World coronavirus dispatch: Rumours, fear and rising deaths in Pakistan

From the pandemic hitting black voters' incomes the hardest, to the status of Brexit, and how Covid-19 hit Malaysia's palm oil industry - read these and more in today's world dispatch

Two major Covid-19 studies have been retracted from the scientific journals they appeared in. The first, published in The Lancet, had reported dismal findings about the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in treatment of Covid-19 patients, leading to the suspension of some clinical trials, including by the World Health Organization (WHO). The other in The New England Journal of Medicine was a heart study that showed cardiovascular diseases increased the risk of death among Covid-19 patients. Read more here

Let’s look at the global statistics

• Total confirmed cases: 6,639,092
• Change over previous day: 127,396
• Total deaths: 391,249
• Total recovered: 2,872,731
• Nations hit with