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Total |
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World |
195,942,368 |
+578,416 |
4,192,371 |
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35,353,923 |
+61,581 |
627,351 |
|
|
31,483,411 |
+42,928 |
422,054 |
|
|
19,749,073 |
+41,411 |
551,906 |
|
|
6,172,812 |
+23,032 |
155,380 |
|
|
6,026,115 |
+26,871 |
111,695 |
|
|
5,745,526 |
+23,511 |
129,303 |
|
|
5,638,178 |
+19,761 |
51,048 |
|
|
4,875,927 |
+16,757 |
104,352 |
|
|
4,747,775 |
+11,426 |
119,482 |
|
|
4,368,453 |
+26,399 |
81,323 |
|
|
4,325,046 |
+4,522 |
127,995 |
|
|
3,766,482 |
+2,063 |
92,078 |
|
|
3,758,197 |
+34,951 |
89,479 |
|
|
3,239,936 |
+45,203 |
86,835 |
|
|
2,882,327 |
+106 |
75,249 |
|
|
2,754,438 |
+5,920 |
238,595 |
|
|
2,391,223 |
+7,733 |
70,388 |
|
|
2,249,344 |
+681 |
52,876 |
|
|
2,106,371 |
+1,366 |
196,058 |
|
|
1,851,329 |
+3,957 |
17,804 |
|
|
1,672,765 |
+204 |
30,362 |
|
|
1,611,090 |
+745 |
35,151 |
|
|
1,577,013 |
+12,185 |
18,418 |
|
|
1,562,420 |
+7,186 |
27,318 |
|
|
1,427,917 |
+547 |
26,560 |
|
|
1,194,752 |
+14,925 |
19,779 |
|
|
1,117,697 |
+1,340 |
25,228 |
|
|
1,082,551 |
+175 |
34,273 |
|
|
1,044,071 |
+16,117 |
8,408 |
|
|
1,011,708 |
+3,262 |
23,087 |
|
|
956,985 |
+2,316 |
17,307 |
|
|
875,506 |
+4,692 |
15,137 |
|
|
864,912 |
+2,195 |
6,461 |
|
|
809,288 |
+26 |
30,021 |
|
|
767,327 |
+1,213 |
9,979 |
|
|
720,643 |
+290 |
7,108 |
|
|
685,673 |
+2,726 |
9,758 |
|
|
674,724 |
+1,539 |
1,929 |
|
|
656,949 |
+367 |
10,737 |
|
|
588,448 |
+6,971 |
9,638 |
|
|
575,002 |
+1,608 |
18,968 |
|
|
557,145 |
+1,502 |
7,895 |
|
|
542,703 |
+6,797 |
5,538 |
|
|
526,828 |
+14,150 |
4,264 |
|
|
520,774 |
+1,379 |
8,189 |
|
|
482,145 |
+3,593 |
12,887 |
|
|
469,182 |
+759 |
17,672 |
|
|
450,494 |
+592 |
14,759 |
|
|
441,881 |
+525 |
3,413 |
|
|
431,554 |
+1,110 |
6,781 |
|
|
424,079 |
+200 |
18,203 |
|
|
407,689 |
+3,666 |
5,731 |
|
|
402,044 |
+856 |
4,987 |
|
|
394,538 |
+933 |
2,298 |
|
|
392,406 |
+51 |
12,534 |
|
|
380,793 |
+209 |
5,941 |
|
|
362,841 |
+193 |
8,247 |
|
|
355,223 |
+2,639 |
10,176 |
|
|
349,055 |
+7,903 |
2,492 |
|
|
341,183 |
+468 |
5,011 |
|
|
316,189 |
+101 |
3,600 |
|
|
312,851 |
+559 |
2,546 |
|
|
301,979 |
+1,060 |
3,524 |
|
|
299,892 |
+1,711 |
4,195 |
|
|
295,386 |
+1,114 |
5,026 |
|
|
295,017 |
+491 |
3,788 |
|
|
290,447 |
+1,116 |
7,650 |
|
|
284,090 |
+31 |
16,498 |
|
|
281,292 |
+219 |
4,412 |
|
|
279,119 |
+4,964 |
7,845 |
|
|
278,920 |
+203 |
4,374 |
|
|
268,731 |
+105 |
1,383 |
|
|
258,852 |
+139 |
6,247 |
|
|
258,780 |
+106 |
4,428 |
|
|
240,309 |
+3,348 |
3,422 |
|
|
229,090 |
+180 |
4,597 |
|
|
225,522 |
+146 |
600 |
|
|
198,935 |
+976 |
3,882 |
|
|
192,956 |
+640 |
3,316 |
|
|
191,531 |
+1,365 |
2,079 |
|
|
171,728 |
+404 |
2,134 |
|
|
165,204 |
+1,544 |
4,112 |
|
|
159,101 |
+1,127 |
789 |
|
|
159,089 |
+969 |
2,275 |
|
|
156,124 |
+39 |
5,491 |
|
|
145,552 |
+544 |
6,577 |
|
|
138,572 |
+68 |
2,552 |
|
|
136,370 |
+273 |
799 |
|
|
132,922 |
+31 |
2,456 |
|
|
132,717 |
+193 |
1,271 |
|
|
125,784 |
+789 |
845 |
|
|
117,293 |
+329 |
2,871 |
|
|
114,260 |
+7,913 |
524 |
|
|
25,028 |
+125 |
638 |
|
|
11,460 |
+55 |
109 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
By Nandita Bose
President Joe Biden said on Tuesday his administration is considering whether to require U.S. federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
"That's under consideration right now," Biden told a reporter who asked whether the administration was weighing such a requirement.
Biden made the remark during a visit to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Virginia, as his administration's health experts advised Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to start wearing masks again in some circumstances due to the virus' fast-spreading Delta variant. read more
