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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
26,459,046 |
+288,246 |
872,523 |
|
6,335,244 |
+44,507 |
191,058 |
|
|
4,046,150 |
+44,728 |
124,729 |
|
|
3,933,124 |
+84,156 |
68,569 |
|
|
1,009,995 |
+4,995 |
17,528 |
|
|
670,145 |
+6,708 |
29,405 |
|
|
641,574 |
+8,235 |
20,618 |
|
|
633,015 |
+2,420 |
14,563 |
|
|
610,957 |
+4,921 |
65,816 |
|
|
488,513 |
+8,959 |
29,234 |
|
|
451,198 |
+12,026 |
9,361 |
|
|
416,501 |
+1,762 |
11,422 |
|
|
380,746 |
+1,994 |
21,926 |
|
|
340,411 |
+1,735 |
41,527 |
|
|
319,686 |
+2,158 |
4,383 |
|
|
318,319 |
+833 |
3,982 |
|
|
300,181 |
+7,157 |
30,706 |
|
|
297,014 |
+424 |
6,328 |
|
|
274,943 |
+1,642 |
6,511 |
|
|
272,912 |
+1,397 |
35,507 |
|
|
248,814 |
+1,423 |
9,399 |
|
|
247,039 |
+4,755 |
7,275 |
|
|
228,403 |
+1,987 |
3,688 |
|
|
184,268 |
+3,622 |
7,750 |
|
|
130,493 |
+570 |
9,141 |
|
|
128,228 |
+2,430 |
2,710 |
|
|
124,455 |
+2,991 |
985 |
|
|
119,420 |
+214 |
201 |
|
|
117,928 |
+661 |
5,203 |
|
|
116,360 |
+903 |
6,648 |
|
|
106,032 |
+88 |
1,588 |
|
|
99,425 |
+145 |
5,479 |
|
|
Dominican |
96,629 |
+1,002 |
1,801 |
|
94,914 |
+830 |
2,046 |
|
|
91,256 |
+1,365 |
3,765 |
|
|
87,378 |
+900 |
536 |
|
|
86,380 |
+256 |
705 |
|
|
85,911 |
+424 |
9,898 |
|
|
85,077 |
+11 |
4,634 |
|
|
84,729 |
+197 |
5,832 |
|
|
76,358 |
+714 |
2,804 |
|
|
72,464 |
+601 |
6,235 |
|
|
72,302 |
+161 |
696 |
|
|
72,154 |
+614 |
387 |
|
|
69,599 |
+598 |
1,319 |
|
|
69,129 |
+612 |
2,092 |
|
|
66,855 |
+1,402 |
1,253 |
|
|
62,526 |
+757 |
1,924 |
|
|
59,051 |
+418 |
1,829 |
|
|
56,908 |
+48 |
27 |
|
|
55,213 |
+804 |
856 |
|
|
54,588 |
+125 |
1,048 |
|
|
53,433 |
+626 |
190 |
|
|
49,877 |
+994 |
402 |
|
|
45,469 |
+311 |
1,529 |
|
|
44,713 |
+55 |
280 |
|
|
44,458 |
+1,153 |
460 |
|
|
44,271 |
+196 |
887 |
|
|
44,135 |
+99 |
1,059 |
|
|
42,877 |
+1,228 |
257 |
|
|
42,688 |
+251 |
331 |
|
|
38,372 |
+632 |
1,036 |
|
|
36,899 |
+167 |
541 |
|
|
34,705 |
+212 |
585 |
|
|
31,676 |
+95 |
718 |
|
|
29,206 |
+92 |
1,777 |
|
|
28,372 |
+403 |
735 |
|
|
26,452 |
+679 |
426 |
|
|
26,049 |
+126 |
678 |
|
|
26,000 |
+96 |
739 |
|
|
24,471 |
+596 |
167 |
|
|
20,644 |
+195 |
329 |
|
|
19,959 |
+821 |
373 |
|
|
19,604 |
+144 |
415 |
|
|
18,963 |
+588 |
179 |
|
|
18,208 |
+47 |
119 |
|
|
17,374 |
+179 |
626 |
|
|
16,775 |
+158 |
658 |
|
|
15,773 |
+617 |
254 |
|
|
15,106 |
+83 |
197 |
|
|
14,762 |
+162 |
606 |
|
|
13,826 |
+83 |
287 |
|
|
13,189 |
+0 |
823 |
|
|
12,523 |
+108 |
292 |
|
|
11,120 |
+86 |
264 |
|
|
11,094 |
+369 |
194 |
|
|
10,998 |
+241 |
278 |
|
|
10,125 |
+11 |
259 |
|
|
9,844 |
+116 |
301 |
|
|
9,374 |
+14 |
128 |
|
|
9,251 |
+42 |
61 |
|
|
8,690 |
+36 |
69 |
|
|
8,281 |
+141 |
29 |
|
|
8,200 |
+39 |
336 |
|
|
8,082 |
+238 |
86 |
|
|
6,923 |
+301 |
620 |
|
|
6,811 |
+66 |
124 |
|
|
6,678 |
+40 |
206 |
|
|
5,593 |
+14 |
175 |
|
|
5,165 |
+146 |
104 |
|
|
4,839 |
+8 |
94 |
|
|
4,729 |
+17 |
62 |
|
|
4,720 |
+52 |
94 |
|
|
4,394 |
+198 |
84 |
|
|
4,255 |
+37 |
18 |
|
|
4,215 |
+66 |
73 |
|
|
4,214 |
+88 |
100 |
|
|
4,163 |
+121 |
37 |
|
|
3,427 |
+2 |
58 |
|
|
3,032 |
+53 |
134 |
|
|
2,292 |
+81 |
13 |
|
|
1,759 |
+2 |
22 |
|
|
1,498 |
+3 |
21 |
|
|
1,046 |
+0 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on at the Manukau Institute of Technology on September 3, in Auckland, New Zealand. Hannah Peters/Getty Images Hannah Peters/Getty Images
New Zealand will remain at Alert Level 2 until September 16 to reduce the risk of coronavirus spread, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced in a press conference Friday.
"There's still a chance of spread outside of Auckland. If that does happen. Level Two ceilings lessen the impact of any spread. That means we avoid further fall out," Ardern said.
