The Nikkei Asian Assessment is monitoring the unfold of the brand new coronavirus that originated within the central Chinese language metropolis of Wuhan.

World instances have reached 13,323,530, in response to Johns Hopkins College in Baltimore.

The worldwide dying toll has hit 578,628.

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Listed here are the newest developments (Tokyo time):

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Wednesday, July 15

four:45 p.m. Russia on Wednesday reported 6,422 new coronavirus instances, pushing its confirmed nationwide tally to 746,369, the fourth-highest on the planet.

four:15 p.m. Japan had round 2,600 abroad guests in June, a decline of 99.9% from the identical month a 12 months in the past, the Japan Nationwide Tourism Group annouced Wednesday. That was up from Might, when simply 1,700 arrivals have been recorded, the bottom quantity since statistics started in 1964, however it’s nonetheless very low.

four:08 p.m. Gold costs steadied on Wednesday, holding agency above the psychologically vital degree of $1,800 an oz., as worries over surging coronavirus instances and simmering U.S.-China tensions solidified demand for the safe-haven metallic. Spot gold was little modified at $1,808.85 as of 0658 GMT. U.S. gold futures eased zero.2% to $1,808.40.

three:21 p.m. India experiences one other file single-day rise in coronavirus instances with 29,429 up to now 24 hours, taking the nation’s COVID-19 tally to 936,181. The dying toll rose to 24,309, up 582 since Tuesday morning.

1:54 p.m. Indonesia’s June exports have been up 2.28% on a yearly foundation to $12.03 billion, the primary growth in 4 months, propped up by elevated shipments of agricultural and manufactured items. A Reuters ballot had forecast a 12.26% fall. Imports fell 6.36% on-year in June to $10.76 billion, in contrast with the ballot’s expectation for an 18.7% drop. Imports of shopper items surged practically 40%, though purchases of uncooked supplies remained weak.

1:53 p.m. Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), owned by Genting Singapore, has made a one-off minimize in its workforce, as a part of cost-cutting measures within the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it stated on Wednesday. In its assertion, RWS didn’t give the determine of workers affected. The resort, one in all Singapore’s prime vacationer sights encompasses a lodge, a on line casino and the Common Studios theme park amongst different sights.

1:10 p.m. Authorities have confirmed 36 extra coronavirus infections at Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture, taking the tally at U.S. army bases on the island to 136, Kyodo Information says.

1:07 p.m. Racing to develop a vaccine, Chinese language biotechnology firm CanSino Biologics has pulled off the feat of creating heat ties with both China and Canada at a time of fraught relations between the 2 nations.

1:03 p.m. Tokyo raises its alert for coronavirus infections to the best of 4 ranges on Wednesday, after a spike in instances to file numbers within the Japanese capital. Fearing a second wave of infections spreading from the capital, native municipalities and opposition lawmakers additionally urged the central authorities to droop a serious journey marketing campaign geared toward boosting home tourism.

12:02 p.m. The Financial institution of Japan forecasts the nation’s economic system to contract 4.7% in fiscal 2020 regardless of indicators of a restoration. The financial institution stated the contraction will likely be adopted by an growth of three.three% in fiscal 2021 and 1.5% the next 12 months.

11:00 a.m. Fb and Sony are getting ready to increase output of upcoming gaming units by as a lot as 50%, displaying how huge tech firms are taking advantage of customers’ thirst for house leisure in the course of the international coronavirus pandemic, the Nikkei Asian Assessment has discovered.

10:46 a.m. South Korea confirms 39 new instances, up from 33 a day in the past. Complete infections attain 13,551 with 289 deaths. The nation misplaced 352,00zero jobs in June, year-on-year, as staff within the retail and restaurant industries have been hit onerous by the pandemic. However, the loss narrowed barely from the earlier month’s 392,00zero, because of a restoration within the service sector. The nation’s seasonally adjusted unemployment price slipped to four.three% in June, down from a decade-high four.5% in Might.

10:34 a.m. New Zealand should put together for brand spanking new coronavirus outbreaks because the pandemic spreads globally, nevertheless it is not going to drop its elimination technique if group transmission is found, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, says.

9:58 a.m. Australian shopper sentiment worsened in July as renewed coronavirus lockdowns in Melbourne darkened the temper after two months of acquire. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of shopper sentiment fell 6.1% in July, reversing a 6.three% acquire in June. The July fall left the index down eight.9% from the identical interval final 12 months at 87.9, which means pessimists outnumbered optimists by some margin.

