JOHANNESBURG: South Africa reimposed a nationwide curfew on Sunday (Monday in Manila) while Spain’s Catalonia region forced hundreds of thousands of residents back into lockdown as coronavirus cases accelerated in many parts of the world.

Since the start of July, nearly 2.5 million new infections had been reported, a record level since the first outbreak of the disease in China last year, according to an Agence France-Presse tally.

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