Coronavirus latest: at a glance

Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include:

Known deaths pass 385,000

According to Johns Hopkins University there have been 6,430,705 coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide and 385,947 deaths reported. The figures, which are based on official and media reports, are likely to significantly underestimate the scale of the pandemic due to differing testing and recording regimes, as well as suspected under-reporting.

WHO reports 100,000 new cases a day for five days

The World Health Organization has received reports of 100,000 new cases of coronavirus every day for the past five days, as the outbreak gathers pace in various regions around the world, its director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said. Opening the WHO’s regular coronavirus briefing, he added: “For several weeks the number of cases reported each day in the Americas has been more than the rest of the world put together. We are especially worried about Central and South America, where many countries are witnessing accelerating epidemics. We also see increasing numbers of cases in the eastern Mediterranean, south-east Asia and Africa, although the numbers are much smaller.”

Brazil looks to reopen despite record coronavirus deaths

Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus for a second consecutive day, according to health ministry data released on Wednesday, even as city and state authorities moved aggressively to open commerce back up. There were 1,349 new coronavirus deaths and 28,633 additional confirmed cases, the data showed, meaning Brazil had registered 32,548 deaths and 584,016 total confirmed cases. Its rightwing president, Jair Bolsonaro, has repeatedly downplayed the threat of the virus, saying on Tuesday that death was “everyone’s destiny”.

Mexico sees deaths twice as high as previous record

Mexican health authorities reported 1,092 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, the highest toll in one day so far, with total infections surging past 100,000. The number of deaths was more than twice a previous record and daily infections were also at an all-time high of 3,912. The additions bring the total number of known cases to 101,238 and deaths to 11,729. Health authorities have previously said the real number is higher.

George Floyd had coronavirus, according to autopsy

The Minneapolis man who died with a policeman’s knee on his neck tested positive for coronavirus, according to a full autopsy report released by the Hennepin county medical examiner’s office. The report noted that the virus was not a contributing factor in his death and that Floyd had no symptoms. KSTP news reported: “A postmortem nasal swab was taken, which confirmed that Floyd was positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. It is noted that Floyd was known to be positive for Covid-19 on April 3. The postmortem positivity likely reflects asymptomatic but persistent PCR positivity from previous infection.”

California: rise in cases raises fears over reopening and protests

The number of coronavirus cases in California is on the rise after weeks of optimism that infections had slowed, raising fears that plans to reopen counties, along with mass protests against police brutality, could accelerate transmission. According to numbers from Johns Hopkins University, California is one of 20 states that have seen an increase in cases in the past five days.

Coronavirus crisis could cause $25tn fossil fuel industry collapse

The coronavirus outbreak could trigger a $25tn (£20tn) collapse in the fossil fuel industry by accelerating a terminal decline for the world’s most polluting companies. A study has found that the value of the world’s fossil fuel reserves could fall by two-thirds, sooner than the industry expects, because the Covid-19 crisis has hastened the peak for oil, gas and coal demand. The looming fossil fuel collapse could pose “a significant threat to global financial stability” by wiping out the market value of fossil fuel companies, according to the financial thinktank Carbon Tracker.