▪ Wind speeds dangerously fast as Jeju comes under direct influence of Typhoon Bavi
▪ Kim Jong-un presides over politburo meeting to discuss Typhoon Bavi, COVID-19
▪ S. Korean gov’t orders doctors back to their posts as planned strike starts
▪ PM Chung calls on public to fully and properly practice level 2 social distancing measures
▪ S. Korea’s Celltrion to start phase 1 test vaccine testing on patients with COVID symptoms
▪ Weekly global infection numbers down; virus moving to other regions
▪ U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun in Russia for talks on N. Korea, Belarus
▪ Kim Jong-un’s sister may have taken over new powerful post in N. Korea: Seoul’s Defense Minister
▪ Melania Trump to headline RNC speech from White House’s Rose Garden
▪ Typhoon Bavi gets closer