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World |
57,225,873 |
+650,452 |
1,364,887 |
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12,070,712 |
+192,186 |
258,333 |
|
|
9,004,325 |
+46,182 |
132,202 |
|
|
5,983,089 |
+35,686 |
168,141 |
|
|
2,086,288 |
+21,150 |
47,127 |
|
|
2,015,608 |
+23,610 |
34,850 |
|
|
1,574,063 |
+16,233 |
42,291 |
|
|
1,453,256 |
+22,915 |
53,775 |
|
|
1,349,434 |
+10,097 |
36,532 |
|
|
1,308,528 |
+36,176 |
47,870 |
|
|
1,225,490 |
+7,487 |
34,761 |
|
|
1,015,071 |
+3,918 |
99,528 |
|
|
943,917 |
+1,966 |
35,446 |
|
|
878,209 |
+23,676 |
13,788 |
|
|
815,117 |
+13,223 |
43,417 |
|
|
796,798 |
+23,975 |
12,088 |
|
|
759,658 |
+2,514 |
20,671 |
|
|
583,510 |
+13,357 |
10,369 |
|
|
545,787 |
+5,182 |
15,025 |
|
|
536,012 |
+1,454 |
14,955 |
|
|
529,226 |
+2,374 |
11,834 |
|
|
483,518 |
+4,798 |
15,600 |
|
|
481,755 |
+6,471 |
6,874 |
|
|
467,257 |
+5,645 |
8,771 |
|
|
441,159 |
+2,364 |
6,305 |
|
|
430,170 |
+4,542 |
11,943 |
|
|
413,428 |
+1,335 |
7,998 |
|
|
393,851 |
+10,108 |
9,596 |
|
|
365,927 |
+2,547 |
7,248 |
|
|
354,527 |
+319 |
5,729 |
|
|
327,049 |
+718 |
2,742 |
|
|
315,754 |
+4,645 |
11,265 |
|
|
311,554 |
+4,559 |
5,090 |
|
|
243,009 |
+6,994 |
3,701 |
|
|
228,683 |
+6,995 |
2,116 |
|
|
215,020 |
+2,103 |
1,276 |
|
|
183,246 |
+996 |
13,073 |
|
|
169,395 |
+5,469 |
2,053 |
|
|
161,461 |
+4,512 |
3,472 |
|
|
155,254 |
+1,153 |
544 |
|
|
151,089 |
+1,256 |
2,922 |
|
|
143,569 |
+96 |
8,875 |
|
|
138,822 |
+485 |
859 |
|
|
136,649 |
+208 |
235 |
|
|
Dominican |
136,183 |
+1,026 |
2,301 |
|
128,231 |
+1,219 |
1,599 |
|
|
123,097 |
+762 |
1,945 |
|
|
122,966 |
+2,151 |
1,922 |
|
|
121,979 |
+1,520 |
1,870 |
|
|
121,360 |
+231 |
1,365 |
|
|
119,390 |
+1,382 |
1,074 |
|
|
117,066 |
+685 |
4,050 |
|
|
114,435 |
+3,899 |
2,649 |
|
|
111,955 |
+342 |
6,508 |
|
|
111,946 |
+1,909 |
868 |
|
|
104,427 |
+499 |
1,607 |
|
|
104,097 |
+6,109 |
1,110 |
|
|
98,665 |
+315 |
863 |
|
|
93,961 |
+1,442 |
2,091 |
|
|
93,879 |
+3,164 |
1,200 |
|
|
93,092 |
+3,697 |
853 |
|
|
91,578 |
+1,665 |
579 |
|
|
86,381 |
+12 |
4,634 |
|
|
85,317 |
+135 |
337 |
|
|
85,261 |
+3,227 |
1,347 |
|
|
83,994 |
+2,597 |
1,053 |
|
|
76,006 |
+541 |
1,062 |
|
|
74,882 |
+1,560 |
1,676 |
|
|
74,495 |
+856 |
1,636 |
|
|
74,145 |
+1,459 |
1,330 |
|
|
71,652 |
+1,023 |
2,224 |
|
|
70,921 |
+140 |
601 |
|
|
69,473 |
+415 |
2,010 |
|
|
68,316 |
+422 |
1,217 |
|
|
67,296 |
+1,110 |
598 |
|
|
67,105 |
+1,297 |
773 |
|
|
65,839 |
+146 |
1,165 |
|
|
61,034 |
+2,070 |
964 |
|
|
58,139 |
+4 |
28 |
|
|
51,680 |
+1,290 |
326 |
|
|
51,213 |
+1,198 |
1,423 |
|
|
50,631 |
+174 |
323 |
|
|
40,492 |
+1,680 |
341 |
|
|
37,109 |
+144 |
1,061 |
|
|
31,441 |
+671 |
305 |
|
|
30,623 |
+786 |
657 |
|
|
29,654 |
+343 |
498 |
|
|
29,577 |
+546 |
420 |
|
|
29,243 |
+670 |
254 |
|
|
27,784 |
+7 |
907 |
|
|
23,528 |
+632 |
435 |
|
|
21,083 |
+38 |
129 |
|
|
20,286 |
+351 |
374 |
|
|
7,979 |
+268 |
41 |
|
|
5,284 |
+2 |
116 |
|
|
4,693 |
+8 |
45 |
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|
3,888 |
+8 |
60 |
|
|
1,304 |
+4 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From BBC
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has told Americans to avoid travel for the Thanksgiving holiday amid soaring Covid-19 cases.
