India becomes third country to top 300,000 Covid-19 deaths as vaccine shortage bites
From CNN s Esha Mitra in New Delhi
India reported 4,454 new Covid-19 fatalities on Monday, bringing the country s death toll to 303,720, according to the Indian Ministry of Health.
India is the third country to report more than 300,000 deaths from the virus, after Brazil and the United States, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The health ministry also reported 222,315 new coronavirus infections, marking the fourth consecutive day that the number of cases reported in the country have declined.
However, Monday s death count is the highest daily death toll reported since May 19.
Air travel this weekend was nearly back to 2019 numbers
From CNN s Greg Wallace
Passengers sit aboard a Delta Airlines flight on Friday, May 21. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
Air travel hit a new high of the pandemic this weekend.
Numbers from the Transportation Security Administration show it screened 90% of the people it screened on the equivalent day in 2019, prior to the pandemic.
The Sunday figure of 1.86 million people screened is compared to nearly 2.1 million on the equivalent Sunday of 2019. At this point in 2020, the pandemic had driven air travel into a major hole, and the TSA reported only 267,000 screenings.
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IOC VP faces backlash for saying Tokyo Olympics are on despite pandemic
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TOKYO (AP) - If John Coates was trying to stir controversy, he succeeded.
An International Olympic Committee vice president, Coates was asked a few days ago by a Japanese reporter at an online news conference if the Tokyo Olympics would go ahead, even if a state of emergency were in force in Japan.
Coates replied: Absolutely, yes.
Coates said what the IOC and local organizers have been trying to persuade the Japanese public about for months: The postponed Olympics with 11,000 athletes from 200 nations and territories will open on July 23 and will be safe and secure.
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Google Play Store is currently suffering from a massive breach. Security experts and other researchers claimed that this new issue possibly affects around 100 million Android users.
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In this photo illustration the app of Google Chrome is displayed on a smartphone on March 3, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The left-wing organizers of the event cited Google s profit-oriented mass collection of personal data about people as well as the gentrification locals fear will accelerate should the Google Campus open.
They said that people s sensitive user data might have been exposed by various popular applications from the giant app provider. Because of this, security researchers suggested that Android users should uninstall the infected apps.