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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
65,516,810 |
+679,190 |
1,511,105 |
|
14,535,196 |
+218,576 |
282,829 |
|
|
9,571,780 |
+38,309 |
139,227 |
|
|
6,487,516 |
+50,866 |
175,307 |
|
|
2,375,546 |
+28,145 |
41,607 |
|
|
2,257,331 |
+12,696 |
54,140 |
|
|
1,693,591 |
+6,104 |
46,038 |
|
|
1,674,134 |
+14,879 |
60,113 |
|
|
1,664,829 |
+23,225 |
58,038 |
|
|
1,447,732 |
+7,629 |
39,305 |
|
|
1,343,322 |
+9,233 |
37,305 |
|
|
1,133,613 |
+11,251 |
107,565 |
|
|
1,128,742 |
+22,910 |
18,260 |
|
|
1,028,610 |
+14,838 |
18,828 |
|
|
1,003,494 |
+13,922 |
49,348 |
|
|
968,846 |
+1,771 |
36,104 |
|
|
800,872 |
+4,400 |
21,803 |
|
|
772,760 |
+14,496 |
12,960 |
|
|
733,261 |
+32,381 |
14,316 |
|
|
582,252 |
+3,040 |
16,911 |
|
|
558,767 |
+2,039 |
12,361 |
|
|
557,877 |
+8,369 |
17,355 |
|
|
555,406 |
+1,508 |
15,519 |
|
|
538,050 |
+5,606 |
9,565 |
|
|
537,663 |
+4,621 |
8,641 |
|
|
492,211 |
+7,661 |
11,876 |
|
|
471,739 |
+2,336 |
6,748 |
|
|
435,411 |
+1,059 |
8,446 |
|
|
406,810 |
+3,499 |
8,205 |
|
|
396,270 |
+6,495 |
12,407 |
|
|
368,624 |
+4,434 |
6,063 |
|
|
358,102 |
+230 |
5,930 |
|
|
341,042 |
+1,423 |
2,891 |
|
|
307,618 |
+3,772 |
4,724 |
|
|
293,430 |
+3,969 |
3,538 |
|
|
237,589 |
+1,343 |
1,551 |
|
|
231,844 |
+6,635 |
5,324 |
|
|
231,237 |
+4,029 |
2,909 |
|
|
199,158 |
+7,802 |
1,765 |
|
|
195,884 |
+1,008 |
13,612 |
|
|
172,751 |
+1,317 |
585 |
|
|
171,219 |
+1,880 |
3,141 |
|
|
155,193 |
+3,280 |
4,503 |
|
|
152,827 |
+2,441 |
2,213 |
|
|
147,636 |
+4,260 |
1,387 |
|
|
Dominican |
146,009 |
+812 |
2,335 |
|
144,994 |
+184 |
8,972 |
|
|
143,574 |
+314 |
884 |
|
|
142,505 |
+1,165 |
1,757 |
|
|
141,609 |
+1,701 |
1,181 |
|
|
139,477 |
+221 |
239 |
|
|
139,415 |
+4,534 |
1,964 |
|
|
138,508 |
+1,277 |
2,254 |
|
|
133,887 |
+769 |
1,990 |
|
|
133,733 |
+4,189 |
1,510 |
|
|
132,817 |
+1,520 |
1,067 |
|
|
124,329 |
+184 |
1,435 |
|
|
124,053 |
+593 |
4,209 |
|
|
117,156 |
+432 |
6,713 |
|
|
112,307 |
+1,727 |
2,363 |
|
|
111,579 |
+595 |
1,724 |
|
|
111,537 |
+1,882 |
2,706 |
|
|
111,208 |
+1,982 |
930 |
|
|
109,144 |
+503 |
2,930 |
|
|
103,548 |
+481 |
909 |
|
|
95,018 |
+1,418 |
2,028 |
|
|
92,708 |
+2,516 |
780 |
|
|
87,432 |
+162 |
341 |
|
|
86,567 |
+16 |
4,634 |
|
|
86,383 |
+1,253 |
1,500 |
|
|
85,927 |
+843 |
2,480 |
|
|
85,477 |
+995 |
1,796 |
|
|
85,140 |
+1,605 |
858 |
|
|
84,849 |
+762 |
1,212 |
|
|
81,349 |
+1,783 |
1,592 |
|
|
73,933 |
+420 |
1,281 |
|
|
73,431 |
+96 |
611 |
|
|
73,228 |
+162 |
2,080 |
|
|
69,095 |
+1,075 |
376 |
|
|
68,303 |
+343 |
1,179 |
|
|
67,064 |
+2,448 |
564 |
|
|
65,231 |
+1,341 |
1,847 |
|
|
58,239 |
+9 |
29 |
|
|
40,501 |
+782 |
852 |
|
|
37,371 |
+402 |
353 |
|
|
36,932 |
+581 |
516 |
|
|
36,429 |
+627 |
339 |
|
|
35,703 |
+540 |
529 |
|
|
27,939 |
+16 |
908 |
|
|
26,422 |
+540 |
408 |
|
|
11,523 |
+348 |
54 |
|
|
5,322 |
+2 |
117 |
|
|
4,923 |
+21 |
45 |
|
|
4,039 |
+13 |
60 |
|
|
1,361 |
+3 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Jonny Hallam in Atlanta
A worker near the Pfizer facility in Puurs, Belgium, on December 3. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine arrived in the UK on Thursday -- a day after the country approved the vaccine for distribution, according to British media.
