⁍ Victoria state says it has gone 24 hours without detecting any new COVID-19 cases.
⁍ U.S. Vice President Mike Pence campaigned despite a COVID-19 outbreak among his aides.
⁍ Italy on Sunday ordered bars and restaurants to close by 6 p.m. and shut public gyms, cinemas and swimming pools.
– The deadly Middle Eastern virus known as coronavirus has now infected more than half a million people around the world and killed at least 17 of them, the World Health Organization said Sunday. The number of cases worldwide rose to 447 on Sunday, almost all of them in Spain, where a state of emergency was declared after a 10-year-old boy died from the virus, the BBC reports. The boy had recently traveled to Qatar, where the outbreak of the virus is believed to have originated, and China, which has reported the highest number of cases in nearly seven months. The outbreak has also spread to Australia, where health officials say they have gone 24 hours without detecting any new cases of coronavirus, Reuters reports.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN27B0EJ