What is Alert Level 2: Face coverings are mandatory on public transportation and no more than 100 people are allowed at gatherings.
Auckland remains at Level 2.5, allowing for no more than 10 people at gatherings, after the city was linked to a Covid-19 cluster in August.
"At this stage, the Auckland cluster remains contained and there is no indication at this stage that Auckland needs, for instance, to move back to level three," Ardern said.
The government will reevaluate alert levels on September 14, the Prime Minister added.
New Zealand has 1,413 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus after reporting five new cases Friday. Of the new cases, two were imported and under the age of nine years old, the government said.
From CNN's Paul LeBlanc
US President Donald Trump on Thursday mocked Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for wearing a face mask even as the US continues to lead the world in coronavirus cases, with more than 6 million infections.
Speaking to a largely mask-less crowd in Pennsylvania, Trump asked his supporters if they know "a man that likes a mask as much" as Biden.
"It gives him a feeling of security," the President said. "If I was a psychiatrist, I'd say this guy has some big issues."
Trump's comments, which came the day after the US topped 185,000 Covid-19 deaths, run counter to the advice of public health experts, who have emphasized the importance of face coverings amid the country's reopening, given that people without symptoms could unknowingly transmit the virus.
Masks are primarily to prevent people who have the virus from infecting others.
From journalist Rodrigo Pedroso in Sao Paulo
President Jair Bolsonaro has said he won’t approve a Covid-19 vaccine for the public until after the country’s health surveillance agency (ANVISA) gives a second opinion.
Speaking in his weekly Facebook live video on Thursday -- just hours after Brazil’s health ministry announced the country had surpassed 4 million Covid-19 cases -- Bolsonaro said vaccines developed in the United States, the European Union, Japan and China, while “scientifically proven in these other countries,” would require further examination to be used for immunizations in Brazil.
On Monday, Bolsonaro was recorded on cell phone video telling a supporter he wouldn’t make a Covid-19 vaccine mandatory in Brazil.
Brazil’s health ministry followed up Wednesday, confirming that no one would be forced to receive the vaccine. Bolsonaro repeated that pledge in Thursday’s broadcast, drawing support from the country’s anti-vaxxer community.
“We cannot be irresponsible when putting a vaccine into people's bodies,” Bolsonaro said. “Nobody can force anyone to get a vaccine.”
From CNN's Manveena Suri in New Delhi
India reported 83,341 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, another highest daily increase for the country, according to the Indian Health Ministry.
It follows 83,337 Covid-19 cases reported on Thursday.
The nation's caseload now stands at 3,936,747, with least 3,037,151 of those making recoveries, according to the health ministry.
India also recorded 1,096 new coronavirus-related fatalities on Friday, bringing the confirmed nationwide death toll to 68,472.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-09-04-20-intl/index.html
Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, has been hospitalised "as a precaution", according to a statement from his entourage.
It said the media tycoon was taken to San Raffaele hospital in Milan on Thursday night after suffering "certain symptoms", but there was "no cause for concern".
