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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
45,313,402 |
+545,937 |
1,185,738 |
|
9,212,767 |
+91,530 |
234,177 |
|
|
8,088,046 |
+49,281 |
121,131 |
|
|
5,496,402 |
+26,647 |
159,033 |
|
|
1,581,693 |
+17,717 |
27,301 |
|
|
1,282,769 |
+47,637 |
36,020 |
|
|
1,238,922 |
+23,580 |
35,639 |
|
|
1,143,800 |
+13,267 |
30,442 |
|
|
1,053,122 |
+11,187 |
30,926 |
|
|
965,340 |
+23,065 |
45,955 |
|
|
906,863 |
+5,595 |
90,309 |
|
|
897,594 |
+2,666 |
34,362 |
|
|
721,770 |
+2,056 |
19,164 |
|
|
616,595 |
+26,831 |
38,122 |
|
|
596,941 |
+8,293 |
34,113 |
|
|
507,050 |
+1,520 |
14,118 |
|
|
498,353 |
+18,732 |
10,435 |
|
|
467,755 |
+3,804 |
10,815 |
|
|
404,760 |
+1,681 |
5,886 |
|
|
404,048 |
+3,565 |
13,701 |
|
|
376,927 |
+1,753 |
7,147 |
|
|
370,832 |
+2,319 |
10,099 |
|
|
370,417 |
+7,342 |
6,868 |
|
|
368,337 |
+21,048 |
11,170 |
|
|
346,482 |
+435 |
5,363 |
|
|
331,108 |
+908 |
6,775 |
|
|
330,255 |
+10,264 |
7,258 |
|
|
319,205 |
+20,156 |
5,149 |
|
|
313,114 |
+564 |
2,508 |
|
|
310,068 |
+13,055 |
2,862 |
|
|
229,040 |
+6,481 |
6,764 |
|
|
228,542 |
+2,956 |
10,074 |
|
|
212,038 |
+4,320 |
3,572 |
|
|
166,302 |
+1,394 |
12,622 |
|
|
164,718 |
+2,364 |
904 |
|
|
141,321 |
+197 |
8,694 |
|
|
132,616 |
+4,224 |
2,428 |
|
|
132,150 |
+211 |
231 |
|
|
132,045 |
+798 |
2,678 |
|
|
130,336 |
+1,312 |
488 |
|
|
Dominican |
125,913 |
+343 |
2,234 |
|
124,666 |
+760 |
767 |
|
|
111,100 |
+268 |
1,825 |
|
|
107,570 |
+1,017 |
1,357 |
|
|
107,209 |
+179 |
6,247 |
|
|
106,790 |
+470 |
3,704 |
|
|
98,852 |
+736 |
1,733 |
|
|
96,529 |
+984 |
973 |
|
|
95,301 |
+481 |
1,457 |
|
|
95,199 |
+576 |
2,652 |
|
|
93,949 |
+4,453 |
1,056 |
|
|
91,280 |
+404 |
789 |
|
|
85,915 |
+47 |
4,634 |
|
|
85,034 |
+2,383 |
1,272 |
|
|
81,262 |
+240 |
317 |
|
|
77,778 |
+1,933 |
610 |
|
|
74,233 |
+912 |
1,747 |
|
|
68,127 |
+2,194 |
1,634 |
|
|
66,392 |
+251 |
561 |
|
|
65,385 |
+3,443 |
740 |
|
|
62,521 |
+150 |
1,141 |
|
|
62,050 |
+760 |
1,373 |
|
|
60,297 |
+863 |
1,902 |
|
|
59,656 |
+782 |
831 |
|
|
57,994 |
+7 |
28 |
|
|
57,798 |
+522 |
1,139 |
|
|
57,332 |
+306 |
1,949 |
|
|
53,152 |
+1,015 |
708 |
|
|
52,612 |
+761 |
964 |
|
|
52,571 |
+623 |
473 |
|
|
51,728 |
+2,785 |
200 |
|
|
50,403 |
+1,331 |
1,199 |
|
|
48,150 |
+2,689 |
1,225 |
|
|
48,055 |
+147 |
320 |
|
|
44,034 |
+860 |
716 |
|
|
43,775 |
+2,776 |
511 |
|
|
43,592 |
+1,384 |
809 |
|
|
35,567 |
+1,709 |
273 |
|
|
35,510 |
+1,211 |
615 |
|
|
33,445 |
+181 |
967 |
|
|
30,705 |
+2,490 |
292 |
|
|
30,090 |
+649 |
246 |
|
|
29,558 |
+861 |
977 |
|
|
27,569 |
+15 |
907 |
|
|
26,271 |
+125 |
462 |
|
|
20,628 |
+73 |
124 |
|
|
20,315 |
+275 |
499 |
|
|
19,564 |
+495 |
281 |
|
|
17,746 |
+354 |
290 |
|
|
16,356 |
+697 |
150 |
|
|
16,325 |
+40 |
348 |
|
|
15,593 |
+11 |
323 |
|
|
15,566 |
+188 |
354 |
|
|
13,772 |
+7 |
837 |
|
|
13,088 |
+950 |
150 |
|
|
12,858 |
+52 |
133 |
|
|
12,525 |
+110 |
91 |
|
|
12,201 |
+434 |
108 |
|
|
11,616 |
+25 |
37 |
|
|
11,253 |
+42 |
305 |
|
|
10,939 |
+39 |
82 |
|
|
10,425 |
+21 |
70 |
|
|
10,269 |
+195 |
275 |
|
|
8,349 |
+29 |
242 |
|
|
5,633 |
+53 |
281 |
|
|
5,197 |
+5 |
111 |
|
|
4,472 |
+17 |
37 |
|
|
4,051 |
+121 |
25 |
|
|
3,763 |
+4 |
59 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Jen Christensen
Grocery store work puts employees at serious risk for infection, a new study found, particularly those who have to interact with customers.
