A woman walks past a clothing store while wearing a face mask in Paris on Aug 19.
The figures added urgency to the desperate bid to find a vaccine for the virus, which has infected more than 22 million and killed hundreds of thousands since it first emerged in China late last year. The continent has suffered less harm than most other regions from the pandemic, which has hit the Americas harder than anywhere else.The number of Americans filing claims for joblessness each week topped one million again, US officials said on Thursday, an increase on the previous week’s figures.
The crushing economic damage has sprung not just from the virus itself but also from the lockdowns that largely halted business activity across the world. However, many web users were incensed by viral images of a pool party attended by thousands in Wuhan – the city where the virus was first reported.“This shows that Wuhan has won a strategic victory in its fight against the epidemic,” said foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.
The EU said on Thursday it had concluded talks with a German pharmaceutical firm to secure 225 million doses of a potential vaccine – the fourth such agreement the bloc has reached.
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