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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
56,550,685 |
+611,213 |
1,354,093 |
|
11,873,863 |
+173,768 |
256,262 |
|
|
8,958,143 |
+45,439 |
131,618 |
|
|
5,947,403 |
+35,645 |
167,497 |
|
|
2,065,138 |
+28,383 |
46,698 |
|
|
1,991,998 |
+20,985 |
34,387 |
|
|
1,542,467 |
+11,064 |
42,039 |
|
|
1,430,341 |
+19,609 |
53,274 |
|
|
1,339,337 |
+10,332 |
36,347 |
|
|
1,272,352 |
+34,283 |
47,217 |
|
|
1,218,003 |
+6,875 |
34,563 |
|
|
1,011,153 |
+1,757 |
99,026 |
|
|
941,951 |
+2,020 |
35,402 |
|
|
854,533 |
+20,801 |
13,492 |
|
|
801,894 |
+13,421 |
42,941 |
|
|
772,823 |
+19,883 |
11,451 |
|
|
757,144 |
+2,888 |
20,556 |
|
|
570,153 |
+12,496 |
10,112 |
|
|
540,605 |
+2,734 |
14,839 |
|
|
534,558 |
+948 |
14,897 |
|
|
526,852 |
+2,349 |
11,795 |
|
|
478,720 |
+4,265 |
15,503 |
|
|
475,284 |
+5,515 |
6,740 |
|
|
461,612 |
+4,609 |
8,698 |
|
|
438,795 |
+2,111 |
6,275 |
|
|
425,628 |
+4,215 |
11,820 |
|
|
412,097 |
+1,383 |
7,957 |
|
|
383,743 |
+10,269 |
9,429 |
|
|
363,380 |
+2,298 |
7,230 |
|
|
354,208 |
+290 |
5,710 |
|
|
326,331 |
+794 |
2,739 |
|
|
311,109 |
+4,641 |
11,186 |
|
|
306,995 |
+5,391 |
5,013 |
|
|
236,015 |
+5,891 |
3,632 |
|
|
221,688 |
+7,091 |
2,054 |
|
|
212,917 |
+1,442 |
1,259 |
|
|
182,250 |
+1,146 |
13,052 |
|
|
163,926 |
+7,933 |
1,969 |
|
|
156,949 |
+4,290 |
3,380 |
|
|
154,101 |
+1,292 |
542 |
|
|
149,833 |
+1,112 |
2,907 |
|
|
143,473 |
+102 |
8,866 |
|
|
138,337 |
+452 |
857 |
|
|
136,441 |
+219 |
235 |
|
|
Dominican |
135,157 |
+460 |
2,293 |
|
127,012 |
+1,422 |
1,588 |
|
|
122,335 |
+682 |
1,945 |
|
|
121,129 |
+411 |
1,360 |
|
|
120,815 |
+1,489 |
1,913 |
|
|
120,459 |
+1,589 |
1,839 |
|
|
118,008 |
+1,309 |
1,067 |
|
|
116,381 |
+651 |
4,008 |
|
|
111,613 |
+329 |
6,495 |
|
|
110,536 |
+3,938 |
2,530 |
|
|
110,037 |
+2,084 |
852 |
|
|
103,928 |
+533 |
1,601 |
|
|
103,488 |
+249 |
2,839 |
|
|
98,350 |
+300 |
860 |
|
|
97,988 |
+5,613 |
1,081 |
|
|
92,519 |
+1,607 |
2,072 |
|
|
90,715 |
+3,251 |
1,151 |
|
|
89,913 |
+1,311 |
579 |
|
|
89,395 |
+3,443 |
815 |
|
|
86,369 |
+8 |
4,634 |
|
|
85,182 |
+174 |
337 |
|
|
83,772 |
+2,049 |
2,541 |
|
|
82,034 |
+3,209 |
1,288 |
|
|
81,397 |
+2,239 |
1,030 |
|
|
75,465 |
+529 |
1,053 |
|
|
73,639 |
+782 |
1,624 |
|
|
73,322 |
+1,592 |
1,650 |
|
|
72,686 |
+957 |
1,313 |
|
|
70,781 |
+200 |
599 |
|
|
70,629 |
+1,038 |
2,206 |
|
|
69,058 |
+372 |
2,006 |
|
|
67,894 |
+425 |
1,212 |
|
|
66,186 |
+1,251 |
589 |
|
|
65,808 |
+1,257 |
770 |
|
|
65,693 |
+236 |
1,163 |
|
|
58,964 |
+2,027 |
919 |
|
|
58,135 |
+5 |
28 |
|
|
50,457 |
+81 |
323 |
|
|
50,390 |
+660 |
322 |
|
|
50,015 |
+1,402 |
1,397 |
|
|
38,810 |
+1,935 |
323 |
|
|
36,965 |
+296 |
1,056 |
|
|
30,770 |
+656 |
300 |
|
|
29,837 |
+711 |
646 |
|
|
29,311 |
+313 |
496 |
|
|
29,031 |
+639 |
414 |
|
|
28,573 |
+892 |
248 |
|
|
27,777 |
+17 |
907 |
|
|
7,711 |
+198 |
41 |
|
|
5,282 |
+4 |
116 |
|
|
4,685 |
+9 |
45 |
|
|
3,880 |
+2 |
60 |
|
|
1,300 |
+12 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Yoko Wakatsuki in Tokyo
Commuters wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk on a street in Tokyo on November 17. Koji Sasahara/AP
Tokyo is raising its Covid-19 alert to level 4, the highest of the four-tier alert system, officials in the Japanese capital announced on Thursday.
