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Country, |
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Total |
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World |
5,083,411 |
+100,474 |
329,239 |
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1,592,723 |
+22,140 |
94,936 |
|
|
308,705 |
+8,764 |
2,972 |
|
|
293,357 |
+21,472 |
18,894 |
|
|
279,524 |
+721 |
27,888 |
|
|
248,293 |
35,704 |
||
|
227,364 |
+665 |
32,330 |
|
|
181,575 |
+766 |
28,132 |
|
|
178,531 |
+704 |
8,270 |
|
|
152,587 |
+972 |
4,222 |
|
|
126,949 |
+2,346 |
7,183 |
|
|
112,028 |
+5,553 |
3,434 |
|
|
104,020 |
+4,537 |
3,024 |
|
|
82,965 |
+5 |
4,634 |
|
|
80,142 |
+1,030 |
6,031 |
|
|
62,545 |
+2,691 |
339 |
|
|
55,983 |
+192 |
9,150 |
|
|
54,346 |
+2,713 |
5,666 |
|
|
53,617 |
+4,038 |
544 |
|
|
45,898 |
+1,932 |
985 |
|
|
44,447 |
+198 |
5,748 |
|
|
37,097 |
+1,491 |
16 |
|
|
34,854 |
+703 |
2,888 |
|
|
32,426 |
+918 |
179 |
|
|
31,523 |
+724 |
3,831 |
|
|
30,658 |
+40 |
1,892 |
|
|
29,660 |
+228 |
1,263 |
|
|
29,364 |
+570 |
22 |
|
|
26,738 |
+1,617 |
386 |
|
|
26,004 |
+941 |
233 |
|
|
24,315 |
+64 |
1,571 |
|
|
19,739 |
+471 |
962 |
|
|
19,230 |
+354 |
564 |
|
|
19,189 |
+693 |
1,242 |
|
|
18,003 |
+803 |
339 |
|
|
17,687 |
+752 |
630 |
|
|
17,568 |
+804 |
124 |
|
|
17,387 |
+196 |
1,147 |
|
|
16,667 |
+8 |
279 |
|
|
16,385 |
+18 |
771 |
|
|
16,353 |
+32 |
633 |
|
|
14,229 |
+745 |
680 |
|
|
13,477 |
+254 |
446 |
|
|
13,221 |
+279 |
842 |
|
|
11,117 |
+73 |
554 |
|
|
11,110 |
+32 |
263 |
|
|
10,833 |
+100 |
235 |
|
|
9,977 |
+110 |
287 |
|
|
9,283 |
+474 |
403 |
|
|
8,721 |
+74 |
304 |
|
|
8,281 |
+14 |
234 |
|
|
8,145 |
+492 |
187 |
|
|
7,888 |
+356 |
12 |
|
|
7,542 |
+165 |
568 |
|
|
7,133 |
+110 |
194 |
|
|
7,079 |
+11 |
100 |
|
|
7,009 |
+31 |
114 |
|
|
6,969 |
+218 |
35 |
|
|
6,677 |
+276 |
200 |
|
|
6,553 |
+213 |
228 |
|
|
6,443 |
+44 |
304 |
|
|
6,269 |
+173 |
31 |
|
|
6,043 |
+372 |
30 |
|
|
5,271 |
+230 |
67 |
|
|
4,481 |
+218 |
189 |
|
|
3,971 |
+13 |
109 |
|
|
3,733 |
+204 |
146 |
|
|
3,724 |
+113 |
134 |
|
|
3,631 |
+113 |
43 |
|
|
3,598 |
+42 |
470 |
|
|
3,034 |
+1 |
56 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Waitstaff at a restaurant offering outdoor dining in West Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday.Credit...Jessica Hill for The New York Times
In Connecticut, flags that had been lowered to half-staff during the somber peak of the pandemic were raised high again to signal the state’s return to business.
In Kentucky, gift shops opened their doors. South Carolina will let mini-golf, water parks, amusement parks and other attractions reopen for Memorial Day weekend, Gov. Henry McMaster said on Wednesday.
And across Alaska, restaurants, bars and gyms, which have already been seeing customers for weeks, were getting ready to rev back up to full capacity. “It will all be open,” Gov. Mike Dunleavy said, “just like it was prior to the virus.”
