Newborn triplets have tested positive for coronavirus in Mexico.
They were tested in the first hours of their lives and had not been in contact with anyone known to be infected. Two were said to be in a stable condition while the other was being treated for a respiratory illness. The parents have been isolated pending results of their own tests.
US President Donald Trump has extended a pause on some green cards and suspended visas for other foreign workers until the end of the year, to try to create more jobs for Americans during the pandemic. The US death toll passed 120,000 overnight as cases spike in southern and western states.
Australia’s Victoria state recorded 17 new cases, with two primary schools in Melbourne closed after students tested positive. Health minister Greg Hunt said Australia’s borders would remain closed for “a very significant” amount of time.
World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the pandemic “is still accelerating” as global cases approached 9.2 million. He told a virtual health forum that the biggest threat to the world was not the virus itself but a “lack of global solidarity and global leadership”.
“We cannot defeat this pandemic with a divided world,” he said. “The politicisation of the pandemic has exacerbated it.”
South Korea was testing workers at the southern port of Busan after an outbreak on a Russian cargo ship that arrived on Sunday, with 16 crew members out of 21 taken ill.
China has reported 22 new cases, including 13 in Beijing. An outbreak in the capital has so far infected more than 200 people.
