U.S. COVID-19 cases hit national high

Connecticut authorities recommended residents stay home from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. beginning Friday as coronavirus infections rose nationwide. Rhode Island imposed a two-week curfew starting Sunday. The United States recorded more than 1,000 deaths and more than 126,000 new infections on Saturday, the highest daily count yet for the nation. The United States has seen a total of more than 9.9 million cases and ranks in the top 10 percent of countries in the world for COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people.

How are other countries coping with the pandemic? The city of Liverpool on Friday began the first mass testing program in the United Kingdom. In Kosovo, authorities ordered a weekend lockdown after recording 728 new cases on Friday—12 times higher than a month ago. The Norwegian capital of Oslo introduced a “social closure” on Friday, shutting down restaurants, bars, gyms, and theaters. On Sunday, the global count topped 50 million cases and more than 1.2 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Dig deeper: Read Laura Edghill’s report in Schooled on how U.S. classrooms are handling the pandemic.

Editor's note: WORLD has updated this report since its initial posting.