Pfizer and Downing Street declined to comment to CNN, citing security reasons.
The UK’s Department of Health told CNN that up to 800,000 doses of the vaccine are being made available next week.
The vaccines were carried by a fleet of unmarked trucks through the Eurotunnel from Belgium and are on their way to undisclosed storage facilities in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, according to CNN affiliate ITV News.
The in-demand vaccine will be distributed from these storage facilities early next week to 50 hospital hubs acting as vaccination points, according to the health ministry.
Earlier on Thursday, England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, said "We expect to receive (the Pfizer vaccine) very shortly in the UK, and I do mean hours, not days," in an interview with BBC Radio.
First vaccine approval: The UK became the first western country to authorize use of a coronavirus vaccine. The country has ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer jab, enough to vaccinate 20 million people -- roughly a third of the UK's population -- as the vaccination involves two shots administered at least three weeks apart.
From CNN's Maggie Fox
Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration, poses for a portrait near his home in Washington, DC on August 5. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post/Getty Images
A top US Food and Drug (FDA) official on Thursday claimed that Britain beat the US to authorizing a coronavirus vaccine because US regulators take more care.
Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, told an American Medical Association webinar that the FDA is taking great care in considering emergency use authorization requests from vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna.
Other countries trust the companies’ data as submitted, he said.
“We in the United States are in a unique position, which is that among all global regulators, we are the ones that actually don’t just look at the companies’ tables. We actually get down and dirty and we look at the actual adverse event reports, the bad spelling errors that are made by physicians sometimes, et cetera,” Marks said.
“There is a cost that another regulator has made this available sooner than we will and that’s because we’re really taking care to make sure that when people get this vaccine, we will have really vetted it for safety and if there is something there, we’ll know about it."
Earlier this week, Britain authorized Pfizer’s vaccine. The FDA has scheduled a meeting of its vaccine advisory committee December 10 to discuss the emergency use authorization.
“The Pfizer vaccine data used by the UK is the same data that we’ll be using and it’s just a matter of differences in how regulators review products,” Marks said.
“We’re getting there as fast as we can because we understand people are losing their lives to this virus."
The streets of Paris were mostly empty on Wednesday. The French government announced its vaccine distribution plan on Thursday.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
Vaccination for Covid-19 in France will be free, and focused first on those who are most at-risk, French authorities said on Thursday as they geared up for a three-phase rollout of a widespread vaccination campaign next year.
“The arrival of the vaccine is a real reason for hope,” Jean Castex, the French prime minister, said at a news conference on Thursday evening. But he warned that vaccination was a “new weapon that will add on to existing tools, not replace them.”
Mr. Castex said that once European and French health authorities greenlight the first vaccines — likely in late December or early January — retirement and nursing home residents would be vaccinated first, along with at-risk staffers in those establishments, for a total of roughly one million people. Vaccination will not be mandatory.
“Everyone will not be able to get vaccinated immediately,” Mr. Castex cautioned. Deploying the vaccine would be a logistical feat of “great complexity,” he said, and France will do a test-run of its distribution strategy in December.
A second wave of vaccinations starting in February will target 14 million more people, mainly health workers and at-risk populations like the elderly or those with chronic health conditions. A third and final vaccination campaign in the spring and summer will focus on the wider adult population, but not minors.
Olivier Véran, the health minister, said at the news conference that the main goal of the vaccination campaign is to decrease mortality rates and prevent patients from developing severe cases of Covid-19, as it is still unclear whether the vaccines will prevent transmitting the coronavirus.
He also said that regardless of vaccination plans, people should not become complacent anytime soon.
“Over the next few months, the vaccine will not fundamentally change the course of the epidemic,” Mr. Véran said, noting that vaccinating millions of people will take time and that restrictions on gatherings and rules like mask-wearing would continue for the foreseeable future.
Mr. Castex said the current outlook in France was positive, with fewer daily cases and less pressure on hospitals, and that the French needed to keep up their efforts to prevent another virus wave. Still, he encouraged people to limit holiday season family gatherings to six adults maximum.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/03/world/covid-19-coronavirus/france-announces-a-free-vaccination-plan-and-other-news-from-around-the-world
Clinton, Bush and Obama in 2017. More than 3,100 people died from the coronavirus in America on Wednesday, a record single-day high. Photograph: Andrew Gombert/EPA
Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton have pledged to get vaccinated for coronavirus on television to promote the safety of the vaccine.