"In the last week, we've seen over a million new cases," said the CDC's Erin Sauber-Schatz to reporters on Thursday. "Thanksgiving is a week away."
But the agency stopped short of issuing a travel ban for Americans.
The US has so far recorded more than 11.6 million coronavirus infections and more than 250,000 deaths.
Thanksgiving typically heralds the busiest week for travel in the US. Last year, an estimated 26 million travellers passed through the country's airports in the week surrounding the holiday.
"It's not a requirement. It's a recommendation for the American public to consider," Dr Henry Walke, the CDC's Covid-19 incident manager, said during Thursday's press briefing.
"Right now, especially as we're seeing this sort of exponential growth in cases, and the opportunity to translocate disease or infection from one part of the country to another, it leads to our recommendation to avoid travel at this time."
Also on Thursday, the White House coronavirus task force had its first public briefing in months. Members of the task force, including Vice-President Mike Pence, noted the rise in coronavirus cases and positivity rates - meaning the percentage of coronavirus tests that come back positive - across the country.
"This is really a call to action for every American to increase their vigilance," said task force coordinator Dr Deborah Birx. "This is more cases, more rapidly, than what we had seen before."
Though Dr Birx urged Americans to limit indoor interactions - like the type of group gatherings characteristic of Thanksgiving - the task force did not comment specifically on holiday travel. And Mr Pence in particular maintained an upbeat tone, emphasising the recent progress in vaccine development and touting the country's improved preparedness.
"American has never been more prepared to combat this virus than we have been today," the vice-president said.
The White House has so far declined to engage with President-elect Joe Biden and his incoming administration on coronavirus policy, as President Donald Trump refuses to concede the presidential contest.
Mr Biden on Thursday called Mr Trump's failure to concede an "incredibly damaging message" for the rest of the world. The Democrat has said that co-ordination is necessary to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
Asked on Thursday if he would close down the economy in an effort to curb the outbreak, Mr Biden dismissed the notion of a nationwide shutdown.
"I'm going to shut down the virus. That's what I'm going to shut down," he said. "There's no circumstance which I can see that would require total national shutdown."
From CNN’s Mick Krever, Phil Black, Per Nyberg and Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou in Stockholm, Sweden
Doctors in Uppsala, the Swedish region hit hardest by Covid-19, tell CNN they are frustrated with the lack of tougher coronavirus measures, and Swedes not adhering to government recommendations.
“Forceful measures in other places, other countries, it’s effective in reducing spread,” Dr. Rafael Kawati, head of intensive care at Uppsala University Hospital, told CNN.
Sweden is well into a second wave of cases: It's a scenario that health authorities said in the spring they hoped to avoid, by emphasizing personal responsibility over mandatory lockdowns.
Comparatively more deaths: The country has now recorded more than four times as many Covid-19 deaths than its three Nordic neighbors combined -- 6,340 as of Thursday.
The second wave “is not a surprise,” Kawati said. “We should have been able to do much better than that, regarding spread in the society.”
What are the authorities doing: The Swedish government has moved closer to advocating a de-facto lockdown -- but in recommendation only, not mandate.
At a news conference this week, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven could hardly have been clearer: “Don’t go to the gym, don’t go to the library, don’t have dinner, don’t have parties. Cancel.”
Advice not followed: At a central Stockholm gym this week, it was plain for a CNN crew to see that many were happy to ignore that advice, filling a room for a dance aerobics class. Participants kept their distance, but were mask-less for the hour-long class.
