Welcome to Morning News. It's August 10, Monday. 28-36℃, sunny in Guangzhou.
China
1. A tropical depression in the waters south of Fujian province is expected to develop into the sixth typhoon of the year and make landfall on the southern coastal area of Fujian province tomorrow morning, bringing rain to eastern Guangdong province and the Pearl River Delta.
2. Beijing announced the reopening of school for fall semester on Sunday, with the earliest students to return on August 29. Grade three students in senior high schools in Guangzhou start their fall semester today.
3. The number of tourists surges in Wuhan following the city's announcement to offer free entry to domestic tourists in scenic spots in return for the nationwide contributions to the city's anti-virus fight.
4. Beijing started to offer 2.8 million coupons on Saturday in the latest move to spur consumption that is recovering from the COVID-19 blow.
5. Chinese mainland reported 49 new COVID-19 cases, 14 locally transmitted, all in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and 35 imported on August 9. Guangdong reported 3 confirmed cases and 8 asymptomatic carriers yesterday, all in Guangzhou and from abroad.
6. The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has joined the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC), becoming the third Chinese city to be included after Suzhou and Dujiangyan.
World
1. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed the 5 million mark on Sunday.
2. U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday afternoon despite China's opposition to the visit, thereby further straining China-U.S. ties.
3. U.S. President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to ban transactions related to the popular video app TikTok and messaging app WeChat, claiming they are threats to national security. TikTok is planning to sue the Trump administration over the executive order ban.
4. A recent report from the CIA indicates that the Chinese government has not accessed American user data from TikTok.
5. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said reopening schools in September was a social, economic and moral imperative and insisted schools should be able to operate safely despite the coronavirus pandemic.
6. Paris will make masks mandatory outdoors in busy areas from Monday for those aged 11 and over, after a rise in cases.
7. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey has become the third country to develop vaccines locally against COVID-19 after the United States and China according to the World Health Organization.