World Coronavirus Dispatch: First vaccine results likely by mid-September

New app to link testing centres across Africa, two in China jailed for not quarantining themselves, Softbank unmasked as 'Nasdaq whale' and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Two people who returned to their hometown after contracting the coronavirus in the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak in January have been sentenced to prison for failing to quarantine themselves or report the visit. After returning from Wuhan, the pair visited supermarkets and other public places in the western city of Yibin in Sichuan province for more than a week before showing symptoms, the Chinese court said on Saturday. Read more here

Let’s look at the global statistics:



Total Confirmed Cases: 26,873,146



Change Over Yesterday: 249,584


Total Deaths: 879,307


Total Recovered: 17,917,644

Nations hit with most cases: