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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
92,751,882 |
+745,862 |
1,985,603 |
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23,616,345 |
+236,462 |
393,928 |
|
|
10,512,831 |
+17,015 |
151,765 |
|
|
8,257,459 |
+61,822 |
206,009 |
|
|
3,471,053 |
+22,850 |
63,370 |
|
|
3,211,576 |
+47,525 |
84,767 |
|
|
2,830,442 |
+23,852 |
69,031 |
|
|
2,355,839 |
+9,554 |
23,325 |
|
|
2,319,036 |
+15,774 |
80,326 |
|
|
2,176,089 |
+38,869 |
52,878 |
|
|
1,980,861 |
+23,294 |
44,404 |
|
|
1,831,980 |
+15,898 |
47,124 |
|
|
1,757,429 |
+12,725 |
44,983 |
|
|
1,556,028 |
+14,395 |
135,682 |
|
|
1,404,905 |
+9,053 |
32,074 |
|
|
1,305,339 |
+6,317 |
56,457 |
|
|
1,278,303 |
+18,555 |
35,140 |
|
|
1,130,839 |
+6,409 |
20,214 |
|
|
1,043,640 |
+3,409 |
38,473 |
|
|
889,221 |
+6,086 |
12,685 |
|
|
858,043 |
+11,278 |
24,951 |
|
|
855,668 |
+10,782 |
13,774 |
|
|
681,392 |
+4,424 |
16,969 |
|
|
681,328 |
+6,855 |
17,383 |
|
|
667,322 |
+2,099 |
20,194 |
|
|
652,525 |
+3,390 |
17,204 |
|
|
605,416 |
+867 |
12,915 |
|
|
524,910 |
+890 |
7,833 |
|
|
520,060 |
+9,997 |
3,817 |
|
|
508,824 |
+2,123 |
10,772 |
|
|
507,108 |
+10,556 |
8,236 |
|
|
492,693 |
+1,446 |
9,699 |
|
|
455,055 |
+1,266 |
7,810 |
|
|
385,750 |
+1,917 |
6,868 |
|
|
366,191 |
+2,267 |
3,664 |
|
|
364,271 |
+175 |
6,304 |
|
|
345,710 |
+1,358 |
10,948 |
|
|
310,968 |
+1,122 |
4,091 |
|
|
297,315 |
+5,103 |
4,145 |
|
|
288,408 |
+3,315 |
4,594 |
|
|
266,143 |
+445 |
1,937 |
|
|
243,255 |
+1,618 |
2,846 |
|
|
239,587 |
+3,362 |
723 |
|
|
231,936 |
+4,988 |
1,740 |
|
|
225,820 |
+474 |
2,957 |
|
|
224,315 |
+1,748 |
14,229 |
|
|
222,117 |
+1,135 |
4,472 |
|
|
217,696 |
+1,972 |
1,544 |
|
|
215,055 |
+3,576 |
3,163 |
|
|
210,416 |
+535 |
8,349 |
|
|
186,383 |
+1,595 |
2,428 |
|
|
185,159 |
+1,358 |
1,660 |
|
|
182,156 |
+1,063 |
2,384 |
|
|
176,761 |
+1,473 |
9,454 |
|
|
168,568 |
+3,632 |
5,415 |
|
|
164,477 |
+766 |
2,349 |
|
|
163,128 |
+485 |
2,951 |
|
|
163,043 |
+1,695 |
2,314 |
|
|
159,144 |
+3,553 |
2,460 |
|
|
155,874 |
+539 |
946 |
|
|
152,719 |
+996 |
8,362 |
|
|
150,946 |
+808 |
3,193 |
|
|
149,769 |
+801 |
1,658 |
|
|
146,688 |
+668 |
5,354 |
|
|
146,480 |
+201 |
246 |
|
|
145,986 |
+1,004 |
5,117 |
|
|
144,518 |
+2,985 |
563 |
|
|
143,679 |
+2,092 |
3,070 |
|
|
132,260 |
+523 |
2,902 |
|
|
131,086 |
+142 |
1,508 |
|
|
129,805 |
+1,104 |
3,294 |
|
|
129,455 |
+463 |
2,006 |
|
|
118,592 |
+1,002 |
2,451 |
|
|
117,811 |
+512 |
1,084 |
|
|
106,670 |
+640 |
1,629 |
|
|
103,999 |
+1,398 |
1,382 |
|
|
102,860 |
+219 |
2,819 |
|
|
98,555 |
+123 |
1,720 |
|
|
96,470 |
+275 |
356 |
|
|
87,706 |
+115 |
4,634 |
|
|
87,590 |
+473 |
2,657 |
|
|
82,587 |
+92 |
1,375 |
|
|
77,716 |
+53 |
618 |
|
|
70,204 |
+553 |
1,185 |
|
|
65,334 |
+707 |
1,256 |
|
|
58,984 |
+38 |
29 |
|
|
57,282 |
+667 |
509 |
|
|
56,981 |
+560 |
341 |
|
|
53,840 |
+502 |
737 |
|
|
10,991 |
+157 |
67 |
|
|
7,247 |
+69 |
139 |
|
|
6,228 |
+74 |
52 |
|
|
1,521 |
+1 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's MJ Lee and Paul LeBlanc
US President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks about the storming of the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, on January 6. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to unveil a major Covid-19 relief package on Thursday and his advisers have recently told allies in Congress to expect a price tag in the ballpark of $2 trillion, according to two people briefed on the deliberations.
