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 DEATHS AND INFECTIONS
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EUROPE
* The United Kingdom's death toll now exceeds 40,000, by far the
worst yet reported in Europe.
* Millions of British self-employed workers will be able to apply
for one-off grants of up to 7,500 pounds ($9,210) from Wednesday, as
part of a government assistance package.
* Total cases in Germany increased by 798 to 171,306 and the death
toll rose by 101 to 7,634.
* France's death toll rose by 348 to 26,991 on Tuesday.
* Spain ordered a two-week quarantine on travellers arriving from
abroad from this Friday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he
had tested positive and was receiving treatment at a hospital.
* Denmark is "very unlikely" to be hit by a second wave of COVID-19,
the country's chief epidemiologist said.
AMERICAS
* More than 1.37 million people have been infected in the United
States and 81,984 have died, according to a Reuters tally, as of
0413 GMT on Wednesday.
* Leading U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci warned
Congress that a premature lifting of lockdowns could lead to
additional outbreaks.
* A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts more than
147,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early-August, up nearly
10,000 from the last projection.
* Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a $3
trillion-plus coronavirus relief package, only to see the measure
flatly rejected by Senate Republicans.
* The Canadian death toll passed the 5,000-mark.
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* Total cases in Brazil rose to 177,589, passing that of Germany and drawing
nearly even with France’s tally of 178,225, amid President Jair Bolsonaro
fighting states over his wish to reopen gyms and beauty parlours.
* Mexico confirmed 1,997 new cases and 353 additional deaths, its deadliest day,
bringing the national tally to 38,324 and 3,926 deaths.
* Eighty-nine of 180 inmates and one staff member at a jail in the Colombian
city Leticia have tested positive.
ASIA-PACIFIC
* China reported seven new cases on the mainland on May 12, versus one a day
earlier, while Jilin city in the country's northeast has warned of a huge risk
of COVID-19 spreading further.
* Lending by Japan's major banks rose in April at the fastest pace since the
global financial crisis in 2009.
* India would provide 20 trillion rupees ($266 billion) in fiscal and monetary
measures.
* New Zealand's central bank doubled the amount of bonds it will buy as part of
its quantitative easing programme and flagged a possible shift to negative
interest rates.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
* Saudi Arabia will enforce a countrywide 24-hour curfew during the five-day
Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday later this month.
ECONOMIC FALLOUT
* Stocks and oil prices fell on Wednesday as fears about a second wave of
coronavirus infections gripped financial markets. MKTS/GLOB
* Investment banks cut jobs at the fastest pace in six years during the first
quarter in 2020 even though the coronavirus pandemic triggered a surge in
volatility and boosted revenues to a five-year high.
* Overseas arrivals in Australia collapsed to almost nothing in April as it
closed its borders. Preliminary data showed arrivals of 21,600 in April, down
98.7% from a year earlier.
(Compiled by Sarah Morland, Uttaresh.V and Vinay Dwivedi; Editing by Arun Koyyur,
Tomasz Janowski, Anil D'Silva and Mark Heinrich)
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