Monday, Aug. 31st, 2020

New Jersey is expected to allow their movie theaters to reopen on September 4. (Variety)

South Korean boy band BTS become the first all-South Korean act to top the United States record chart, after their single “Dynamite” debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. (The Guardian)

India’s economy contracts by 23.9% in the April–June quarter, the country’s worst recession on record since the government started releasing quarterly data in 1996. The lockdown caused massive disruptions to economic activity during the quarter. (BBC)

Argentina announces a deal with its creditors, allowing a way out of its ninth sovereign default. (Irish Times)

Amazon Prime Air wins Federal Aviation Administration approval to operate a drone delivery service in the United States. Amazon becomes the third drone delivery service to win flight approval, after UPS and Wing. (AP)

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announces that the state will reopen indoor dining at a one-quarter capacity. (The Hill)

AstraZeneca begins Phase III clinical trials of its potential COVID-19 vaccine, AZD1222, which it developed with the University of Oxford, to some 30,000 adults in the United States. (Bloomberg)

Maryland-based vaccine development company Novavax signs a deal with Canada to supply up to 76 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. (CBC)

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health launches a digital contact tracing app in an effort to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the country. (CNA)

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discovers TOI-824b, a Hot Neptune exoplanet that orbits dwarf star TOI-824, which is located 210 light-years away from the constellation Circinus. (Sci-News)

More than 1,700 people in the United Kingdom are reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the largest weekend number since the middle of May, and the highest number of reported cases since June 4. (The Guardian)

 

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