Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
World	48,414,587	+571,308	1,230,114
USA	9,801,355	+108,389	239,829
India	8,363,412	+50,465	124,354
Brazil	5,590,941	+23,815	161,170
Russia	1,693,454	+19,768	29,217
France	1,543,321	+40,558	38,674
Spain	1,356,798	+25,042	38,118
Argentina	1,205,928	+10,652	32,520
Colombia	1,108,084	+8,692	32,013
UK	1,099,059	+25,177	47,742
Mexico	938,405	+5,250	92,593
Peru	911,787	+2,885	34,671
Italy	790,377	+30,550	39,764
South Africa	730,548	+1,712	19,585
Iran	646,164	+8,452	36,579
Germany	597,359	+20,228	11,028
Chile	515,042	+840	14,340
Iraq	485,870	+3,574	11,128
Belgium	453,310	+5,955	12,126
Poland	439,536	+24,692	6,475
Indonesia	421,731	+3,356	14,259
Ukraine	420,617	+9,524	7,731
Bangladesh	414,164	+1,517	6,004
Philippines	388,131	+981	7,367
Turkey	384,509	+2,391	10,558
Netherlands	383,523	+7,633	7,682
Czechia	378,716	+15,731	4,133
Saudi Arabia	348,936	+426	5,471
Pakistan	337,573	+1,313	6,867
Israel	317,332	+804	2,597
Romania	267,088	+8,651	7,419
Canada	247,703	+2,768	10,331
Morocco	235,310	+5,745	3,982
Nepal	182,923	+3,309	1,034
Ecuador	171,433	+1,323	12,704
Portugal	156,940	+7,497	2,694
Bolivia	141,936	+69	8,751
UAE	137,310	+1,161	505
Panama	136,024	+432	2,744
Qatar	133,370	+227	232
Kuwait	128,843	+763	794
Dominican	128,278	+430	2,257
Austria	125,099	+6,901	1,227
Oman	116,847	+319	1,275
Kazakhstan	113,741	+432	1,857
Costa Rica	113,261	+1,141	1,431
Guatemala	109,147	+664	3,752
Egypt	108,329	+207	6,318
Japan	102,900	+619	1,786
Belarus	102,313	+984	995
Honduras	98,688	+283	2,706
Ethiopia	97,881	+379	1,503
Armenia	97,150	+2,374	1,448
Venezuela	93,480	+380	814
Jordan	91,234	+4,658	1,029
Hungary	90,988	+4,219	2,063
Lebanon	87,097	+1,888	676
China	86,087	+17	4,634
Bahrain	82,624	+261	327
Moldova	78,507	+1,020	1,851
Uzbekistan	67,779	+226	577
Slovakia	66,772	+3,216	261
Paraguay	65,258	+630	1,454
Bulgaria	64,591	+4,054	1,466
Libya	64,587	+899	900
Tunisia	64,363	+1,237	1,512
Ireland	63,483	+435	1,930
Nigeria	63,328	+155	1,155
Kyrgyzstan	60,774	+495	1,163
Algeria	59,527	+548	1,999
Azerbaijan	59,509	+1,227	780
Kenya	58,587	+1,494	1,051
Singapore	58,036	+7	28
Myanmar	56,940	+1,136	1,330
Croatia	56,567	+2,480	654
Palestine	56,090	+682	504
Serbia	53,495	+2,412	850
Denmark	50,530	+936	729
Ghana	48,643	+132	320
Greece	46,892	+2,646	673
Georgia	46,817	+2,295	381
Slovenia	39,408	+2,025	441
Malaysia	35,425	+1,032	271
North Macedonia	35,097	+1,189	1,071
Australia	27,622	+12	907
S. Korea	26,925	+118	474
Norway	22,578	+622	282
Albania	22,300	+396	536
Montenegro	20,851	+874	326
Ivory Coast	20,778	+13	126
Luxembourg	20,344	+710	171
Lithuania	18,092	+639	182
Finland	16,930	+293	361
Zambia	16,698	+37	349
Senegal	15,650	+10	326
Sudan	13,943	+38	837
Uganda	13,351	+252	117
Namibia	13,046	+16	133
Sri Lanka	12,187	+443	24
Maldives	11,822	+26	38
Angola	11,813	+236	296
DRC	11,450	+23	315
Tajikistan	11,180	+41	83
Suriname	5,220	+2	112
Cyprus	5,100	+166	27
Aruba	4,553	+15	39
Thailand	3,804	+7	59
Vietnam	1,203	+1	35

