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Over 90,000 people have succumbed to the virus with maximum deaths reported in the United States, Brazil, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Over 18 million people have recovered after testing positive, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.<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 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, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres called for an additional $35 billion including $15 billion in the next three months, for the World Health Organization’s “ACT Accelerator” program to accelerate and fund vaccines, treatments and diagnostics to fight COVID-19.<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='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 border=0 width=786 height=437 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D68824.2CF43390" alt="S African Hindu priests, PPE funerals, Priest funerals, South Africa govt, Indian Govt, Indian express"></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 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span class=ie-custom-caption><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Funeral workers wrap with plastic a coffin containing the body of a man who died inside a taxi as he was being taken to hospital by relatives in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. According to Police Captain Manuel Pazmiño the man died inside the taxi of suspected new coronavirus symptoms. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)<o:p></o:p></span></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 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><strong><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#FF6600;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Here are the top global updates on Covid-19<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-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Latin America surpass 8 million cases<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><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 border=0 width=759 height=422 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D68824.2CF43390" alt="https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/corona-latin-america.jpg"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><br> A nurse measures the temperature of a mourner wearing a Mexican hat, and a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)<br><br></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'>Latin America, the region with the most infections in the world breached 8 million coronavirus cases Thursday even as the rapid case surge is showing a downward trend. Latin America’s daily average fell from 80,512, reported last week, to 67,173 infections recorded this week, according to a Reuters tally. Brazil continues to experience the worst infection in the region with over 4.2 million cases and 128,000 deaths. Brazil has been reporting a slight decline recently along with Peru, Columbia and Mexico, the countries with most infections after Brazil.<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 biggest challenge apart from the pandemic lies in minimizing the economic fallout of the virus which has resulted in the worst financial downturns in several countries of the region.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Colombia set to gradually reopen international flights from September 21<o:p></o:p></span></b></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'>After suspending the operations of international flights for 6 months, Columbia is set to gradually allow the resumption of international flights from September 21. Standard Operating Procedures and covid-19 restrictions are being set up. The government informed that only individuals who tested negative will be allowed to travel.<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'>“International flights will restart with a gradual first phase which will be announced shortly,” the minister said in a recorded statement. The resumption of international flights will depend on destination countries, airport capacity, and the interest of the airlines, Minister of Transport Maria Orozco said.<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-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Pakistan’s coronavirus cases cross 3 lakh mark<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><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 border=0 width=759 height=422 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image010.jpg@01D68824.2CF43390" alt="https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/Pakistan-Covid.jpg"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> <br>People wear face masks and keep social distancing as they enter a cinema following an ease in restrictions that had been imposed to help control the coronavirus, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)</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'>After adding 548 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Pakistan’s overall Covid-19 tally breached the 3 lakh mark to reach 300,371. The death toll stood at 6,370. Of the total cases, 5,795 infections still persist while 288,206 patients have recovered from the disease. Over 530 people continue to remain critical.<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 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'>Sindh reported the maximum number of 131,404 coronavirus cases, followed by Punjab at 97,533, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa at 36,823, Islamabad at 15,832, Balochistan at 13,282, Gilgit-Baltistan at 3,131 and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir at 2,366. The health officials have so far conducted 2,879,655 tests to detect the viral infection, the ministry said<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-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Thousands defy covid-19 safety rules in Trump’s Michigan rally<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><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 border=0 width=759 height=505 id="_x0000_i1035" src="cid:image011.jpg@01D68824.2CF43390" alt="https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/09/Trump-michigan.jpg"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> <br>Supporters of President Donald Trump watch as Air Force One lands at a rally held at MBS International Airport, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Freeland, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)<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'>As Donald Trump visited Michigan, thousands of unmasked supporters defied social distancing guidelines to greet him. After downplaying the pandemic in its initial stages and turning a blind eye on it during all his campaigning and convention speeches, Trump continued to act “oblivious” to the rapidly increasing threat of the pandemic.<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'>Trump criticized Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus restrictions, saying she “doesn’t have a clue” about reopening the state’s economy, drawing cheers from the crowd.<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-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Owing to cluster infections, South Korea reports uptick in cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><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 border=0 width=795 height=442 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image012.jpg@01D68824.2CF43390" alt="https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/09/AP20251203097347.jpg"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> <br>Police officers wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus, walk in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)</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'><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'>As infections from a church gathering and a political rally triggered a second wave, South korea reported a slight uptick in infections Friday. It reported 176 new cases pushing the total caseload to 21,919 along with 350 fatalities, Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.<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 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'>A fresh wave of infections erupted at a church whose members attended a large protest in downtown Seoul last month and this drove the daily tally to its peak. Meanwhile, smaller clusters continued to emerge from other religious gatherings, offices and medical facilities in the Seoul metropolitan area.<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-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Australian state leaders defend coronavirus curbs even as cases decline<o:p></o:p></span></b></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'>As Australia continues to face backlash against the strict coronavirus restrictions levied, state leaders on Friday defended the measures like regional shutdowns and internal border closures.<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 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'>While infections have declined in the hotspots of the country’s second wave in recent days, many state and territory leaders continue to retain restrictions , including not allowing inter-state travel.<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 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'>Queensland state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said border security staff were forced to make “difficult and tough decisions”, referring to a decision by state officials to refuse to let a woman from a virus-free region of the country to attend her father’s funeral.<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-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Brazilian state to test Russia’s vaccine, aims buying 50 million doses<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><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 border=0 width=759 height=422 id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:image014.jpg@01D68824.2CF43390" alt="https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/russia-vaccine-1200.jpg"></span><span class=custom-caption><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#747474;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'><br> An employee shows a new vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/ Russian Direct Investment Fund 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><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'>The Brazilian state of Bahia has signed an agreement to conduct Phase 3 clinical trials for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and plans to buy 50 million doses to market in Brazil, officials said on Thursday.<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'>A confidentiality agreement was signed Tuesday to commence the trails and it guaranteed an initial 500 doses as soon as Brazil’s health regulator approves the protocol for testing, Governor Rui Costa said.<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'>Costa said Brazil’s federal government should be doing more to establish international partnerships to help the research on the vaccines that are being developed to fight the pandemic.<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 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='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Invest Wisely!</span></i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Bulls n Bears <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Telephone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%204%202927658" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>+263 4 2927658</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Cellphone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%2077%20344%201674" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>+263 77 344 1674</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Alt. 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