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By Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 22 June Lack of global leadership is the ‘greatest threat’ in fighting the pandemic, says WHO  The greatest threat in fighting the pandemic is the lack of global political…

Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:Spain reopens borderTraffic flows again across Spain's border with France as the last of the strict Spanish restrictions introduced in March are eased.EU member state citizens and those from the passport-free Schengen zone are now allowed freely into Spain, with no 14-day quarantines required.Latin America: two million…

Donald Trump told thousands of supporters on Saturday that he had asked US officials to slow down testing for Covid-19 because case numbers in the country were rising so rapidly.Speaking at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the US president used racist language, referring to Covid-19 as “kung flu”, and described testing for the virus…

Taking a knee, banging drums and ignoring social distancing measures, outraged protesters from Sydney to London on Saturday kicked off a weekend of global rallies against racism and police brutality.The death at police hands of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in the US state of Minnesota has brought tens of thousands out onto the…

Both countries are also taking huge financial risks to scale up production of possible vaccines before they know any are safe and effective — a gambit to ensure their citizens won’t have to wait. The nation’s top infectious disease expert said the U.S. will manufacture 100 million doses by year’s end.“We’re going to start manufacturing…