World coronavirus dispatch: When Brazilian chicken tested positive in China

Sending experts back to the study table, two Chinese patients who had recovered months earlier have tested positive again

A sample of frozen chicken wings imported into the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen from Brazil had tested positive for coronavirus, the city government said. Local disease control centres tested a surface sample taken from the chicken wings as part of routine screenings carried out on meat and seafood imports since June, when a new outbreak in Beijing was linked to the city’s Xinfadi seafood market. Read more here.

Let’s look at the global statistics:

Total confirmed cases: 20,621,949

Change over yesterday: 329,094

Total deaths: 749,372

Total recovered: 12,828,195

Nations hit with most cases: The US (51,97,147), Brazil (31,64,785), India (23,96,637), Russia (9,00,745)