9:01 a.m. U.S. biotech startup Moderna experimental vaccine for COVID-19 handed security assessments and generated an immune response in all 45 wholesome volunteers in an early-stage scientific examine, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday.

eight:35 a.m. Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein proprietor PVH Corp stated Tuesday it will minimize 450 jobs in North America and shutter 162 shops because the coronavirus disaster wreaks havoc on the attire trade. The corporate stated the layoffs, affecting 12% of its workplace workforce, will save about $80 million yearly.

7:53 a.m. U.S. President Donald Trump stated in an interview on Tuesday with CBS Information that it was a “mistake” for California’s two largest college districts, Los Angeles and San Diego, to maintain colleges closed within the fall.

6:53 a.m. Brazil recorded 41,857 new instances of the novel coronavirus up to now 24 hours and 1,300 extra deaths, the Well being Ministry stated Tuesday. It now has 1,926,824 confirmed instances and 74,133 deaths.

6:31 a.m. The UK could quickly advocate face coverings in all public locations together with places of work and different workplaces, The Telegraph newspaper reported Tuesday.

5:30 a.m. U.S. shares rally following feedback by Fed policymakers on assist for the economic system. After Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard argues for persevering with the central financial institution’s asset-purchasing program, the Dow Jones Industrial Common climbs over 550 factors, or 2.1%. The broader S&P 500 beneficial properties 1.three%.

four:40 a.m. The southern U.S. states of Alabama, Florida and North Carolina report their greatest day by day rises in COVID-19 deaths thus far, in one other grim file for the nation.

1:50 a.m. Tokyo well being supplier group Quick Physician will start providing door-to-door COVID-19 assessments for registered sufferers subsequent month within the Japanese capital’s central 23 wards. The service is geared for aged sufferers and others who’ve hassle leaving their properties.

12:30 a.m. Delta Air Traces’ CEO says the corporate’s capability within the third quarter will likely be about 20% to 25% of 2019 ranges, Reuters experiences.

Tuesday, July 14

11:48 p.m. All COVID-19 sufferers that have been contaminated aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess, which turned an emblem of the early days of the pandemic because it docked at Yokohama, have now been launched from hospital, Japan’s well being ministry experiences.

11:00 p.m. 3M and MIT researchers say they’re creating a fast take a look at for COVID-19. The analysis might result in a strategy to produce correct ends in minutes, in response to a press release.

“The take a look at could possibly be administered on the point-of-care and wouldn’t should be despatched to labs for testing,” the assertion says.

10:15 p.m. Philippine authorities and police will go home to deal with to seek out coronavirus sufferers and take them to isolation services — a tricky new plan to curb rising infections — Reuters experiences, citing the nation’s inside minister. “We do not need constructive sufferers to remain house in [self] quarantine particularly if their properties do not have the capability,” Eduardo Ano, the minister, is quoted as saying. However because the police have already been criticized for heavy-handed measures, this appears more likely to be controversial.

eight:25 p.m. Japan is contemplating easing coronavirus-related journey restrictions by allowing U.S and European business executives to enter the nation, Nikkei has discovered. No timeframe has been set, however sources stated the principles would seemingly embrace solely brief stays, a restricted variety of folks and arrivals on non-commercial plane — like non-public jets.

eight:05 p.m. 3M, the U.S. industrial group, pronounces a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise to develop a fast antigen take a look at for COVID-19, Reuters experiences. Any such take a look at — which detects proteins discovered on or inside a virus — guarantees ends in minutes on an affordable, paper-based gadget described as much like a house being pregnant take a look at. The corporate envisions producing tens of millions of assessments per day.

5:51 p.m. South Korea has unveiled $133 billion of post-coronavirus spending in what President Moon Jae-in known as a “K-New Deal,” echoing the time period utilized by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt for the packages he applied to assist his nation emerge from the Nice Melancholy within the 1930s.

four:49 p.m. India’s gross sales of passenger autos, together with automobiles, utility autos and vans, in June dropped about 50% from the earlier 12 months to 105,617 models amid the lockdown, in response to the newest information launched by the Society of Indian Vehicle Producers.

three:50 p.m. Malaysia and Singapore have agreed in precept to reopen their mutual border with a enterprise journey “inexperienced lane,” eyeing a mid-August begin date.

three:20 p.m. Tokyo confirms 143 new infections, up from 119 a day earlier. Though the depend has receded from the 200-plus degree, it has remained at greater than 100 new instances for six days in a row. The capital can also be giving rise to a number of clusters — at a theater, nursery colleges and aged care services.

