- China has turned to mass testing and district lockdowns in Beijing after a bounce in instances linked with a wholesale meals market within the capital.
- Australia is trying to infrastructure spending to spice up its economic system – the nation’s dealing with its first recession in 30 years on account of the coronavirus.
- Greater than 7.9 million individuals around the globe have been confirmed to have the coronavirus. Practically 3.eight million have recovered, whereas not less than 433,394 have died, in keeping with knowledge compiled by Johns Hopkins College. The US, Brazil and the UK have recorded probably the most deaths, whereas the US, Brazil and Russia have confirmed probably the most instances.
Listed below are the most recent updates:
Monday, June 15
05:30 GMT –
I am handing the weblog to my colleagues in Doha shortly. A fast recap of occasions over the previous few hours.
Lockdowns are being imposed in components of Beijing and mass testing is underway within the Chinese language capital amid a unbroken spike in instances centred across the metropolis’s main wholesale meals market. South Korea can also be monitoring clusters rising in Seoul.
Australia is hoping an infrastructure increase will assist it recuperate from its coronavirus-induced recession – its first in 30 years, whereas international locations in Europe proceed to chill out their lockdowns with retailers and airways resuming enterprise.
05:05 GMT – Coronavirus case updates
Various international locations have been updating their knowledge.
Thailand has reported no new instances or deaths, and its 21st day with out native transmission. All latest instances have been present in Thai individuals coming back from abroad.
In Europe, the Czech Republic says complete instances have now risen above 10,000. Germany, in the meantime, has reported 192 new instances bringing its complete to 186,461. It additionally reported 4 extra deaths.
04:15 GMT – England’s excessive avenue retailers to reopen on Monday after 83-day closure
Outlets in England are set to reopen on Monday after being pressured to shut for 83 days due to the coronavirus.
They must abide by social distancing guidelines that may restrict the variety of clients and make it tougher for individuals to attempt on garments, take a look at out furnishings and browse books.
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— M&S (@marksandspencer) June 14, 2020
Outlets in Scotland and Wales are nonetheless ready to search out out once they can resume buying and selling. Solely supermarkets and different ‘important’ retailers have been allowed to function through the coronavirus lockdown.
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— Selfridges (@Selfridges) June 11, 2020
04:00 GMT – Peasant brigades mete out tough justice in Peru coronavirus struggle
The Peruvian peasant brigades who as soon as battled leftist insurgent teams, are actually being deployed towards individuals breaking coronavirus quarantines, in keeping with Reuters.
The group militias have been created within the 1970s in northern highland areas.
Aladino Fernandez, the president of a gaggle within the area of Cajamarca, instructed the information company rule-breakers risked being caned.
“A severe crime could be about 15 lashes,” he mentioned.
Peru has the second highest variety of instances in South America after Brazil.
03:30 GMT – Hong Kong Disneyland to reopen on June 18
Disneyland in Hong Kong has introduced it is going to reopen on June 18 practically six months after it closed in late January.
The theme park, together with its retailers and eating places, will open with “managed capability” and social distancing shall be enforced.
The Disneyland in Shanghai reopened final month.
03:20 GMT – Areas round one other Beijing market locked down after optimistic exams
State broadcaster CGTN has extra on the areas of Beijing which were locked down. It appears they’re within the northwest of the town, round a market the place some workers have been identified with coronavirus.
Ten communities round Yuquandong market in Beijing’s Haidian District have been shut down after some market staffers examined optimistic for #coronavirus, with all of them having hyperlinks to Xinfadi wholesale market that’s on the heart of recent instances, native official instructed a briefing Monday. pic.twitter.com/EwrAbkQLUd
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) June 15, 2020
03:15 GMT – China seals off ten extra Beijing neighbourhoods
Ten extra neighbourhoods in Beijing have been sealed off as a part of the town’s try and cope with a sudden spike of instances linked to a wholesale meals market, in keeping with AFP information company.
