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1.53am BST
China has reported nine new Covid-19 cases, compared with eight a day earlier, the country’s health authority said on Friday.
The National Health Commission said in a statement that all new infections were imported cases involving travellers from overseas, marking the 12th consecutive day of no local transmissions.
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Mexico’s health ministry on Thursday reported 6,026 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, bringing the total in the country to 579,914 cases. It reported the same number of accumulated deaths registered the day before, 62,076. Continue reading...