"New infections and intractable cases are increasing rapidly and we are at the phase of rapid infection expansion," Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said during a meeting with medical experts.
Koike urged the public and business owners to follow prevention measures such as wearing masks, social distancing, air ventilation, and minimizing dining in groups as the holiday season approaches.
Dr. Norio Ohmagari, chairman of the city's expert monitoring meeting, said infections are rising in all age groups including the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to the virus.
"New infections in the past week went over 2,000. If this pace continues, the daily infections might increase to over 1,000 per day," Ohmagari warned.
Tokyo confirmed 493 new infections Wednesday, the highest daily increase since the pandemic began.
From CNN's Maggie Fox and Amanda Sealy
A final analysis of the Phase 3 trial of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine shows it was 95% effective in preventing infections, even in older adults, and caused no serious safety concerns, the company said Wednesday.
The company counted 170 cases of coronavirus infection among volunteers who took part in the trial. It said 162 infections were in people who got placebo, or plain saline shots, while eight cases were in participants who got the actual vaccine. That works out to an efficacy of 95%, Pfizer said.
The data show Pfizer's initial claim of a better than 90% efficacy -- a claim that stunned and pleased health officials and vaccine developers last week -- holds up.
"Efficacy was consistent across age, race and ethnicity demographics. The observed efficacy in adults over 65 years of age was over 94%," Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said in a joint statement.
"There were 10 severe cases of Covid-19 observed in the trial, with nine of the cases occurring in the placebo group and one in the BNT162b2 vaccinated group." BNT162b2 is the experimental name for the vaccine.
An independent group has been keeping an eye on results and side-effects. "To date, the Data Monitoring Committee for the study has not reported any serious safety concerns related to the vaccine," the companies said.
"The only Grade 3 (severe) solicited adverse event greater than or equal to 2% in frequency after the first or second dose was fatigue at 3.7% following dose 2," the companies said. Older adults tended to have fewer adverse events and those they had were milder.
From CNN’s Mary Ilyushina and Anna Chernova
Russia surpassed 2 million Covid-19 cases on Thursday, according to data from the country’s coronavirus response center.
In the past 24 hours, Russia officially reported 23,610 new cases of Covid-19 and 463 deaths -- both the highest daily increase since the beginning of the pandemic.
Russia's official caseload stands at 2,015,608 on Thursday, with 34,850 deaths, although independent observers and critics have cast doubts on the country's counting methods.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-11-19-20-intl/index.html
Riot police in Berlin used water canons to disperse crowds at a demonstration against coronavirus restrictions organized by coronavirus deniers, vaccine skeptics and right-wing extremists on Wednesday.
