Lebanon closes supermarkets in lockdown; WHO team touches down in Wuhan; New York Mayor warns city will fall short of its inoculation goals * How and why is the virus mutating? * Recovering from Covid gives similar level of protection to vaccine * UK influencers scramble to justify exotic getaways * China records first Covid death since May as WHO team arrives in Wuhan * See all our coronavirus coverage 11.04am GMT In GREECE, there has been good and bad news this morning, writes HELENA SMITH, the Guardian’s correspondent in Athens. While epidemiologists say the epidemic is gradually being brought under control, the nation woke up to the announcement that the Olympic sailing champion Leonidas Pelekanakis had succumbed to the virus. Echoing fellow infectious disease experts, Gkikas Magiorkinis told the Guardian he was “optimistic” the outlook was finally improving. 10.56am GMT The OLYMPIC GAMES may not go ahead in TOKYO this summer, JAPAN’s administrative and regulatory reform minister has said in an interview with the Reuters news agency. “We need to do the best we can to prepare for the Games at this moment, but it could go either way,” Taro Kono told the Reuters Next conference. The once-delayed #TokyoOlympics may not go ahead this summer as planned, Japanese cabinet minister Taro Kono said in an interview at the #ReutersNext conference https://t.co/r2us4HUNzv pic.twitter.com/1FOhGGbHp3 Continue reading...
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