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Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson reports for the Guardian:
Pacific islanders living in the US are being hospitalised with Covid-19 at up to 10 times the rate of some other racial groups.
The US is the most infected country on earth, with more than 4 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and nearly 150,000 deaths, and the 1.5 million Pacific islanders living there are massively overrepresented in infection and hospitalisation rates.
In Washington state, rates of confirmed cases for Native Hawaiian or other Pacific islander people are nine times higher than those of white people, while hospitalisation rates are 10 times that of white people, according to department of health figures.
The numbers are most dramatic in that state’s Spokane county. People from the Marshall Islands make up less than 1% of the county’s population but represent around 30% of confirmed Covid-19 cases:
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The global death toll from coronavirus has reached 647,098, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tracker.
The US has the highest number of fatalities with around 146,000 followed by Brazil with around 87,000.
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Coronavirus has dealt a “shattering blow” to Westminster Abbey’s finances, the church’s dean has said.
The abbey in London is set to lose £12 million in revenue this year and possibly next year and could make some of its staff redundant as a result of the lockdown.
It closed on March 20, causing a loss of entrance fees which make up more than 90% of its income, according to Dr David Hoyle, the Dean of Westminster Abbey.
Dr Hoyle told the BBC: “I’ve been hearing pretty routinely from volunteers, from members of staff, just about a savage sense of loss, there’s been a church here for over a thousand years and we’re not used to being shut.
“So that’s been dislocating and then, of course, a few weeks into this we began to measure out just what was going to happen to us financially and that’s been a pretty shattering blow.”
The death toll from coronavirus in Brazil has reached 87,004, up from 86,449 yesterday, according to the country’s health ministry.
The number of cases registered is at 2,419,091, compared to 2,394,513 yesterday.
Twenty-one new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed at a caravan park in England.
The local county council fears the number of cases at the site in Shropshire , which is in the town of Craven Arms, will continue to rise before infection control measures start to take effect.
All residents who have come into contact with one of the positive cases have been asked to self-isolate with their households for 14 days.
The 21 people who tested positive for coronavirus were asked to self-isolate for at least seven days from the time they started showing symptoms or from when they received their positive test result.
A testing centre has now been set up on a nearby business park, and everyone living on the site has been offered a test.
President Donald Trump has announced his itinerary for next month amid the pandemic.
Morocco will stop people entering and leaving some of its biggest cities from midnight to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, the interior and health ministries said on Sunday.
The cities to be locked down include Casablanca as well as Tangier, Marrakech, Fez and Meknes.
The country eased a nationwide lockdown a month ago, though international flights are still suspended except special flights by national airlines carrying Moroccans or foreign residents.
On Sunday, the health ministry said 633 new Covid-19 cases were recorded, one of the biggest daily rises so far, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 20,278, with 313 deaths and 16,438 recoveries.
Morocco has carried out 1.1 million tests and has made mask-wearing mandatory.
It has extended an emergency decree, until August 10, giving authorities leeway in restoring restrictive measures on a region-by-region basis depending on developments in the epidemic.
The government expects Morocco to record a budget deficit of 7.5% of gross domestic product this year, and the economy to shrink by 5%.