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Worldwide : 3.08M were infected; 214K have died and 916K have recovered.
*Data as per Wednesday.

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The number of confirmed U.S. cases of the new coronavirus topped one million, with more than 57,000 dead, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

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The UK has rejected Apple and Google’s contact-tracing API, instead launching an app that will take a more centralized approach, according to the BBC. The move is likely to alarm privacy and security experts.

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Saudi Arabia on Sunday abolished capital punishment for crimes committed by minors, a day after it abolished flogging as a means of punishment for all but the most severe crimes. The latest decree will spare the life of at least six men from the minority Shia community on the death row, Human Rights Commission told The Guardian.

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More than half of U.S. states need to significantly step up their testing before even considering starting to relax their stay-at-home orders, according to a new analysis by Harvard researchers and Stat.

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Google parent Alphabet posted a 13% rise in revenue, showing tech’s resilience amid the pandemic and sending shares higher in late trading.

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As questions about Kim Jong Un’s health intensify — he hasn’t appeared in state media in two weeks, prompting a flurry of reports suggesting he could be incapacitated — the question of whether sister Kim Yo Jong could take over the reins from him, read becoming North Korea’s first woman leader, has suddenly taken centrestage.(TOI)

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