AROUND THE WORLD

CORONAVIRUS has infected more than 4.5 million people across the world and killed over 310,000, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

Here are the latest updates on the pandemic from around the world:

TURKEY

Turkey’s health ministry says 41 more people have died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 4,096. The death rate is the lowest registered since the end of March.

People under 20 and above 65 have been stuck at home for weeks, though they are now allowed to leave for a few hours on allotted days.

NEPAL

Nepal reported its first confirmed coronavirus death. The health ministry says a new mother fell sick and died on Thursday at a hospital near Kathmandu. Hospital results showed she tested positive for the virus.

Nepal has 281 confirmed coronavirus cases. A lockdown on March 24 has been extended several times and is scheduled to end today.

GREECE

Public beaches have reopened under strict social distancing measures as the nation endures a heatwave which has seen temperatures soar well above 30C.

Easing beach restrictions is seen as key to salvaging the tourism industry over the summer in a country expected to have the worst recession in the European Union as a result of the pandemic. INDIA

India’s coronavirus infection cases surpassed that of China when the health ministry on Saturday reported a new total of 90,343 with 2,871 deaths.

CHINA

China is shortening its annual legislative session, which begins late next week in Beijing, as small clusters of cases pop up elsewhere in the country.

The spread of the disease has largely stopped in the country where the pandemic started, but Jilin province in the north-east has reported 28 cases over nine days, the latest two on Friday.

MEXICO

The number of new confirmed cases hit a daily high on Friday, even as the government clarified guidelines for the construction, mining and automotive industries to start returning to work next week.

Mexico recorded more than 2,000 cases for the second day in a row, suggesting its outbreak has yet to peak.

SOUTH KOREA

Officials have confirmed 162 coronavirus cases linked to clubgoers in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, but expressed cautious hope that infections are beginning to wane.

PAKISTAN

The first Covid-19 patient who was treated with blood donated from a man who survived the disease has fully recovered.