A worker disinfects packages as they are unloaded from a truck at a JD.com distribution center in Beijing. - The capital of China’s far-western Xinjiang region curtailed most flights into the city on Friday and has shut down subway and public bus services after several coronavirus infections were detected, government authorities and state-controlled media said. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific issued a profit warning, estimating it has haemorrhaged 1.3 billion USD in the first half of the year as it reels from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said it is not compulsory for students or teachers to put on a mask when they are in school. As per the reopening guidelines set by the Education Ministry, schools must provide soap or hand sanitiser as well as check body temperatures and condition of everyone entering the school compound. Photo by MIHAMAD SHAHRIL BADRI SAALI/NSTP
Residents wearing face masks are seen next to the Yangtze River in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. Workers, factories and firms cautiously returned to normality after harsh lockdowns brought the virus under control (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
Medical staff prepare to administer a COVID-19 test to a woman at a St. Johns Well Child & Family Center mobile clinic set up outside Walker Temple AME Church in South Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic on July 15, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. -AFP pic
This file photo taken on April 1, 1995 shows China's flag flying over octagonal structures built on stilts at the Manila-claimed Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands, known as Nansha islands by China, located in the South China Sea. - AFP pic