CORONAVIRUS LATEST: • Russia becomes first country to approve COVID-19 vaccine, Putin says. • New Zealand returns to lockdown after finding local transmission. • U.S. records under 50,000 new cases for second straight day.
6:31 a.m.: New Zealand returns to lockdown after finding local transmission
Residents of Auckland will be asked to stay home where possible, while restaurants, bars and non-essential shops will shutter. Schools across the city will also be closed for those three days and gatherings of over 10 people will be prohibited. Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of his government via video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 11, 2020.
Dozens of COVID-19 vaccine candidates are being developed by teams of researchers around the world, and several are in final Phase III human trials, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization.There were 49,544 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the United States on Monday, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
People wait in line at a walk-up COVID-19 testing location in Los Angeles, California, on August 10, 2020.
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