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Country, |
Total |
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Total |
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World |
47,839,333 |
+484,498 |
1,219,719 |
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9,692,528 |
+94,463 |
238,641 |
|
|
8,312,947 |
+46,033 |
123,650 |
|
|
5,567,126 |
+12,920 |
160,548 |
|
|
1,673,686 |
+18,648 |
28,828 |
|
|
1,502,763 |
+36,330 |
38,289 |
|
|
1,331,756 |
+18,669 |
36,495 |
|
|
1,195,276 |
+12,145 |
32,052 |
|
|
1,099,392 |
+6,136 |
31,847 |
|
|
1,073,882 |
+20,018 |
47,250 |
|
|
933,155 |
+3,763 |
92,100 |
|
|
908,902 |
+2,357 |
34,623 |
|
|
759,829 |
+28,244 |
39,412 |
|
|
728,836 |
+1,241 |
19,539 |
|
|
637,712 |
+8,932 |
36,160 |
|
|
577,131 |
+16,545 |
10,883 |
|
|
514,202 |
+1,014 |
14,319 |
|
|
482,296 |
+3,595 |
11,068 |
|
|
447,355 |
+6,337 |
11,858 |
|
|
418,375 |
+2,973 |
14,146 |
|
|
414,844 |
+19,364 |
6,102 |
|
|
412,647 |
+1,659 |
5,983 |
|
|
411,093 |
+8,899 |
7,532 |
|
|
387,150 |
+1,761 |
7,318 |
|
|
382,118 |
+2,343 |
10,481 |
|
|
375,890 |
+7,743 |
7,576 |
|
|
362,985 |
+12,089 |
3,913 |
|
|
348,510 |
+473 |
5,456 |
|
|
336,260 |
+1,167 |
6,849 |
|
|
316,528 |
+892 |
2,592 |
|
|
258,437 |
+7,733 |
7,273 |
|
|
244,935 |
+4,672 |
10,279 |
|
|
229,565 |
+4,495 |
3,900 |
|
|
179,614 |
+3,114 |
1,004 |
|
|
170,110 |
+548 |
12,698 |
|
|
149,443 |
+2,596 |
2,635 |
|
|
141,867 |
+34 |
8,741 |
|
|
136,149 |
+1,008 |
503 |
|
|
135,592 |
+677 |
2,731 |
|
|
133,143 |
+226 |
232 |
|
|
128,080 |
+787 |
789 |
|
|
Dominican |
127,848 |
+257 |
2,252 |
|
118,198 |
+4,182 |
1,192 |
|
|
116,528 |
+376 |
1,264 |
|
|
113,309 |
+449 |
1,857 |
|
|
112,120 |
+863 |
1,419 |
|
|
108,483 |
+379 |
3,748 |
|
|
108,122 |
+197 |
6,305 |
|
|
102,281 |
+468 |
1,780 |
|
|
101,329 |
+929 |
992 |
|
|
98,405 |
+193 |
2,688 |
|
|
97,502 |
+560 |
1,494 |
|
|
94,776 |
+1,328 |
1,413 |
|
|
93,100 |
+395 |
810 |
|
|
86,769 |
+3,989 |
1,973 |
|
|
86,576 |
+4,833 |
967 |
|
|
86,070 |
+49 |
4,634 |
|
|
85,209 |
+1,512 |
667 |
|
|
82,363 |
+230 |
324 |
|
|
77,487 |
+710 |
1,838 |
|
|
67,553 |
+299 |
574 |
|
|
64,628 |
+472 |
1,441 |
|
|
63,688 |
+781 |
893 |
|
|
63,556 |
+1,727 |
235 |
|
|
63,173 |
+137 |
1,151 |
|
|
63,126 |
+1,220 |
1,483 |
|
|
63,048 |
+298 |
1,922 |
|
|
60,537 |
+4,041 |
1,412 |
|
|
60,279 |
+400 |
1,159 |
|
|
58,979 |
+405 |
1,980 |
|
|
58,282 |
+1,242 |
768 |
|
|
58,029 |
+9 |
28 |
|
|
57,093 |
+492 |
1,039 |
|
|
55,804 |
+1,197 |
1,307 |
|
|
55,408 |
+633 |
501 |
|
|
54,087 |
+1,427 |
628 |
|
|
51,083 |
+1,878 |
844 |
|
|
49,594 |
+1,353 |
728 |
|
|
44,522 |
+1,943 |
362 |
|
|
44,246 |
+2,166 |
655 |
|
|
37,382 |
+1,176 |
412 |
|
|
34,393 |
+1,054 |
263 |
|
|
33,908 |
+911 |
1,049 |
|
|
27,610 |
+8 |
907 |
|
|
26,807 |
+75 |
472 |
|
|
21,956 |
+617 |
282 |
|
|
21,904 |
+381 |
532 |
|
|
20,765 |
+12 |
126 |
|
|
19,977 |
+491 |
322 |
|
|
19,634 |
+533 |
167 |
|
|
17,453 |
+897 |
175 |
|
|
16,661 |
+118 |
349 |
|
|
16,637 |
+237 |
359 |
|
|
15,640 |
+3 |
326 |
|
|
13,905 |
+39 |
837 |
|
|
13,202 |
+72 |
95 |
|
|
13,099 |
+128 |
115 |
|
|
13,030 |
+18 |
133 |
|
|
11,796 |
+59 |
38 |
|
|
5,218 |
+6 |
111 |
|
|
4,934 |