As of Wednesday, all 50 states had begun to reopen to some degree, two months after the outbreak thrust the country into lockdown. But vast variations remain in how states are deciding to open up, with some forging far ahead of others. Many began to reopen despite not meeting White House guidelines for progress against the virus, and newly reported cases have been increasing in some states, including Minnesota and Texas, that are moving to ease restrictions. Public health officials warn that moving too fast could risk more outbreaks.
The dynamic has left many business owners and customers to decide for themselves what they think is safe.
“It is still a little scary, considering we don’t exactly know what this is,” said Ipakoi Grigoriadis, whose family owns Pop’s Family Restaurant in Milford, Conn., a diner that reopened its outdoor seating on Wednesday morning.
“It is quite exciting to see our customers we haven’t seen in a while,” she said. But it was not business as usual: Servers are gloved and masked, and patrons are expected to wear masks except when they are eating and drinking.
Governors are increasingly facing intense pressure to reopen, as millions of Americans have lost their jobs and the unemployment rate reached a staggering 14.7 percent. But reopening in Texas, where businesses have been allowed to operate at 25 percent capacity for weeks, looks far different than it does in Illinois, where stores are still limited to curbside pickup.
The contrast illustrates a dynamic playing out across the country, as governors grapple with how to handle a pandemic that comes with no political playbook.
People continued wearing masks in public this month, as scientists expedited a vaccine process that usually takes years.Credit...Marian Carrasquero for The New York Times
In a medical research project nearly unrivaled in its ambition and scope, volunteers around the world are rolling up their sleeves to receive experimental vaccines against the coronavirus only months after it was discovered.
Companies like Inovio and Pfizer have begun early tests of candidates in people to determine whether the vaccines are safe. Researchers at the University of Oxford in Britain say they could have a vaccine ready for emergency use as soon as September.
Moderna Therapeutics on Monday announced encouraging results of a safety trial of its vaccine in eight volunteers. There were no published data, but the news alone sent hopes — and the company’s stock — soaring.
In labs around the world, there is now cautious optimism that a vaccine, and perhaps more than one, will be ready sometime next year. With many states and nations anxious to ease restrictions and reopen their economies, the urgency is great. Scientists are exploring at least four approaches to creating a vaccine, and they are combining trial phases and shortening a process that usually takes years.
“What people don’t realize is that normally vaccine development takes many years, sometimes decades,” said Dr. Dan Barouch, a virologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. “And so trying to compress the whole vaccine process into 12 to 18 months is really unheard-of.”
Even if scientists develop a vaccine that proves to be safe and effective, hurdles will remain. With nearly all of humanity vulnerable to the virus, officials will have to figure out how to speed the mass production of vaccines.
A recently reopened restaurant in Phoenix last week.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly released more detailed guidance for schools, businesses, transit systems and other industries hoping to reopen safely during the pandemic after fear that the White House had shelved the guidelines.
The 60-page document, which a C.D.C. spokesman said was uploaded over the weekend, but which received little notice, adds great detail to six charts that the C.D.C. had released last week. The guidance provides specific instructions for different sectors to detect and trace the virus based on exposure and risk after the pandemic.
It was unclear how closely the guidelines would be followed. The C.D.C. said that restaurants “may consider” a number of strategies to maintain healthy environments, including: “Avoid offering any self-serve food or drink options, such as buffets, salad bars and drink stations.”
When Vice President Mike Pence visited Beth’s Burger Bar in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday with Gov. Ron DeSantis to call attention to restaurants reopening, he was filmed filling his own cup at a self-serve soda fountain. Mr. Pence — who leads the White House’s coronavirus task force and whose press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for the virus this month — was not wearing a mask.
The guidance describes the balance of slowing the virus’s spread with the economic threat of shuttering most businesses, and largely mirrors a draft version that was previously shelved by the White House, but with some changes.
The document omits a section on “communities of faith” that had troubled Trump administration officials and also tones down the guidance in several instances. For example, language that initially directed schools to “ensure social distancing” became “promote social distancing,” and the phrase “if possible” was added in several sentences.
Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-cases-deaths.html
From CNN's Susanna Gargiulo in Denmark
People sit at the terrace of the Cafe Gavlen after it reopened in Copenhagen on May 18. Niels Christian Vilmann/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images
Denmark is accelerating its reopening by loosening border restrictions, allowing some schools to resume classes, and reopening other public spaces ahead of schedule.
The move was announced by the Danish government in a news release overnight, following hours of negotiations with parliamentary leaders.