Dr. Fredrik Sund, head of the infectious diseases department at the hospital, was one of the first to raise the alarm about the November surge.
“I think if people were to follow the recommendations, it would be sufficient, because then more or less we would have a lockdown,” he said. “But since we are in this situation we are now -- no, it’s not enough.”
From CNN's Chandler Thornton
South Australia will lift its six-day lockdown on Saturday -- a few days before it originally planned to -- after health authorities found that a person lied to contact tracing officials.
"SA health contact tracers found that one of the close contacts linked to the Woodville Pizza Bar deliberately misled the contact tracing team," South Australia Premier Steven Marshall said at a news conference Friday. "We now know that they lied."
Marshall said the state, home to more than 1.7 million people, will lift the strict "circuit breaker" restrictions announced earlier this week sooner than advised.
As of midnight Saturday, the stay-at-home order will be repealed, and South Australians will be permitted to exercise outdoors and go back to previous restrictions.
What happened: The person who misled authorities claimed they bought a pizza from the Woodville Pizza Bar, which authorities identified as a potential hotspot earlier this week.
But the person was actually an employee and had been working there for some time, South Australia Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said.
Stevens added that they would not have gone into lockdown had the person told the truth, and authorities are now working to identify and locate another group of the employee's associates.
Officials defend lockdown decision: The premier and police commissioner defended the decision to go into lockdown and said it was the right move at the time based on the information they had. The person who lied will not be fined or penalized, Stevens added.
"This has had a massive impact on our community," Stevens said. "People's lives have been upended as a result of information that lead us to a course of action that now was not warranted in the circumstances. We're now taking action to amend that."
From CNN's Swati Gupta in New Delhi
India reached 9 million coronavirus cases Friday after reporting 45,882 new infections in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The total number of reported cases in the country now stands at 9,004,365, with 132,162 people dying from the virus.
India, which has a population of 1.3 billion, has the second highest number of virus cases in the world, behind the United States.
Despite reaching the bleak milestone, India has seen a steady decline in the number of reported infections over the past few weeks.
It took India 23 days to go from 8 million recorded cases to the 9 million tally. Whereas it took 18 days to reach 7 million and 11 days to top 8 million, according to a CNN tally of figures from the Indian Health Ministry.
More than 129.5 million tests had been conducted in the country as of Thursday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.
Cases are surging in the capital: On Thursday Delhi passed 500,000 Covid-19 cases, when it recorded 7,546 new infections.
The Delhi government has reissued restrictions on social gatherings and increased fines for people who leave their homes without wearing a mask.
In a statement Thursday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that his administration was working to ensure medical infrastructure could cope with the rise in cases.
The capital currently has reported a total of 510,630 Covid-19 cases and 8,041 deaths.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-11-20-20-intl/index.html
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, said gatherings were fueling a ‘concerning uptick’ in cases in some African countries
Africa is experiencing a concerning uptick in confirmed coronavirus cases and has now passed the two million mark, said the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, in a news briefing Thursday, warning that travel during the coming holiday season created more risk of outbreaks.
While the continent largely escaped some of the dire predictions made early in the pandemic — including that up to 190,000 people could die of it in the first year, or that at least 29 million could be infected — officials warned that countries needed to be prepared for a second wave of infection.
Testing data remains low in Africa, and the pandemic might have taken hold to a much larger degree than the figures show.
There are three main factors driving the second surge, according to a global health professor who also took part in the W.H.O.’s briefing, Salim S. Abdool Karim: superspreading events, especially at universities in South Africa; the approaching December vacation period; and complacency.
“Pandemic fatigue is a reality and is quite widespread, and people are just not maintaining social distancing and wearing their masks to the same extent,” he said.
Indeed, masks are being worn under chins, if at all, in many places across the continent. It is possible to cross Africa’s biggest city, Lagos in Nigeria, without seeing a single mask. The W.H.O. in Africa has introduced a social media campaign, Mask Up Not Down, to try to tackle this problem, and is aiming to reach 40 million young people by the end of the year.
Vaccines developed in Europe should be effective in African countries, too, as the virus circulating there originated from people traveling from Europe. But vaccine nationalism, and a $4 billion gap in financing for vaccine procurement in Africa, could mean that countries there do not get the vaccines they need.
“If we all work at prioritizing the most vulnerable, the most critical to health care, to economies, then I believe we could have a fair process of more equitable access,” said Dr. Moeti. “And not the usual African countries at the back of the queue which we have experienced in the past.”
