Global report: Delhi to check on 29m people; Eiffel Tower reopens
by Jon Henley from on (#551BZ)
US ends federal support for some testing sites; cases in Indonesia surpass 50,000
India has said it aims to complete a coronavirus survey of Delhi's entire population of 29 million people, while officials in the US have reacted with alarm to the Trump administration's plan to end federal support for some Covid-19 testing sites.
Civil servants will visit every household in India's capital by 6 July to record health details and test people who show or report symptoms. Police have been ordered to enforce distancing rules and prevent people from mixing in more than 200 containment zones.
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