Denmark is now starting phase 2 of reopening: This includes opening cultural activities such as museums, theaters, movie theaters, and zoos, which were previously scheduled to reopen June 8.
Starting next Monday, border restrictions will be eased to allow foreigners who own a summerhouse in Denmark to visit, as well as foreigners with a Danish partner or relative.
On Wednesday, high-school students will be allowed to return to school. Other spaces like amusement parks, adult education centers, and various recreational classes will also reopen.
To mitigate the risks of reopening, areas considered high risk -- like nightclubs and pools -- will remain closed.
Dip in hospitalizations: The government gave no clear explanation for the accelerated opening but the country has seen a steady decline in the number of hospitalizations due to Covid-19.
The government noted that appropriate restrictions can be reintroduced if virus transmissions begin to resurge.
From CNN's Simon Cullen
UK-based airline EasyJet will restart a “small number” of flights starting June 15, it announced in a statement.
The initial schedule will mainly be made up of domestic flights in the UK and France.
“These are small and carefully planned steps that we are taking to gradually resume operations,” EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren said in a statement.
“We will continue to closely monitor the situation across Europe so that when more restrictions are lifted the schedule will continue to build over time to match demand, while also ensuring we are operating efficiently and on routes that our customers want.”
New rules will be in place when flights resume, including mandatory face masks for all passengers, cabin crew and ground staff. The airline also says that initially, there will be no onboard food service.
Suspended operations: The airline grounded all 334 of its planes in Europe in March as a result of travel restrictions across the region due to the pandemic.
Before the pandemic, it operated about 2,000 flights a day on more than 1,000 routes across 36 countries, mostly in Europe.
From CNN's Isaac Yee
A man in Singapore was sentenced to death for drug trafficking last week via a call on the Zoom videoconferencing app as the country's courts hold sessions remotely due to coronavirus restrictions.
Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old from Malaysia, received the death sentence last Friday after being found complicit in trafficking 28.5 grams of heroin in 2011, according to Singapore’s Supreme Court.
The court described him as "the mastermind behind the drug transaction."
Genasan's legal representatives confirmed to CNN that the sentencing had been handed down through a Zoom call.
“In line with measures to minimize the further spread of Covid-19, the courts have been conducting hearings, including hearings on criminal matters remotely," said a Supreme Court spokesperson. "It was the first criminal case where a death sentence was pronounced by remote hearing in Singapore.”
Singapore on lockdown: Many public facilities in Singapore remain closed, although the city-state is slowly entering a phased resumption of business.
Singapore has reported at least 29,364 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 22 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
In an interview with BBC Sport, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said he understands why the Tokyo Olympics would need to be canceled if the Games cannot be held in the summer of 2021.
Bach said Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had made it clear to him that next summer was the “last option” for the Olympics in Japan.
In April, Abe said it would be "impossible" to hold the Olympics unless the coronavirus pandemic was contained.
"Quite frankly, I have some understanding for this, because you cannot forever employ 3,000, or 5,000, people in an organizing committee," Bach told BBC Sport.
Bach added, "You cannot every year change the entire sports schedule worldwide of all the major federations. You cannot have the athletes being in uncertainty."
In the interview, Bach also said reorganizing the Olympic games was a "mammoth task" and a scenario of holding the games behind closed doors remains as "speculation."
From CNN's Julia Hollingsworth and Jake Kwon
Senior students eat lunch at tables equipped with plastic barriers to prevent possible spread of the novel coronavirus in the cafeteria at Jeonmin High School in Daejeon, South Korea on May 20. Kim Jun-beom/Yonhap/AP
For the first time in three months, South Korean high school students are back in the classroom.
But in many ways, it's not schooling as usual.
As high school seniors returned to school Wednesday, they had their temperatures checked, wore masks on campus, and sat at desks that were spaced apart, in line with commonplace social distancing practices.
However, within hours of reopening, dozens of schools in Incheon, a city near the capital Seoul, were forced to shut again after two students tested positive for coronavirus.
South Korea -- which has reported more than 11,100 coronavirus cases and 264 deaths -- appears to have its outbreak largely under control. Now, the country is trying to get back to something approaching normal life.
But South Korea's experience shows that reopening schools doesn't mean a return to normal -- and carries continued risks.
School is also starting in other countries in Asia Pacific. In New Zealand, which has been praised for its swift approach to controlling the virus, students around the country headed back to school on Monday after eight weeks at home.
