US president flounders in media briefing and TV interview; France could lose control any time; Nadal withdraws from US Open. Follow all the developments
- US: Biden tells Trump to ‘step up and do your job’
- ‘We’re fighting a ghost’: six months on victories over virus remain fragile
- US: Trump on the ropes over Covid-19 figures in TV interview
As the global death total nears 700,000 – it is currently on 697,998 according to Johns Hopkins University – our reporters have been looking at how government all over the world are struggling to contain the virus.
Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease specialist at Stanford University in California, has a chilling verdict: “We are only about eight months into this outbreak,” says . “That is still the infancy of an infection. We’ve known about HIV for over 40 years and we’re still learning new things about it every day.”
Related: ‘We’re fighting a ghost’: six months on, coronavirus victories remain fragile
There’s been a big development in Australia’s handling of the pandemic after Queensland closed its borders to New South Wales and the Australia Capital Territory.
Queensland, which has very few cases of the virus, has already shut out Victorians but now all NSW residents will be barred except for some rare exemptions. returning locals will have to pay for 14-day quarantine.
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