BERLIN — Police broke up an organized protest by coronavirus deniers, vaccine skeptics and right-wing extremists in Berlin on Wednesday as lawmakers passed legislation meant to undergird the government’s efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
Police officers in riot gear used water cannons to disperse the crowd, which gathered near the Brandenburg Gate. The protesters were ordered to leave around noon because they refused to wear masks or keep social distance. Some protesters threw rocks, bottles and firecrackers at the police in response.
As many as 10,000 demonstrators descended on the city in an effort to stop lawmakers from passing a bill that they said would give the state and federal governments too much power to override basic constitutional rights in the fight against the pandemic.
While Chancellor Angela Merkel’s pandemic response has found broad acceptance, opponents have been demonstrating actively since the government instituted its first lockdown in the spring. The protest movement combines people who question the government’s response to the pandemic, those who deny the existence of the virus altogether and those who have long called for the overthrow of Ms. Merkel’s government.
Not far from the water cannons, inside the Reichstag, where lawmakers debated the bill, far-right lawmakers from the nationalist AfD party protested the proceedings by refusing to wear masks and by ignoring social distancing rules. Other AfD lawmakers could be seen mingling with the demonstrators outside.
Federal and city authorities decided on Tuesday that a protest in front of the Reichstag building would be prohibited because it could disrupt proceedings in Parliament. During a big protest in August, a small group of protesters managed to climb the stairs of the Reichstag, prompting a nationwide outcry.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/18/world/covid-19-coronavirus/a-protest-in-berlin-against-virus-restrictions-turns-violent
A market in Amman before a five-day lockdown earlier this month.
Jordan, which was commended worldwide for its early efforts to counter the pandemic, has now become one of the hardest-hit countries in the region, along with Lebanon and Iran.
The country has averaged more than 5,000 coronavirus cases a day in the past two weeks, according to a New York Times database. On Wednesday, Jordan recorded 7,933 cases, its highest number since March, according to the health minister.
The government attributed the recent sharp increase to the infection of 1,893 people at two factories in the southern city of Aqaba.
“It’s not just the U.S. and Europe facing devastating second waves,” said Nazanin Ash, the International Rescue Committee’s vice president of policy and practice. “Crisis-affected countries, which are already dealing with unfathomable levels of hunger, economic distress, crippled health systems and infrastructure, are now facing second waves that could be even more devastating than the first.”
In addition to Jordan’s domestic problems with poverty and health care, it must also assist the Syrian refugees who make up more than 10 percent of the country’s population, according to the World Food Program.
In March, the government imposed some of the tightest restrictions in the world as the virus spread in surrounding countries. The lockdown forbid people to leave their homes, suspended schools, banned public gatherings and closed borders and airports. In May, Jordan relaxed most public health restrictions.
Over all, Jordan has had 163,926 cases and 1,969 deaths, Johns Hopkins reported.
On Nov. 11, the country held parliamentary elections with the lowest turnout in a decade, followed by a lockdown and a curfew kept in effect for four days.
The lockdown did not stop some candidates and their supporters from venturing out and celebrating with gunfire. Crowds were seen, many of them not wearing masks, in videos that spread on social media.
The brief lawlessness prompted an apology from the prime minister, and the minister of interior was forced to resign. Citing the crowds and celebrations, the government predicted a new spike in cases.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/18/world/covid-19-coronavirus/jordan-once-a-model-of-virus-control-is-now-a-hot-spot
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke with a group of health care workers on Wednesday, pressuring the Trump administration to authorize giving him access to federal resources to plan his coronavirus response.
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. put new pressure Wednesday on the Trump administration to authorize a presidential transition, telling a group of workers that the head of the General Services Administration could act now to give him access to federal resources to help plan his coronavirus response.
“The law says that the General Services Administration has a person who recognizes who the winner is,” Mr. Biden said. “And then they have to have access to all the data and information that the government possesses.”
“And it doesn’t require that there be an absolute winner. It says the ‘apparent’ winner. The ‘apparent’ winner,” Mr. Biden said.
