The director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Lab told Chinese state media Monday the claim in a new United States intelligence report that several researchers at the lab were hospitalized in November 2019, was "a complete lie."
By James Griffiths, CNN
What you need to know
New York City schools will return to fully in-person learning with no remote option in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Across the US, the average daily pace of coronavirus vaccinations is down almost 50% from its April peak, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows.
The European Union will begin to ease travel restrictions to the bloc, with the EU Council agreeing on measures to allow fully vaccinated foreign visitors in.
Indian states are facing shortages of a drug used to treat black fungus, a rare and potentially fatal infection that is increasingly being detected in Covid-19 patients.
India becomes third country to top 300,000 Covid-19 deaths as vaccine shortage bites
From CNN s Esha Mitra in New Delhi
India reported 4,454 new Covid-19 fatalities on Monday, bringing the country s death toll to 303,720, according to the Indian Ministry of Health.
India is the third country to report more than 300,000 deaths from the virus, after Brazil and the United States, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The health ministry also reported 222,315 new coronavirus infections, marking the fourth consecutive day that the number of cases reported in the country have declined.
However, Monday s death count is the highest daily death toll reported since May 19.
Air travel this weekend was nearly back to 2019 numbers
From CNN s Greg Wallace
Passengers sit aboard a Delta Airlines flight on Friday, May 21. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
Air travel hit a new high of the pandemic this weekend.
Numbers from the Transportation Security Administration show it screened 90% of the people it screened on the equivalent day in 2019, prior to the pandemic.
The Sunday figure of 1.86 million people screened is compared to nearly 2.1 million on the equivalent Sunday of 2019. At this point in 2020, the pandemic had driven air travel into a major hole, and the TSA reported only 267,000 screenings.
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