2:00 p.m. China’s exports unexpectedly rose in June as abroad economies reopened, authorities information reveals. Imports grew for the primary time this 12 months, reinforcing views the restoration from the pandemic is gaining traction.

1:50 p.m. India’s COVID-19 instances prime 900,00zero — simply three days after surpassing 800,00zero — with 28,498 new infections reported within the final 24 hours, barely decrease than 28,701 the day prior to this. The nation’s whole caseload now stands at 906,752 with 23,727 deaths, which rose by 553 since Monday morning.

1:11 p.m. Tokyo well being officers attraction for greater than 800 theatergoers to get examined for the brand new coronavirus after a manufacturing starring Japanese boy-band members was discovered to be the supply of at the least 27 instances. The newest cluster has been traced to Theatre Moliere in Shinjuku, which staged a play for six days from June 30 to July 5. The theater is close to the Kabukicho leisure district, which has been the supply of many infections.

11:40 a.m. Shares of Macao on line casino operators, together with Wynn Macau and MGM China, soar after China loosens border restrictions, setting the stage for the resumption of enterprise within the playing hub. From Wednesday, guests returning to the mainland from Macao is not going to must quarantine for 14 days.

1:15 a.m. South Korea confirms 33 new coronavirus instances, down from 62 a day in the past. The nation’s whole infections have reached 13,512, with 289 deaths. The Well being Ministry will host a gathering with 30 drugmakers within the afternoon to clarify the federal government’s assist program for creating COVID-19 vaccines and coverings.

9:30 a.m. China experiences three new instances for July 13, in contrast with eight a day earlier. The entire new infections have been imported. There have been no new deaths.

9:05 a.m. Singapore’s economy shrank 12.6% on the 12 months within the April-June quarter as a consequence of sweeping COVID-19 enterprise closures, the federal government estimates.

9:00 a.m. World infections surpass 13 million, in response to Johns Hopkins College, taking solely 5 days to climb by a million. The U.S. continues to guide the world, including greater than 60,00zero instances a day, adopted by Brazil and India. Fatalities from COVID-19 worldwide have topped 571,00zero.

eight:30 a.m. Hong Kong Disneyland closes once more as a consequence of an increase in newly confirmed instances. The theme park had simply reopened in June. “As required by the federal government and well being authorities according to prevention efforts happening throughout Hong Kong, Hong Kong Disneyland Park will quickly shut from July 15, 2020,” it stated on its web site.

5:15 a.m. California’s governor has shut bars and halted indoor restaurant eating throughout the state and advised gyms, church buildings and different locations the place folks collect to shut in areas hardest hit by rising COVID-19 instances.

Training will likely be online-only within the Los Angeles college district, the second-largest within the U.S., when colleges are imagined to reopen on the finish of summer season trip.

2:55 a.m. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director normal of the World Well being Group, tells reporters: “If fundamentals aren’t adopted, the one method this pandemic goes to go — it’s going to worsen and worse and worse.”

1:50 a.m. Experimental coronavirus vaccine candidates from Pfizer and BioNTech have acquired “quick monitor” standing from the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration.

Monday, July 13

11:00 p.m. Hong Kong will drastically tighten its social distancing guidelines as instances of native infections surge once more. The brand new guidelines, introduced by Chief Government Carrie Lam, embrace banning dine-in providers for eating places from 6 p.m. to five a.m. the following day, requiring everybody to put on masks after they journey on public transport, and rolling again the restrict for public gatherings from 50 to 4.

As well as, gyms, cinemas and different ten varieties of venues will likely be closed once more after reopening for barely greater than two months. Native authorities will even tighten the screening of individuals touring from “excessive danger” areas, requiring the passengers to current paperwork displaying a damaging virus take a look at consequence to have the ability to board a airplane.

eight:00 p.m. Thailand steps up safety at its land borders after considerations surged over a attainable second wave of coronavirus infections. The transfer follows the arrests of hundreds of unlawful migrants up to now month.

6:30 p.m. The Philippines experiences 65 extra novel coronavirus deaths and 836 extra infections. Complete deaths have reached 1,599, whereas confirmed infections rose to 57,zero06, greater than triple the quantity the nation had when President Rodrigo Duterte eased quarantine measures within the capital in June.

