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World Coronavirus Dispatch: Facebook, Twitter delete 'harmful' Trump post

Stocks fall, gold nears high on US stimulus talks, BlackRock staff to WFH for rest of year, UK unemployment could rise to 7.5% and other pandemic-related news across the globe

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France has recorded its highest number of daily coronavirus infections in more than two months.

Yuvraj Malik
Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were "almost immune" to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post - a clip from an interview Mr Trump gave to Fox News - saying it contained "harmful Covid misinformation". Twitter followed by saying it had frozen a Trump campaign account until a tweet of the same clip was removed. US public health advice makes clear children have no immunity to Covid-19. Read more here

Let’s look at the global statistics:

Total Confirmed Cases: 18,814,178

Change Over Yesterday: 269,358

Total Deaths: 707,754

Total Recovered:

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