+174 |
27 |
|
|
4,538 |
+14 |
38 |
|
|
3,797 |
+10 |
59 |
|
|
1,202 |
+10 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN’s Mary Ilyushina in Moscow
Russia reported 19,768 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the highest number it has ever reported in a single day, according to data from the country’s coronavirus response center.
That brings Russia's total of officially reported cases to 1,693,454, including at least 29,217 deaths, according to data as of November 4.
An attendant talks to a person waiting in their car at a Covid-19 testing site at Ascarate Park in El Paso, Texas, on October 31. Cengiz Yar/Getty Images
The United States reported 91,530 new Covid-19 cases and 1,130 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
The country has reported a total of 9,382,617 cases, including 232,620 deaths, according to JHU's tally.
The totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other U.S. territories, as well as repatriated cases.
From CNN Health’s Lauren Mascarenhas
As of November 1, there have been 46 million coronavirus cases and 1.2 million deaths globally, according to the World Health Organization’s weekly Covid-19 update.
An age and gender analysis shows younger people account for more coronavirus cases over the course of the pandemic, with the proportion of cases among 15- to 24-year-olds increasing from 4% in the beginning stages of the pandemic to 14% more recently, and from 50% to 65% among 25- to 64-year-olds. Among those 65 and older, the proportion of cases decreased from 40% to 15%.
The WHO also notes increasing reports of long-term effects of coronavirus, including among younger people.
While the trend in cases is shifting among age groups, older people remain the most vulnerable to illness and death from Covid-19.
Background: As CNN previously reported, the median age of people diagnosed with coronavirus keeps getting lower. In May, the median age of confirmed cases was 46. By July, that number had dropped to 37.
According to a September report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), by August, 1 of every 5 confirmed cases in the US is a person in their 20s, and from June to August, Covid-19 incidence was highest in people ages 20 to 29.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-11-04-20-intl/index.html
By Reuters and Eoin McSweeney
A poll worker in Scottsdale, Ariz., wears a face shield on Election Day. (Caitlin O’Hara for The Washington Post)
The omnipresent specter of the coronavirus gave Election Day a distinctly dystopian feel, with voters in goggles and face shields handing ballots to poll workers clad in hazmat suits or sealed behind layers of plexiglass. But exit polls showed that Americans casting votes on Tuesday ranked the state of the economy as a more pressing concern than the pandemic, according to data collected by Edison Research and reviewed by The Post.
Health officials nationwide attempted to capture the attention of a distracted nation on Tuesday, warning that the steady increase of infections that began in mid-September is not slowing down, and hospitalizations and fatalities are also trending in the wrong direction.
