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Trump issues Brazil travel ban due to COVID-19

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Latin America emerges as COVID-19 hotspot

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ByJon Haworth, Meredith Deliso, and Rosa Sanchez

May 25, 2020, 5:42 AM

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 342,000 people worldwide.

More than 5.3 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some governments are hiding the scope of their nations' outbreaks.

The United States is the worst-affected country in the world, with more than 1.6 million diagnosed cases and at least 97,599 deaths.

PHOTO: Nurses clean personal protective equipment (PPE) after being part of a team that performed a procedure on a coronavirus COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. — Nurses clean personal protective equipment (PPE) after being part of a team that performed a procedure on a coronavirus COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit (I.C.U.) at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. Frontline workers are continuing to care for coronavirus COVID-19 patients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Santa Clara county, where this hospital is located, has had the most deaths of any Northern California county, and the earliest known COVID-19 related deaths in the United States.
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Sunday's biggest developments:

US nears 100,000 deaths

Trump announces ban on travel from Brazil

Wuhan lab director calls virus leak claims 'pure fabrication'

Michigan, Missouri announce change in reporting of COVID-19 testing data

Scientist claims Oxford vaccine has 'only 50% chance of working'

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Here's how the news is developing today. All times Eastern.

PHOTO: In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, researchers work in a lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. — In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, researchers work in a lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Claims promoted by the Trump administration that the global coronavirus pandemic originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the central Chinese city are a "pure fabrication," the institute's director said Sunday, May 24, 2020.
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