Mr. Biden asked the small group gathered on a video call, which included nurses and a firefighter, to describe their experiences dealing with the virus, and he pledged to mount a major new effort to combat the pandemic. “We’re all ready to go and do an awful lot of work right now,” Mr. Biden said.
But he said his ability to plan was restricted by the delayed transition caused by President Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his victory and the refusal of Emily W. Murphy, the G.S.A. administrator, to sign the paperwork that would grant Mr. Biden’s transition team access to funds, equipment and government data.
Mr. Biden said he did not “have any budget for any of this” until he was sworn in or until Mr. Trump conceded defeat and began a transition. But he noted that he planned to work with state and local leaders on mask mandates.
Mr. Biden also complained that Senate Republicans had not agreed to the stimulus spending passed by the House earlier this year. (Senate Republicans offered their own scaled-back stimulus plan that failed to reach the 60-vote threshold necessary to advance the bill.)
“I’m hoping that the reason why my friends on the other side have not stepped up to do something is because of their fear of retribution from the president,” Mr. Biden said. “And hopefully when he’s gone, they’ll be more willing to do what they know should be done — has to be done — in order to save the communities they live in.”
“This is like going to war,” Mr. Biden added about fighting the pandemic. “You need a commander in chief.”
Mr. Biden also noted that, while deprived of access to federal experts and data, he had been immersing himself in the details of the pandemic since the spring, saying that he had been getting regular briefings for months “from some of the leading docs in the country.”
The Biden transition did not provide names and precise job descriptions of the people with whom Mr. Biden spoke.
By Angela Giuffrida
Italian hospitals are struggling with a shortage of intensive care specialists as the country battles a severe coronavirus second wave, while some citizens are also turning against health workers.
Covid-related deaths surged by 731 on Tuesday – the highest daily toll since early April, when Italy was in complete lockdown – as weaknesses in the healthcare system across the country become more exposed.
Italy has the third highest Covid death rate in the world, with four deaths per 100 infections, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University in the US. Tuesday’s count equated to one death every two minutes.
Admissions to intensive care units have almost doubled to 3,612 since 1 November and the current number of people in hospital with coronavirus – 33,074 – has eclipsed numbers reached during the first wave.
But while Italy has almost doubled the availability of intensive care beds to 9,931 and increased the number of ventilators, just 625 more anaesthetists and resuscitators have been hired since the beginning of the pandemic.
· Deaths from Covid-19 have passed 250,000 in the United States. According to Johns Hopkins University, 250,520 Americans have now died of the virus and there have been more than 11.5 million confirmed cases.
· There are now more than 76,000 people hospitalised with Covid in the US. Officials said hospitals were straining to cope with the volume of patients but there was some hope that Republicans were beginning to pave the way for cooperation with president-elect Joe Biden as he tries to coordinate a response to the crisis.
· Japan has recorded a record number of new daily coronavirus infections. The health ministry said it had found 2,179 new cases in the previous 24 hours. The capital, Tokyo, also recorded a new daily record as it went into its highest level of alert.
· India has edged closer to 9 million cases. It added another 45,576 new cases of the coronavirus, taking its total infections to 8.96 million, data from the health ministry said on Thursday.
· Mass vaccination planned in England. Britain’s National Health Service is assembling a huge team of retired doctors, nurses and physiotherapists to implement the country’s biggest ever mass vaccination programme.
· Ukraine has also seen its highest ever daily infection total with a record of 13,357 new cases in the past 24 hours.
· Turkey plans to buy 20m doses of the Chinese vaccine. The government is also in talks to buy vaccine doses from Pfizer and BioNTech, MPs were told on Thursday.
· The Pacific nation of Samoa has recorded its first ever case of Covid-19. Prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said that a sailor who had returned from New Zealand on a repatriation flight tested positive in a quarantine facility.
· A hospital doctor gave birth to twins while in a coronavirus coma. Perpetual Uke was 26 weeks pregnant when she was put in an induced coma in hospital in Birmingham but doctors delivered the babies by Caesarean.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/nov/19/coronavirus-live-news-us-hospitals-stretched-to-limits-pfizer-seeks-vaccine-approval-in-days
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