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Coronavirus live news: WHO warns 2m could die before vaccine; Victoria's health minister quits

Jenny Mikakos resigns after inquiry into how Australian state allowed a second outbreak; Brazil deaths pass 140,000 and US cases reach 7m. Follow all the developments live

British prime minister Boris Johnson will tell the UN general assembly that the coronavirus pandemic has frayed the bonds between nations and will urge world leaders to unite against the common foe of Covid-19.

He will use his speech on Saturday to say that nine months into the pandemic, the very notion of the international community looks tattered, Associated Press reports.

In good news for New South Wales, Australia, just one case of the virus was recorded overnight, and that was in a returned international traveller in hotel quarantine.

Testing numbers have declined in recent weeks. Please come forward for testing right away if you have a runny nose or scratchy throat, cough, fever or other symptoms that could be Covid-19.

If you have symptoms at all we need your help. We all need to do our part to keep the community safe from another outbreak. Get tested right away at the earliest symptoms and help protect friends and family from serious disease. This is especially important in south-west Sydney.

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