4 November 2020

• As coronavirus cases increase, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta bans public gatherings and imposes a 10pm curfew until January of 2021. Source
• The US daily coronavirus case count reaches 100,000. Source
• Denmark’s Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen announces the end of the country’s mink farming industry, calling for the culling of 17 million farmed minks to stop animal-to-human transmission of a mutated form of SARS-CoV-2. Source
• Jordan reports a surge in coronavirus cases after successfully controlling the epidemic. Source
• South Korea approves a PCR test that detects the coronavirus and the flu from a single sample (and provides results within six hours. Source

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