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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
69,215,399 |
+644,786 |
1,574,838 |
|
15,821,363 |
+226,762 |
296,715 |
|
|
9,762,326 |
+26,351 |
141,735 |
|
|
6,730,118 |
+54,203 |
179,032 |
|
|
2,541,199 |
+26,190 |
44,718 |
|
|
2,324,216 |
+14,595 |
56,648 |
|
|
1,770,149 |
+12,756 |
61,739 |
|
|
1,766,819 |
+16,578 |
62,566 |
|
|
1,725,473 |
+4,886 |
47,019 |
|
|
1,475,222 |
+5,303 |
40,222 |
|
|
1,392,133 |
+7,523 |
38,308 |
|
|
1,242,253 |
+23,928 |
20,704 |
|
|
1,193,255 |
+11,006 |
110,874 |
|
|
1,088,346 |
+12,168 |
21,160 |
|
|
1,072,620 |
+10,223 |
51,212 |
|
|
977,312 |
+691 |
36,455 |
|
|
925,342 |
+31,712 |
15,531 |
|
|
845,343 |
+12,585 |
14,204 |
|
|
828,598 |
+6,709 |
22,574 |
|
|
594,572 |
+1,957 |
17,507 |
|
|
592,900 |
+6,058 |
18,171 |
|
|
576,965 |
+6,528 |
9,841 |
|
|
569,873 |
+1,735 |
12,501 |
|
|
564,778 |
+1,244 |
15,690 |
|
|
532,040 |
+7,365 |
12,821 |
|
|
484,104 |
+2,159 |
6,930 |
|
|
444,157 |
+1,380 |
8,677 |
|
|
435,330 |
+6,295 |
12,983 |
|
|
426,142 |
+2,963 |
8,547 |
|
|
388,184 |
+4,096 |
6,427 |
|
|
359,274 |
+159 |
6,002 |
|
|
350,271 |
+1,986 |
2,934 |
|
|
332,073 |
+4,097 |
5,192 |
|
|
311,002 |
+2,932 |
4,056 |
|
|
259,588 |
+3,221 |
6,280 |
|
|
250,219 |
+3,088 |
3,206 |
|
|
244,433 |
+1,056 |
1,651 |
|
|
241,831 |
+7,804 |
2,116 |
|
|
199,228 |
+476 |
13,814 |
|
|
182,977 |
+1,811 |
3,264 |
|
|
180,150 |
+1,313 |
598 |
|
|
174,383 |
+4,734 |
1,614 |
|
|
171,493 |
+3,328 |
5,283 |
|
|
165,840 |
+1,911 |
2,420 |
|
|
159,372 |
+4,520 |
2,367 |
|
|
158,555 |
+4,403 |
1,755 |
|
|
152,453 |
+1,851 |
1,230 |
|
|
Dominican |
150,161 |
+531 |
2,350 |
|
148,688 |
+1,258 |
1,864 |
|
|
145,846 |
+189 |
9,002 |
|
|
145,204 |
+304 |
905 |
|
|
144,066 |
+1,138 |
2,393 |
|
|
140,409 |
+1,274 |
1,156 |
|
|
140,353 |
+150 |
240 |
|
|
138,382 |
+729 |
2,088 |
|
|
127,127 |
+654 |
4,311 |
|
|
125,490 |
+165 |
1,461 |
|
|
121,796 |
+2,564 |
1,084 |
|
|
120,970 |
+1,766 |
2,481 |
|
|
119,720 |
+1,675 |
3,289 |
|
|
119,702 |
+421 |
6,832 |
|
|
114,834 |
+568 |
1,769 |
|
|
112,175 |
+468 |
2,952 |
|
|
106,856 |
+1,411 |
3,717 |
|
|
105,852 |
+468 |
933 |
|
|
103,166 |
+1,427 |
2,174 |
|
|
102,992 |
+1,883 |
890 |
|
|
97,357 |
+2,558 |
904 |
|
|
90,146 |
+725 |
1,901 |
|
|
90,075 |
+2,139 |
1,900 |
|
|
90,014 |
+598 |
2,554 |
|
|
89,661 |
+561 |
1,552 |
|
|
88,522 |
+536 |
1,261 |
|
|
88,495 |
+201 |
347 |
|
|
86,661 |
+15 |
4,634 |
|
|
80,556 |
+3,128 |
704 |
|
|
76,265 |
+959 |
393 |
|
|
76,012 |
+322 |
1,303 |
|
|
74,900 |
+218 |
2,102 |
|
|
74,352 |
+146 |
611 |
|
|
70,669 |
+474 |
1,184 |
|
|
69,954 |
+502 |
2,023 |
|
|
58,291 |
+6 |
29 |
|
|
52,622 |
+122 |
326 |
|
|
45,188 |
+752 |
951 |
|
|
40,741 |
+190 |
1,174 |
|
|
39,607 |
+454 |
556 |
|
|
39,525 |
+362 |
361 |
|
|
39,416 |
+670 |
556 |
|
|
5,333 |
+7 |
117 |
|
|
4,996 |
+12 |
45 |
|
|
4,151 |
+25 |
60 |
|
|
1,381 |
+4 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Mostafa Salem and Yong Xiong
An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm has 86% efficacy, the United Arab Emirates Health Ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency on Wednesday.
