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Country, |
Total |
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Total |
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World |
111,953,370 |
+312,715 |
2,477,849 |
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28,765,423 |
+57,198 |
511,133 |
|
|
11,005,071 |
+13,980 |
156,418 |
|
|
10,168,174 |
+29,026 |
246,560 |
|
|
4,164,726 |
+12,742 |
83,293 |
|
|
4,115,509 |
+9,834 |
120,580 |
|
|
3,605,181 |
+22,046 |
84,306 |
|
|
3,133,122 |
+11435 |
67,101 |
|
|
2,809,246 |
+13,452 |
95,718 |
|
|
2,638,422 |
+6,546 |
28,060 |
|
|
2,394,515 |
+6,098 |
68,443 |
|
|
2,226,262 |
+4,244 |
58,834 |
|
|
2,064,334 |
+3,709 |
51,198 |
|
|
2,038,276 |
+7,785 |
179,797 |
|
|
1,638,767 |
+7,038 |
42,171 |
|
|
1,574,012 |
+7,931 |
59,483 |
|
|
1,503,796 |
+1,429 |
49,053 |
|
|
1,304,456 |
+4,489 |
25,103 |
|
|
1,283,309 |
+7,410 |
45,097 |
|
|
1,278,653 |
+7,300 |
34,489 |
|
|
1,153,178 |
+6,759 |
19,273 |
|
|
1,056,639 |
+4,674 |
15,217 |
|
|
845,652 |
+2,351 |
21,674 |
|
|
799,460 |
+3,615 |
20,042 |
|
|
797,525 |
+1,186 |
15,962 |
|
|
779,695 |
+2,419 |
19,847 |
|
|
752,379 |
+2,640 |
21,887 |
|
|
750,043 |
+5,530 |
5,577 |
|
|
667,937 |
+3,187 |
13,272 |
|
|
571,174 |
+1,328 |
12,601 |
|
|
561,169 |
+1,888 |
12,088 |
|
|
543,351 |
+327 |
8,349 |
|
|
481,155 |
+207 |
8,554 |
|
|
445,374 |
+1,838 |
8,386 |
|
|
436,640 |
+2,518 |
4,337 |
|
|
424,507 |
+1,196 |
7,417 |
|
|
403,023 |
+2,912 |
14,299 |
|
|
375,006 |
+315 |
6,461 |
|
|
370,425 |
+2,250 |
1,125 |
|
|
363,728 |
+3,917 |
4,554 |
|
|
355,073 |
+1,702 |
4,340 |
|
|
336,521 |
+484 |
5,742 |
|
|
292,143 |
+1,686 |
6,505 |
|
|
283,569 |
+3,297 |
1,056 |
|
|
278,312 |
+1,322 |
1,912 |
|
|
274,673 |
+1,576 |
15,536 |
|
|
273,431 |
+80 |
2,061 |
|
|
268,355 |
+258 |
3,435 |
|
|
241,771 |
+1,095 |
11,417 |
|
|
239,945 |
+260 |
5,429 |
|
|
236,666 |
+227 |
9,854 |
|
|
235,462 |
+960 |
3,038 |
|
|
233,129 |
+156 |
3,198 |
|
|
228,362 |
+719 |
7,793 |
|
|
215,057 |
+679 |
4,136 |
|
|
207,577 |
+496 |
2,338 |
|
|
207,418 |
+766 |
2,540 |
|
|
194,051 |
+463 |
3,171 |
|
|
184,767 |
+416 |
3,776 |
|
|
184,090 |
+768 |
1,044 |
|
|
179,802 |
+884 |
6,297 |
|
|
178,151 |
+608 |
10,353 |
|
|
176,752 |
+507 |
3,780 |
|
|
173,635 |
+1,320 |
1,976 |
|
|
171,170 |
+239 |
6,282 |
|
|
170,402 |
+168 |
3,164 |
|
|
164,495 |
+418 |
3,992 |
|
|
160,426 |
+459 |
256 |
|
|
152,806 |
+949 |
2,279 |
|
|
152,074 |
+521 |
1,839 |
|
|
151,718 |
+987 |
3,065 |
|
|
141,750 |
+15 |
3,196 |
|
|
139,362 |
+868 |
1,552 |
|
|
136,068 |
+465 |
1,316 |
|
|
129,797 |
+472 |
2,114 |
|
|
117,809 |
+575 |
423 |
|
|
111,917 |
+153 |
2,961 |
|
|
104,201 |
+208 |
1,823 |
|
|
100,246 |
+1,184 |
1,666 |
|
|
99,285 |
+254 |
3,063 |
|
|
89,831 |
+7 |
4,636 |
|
|
86,992 |
+418 |
1,557 |
|
|
85,885 |
+54 |
1,458 |
|
|
81,519 |
+410 |
1,542 |
|
|
80,253 |
+598 |
577 |
|
|
79,654 |
+22 |
622 |
|
|
74,503 |
+609 |
1,020 |
|
|
71,995 |
+402 |
950 |
|
|
68,532 |
+217 |
607 |
|
|
8,868 |
+12 |
168 |
|
|
2,383 |
+15 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN’s Sarah Dean in London
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scheduled to announce England's route out of lockdown on Monday. Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool/Getty Images
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Monday set out a roadmap for “cautiously easing” lockdown restrictions in England, Downing Street said in a statement.
