Coronavirus Updates
Iran on Sunday reported over 100 new deaths in a single day from the novel coronavirus for the first time in two months. In televised remarks, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari announced 107 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours, raising the toll to 8,837.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Saturday that the Mediterranean country is ready to welcome tourists arriving from abroad. The country will allow entry to foreign visitors beginning on June 15.
Three of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s security guards have tested positive for coronavirus, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday. Also on Saturday, an employee at the President’s Residence tested positive. Neither Netanyahu nor President Reuven Rivlin will go into quarantine.
Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands have signed a contract with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm Astrazeneca for up to 400 million doses of a vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, the company said on Saturday. The first batch would be made available to European citizens by the end of 2020, according to the Reuters news agency.
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has replaced Jaime Manalich as health minister over controversy surrounding the country’s fatality figures from coronavirus.
Egypt on Saturday confirmed 1,677 new coronavirus cases and 62 deaths, the highest daily count in both categories for the country since the coronavirus outbreak began there.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN on Friday that the US might not experience a second wave of coronavirus infections.