Here are some significant developments:
- Canada said it will begin to ease pandemic restrictions at the U.S.-Canada border beginning Aug. 9, allowing United States citizens and permanent residents who are fully vaccinated to enter for nonessential travel without quarantining.
- Global stock markets swooned Monday with the Dow tumbling more than 700 points. It was its worst one-day decline of 2021, as investors grow increasingly anxious about a delta-led resurgence in coronavirus cases and its potential to derail the economic recovery.
- The coronavirus pandemic may have caused more than 4 million excess deaths in India, according to a new estimate from the Washington-based Center for Global Development. India’s official covid-19 death toll stands at 414,000, a number experts believe is a vast undercount.
- Russia’s total number of confirmed coronavirus cases topped 6 million Tuesday, the state-owned Tass news agency reported. Russia is suffering a spike in new infections and deaths as vaccinations lag.
- China on Tuesday reported 65 new coronavirus cases, its highest number of daily new infections since January. The rising cases have been blamed on an outbreak of the more contagious delta variant in a southwestern province that borders Myanmar.
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