Turkey seeing second peak of Covid-19 outbreak – as it happened

US president ’s movechallenged by Congress; Silvio Berlusconihas Covid-19; Brazil ’s death tollappears to be easing. This blog is now closedFollow the latest global coronavirus live blog hereMadrid president says most schoolchildren likely to catch coronavirusGermanyrules out winter lockdownHydrocortisone found to save lives of some patientsSchools reopen across Europe as cases grow12.28amBSTWe ’ve launched a new blog at the link below – head there for the latest:Related:Coronavirus live news: Trump pushes to withdraw WHO funding immediately12.14amBSTBrazil ’s Covid-19 death toll appears to be easing for the first time since May, data shows, a sign the Latin American country could be descending from a long infection plateau that has seen it suffer the world’s second-worst outbreak after the United States, Reuters reports.With nearly 4 million confirmed cases, the virus has killed over 120,000 people in Brazil. But the level of average daily deaths dropped below 900 per day last week - the lowest in three and a half months and below the rate of both the United States and India, according to a Reuters tally.Researchers at Imperial College London also calculate that the transmission rate in Brazil, at which each person infected with the coronavirus infects another person, is now below 1, the level required for new infections to slow.Continue reading...
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