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World |
91,990,376 |
+664,900 |
1,968,769 |
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23,369,732 |
+223,628 |
389,621 |
|
|
10,495,816 |
+15,903 |
151,564 |
|
|
8,195,637 |
+61,804 |
204,726 |
|
|
3,448,203 |
+22,934 |
62,804 |
|
|
3,164,051 |
+45,533 |
83,203 |
|
|
2,806,590 |
+19,752 |
68,802 |
|
|
2,346,285 |
+9,809 |
23,152 |
|
|
2,303,263 |
+14,242 |
79,819 |
|
|
2,137,220 |
+25,438 |
52,683 |
|
|
1,957,492 |
+16,415 |
43,203 |
|
|
1,816,082 |
+14,179 |
46,782 |
|
|
1,744,704 |
+13,783 |
44,848 |
|
|
1,541,633 |
+7,594 |
134,368 |
|
|
1,395,779 |
+5,569 |
31,593 |
|
|
1,299,022 |
+6,408 |
56,360 |
|
|
1,259,748 |
+13,105 |
34,334 |
|
|
1,124,430 |
+5,116 |
20,019 |
|
|
1,040,231 |
+2,881 |
38,399 |
|
|
883,135 |
+4,872 |
12,563 |
|
|
846,765 |
+10,047 |
24,645 |
|
|
844,875 |
+9,345 |
13,577 |
|
|
676,968 |
+3,697 |
16,881 |
|
|
674,473 |
+6,292 |
17,233 |
|
|
665,223 |
+960 |
20,122 |
|
|
649,135 |
+3,243 |
17,182 |
|
|
604,549 |
+810 |
12,911 |
|
|
524,020 |
+718 |
7,819 |
|
|
510,063 |
+8,990 |
3,770 |
|
|
506,701 |
+2,408 |
10,717 |
|
|
496,552 |
+7,259 |
8,080 |
|
|
491,247 |
+1,513 |
9,553 |
|
|
453,789 |
+801 |
7,784 |
|
|
383,833 |
+1,575 |
6,819 |
|
|
364,096 |
+147 |
6,300 |
|
|
363,924 |
+2,142 |
3,639 |
|
|
344,352 |
+696 |
10,853 |
|
|
309,846 |
+1,176 |
4,076 |
|
|
292,212 |
+5,460 |
4,094 |
|
|
285,093 |
+3,740 |
4,561 |
|
|
265,698 |
+430 |
1,932 |
|
|
241,637 |
+1,857 |
2,820 |
|
|
236,225 |
+3,243 |
717 |
|
|
226,948 |
+4,557 |
1,705 |
|
|
225,346 |
+519 |
2,941 |
|
|
222,567 |
+1,061 |
14,196 |
|
|
220,982 |
+759 |
4,446 |
|
|
215,724 |
+1,731 |
1,535 |
|
|
211,479 |
+2,410 |
3,102 |
|
|
209,881 |
+750 |
8,279 |
|
|
Dominican |
184,788 |
+1,506 |
2,427 |
|
183,801 |
+1,076 |
1,623 |
|
|
181,093 |
+1,032 |
2,367 |
|
|
175,288 |
+1,392 |
9,415 |
|
|
164,936 |
+2,586 |
5,343 |
|
|
163,711 |
+692 |
2,349 |
|
|
162,643 |
+355 |
2,941 |
|
|
161,348 |
+902 |
2,272 |
|
|
155,591 |
+3,052 |
2,397 |
|
|
155,335 |
+494 |
946 |
|
|
151,723 |
+970 |
8,304 |
|
|
150,138 |
+476 |
3,176 |
|
|
148,968 |
+797 |
1,630 |
|
|
146,279 |
+211 |
246 |
|
|
146,020 |
+841 |
5,329 |
|
|
144,982 |
+1,739 |
5,080 |
|
|
141,587 |
+1,874 |
3,053 |
|
|
141,533 |
+3,309 |
559 |
|
|
131,737 |
+551 |
2,878 |
|
|
130,944 |
+164 |
1,508 |
|
|
128,992 |
+376 |
2,004 |
|
|
128,701 |
+756 |
3,285 |
|
|
117,590 |
+1,055 |
2,437 |
|
|
117,299 |
+316 |
1,078 |
|
|
106,030 |
+652 |
1,622 |
|
|
102,641 |
+272 |
2,816 |
|
|
102,601 |
+1,270 |
1,373 |
|
|
98,432 |
+98 |
1,716 |
|
|
96,195 |
+316 |
356 |
|
|
87,591 |
+55 |
4,634 |
|
|
87,117 |
+520 |
2,647 |
|
|
82,495 |
+115 |
1,374 |
|
|
77,663 |
+52 |
617 |
|
|
69,651 |
+537 |
1,165 |
|
|
64,627 |
+656 |
1,252 |
|
|
58,946 |
+17 |
29 |
|
|
56,615 |
+712 |
482 |
|
|
56,421 |
+191 |
338 |
|
|
53,338 |
+519 |
730 |
|
|
10,834 |
+287 |
67 |
|
|
7,178 |
+114 |
138 |
|
|
6,154 |
+86 |
52 |
|
|
1,520 |
+5 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN Health’s Maggie Fox
Restaurants and shops are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic on October 28, 2020, in Madrid, Spain. Oscar J. Barroso/AFP7/Getty Images
Quicker, more stringent pandemic policies likely saved tens of thousands of lives in certain European countries, researchers reported Tuesday.
