WHO says milestone is a warning for each of continent’s 53 countries; interstate travellers face checks before entering New York; cases continue to surge in Europe. Follow the latest updatesUS: Fauci tells of death threats over virus policyAustralia coronavirus updatesJapan: Shinzo Abe accused of going awol as nation faces surgeSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.47am BST Donald Trump has issued an executive order banning any US companies from making transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the video-sharing app TikTok.The US president’s order claims that the app may be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist party and the United States “must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security”.BREAKING: President Trump just issued an executive order “on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok.” It takes effect in 45 days, prohibits “any transaction” with ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, and will almost certainly face legal challenges. pic.twitter.com/Ma9XOfYgOBIncredible to see this unfolding. To me WeChat is a much bigger deal. TikTok was made because the Great Firewall cut China off, but WeChat is one of the few apps that actually spans the filters and links communities within and outside China. Of course there will be workarounds… https://t.co/kDgPjAy9hS Related: Trump bans US transactions with TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company 2.35am BST China has logged 37 new coronavirus cases in the 24 hours to midnight on Thursday, the country’s health authority has announced – the same as the day before.Of the new cases, 10 were imported infections involving travellers from overseas compared with seven such cases reported a day earlier.Chinese mainland reported 37 new confirmed #COVID19 cases (26 in #Xinjiang, 1 in #Beijing), and 14 new asymptomatic COVID-19 patients pic.twitter.com/SwjfAPeIn0 Continue reading…
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PIERS MORGAN: A phone call I received from a fired-up Trump should be a warning to Democrats
President Trump called me for a chat on Saturday. It was our first conversation since he unfollowed me on Twitter in April after I wrote a Mail column telling him to ‘Shut the f*ck up Read more…