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Coronavirus live news: global cases near 16m; Covid-19 ad blitz in Victoria, Australia

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Florida’s infections overtake New York’s; North Korea holds emergency meeting after suspected Covid-19 case reported; WHO says 1m cases reported per week for last five weeks. Follow the latest updates

Florida overtook New York on Saturday to become the US state with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections, the Financial Times reports. An additional 12,199 confirmed cases, the state’s sixth-biggest one-day jump, took Florida’s overall tally to 414,511.

The World Health Organization said more than a million cases had been recorded in each of the last five weeks, “with over 280,000 being reported on July 24 alone”.

“While no country is unaffected, this rise is driven by high transmission in large and populous countries in the Americas and South Asia,” it said in a statement on Saturday.

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