India cases near 1m after new daily record: Coronavirus latest

Expert Fauci predicts US to meet vaccine target; China economy bounces back; South Africa’s cases cross 300,000.

• India’s coronavirus cases have surged another 32,695, taking the nation closer to one million and forcing a new lockdown in the popular western beach state of Goa two weeks after it was reopened to tourists.
• Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is again touting the supposed benefits of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID:19, as he tests positive for the virus again.
• More than 13.5 million people around the world have been diagnosed with COVID:19, while more than 7.5 million have recovered and more than 582,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.