Australia’s treasurer struggles to get through his Covid-19 economic statement to parliament, with a tickle in his throat forcing Josh Frydenberg to cough and pause for water several times. He even jokes that his speech is ‘too long’. Soon afterwards he left Parliament House to be tested for coronavirus. He will await the result in isolation
This week New York saw a high of more than 700 deaths due to COVID-19, but there are also signs that the virus is starting to plateau in the state. NBC News’ Tom Winter reports.
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The UK has recorded 563 more COVID-19-related deaths – the highest number of the outbreak so far.
It takes the total number of deaths to 2,352.
The deaths happened in the 24 hours before 5pm on Tuesday, the Department of Health said.
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