The battle is not over: Rising infections seen worldwide

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People lower the coffin of a man who died of COVID-19, at a cemetery in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Some Indian states Tuesday were considering fresh lockdown measures to try to halt the spread of the virus in the nation of more than 1.3 billion. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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BERLIN (AP) — Renewed lockdown measures in a German region where hundreds of coronavirus cases sprung up at a slaughterhouse and news that the world’s top-ranked tennis player has also contracted the virus provided a stark reminder to Europeans that the pandemic is far from gone. Meanwhile, Britain, which has recorded the most coronavirus-related deaths in Europe, pressed on with its easing of the lockdown by confirming that restaurants, bars, hair salons and cinemas can reopen on July 4. The World Health Organization says the pandemic is still in its ascendancy. The epidemic, according to Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO’s emergencies chief, is “now peaking or moving towards a peak in a number of large countries.”