The Health Ministry said the results for the vaccine were based on interim analysis of the late-stage clinical trials which the UAE started in July.
Though few details were provided, the statement marks the first publicly released information regarding the performance of the Chinese vaccine, developed by the China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a unit of Sinopharm. The UAE approved emergency use for frontline workers in September.
"The analysis shows no serious safety concerns," the statement said, though it did not make clear whether individual participants suffered any specific side effects, or how many volunteers were given the vaccine or a placebo.
The statement added that the "official registration" of the Covid-19 vaccine is "a major step towards combating the global pandemic." The statement did not elaborate on what official registration would entail.
The clinical trials included 31,000 volunteers across 125 nationalities in the UAE, the statement said. So far, almost 100,000 people across the Emirates have also received the vaccine as part of a voluntary program, Jamal Al Kaabi, a top UAE health official told CNN.
UAE Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was pictured receiving the jab during trials in November.
CNN has reached out to Sinopharm for more details.
Analysis from CNN's Maeve Reston
Americans could get the first real glimmer of hope that there will be an end to the pandemic that has upended their lives Thursday, when a key advisory panel takes a vote that could clear the way for the US Food and Drug Administration to greenlight a Covid-19 vaccine within days.
The FDA advisory panel will meet Thursday to discuss whether the agency should authorize emergency use of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine at a dark moment in the pandemic, when the US recorded the highest single day tally of more than 3,000 deaths -- and some communities continue to resist precautionary measures like mask mandates as a vocal few falsely claim that the pandemic does not exist.
These times cry out for leadership from the White House. Instead, President Donald Trump is pursuing a new round in his quixotic bid to overturn the November election by attempting to intervene in a lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court.
The contentious transition he has forced with President-elect Joe Biden's team has magnified the giant hurdles that loom for government officials as they try to ensure the smooth delivery of millions of vaccine doses within the 50 states, as they try to ensure smooth delivery of millions of vaccines doses to states and cities with different ideas about the best way to administer them.
With the reality of shots in arms coming ever closer, the crucial question is whether Trump and his administration are equipping the incoming Biden administration with the knowledge and tools they need to carry out an unprecedented vaccination operation as Trump's White House grudgingly passes the baton.
Trina Owens, a registered nurse, tending to Andre Johnson, a Covid-19 patient, at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago on Tuesday.Credit...Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Doctors noticed a sex disparity early in the pandemic: Men infected with the coronavirus were hospitalized at much higher rates than women, and men died at higher rates.
The gap was first observed in China, then seen in Italy and in New York City. Now a large global study has confirmed that men with Covid-19 are at higher risk than women for both severe disease and death.
The analysis, published in Nature Communications on Wednesday, examined more than 3 million Covid-19 cases in dozens of countries and most American states. While the researchers found no differences in the proportion of male and female patients infected with the virus, men were nearly three times as likely to be admitted to intensive care than women, and 40 percent more likely to die.
The sex bias is a “worldwide phenomenon,” with only a “few exceptions,” the authors wrote, and the disparity has implications both for medical care as well as for mitigation strategies — and specifically, vaccination.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/09/world/covid-19-coronavirus/men-with-the-virus-are-hospitalized-and-die-at-higher-rates-than-women
Demonstrators converged on Central District Health offices in Boise, Idaho, to disrupt a meeting called to discuss more mandates to combat the spread of COVID-19.Credit...Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman, via Associated Press
The Central District Health board in Boise, Idaho, tried to meet Tuesday evening to consider imposing a mask mandate and other measures. But the meeting was beset from the very beginning.
Before the board had even completed roll call, one commissioner, Diana Lachiondo, interrupted to say she was stepping out to phone the police, because protesters had gathered outside her home. Four minutes later, she tearfully interrupted again, saying she had to leave the meeting because the protesters had begun banging on the door, where her 12-year-old son was home alone.
The board tried to carry on with business, hearing from a doctor about how the pandemic has overwhelmed his staff. But then the meeting was hastily adjourned at the request of the city’s mayor and chief of police, who told the board it was unsafe to continue.
Protesters had gathered outside the Central District Health building in Boise, as well as the homes of Ms. Lachiondo and at least two other board members, to protest the mitigation measures the board was considering for four of Idaho’s most populous counties. The police set up barricades at the building to keep protesters from entering.
The proposed measures included a mask mandate for public and private places where people of different households could not remain at least six feet apart. The board received more than 3,000 written public comments about the proposal over four days.
