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In Australia, a large Maronite church in Sydney’s north-west has been closed for cleaning after the discovery of a Covid-19 case there.
The church member attended Our Lady of Lebanon cathedral in Harris Park in Sydney’s north-west on Wednesday at 5.30pm, Thursday at 6pm and Friday at 1.30pm and 6pm. The church has been closed until Tuesday.
BREAKING: A Maronite Catholic Church in Harris Park has had a parishioner test positive for COVID-19. The person visited the large and popular church on Wed, Thurs & Friday. @10NewsFirstSyd pic.twitter.com/oc0UAhReGo
Among the countries that reported the highest one-day case increases as part of that startling record global rise reported by the WHO is South Africa, which now ranks fifth in the world for confirmed coronavirus cases caseload as the African continent faces the pandemics first wave head-on, AP reports.
South Africa on Saturday reported 13,285 new confirmed cases for a total of 350,879. That puts the country ahead of Peru and makes up roughly half the cases in Africa. The only four countries with more confirmed cases the US, Brazil, India, and Russia all have far more people than South Africa’s 57 million.
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