Welcome to Morning News. It is Thursday, July 9. Weather in GZ: 26-34℃, thundershower.

China

1. China's national college entrance exam, or Gaokao, ended in some parts of China on Wednesday, including Guangdong. Results will be released at the end of July.

2. China has added another two geological parks (The Xiangxi Geopark in central China's Hunan Province and Zhangye Geopark in northwest China's Gansu Province) to its list of UNESCO Global Geoparks, bringing the total number to 41, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration said Wednesday.

3. Chinese mainland reported 9 confirmed COVID-19 cases, all imported, three in Liaoning and Shanghai respectively, two in Guangdong and one in Sichuan. Guangdong also reported three asymptomatic infections yesterday.

4. Beijing recorded no new domestically transmitted cases for two consecutive days since Tuesday.

5. Hong Kong's health officials on Wednesday reported 24 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, among which 19 cases were locally transmitted.

6. E-ticket system will be launched Thursday on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest rail system, in northwest China, the railway operator said Wednesday.

7. In response to the U.S. erroneous act, China decides to impose visa restrictions on U.S. individuals with egregious conducts on Tibet-related issues, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Wednesday.

China's central bank on Wednesday announced that it would issue a 2020 edition of the five-yuan banknote of the fifth series of the renminbi, the Chinese currency, starting Nov. 5. (File photo/from Xinhua.net)

World

1. The United States recorded 55,000 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours Wednesday, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed, bringing its total to 3,046,351.

2. Harvard, MIT sue US government over the rule that tries to ban international students from online-only universities.

3. Big gains by large tech companies lifted the Nasdaq to another record close Wednesday, as investors continued to shrug off higher coronavirus cases and the hit to the economy.

4. The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced the establishment of a new clinical trials network on Wednesday aiming to step up vaccines and monoclonal antibodies testing.

5. Uzbekistan introduced a second lockdown from July 10 to August 1 in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

6. Domestic flights were resumed on Wednesday in Nigeria after about three months of restrictions to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest move adopted by the Nigerian government to reopen the economy.

Editor: Yuan

Source: Xinhua, China Daily, CGTN