Portal:Current events/2021 July 1

July 1, 2021 (2021-07-01) (Thursday)

Business and economy

• Economy of El Salvador
  • President Nayib Bukele requests a minimum wage hike of 20% due to poor Salvadorans suffering from an "onslaught of global inflation". Bukele also orders more food handouts to combat hunger during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The country had a government reshuffle, which have put in doubt negotiations for a potential $1 billion financing program from the International Monetary Fund. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
      • Bangladesh imposes a lockdown that close all public transport and only allowing people to leave for emergency reasons due to deadly surge of COVID-19 infections. Soldiers are deployed to enforce the lockdown. (Voice of America)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
      • Thailand reports a record 57 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 2,080. (Bangkok Post)
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
      • Indonesia reports a record 24,836 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2.2 million. (detikNews)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji
    • Fiji reports record case of 431 new infections of COVID-19, thereby bringing the national total to 4,849. The Ministry of Health also reports two deaths, bringing the death toll to 24, with twenty-two of these deaths occurring since the current outbreak began in April. (RNZ)

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