HEALTH

"I think Bolsonaro invented that he was contaminated in order to advertise the medicine," former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said.

The total is 12 percent more than at the start of July.

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci said schools should aim to reopen this fall to prevent the "downstream unintended consequences on families" at a congressional hearing Friday.

Forecast now says that by November 1, if mandates are eased further, almost 26,000 people will die from the disease.

The U.S. reported a nearly 20 percent spike in total new deaths over the past two weeks.

Around one in 150 people infected with West Nile virus develop a serious illness.

Meanwhile, Russian officials have claimed they may have a vaccine approved by August.

The state's seven-day rolling average of new deaths has spiked by 50 percent since last week.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the anti-malaria drug as a COVID-19 treatment, despite a lack of evidence.

Professor Tara Spires-Jones of the U.K. Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh said the "well-conducted" report was "important" but hoped it didn't lead people to blame themselves if they get dementia.

Co-author Sara Borgomaneri, of the University of Bologna, told Newsweek: "The study underlines the importance of memory reconsolidation, and of the possibility that our past memories can be rewritten somehow.

The latest daily death toll marked the state's largest single-day spike in fatalities since the outbreak began.