The trio’s effort comes as the Food and Drug Administration prepares to meet next week to decide whether to authorize a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech.
More than 3,100 people died from the coronavirus in America on Wednesday, a record single-day high and more than the number of people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Obama, Bush and Clinton’s willingness to address the seriousness of the pandemic is markedly different from the attitude of Donald Trump, who remained silent as the US passed 250,000 coronavirus deaths in November.
In an interview with SiriusXM host Joe Madison, Obama said that he would trust Anthony Fauci if the infectious disease expert declares a coronavirus vaccine to be safe.
“People like Anthony Fauci, who I know, and I’ve worked with, I trust completely,” Obama said. “So, if Anthony Fauci tells me this vaccine is safe, and can vaccinate, you know, immunize you from getting Covid, absolutely, I’m going to take it.”
Many Americans say they will not agree to be vaccinated against Covid-19. A poll by Gallup, released in mid-November, showed that 42% of the country would not take the vaccine even if it was “available right now at no cost”.
Obama said he would take the vaccine once it was available for people “who are less at risk”. The 44th president is 59 and is not known to suffer from any serious health problems.
“I may end up taking it on TV or having it filmed, just so that people know that I trust this science, and what I don’t trust is getting Covid,” he added.
Freddy Ford, Bush’s chief of staff, told CNN the former president is also willing to receive the vaccine on camera.
“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 that he too is prepared to be filmed as he takes the vaccine.
“President Clinton will definitely take a vaccine as soon as available to him, based on the priorities determined by public health officials,” Angel Urena said. “And he will do it in a public setting if it will help urge all Americans to do the same.”
The three presidents, along with Jimmy Carter and George H Bush, who died in 2018, previously teamed up to raise money for relief efforts for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-12-04-20-intl/index.html
A pharmacy worker carries out a coronavirus swab test in Turin, Italy. Photograph: Tino Romano/EPA
Italy registered 993 more coronavirus fatalities on Thursday - the highest daily toll since the beginning of the pandemic.
There were 23,255 new confirmed infections, up from 20,709 on Wednesday.
The infection curve has been showing signs of flattening over the last week, while the number of hospital admissions, including into intensive care, has been declining.
Prime minister Giuseppe Conte is due to address the nation at 8.15pm CET and outline measures in the latest government decree which includes a ban on inter-regional travel over Christmas.
Costa Rica has signed an agreement with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE for the manufacture and delivery of 3 million Covid-19 vaccines next year, the office of President Carlos Alvarado said on Thursday.
Deliveries will be made throughout the four quarters of 2021, as established in an initial agreement announced on 1 October, the president’s office said in a statement.
The deal will allow Costa Rica to provide two doses to 1.5 million people and follows accords with AstraZeneca and the Covax mechanism backed by the World Health Organization. In total, the agreements should cover about 3 million people, or almost 60% of the Costa Rican population.
The central American country has so far registered some 142,505 cases of coronavirus and 1,757 related deaths.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Joe Biden will ask Americans to wear masks for his first 100 days in office. The US president-elect Joe Biden has told CNN that it was his “inclination” that, on his inauguration, he would ask the public to wear masks for the first 100 days of his administration to help drive down the spread of the virus. Biden said he would issue an order for masks to be worn inside federal buildings and in transportation facilities.
· WHO looks at e-certificates for Covid-19 vaccination. The World Health Organization said it was considering introducing electronic vaccination certificates, as hopes for an end to the pandemic were boosted after Britain became the first country to approve use of a Covid-19 vaccine.
· Seoul to shut down most establishments at 9 pm to contain coronavirus. South Korea’s capital Seoul will require most establishments to close at 9pm each day, after South Korea reported 629 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest number in nine months. Of the new cases, 295 were from capital Seoul alone.
· Moderna Inc said on Thursday it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine available globally in the first quarter of 2021. The company said 85 million to 100 million of those doses would be available in the United States, with 15 million to 25 million available outside the country.
· America’s leading infectious diseases scientist, Anthony Fauci, has apologised for implying that he thought Britain’s drug regulator had rushed through its coronavirus vaccine approval. His comments came a day after Britain became the first country to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for general use, prompting some scepticism among European neighbours and suggestions of politicisation.
· Biden joins ex-presidents in pledge to take vaccine. President-elect Joe Biden told CNN during an interview Thursday that he would be happy to get his vaccine publicly to encourage people to follow suit, following Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton’s pledges to do the same.
· Costa Rica has signed an agreement with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE for the manufacture and delivery of 3 million Covid-19 vaccines next year, the office of President Carlos Alvarado said on Thursday.
· India’s daily coronavirus cases rose by less than 40,000 for the fifth straight day, health ministry data showed on Friday, with 36,595 new infections reported in the last 24 hours. India’s daily rate has fallen since the south Asian nation reported the world’s highest such tallies through most of August and September, despite a busy festival season last month that experts had warned could trigger a spike in infections.
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