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Britain's Chief Scientific Adviser says up to 10,000 people in the UK could be infected with the novel coronavirus, as the country announces new measures to slow the spread of the pandemic. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization says that more than 70 percent of those infected with the new coronavirus in China have recovered, adding that the country was bringing its epidemic under control. Out of the more than 80,000 cases of COVID-19 in China, "more than 70 percent have recovered and have been discharged," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says in Geneva. IMAGES
People wait at London's St Pancras International after several Eurostar trains between Paris and London were cancelled due to a massive sabotage attack on France's high-speed rail network, according to the company. IMAGES
People are queuing and walking outside the Colosseum in Rome in the middle of another heatwave. This comes only days after a hailstorm had briefly brought down the high temepratures in the north of the country. IMAGES
In Rome, people brave scorching temperatures as they queue outside the Colosseum. Europe, the globe's fastest-warming continent, is bracing for its hottest-ever temperature this week on Italy's islands of Sicily and Sardinia, where a high of 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) is predicted, according to the European Space Agency. IMAGES
Residents of Crotone, religious leaders and authorities pay their respects in front of the coffins of 65 victims, five of them small and white, containing the bodies of the youngest children that died, of a devastating migrant shipwreck off Italy's southern coast. IMAGES
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