Russia reports more than 10,000 new cases of COVID-19 for the 10th day in a row, as the country emerges as a new hotspot in the coronavirus pandemic.
Bars, restaurants, beauty salons and barber shops will be allowed to reopen across Italy this month rather than having to wait till June.
A young hairdresser and a customer wearing face masks and gloves to protect against the coronavirus in a salon in Brixen, Italy, Monday, May 11, 2020. The northern Italian province of South Tyrol is moving ahead of policies by the central government, reopening restaurants and shops closed during the coronavirus crisis earlier than planned by Rome.Once the hardest-hit country in Europe, Italy was the first nation in the world to impose a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A man wearing a face mask walks at Savyolovskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, on May 12, 2020, on the first day of mandatory use of masks and gloves on Moscow public transportation amid the coronavirus pandemic.The latest daily tally is down from Monday's record of 11,656 new infections. Quarantine workers spray disinfectant at a nightclub in the Itaewon district of Seoul, South Korea, on May 12, 2020, amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus.Seoul police have secured a list from mobile operators of 10,905 customers who were present in the Itaewon area for over 30 minutes between April 24 and May 6 and sent text messages asking the owners of those mobile phones to get tested for COVID-19.
People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at a testing station in the nightlife district of Itaewon in Seoul, South Korea, on May 12, 2020. Seoul authorities are using mobile phone data to trace nightclub visitors as they try to tackle a coronavirus cluster, they said, promising anonymity to those being tested due to the stigma surrounding homosexuality, as the Itaewon area caters to a large LGBT community.
The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued an emergency notice on Monday announcing a"10 Day Battle" to ramp up its ability to conduct nucleic acid tests on the city's 11 million residents. Each district must submit a detailed plan by Tuesday on how they will test their respective community, according to an official leaflet which has been circulated on social media and carried by state-run media.
Since the start of the pandemic, the Chinese mainland has reported 82,919 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 4,633 deaths. There are still 115 people with the disease in hospitals, according to the National Health Commission.and Vice President Mike Pence will maintain a physical distance from each other in the immediate future, a senior administration official told ABC News.
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