These workers likely became a "significant transmission source" for Covid-19 without even knowing it because most in the study were asymptomatic.
The analysis, published Thursday in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, is the first to demonstrate the significant asymptomatic infection rate, exposure risks and psychological distress grocery workers have felt during the pandemic.
In the study, 20% of the 104 grocery workers tested at a store in Boston in May had positive nasal swab tests.
This was a significantly higher rate of infection than what was seen in the surrounding communities, the researchers said. Workers who dealt with customers were five times as likely to test positive for Covid-19 as colleagues in other positions.
But three out of four of those who tested positive had no symptoms.
From CNN's Ivana Kottasová
Europe's whack-a-mole strategy of imposing local lockdowns to squash the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic didn't work. Now it's time to pull out the big guns.
Germany and France both announced new four-week national lockdowns on Wednesday night. They followed the Czech Republic and Ireland, which put country-wide restrictions in place earlier this month. Spain and the United Kingdom could be next.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the local measures imposed on a number of major cities including Paris over the past few weeks were "not working anymore" and that a national lockdown was needed. Under the new rules, people will only be allowed to leave their homes to go to work or school, for a medical appointment, to care for a relative, to do essential shopping and to exercise. Non-essential businesses, restaurants and bars will be closed. Like in the spring, they will need a certificate to venture outside.
Macron's speech came just hours after Germany also gave up on local lockdowns, announcing a nationwide stay-at-home order starting next Monday after regional restrictions in major cities including Frankfurt, Berlin and Stuttgart and a partial lockdown in the state of Bavaria failed to slow down the spread of the virus.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said people residing in Germany are advised to stay home, avoid travel and "keep their contacts to an absolute minimum." Social contacts will be limited to two households in public.
From CNN's Zahid Mahmood in London
The number of coronavirus cases in Europe has exceeded the 10 million mark since the beginning of the pandemic, with more than 1.5 million cases confirmed last week alone, the World Health Organization’s Europe director Dr. Hans Kluge said Thursday.
“Europe is at the epicenter of this pandemic once again,” Kluge said at a meeting alongside European health ministers.
“At the risk of sounding alarmist, I must express our very real concern and convey our steadfast commitment to stand beside you and support you as best we can.”
The situation in Europe: Kluge warned that hospitalizations have risen to “levels unseen since the spring,” with cases moving from 7 million to 9 million in the past two weeks and deaths rising by 32% across the region last week.
Testing systems have not kept up with “very high-speed transmission,” and test positivity rates have reached new highs in most European countries.
Return to lockdown: As Europe is well into its second wave, many countries are implementing new restrictions in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
With France introducing a national lockdown from Friday, Kluge said lockdowns were a “last resort option” because they bypass the “still-existing possibility of engaging everyone in basic and effective measures.”
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-10-30-20-intl/index.html
By Antonia Farzan
Fabian Nahu arranges chairs at his Los Angeles restaurant in July. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
Los Angeles may allow restaurants to tack on a “covid-19 recovery charge” to diners’ bills, echoing a policy that was rolled out in New York City this month.
In both cities, the goal is to help businesses cover costs like buying personal protective equipment for their staff and constructing outdoor seating areas so that they can safely remain open during the pandemic. New York caps the surcharge at 10 percent, though restaurants aren’t obligated to make it that high, and limits it to in-person dining only. Restaurants can also choose to opt out and not add a surcharge — as will also likely be the case in Los Angeles, where the county board of supervisors is in the process of drafting an ordinance.
While there’s little doubt that the pandemic has been devastating for restaurants, giving owners the option to impose additional fees on diners has proven controversial in New York. As Eater reported, some in the industry worry that customers will be deterred by the additional charge, and others suspect that they’ll simply make up the difference by tipping less. There’s also the fact that it places the onus for paying for safety measures and helping businesses to survive on diners, rather than the government.
