Coronavirus live news: global death toll exceeds 750,000; France reports over 2,600 new cases in 24 hours

Pandemic has killed three quarters of a million people; France sets new post-lockdown record forsecond day in a row; Germany case jump shows‘unsettling trend’;Iraq reports record daily Covid-19 casesNetherlands and Malta set to be added to England quarantine listGreece: UK passengers barred from flights over confusing formCovid-19 may have been circulating in New Zealand for weeksMobile crematorium in Bolivia as deaths surgeUK coronavirus live: latest news9.00pmBSTBolivia’s political crisis is adding to the burden on its health care system, which was already grappling with coronavirus as it continues to spread across one of Latin America’s poorest countries, the Associated Press reports.Street unrest erupted after the Supreme Electoral Tribunal moved the planned vote from 6 September to 18 October following warnings from medical experts that it would be unsafe to hold the election while the pandemic was not yet under control.8.38pmBSTTheUK government said 41,347 people have died across the country within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, as of Thursday. That is a rise of 18 from the day before.Separate figures published by the UK ’s statistics agencies show there have been 56,800 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.We have not received the latest data for cases and tests in England. We will update today ’s records as soon as they become available.Continue reading...
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