5:50 p.m. Indonesia experiences 1,282 new coronavirus instances, bringing the overall depend to 76,981. Deaths from COVID-19 rose by 50, bringing the overall to three,656.

Learn right here in regards to the metropolis of Jakarta raising the alarm as day by day infections proceed to rise after the motion restrictions have been eased.

5:40 p.m. Hong Kong data 52 new instances of coronavirus, together with 41 that have been domestically transmitted, well being authorities say, as worries over escalating infections within the international monetary hub develop.

three:47 p.m. Tokyo confirms 119 new infections, sources inform Nikkei, falling under the 120 mark for the primary time in 5 days. Tokyo has been rigorously monitoring the latest surge as infections have been on the rise in neighboring prefectures similar to Chiba and Kanagawa as nicely.

three:33 p.m. Philippine automobile gross sales plunged 51.2% on the 12 months to 85,zero41 autos in January to June, trade teams say, amid persevering with lockdowns that started in mid-March. Market leaders Toyota, Mitsubishi and Honda noticed their gross sales halved in the course of the six-month interval.

2:50 p.m. Sanrio Puroland, a theme park in western Tokyo that options the beloved Howdy Kitty character, reopens after a five-month closure as a result of coronavirus. Sanrio Leisure, the operator, is limiting attendance to about one-10th the quantity earlier than the pandemic, with reservations required in the meanwhile as a precaution.

2:15 p.m. The Hong Kong Ebook Honest has been postponed as a consequence of a spike in domestically transmitted instances, the organizer says two days earlier than the exhibition was to open, including that the occasion will likely be rescheduled. Town has reported 1,470 instances. Among the many 38 new instances reported on Sunday, 30 have been native infections.

1:41 p.m. India experiences yet one more file single-day improve in coronavirus instances, with 28,701 new infections within the final 24 hours, bringing the nation’s COVID-19 an infection tally to 878,254. The dying toll has climbed to 23,174, up 500 since Sunday morning.

12:45 p.m. Japanese shares rise, monitoring Wall Avenue’s rally on Friday as a constructive evaluation on a possible COVID-19 drug by Gilead Sciences offset investor fears over a surge in virus instances. The benchmark Nikkei common gained 1.73% to 22,677.25 by the noon break.

12:30 p.m. Japan and the U.S. are sharing details about coronavirus instances at U.S. army bases in Okinawa prefecture, a authorities spokesman says, after 62 new cases were confirmed at three bases.

11:05 a.m. After successfuly coping with the preliminary coronavirus outbreak by swiftly providing take a look at kits, South Korean drug makers are setting their sights on a good greater problem: developing coronavirus vaccines and coverings.

10:40 a.m. South Korea confirms 62 new instances, up from 44 a day in the past. Complete infections attain 13,479 with 289 deaths.

10:30 a.m. The Philippines experiences its highest single-day dying toll, with 162 new fatalities, bringing the overall to 1,534. In the meantime, 2,124 new infections have been confirmed, placing the overall depend at 56,259. The newest tally was as of Sunday, however the figures have been reported early Monday because the Division of Well being wanted time to confirm the information.

10:00 a.m. China experiences eight new COVID-19 instances as of the tip of July 12, up from seven a day earlier. All the brand new instances have been imported infections involving abroad vacationers. Beijing reported no new confirmed instances for the seventh consecutive day.

7:50 a.m. Florida experiences a file improve of greater than 15,00zero new instances of COVID-19 in 24 hours on Sunday, because the Trump administration renewed its push for colleges to reopen. If Florida have been a rustic, it will rank fourth on the planet for probably the most new instances in a day behind the U.S., Brazil and India, in response to a Reuters evaluation.

1:05 a.m. WHO experiences file day by day improve in international coronavirus instances, up by over 230,00zero. The largest will increase have been in the USA, Brazil, India and South Africa.

Sunday, July 12

four:45 p.m. Russia experiences 6,615 new coronavirus instances, taking its nationwide tally of infections to 727,162, and 130 deaths from COVID-19 up to now 24 hours, bringing whole fatalities to 11,335.

four:00 p.m. Tokyo experiences 206 coronavirus infections, marking a file fourth straight day of over 200 new instances.

three:14 p.m. Thai researchers plan to start human trials of a possible vaccine for the brand new coronavirus in November and are getting ready 10,00zero doses, a senior official says, aiming for a vaccine that could possibly be prepared to be used by late subsequent 12 months. Following favorable ends in trials on primates, the following step is to fabricate doses for human trials, stated Kiat Ruxrungtham, director of Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn College vaccine improvement program.

