Pope Francis calls for international scientific cooperation to discover a vaccine for the coronavirus; says any successful vaccine should be made available around the world.
Spain has reported its lowest number of deaths in almost seven weeks, with 164 recorded on Sunday by the country's Health Ministry. While it was the lowest single-day increase since March 18, it nonetheless brought the total number to 25,264.
The ministry also reported 838 new cases on Sunday, marking the first time the daily figure has dipped below 1,000. Spain has a total of 217,466 cases, the highest number in Europe and second only in the world to the United States. “Experts say a vaccine for coronavirus could be available by the end of the year. We know that towards the end of 2020, we’ll have a very low transmission rate. But we could have a COVID-19 resurgence in October,” Fernando Simon, the head of Spain's Emergency Coordination Centre, said in a press briefing Sunday.
The declining death rate is an encouraging sign for Spain, which on Saturday took a large step towards loosening its lockdown by allowing adults toU.K.'s Boris Johnson says doctors prepared to announce his death as he fought COVID-19 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson displaying his Get Well Soon cards sent in by children while he was ill with COVID-19, at his office in central London last Tuesday.U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed that doctors prepared to announce his death as he battled coronavirus,Johnson said that he was given “litres and litres of oxygen” to keep him alive as recounted his life-or-death experience with the virus.
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