 

Retrieved from:  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

 

 

New Delhi is experiencing a third wave of Covid-19 infections

From CNN's Swati Gupta in New Delhi

 

A health worker in PPE coveralls collects a swab sample from a man for coronavirus testing, at Khajuri Khas, on October 28, in New Delhi, India. Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

The Indian capital New Delhi is experiencing a third wave of Covid-19 cases, according to the city's chief minister. 

The city reported 6,842 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday -- its highest 24-hour rise in Covid-19 infections for the second day in a row, according to the New Delhi Health Department. The day before, the city reported 6,725 new cases.

New Delhi's total case count is now 409,938. Of this total, 37,369 patients are still active cases.

“During the past few days, there has been a surge in the number of coronavirus cases. My understanding is that we can call this the third wave because by the start of October, the numbers had begun to drop – they even dropped below 3,000,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal warned on Wednesday.

India recorded 50,210 fresh cases on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health said -- taking the country’s total to 8.36 million cases and 124,315 related deaths.

 

 

Australia secures 50 million more doses of Covid-19 vaccine, totaling 134 million 

From CNN's Eric Cheung

 

Australia has secured another 50 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, bringing the country’s total purchase to more than 134 million doses, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced in a press release on Thursday. 

Forty million of the new doses will be supplied by Novavax, while Pfizer and BioNTech will supply 10 million doses, he said. 

Australia has now secured access to a total of four Covid-19 vaccines, and the total amount of investment has reached more than AU$3.2 billion (US$2.3 billion), he said. 

Prime Minister Morrison said investing in different vaccines will be crucial to ensure the country gains early access to a vaccine.

“We aren’t putting all our eggs in one basket and we will continue to pursue further vaccines should our medical experts recommend them,” he added. 

Supply deals between countries and vaccine makers have so far favored developed countries and territories including Australia, the UK, US, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Switzerland and Israel, as well as the European Union.

Developing countries including India, Bangladesh, China, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico have also secured vaccine deals, but the Serum Institute of India (SII) recently predicted it will take four to five years for the vaccine to reach everyone around the globe.

 

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Voters who saw containing the virus as the most important issue favored Biden.

 

Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, spoke to supporters in Philadelphia on Tuesday.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

As the United States faces a dual national crisis — a monthslong pandemic and economic devastation — voters were deeply divided on what mattered more: containing the coronavirus or hustling to rebuild the economy, according to early exit polls and voter surveys released Tuesday.

Their opinion of which was more important fell along starkly partisan lines, with those who viewed the pandemic as the most pressing issue favoring Joseph R. Biden Jr. for president, while those who named the economy and jobs broke overwhelmingly toward re-electing President Trump.

Reflecting a pervasive pessimism, nearly two-thirds of voters said they believed the country was heading in the wrong direction, according to an Associated Press canvass of those who had cast ballots — and those voters overwhelmingly picked Mr. Biden. And while Mr. Trump had attempted to focus the campaign on anything other than the pandemic, it remained a defining issue: More than four in 10 voters said it was the most important problem facing the country, far more than any other issue.

A separate survey — the traditional exit poll, conducted by Edison Research — asked the question differently; it found that, as important as it was to them, only about one in five voters considered the virus the top issue affecting their vote. More said the economy was, and a similar share said racial inequality decided their ballots.

The overwhelming majority of Trump supporters called the economy excellent or good while an equal share of Biden supporters said it was doing poorly.

