UK heading in ‘wrong direction’
“Things are definitely heading in the wrong direction,“ UK chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance tells a government press conference, as a further 7,108 cases and 71 deaths are reported.By 1100 GMT Wednesday the coronavirus pandemic had killed at least 1,012,093 people around the world since emerging in China in late 2019, according to an AFP tally based on official sources.
Schools, cinemas and swimming pools will be allowed to reopen in India after a months-long coronavirus lockdown, the home affairs ministry says, even as experts warn that it is on track to becoming the world’s most-infected country. The continent’s most industrialised economy shuttered its borders at the start of a strict nationwide lockdown on March 27 to limit the spread of the virus.The unemployment rate in Brazil, the country with the second-highest death toll, hit a record 13.8 percent from May to July as Latin America’s biggest economy suffered the impact of the pandemic.