The first step in the plan will start on March 8, when the government's top priority groups for vaccinations are expected to have "received a degree of immunity, three weeks after being offered their first dose,” Downing Street said.
Across the UK, more than 17 million people have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, the government’s dashboard shows.
The plan will depend on four key tests:
The vaccine deployment program continues successfully.
Evidence shows vaccines are sufficiently effective in reducing hospitalizations and deaths in those vaccinated.
Infection rates do not risk a surge in hospitalizations which would put unsustainable pressure on the National Health Service (NHS).
The government’s assessment of the risks is not fundamentally changed by new variants.
Restrictions will be eased step-by-step across the whole of England at the same time and outdoor settings will be opened earlier than indoor ones, Downing Street said.
“Our decisions will be made on the latest data at every step, and we will be cautious about this approach so that we do not undo the progress we have achieved so far and the sacrifices each and every one of you has made to keep yourself and others safe," Johnson said in a statement.
From CNN's Arlette Saenz
With the United States approaching half a million Covid-19 deaths, plans are underway for President Joe Biden to mark the moment this week.
The President is planning to deliver remarks and hold a candle-lighting ceremony at the White House around sundown as soon as Monday if the threshold is crossed, a White House official said.
First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will also participate.
At least 498,897 people have died in the US from coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The nation has reported more than 28.1 million total cases.
On Friday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the White House was working on plans so the President could use his “own voice and platform to take a moment to remember the people whose lives have been lost, the families who are still suffering.”
One day before taking office, Biden, Harris and their spouses held a somber ceremony on the National Mall to commemorate the more than 400,000 lives lost to Covid-19. “To heal we must remember,” Biden said at the time.
From CNN’s Jen Christensen
Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine vials in Klerksdorp, South Africa, on February 18. Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty Images
Johnson & Johnson announced it has asked the World Health Organization for emergency use listing for its single-dose Covid-19 vaccine.
The company said it had delivered the data from its late-stage trial to the WHO.
An emergency use listing would make the vaccine available in more than 190 countries, including multiple developing countries. If authorized, it would also allow J&J to supply the COVAX program – a global distribution and procurement agency that is helping manage Covid-19 vaccines for 190 participating countries.
In December, J&J came to an agreement with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, that is backing the COVAX program. If authorized, J&J expects to provide up to 500 million doses to COVAX through next year, the company said.
“Our filing with the World Health Organization marks another important step in our effort to combat COVID-19 and also in our unwavering commitment to equitable access,” Dr. Paul Stoffels, Johnson & Johnson’s vice chair of the executive committee and chief scientific officer, said in a news release. "If we are to end the global pandemic, life-saving innovations like vaccines must be within reach for all countries.”
J&J filed for a conditional marketing authorization application in the European Union on Monday.
Next Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration will consider the data the company submitted for an emergency use authorization of the vaccine in the United States. J&J has promised to deliver 100 million doses of its single-dose vaccine to the US by the end of June.
