Deaths spiked by 159,000 in Europe

Liz Main, Natasha Boddy, Natasha Rudra and Timothy Moore

Updated May 29, 2020 – 12.59am, first published at May 28, 2020 – 7.17am

Key Points

Known COVID-19 cases are up 11, or 0.2 per cent, to 7150.
The death toll rose by one to 103 on Wednesday.
Globally, more than 5.65 million people have tested positive and 353,200 have died.
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12.59AM – May 29, 2020

We're now closing the blog for tonight. Head over to Friday's blog over here.

Here's a quick recap of what's happened tonight:

A massive 41 million Americans are now out of work as the US economy continues to buckle under the pressure of the virus crisis.
Deaths in Europe spiked by 159,000 since early March, with a significant proportion linked to coronavirus.
Six more members of the crew on a livestock ship docked in WA have tested positive - bringing the total to 12.
British police say there will be no charges for prime minister Boris Johnson's powerful senior adviser Dominic Cummings, who broke lockdown to make day trip to a castle with his wife and son while his wife had virus symptoms.

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