02:45 GMT – South Korea checks instances, however retains cautious eye on Seoul
South Korea saved new instances under 40 for the second day in a row, in keeping with Yonhap information company, however is worried about cluster infections and untraceable instances within the Seoul metropolitan space.
The Korea Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention reported 37 new instances on Monday, 24 of them native infections and all however two of these within the Seoul space.
The brand new instances are clustered round a door-to-door enterprise group, small church buildings and a desk tennis centre.
However the variety of instances the place the origin is unknown can also be rising, in keeping with the KCDC, up 1.eight proportion factors to 9.2 p.c of instances over the primary two weeks of June.
Life has been returning to regular in Seoul however with clusters of coronavirus rising some restrictions have been reimposed [Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters]
02:15 GMT – Japan says hasn’t determined to ease entry ban
Japan’s International Minister Toshimitsu Motegi says the federal government has made no resolution to ease the entry ban imposed to curb the unfold of the coronavirus after native media reported it would carry it for individuals from sure international locations.
Montegi instructed parliament the federal government was methods to ease the ban and would achieve this in levels if it determined to take action.
00:05 GMT – China ramps up testing in Beijing after spike in instances
China’s vice premier Solar Chunlan is asking for “decisive measures” in Beijing because the capital strikes to mass coronavirus testing after a spike in instances linked to a serious wholesale meals market.
Late on Sunday, all firms have been ordered to oversee a 14-day dwelling quarantine for workers who’d visited the Xinfadi market or been in touch with anybody who had been there. The market has been closed and plenty of residential estates round it sealed off. Faculties and kindergartens within the space have been closed too.
“Beijing has entered a rare interval,” metropolis spokesman Xu Hejian mentioned.
In line with state media, newest figures present 49 new instances in mainland China, ten imported and 39 acquired domestically – 36 of them in Beijing.
Chinese language Vice Premier Solar Chunlan, who had led anti-#COVID19 struggle in #Wuhan for months, urged authorities to take decisive measures in containing virus unfold in #Beijing after newest an infection clusters. The capital metropolis continues to be dealing with excessive dangers of additional virus spreading: Solar pic.twitter.com/hjLl4IDj1b
— International Instances (@globaltimesnews) June 15, 2020
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00:00 GMT – Australia banking on infrastructure to flee coronavirus financial rout
Australia is predicted to spend an additional 1.5 billion Australian {dollars} ($1.03 billion) on infrastructure and fast-track approvals for a collection of tasks together with the enlargement of the Olympic Dam.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is because of communicate in a while Monday.
“As we come out of the COVID disaster, infrastructure may give us the sting many international locations do not have,” he is anticipated to say, in keeping with extracts of the speech despatched to Reuters by his workplace.
The federal government has already introduced ahead 3.eight billion Australian {dollars} in infrastructure funding with the nation dealing with its first recession in 30 years.
23:00 GMT (Sunday) – EasyJet to renew some flights in UK
Britain’s EasyJet will resume operations on Monday with a restricted variety of home flights inside the UK. The primary will go away Gatwick Airport for Glasgow at 06:00 GMT.
All passengers must put on face masks, plane cleansing shall be enhanced and no meals providers supplied.
EasyJet plans so as to add extra providers because the months progress and expects to be flying about three-quarters of its routes by August, however at a a lot decrease frequency.
Easyjet planes on the bottom at Luton airport after the airline grounded its total fleet in late March [File: Matthew Childs/Reuters]
22:05 GMT (Sunday): Ghana’s well being minister confirmed with coronavirus
Ghana’s well being minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu has been identified with coronavirus and is a steady situation.
“Allow us to want our hardworking minister for well being, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, a speedy restoration from the virus, which he contracted within the line of obligation,” President Nana Akufo-Addo mentioned on tv on Sunday.
Ghana has recorded practically 12,000 instances of coronavirus, one of many highest in Africa, however has additionally examined way more individuals than most different international locations. It has reported 54 deaths.
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Hiya and welcome to Al Jazeera’s persevering with protection of the coronavirus pandemic. I am Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur.
Learn all of the updates from yesterday (June 14) here.