Friday,  Sept.  11th, 2020

The Brazilian state of Bahia is expected to conduct phase III trails of Russia’s Gam-COVID-Vac vaccine and buy 50 million doses. (Reuters)

It is announced that schools in Los Angeles County will remain closed until the winter. (Patch.com)

It is announced that bars in South Florida counties such as Miami-Dade and Palm Beach County will remain closed. However, bars in the rest of the state will be allowed to reopen at a 50% capacity. (The Sun-Sentinel)

in at a gold mine near Kamituga in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, kills at least 50 miners. (The Guardian)

Governor Jared Polis says that the state might extend its mask mandate in indoor public spaces for another 30 days. (The Denver Post)

For the second time in the same week, Portugal reports the biggest daily increase in new cases since the national lockdown was lifted in May, with 687 new cases and three deaths, bringing the cumulative totals to 62,813 confirmed cases and 1,855 deaths in 193 days since the first infections were detected in the country. (DGS)

The United Kingdom reports 3,539 cases of COVID-19, up from 2,919 a day earlier. Six deaths are also reported. (Reuters)

Japan and the United Kingdom reach a tentative free trade agreement, which British trade secretary Liz Truss hails as the UK’s “first major post-Brexit trade deal”. (CNBC)

Run-off parliamentary elections are being held in Iran. The first round of the election was held in February and provoked criticism as more than 7000 applicants got barred from participating. (Foreign Brief)

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