Latest COVID-19 developments in the world
In South Korea, the Seoul nightclub cluster has 119 cases as the government vowed to trace and test all visitors within this week. The country saw a rise of 26 new cases and one more death on Tuesday, taking its total to 10,962 infections and 259 deaths.
India reported 3,525 new cases and 122 more deaths in the past 24 hours as of 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday. The country has a total of 74,281 confirmed cases and 2,415 deaths. To ease the economic fallout caused by the pandemic, India has introduced a 267-billion-U.S.-dollar relief package to boost its economy.
Thailand on Wednesday reported no new coronavirus cases for the first time since March 9. The southeastern Asian country has a total of 3,017 cases and 56 deaths since the outbreak in January.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 798 to 171,306, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Wednesday. The reported death toll rose by 101 to 7,634, RKI tally showed.
Iceland said on Tuesday that it will start easing restrictions for visitors arriving from overseas no later than June 15 as the government is developing a plan to offer travelers to the county choice between a test for COVID-19 upon arrival in Iceland or a two-week quarantine.