June 3, Wednesday, 2020 (1:30 p.m.) Newsline

  1. Tokyo Government officials have issued an alert after confirming the highest daily tally of coronavirus infections in weeks. The governor says it’s a way of urging residents to remain cautious—but does not alter the plan to gradually reopen the economy.
  2. South Korea’s government is on alert for possible spreading of the coronavirus through the greater Seoul area after a new cluster infection was reported at a church in the suburbs of the capital.
  3. Officials in the Chinese city of Wuhan say they have found no COVID-19 cases with symptoms after testing almost all of its population. The city is where the first coronavirus infections were reported.