Global recap: Cases pass 13 million as WHO issues warningpublished at 19:46 British Summer Time 13 July 2020
We're pausing our live coverage here for the day. Here are some of the main developments from across the world:
- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has reprimanded leaders of certain countries for sending “mixed messages” about the coronavirus pandemic, warning them they risk making matters “worse and worse”
- The pointed comments were made as the number of coronavirus infections globally surpassed 13 million, according to a tally by Reuters news agency
- Latin America has overtaken the US and Canada to become the second worst-hit region in terms of coronavirus deaths
- Mexico, one of Latin America's worst-hit countries, passed Italy to record the fourth-highest death toll in the world
- Several White House officials have issued critical statements about US infectious disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci, accusing him of making mistakes in an apparent effort to discredit him
- In California, Los Angeles and San Diego public schools will be online only for the region’s 835,000 pupils when the school year begins in the autumn. They are the largest school districts in the US to suspend in-person learning for the coming academic year
- Germany’s health minister has warned tourists to be more responsible, after pictures of holidaymakers partying on the Spanish island of Majorca over the weekend caused concern
- The governor of Tokyo has said the Olympics in Japan must go ahead next year as a "symbol of world unity" in the face of the pandemic