TikTok’s latest transparency report shows that it took down 49 million videos for content violations from July 2019 to December 2019.
It also received over 500 government requests during that time, up from 296 in the first of half 2019.
It says none of them were from China or Hong Kong.
Saudi Arabia is considering canceling the annual hajj pilgrimage this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Financial Times reported.
The hajj, which involves traveling to the holy city of Mecca, is a mandatory ritual for all observant Muslims who can afford the trip and physically complete the journey to the Arabian peninsula.
“The data was collected through the middle of June,” the firm’s chief market strategist told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” late last week. “It was really the second half of June when we saw states like where I am here in Texas start to reverse their opening up plans. That did not get captured in this number completely.”
“Although many countries have made some progress, globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a virtual news conference.
The virus has infected more than 10.1 million people around the world and killed at least 502,634 people, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
“The single most important intervention is … tracing and quarantine contacts,” he said. “Six months since the virus started, it could be like a broken record to say exactly the same thing, but the same thing works. Test, test, isolate, quarantine cases.”
The new strain has descended from the type of flu (“swine flu”) that emerged in 2009 causing the first global flu pandemic in 40 years.
As with swine flu, however, the new strain has been identified as having “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus.”
The new strain of flu should be monitored closely, scientists say.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 580.25 points higher, or 2.3%, at 25,595.80. It was the Dow’s best day since June 5, when it soared more than 3%. The S&P 500 jumped 1.5% to 3,053.24 while the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.2% to end the day at 9,874.15.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said that doctors and infectious disease specialists are seeing “more and more” complications with Covid-19 in young people.
Early in the outbreak in the U.S., researchers said the virus appeared to be sparing young people while being particularly severe for the elderly and those with underlying health conditions.
That’s not the case, Fauci said Tuesday.
Apple iPhone sales and shipments fell in May versus April, according to third-party data compiled by CNBC.
But other areas of the business such as spending on the company’s App Store grew, which may point to some resiliency for the U.S. technology giant in one of its biggest markets.
Apple was affected by the shutdown in China during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, but it has seen a sharp rebound as the the economy has re-opened.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 45 points, suggesting an open gain of 43 points when regular trading resumes on Wednesday. S&P 500 futures pointed to a gain of 0.15% while Nasdaq-100 futures indicated an opening advance of about 0.2%.
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck the coast of southern Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least one person, buckling paved roads, and setting off a tsunami in nearby Pacific coastal areas.
One person died in the state of Oaxaca, Governor Alejandro Murat said, after the quake hit the Pacific coastal state mid-morning.