Former Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Forza Italia party Silvio Berlusconi gestures during a rally ahead of a regional election in Emilia-Romagna, in Ravenna [Flavio Lo Scalzo/Reuters]
French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has said 22 schools were closed in France due to cases of COVID-19.
"In mainland France there are currenly 12 schools closed out of a total of over 60,000, which is a small figure. Adding 10 schools in La Reunion (island), that makes it 22," Blanquer told Europe 1 radio.
As more than 12 million pupils returned to school in France on Tuesday some parents and teachers' unions have voiced concern at plans for reopening classrooms as the spread of the virus gathers renewed pace.
New Zealand recorded its first coronavirus death in more than three months when a man in his 50s succumbed to the virus.
Health officials said the man was part of a second-wave cluster of infections that emerged in Auckland last month, ending a spell of 102 days free of community transmission in the South Pacific nation.
The death at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital on Friday afternoon takes New Zealand's death toll from the virus to 23, with the most recent death on May 24.
India reported a daily jump of 83,341 coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 3.94 million, health ministry data showed.
Asia's worst-hit country is now closing in on Brazil as the world's second most-affected nation from the virus. The ministry said 1,096 people died from COVID-19, taking India's toll to 68,472.
A health official collects nasal and throat swab samples from a boy to test for COVID-19 at a primary health centre in Siliguri, India [Diptendu Dutta/ AFP]
Retrieved from: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/7000-health-workers-dead-coronavirus-amnesty-live-200904001933968.html
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
The study involved more than 990 children of healthcare workers from across the UK aged between two and 15. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/AFP via Getty Images
Diarrhoea and vomiting could be an important sign of Covid-19 in children, researchers say, leading to calls for the official NHS list of symptoms to be updated.
The checklist for coronavirus in children currently includes just three symptoms: a high temperature, a new, continuous cough, and a loss or change to the sense of smell or taste. The latter was added to the list in May.
A number of studies in adults have flagged symptoms including muscle pain, fatigue, confusion, chest pains and stomach trouble. Among them, a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study by researchers at King’s College London, based on data from the Covid symptom study app, found that symptoms fall into six main clusters in adults, one of them being mainly gastrointestinal problems.
Now researchers at Queen’s University Belfast say they have confirmed that an upset stomach is a symptom of Covid-19 in children, and revealed it appears to be a key sign of the disease.
“In our group, diarrhoea and vomiting were more predictive than, say, cough or even changes in smell and taste,” said Dr Tom Waterfield, the first author of the research. “If you want to actually diagnose infection in children, we need to start looking at diarrhoea and vomiting, not just upper respiratory tract symptoms.”
Waterfield said that going by the current three recognised symptoms, testing symptomatic children would identify 76% of cases, assuming a perfectly accurate test, while adding gastrointestinal symptoms to the checklist would bring the figure to 97%.
The study took place between 6 April and 3 July and involved more than 990 children of healthcare workers from across the UK aged between two and 15. None had been admitted to hospital with Covid-19.
All had a blood sample taken, which was tested for antibodies to coronavirus, and data was also gathered on whether they had experienced any symptoms – crucially this was done before antibody results were revealed.
The team found that 68 children – 6.9% of the total – had antibodies for the disease, suggesting they had had Covid-19, and half of these reported having had symptoms.
Some symptoms were particularly common, with 31% of the 68 children reporting fever, 18% reporting headache and 19% reporting gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach cramps. For children without antibodies the figures were 11%, 4% and 3% respectively.
While only 34 children were symptomatic in the study, Waterfield said the findings were important, not least as diarrhoea and vomiting were clear and obvious problems to spot.
He said the study should also reassure parents. “Lots of children will have a running nose this winter [and] sneezing – that is not a sign,” he said.
Prof Tim Spector, of King’s College London, said the findings chimed with research by his team. “Our data on nearly 250,000 children from the Covid symptom study app suggest that children who test positive have a wide range of symptoms and that a cough is not as common in children as it is adults,” he said.
“We are also seeing gut symptoms and loss of appetite appear commonly as well as the classical fever,” Spector said, adding that while gastrointestinal problems were seen in both adults and children, they were slightly more common in children compared with other symptoms.
Danny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London, said it might be useful to feed the findings into symptom checklists. “This is an important study, which together with the earlier data from the Kings College app users starts to build the case for including gastrointestinal symptoms among the Covid-19 case-defining criteria,” he said.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that we face a difficult grey area of defining case symptoms for those who do not obtain a positive PCR result during the window of virus positivity. The more confidence we can establish in the set of criteria, the better we can do this. This will become incredibly important over the coming weeks as we will need the highest level of scrutiny for any outbreaks among children returning to school.”
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/03/diarrhoea-and-vomiting-may-be-key-sign-of-covid-in-children-study
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