And they did not necessarily need to impose all-out lockdowns.
A review led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that when countries imposed mitigation measures earlier last spring, they had less spread of coronavirus and fewer deaths.
“Countries that implemented stringent policies earlier might have saved several thousand lives relative to those countries that implemented similar policies, but later. Earlier implementation of mitigation policies, even by just a few weeks, might be an important strategy to reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19,” the team of researchers wrote in the CDC’s weekly report, the MMWR.
Early measures included: canceling public events, school closures, restrictions on gathering and internal travel, workplace closures, border closures, public transport closures, recommendations to stay at home, and stay-at-home orders. Mask requirements were not included, according to the report.
The CDC team reviewed policies in 37 European countries and used them to create an index. Those with a higher index -- indicating either more policies, or stricter implementation of policies -- had fewer deaths per capita.
“Earlier implementation of stringent mitigation policies, even by just a few weeks, appears to be important to prevent widespread Covid-19 transmission and reduce the number of deaths,” the team wrote.
More lives could have been saved: Britain could have averted 22,776 deaths had mitigation measures been put into place earlier, the team calculated. France could have prevented more than 13,000 deaths, and Spain could have averted 9,300 fatalities.
The team said many policies were put in place at the same time so they could not say if any particular policies worked best.
From CNN's Manveena Suri in New Delhi
A volunteer is vaccinated with Bharat Biotech's Covaxin during a human trial at the Maharaja Agrasen Super Speciality Hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on December 18, 2020. Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Indian officials are ramping up their messaging that two Covid-19 vaccines approved for emergency use are safe, in order to encourage participation in the country's vaccine rollout.
Speaking a news conference on Tuesday, Dr. V. K. Paul, Member (Health) of government think tank NITI Aayog, said vaccines Covishield and Covaxin “have been tested on thousands of people and the side-effects are negligible.”
Let's give the message that these vaccines are safe and secure. We need to send the message. We need to take this message and defeat coronavirus," Paul said.
Paul urged the media to raise awareness, saying, “We believe it is very much in our grasp to mount the world's largest vaccination program, which is set to begin from January 16."
Rajesh Bhushan, a senior official from the country’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, added that the vaccines were granted approval through a "well prescribed regulatory process.”
India’s Health Ministry has placed a purchase order for 11 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine -- branded locally as Covishield -- and 5.5 million doses of the vaccine Covaxin, developed locally by Bharat Biotech.
Vaccine drive: India is embarking on one of the world's most ambitious mass immunization programs ever undertaken. The country of 1.35 billion is planning to inoculate 300 million frontline workers, elderly and vulnerable people by August, and preparations have been months in the making. In its first phase, the government intends to vaccinate 10 million healthcare workers free of charge.
New cases: On Wednesday, India confirmed 15,968 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country's total to 10,495,147, according to figures released by the Health Ministry. The number of fatalities rose by 202, bringing the death toll to 151,529.
From CNN's Elizabeth Cohen
Scientists have identified an "escape mutant" that may decrease the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines.
The mutation -- called E484K -- has been found in a variant of the coronavirus first spotted in South Africa two months ago. That variant has now spread to 12 other countries.
Penny Moore, associate professor at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, called the mutation "alarming."
"We fear this mutation might have an impact, and what we don't know is the extent of the impact," she said.
E484K is called an "escape mutant" because it's been shown it might be able to escape some of the antibodies produced by the vaccine.
"I'm worried," said Alex Sigal, a virologist at the Africa Health Research Institute.
Sigal, Moore, and other scientists who are studying the E484K mutation still have to complete their work in the lab to see if the vaccine is less effective against this new variant.