Views of the virus also cleaved to politics: Roughly four in five Trump supporters called it at least somewhat under control, while as many Biden voters said it was “not at all under control.”

Those who reported that the pandemic had taken a personal toll tended to back Mr. Biden. More than a third of all voters said they or someone in their household had lost a job or income over the past eight months, and most of those voters favored Mr. Biden.

 

 

Kenya extends a curfew and bans political gatherings as cases rise

 

Lining up for coronavirus testing in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, last month.Credit...Tony Karumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

 

Kenya’s president introduced a raft of new measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus on Wednesday, after admitting that the rising number of cases was a reversal of the gains achieved in the early months of the pandemic.

The East African nation eased containment measures in late September, reopening schools, churches and bars with strict protocols in place. But the laxity in applying the rules, especially in the transport, entertainment and hospitality industries, as well as at political meetings and rallies, led to a sharp rise in virus cases.

In October alone, President Uhuru Kenyatta said the country recorded more than 15,000 new cases of Covid-19 and approximately 300 deaths. Kenya has so far recorded at least 57,000 cases of the virus and more than 1,000 deaths, according to a Times database.

“October has gone down as the most tragic month in our fight against Covid,” he said in a televised speech on Wednesday.

Mr. Kenyatta announced the suspension of political gatherings for two months and ordered that all bars and restaurants be closed by 9 p.m. He also extended the nationwide curfew to Jan. 3 and moved back the start of the curfew each night to 10 p.m.

All government employees over the age of 58 and those who are immunocompromised will be asked to work remotely, Mr. Kenyatta said. All in-person learning will resume in January 2021, even though dozens of students and teachers tested positive after schools were partially reopened last month.

Earlier in the day, Wycliffe Oparanya, the chairman of the Council of Governors, said that as many as 12 of the country’s 47 counties had not attained the minimum 300-bed capacity stipulated to accommodate virus patients. He also said 11 counties had fewer than five intensive care unit beds in their isolation facilities, and warned of an increasing number of doctors getting infected by the virus.

Mr. Kenyatta said Kenya was “now staring at a new wave of this pandemic” and urged citizens to observe the new rules.

“The most fragile point in any war happens at the point when victory is in sight,” Mr. Kenyatta said. “This is why I emphasized that to win the overall war, the citizens have to exercise their civic duty and responsibility, especially in observing the Covid protocols.”

 

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Spain death toll reaches 38,118 after revising methodology - a sharp rise from Tuesday

 

Spain’s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 38,118 after the health ministry revised its methodology for recording infections and fatalities, up sharply from Tuesday’s unrevised 36,495.

The tally of infections now stands at 1,284,408 cases, according to the latest data release, which removes double entries and adds some cases that were not initially diagnosed as Covid-19. On Tuesday, the ministry reported 1,259,366 cases.

Unlike France, Germany and the UK, which have imposed nationwide lockdowns, Spain has adopted a regional response to tackling the pandemic, leading to a patchwork of different regulations.

Murcia on Wednesday joined several other regions including Catalonia in shutting down bars and restaurants, while the northern region of Cantabria banned citizens from travelling across municipal borders.

Health minister Salvador Illa told a news conference it would take two to three weeks for the latest regional restrictions to produce effect, but added that “there is still margin to take additional measures, there are a great many steps we can still take”, without specifying.

 

 

Cyprus brings in night-time curfew to stem rising cases

 

Cyprus announced new restrictions on Wednesday to fight a resurgence of Covid-19 after a rise in cases in recent weeks.

A curfew on movement from 11:00pm to 5:00am will start on Thursday and remain in force until 30 November.

Cyprus introduced a broad lockdown in March that brought cases of Covid-19 down to zero or single digits before restrictions were eased. An uptick started in early October.

On Wednesday, the Mediterranean island reported 166 new cases, bringing the total number of infections to 5,100. There have been 26 deaths.

The Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades said in a statement:

The daily increase in cases risks spiralling out of control, which other than posing a threat to life threatens the healthcare system, employment and our welfare in general.