The Biden team is taking a "shoot for the moon" approach with the package, one lawmaker in close contact with them told CNN, though they added that the price tag could still change. The proposal will include sizable direct payments to American families, significant state and local funding -- including for coronavirus vaccine distribution and other emergency spending measures -- to help those struggling during the pandemic.
Biden is set to announce the details of his plan in Wilmington, Delaware, Thursday evening.
Democrats hold only the slimmest of majorities in the House and the Senate, and Republicans have recently resisted efforts to pass Covid-19 relief on a multi-trillion dollar scale. But Biden's party believes it may have only a brief window to pass sweeping relief legislation and the President-elect has faced significant pressure from some Democrats to go big.
Brian Deese, Biden's pick to lead the National Economic Council, said Wednesday at a conference that the package will include $2,000 stimulus checks, and address other relief measures like unemployment insurance.
Biden's early focus on a sweeping relief package reflects the political reality that his first year in office will be defined by his ability to combat the virus and stave off an economic collapse.
From CNN’s Beijing bureau
The World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan has arrived in China, state broadcaster CGTN announced on Thursday.
The team is undergoing Covid-19 swab testing and will have to go through quarantine before they can start their field research, CGTN added.
The group's successful arrival comes after WHO announced last week that the team had been blocked from entering China as the necessary permissions to enter the country had not been approved.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week he was "very disappointed," in a rare rebuke of China from the UN agency.
For months, WHO officials had been negotiating with Beijing to allow a team of global scientists access to key sites to investigate the origin of the virus -- first detected in Wuhan in December 2019 -- and its likely jump from an unidentified host species to humans.
From CNN's Gregory Lemos
In this February 19, 2020 file photo, Dr. Michael Ryan addresses a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Xinhua/Chen Junxia via Getty Images
As Covid-19 case numbers continue rising globally, Dr. Mike Ryan, director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme, on Wednesday called upon wealthy nations to help bridge a global vaccine inequity gap.
"There are populations out there who want and who need vaccines who are not going to get them unless or until we begin to share better," Ryan said during a virtual Q&A Wednesday.
In the 36 days since countries started vaccinating, 28 million vaccine doses have been administered, he said. According to Ryan, of the 46 countries who are currently vaccinating, only one is a low income country.
"We really have to look at this in terms of equity," Ryan said.
Ryan added there have been 5 million new cases of Covid-19 and 85,000 deaths linked to the virus globally in the past week.
"Essentially, all regions apart from Southeast Asia are showing increases," Ryan said, highlighting that the Americas still account for half of all new cases and 45% of deaths globally.
"We've seen that perfect storm of the season, the coldness, people going inside, increased social mixing, and a combination of factors that have driven increased transmission in many, many countries," Ryan said.
"It's interesting when we talk about tolerance, kindness and solidarity, that they are probably the most powerful countermeasures we have right now," he added. "You have to have the attitude that this disease ends with me."
From CNN’s Brent Swails in Johannesburg
A total of 270 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been secured for African countries, with at least 50 million shots available from April to June, a task force established by the African Union announced Wednesday.
The vaccines will be from Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson, according to a African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) news release.