Based on what they've seen so far, they say they highly doubt E484K will render the coronavirus vaccines useless. Rather, they think there's a possibility the mutation -- on its own or in combination with other mutations -- could decrease the efficacy of the vaccine against the variant.
They also worry E484K might be an indication the novel coronavirus is showing its ability to change before our eyes. If this mutation happened in a matter of months, other problematic mutations could follow.
"This virus may be taking the first steps down a fairly lengthy road towards vaccine resistance," said Andrew Ward, a structural virologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California.
"It's the beginning of a long haul," Moore said. "That's what's really shaken me up about this. It's a sobering wake up call."
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-13-21/index.html
Commuters at Shinjuku station in Tokyo last week.Credit...Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times
Another new coronavirus variant has been detected in four people who traveled to Japan from Brazil.
Japan’s health ministry said that the people who arrived this month at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport had tested positive for the coronavirus and that it was a separate variant with similarities to those detected in Britain and South Africa. It is also distinct from another variant recently identified in Brazil, according to experts who have analyzed the data.
Makoto Shimoaraiso, an official with Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat and Office for Covid-19 Preparedness and Response, said on Tuesday that the country was consulting with the World Health Organization.
It is not unusual for viruses to accumulate mutations or for new variants to emerge. But scientists are calling for greater surveillance of variants, particularly after those from Britain and South Africa proved to be more contagious.
Mr. Shimoaraiso said epidemiologists were not sure whether the variant identified in Japan was more infectious or likely to cause more severe illness.
According to Japan’s health ministry, one of the passengers infected with the new variant, a man in his 40s, was admitted to a hospital after having breathing difficulties. Of the other cases, a woman in her 30s and a teenage boy are experiencing sore throats and fever, and a teenage girl is asymptomatic.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/12/world/covid-19-coronavirus/a-new-virus-variant-is-found-in-japan
Thousands of Alabama fans crowded onto the streets, forming a massive crowd in Tuscaloosa after the Crimson Tide football team won the national championship game on Monday night.Credit...Charity Rachelle for The New York Times
About 5,000 football fans packed a popular boulevard in Tuscaloosa after the University of Alabama won its 18th college football national championship on Monday night, ignoring the city’s pleas before the game to stay home and inflaming worries about an influx of coronavirus cases in a city already straining to contain the pandemic.
The scene on the street of bars and restaurants known as the Strip was precisely what health officials wanted to avoid after the Crimson Tide routed Ohio State, 52-24. Fans, many not wearing masks, could be seen bumping into one another, tossing beer bottles and reveling as if the pandemic did not exist.
Mayor Walt Maddox of Tuscaloosa said 14 people were arrested after fights broke out in the crowd.
The city reached a critical point in the pandemic, Maddox said last week, with just four intensive care unit rooms available at the city’s main hospital and a police force limited to about 69 percent because of the number of officers who had either contracted or been exposed to the virus.
The city had urged fans to not create a “block party environment” if Alabama won. Cases in Alabama had already increased 30 percent over the past week compared to two weeks ago, according to a New York Times database.
Now, health officials are preparing for a post-championship spike.
“A surge on top of a surge, like most places in the country, can have devastating consequences,” Maddox said.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/12/world/covid-19-coronavirus/alabama-coronavirus-football
Coronavirus testing at a clinic outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Monday.Credit...Fazry Ismail/EPA, via Shutterstock
Malaysia’s king declared a national state of emergency on Tuesday to stem a surge in coronavirus cases, suspending Parliament, closing nonessential businesses and locking down several states and territories, including the largest city, Kuala Lumpur.
The emergency declaration could last until Aug. 1, and some critics said the main beneficiary would be the prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, the head of an unelected government who for months has barely maintained his hold on power.
Mr. Muhyiddin, who asked the king to issue the declaration, went on television to assert that the emergency measure was necessary to contain the virus — and that it was not about extending his political career.
“Let me assure you, the civilian government will continue to function,” he said. “The emergency proclaimed by the king is not a military coup.”
Mr. Muhyiddin promised to hold a general election after the virus was brought under control.
Malaysia was mostly successful in containing the virus for much of last year, but the number of infections began rising in October and reached a daily peak of more than 3,000 new cases on Thursday. The surge was caused in part by an election campaign in the state of Sabah and by an outbreak among migrant workers. The government reported a total of more than 141,000 cases and 559 deaths as of Tuesday.
Mr. Muhyiddin came to power in March after the previous government collapsed. He formed a new coalition and the king appointed him prime minister without a parliamentary vote. Opponents have since questioned whether he has the support of a majority of Parliament’s 222 members.
