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United States Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn was asked this week by ABC about a survey that found that 27% of Americans would probably not accept a free coronavirus vaccine if it were available.

“It is a considerable number,” he said. “And it’s worrying. And, of course, the issue of vaccines in this country has been around for several years.

“One of the main reasons we issued this guide was that we wanted to clarify what we were going to see, what we needed to see, and that the FDA has incredible scientific expertise and we will do our job to assess the safety and efficacy of a candidate vaccine. I want to assure the American people of that and give them confidence that we are at work. ”

Earlier that day, Hahn appeared on CNN, where he was asked about the statement by United States President Donald Trump that 99% of coronavirus cases in the United States are “totally harmless”:

In news that is not about coronaviruses, but other news about diseases:

Authorities in a city in China’s Inner Mongolia region issued a warning after a hospital reported a suspected case of bubonic plague.

The Bayan Nur City Health Committee issued the third-level alert, the second-lowest in a four-tier system, on Sunday.

The alert prohibits the hunting and consumption of animals that may be plague carriers and asks the public to report any suspected cases of plague or fever without clear cause, and to report any sick or dead groundhog.

Sunday’s warning follows four reported cases of plague in people from Inner Mongolia last November, including two of pneumonic plague, a deadlier variant of the plague.

Bubonic plague, known as the “Black Death” in the Middle Ages, is a highly infectious and often deadly disease that is primarily transmitted by rodents.

Plague cases are not uncommon in China, but outbreaks have become increasingly rare. From 2009 to 2018, China reported 26 cases and 11 deaths.

Peru on Sunday topped 300,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, the fifth highest in the world, as the Andean nation of nearly 33 million people slowly reopens its battered economy.

The South American copper producer, which was blocked in March against the virus but struggled to impose a quarantine across the country in the face of increasing economic difficulties, only follows Brazil in the region in terms of numbers of cases.

The death toll in Peru from the virus is now 10,589, the tenth highest in the world.

President Martín Vizcarra’s government has eased restrictions this month to allow economic growth to revive, including the key mining sector. Peru is the world’s second largest copper producer.
Coronavirus cases rose by 3,638 on Sunday to 302,718, although new daily cases have slowed from peak levels in May and June. However, health experts fear a possible outbreak, with more people on the streets as the closure eases.

The shopping malls have opened their doors with a limited number of visitors and the government is preparing biosafety protocols to restart air and land transport starting in mid-July.

Iran has introduced mandatory face masks in public spaces after the government admitted that its efforts to introduce effective voluntary social distancing failed.

The latest figures released by the Iranian Health Ministry on Sunday showed a record 163 deaths in the past 24 hours, more than any daily figure in the country over the course of the pandemic so far.

India recorded a record daily number of coronavirus cases and opened an extensive treatment center in the capital to combat the pandemic on Sunday. The health ministry reported just under 25,000 cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours, the largest daily increase since the first case was detected in late January.

In the capital, New Delhi, medical staff began treating patients at a spiritual center converted into an expanding isolation facility and hospital with 10,000 beds, many of cardboard and chemically coated to make them waterproof.

Approximately the size of 20 soccer fields, the facilities on the outskirts of the city will treat mild symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.

State government officials fear that Delhi, home to 25 million people, may record more than half a million cases by the end of the month. The city has reused some hotels to provide hospital care. It is also converting wedding halls and has several hundred modified railroad cars waiting.

A strict lock has been gradually lifted since the end of March, allowing most activities after the economy sank during the shutdown.

Schools, city subway trains, cinemas, gyms and swimming pools remain closed and international flights are still on the ground.

The authorities have made the use of masks mandatory in public places, while large gatherings are prohibited and shops and other public establishments are obliged to implement social distancing.

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Now in today’s main story: India recorded a record daily number of coronavirus cases and opened a sprawling treatment center in the capital to combat the pandemic on Sunday. The health ministry reported just under 25,000 cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours, the largest daily increase since the first case was detected in late January.

The increase brought India’s total count to more than 673,000 cases and 19,268 deaths, bringing the country closer to overtaking Russia, the world’s third most infected nation.

Other key developments include:

• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 52,228 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, and said the number of deaths had increased from 271 to 129,576.
• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will inject £ 1.57 billion into Britain’s embattled art and heritage sectors. in a long-awaited coronavirus rescue package described by the government as the UK’s largest single investment in culture.
• It is unclear if it will be safe to hold the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville next month, a senior health official from the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said, while Florida sees record numbers of coronavirus cases.
• Greece has announced that it will prohibit Serbian tourists from entering the country from 6 a.m. tomorrow. The ban, which will last until at least July 15, follows an increase in coronavirus incidents in the Balkan state.
• Kazakhstan imposed a second round of national restrictions on Sunday that will last at least two weeks, in an attempt to counter a huge increase in coronavirus cases since the previous blockade, which has overwhelmed the country’s health system.
• Brazil has registered 26,051 new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours. as well as 602 deaths, pushing the accumulated deaths to a total of 64,867.
• India has withdrawn a planned reopening of the Taj Mahalciting the risk of new coronavirus infections spreading in the northern city of Agra to visitors, as the country’s infections are increasing at the fastest rate in three months.
• Dozens of military medics were deployed on Sunday to help combat the coronavirus pandemic in the South African province of Eastern Cape, The third most affected region in the country, amid an increase in infections.