The White House has told its staff to start wearing masks again, a White House official said on Tuesday.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that the administration had not made a determination about whether it would be legal for Biden to require federal employees to be vaccinated. The U.S. federal government is the country's largest employer.
Biden plans to announce "next steps" on Thursday in the effort to get more Americans to receive shots, the president said in a separate statement released by the White House.
"In the meantime, more vaccinations and mask wearing in the areas most impacted by the Delta variant will enable us to avoid the kind of lockdowns, shutdowns, school closures and disruptions we faced in 2020," he said.
"Unlike 2020, we have both the scientific knowledge and the tools to prevent the spread of this disease. We are not going back to that."
The new health guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention applies to fully vaccinated Americans in indoor public places only in regions where the coronavirus is quickly spreading.
Biden said he "certainly will" follow the guidance when he travels to such areas.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-says-he-is-considering-mandating-covid-19-vaccines-federal-workers-2021-07-27/
By Hyonhee Shin
A woman gets a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a coronavirus testing site in Seoul, South Korea, July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo
South Korea on Wednesday reported 1,896 new COVID-19 cases for Tuesday, its highest-ever daily increase, as the country struggles to subdue a fourth wave of outbreaks fanned by the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
The daily tally broke a previous record set on July 22 as infections are spreading beyond the capital Seoul and its neighbouring regions where the toughest social distancing rules are in place.
There were 1,823 domestically transmitted cases on Tuesday and 33.5%, or 611, of the were from areas outside the capital regions, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
This is the first time the number of cases outside the Seoul metropolitan region has exceeded the 600 mark since the first COVID-19 wave emerged from a church in the southeastern city of Daegu.
Tighter social distancing curbs took effect across most of the country on Tuesday and will last for two weeks. Those areas will be under Level 3 curbs on a four-level scale, which will mean a 10 p.m. (1300 GMT) dining curfew and ban on gatherings of more than four people.
The tighter curbs were enacted to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus during South Korea's peak summer holiday season. read more
The great Seoul area region remains under Level 4 curbs that include a ban on gatherings of more than two people after 6 p.m.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/skorea-reports-1896-coronavirus-cases-highest-ever-daily-increase-kdca-2021-07-28/
People lining up for vaccination at the Isabel Zendal Hospital in Madrid on Tuesday.Credit...Olmo Calvo/Associated Press
After a slow start, Spain’s vaccination program has accelerated to near the forefront in Europe, with just over 55 percent of its population fully vaccinated, according to figures released Tuesday by the country’s health ministry.
But for all its recent success with vaccines, Spain is also experiencing one of the worst surges in new Covid-19 cases on the continent, forcing several of its regions to reintroduce nighttime curfews and other restrictions. The country is now averaging more than 25,000 new cases a day, a sixfold increase from late June.
