Sunday, Oct 11th, 2020

The United Kingdom is expected to test the BCG vaccine on frontline care workers to see if it’s effective against COVID-19. (Reuters)

Officials in Brooklyn and Queens announce that they have given 62 fines totalling $150,000 for violations of COVID-19 restrictions. (New York Daily News)

Florida’s Department of Health reports 5,570 additional COVID-19 cases, the highest number of reported cases in a single day since August. It comes a day after Florida did not report any new cases or deaths because officials were left combing through 400,000 test results a private lab resent Friday night. (Miami Herald)

Colorado Governor Jared Polis extends the statewide mask mandate for 30 days. (KKTV-TV)

India surpasses seven million COVID-19 cumulative cases, becoming the second country to reach that milestone after the United States. (AP via ABC News)

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun announces that South Korea will begin easing social distancing rules from Level 2 to Level 1 nationwide tomorrow, allowing limited audiences at sporting events and the reopening of nightly entertainment facilities, as long as they comply with anti-virus health protocols, as new cases have been edging lower in recent weeks. However, some restrictions will be kept in place in Seoul Capital Area and other high-risk facilities. (The Jakarta Post)

Russia registers 13,634 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative nationwide total to 1,298,718, the fourth highest in the world. This marks a new record of confirmed cases in a single day since the first cases were confirmed in January. (Times of India)

Riot police in Belarus use water cannons and grenades to break up mass protests against President Alexander Lukashenko. (BBC)

 

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