has recorded its most significant daily increase in new infections since May, after it reported 1,226 new cases in the past 24 hours.
- Germany's health minister says Russia's new COVID-19 vaccine has not been sufficiently tested. Russia said on Tuesday it had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a vaccine for the virus.
- The World Health Organization has said it has not received enough information to fully evaluate Russia's new vaccine but urged the country not to introduce it to Brazil until further testing has been carried out.
- The UK economy has officially entered a recession as a result of the pandemic. The economy contracted by a record 20.4 percent between April and June, the country's Office for National Statistics said.
- Germany has expanded its travel warning for Spain to include Madrid and the northern Basque region after a spike in cases in both areas.
- The Netherlands plans to introduce mandatory home quarantine if the public has been in close contact with someone infected, as well as those traveling from high-risk countries.
- Belgium's capital city Brussels has made the wearing of face masks mandatory in all public places after infections rose in the city in recent weeks.
- Bosnia's tourism sector shrank by 70.6 percent in the first six months of 2020. The Balkan country has become more reliant on this industry after growth in recent years, with 1.5 million people visiting in 2019.
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- Germany has recorded its most significant daily increase in new infections since May, after it reported 1,226 new cases in the past 24 hours.
- Germany's health minister says Russia's new COVID-19 vaccine has not been sufficiently tested. Russia said on Tuesday it had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a vaccine for the virus.
- The World Health Organization has said it has not received enough information to fully evaluate Russia's new vaccine but urged the country not to introduce it to Brazil until further testing has been carried out.
- The UK economy has officially entered a recession as a result of the pandemic. The economy contracted by a record 20.4 percent between April and June, the country's Office for National Statistics said.
- Germany has expanded its travel warning for Spain to include Madrid and the northern Basque region after a spike in cases in both areas.
- The Netherlands plans to introduce mandatory home quarantine if the public has been in close contact with someone infected, as well as those traveling from high-risk countries.
- Belgium's capital city Brussels has made the wearing of face masks mandatory in all public places after infections rose in the city in recent weeks.
- Bosnia's tourism sector shrank by 70.6 percent in the first six months of 2020. The Balkan country has become more reliant on this industry after growth in recent years, with 1.5 million people visiting in 2019.
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