COVID-19 transmissions flatten out or slow down in 107 countries

Hot spots US and Brazil confirm fewer new cases but India struggles against virus

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Where masks are worn, the infection rate is going down. Where vacations are underway, transmissions are going up. And in Japan, a professor at a medical university wonders whether "people might be gaining immunity against the coronavirus by catching a cold and gaining cross-immunity." (Source photo by AP)

YUMIKO OSHIMA, RINTARO HOSOKAWA and KENJI ASADA, Nikkei staff writers

NEW YORK/GENEVA/TOKYO -- The spread of the novel coronavirus appears to be slowing, with the number of daily new infections either staying the same or decreasing in 107 countries and regions.

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