But advocates argue that restaurants need all the help they can get to survive, and allowing them to add on extra fees just gives them one more way to make up for dwindling sales.
“Until full indoor dining is once again permitted, the independent hospitality industry is unlikely to generate the revenue they produced before covid-19,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, who backed the proposal, said in a statement. “It is critical that we continue to support this sector.”
Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/30/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
Author: AFP|Update: 30.10.2020 07:20
France is back in lockdown as the country tries to get a grip on the surging pandemic / © AFP
France headed into a second lockdown on Friday as the resurgent coronavirus pandemic hit new heights in the United States with a daily record of more than 90,000 cases, just five days before the presidential election.
From midnight, France's 65 million population were largely confined to their homes, needing written statements to leave, in the latest drastic measure to curb a disease that has infected more than 44.5 million worldwide and killed nearly 1.2 million.
President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the second wave "will probably be more difficult and deadly than the first", although he insisted this lockdown would be less severe than measures imposed in the spring.
The lockdown in France, where 36,000 have died, is part of a series of renewed anti-virus restrictions around Europe, which is back at the pandemic's "epicentre" according to the World Health Organization.
Retrieved from: https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1604422.html
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· US nears 9m cases. The United States, the worst-affected country worldwide in terms of the number of coronavirus cases and national death doll, is on the brink of the terrible milestine of 9m cases. In recent days the US has twice reported daily infection totals of over 80,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.It currently has a total of 8,944,632, with the next daily infection figure expected to take that number over 9m.
· Record 17m guns bought this year in the US. Americans have bought nearly 17m guns so far in 2020, more than in any other single year, according to estimates from a firearms analytics company. Gun sales across the United States first jumped in the spring, driven by fears about the coronavirus pandemic, and spiked even higher in the summer, during massive racial justice protests across the country, prompted by police killings of black Americans.
· Australian active cases lowest in four months. Australian officials said on Friday there just under 200 active cases of Covid-19 in the country, the lowest number in more than four months and well down from a peak of just over 8,000 in mid-August. Officials reported just 11 new infections in the past 24 hours, the bulk of which were people already in hotel quarantine after arriving from overseas. Australian states and territories have begun further relaxing domestic travel bans, although some restrictions remain.
· Mainland China reported 25 new Covid-19 cases on 29 October, down from 47 a day earlier, the country’s national health authority said on Friday. Of the new cases, 24 were imported infections originating from overseas. The National Health Commission said in a statement that one local infection was reported in the eastern province of Shandong.
· Japan passes 100,000 cases. The total number of Covid-19 cases in Japan has topped 100,000, as experts warned that Tokyo - the most-affected part of the country - should prepare for another wave of infections this winter. Japan had recorded 100,516 cases and 1,761 deaths as of Thursday, according to a tallyby public broadcaster NHK.
· New Zealand government orders Air New Zealand to freeze bookings to the country. New Zealand’s government has ordered Air New Zealand to freeze all international bookings to the country as quarantine facilities near capacity, as more citizens try to return home ahead of the Christmas holidays.From Tuesday, they will need to have a voucher in order to board a flight home.
· EU to fund transfer of Covid-19 patients across borders to prevent hospital collapse. The EU will finance the transfer of patients across borders within the bloc to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed as Covid-19 infections and hospitalisations rise across the continent. “The spread of the virus will overwhelm our healthcare systems if we do not act urgently,” said Ursula von der Leyen, head of the EU Commission.
· Spain hit a new record in daily cases, recording another 23,580 infections. It brought the nation’s tally to 1,136,503, health ministry data showed. The government voted in favour of a six-month extension of the state of emergency, which allows Spain’s 17 regional governments to limit mobility, impose curfews and shut their borders with other regions.
· France will restrict outdoor movement and make working from home mandatory under new lockdown rules, coming into effect at midnight. People will only be able to leave their own homes for certain essential purposes, as the country tries to put the brakes on a Covid-19 outbreak that the president Emmanuel Macron said risked accelerating out of control. More details here.
· West Yorkshire in England will move into tier 3 restrictions from 12.01 on Monday. The ‘very high’ restrictions - the strictest level in England - will see indoor social mixing banned and the closure of pubs and bars unless they can operate as a restaurant. More details here.
· Greece will impose regional lockdowns on its second-largest city of Thessaloniki and two other regions from Friday after a rise in cases of Covid-19, the government said.
· Italy registered a record of 26,831 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, its highest daily increase in coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic. Under new restrictions bars and restaurants must stop serving customers at 6pm while cinemas, theatres, swimming pools and gyms must close completely.
· Sweden registered 2,820 new coronavirus cases, the highest since the start of the pandemic and the third record number in a matter of days. Hospitals are feeling the strain, with the number of patients with Covid-19 in need of care in the region having risen about 60% over the past week after a near 80% surge in recorded infections.
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