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 DEATHS AND INFECTIONS
* For an interactive graphic tracking the global spread, open
https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 in an external browser.
* For a U.S.-focused tracker with state-by-state and county map,
open https://tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9T in an external browser.
* Eikon users, see MacroVitals (cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?navid=1592404098)
for a case tracker and summary of news.
ASIA-PACIFIC
* Japan's health ministry said it planned to participate in the
WHO's COVID-19 vaccine programme.
* Inmates at a high-security Australian prison lit fires, smashed
windows and flooded their cells with water, after a lockdown sparked
by a coronavirus outbreak resulted in a shortage of staff and
services.
* Hong Kong began free testing for all its residents, as the
mainland Chinese-led initiative faced scepticism from the city's
medical community and public.
EUROPE
* Europe can live with COVID-19 without a vaccine by managing
outbreaks with localised lockdowns, the WHO's regional director
said, adding he did not expect a return to full national-level
restrictions.
* Tens of millions of pupils around Europe returned to school on
Tuesday, with hand cleansing stations, social distancing and
staggered play time set to become the new normal.
* Russia's case tally passed the 1 million mark.
* Poland is banning from Wednesday direct flights from 44 countries
including Spain, Israel and Romania.
* Hungary decided to let tourists from Poland, the Czech Republic
and Slovakia enter the country with a fresh negative coronavirus
test, it said late on Monday, just as a lockdown on its borders took
effect.
* French companies will have around a week to adopt new, strict
rules on the compulsory wearing of face masks in the workplace,
employment minister said.
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AMERICAS
* The Trump administration and Senate Republicans have been in contact over
relief measures and the Senate's top Republican will "hopefully" unveil a new
bill next week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox Business Network.
* Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said nobody would be forced to have the
vaccine against the pandemic once it is developed.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
* Algeria will carry out further measures to ease a coronavirus lockdown from
Sept. 1, including lifting a ban on some cultural activities such as reopening
museums and libraries.
MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS
* AstraZeneca expanded its agreement with cell therapy firm Oxford Biomedica to
mass-produce its potential COVID-19 vaccine, as it looks to scale-up supply
ahead of a possible U.S. fast-track approval.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
* Stocks started September on a positive note, with global indexes close to
all-time highs and Europe edging higher, pushed up by Chinese factory data that
showed a rebound in demand. [MKTS/GLOB]
* The euro zone economy has experienced a strong recovery in the third quarter
even though the most recent data in August have been less robust, ECB Vice
President Luis de Guindos said.
* Germany expects the economic devastation caused by the pandemic to be less
severe than originally feared this year, but it now sees a weaker rebound next
year, two sources told Reuters.
* British mortgage lending accelerated in July, a latest sign of a post-lockdown
bounce-back in the housing market, and consumers returned to borrowing, data
from the Bank of England showed.
(Compiled by Milla Nissi, Uttaresh.V and Vinay Dwivedi; Editing by Giles Elgood,
Maju Samuel and Alexandra Hudson)
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