Coronavirus live news: confirmed Covid-19 cases exceed 10m globally

Infections pass milestone;new Covid-19 clusters across world spark fear of second wave;Iran makes masks compulsoryAustralia considers new lockdown in MelbourneVictoria nurse tests positive as state reports jump of 41 casesUS cases pass 2.5mUS one-day case high as states delay reopeningSee all our coronavirus coverage6.53pmBSTAFP has the latest onPoland ’s presidential election, in which polls indicate that incumbent Andrzej Duda will fall short of a majority and there will need to be a run-off on 12 July.Turnout was at a record high by 5pm with almost 48% having voted compared to about 34% by the same time in the last presidential election in 2015, the national election commission said.6.26pmBSTLatin America has just 8% of the world ’s population but it currently accounts for 45% of daily deaths, according to Carlos del Rio, a Mexican-born infectious disease expert with Emory University.Given the very low levels of testing across the region, the most worrying aspect was not the number of confirmed cases but the levels of mortality, del Rio said.Berthony Clermont shares a two-room flat without running water with 10 relatives in the Haitian capital ’s Cite Soleil slum, so when he fell ill with the novel coronavirus, they all did.“I tried staying at home at the beginning but it was difficult to isolate myself as the house is too small,” said the 45-year old. Mistrustful of the dilapidated public healthcare in Haiti - the poorest country in the Americas - Clermont and h...
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