India reported nearly 55,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday and Japan recorded more than 1,500 for a second day while Florida braced for a tropical storm that threatened to hamper anti-disease efforts.A curfew was imposed on Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, following a spike in infections.The United States, India and South Africa are struggling to rein in their first wave of infections while South Korea and other countries where the disease abated try to avert a second wave as curbs on travel and trade ease.
How close are we to a coronavirus vaccine? India’s 54,735 new cases were down from the previous day’s record 57,118 but raised the country’s total to 1.75 million.