World Coronavirus Dispatch: US crosses six mn mark, cases in sun belt ease

WHO warns against opening up without control of Covid, Hong Kong begins mass testing, Sanofi's Kevzara drug fails as possible treatment and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Asia factories continue fragile recovery: Closely watched manufacturing gauges in Asia show a continued gradual improvement for the region’s manufacturing powerhouses like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, even as the picture from the rest of the region is more mixed. “Asia’s purchasing managers’ indexes, on balance, showed the economic recovery extending into August but also revealed that some parts of the region stumbled,” said Chang Shu, chief Asia economist for Bloomberg Economics. Read more here

Let’s look at the global statistics:


Total Confirmed Cases: 25,488,239


Change Over Yesterday: 261,802


Total Deaths: 850,596


Total Recovered: 16,822,093

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