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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: The United States formally notifies the United Nations that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization, whose coronavirus response has been harshly criticised by President Donald Trump. The United States tells UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the WHO's biggest contributor will leave effective July 6, 2021, a State Department spokesperson says. The new coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of slowing down, the World Health Organization says. "The outbreak is accelerating and we've clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells a virtual press conference. The United States is still "knee-deep" in its first wave of coronavirus infections and must act immediately to tackle the recent surge, the country's top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci says. "It's a serious situation that we have to address immediately," Fauci said in a web interview with National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for the new coronavirus after consistently playing down the risks of the disease. The far right leader has made headlines for ignoring containment measures such social distancing, despite Brazil becoming the second-worst hit country, with 65,000 dead. Australia orders five million people locked down for at least six weeks in its second-biggest city Melbourne to combat a surge in coronavirus cases. "We can't pretend" the crisis is over, says Daniel Andrews, premier of Victoria state, after its capital reports 191 new cases in 24 hours. The pandemic has killed at least 539,620 people worldwide since it surfaced in China late last year, according to an AFP tally at 1900 GMT on Tuesday based on official sources. The United States is the hardest-hit country with 130,813 deaths. It is followed by Brazil with 65,487, Britain with 44,391, Italy with 34,899 and Mexico with 31,119 fatalities. Nearly 50 million Africans could be driven into extreme poverty in the economic fallout of the pandemic, the African Development Bank (AfDB) says. Roughly a third of the continent -- 425 million people -- was already expected to live below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day in 2020, the AfDB says in its African Economic Outlook, forecasting that the situation would further deteriorate. People who refuse to wear face masks during the pandemic should be stigmatised in the same way as drink drivers, the head of the prestigious Royal Society science journal says. Venki Ramakrishnan, a Nobel laureate, commented as two new peer-reviewed studies showed how wearing face coverings may help significantly reduce the spread of viruses such as COVID-19. burs-rap/jmy/jxb
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