Australia's Queensland shuts border: Coronavirus live updates

Virus claims 700,000 lives globally; Latin America death toll passes Europe; Australia's Queensland shuts border.Here are the latest updates:Hong Kong reported 85 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, including three that were locally transmitted, as authorities battle to control a third wave of the outbreak which has seen a resurgence in infections over the past month.Since late January, around 3,700 people have been infected in Hong Kong, 42 of whom have died.Indonesia recorded 1,815 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 116,871, data by the country's health ministry showed.There were 64 additional deaths, taking the overall number of fatalities to 5,452, the data showed. Russia reported 5,204 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing its nationwide tally to 866,627, the fourth largest caseload in the world.Russia's coronavirus taskforce said 139 people had died over the last 24 hours, pushing the official death toll to 14,490.Hundreds of women and girls have gone missing and are feared dead in Peru since a lockdown was imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.From March 16 through June 30, a total of 915 people - 606 girls and 309 women - were reported missing, according to authorities.Last week, Peru's women's ministry said 1,200 women and girls had been reported missing during the pandemic - a higher figure that included the month of July."The figures are really quite alarming," Isabel Ortiz, a top women's rights official, told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday.Read more here.The Philippines' health ministry reported 3,462 new coronavirus infections and nine additional deaths.In a bulletin, the ministry said total infections had risen to 115,980, putting the tally just behind Indonesia's 116,871 cases, which is the highest in East Asia.Coronavirus deaths in the Philippines have reached 2,123.Some 24,000 health workers in South Africa have contracted the coronavirus, 181 of whom have died, since the pandemic hit the country in March, the health minister announced on Wednesday.