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/19/world/covid-19-coronavirus/africa-surpasses-2-million-confirmed-cases-even-as-testing-remains-low
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
The legal regulations, which come into force at 6pm on Friday, were described as ‘deeply flawed’ by opposition parties.
The Scottish government has published draft regulations that make it illegal to enter or leave the country without a reasonable excuse, as well as significantly restricting travel within Scotland.
The regulations, which come into force on Friday at 6pm, were described as “deeply flawed” by opposition parties, which said they had “grave doubts” about the competence of Scottish ministers to legislate in this way.
According to the draft document, a person living in Scotland must not travel to any other part of the common travel area – England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland – nor can anyone from those places travel to Scotland. Breach of these cross-border restrictions is punishable by a minimum £60 fixed penalty fine.
The restrictions on cross-border and internal travel are accompanied by a lengthy list of exemptions. An individual can leave Scotland to take a driving test, feed an animal or donate blood, in addition to the more usual exemptions around work, education and health.
Guidance accompanying the regulations also states that people in level 3 or 4 local authority areas – which includes much of central Scotland – “are now required to stay in that area unless they have a reasonable excuse to travel, such as work, education, or welfare reasons”. Going on holiday, whether elsewhere in Scotland or abroad, is not deemed a reasonable excuse.
The Scottish Conservative MSP and professor of public law Adam Tomkins said: “Is this within Holyrood’s competence? For one thing, freedom of movement would appear to be expressly reserved to the UK parliament under the Scotland Act. For another, it’s not clear that the Scottish parliament can make rules contrary to the common travel area, as agreed to by the UK and Ireland.
“It’s not at all clear if the draft regulations published today are within the remit of the Scottish parliament.”
A Scottish government spokesperson denied this, saying the regulations were “entirely within the remit of the Scottish parliament”.
“Restrictions on unnecessary travel are in place in law in various forms in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland and in many parts of Europe. In Scotland they are necessary to underpin an approach that puts different parts of the country under different levels of protective measures”.
Regulations in place in Wales state that travel into the country from England is not allowed without a reasonable excuse, for example, travelling for work purposes. Visiting family and friends or having a holiday is not deemed a reasonable excuse.
Regulations in place for England’s current lockdown state that no person may leave home without a reasonable excuse, which includes work, exercise and education.
At first minister’s questions on Thursday, the Scottish Labour leader, Richard Leonard, described the travel ban as “deeply flawed” and said: “The overwhelming majority of people are just trying to keep up with regulations in order to follow them. But the best-case scenario is that this travel ban will confuse them. The worst-case scenario is that it will criminalise them.”
Later on Thursday, MSP Oliver Mundell resigned from the Scottish Conservative shadow cabinet in protest at the travel curbs. He voted against the party whip in a Holyrood debate on the new regulations because of concerns about the impact border restrictions would have on communities in his Dumfriesshire constituency.
Party leader Douglas Ross said he was disappointed to see him go and appreciated that “he is only doing what he feels is best for his local area”.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/19/scotland-covid-regulations-will-make-it-to-enter-or-leave-country
Thanks joining me in the blogosphere. I’m handing over to my colleague Kevin Rawlinson now but if you’re just joining us or just getting up to speed with the news, here are the main developments of the past few hours:
· India has recorded more than 9 million coronavirus cases. The country added , 45,882 new infections in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Friday, and now has 9,004,365 cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker site, and 132,162 deaths.
· Dr Anthony Fauci, the US diseases expert, is back. After months of sparring with Donald Trump, the scientist spoke at a White House briefing again as the outbreak continues to spread rapidly. It is the only country with more cases than India, with the national total now on 11.72 million with 250,000 dead. California has imposed a curfew on most of its 40 million residents.
· Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in Covid-19 deaths Thursday, becoming only the fourth country — behind the United States, Brazil and India — to do so.
· The EU will pay more than $10bn to secure 425m doses of vaccines being developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and CureVac, Reuters reports. The bloc has agreed to pay €15.50 euros ($18.34) per dose for the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, and slightly less for the Curevac treatment.
· Almost a million people in China have taken an emergency Covid-19 vaccine that is still in its testing phase, the company Sinopharm has said.
· Remdesivir should not be used in hospitals to treat Covid-19, the WHO has warned. Donald Trump tried to push the treatment and took it himself when he contracted Covid-19. But the WHO says there is no evidence it works.
· South Australia’s six-day lockdown is being cut short three days early at midnight on Saturday after it emerged that a man infected with Covid-19 had lied to contact trace investigators.
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