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2020-06-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Coronavirus roundup: cases in West Bank have more than doubled in a week
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[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Israel has recorded over 20,800 coronavirus cases, including 307 deaths and authorities are saying they are preparing for a second wave of infections.
200 people clash with German police as they try to escape quarantined tower block where 700 have been locked down after coronavirus outbreak on Thursday
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Residents tried to get through a metal barrier to escape lockdown in Göttingen
- Eight police officers were hurt as residents threw stones, bottles and barriers
- Complex was put in lockdown on Thursday and at least 120 people are infected
- Germany has seen its R rate lurch from 0.86 to 2.88 after several new clusters
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Saudi Arabia to hold haj with very limited numbers for all nationalities living inside kingdom
[AlAhram] Saudi Arabia on Monday announced it would hold a "very limited" hajj this year, with pilgrims already in the kingdom allowed to perform the annual ritual as it moves to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
The hajj, one of the five pillars of Islams and a must for able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lifetime, represents a major potential source of contagion as it packs millions of pilgrims into congested religious sites.
But the decision to scale back the hajj, which last year drew 2.5 million pilgrims, is fraught with political and economic peril and comes after several Muslim nations pulled out of the ritual.
Virus cases surge in US, India, but slow in China, Korea
[IsraelTimes] As world sees largest daily increase yet, data shows nearly 9 million people have been infected by coronavirus and more than 468,000 people have died.
The world saw the largest daily increases yet in coronavirus cases, with infections soaring in India’s rural villages after migrant workers fled major cities.
India’s coronavirus caseload climbed by nearly 15,000 as of Monday to 425,282, with more than 13,000 deaths, the health ministry reported.
After easing the nationwide lockdown, the Indian government has run special trains to return thousands of migrant workers to their natal villages in recent weeks. Nearly 90% of India’s poorest districts have cases, though the outbreak remains centered in Delhi, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu states, which are home to major cities.
Infections slowed in China and South Korea, suggesting some progress in stemming their newest outbreaks. But despite clear headway in containing the virus in regions that suffered early outbreaks, globally the number of new virus cases has soared in recent days. In Brazil, Iraq, India and the United States, hospitals are scrambling to cope.
In Pakistan, infections are accelerating and hospitals are having to turn away patients, with new cases up to 6,800 a day in mid-June. The government has relaxed pandemic restrictions, hoping to salvage a near-collapsed economy as the number of people living in poverty has risen to 40%, up from 30% of the population of 220 million people.
In Iraq, masked workers were setting up makeshift coronavirus wards in Baghdad’s vast exhibition grounds as a long-dreaded spike in infections strained its overstretched hospitals, battered by years of conflict and poor infrastructure.
Late Sunday, the World Health Organization reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours. Brazil tallied 54,771 and the US was next at 36,617, the UN health agency said. India reported more than 15,400.
Experts say rising case counts reflect multiple factors including more testing and spreading infections. More than two-thirds of the new deaths were reported in the Americas.
In the United States, experts say the resurgence in infections there is not a so-called “second wave” but a continuation of the first wave of outbreaks as the number of cases plateaus. New cases are dipping in some parts of the country while rising mainly in the the South, West and Midwest, swamping hospitals in some areas. 
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