Another board member, Dr. Ted Epperly, later told The Idaho Statesman that about 15 protesters gathered outside his house during the meeting, “beating garbage cans and flashing strobe lights through my windows,” and that two people had knocked on his door.
The Boise Police Department said one person was arrested on charges of misdemeanor trespassing inside the Central District Health building. Investigators were also securing warrants to arrest others involved for disturbing the peace, the police said in a statement.
Mayor Lauren McLean of Boise wrote on Twitter that the protesters had come from “outside our community,” and that their purpose was to “disrupt local government in action, to intimidate their families.”
“This is not OK,” she wrote. “Let me be clear: we will hold offenders accountable.”
A survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about a quarter of US adults aren’t sure if they want to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Roughly another quarter say they won’t.
Many on the fence have safety concerns and want to watch how the initial rollout fares — skepticism that could hinder the campaign against the scourge that has killed nearly 290,000 Americans. Experts estimate at least 70% of the US population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, or the point at which enough people are protected that the virus can be held in check.
Early data suggests the two US frontrunners – one vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech and another by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health – offer strong protection. The Food and Drug Administration is poring over study results to be sure the shots are safe before deciding in the coming days whether to allow mass vaccinations, as Britain began doing with Pfizer’s shots on Tuesday.
Despite the hopeful news, feelings haven’t changed much from an AP-NORC poll in May, before it was clear a vaccine would pan out.
In the survey of 1,117 American adults conducted 3-7 December, about 3 in 10 said they are very or extremely confident that the first available vaccines will have been properly tested for safety and effectiveness. About an equal number said they are not confident. The rest fell somewhere in the middle.
Among those who don’t want to get vaccinated, about 3 in 10 said they aren’t concerned about getting seriously ill from the coronavirus, and around a quarter said the outbreak isn’t as serious as some people say.
About 7 in 10 of those who said they won’t get vaccinated are concerned about side effects. Pfizer and Moderna say testing has uncovered no serious ones so far. As with many vaccines, recipients may experience fever, fatigue or sore arms from the injection, signs the immune system is revving up.
Women wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus pass a Christmas tree at a shopping mall in Johannesburg, Monday, 7 December 2020. Photograph: Denis Farrell/AP
South Africa, the African country most affected by coronavirus, has entered a second wave of the pandemic, the health minister declared Wednesday.
“As it stands as a country we now meet that criteria,” Zweli Mkhize said in a statement, as the country registered nearly 7,000 new cases in the last 24-hour cycle.
The country now counts 828,598 infections after 6,709 new cases were detected between Tuesday and Wednesday.
South Africa had reined in its first wave which occurred in July at an average of 12,000 cases detected daily. Numbers then gradually came down, at a point dropping below 1,000 in September.
The minister said the number of new infections detected in parts of the country suggest that “we should expect faster rising numbers with a higher peak than in the first wave”.
Most of the cases have been detected in the southern parts of the country, including Cape Town.
Mkhize said the new cases recorded over the last two days have mostly been found in the 15-19 year age group.
The infections are believed to have been fuelled by recent “super spreader” year-end parties where young people drank alcohol and failed to wear masks or respect observe distancing.
The minister warned that the health care system could be “overwhelmed” if large gatherings were not banned.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Half of Americans would take vaccine, poll shows. A survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about a quarter of US adults aren’t sure if they want to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. Roughly another quarter say they won’t.
· A citizen journalist detained for more than six months after reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has had a feeding tube forcibly inserted and her arms restrained to stop her pulling it out, her lawyer has claimed. Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, has been on a hunger strike at a detention facility near Shanghai. Zhang was arrested in May and accused of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble”, an accusation frequently used against critics and activists inside China, after reporting on social media and streaming accounts. Last month she was formally indicted on charges of spreading false information.
· US to confirm record daily death toll for Wednesday – reports. It looks like the US will again confirm a record new death toll for Wednesday, for the first time exceeding 3,000 deaths – higher than the toll of 9/11 – in 24 hours. The Guardian relies on Johns Hopkins for official data and they have not yet posted 9 December’s toll, but the Washington Post, New York Times and Covid-tracking Project’s figures each suggest that it will be a record day.
· South Africa now experiencing Covid-19 ‘second wave’, the health minister declared Wednesday.“ As it stands as a country we now meet that criteria,” Zweli Mkhize said in a statement, as the country registered nearly 7,000 new cases in the last 24-hour cycle.The country now counts 828,598 infections after 6,709 new cases were detected between Tuesday and Wednesday.
· Australian scientists said on Thursday they had developed a rapid genome sequencing method that would cut to within four hours the time taken to trace the source of coronavirus cases, helping to quickly contain any future outbreaks.
· Japan has reported a record daily number of coronavirus cases, prompting health experts to urge people not to travel in the run-up to the New Year holidays. The country reported 2,811 new infections on Wednesday, as well as a record 555 people with serious Covid symptoms, the Kyodo news agency said.
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