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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:19.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#6B6B6B;font-weight:normal'><img width=791 height=269 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D67490.EA585B20"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:19.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#6B6B6B;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:19.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#6B6B6B;font-weight:normal'>Global Coronavirus Updates: The death toll due to the COVID disease rose to 774,288, with the US reporting the highest deaths in the world (170,052), followed by Brazil (107,852), Mexico (56,757), and India (49,980).<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:14.25pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#484848'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:14.25pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=1200 height=667 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D6746B.8C7D6880" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, mexico coronavirus, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide, coronavirus global update, global covid 19 news"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span class=ie-custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>A woman wearing a face mask walks in front of Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Coronavirus Global Updates: </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>The number of novel coronavirus infections in the world spiked up to 21,613,183 on Monday, with the US reporting the highest number of infections and nearing 5.5 million (5,403,213). The US is followed by Brazil with the second highest infections (3,340,197), and India at the third position (2,647,663).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Meanwhile, the death toll due to the COVID disease rose to 774,288, with the US reporting the highest deaths in the world (170,052), followed by Brazil (107,852), Mexico (56,757), and India (50,921).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Globally, more than 13 million people have recovered from the infection (13,372,643), with the highest number of recovered in Brazil (2,655,017) and followed by India (1,919,842).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=759 height=506 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D6746B.8C7D6880" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, mexico coronavirus, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide, coronavirus global update, global covid 19 news"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>FILE – In this March 1, 2020, file photo, a department store employee with a mask dresses a mannequin in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)</span></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><strong><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Here are the top developments around the world:<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Japan’s economy shrinks at record rate<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Japan’s economy shrank at annual rate of 27.8% in April-June, the worst contraction on record, as the coronavirus pandemic slammed consumption and trade, according to government data released on Monday. The Cabinet Office reported that Japan’s preliminary seasonally adjusted real gross domestic product, or GDP, the sum of a nation’s goods and services, fell 7.8% quarter on quarter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>The world’s third largest economy was already ailing when the virus outbreak struck late last year. The fallout has since gradually worsened both in COVID-19 cases and social distancing restrictions. The economy shrank 0.6% in the January-March period, and contracted 1.8% in the October-December period last year, meaning that Japan slipped into recession in the first quarter of this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=759 height=506 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D6746B.8C7D6880" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, mexico coronavirus, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide, coronavirus global update, global covid 19 news"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>A Catholic faithful wearing masks and observing distancing attends to a close door Mass inside at the San Miguel Arcangel Catholic church in the El Cementerio neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>South Korea records fourth straight-day of triple-digit cases<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>South Korea counted its fourth straight day of triple-digit increases in new coronavirus cases on Monday as the government urged people to stay home and curb travel. The government had drawn up a special holiday on Monday with hopes of spurring domestic consumption. But as infections in the capital region increase, Health Minister Park Neung-hoo urged people to stay home and for residents in Seoul and nearby Gyeonggi province to avoid visiting other parts of the country for two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>New Zealand delays election after virus outbreak in Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday chose to delay New Zealand’s national elections by four weeks as the country deals with a new coronavirus outbreak in its largest city, Auckland. The election had been scheduled for Sept. 19 but will now be held on Oct. 17. Under New Zealand law, Ardern had the option of delaying the election for up to about two months.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=759 height=506 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image012.jpg@01D6746B.8C7D6880" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, mexico coronavirus, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide, coronavirus global update, global covid 19 news"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>A girl wearing a face mask against the spread of the new coronavirus, looks the sunset as dozens of people gather in Little Venice on the Aegean Sea island of Mykonos, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Before the latest outbreak, New Zealand had gone 102 days without any known community transmission of the virus, and life had returned to normal for most people, who were going to restaurants, sports stadiums and schools without fear of getting infected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Vacationers arriving in Rome get virus tests<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Vacationers arriving in Rome from four Mediterranean countries lined up with their suitcases at Leonardo da Vinci airport to be immediately tested for the new coronavirus on Sunday. Last week, Italy’s health minister issued an ordinance requiring the tests for all travellers arriving in Italy from Croatia, Greece, Malta or Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Travellers have the option of being tested instead within 48 hours of arrival at local public health offices closer to their home or destination in Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=759 height=564 id="_x0000_i1072" src="cid:image013.jpg@01D6746B.8C7D6880" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, mexico coronavirus, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide, coronavirus global update, global covid 19 news"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>A woman wears a face mask as she passes by graffiti reading ‘No vaccine, No tracking, No COVID’, in Montreal, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Australia’s Victoria records highest daily death toll<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Australia’s second-most populous state of Victoria on Monday reported the deadliest day of the pandemic with 25 fatalities from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours and 282 new cases. The state recorded 16 deaths and 279 new cases a day earlier. It reported its previous one-day high of 21 deaths last week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>China reports 22 new coronavirus infections, no new Xinjiang cases<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>China reported no new local coronavirus cases in the western region of Xinjiang on Aug. 16, according to national data, marking the first time the area’s case count was zero since mid-July. It marks a new low number for Xinjiang, which had become a hotbed for the virus as cases surged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img width=759 height=506 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image014.jpg@01D6746B.8C7D6880" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, mexico coronavirus, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide, coronavirus global update, global covid 19 news"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>FILE-In this July 30, 2020 file photo a child gestures prior to a medical staff takes a sample for a voluntary coronavirus disease test (COVID-19) at the new corona test station at the ‘Hochfelln’ service station on the A8 motorway between Salzburg and Munich near Bergen, Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)</span></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>China reported on Monday 22 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Aug. 16, compared with 19 cases a day earlier, the health authority said. 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