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People watch a performance at a water park in Wuhan, China, on August 15. STR/AFP/China OUT/Getty Images
More than 774,000 people have died from the coronavirus, and more than 21.9 million cases of the virus have been reported around the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Here's the latest:
Wuhan hosts massive water park party: Wuhan was ground zero in the coronavirus pandemic with the world's first -- and arguably strictest -- lockdown. Now, the central Chinese city appears to have moved on from the virus, as thousands of revelers gathered in an open air water park over the weekend for an electronic music festival -- without any masks or social distancing measures in sight.