Now, the king’s declaration means that no parliamentary vote or general election can be held for more than six months, as long as the virus persists.
James Chin, professor of Asian studies at the University of Tasmania, said the declaration gave Mr. Muhyiddin extraordinary powers, including the authority to pass laws that override existing ones and to use the military for police work.
“Politically he will benefit the most from this Covid emergency,” he said. “This will give him what he wants without any scrutiny from Parliament.”
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked European Union countries for more help in procuring vaccines after his government resisted turning to Russia for assistance.
The pandemic has killed more than 20,000 Ukrainians and plunged one of Europe’s poorest countries into recession last year.
Ukraine has agreed to buy some vaccines from China and also expects to secure some under the global Covax programme for poorer countries.
But it has dismissed calls from a Russian-leaning opposition leader to buy vaccines from Russia. The neighbours are estranged over Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its support for rebels in eastern Ukraine. During a televised statement while hosting the Moldovan president Maia Sandu in Kyiv, Zelenskiy said:
Today, for all countries of the Eastern Partnership initiative, in particular Ukraine and Moldova, the issue of obtaining vaccines is important. The countries of the Eastern Partnership should be given increased attention by the EU states in matters of joint procurement procedures and accelerating the supply of vaccines.
A week ago, 13 of the EU’s 27 member states jointly urged the bloc’s executive, the EU commission, to do more to help combat the coronavirus in the bloc’s Balkan neighbours and in Ukraine.
Sandu came to power in November by defeating Moldova’s Moscow-backed incumbent president Igor Dodon and has promised closer cooperation with the EU.
Last month, while visiting Chisinau, the Romanian president Klaus Iohannis promised to donate 200,000 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to Moldova as a gesture of solidarity following Sandu’s election.
Here are the key global developments from the last few hours:
· The African Union has secured close to 300 million Covid-19 vaccine doses in the largest such agreement yet for Africa, an official said on Tuesday. The 300m doses are being secured independently of the global Covax effort aimed at distributing Covid-19 vaccines to lower-income countries, the official said.
· New data shows 50.4% efficacy for China’s CoronaVac vaccine in Brazil. A coronavirus vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech was just 50.4% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in a Brazilian trial, researchers said on Tuesday, barely enough for regulatory approval and well below the rate announced last week.
· US CDC expands pre-flight Covid testing. Anyone flying to the US will soon need to show proof of a negative test for Covid-19, health officials announced on Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requirement expands on a similar one announced late last month for passengers coming from the UK. The order takes effect in two weeks.
· English Covid rules have changed 64 times since March, says barrister. Lockdown rules in England have been changed at least 64 times by the government since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a human rights barrister has calculated, amid growing calls for clearer guidance for the public.
· US Operation Warp Speed chief resigns. Operation Warp Speed Chief Adviser Dr Moncef Slaoui has resigned at the request of the incoming Biden team, in a plan that would see him stay in the role for a month to help with the transition.
· WHO mission will fly directly to Wuhan. The World Health Organization’s investigative mission will fly directly to Wuhan, China’s foreign ministry has confirmed. In a regular press briefing on Tuesday afternoon, spokesman for China’s ministry, Zhao Lijian, said the team would fly directly from Singapore into Wuhan. Zhao didn’t answer questions about whether the team would quarantine, and gave no further details.
· China sees highest daily case rise in five months. China has recorded the biggest daily jump in Covid cases in more than five months, despite three cities in lockdown, increased testing and other measures aimed at preventing another wave of infections in the world’s second biggest economy.
· Indonesia’s president receives vaccine. Indonesian president Joko Widodo became the first person in the country to receive a shot of a Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday morning, as health officials began an immunisation campaign in one of the world’s most populous countries.
· Former Bolivian President Evo Morales has tested positive for coronavirus and is getting treatment to combat symptoms, according to a statement issued by his office late on Tuesday.
· Micronesia president said first Covid case not a threat to country. The president of the Federated States of Micronesia has said the country’s first case of Covid-19 – detected in a sailor on board a ship held in an island lagoon – does not pose a threat to the wider community.
· California lifts stay-home order for Sacramento region. California lifted a stay-at-home order in the 13-county Sacramento region on Tuesday as hospital conditions improved, a rare turn of good news as the state pushes through what Governor Gavin Newsom called “its most intense surge” of the coronavirus.
· Tokyo 2020 head says ‘impossible’ to delay Olympics as public opposition grows. The president of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, has said preparations for the summer Olympics will continue, despite growing doubts that the Games can be held while the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage.
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