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The number of new coronavirus cases for the past week has "exceeded 160,000 on every single day," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says at a virtual briefing, while reiterating that taking a "comprehensive approach" is the best way to rein in the virus. SOUNDBITE of a WHO virtual press conference
"We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around," warns top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci as he testifies before the Senate. SOUNDBITE
India now has more than 500,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. Authorities say a total of 15,685 people have died after another 385 fatalities were added to the toll in 24 hours. ANIMATED CHART
Images show the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, in Flushing Meadows, in Queens, New York, where the US Open Tennis Championship takes place at the end of summer. After weeks of uncertainty surrounding the tournament, which is being staged in the epicentre of the US coronavirus crisis, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the US Open will be held, but without fans. IMAGES
The coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 29,000 people in France with 81 new deaths in 24 hours in French hospitals. IMAGES
The United States has now recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths, Johns Hopkins University reports -- a somber milestone and by far the highest total in the world. IMAGES
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