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24 hours ago
Merkel meets with state leaders today to discuss tougher restrictions
By Stephanie Halasz
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet today with the top ministers of the country's 16 federal states to discuss additional measures at the national level to curb the increase in the number of coronaviruses.
Merkel will meet with ministers of state at 2 pm (8 am ET) Tuesday by video conference behind closed doors.
Afterwards, she will hold a press conference with the Prime Minister of Bavaria and the Mayor of Hamburg to discuss the results.
On the table: new limits of up to 25 people for private gatherings across the country, according to a draft government document obtained by CNN affiliate NTV and widely publicized in the German media.
Fines will also be discussed if visitors to the restaurant or bar enter incorrect information for the track and trace system.
Meanwhile, bars in the worst affected areas may see a ban on the sale of alcohol, NTV said.
Warning system: Bavaria's prime minister had previously suggested an early warning system for areas with a marked increase in the virus, a so-called traffic light system.
While this is not explicitly on the table, according to NTV, a nationwide warning strategy will be discussed.
The so-called temperature ambulances for rapid tests of covid-19 will be discussed for its implementation at the national level.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn has previously said he wants to introduce them.
The numbers: The Robert Koch Institute, Germany's agency for disease control and prevention, recorded an additional 475 cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the national total to 285,332.
A total of 9,460 people have died as a result of the virus in Germany.
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A million deaths later, this is how the world lives today with the coronavirus
By CNN Spanish
The world passed the grim milestone of one million deaths from coronavirus.
While the pandemic still does not give truce, health experts warn of new waves of infections.
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A grave with the Superman symbol in a graveyard for COVID-19 victims in Surabaya, East Java.
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A child runs among the thousands of Spanish flags that commemorate the victims of covid-19 in the Roma park in Madrid.
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A gravedigger in the San Miguel Xico cemetery in Valle de Chalco, in the state of Mexico.
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Tourists take a selfie at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
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A woman plants a flag on the National Mall in Washington in commemoration of the 200,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19.
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Andrea Lara looks at her father, Juan Carlos Lara, 59, a covid-19 patient who was being transferred inside a security capsule in an air ambulance from Iquitos to the intensive care unit at Rebagliati hospital in Lima.
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Police try to disperse protesters protesting British government vaccination and COVID-19 restrictions in London's Trafalgar Square.
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A boy sits in front of a mural in Bogor, West Java.
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Palestinian Muslims wear masks in front of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
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Pedestrians wear face masks in Wuhan, China, the original epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.
(HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP via Getty Images)
54 minutes ago
Experts fear the death toll will double before a vaccine is ready
By Laura Smith-Spark
More than 1 million people have died from the coronavirus worldwide, marking another milestone in the short but devastating history of the pandemic.
The death toll from the coronavirus, which causes covid-19, now stands at 1,000,555, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The grim figure has been reached in less than nine months since Chinese authorities confirmed the first death from the coronavirus in the city of Wuhan.
Since then, the virus has disrupted the daily lives of billions of people around the world and caused widespread economic damage.
More than 33 million cases have been confirmed worldwide, and outbreaks continue to affect many countries.
Europe, which became the second epicenter of the virus after China, imposed widespread restrictions on the movements of people in the spring in an effort to slow its spread.
While the measures had some success, several countries that were badly affected early on, such as France, Spain and the UK, are now struggling to stem a second wave.
The United States, with more than 7 million cases and more than 205,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, has been the most affected country overall.
President Donald Trump is considered to have mismanaged the federal response to the pandemic and, despite the country's wealth and advanced health care systems, has struggled to control infections.
Now, some experts fear that Trump could pressure scientists to authorize or approve a COVID-19 vaccine without a full formal review process for political gain.
Trump has repeatedly defended his handling of the pandemic.
But he and the White House have been widely criticized for disobeying government guidelines designed to limit the transmission of Covid-19, including social distancing and wearing a mask.
1 hour ago
Global deaths from coronavirus exceed one million
By Sugam Pokharel
More than 1 million people around the world have died from Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
As of Monday, September 28 at 8:43 p.m. ET, the worldwide death toll is 1,000,555.
The United States has the highest death count, having so far recorded 205,131 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.
The first recorded coronavirus-related death was in the Chinese city of Wuhan on January 9.
The world recorded half a million deaths more than 24 weeks later, on June 28, and it took just over 13 weeks for that number to double.
The university's tally shows that the US, Brazil, India and Mexico account for more than 50% of all deaths globally.
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