COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 30 June – World Economic Forum

Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 181.8 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths stands at more than 3.93 million. More than 3 billion vaccination doses have been administered globally, according to Our World in Data.

Officials in Australia have extended COVID-19 restrictions - including lockdowns and social distancing. Four major cities are already under a hard lockdown.

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has shown a promising response to the Delta variant in a lab study, with a modest decrease in response compared to the original strain.

Romania has agreed to sell 1.17 million excess doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to Denmark, the Danish health ministry said on Tuesday.

Ireland has lifted restrictions on giving the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to adults aged under 50 and also closed the recommended gap between doses from 8 to 4 weeks.

Greece will allow people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 inside restaurants without masks, the government announced yesterday.

India has reported 45,951 new daily COVID-19 cases, according to health ministry data.

Members of the US military who were vaccinated against COVID-19 showed higher-than-expected rates of heart inflammation - although the condition was still very rare - a study released yesterday showed.

Oxygen prices in Jakarta have more than doubled, with warnings of shortages, as Indonesia's capital fights a surge in COVID-19 cases.

International tourism arrivals are set to stagnate this year, except in some Western markets, a new report from UNCTAD and the UN's World Tourism Organization has said.

The decline, caused by COVID-19, is set to cause between $1.7 and $2.4 trillion in losses this year, with the report also warning that the sector is not expected to rebound fully until 2023.

International arrivals fell more than 70% from pre-pandemic levels last year, causing $2.4 trillion in losses in 2020.

Numbers of international tourists plunged last year.

Image: UNCTAD

"In international tourism we are at levels of 30 years ago, so basically we are in the '80s... Many livelihoods are really at threat," said Zoritsa Urosevic, Geneva representative of the Madrid-based UNWTO.

The Biden Administration has announced plans to donate 2 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Peru.

"The United States is donating 2 million Pfizer vaccine doses to Peru as a part of our ongoing solidarity with the people of Peru as they recover from this devastating pandemic," State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter said.

The US will also ship 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan, White House Press secretary Jen Psaki said.

Meanwhile, 2.5 million doses of the Moderna jab will also be shipped to Bangladesh.

As part of work identifying promising technology use cases to combat COVID, The Boston Consulting Group recently used contextual AI to analyze more than 150 million English language media articles from 30 countries published between December 2019 to May 2020.

The result is a compendium of hundreds of technology use cases. It more than triples the number of solutions, providing better visibility into the diverse uses of technology for the COVID-19 response.

To see a full list of 200+ exciting technology use cases during COVID please follow this link.

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Joe Myers, Writer, Formative Content

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COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 30 June - World Economic Forum