“From the onset of this pandemic, our focus as a continent has been on collaboration and collective effort. We have held steadfastly to the principle that no country should be left behind," said Chair of the African Union and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
All 270 million vaccine doses will be made available this year, he added.
These vaccines have been secured alongside a vaccine program from COVAX, a World Health Organization and Gavi Vaccine Alliance initiative that aims to provide worldwide access to effective Covid-19 vaccines.
Ramaphosa said that while the initiative was "vital" it may “not extend beyond the needs of frontline health care workers, and may thus not be enough to contain the ever-increasing toll of the pandemic in Africa.”
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-14-21/index.html
Dr. Gregory Michael in a photo posted to Facebook by his wife.Credit...via Facebook
Health authorities are investigating the case of a Florida doctor who died from an unusually severe blood disorder 16 days after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
Dr. Gregory Michael, a 56-year-old obstetrician and gynecologist in Miami Beach, received the vaccine at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Dec. 18 and died 16 days later from a brain hemorrhage, his wife, Heidi Neckelmann, wrote in a Facebook post.
Shortly after receiving the vaccine, Dr. Michael developed an extremely serious form of a condition known as acute immune thrombocytopenia, which prevented his blood from clotting properly.
Pfizer said in a statement that it was “actively investigating” the case, “but we don’t believe at this time that there is any direct connection to the vaccine.”
“There have been no related safety signals identified in our clinical trials, the post-marketing experience thus far,” or with the technology used to make the vaccine, the company said. “Our immediate thoughts are with the bereaved family.”
About nine million people in the United States have received at least one shot of either the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine, the two authorized in the United States. Serious reported problems have included 29 cases of anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction, though none were reported as fatal. Many people have had side effects like sore arms, fatigue, headache and fever, which are usually transient.
Local and federal agencies are investigating Dr. Michael’s death. Several experts said the case was highly unusual but could have been a severe reaction to the vaccine.
The Florida Department of Health referred Dr. Michael’s death to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for investigation. Kristen Nordlund, a C.D.C. spokeswoman, said in a statement that the agency would “evaluate the situation as more information becomes available and provide timely updates on what is known and any necessary actions.”
Coronavirus testing in Shijiazhuang, China, on Tuesday. The city has been locked down amid a resurgence in cases.Credit...China Daily/Reuters
When a handful of new coronavirus cases materialized this month in a province surrounding Beijing — apparently spread at a village wedding party — the Chinese authorities bolted into action.
They locked down two cities with more than 17 million people, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai. They ordered a testing regime of nearly every resident there, which was completed in a matter of days.
They shut down transportation and canceled weddings, funerals and, most significantly, a provincial Communist Party conference.
By this week, the lockdowns had expanded to include another city on the edge of Beijing, Langfang, as well as a county in Heilongjiang, a northeastern province. Districts in Beijing itself, the Chinese capital, also shut down.
More than 22 million people in all have been ordered to remain inside their homes — double the number affected last January when China’s central government locked down Wuhan, the central city where the virus was first reported, in a move that was then seen as extraordinary.
The flare-ups remain small compared with the devastation facing other countries, but still threaten to undercut the success that the country’s Communist Party has had in subduing the virus, allowing its economy to surge back after last year’s slump and its people to return to something close to normal lives.
The urgency of the government’s current response stands in contrast to that of officials in Wuhan last year who feared a backlash if they disclosed the mysterious new illnesses then emerging. Local officials there had gone ahead with a Communist Party conference like the one now canceled in Hebei, despite knowing the risk of the disease spreading among people.
Since Wuhan, the authorities have created a playbook that mobilizes party cadres to quickly respond to new outbreaks by sealing off neighborhoods, conducting widespread testing and quarantining large groups.
China, a country of 1.4 billion people, has reported an average of 109 new cases a day over the past week, according to a New York Times database. Those would be welcome numbers in countries experiencing far worse — including the United States, which is averaging more than 250,000 new cases a day — but they are the worst in China since last summer.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/13/world/covid19-coronavirus/facing-new-outbreaks-china-puts-more-than-22-million-under-lockdown
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image captionIt was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan
A World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.
A group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.
Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.
The team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.
They will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.
Team leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it "could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened".
"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way," he said.
The probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.
Earlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.
China has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.
Professor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. "It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question," he said.
Prof Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a "natural event".
The visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.
