Coronavirus updates: India records more than 47,000 fatalities

The new outbreak of coronavirus cases in the New Zealand city of Auckland could be linked to a quarantine breach, the country’s deputy prime minister has suggested.

Four members of the same family tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week, with that cluster of local cases growing by 13 on Thursday.

In an interview with ABC News, Winston Peters said he had “inside information” about the suspected source of the cluster.

When asked to elaborate on what he knew, Peters said: "It wasn't an official, I found out from somewhere else, but I think there's been a breach inside our quarantine system.”.

Later in the interview, Peters said he was given the information by a New Zealand journalist who was "usually very reliable".

A sandwich-making company in the UK says “a number” of its workers have tested positive for coronavirus at its factory in Northampton, in the East Midlands.

Greencore said in a statement that it had decided to "start proactively testing" all of its workers at its Northampton site after a rise of Covid-19 cases in the area.

"We can confirm that a number of colleagues have tested positive for the virus and are now self-isolating," it said.

The director of public health at Northamptonshire County Council, Lucy Wightman, said the borough had been experiencing a "high number of cases over the last four weeks" and employers had been asked to "act now" to avoid a local lockdown.

Mexico and Peru, which are Latin America's worst-affected countries after Brazil, are both expected to surpass more than half a million confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday.

Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti said the number of children who've been infected has gone up since the lockdown was lifted.

She said that in total 81 children had died of Covid-related diseases from the 23,000 children who had tested positive.

The number of patients admitted for routine treatment in hospitals in England was down 67% in June compared with the same time last year, NHS figures show.

A 35-year-old man from Yemen in the Vial camp on the island of Chios has tested positive, a migration ministry official told the AFP news agency.

Another 30 people are undergoing tests," the official said.

in the final death count, and some states are attributing Covid-19 deaths to.

State media said a person who defected to South Korea three years ago last week returned across the demarcation line with Covid-19 symptoms.

Experts recommended the ban to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the region, which currently has 827 active cases of the virus.

The number of confirmed cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University running tally, is around 315,000.

The authorities in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen say that a surface sample taken from some frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil has tested positive for coronavirus?

The chicken wings were tested by local health authorities as part of routine screenings of food imports.

The Shenzhen local government said tests of every person who might have come into contact with the infected batch, as well as food products stored near it, had come back negative.

Both cases have raised fears that contaminated food shipments imported from abroad could cause new outbreaks of Covid-19.

The first cluster of Covid-19 cases, found late last year, was linked to a seafood market in the city of Wuhan.

The mounting death toll from India’s coronavirus outbreak may continue to rise for months if the government does not take action to curb infections, a doctor has told the BBC.

On Thursday, India recorded 942 new deaths and 66,999 new cases - the highest single-day spike in infections yet.

“The daily number of deaths is far ahead of any country in the world as of now and, tragically, this may continue for the next few weeks, if not months,” he said

A close adviser to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has said he has been diagnosed with coronavirus

Indian cabinet minister Shripad Naik has tested positive for the coronavirus, he has announced on Twitter

Naik’s positive test comes as India’s coronavirus deaths passed 47,000, the fourth-highest toll in the world