The State Department warned Americans on Monday to avoid traveling to Spain because of its recent rise in Covid-19 infections, a setback for a country where tourism is an important industry. Germany took a similar step last week, classifying Spain as a high-incidence country and requiring unvaccinated travelers arriving from there to quarantine for five days.
Spain started administering vaccines in late December, and took until mid-February to fully vaccinate its first million residents; since then the effort has gathered pace, and as of Tuesday, just over 26 million people had been fully vaccinated. The latest data suggests that Spain is now on track to fulfill a pledge made early this year by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez that 70 percent of Spaniards would be vaccinated by late August.
Nearly two-thirds of new infections in recent weeks have been among people under 40, the deputy health minister, Silvia Calzón, told reporters on Friday, according to Reuters. Spain has prioritized vaccination by age.
The country has been using all of the main vaccines acquired by the European Union, including the two-dose vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca-University of Oxford as well as the one-shot vaccine from Janssen, a European subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. But the vast majority of Spaniards have received the Pfizer shot.
Unlike some other European nations, which have delayed second shots in order to administer first shots sooner to more people, Spain is administering second doses of the Pfizer vaccine at the recommended time, 21 days after the initial dose. As a result, it has relatively few partly vaccinated people at any given time.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/27/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/in-spain-vaccinations-and-the-virus-are-both-surging
By Mike Ives
Getting a Covid vaccine shot at a community center in Trashigang, Bhutan.Credit...UNICEF
Less than two weeks ago, a charter flight carrying half a million doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine took off from Kentucky and touched down at the international airport in Bhutan. By Monday, most adults in the remote Himalayan kingdom had been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, all through donated shots.
The July 12 flight was the culmination of a weekslong diplomatic scramble in which Bhutan’s government asked 28 countries to supply doses for its second round of vaccinations, according to Will Parks, the country representative for the United Nations’ children’s agency.
The plane carried doses donated by the United States and distributed through Covax, a global vaccine-sharing partnership. Separately, Denmark sent 250,000 AstraZeneca doses directly; Bulgaria, Croatia and other nations sent another 100,000; and China sent 50,000 doses of its Sinopharm vaccine. Most of Bhutan’s second-round shots were administered over the past week, including to yak herders at high altitudes.
Bhutan’s success is notable because the campaign to vaccinate the world’s poorer nations is mostly floundering as wealthy nations delay shipments of doses, exacerbating inequalities in the pandemic response that analysts see as both a moral and epidemiological failure.
“I hope that this piece of good news functions as a prompt for the international community to do more to also reach other countries in need of vaccines,” said Lisa Herzog, a professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands who has studied the ethics of the Covax distribution model.
Back in March, Bhutan pulled off a remarkable feat: vaccinating more than 93 percent of eligible adults with first doses in a country where some villages are accessible only by helicopter or on foot. But the success of that undertaking meant that the government needed to complete a second round of vaccinations within the recommended window of 12 to 16 weeks.
The first round — 550,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine — had been donated by the government of India, where the drug is known as Covishield and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer. But India later cut back on vaccine exports as its own outbreak surged.
“Bhutan had that kind of circumstantial imperative to chase, chase and chase vaccines in sufficient quantity to arrive en masse in a limited time, to be used in a mass vaccination for the second round,” said Dr. Parks, the UNICEF representative. “Other countries have not had that kind of circumstance, where they’ve done a massive first round. It’s been a trickle effect.”
Tashi Yangchen, a representative from Bhutan’s Health Ministry, said the second round of mass vaccination had ended on Monday with 90.2 percent of eligible adults fully vaccinated. Dr. Parks said the official figure would inch up a bit further in the coming days as people in hard-to-reach groups, such as nomadic tribes, received second shots.
Dr. Parks credited leadership from Bhutan’s government and royal palace, plus low levels of vaccine hesitancy and a robust cold-chain infrastructure.
Another reason, he said, was that the success of the first round of shots helped prove to donors that the country of fewer than 800,000 people could roll out a second round efficiently and effectively.
“Some of the other countries — which were struggling with using vaccines that they had available — couldn’t really fall back on that demonstration that ‘if you give, we will use,’” he said.
