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China has been carrying out an ambitious plan to test everyone in Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic began, following the emergence of a cluster of new infections.

Health officials in Wuhan say they carried out 1.47m tests on a single day, 22 May, external - a huge increase from the 100,000 a day prior to this testing campaign starting.

In total, according to the Hubei health commission website, nine million test samples had been taken by 24 May - 10 days after the campaign started.

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Domestic flights within Saudi Arabia will resume on Sunday, the country's aviation authority says.

Flights have been suspended since 21 March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The country will begin to gradually ease its pandemic restrictions this week and expects that by 21 June a curfew can end completely.

The city of Mecca however, home to one of the Muslim world's most important sites, will remain under curfew for longer.

Around the world, the virus has forced concerts and music festivals to be cancelled.

So musicians are finding new ways to reach their fans safely. Now drive-ins have been revived, to bring live music back to the stage.

In Denmark, more than 70 shows are planned. The BBC caught one of these performances at the Copenhagen airport.

In terms of total cases and deaths, Brazil is by far the most affected country in South America.

But in terms of deaths per million people, Ecuador is actually most affected.

1. Ecuador (182 deaths per million people)

2. Brazil (116)

3. Peru (115)

4. Chile (42)

5. Bolivia (22)

6. Colombia (15)

7. Guyana (14)

8. Argentina (11)

9. Uruguay (6)

10. French Guiana (3)

The data comes from Worldometers, external, which collates national governments' figures.

It is worth noting that Human Rights Watch and Johns Hopkins University have said Venezuela's reported figures, which are low, are not credible.

The nation - hailed as a virus success - discharged its last virus patient from hospital last night, meaning it had no virus patients in wards for the first time in months.

It also reported no new cases for a fifth consecutive day. There are only about 1,500 reported case in total.

More than 420,000 people have also downloaded the nation's tracing app.

Officials are confident that they've stopped community transmission - but say their concerns now lie with their borders when they might reopen in coming months.

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More than two millions students are returning to school in South Korea this Wednesday.

The country is opening different school years in successive steps so while some have already returned, another large batch will start today.

It comes as South Korea sees its highest daily spike in almost two months with 40 new cases in the past 24 hours.

After being the first hotspot of the pandemic outside of China, the country had been very successful in bringing infections down.

But a recent cluster around Seoul's nightlife district has driven numbers sharply up again.

Katy Watson
BBC South America correspondent

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The US has introduced a travel ban on foreign nationals who have been to Brazil in the last 14 days.

It comes as Brazil is now the second-worst hit country in the world after the US in terms of confirmed infections, with more than 390,000 cases. More than 24,000 people have died.

President Jair Bolsonaro sees Mr Trump as his political idol, the US and Brazil as regional allies.

Indeed, the two men have adopted broadly similar approaches to the pandemic – playing down the crisis and urging a return to normality, despite spiralling death tolls.

But the ban is a measure of just how serious the situation is here in Brazil.

The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that Latin America had become the epicentre of the crisis and Brazil is the worst-hit in the region by far.

Experts say that with so little testing being done in the country, the true figures are far higher than official statistics suggest.

A study by the University of Washington found that Brazil could record more than 125,000 deaths by early August.

As Australia manoeuvres out of lockdown people are nervous as more cases also appear, as per health officials' predictions.

This morning, it was confirmed a 30-year-old man with previous complications had died in rural Queensland - the youngest of Australia's 103 deaths.

Two Sydney schools are also temporarily shut after student infections were found just a day after students returned to classrooms full time.

And in Western Australia - a row is brewing between state and federal authorities over who allowed a ship with sick crew members to enter Fremantle Port.

Officials are urging the public to maintain distancing and health checks as restrictions lift even more in coming days to allow larger gatherings in public. Victoria has told its workers they must still work from home for all of June, while many other states are still keeping borders shut despite national pressure.

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Welcome back to our rolling coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the latest updates from around the world:

• Latin America has become the centre of the global pandemic, says Carissa Etienne, the head of the Pan American Health Organization

• As Brazil's daily death rate climbs to the highest in the world, a study is warning its total toll could climb five-fold to 125,000 deaths by August
• In the US, the New York Stock Exchange was opened by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was cheered on by socially-distanced brokers wearing protective face masks
• Australia will not open its borders "anytime soon", the government said, but there are discussions over a safe travel zone with New Zealand

• Spain will begin a 10-day period of national mourning today, in memory of the almost 30,000 people in the country who have died
• The total number of cases worldwide has now passed 5.5m, while more than 349,000 people have died