The Covid-19 vaccine’s efficacy against moderate and severe disease ranged from one country to another:
72% in the US
66% in Latin America
57% in South Africa
It was 66% effective globally. This was measured starting one month after the shot. The vaccine is 85% effective overall at preventing hospitalization and 100% at preventing death in all regions where it was tested.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-02-22-21/index.html
A mass vaccination site last week in Midland, Texas.Credit...Eli Hartman/Odessa American, via Associated Press
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci expressed optimism on Sunday that vaccination sites around the country would quickly recover from delays in coronavirus vaccine inoculations caused by weather-related shipping delays last week, and administer all six million missed doses while still ramping up the number of new appointments.
“We can play pretty good catch-up,” Dr. Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser for Covid-19, said on the NBC show “Meet the Press,” noting that two million of the delayed doses had already been shipped. “When you just, you know, put the foot to the accelerator and really push, we’ll get it up to where we need to be by the middle of the week.”
The rate of vaccinations in the United States, which had been accelerating after a chaotic start, fell last week after a winter storm blew through much of the country. About 1.52 million vaccine doses were being administered per day, according to a New York Times database. Although that is still above President Biden’s target, it was the lowest rate since Feb. 8.
The country has been racing to vaccinate as many people as possible before more contagious and possibly deadlier variants of the coronavirus become dominant, and the figure had been well above the president’s goal of 1.5 million doses for several days. It peaked at 1.7 million on Feb. 16 before a brutal winter storm hit states from coast to coast. The bad weather delayed shipments of vaccine supplies from two hubs: a FedEx center in Memphis and a UPS site in Louisville, Ky.
More than 2,000 vaccine sites were in areas with power outages, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Many were not only forced to close but left relying on generators to keep doses at the ultracold temperatures they require to prevent them from spoiling.
Texas, where the frigid storm left millions without power and water for a time, has reopened inoculation sites. The state has been assigned almost 600,000 first doses of the vaccine for the coming week, according to the state health department, up from about 400,000 first doses for the week of Feb. 15.
The doses that were supposed to be delivered last week are still waiting to be shipped to Texas from out-of-state warehouses, state health officials said. The missed doses are expected to be delivered in the first half of this week.
On Sunday, Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, said on “Face the Nation” on CBS that vaccinations had resumed there and that a FEMA site would open Monday with the potential to administer shots to 6,000 people a day for the next six to eight weeks. He estimated the city could vaccinate more than 100,000 people in the coming week. “The people are resilient,” he said. “I’m very proud of the people in the city of Houston, how they have come together.”
In Dallas, a major vaccination hub at Fair Park reopened Sunday, but sites in Austin remain closed. The mayor of neighboring Fort Worth, Betsy Price, also appeared on “Face the Nation,” and said that vaccinations would resume in her city on Monday or Tuesday.
Last week’s bottlenecks and delays came just as states have broadened vaccine access to more groups, despite a limited supply that is not growing enough to keep up.
New York City said on Saturday that it had fewer than 1,000 first Covid-19 doses on hand because of the weather-related shipment delays. Mayor Bill de Blasio said that New York City had delayed scheduling up to 35,000 first dose appointments because of the shortage.
At the same time, New York State is still scheduling appointments for new mass vaccination sites opening in Brooklyn and Queens on Wednesday in partnership with FEMA.
The new sites, at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and York College in Queens, are open to residents of only select ZIP codes and are intended to increase low vaccination rates in communities of color. Data released on Tuesday showed drastic disparities between vaccination rates in whiter areas of New York City compared with predominantly Black neighborhoods.
A traveler receiving a rapid test for the coronavirus at the Czech-German border this month.Credit...Matthias Rietschel/Reuters
As new variants of the coronavirus spread rapidly, a number of European countries are moving to reintroduce border controls, chipping away at what was once the world’s largest area of free movement.
Fearing the highly contagious and possibly more lethal new variants first identified in Britain and South Africa, both Germany and Belgium introduced new border restrictions this month, adding to steps taken by other countries.
The European Union sees free movement as a fundamental pillar of the continent’s deepening integration, but after a decade in which first terrorism and then the migration crisis tested that commitment, countries’ easy resort to border controls is placing it under new pressure.