By Mark Landler
New coronavirus cases have declined for six days in a row in Britain, a shift that is baffling scientists, many of whom predicted a powerful surge in cases after the government relaxed all but a handful of restrictions in England last week.
Few experts are willing to draw definitive conclusions from the downward trend, which could reflect transient factors like the school summer break, the end of the European soccer championships or fewer people getting tested for the virus.
But if sustained, the case numbers raise a tantalizing prospect that Prime Minister Boris Johnson bet correctly that the country could withstand a return to normalcy, even with the rapidly transmissible Delta variant widely circulating in the population. Even his own health secretary, Sajid Javid, predicted that cases could skyrocket to 100,000 a day before the country’s third wave of the pandemic ebbed.
The government has been careful not to declare victory too soon. Mr. Johnson emerged from self-isolation himself on Tuesday, after being in close contact with Mr. Javid, who tested positive for the virus on July 17.
“It is very, very important that we don’t allow ourselves to run away with premature conclusions about this,” the prime minister told reporters on Tuesday during a visit to a police station in Surrey, southwest of London. “People have got to remain very cautious, and that remains the approach of the government.”
On Monday, the government reported 24,950 new cases, down from a high of 54,674 on July 17. Hospital admissions and deaths are still up compared with a week ago, though both are typically lagging indicators. The Daily Telegraph reported, based on leaked data, that roughly half of all new Covid cases in people admitted to hospitals were in patients seeking care for other illnesses and found to be infected through routine testing.
That would be another encouraging sign, experts said, since it would suggest that many such people do not even realize that they have Covid — confirmation that the vaccines have weakened the link between infection and serious illness. Just over 70 percent of adults in Britain have received both doses of a vaccine.
In addition to the threat of soaring cases, Britain has also struggled with a cascade of people being notified, or “pinged,” by the National Health Service and told that they had been exposed to the virus and should quarantine themselves.
Scientists said it would take several more days to form definitive conclusions about the declining case numbers.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/27/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/new-virus-cases-are-falling-in-the-uk-baffling-scientists
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Plans to significantly open up international travel are expected to be announced on Wednesday, with UK ministers poised to let people who have been fully vaccinated in the US and EU avoid quarantine if arriving from amber list countries.
· Kuwait said it will allow only vaccinated citizens to travel abroad starting 1 August, the government communication office reported.
· Iran’s Covid-19 cases hit a record high for the second time in as many days today, rising to almost 35,000, as the health minister warned there was little hope of improvement unless the public followed health precautions, state TV reported.
· The UK and Germany “have protected Covid vaccine patents over human lives”, campaigners have said as the World Trade Organization is reportedly about to delay a decision on whether to waive patents on Covid vaccines. The two countries are expected to resist efforts to allow poorer countries to produce their own vaccines, thus speeding up the global rollout of the jabs.
· The US’s top health agency is expected to backpedal and recommend that even vaccinated people wear masks indoors in parts of the US where Covid is surging, according to reports. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to make an announcement later in the day revising guidance issued in May, which said vaccinated individuals did not need to wear masks in most indoor settings.
· Schools closed due to the pandemic must reopen as soon as possible, the United Nations said, estimating that the education of more than 600 million children was at stake.
· Ireland is set to open its vaccination programme to those aged 12 to 15 after its national immunisation advisory committee made a favourable recommendation. Foreign minister Simon Coveney said the decision meant “the benefit of vaccination can be extended to this much younger cohort” but that parents would retain the right to decide how to proceed.
· Almost 99% people who have died of Covid-19 in Italy since February this year were not fully vaccinated, the National Health Institute said.
· An additional 18,000 New Zealand children were pushed into poverty in the first year of the pandemic, according to research, despite child welfare being one of prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s main concerns.
· The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the EU has met the target of administering a Covid jab to 70% of adults by July, making good on the promise to “catch up” after a rocky start to the bloc’s vaccination rollout.
· Tokyo’s 2,848 daily coronavirus infections on Tuesday were the Olympic host city’s highest since the pandemic began, officials said, but Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga said it was “not a problem” for the Games and that Tokyo residents should focus on working from home to suppress the movement of people
· Germany is planning to introduce tighter controls on citizens returning from holiday in an attempt to control the growth in coronavirus cases.
· People advised to shield during the first wave of the pandemic were eight times more likely to get Covid-19 and five times as likely to die following infection than the general population, a study indicated.
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