Global report: local lockdowns ordered in Melbourne and northern Spain
UN health body says it found out about the outbreak itself, not via Chinese officials; US cases increase 53,000 on Friday; English pubs reopen
Authorities in Melbourne have ordered 3,000 people to stay in their tower block homes for at least five days, in the harshest shutdown of Australia’s coronavirus pandemic, and in northern Spain 200,000 people have been put back into lockdown.
The latest battles against a virus that has proved able to spread stealthily and fast, even in countries that appear to have it under control, came as the US marked the Fourth of July holiday weekend with a record rise in cases.