 

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Indonesia falls into first recession in over 20 years

 

A worker unloads French products on displayed at a Supermarket Basmalah in Bangkalan, Madura, Indonesia on 4 November 2020. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Indonesia’s virus-hit economy contracted in the third quarter, plunging it into its first recession since the archipelago was mired in the Asian financial crisis more than 20 years ago, Reuters reports.

Activity in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy slumped 3.49% on-year in July-September, the statistics agency said Thursday, with tourism, construction and trade among the hardest-hit sectors.

The data marked the second consecutive quarter of contraction after a 5.3% decline in April-June.

Indonesia last suffered a recession 1999 during a regional currency crisis that helped force the resignation of long-term dictator Suharto less than a year earlier.

However, the depth of the current decline was easing, the agency said adding it pointed to stronger figures in the last quarter of the year.

 

 

 

Summary

 

Here are the key developments from the last few hours:

· England entered its second national lockdown, placing 56 million people under new coronavirus restrictions for at least the next four weeks. Despite a bruising vote in which the prime minister Boris Johnson’s strategy was rejected by dozens of his own MPs, the stay-at-home order was approved in parliament on Wednesday by 516 votes to 38.

· Indonesia fell into its first recession in over 20 years. Indonesia’s virus-hit economy contracted in the third quarter, plunging it into its first recession since the archipelago was mired in the Asian financial crisis more than 20 years ago. Activity in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy slumped 3.49% on-year in July-September, the statistics agency said Thursday, with tourism, construction and trade among the hardest-hit sectors. The data marked the second consecutive quarter of contraction after a 5.3% decline in April-June.

· China bars entry to travellers from Britain and Belgium. Mainland China has barred entry to some travellers from Britain and Belgium and set strict testing requirements on visitors from the United States, France and Germany, Reuters reports, as it reimposed border restrictions in response to rising global cases.

· Sydney Mardi Gras will go ahead but will look very different. Sydney’s iconic Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which traditionally draws hundreds of thousands of revellers and international tourists, will not march through the city’s centre in 2021.Instead, the 43rd edition of the parade on Oxford Street, which has been celebrated annually along the strip since 1978, will move to the nearby Sydney Cricket Ground, in a scaled-back, Covid-safe event.

· India reported over 50,000 cases for first time in 10 days. India reported a daily jump of 50,210 coronavirus infections, taking its total to 8.36 million, the health ministry said on Thursday. This was the highest daily jump in cases since 25 October, according to a Reuters tally, and the first time over 50,000 cases were reported in the 10 days since then. Cases in India have been dipping since hitting a peak in September, but experts warn that the Diwali festival season could lead to a spike. Deaths rose by 704, with total mortalities now at 124,315, the ministry said.

· Russia, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, Latvia and Estonia see record daily case rises. At least six European nations have seen record case rises in the last 24 hours. Russia, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, Latvia and Estonia each confirmed their highest new infections to date. Russia, which has the fourth-highest cases in the world, added over 18,000 new infections on Wednesday, bringing its total to 1,680,579, according to Johns Hopkins University. Swiss authorities announced a record 10,043 coronavirus cases in Switzerland in the last 24 hours.Austria’s daily tally of new coronavirus infections climbed above 6,000 for the first time on Wednesday to a new record of 6,211, data from the health ministry showed.Poland hit a daily high of nearly 24,700 coronavirus cases as the government introduced new restrictions on shops, schools and culture institutions through November. And finally, the Baltic nations of Estonia and Latvia say they have both registered a record daily number of coronavirus infections since the start of the outbreak.

· The US set a record for daily new cases average one day after election. Daily new coronavirus cases in America have increased 45% over the past two weeks to a record seven-day average of 86,352, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Deaths are also on the rise, up 15% to an average of 846 deaths every day. There were more than 91,000 new cases recorded on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins. The university counted nearly 99,000 US cases on 30 October.

 

 

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