We start each day’s update with this message from DFS Group when the retailer reopened its stores in Macau on 20 February after a 13-day closure.
Published in Chinese, it translates as:
No winter can’t be passed
No spring will not come
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For updates before 26 July, click here.
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3 August
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International news
- Cases surge in Greater Manchester, UK. “Major incident” reported due to the spike in multiple locations.
- US reports 47,511 new cases of COVID-19 and 413 deaths on Sunday.
- Mexico posts another 4,853 cases and 274 new deaths.
- Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte reimposes tightened coronavirus restrictions on Manila as situation deteriorates.
- Latin America and the Caribbean pass 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. Brazil has suffered nearly half of them.
- Indian and South African infections continue to surge.
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International news:
- Victoria, Australia declares a state of disaster after a surge in infections. Melbourne has been placed under curfew.
- India posts more than 50,000 new cases for a third consecutive day.
- South Africa reports 10,107 new cases on Saturday, bringing the tally to 503,290 with 8,153 deaths.
- The Philippines posts its highest single-day spike on Saturday.
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Key developments:
- Travellers arriving in the UK from Spain must now quarantine for 14 days under new coronavirus travel rules introduced yesterday. The change, a major blow to both UK and Spanish tourism, follows a spike in COVID-19 cases in Spain, with over 900 new infections reported Friday. The UK’s biggest tour operator, Tui, cancelled its flights due to depart to the Spanish mainland and the Canary Islands today.
- Total cases in the US near 4.2 million, over a quarter of global infections.
- Brazil reports over 50,000 new cases for the fourth consecutive day