In parts of Australia, children are already back at school.
In China -- where the first coronavirus cases were reported last year -- students began going back to school in March, according to state news agency Xinhua. Earlier this month, the Education Ministry said that about 40% of students were back in the classroom.
From CNN's Sophia Saifi
Passengers wearing face masks as a precaution against coronavirus arrive at Rawalpindi railway station in Pakistan on Wednesday. Muhammed Reza/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Pakistan's coronavirus death toll has passed the 1,000 mark, according to the country's health ministry.
The country has now recorded at least 48,091 confirmed cases and 1,017 deaths, the ministry said.
Pakistan reported its first Covid-19 death on March 18, and implemented a nationwide lockdown soon after.
It was eased earlier this month, with restrictions lifting in several phases. Though some shops and manufacturers have already resumed business, all schools remain closed until July 15.
"We are doing this because the people of our country our suffering economically," said Prime Minister Imran Khan when announcing the measures would be lifted.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-21-20-intl/index.html
Global cases near 5 million. After the biggest single-day increase in cases worldwide so far in the pandemic, the number of confirmed infections is close to 5 million, with the Johns Hopkins University data currently listing 4,996,634. The true number is likely to be significantly higher, due to differing testing rates, delays and underreporting. This is true for deaths, too. At least 328,120 people have lost their lives in the pandemic so far.
Japan to lift state of emergency in Osaka and two other prefectures. Japan’s economy minister says experts have approved a government plan to remove a coronavirus state of emergency in Osaka and two neighbouring prefectures in the west where the infection is deemed slowing, while keeping the measure in place in the Tokyo region and Hokkaido.
Migrant boat crossings to UK surge during virus lockdown. The number of unaccompanied young migrants crossing the Channel from France to Britain has spiked during the coronavirus outbreak, as travel restrictions force them onto boats rather than trucks. Kent County Council in southeast England, which includes the major port of Dover, was dealing with “230 to 250” young migrants a year ago, its chief executive, Roger Gough, said.
Mexico suffers record one-day death toll. Mexico’s health ministry on Wednesday registered 2,248 new coronavirus infections and an additional 424 fatalities, a record one-day death toll since the start of the pandemic. The new infections brought confirmed coronavirus cases to 56,594 and 6,090 deaths in total, according to the official tally. Mexico registered its biggest daily increase yet in infections on Tuesday, when it reported 2,713 new cases. Mexico’s highest daily death toll was on 12 May, when health authorities reported 353 fatalities.
World sees largest daily rise in cases. The World Health Organization gave a stark warning on Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over, after 106,000 new cases were recorded worldwide over the past 24 hours – the most in a single day so far. Speaking in Geneva, the WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the virus was spreading in poorer countries, just as wealthier nations were emerging from lockdown.
Europe should brace itself for a second wave of coronavirus infections, according to the director of the EU agency responsible for advising governments on disease control. “The question is when and how big. That is the question in my view,” said Dr Andrea Ammon, director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Trump considers an in-person G7 meeting despite coronavirus pandemic. Donald Trump has said he may seek to revive a face-to-face meeting of Group of Seven leaders near Washington, after earlier canceling the gathering due to the coronavirus pandemic. “I am considering rescheduling the G-7, on the same or similar date, in Washington, DC, at the legendary Camp David,” the US president tweeted on Wednesday. “The other members are also beginning their COMEBACK. It would be a great sign to all – normalization!”
International imports and exports have fallen to their lowest level for at least four years, according to World Trade Organization figures. Warning that there was little prospect of the downturn ending soon, the global authority on trade said it believed import and export activity would fall precipitously in the first half of 2020.
Tourists will be welcomed back to Greece from 15 June, the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has announced. “The tourism period begins June 15, when seasonal hotels can reopen, and direct international flights to our tourist destinations will gradually begin 1 July,” Mitsotakis said in a televised address.
South Africa records its first neonatal coronavirus death. South Africa has recorded its first neonatal coronavirus death, the country’s health ministry has said.The two-day old baby was born prematurely and had lung difficulties that required ventilation support immediately after birth, the health minister Zweli Mkhize said.
More than 100 virus infections in French slaughterhouse. More than 100 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus at a slaughterhouse in western France, the regional health authorities said Wednesday. The cases follow coronavirus outbreaks at meat plants not only in France but also in Germany, Spain, Australia, the United States and Brazil - where people tend to work in close proximity.
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