Plus, the human toll of misinformation
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| Latin America has now become the centre of the pandemic, according to the chief of the Pan American Health Organization. Brazil has by far the highest recorded death toll in the region, and with the rate of testing very low, the true figure will inevitably be far higher. That's likely to be the case in other countries too - Venezuela to name one. President Donald Trump has introduced a travel ban on foreign nationals who've been to Brazil in the last 14 days. With 98,875 coronavirus deaths of its own, the US is nearing the grim milestone of 100,000 lives lost. In Europe, Spain is beginning a 10-day period of national mourning in memory of the almost 30,000 people who have died. France has announced a bail-out for its struggling car industry, and Denmark has reopened its borders to couples who were divided by the lockdown. A number of other European countries are also considering relaxing border restrictions as the outbreak eases. In the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic began, authorities vowed to test the entire population in 10 days. That time period is now up, so did they manage it? Elsewhere in Asia, the BBC's Yogita Limaye finds out why India's financial capital and richest city has been hit so hard by coronavirus. Get all the latest from our live page. | |
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| | | | | The effects have spread all around the world. Online rumours led to mob attacks in India and mass poisonings in Iran. Telecommunications engineers have been threatened and attacked and phone masts have been set alight in the UK and other countries - all because of conspiracy theories. And in Arizona, a couple mistakenly thought a bottle of fish tank cleaner contained a preventative medicine. | |
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| | Marianna Spring | Specialist disinformation and social media reporter, BBC News | |
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| | | | There's no let-up in coverage of the Dominic Cummings row. "Tories revolt as voters turn on Cummings" is the Daily Telegraph's headline. The paper says it understands up to six cabinet members have said privately that Boris Johnson's senior aide should quit. The Daily Mirror's take on the story is "Farce and furious". The former chief superintendent of Durham Police tells the paper the situation reminds him of Watergate, where "the cover up is worse than the offence". Several front pages react to the approval of remdesivir for use by the NHS to treat patients. The drug promises a "big step forward in virus fight", the Times says, while the Daily Express reports that it "boosts virus survival hopes". Elsewhere, a plan to introduce a cut-off date for new entrants to the government's furlough scheme is in the pipeline, according to the Financial Times. The Daily Mail thinks that's likely to be in August. | |
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