Evidence suggests that recent spikes of cases in some countries are being"driven in part by younger people letting down their guard",the head of the World Health Organisation said.
The total number of coronavirus cases reported in the US has passed 4 million,reflecting a rapid acceleration of infections detected across the country.
The head of the World Health Organisation says the Trump administration's claim that he was"bought"by China and contributed to"dead Britons"is untrue and unacceptable.
Tensions escalated on Wednesday night with the US government telling China to close its consulate general in Houston,Texas,in 72 hours.
Australia's pushback against Chinese interference,including its world-leading ban on Huawei,have earned it a reputation abroad as a pioneer.
At 14,Melburnian schoolboy Hugh Evans set himself a mission to end global poverty. Some 20 years later,his Global Citizen charity is attracting millions of people – including celebrities and politicians – to the cause.
Global infections have surpassed 13 million,climbing by one million in just five days in a pandemic that has killed more than half a million people.
Australians could wait for two and a half years for a widespread vaccine to counter the coronavirus,former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has warned.
Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman,Penny Wong,has sounded the alarm about China's growing influence over global bodies and potential ambitions to remake them to suit the interests of authoritarian states.
The World Health Organisation's top official also announced that former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark would be co-chair of an impending international investigation into the pandemic.
The pandemic is not even close to being over,and is in fact speeding up in some parts of the world,the head of the World Health Organisation says.