“We are again in danger of losing control of this pandemic in Iowa,” Suresh Gunasekaran, the CEO of the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, wrote in an urgent appeal to the state’s residents. “Our covid positivity rates skyrocketed twice before, but this is the first time we have seen rates this high while also dealing with record patient hospitalizations.”
Some hospitals in the St. Louis and Omaha metropolitan areas have started rescheduling elective surgeries to free up beds, while the head of the Arkansas Hospital Association said at a briefing Tuesday that the state was facing a critical shortage of health-care workers as states furiously compete for nurses.
Covid-19 now ranks as the third leading cause of death in Arkansas, with only cancer and heart attacks claiming a larger share of lives, said Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R).
“It is a deadly virus that takes people’s lives,” Hutchinson said. “We want to make sure everybody understands the seriousness of it.”
States reporting a record rise in infections on Tuesday included two key swing states — Ohio and Pennsylvania — in addition to Maine, Minnesota and New Mexico, according to data tracked by The Post. Another battleground state, Florida, was deemed a “red zone” by the White House coronavirus task force last week after per capita cases increased by 14 percent, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Though most voters and election workers across the country opted to cover up with masks and other protective gear on Tuesday, one Dallas precinct became a source of controversy when the election judge and poll workers opted to invoke their right to remain maskless. Beth Biesel, the election judge and a Republican activist, had already been removed from her post during the primary elections because of her refusal to wear a mask, according to the Dallas Morning News. But different rules for the general election meant that she couldn’t be forced to wear one.
Lynn Dickinson, a Democrat who was supposed to serve as an alternate election judge, told the Texas Tribune that she walked off the site because she didn’t feel safe “breathing the air they’re spewing all over the place.”
More European countries ramped up restrictions on Tuesday as Agence-France Presse reported that the continent’s tally of infections had surpassed 11 million. The Netherlands banned public gatherings with more than two people from different households, while Hungary shuttered bars and issued a nightly curfew, according to Reuters.
In famously lockdown-averse Sweden, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven warned that the “very serious situation” would require a tougher approach and recommended that residents avoid public transportation, gyms and shopping malls in most parts of the country.
“The respite we got this summer is over,” Lofven said Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/03/covid-coronavirus-updates-2/
Employees of a stretcher service wear personal protective gear as they return a resident to Parkview Place personal care home, which is experiencing an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Winnipeg, Manitoba
EUROPE
* The French government will reimpose an evening curfew on Paris, and possibly the Ile-de-France region around the capital, to tackle worsening COVID-19 figures, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday.
* Russia reported 18,648 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, including 5,150 in Moscow, pushing the national tally to 1,673,686 since the pandemic began.
* The situation with the coronavirus in Ukraine is close to catastrophic and the nation must prepare for the worst, health minister Maksym Stepanov said on Tuesday, as the country registered a record 8,899 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
* International tourist arrivals to Spain fell 87% year-on-year in September, data showed on Tuesday, as coronavirus restrictions and a rapid rise in cases put many off visiting.
* Britain, which has the highest official death toll in Europe, is grappling with more than 20,000 new cases a day and scientists have warned the "worst-case" scenario of 80,000 dead could be exceeded.
* Greece will impose a two-week lockdown in northern regions and suspend flights, while Italy will tighten restrictions but is holding back from reintroducing a nationwide lockdown as infections, hospital admissions and deaths surge.
AMERICAS
* Argentina is expecting 10 million doses of Russia's main experimental COVID-19 vaccine between December and January.
* Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he was pondering declaring a state of emergency as a preventive measure to fight the spread of the coronavirus at a time when infections are soaring.
* Panama's President Laurentino Cortizo has began self-isolating after a close coworker tested positive for the coronavirus.
ASIA-PACIFIC
* China reported 49 new COVID-19 cases for Nov. 2, up from 24 a day earlier, the national health authority reported on Tuesday.
* Days after a 17-year-old girl tested positive for COVID-19 in a remote part of western China last week, health authorities said they had tested over 4.7 million people in the region.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
* The European Union has agreed to provide Mozambique with 100 million euros in coronavirus-related aid, EU Ambassador Antonio Sanchez-Benedito Gaspar said.
MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS
* A small but key UK study found that "cellular immunity" to the virus is present after six months in people who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19, suggesting some level of protection.