News of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag "new virus death in Hebei" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.
The country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.
But new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.
The African Union has secured a provisional 270m Covid-19 vaccine doses from manufacturers for member states to supplement the COVAX programme, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa said.
African nations are grappling with a second wave of the coronavirus, as the total number of cases rose to at least 3.1 million, and deaths to 74,600, according to a Reuters tally.
The vaccines will be supplied by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, through the Serum Institute of India, and Johnson & Johnson, said Ramaphosa, who chairs the African Union.
He added that all 270m doses would be made available this year, with at least 50m available “for the crucial period of April to June 2021”.
On financing, Ramaphosa said arrangements had been made with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to support member states who want access to the vaccines. Afreximbank would, upon receipt of firm orders from member states, provide advance procurement commitment guarantees of up to $2bn to the manufacturers.
“There is also close collaboration between the AU team and the World Bank to ensure that member states are able to access about $5bn either to buy more vaccines or pay for delivery of vaccines committed on their behalf by Afreximbank,” Ramaphosa said.
He added: “These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible.”
Ramaphosa said while the Covax initiative, co-led by the World Health Organization, was vital to Africa’s response, the African Union was concerned that Covax volumes to be released between February and June may not extend beyond the needs of frontline health care workers.
The Covax facility aims to make available 2bn doses of safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines by the end of 2021.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· China records first local coronavirus death in eight months, highest cases in 10 months. China reported its biggest jump in cases in more than 10 months as infections in north-eastern Heilongjiang province nearly tripled, underscoring the growing threat ahead of a major national holiday when hundreds of millions of people usually travel. The national health commission said in a statement that 138 new Covid-19 cases were reported on 13 January, up from 115 cases a day earlier and marking the highest jump since 5 March. China also reported one new death, the first increase in the death toll since mid-May.
· The WHO’s global team of researchers have Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected, to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries.
· Pharmacies in England begin vaccine rollout. England’s high street pharmacies will begin rolling out Covid vaccines, as the virus death toll across the UK climbed above 100,000. Boots and Superdrug branches will be among the six stores across England which will be able to administer the jabs from Thursday while the government aims to hit its target of vaccinating all people in the four most vulnerable groups by the middle of next month.
· Joe Biden released a statement in which he called for the Senate to address the coronavirus pandemic while dealing with the impeachment trial. “Today, the members of the House of representatives exercised the power granted to them under our constitution and voted to impeach and hold the president accountable,” Biden said. “This nation also remains in the grip of a deadly virus and a reeling economy. I hope that the Senate leadership will find a way to deal with their constitutional responsibilities on impeachment while also working on the other urgent business of this nation.”
· Brazil said Wednesday it would import 2m doses of AstraZeneca’s Covishield jab from India. The inventory would add to some 10m doses of China’s CoronaVac as Brazil gears to start its vaccination campaign this month. The biggest country in Latin America is the second-hardest hit globally by the pandemic, as the novel coronavirus has killed more than 204,000 people out of Brazil’s population of 212 million.
· New York called for more Covid vaccine. New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday said the city would fall short of its inoculation goals unless it could get more vaccine. The mayor said short supplies were hampering New York City’s efforts to increase its immunisation campaign. His appeal comes as the country as a whole struggles to meet an overall goal, with vaccinations now running far behind a target of 20 million people by now.
· Japan is set to expand its state of emergency in greater Tokyo from Thursday to seven more regions including major cities Osaka and Kyoto and also to tighten border restrictions as cases surge. “We continue to see a serious situation,” prime minister Yoshihide Suga said, adding the measures were “indispensable”. “We must overcome this challenge that we face.”
· Colombia will extend a so-called selective quarantine until the end of February, President Ivan Duque said in a nightly address on Wednesday. The Andean country began more than five months of lockdown in March to control the spread of coronavirus. It moved to a much-looser “selective” quarantine at the start of September, allowing dining at restaurants and international flights.
· Indonesia started vaccinating health workers and public servants for Covid-19 on Thursday, a day after President Joko Widodo received the first shot of China’s Sinovac Biotech vaccine.
· The Philippines’ Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine, its head said on Thursday. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which has shown a 95% success rate, is the first vaccine the Philippines has approved. FDA head Rolando Enrique Domingo told a media briefing China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd on Wednesday submitted to regulators its emergency use authorization application.
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