HuffPost press reporters around the globe are tracking the pandemic and its effects.
Read the most current updates on the coronavirus pandemic listed below.
India Sees More Regional Lockdowns As Cases Near 800,000– 7/10/20, 4: 25 a.m. ET
India reported a record 26,506 brand-new coronavirus cases Friday as authorities re-imposed lockdowns in its most populous state and in a commercial center, house to car manufacturers, drug factories and makers.
The brand-new cases pushed India’s tally to almost 800,000 cases, the world’s third-biggest break out, behind only the United States and Brazil in validated infections.
There have been more than 21,000 deaths in India considering that the first case was discovered there in January, federal health ministry data showed on Friday.
The capital, New Delhi, together with Maharashtra state, home to the financial capital of Mumbai, and the southern state of Tamil Nadu account for about 60%of its cases.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal government, nervous to jump-start an economy maimed by the epidemic and put countless individuals back to work, in early June reduced a preliminary lockdown of the 1.3 billion population enforced in March.
But rising flare-ups of the virus have been forcing some major industrial towns and states to enforce localized constraints.
India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, will lock down for 2 days from late Friday as cases there surged past 32,000, the state government stated in a statement.
— Reuters
UK Quarantine Rules Relaxed For Arrivals From Lots Of Countries– 7/10/20, 3: 45 a.m. ET
Individuals traveling into the UK from around 60 nations and areas will no longer have to self-isolate for 2 weeks, according to new coronavirus guidelines that come into force today.
People going back to or going to England, Wales and Northern Ireland within the “travel passage,” which doesn’t include the United States, are exempt from quarantine guidelines. Scotland has actually produced its own smaller sized list of nations.
Passengers going through London’s Gatwick Airport early Friday morning admitted they would not be taking a trip if they were still needed to self-isolate for two weeks on their return. “We most likely would have gone later,” stated Ray Gordge, 64, from Taunton, who was on his method to Paris to see his daughter for the very first time in six months, and meet his brand-new grand son, born recently.
The rule modification comes as a survey suggested people in 4 European nations are most likely to oppose inbound UK tourists this summer than they are visitors from the remainder of the continent. While between 40%and 54%of Spaniards would disprove of tourists from a group of European countries, the figure increases to 61%for those from the U.K., a YouGov poll found.
The U.K. has recorded 44,602 deaths and 319,075 cases.
— Léonie Chao-Fong
Australia To Cut In Half Varieties Of Returning People As Cases Surge– 7/10/20, 3: 30 a.m. ET
Australia will halve the number of residents enabled to return house from overseas every week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday, as authorities struggle to contain a COVID-19 outbreak in the country’s second-most populated state.
Because March, Australia has permitted only citizens and permanent residents to enter the country. Once they show up, they go into a compulsory 14- day quarantine in hotels, which is spent for by state governments.
Morrison said from Monday, Australia will cap the figures at 4,000 individuals each week.
The announcement of new travel constraints comes days after the state of Victoria reimposed lockdowns in Melbourne. On Friday, Melbourne recorded 288 new cases. The lockdown will last for 6 weeks following a surge in coronavirus cases connected to social distancing breaches in hotels where returned tourists were held in quarantine.
Regardless of surging varieties of cases in Victoria, the state’s premier Daniel Andrews has actually unwinded limitations on most of the 3,000 people locked down in nine public-housing towers. Locals in eight of t