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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
64,188,425 |
+585,525 |
1,485,991 |
|
14,110,528 |
+184,198 |
277,034 |
|
|
9,499,710 |
+36,456 |
138,159 |
|
|
6,388,526 |
+52,248 |
173,862 |
|
|
2,322,056 |
+26,402 |
40,464 |
|
|
2,230,571 |
+8,083 |
53,506 |
|
|
1,673,202 |
+8,257 |
45,511 |
|
|
1,643,086 |
+13,430 |
59,051 |
|
|
1,620,901 |
+19,350 |
56,361 |
|
|
1,432,570 |
+8,037 |
38,928 |
|
|
1,324,792 |
+7,986 |
36,934 |
|
|
1,113,543 |
+6,472 |
105,940 |
|
|
1,085,661 |
+15,898 |
17,359 |
|
|
999,892 |
+9,073 |
17,599 |
|
|
975,951 |
+13,881 |
48,628 |
|
|
965,228 |
+1,623 |
36,031 |
|
|
792,299 |
+2,295 |
21,644 |
|
|
745,123 |
+12,498 |
12,548 |
|
|
668,957 |
+30,110 |
13,936 |
|
|
577,345 |
+746 |
16,645 |
|
|
554,767 |
+2,218 |
12,306 |
|
|
552,864 |
+1,121 |
15,430 |
|
|
543,975 |
+5,092 |
17,081 |
|
|
528,474 |
+5,176 |
8,407 |
|
|
527,523 |
+4,045 |
9,438 |
|
|
479,634 |
+4,272 |
11,530 |
|
|
467,225 |
+2,293 |
6,675 |
|
|
432,919 |
+1,292 |
8,418 |
|
|
400,482 |
+2,458 |
8,091 |
|
|
383,468 |
+5,329 |
12,211 |
|
|
359,844 |
+3,508 |
5,915 |
|
|
357,623 |
+263 |
5,907 |
|
|
338,127 |
+1,281 |
2,877 |
|
|
300,462 |
+2,401 |
4,577 |
|
|
285,489 |
+3,033 |
3,325 |
|
|
234,756 |
+1,304 |
1,529 |
|
|
223,617 |
+4,187 |
2,802 |
|
|
221,073 |
+3,951 |
4,977 |
|
|
193,673 |
+988 |
13,501 |
|
|
183,437 |
+7,999 |
1,652 |
|
|
170,149 |
+1,289 |
576 |
|
|
167,311 |
+1,505 |
3,098 |
|
|
148,775 |
+3,475 |
4,188 |
|
|
148,694 |
+1,934 |
2,139 |
|
|
144,708 |
+86 |
8,957 |
|
|
Dominican |
144,302 |
+314 |
2,333 |
|
142,992 |
+357 |
881 |
|
|
140,172 |
+534 |
1,731 |
|
|
139,343 |
+3,759 |
1,303 |
|
|
139,001 |
+168 |
238 |
|
|
138,219 |
+1,572 |
1,166 |
|
|
135,967 |
+843 |
2,193 |
|
|
132,348 |
+689 |
1,990 |
|
|
131,342 |
+2,900 |
1,861 |
|
|
129,455 |
+1,511 |
1,033 |
|
|
125,602 |
+4,426 |
1,433 |
|
|
123,908 |
+209 |
1,430 |
|
|
122,774 |
+712 |
4,178 |
|
|
116,303 |
+392 |
6,666 |
|
|
110,554 |
+480 |
1,709 |
|
|
108,863 |
+1,499 |
2,323 |
|
|
108,253 |
+365 |
2,918 |
|
|
107,470 |
+2,199 |
2,517 |
|
|
107,183 |
+1,254 |
868 |
|
|
102,621 |
+227 |
901 |
|
|
92,189 |
+1,476 |
1,972 |
|
|
88,004 |
+2,357 |
747 |
|
|
87,137 |
+181 |
341 |
|
|
86,542 |
+12 |
4,634 |
|
|
84,169 |
+551 |
1,474 |
|
|
84,152 |
+953 |
2,447 |
|
|
83,479 |
+1,055 |
1,771 |
|
|
83,417 |
+608 |
1,196 |
|
|
81,949 |
+1,468 |
846 |
|
|
77,135 |
+1,321 |
1,490 |
|
|
73,178 |
+371 |
1,275 |
|
|
73,145 |
+104 |
610 |
|
|
72,798 |
+254 |
2,069 |
|
|
67,838 |
+281 |
1,176 |
|
|
67,169 |
+1,472 |
363 |
|
|
62,945 |
+1,067 |
1,792 |
|
|
62,512 |
+1,184 |
519 |
|
|
58,228 |
+10 |
29 |
|
|
39,130 |
+189 |
1,120 |
|
|
39,014 |
+832 |
822 |
|
|
36,591 |
+441 |
334 |
|
|
35,849 |
+584 |
504 |
|
|
35,129 |
+451 |
330 |
|
|
34,652 |
+451 |
526 |
|
|
27,912 |
+8 |
908 |
|
|
25,462 |
+550 |
399 |
|
|
5,319 |
+7 |
117 |
|
|
4,872 |
+27 |
45 |
|
|
4,008 |
+10 |
60 |
|
|
1,351 |
+4 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Nadine Schmidt in Berlin
Germany has extended restrictive measures designed to curb the spread of coronavirus until Jan. 10, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced late Wednesday following a meeting with the country's state leaders.