1:08 p.m. Plant-based fake meat makers in Asia are seeing sales soar as customers search protected and wholesome alternate options within the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

7:07 a.m. Brazil, the world’s No. 2 coronavirus scorching spot after the USA, recorded 1,071 new deaths from the outbreak on Saturday, with a complete of 1,839,850 confirmed instances, the Well being Ministry stated.

6:38 a.m. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has prevented sporting a masks in public even because the coronavirus pandemic unfold, donned one on Saturday at a army medical facility exterior Washington the place he was set to satisfy with wounded troopers and front-line well being care staff.

four:14 a.m. Disney World parks in Orlando, Florida, reopen because the southern U.S. state data greater than 10,00zero information instances on the identical day. The parks had been closed for 4 months.

2:51 a.m. Iconic Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan assessments constructive for COVID-19 and is moved to hospital. “I’ve examined COVID constructive… shifted to hospital… hospital informing authorities… household and workers undergone assessments, outcomes awaited,” the 77-year-old says on Twitter.

12:07 a.m. Vietnam’s most severely sick COVID-19 affected person, a British pilot who at one level appeared near dying, leaves hospital on his method house after a dramatic restoration that attracted nationwide consideration, Reuters experiences. Stephen Cameron, a pilot for nationwide provider Vietnam Airways, turned a sensation in Vietnam, the place a mixture of focused testing and an aggressive quarantine program has stored its coronavirus tally to an impressively low 370 instances, and 0 deaths.

Saturday, July 11

10:40 p.m. The U.S. army has put two Marine bases in Okinawa on lockdown with 61 confirmed coronavirus instances, the prefectural authorities says. The U.S. army advised Okinawan officers that the instances have been confirmed between Tuesday and Saturday at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and Camp Hansen, the prefectural authorities stated.

10:06 p.m. Chinese language vaccine developer CanSino Biologics is in talks with Russia, Brazil, Chile and Saudi Arabia to launch a Section three trial of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, its co-founder says. China’s success in driving down COVID-19 infections has made it more durable to conduct large-scale vaccine trials, and to this point just a few nations have agreed to work with it.

21:30 p.m. With the coronavirus pandemic crushing the enterprise apparel trade, Japanese attire group Onward Holdings and on-line vogue retailer Zozo will partner in a bid to create new revenue streams primarily based on huge information, Nikkei has discovered.

5:30 p.m. Billionaire philanthropist Invoice Gates requires COVID-19 medicine and an eventual vaccine to be made accessible to nations and folks that want them most, to not the “highest bidder,” saying counting on market forces would extend the lethal pandemic.

three:06 p.m. Tokyo experiences 206 new coronavirus infections, topping the 200 mark for the third straight day.

10:11 a.m. New instances within the U.S. rose by practically 69,00zero on Friday, in response to a Reuters tally, setting a file for the third consecutive day. Even so, Walt Disney Co. caught with plans to reopen its theme park in hard-hit Florida. A complete of eight states — Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin — additionally reported file highs for single-day infections.

9:38 a.m. Well being care programs worldwide must improve to manage illness transmission and deal with giant numbers of sick in the course of the pandemic, in addition to guard in opposition to future outbreaks, the World Well being Group stated on Friday.

7:31 a.m. China stated on Friday it was suspending imports from three Ecuadorian shrimp producers after detecting coronavirus in latest shipments, prompting one of many producers to accuse China of “tarnishing the repute” of the trade.

6:02 a.m. A two-member advance workforce from the World Well being Group left for China to research the origins of the pandemic that has killed greater than 550,00zero folks globally, the U.N. stated on Friday.

5:20 a.m. The White Home requires the Meals and Drug Administration to authorize hydroxychloroquine to deal with dire instances of COVID-19 after the regulator pulled authorization weeks in the past. The renewed effort comes after a controversial examine discovered the anti-malarial drug was related to decrease mortality charges. President Donald Trump praised the examine on Twitter this week, urging the FDA to “Act Now.”

2:31 a.m. Japanese airline ANA ends its recruiting activities for fiscal 2021 because the extended pandemic makes planning for the longer term tough.

1:49 a.m. The World Well being Group experiences a file improve in international coronavirus instances, with the overall rising by 228,102 in 24 hours. The largest will increase have been from the USA, Brazil, India and South Africa.

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