Three prominent Republican lawmakers and the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom are known critics of the Chinese government’s treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, and their opposition has not gone unnoticed in China. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying on Monday said his country’s government is sanctioning Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas, Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, and Ambassador Sam Brownback along with the Congressional–Executive Commission on China, an independent U.S.

The day after parts of Walt Disney World in Orlando reopened to the public, Florida reported 15,299 people tested positive for the coronavirus. Sunday’s numbers mark the highest single-day increase in infections in a single state, topping California’s previous daily record of 11,694 on Wednesday.

In the county of Turkana in northwestern Kenya, one of the worst-hit areas in Africa’s locust outbreak, people serve as scouts using an app called e-Locust to report sightings of the pests in real time. They upload photos and videos with information about the location and size of locusts to a shared database. Another team uses the information to deploy pesticides to the area to prevent the insects from forming a moving swarm.

Bolivian interim President Jeanine Áñez announced on Thursday that she has tested positive for the coronavirus. That same day, Venezuelan socialist party chief Diosdado Cabello became the highest-ranking official in that country to get infected. Áñez said she will self-quarantine and work remotely from the presidential residence for 14 days before getting retested.

Mohamed Amashah, a dual Egyptian-American national, returned home to New Jersey on Monday after nearly 500 days in Egypt’s Tora prison without a trial. The Freedom Initiative, a U.S.-based group that represented Amashah, said he recused his Egyptian citizenship as a condition for his release. The U.S. government pressured Egypt to free Amashah during the pandemic, noting he suffered from asthma and autoimmune disease.

Foreign students currently enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities will have to transfer to schools with some in-person instruction, take reduced course loads, or apply for medical leave to maintain their immigration status. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced its new guidelines on Monday, noting it will not issue new visas to students at schools that have moved all instruction online because of the coronavirus pandemic.

ABUJA, Nigeria—The African Union said the continent has lost nearly $55 billion in travel and tourism in the last few months after countries shut down flights to slow the spread of COVID-19. The 15-member Economic Community of West African States will reopen its airspace on July 21. Flights within Nigeria are slated to resume on Wednesday, and Senegal plans to start international flights a week later.