"The states will extend their measures from Dec. 20 until Jan. 10," Merkel told reporters at a news conference, adding that another round of consultations would be held on Jan. 4.
"In principle things will remain as they are," she said.
Merkel said that infection rates throughout the country remain too high to allow reopening of restaurants, bars and leisure facilities. The nationwide partial lockdown also includes private gatherings to be kept to a minimum of only five people from two households.
Last week Merkel announced that restrictions will be eased over the Christmas period in most parts of Germany to allow for people to meet in groups of up to 10 people, not counting children.
Germany is struggling to contain an ongoing surge in Covid-19 infections. On Wednesday, the country's infectious disease agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), reported 487 deaths due to the virus --- the highest daily death toll since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to data published by the RKI Thursday morning, 22,046 new coronavirus infections were recorded in the past 24 hours. A total of 479 coronavirus fatalities also occurred in the past day -- the second-highest count since the pandemic began, bringing the total number of deaths to 17,602.
From CNN’s Jamie Gangel
From left to right, former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas, on April 25, 2013. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Three former United States presidents -- Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton -- are volunteering to receive their Covid-19 vaccines on camera in order to promote public confidence in the medication's safety.
The three former presidents hope an awareness campaign to promote confidence in the vaccine's safety and effectiveness would be a powerful message as American public health officials try to convince the public to get vaccinated once the US Food and Drug Administration authorizes one.
Freddy Ford, Bush's chief of staff, told CNN that the 43rd president had reached out to Dr. Anthony Fauci -- the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -- and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, to see how he could help promote the vaccine.
"A few weeks ago President Bush asked me to let Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx know that, when the time is right, he wants to do what he can to help encourage his fellow citizens to get vaccinated," Ford told CNN. "First, the vaccines need to be deemed safe and administered to the priority populations. Then, President Bush will get in line for his, and will gladly do so on camera."
Clinton's press secretary told CNN on Wednesday that he too would be willing to take the vaccine in a public setting in order to promote it.
"President Clinton will definitely take a vaccine as soon as available to him, based on the priorities determined by public health officials. And he will do it in a public setting if it will help urge all Americans to do the same," Angel Urena said.
It has been previously reported that Obama said in an interview with SiriusXM host Joe Madison, scheduled to air Thursday, that if Fauci said a coronavirus vaccine is safe, he believes him.
From CNN's Jake Kwon, Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo
Half a million students will sit South Korea's notoriously difficult National College Entrance Exam on Thursday, a marathon day of tests that is the country's answer to the SATs and can determine a teenager's future.
The tests are so significant that, in normal years, the country rolls out extreme measures to support students -- office hours are changed to clear roads to avoid students getting stuck in traffic and flights are rescheduled to prevent the sound of plane engines disrupting the English listening test.
But this year, even greater planning has been required, as South Korea attempts to hold the exams while keeping teenagers safe from coronavirus. Students will have their temperature checked before entering the testing facilities and will need to wear masks throughout the exam.
Arrangements were even made for 3,775 students to take the tests from quarantine, and for the 35 students who tested positive for Covid-19 as of Tuesday to sit the exam from a hospital bed.
The exams help decide whether students will make it into the most prestigious colleges and what career path they can take -- some options, such as medicine, will be shut off to students who don't get a high-enough score.
"Every citizen understands the exam to be a major national event," Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae told CNN in an exclusive interview ahead of the test.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-12-03-20-intl/index.html
Sandra Guató Silva, a leader of the Guató indigenous people in Brazil, in October. The country’s health ministry said Indigenous people and the elderly will be prioritized when distributing coronavirus vaccines.Credit...Maria Magdalena Arrellaga for The New York Times
Brazil’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that it would give Indigenous people and the elderly priority when a vaccine for the coronavirus becomes available, but it remains unclear how soon the first Brazilians will be immunized.
The ministry presented its preliminary vaccination plan after weeks of pressure from critics who say the government of President Jair Bolsonaro has led a reckless, haphazard response to the crisis, which made Brazil one of the epicenters of the epidemic.
When the first doses of a vaccine become available, the government intends to vaccinate people who are 75 or older, elderly people in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities and Indigenous people.
The next groups who will have preferential access to the vaccine include people who are 60 or older, people with certain chronic conditions, teachers, security forces, penitentiary workers and prisoners.
The government expects to cover those vulnerable groups with the roughly 109 million doses of vaccine it has negotiated access to. Brazil expects to get its first doses of the vaccine from AstraZeneca, a pharmaceutical company that developed a vaccine in partnership with the University of Oxford and has conducted trials in Brazil.
Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said Wednesday that he expects Brazil will receive the first 15 million doses of a vaccine during the early months of 2021. Yet Anvisa, the country’s health regulator, has yet to authorize the use of any vaccine. Mr. Pazuello said he hopes Brazil will have 100 million doses in hand during the first six months of the year.
Associated Press in Mexico City
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador: ‘Everyone is free. Whoever wants to wear a face mask and feel safer is welcome to do so.’ Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters
Mexicos’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested on Wednesday that politicians who impose lockdowns or curfews to limit Covid-19 are acting like dictators.
The comments came as López Obrador once again fended off questions about why he almost never wears a face mask, saying it was a question of liberty.
The Mexican leader said pandemic measures that limit people’s movements are “fashionable among authorities … who want to show they are heavy-handed, dictatorship.
“A lot of them are letting their authoritarian instincts show,” he said, adding “the fundamental thing is to guarantee liberty.”
López Obrador’s comments came a day after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that Mexico was “in bad shape” with the pandemic and urged its leaders to take the coronavirus seriously.
“The number of increasing cases and deaths in Mexico is very worrisome,” said the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Monday.
“We would like to ask Mexico to be very serious,” he said. “We have said it in general, wearing a mask is important, hygiene is important and physical distancing is important and we expect leaders to be examples …”
In his commments on Wednesday, it was unclear if the Mexican leader was referring to authorities in other countries, or the mainly opposition-party local leaders in Mexico.
Many governments across the world have effectively implemented lockdowns or limits on when people can leave their homes, something López Obrador has fiercely resisted doing, arguing some people live day-to-day on what they earn on the streets.
Some local governments in Mexico have tried to use police to enforce limits on masks or movement, which resulted in scandals of abusive behavior by police.
López Obrador argues such measures should be voluntary.
“Everyone is free. Whoever wants to wear a face mask and feel safer is welcome to do so,” López Obrador said.
The Mexican government has gone against the grain of international anti-virus practices in two ways. It has offered changing and contradictory advice on the utility of wearing face masks, and has described mass testing as wasteful and pointless.
Mexico has seen almost 107,000 test-confirmed deaths so far, the fourth-highest toll in the world, but Mexico does relatively little testing and officials estimate the real death toll is closer to 150,000.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-latest-int-idUSKBN28C0IJ
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have all volunteered to be vaccinated on camera in order to try to convince people to get vaccinated:
· CDC chief warns Americans face ‘rough’ winter from Covid-19 surge. The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Wednesday the Covid-19 pandemic, still raging with unprecedented fury nationwide, will pose the country’s grimmest health crisis yet over the next few months, before vaccines become widely available.
· California’s agricultural workers have contracted Covid-19 at nearly three times the rate of other residents in the state, a new study has found, laying bare the risks facing those who keep a $50bn industry afloat. Farmworkers have been deemed “essential” and thus continued to work throughout the duration of the pandemic.
· China is carrying out sweeping inspections on food importers, supermarkets, e-commerce platforms and restaurants to prevent the spread of coronavirus through imported cold chain products, the country’s market regulator said on Wednesday.
· South Korean drugmaker Daewoong Pharma said on Thursday it had sought regulatory approval for Phase II trials of its anti-parasite niclosamide drug to treat Covid-19 patients, sending its shares up nearly 6%.
· Localised coronavirus outbreaks in parts of South Africa have raised fears that the country could see a resurgence in cases compounded by gatherings during the upcoming festive season. Officials in Africa’s hardest virus-hit country are scrambling to contain infections after a flare-up was reported in the impoverished Eastern Cape province and adjacent Western Cape province last month.
· Former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing died on Wednesday from complications linked to Covid-19, his foundation said. Giscard was admitted to hospital in September with respiratory problems. He recovered but was re-admitted in mid-November. He was 94.
· Meanwhile the global Covid death toll is nearing 1.5m, with 1,488,992. Currently, the world is regularly suffering more than 10,000 deaths per day, according to Johns Hopkins University. There are 64.3m cases worldwide.
· Eli Lilly and Co said on Wednesday the US government has purchased 650,000 additional doses of its Covid-19 antibody drug for $812.5 million. The doses will be delivered through 31 January, with at least 350,000 delivered in December, the company said. The drug has been authorised by the UUS Food and Drug Administration for emergency use, and the government bought 300,000 doses in October.
· Brazil opens route for emergency approval of Covid-19 vaccines and outlined the requirements for companies looking to do so. Authorisations will be analysed on a case-by-case basis and that to be considered the vaccine must be in late-stage trials in Brazil. It said no requests had been received so far.
· US suffers highest daily deaths since April. The United States has recorded 2,597 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is its worst toll since 15 April and its second-worst toll of the pandemic so far.15 April saw record deaths just shy of this week’s figure, at 2,607 dead in one day.
· Covid vaccinations will begin next week, says Boris Johnson. Mass immunisation against coronavirus will begin next week, UK prime minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday as he moved to defuse a diplomatic row over claims that Brexit was responsible for the fast-track approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
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