The global coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day, World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
The United Kingdom’s chief medical officers have agreed to lower the country’s coronavirus alert level from four to three.
New confirmed cases of coronavirus remain stable in Beijing as officials say situation is under control.
German biopharmaceutical company CureVac has started a clinical trial for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus.
In Honduras, President Juan Orlando Hernandez became the latest world leader to be hospitalised after testing positive for the coronavirus.
More than 454,000 people have died as a result of the new coronavirus, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. At least 8.4 million people have been confirmed to have the coronavirus around the world and more than four million have recovered.
