(Bloomberg) Russia reported 13,510 new Covid-19 cases in the past day, the highest since Feb. 15. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said earlier the capital was opening more hospital beds to cope with the spike, but he insisted a new lockdown was unnecessary. Executives from the U.K. hospitality industry warned Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak that a delay to the country’s planned reopening on June 21 could lead to “a wave of business.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed his Chinese counterpart in a phone call Friday to allow a new expert-led study into the origins of Covid-19. But China’s top diplomat called theories that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab absurd, according to readouts from both sides.