* CureVac said its experimental vaccine triggered an immune response in humans, putting it on track to start mass testing this year.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
* European stock markets rose in early trading on Tuesday as investors bet on a clear win for Joe Biden as the United States votes in its most polarised presidential election in living memory. [MKTS/GLOB]
* The European Central Bank's emergency bond buying scheme is a temporary tool but Europe is still in an emergency situation and the outlook is actually darkening as the pandemic spreads, ECB policymaker Klaas Knot said on Tuesday.
* Britain's financial watchdog said it would extend payment holidays on credit cards, car finance, personal loans and pawned goods before tougher restrictions come into effect this week.
* The International Monetary Fund warned G20 economies the crisis was not over, calling on the United States, Britain and other countries to increase the fiscal spending currently planned.
Retrieved from: https://news.yahoo.com/latest-worldwide-spread-coronavirus-123936021.html
Italy’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, is preparing new curbs to tame the surge in infections and deaths in the country.
Tougher measures will include a nationwide nightly curfew from 10pm to 5am and the closure of museums and exhibitions, a draft decree seen by Reuters shows.
The decree, expected to be approved by Wednesday and to be effective until 3 December, would also limit travel between the worst-hit regions, in which bars, pubs, restaurants and most shops will be ordered to close.
Gyms, cinemas and theatres are already shut all over Italy, bars and restaurants must close at 6 pm, people must not host more than six guests in their homes and masks are obligatory outdoors and in public buildings.
The government has not yet detailed which regions will be subject to the most stringent restrictions, to be based on 21 parameters including the number of people with symptoms, infection rates and availability of hospital beds.
Conte, however, is holding back from re-introducing a nationwide lockdown in an attempt to safeguard an economy which is already expected to shrink by at least 9% this year.
Last month the government approved a €5.4bn ($6.33bn) package to help businesses and is expected to approve a new one this week worth at least €1.5bn.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· The number of coronavirus patients in US hospitals breached 50,000 on Tuesday, the highest level in nearly three months, as a surge in infections threatens to push the nation’s healthcare system to the edge of capacity, Reuters reports.
· Seven US states report record hospitalisations. Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and New Mexico all reported record high hospitalisations this week.
· India recorded fewer than 50,000 cases for the tenth day. India recorded 46,253 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Wednesday, with cases rising again in some parts including the capital, New Delhi. With 8.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases, India is the world’s second most affected country, behind only the United States. But the spread has slowed down since a September peak, and the country has reported less than 50,000 infections daily for 10 straight days.
· The recovery in China’s service sector activity extended into a sixth straight month in October, an industry survey showed on Wednesday, with hiring picking up to the highest level in a year but overseas demand slipping.
· The border between the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria – the country’s two most populous states – will reopen on 23 November, NSW state premier Gladys Berejiklian has just announced.
· UK registers highest daily increase in Covid-related deaths registered in five months. A further 397 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19. It brings the UK government’s tally to 47,250. The Tuesday tally each week tends to be higher owing to a delay in reporting deaths over the weekend, but the latest figure is still the highest recorded since 422 people were reported as having died on 27 May. Full story here.
· Europe passed a bleak milestone after reporting more than 11 million coronavirus cases, as Austria and Greece became the latest countries on the continent to impose shutdowns. The continent has now registered 11,008,465 infections and almost 285,000 deaths according to an AFP tally of official sources on Tuesday.
· France’s daily Covid-19 death toll rose by 854 on Tuesday, an increase unseen since 15 April, while the number of people hospitalised for the disease went up by more than a 1,000 for the fifth time in nine days. More here.
· Hungary will close bars and entertainment venues and impose a night-time curfew as of midnight to curb a fast spread of coronavirus infections, the prime minister, Viktor Orbán said. From Monday, those violating rules on wearing face masks risk stiff fines, with offending restaurants and shops to be closed by authorities if necessary.
· The Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has ordered extra lockdown measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the Netherlands, and said the government is also considering curfews and school closures. The new measures, which include a ban on public meetings of more than two people not in the same family, were imposed amid signs the epidemic had reached a second peak.
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