China indefinitely closed a terminal at the world’s third-busiest container port Thursday after a single worker tested positive for coronavirus. The shutdown came as China struggles to maintain its ”COVID-zero” policy after it detected its first Delta variant infection last month.
Australia’s capital, Canberra, has begun a one-week hard lockdown after officials confirmed the first locally transmitted COVID-19 case in over a year. Almost half of Australia’s population is now in lockdown amid the nation’s largest COVID outbreak in a year.
Russia recorded a record high 808 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday. It was Russia’s fifth record high daily toll this month — and came one year after the highly effective Sputnik V vaccine was approved. Fewer than one in five Russians are fully vaccinated, even though shots are widely available.