1. The Brazilian Association of vegetable Oil Industries: maintains its 2020 harvest forecast that annual soybean production in Brazil this year will reach a record 124.5 million tons, 3.75% higher than the 120 million tons in 2019. If this figure is finally confirmed, Brazil may overtake the United States as the world’s largest soybean producer for the first time.

2.Codelco, Chile’s national copper company, the world’s largest copper producer, said it would temporarily suspend upgrading projects at its El Teniente copper mine, saying the move was necessary to combat the fast-spreading novel coronavirus pandemic.

3.World Health Organization (WHO): announced to stop the trials of hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir / ritonavir in its “Solidarity trial” project, on the grounds that there was little or no decrease in novel coronavirus’s hospitalization rate in these branch trials. Prior to this, World Health Organization (WHO) launched the “Solidarity Test” at the global level, which aims to compare the safety and efficacy of several different drugs or combinations of drugs in the treatment of COVID-19, in order to find an effective treatment as soon as possible.

4.Data released by the US Department of Commerce Census Bureau on July 2rd showed that in May 2020, after seasonal adjustment, the total value of US service trade was US$87.637 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 28.6% and a month-on-month decrease of 1.8%. Among them, the total value of US service exports was 54.546 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 26.1%, and a decrease of 2.0% month-on-month; the total value of service imports was 33.091 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 32.5%, and a year-on-year decrease of 1.4%; the service trade surplus was 21.455 billion U.S. dollars Decreased by 13.2% and decreased by 2.8% from the previous month.

5.Brazilian President Bosonaro confirmed that novel coronavirus tested positive. According to a report released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics(IBGE), due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, less than half of Brazil’s labor force is currently working and 7.8 million people have lost their jobs as a result of the epidemic.

6.Venice Film Festival: announced that the festival will be held from September 2 to 12, becoming the first major international film festival / film industry gathering that has not been cancelled or postponed due to novel coronavirus’s epidemic. The artistic director of Venice said it became a meaningful celebration of the resumption of work in cinemas we were looking forward to and sent a real message of optimism to the film industry that has suffered a lot of losses around the world.

7.Europe Times: As the infection rate and mortality rate of COVID-19 continue to decline, Britain will begin the next phase of epidemic prevention, and restaurants, cinemas, museums and art galleries in England will reopen on July 4th. London’s Chinatown has finally reopened after a three-month blockade.

8.World Health Organization (WHO): According to a laboratory study that found that novel coronavirus’s D614G mutation may lead to accelerated replication and enhance its transmission, the study showed that 29% of novel coronavirus’s samples showed this mutation. This is not a new mutation. The virus with this mutation has spread in Europe and America, but there is no evidence that it will lead to a more serious disease.

9.Air France Group: 7850 jobs will be cut by the end of 2022. Flight activity and turnover plummeted 95% from March to June. At the height of the crisis, the group lost as much as 15 million euros a day. Due to the uncertainty of future outbreaks, the lifting of travel restrictions and the demand for commercial flights, even according to the most optimistic projections, the group’s operating activities will not return to 2019 levels until 2024.