Democrats are playing catch-up in having online influencers and content creators promote their candidates and priorities.

President Donald Trump’s immigration policies already are affecting schools across the country.

China, where the virus first appeared late last year, reported 49 new coronavirus cases on Monday, 36 of them in Beijing. Chinese health authorities said the strain of virus was similar to that seen in Europe, but there was no immediate evidence of a connection. Chinas authoritarian communist political system and tight social controls enable tracking of residents movements through the use of social media. India's Health Ministry reported a jump of more than 11,000 new infections nationwide for a third consecutive day Monday. The U.S. already has recorded more than 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases and upward of 115,000 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Workers stick portraits of people who died due to the COVID-19, inside the Cathedral, in Lima, Peru, Saturday, June 13, 2020. Sunday's mass in Lima's cathedral with the presence of more than 4,000 portraits of the dead from COVID-19 is the first with these characteristics in the South American country where until Saturday more than 6,400 had died and more than 225,000 were infected. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)LIMA Archbishop Carlos Castillo on Sunday looked out over a catheral full of faces none of them now alive. The nation as a whole faces a projected economic contraction of 12% this year, and Castillo called for solidarity with the poor. There were images of doctors, police, firemen and streetsweepers, even an infant.