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- Businesses in popular resorts close to Tokyo have expressed concern about the exclusion of trips to and from the capital in a tourism campaign aimed at boosting Japan’s economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Japanese government made the exclusion on Thursday due to an increasing number of infection cases in Tokyo.
- The total number of coronavirus infections in Brazil has surpassed two million. The government says a daily figure of more than 45,000 new cases had been reported as of Thursday, bringing the total number of people who have tested positive in the country to 2,012,151.
- The United States, Britain and Canada say a Russian group is very likely to have mounted cyberattacks to collect research data on coronavirus vaccines. The three countries’ intelligence agencies made the announcement in statements on Thursday.