The European Commission, the E.U. executive branch, has tried to pull countries back from limiting free movement since last March, after most imposed restrictions at the onset of the crisis.
“Last spring we had 17 different member states that had introduced border measures, and the lessons we learned at the time is that it did not stop the virus but it disrupted incredibly the single market and caused enormous problems,” the commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, told the news media this month. “The virus taught us that closing borders does not stop it.”
But Ms. von der Leyen’s remarks received pushback from Germany.
“We are fighting the mutated virus on the border with the Czech Republic and Austria,” the German interior minister, Horst Seehofer, told the tabloid newspaper Bild. The commission “should support us and not put spokespeople in our wheels with cheap advice,” he snapped.
One factor that may help keep borders open is the vast and instant economic impact now felt from even minor closures.
Since mid-February, the only people allowed to enter Germany from the Czech Republic or the Tyrol region of Austria, where instances of the coronavirus variant that originated in Britain are rising, are those who are German, living in Germany, carrying freight or working in essential jobs in Germany. All have to register and show a negative coronavirus test result before entry.
But thousands of people in Austria and the Czech Republic commute daily to jobs in Germany, and after the new checks came into force, long lines began to form. By the end of the week, business groups were writing desperate letters asking Germany to ease or lift the restrictions.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/21/world/covid-19-coronavirus/virus-variants-deliver-fresh-blow-to-europes-open-borders
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· The US is on the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost is 498,883 – roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta. The figure compiled by Johns Hopkins University surpasses the number of people who died in 2019 of chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, flu and pneumonia combined.
· Vaccine giant says told to prioritise India. The world’s biggest vaccine maker, India’s Serum Institute, has urged other countries to be “patient” about it supplying anti-coronavirus shots, saying it has been instructed to prioritise its home market.
· US president Joe Biden will mark the country passing 500,000 lives lost from Covid-19 with a moment of silence and candle lighting ceremony at the White House. Biden has made a point of recognizing the lives lost from the virus. His first event upon arriving in Washington for his inauguration a month ago was to deliver remarks at a Covid-19 memorial ceremony.
· England’s roadmap out of lockdown has been revealed. Boris Johnson will unveil the government’s roadmap out of lockdown for England on Monday. Here’s what the prime minister is expected to tell MPs: all pupils in all years can return to the classroom from 8 March; Outdoor after-school sports and activities will be allowed to restart; In a fortnight, socialising in parks and public spaces with one other person will be allowed; On 29 March, restrictions will be eased further to allow larger groups to meet in parks and gardens; Outdoor sport facilities will also reopen, as well as organised adult and children’s sport.
· Britain is accelerating its vaccine rollout. The UK government vows to offer a first coronavirus vaccine dose to every adult by the end of July – a month earlier than previously planned – as it prepares to announce a gradual easing of its third lockdown. Prime minister Boris Johnson will outline the lockdown review in parliament on Monday.
· UK homeless deaths rose by more than a third last year, a study has found. Deaths among homeless people have risen by more than a third in a year, according to an analysis by a social justice group that found that almost 1,000 unhoused people had died across the UK in 2020.
· Dr Fauci said Americans may still be wearing masks in 2022. Fauci, who is President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said he expects a “significant degree of normality” in everyday life toward the end of the year but that it was “possible” people will still need to be wearing masks into 2022.
· Tanzania’s president finally acknowledged that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that the disease had been defeated by prayer. Populist president John Magufuli on Sunday urged citizens of the east African country to take precautions and even wear face masks but only locally made ones. Over the course of the pandemic he has expressed wariness about foreign-made goods, including Covid vaccines.
· Quarantine-free travel from New Zealand to Australia has resumed ahead of a downgraded alert level expected in Auckland today. Australia reopened the one-way travel bubble on Monday morning following a cluster of coronavirus cases in Auckland.
· Vanuatu and New Caledonia will open a safe travel corridor between the two countries – a “tamtam bubble” between the Melanesian neighbours.Vanuatu prime minister Bob Loughman said the travel bubble will open in April, with travel initially limited, at Vanuatu’s end, to the main island of Efate.
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