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198,976,275 |
+466,058 |
4,239,796 |
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35,768,924 |
+21,768 |
629,380 |
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31,695,368 |
+40,784 |
424,808 |
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19,938,358 |
+20,503 |
556,886 |
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6,288,677 |
+22,804 |
159,352 |
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6,146,619 |
+19,600 |
111,885 |
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5,880,667 |
+24,470 |
129,719 |
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5,747,935 |
+20,890 |
51,428 |
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4,935,847 |
+6,083 |
105,772 |
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|
4,794,414 |
+9,094 |
120,998 |
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4,447,044 |
+24753 |
81,486 |
|
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4,355,348 |
+5,321 |
128,068 |
|
|
3,903,519 |
+32,511 |
90,996 |
|
|
3,778,276 |
+1,555 |
92,172 |
|
|
3,440,396 |
+30,738 |
95,723 |
|
|
2,883,029 |
+91 |
75,261 |
|
|
2,848,252 |
+18,809 |
240,906 |
|
|
2,456,184 |
+8,730 |
72,191 |
|
|
2,253,269 |
+484 |
52,951 |
|
|
2,113,201 |
+1,808 |
196,438 |
|
|
1,867,815 |
+2,304 |
17,829 |
|
|
1,673,694 |
+117 |
30,374 |
|
|
1,635,993 |
+9,394 |
18,734 |
|
|
1,616,942 |
+1,171 |
35,528 |
|
|
1,597,689 |
+8,735 |
28,016 |
|
|
1,431,104 |
+279 |
26,600 |
|
|
1,264,328 |
+14,844 |
20,916 |
|
|
1,130,422 |
+17,150 |
9,184 |
|
|
1,083,341 |
+152 |
34,286 |
|
|
1,034,837 |
+5,026 |
23,422 |
|
|
970,937 |
+2,306 |
17,369 |
|
|
925,823 |
+12,343 |
15,192 |
|
|
875,801 |
+1,783 |
6,477 |
|
|
771,753 |
+1,041 |
10,048 |
|
|
722,221 |
+303 |
7,118 |
|
|
697,370 |
+1,981 |
9,875 |
|
|
682,377 |
+1,519 |
1,951 |
|
|
659,508 |
+452 |
10,738 |
|
|
629,717 |
+6,189 |
9,833 |
|
|
615,314 |
+18,027 |
4,990 |
|
|
592,881 |
+3,316 |
19,858 |
|
|
580,379 |
+7,803 |
5,866 |
|
|
562,527 |
+1,147 |
7,909 |
|
|
526,814 |
+1,084 |
8,249 |
|
|
494,907 |
+1,603 |
12,950 |
|
|
487,598 |
+226 |
31,634 |
|
|
473,506 |
+693 |
17,821 |
|
|
452,698 |
+310 |
15,042 |
|
|
446,998 |
+958 |
3,464 |
|
|
436,475 |
+820 |
6,833 |
|
|
425,148 |
+94 |
18,215 |
|
|
422,188 |
+2,654 |
5,853 |
|
|
398,538 |
+707 |
2,328 |
|
|
394,343 |
+9,747 |
2,845 |
|
|
392,704 |
+57 |
12,540 |
|
|
381,569 |
+52 |
5,966 |
|
|
369,626 |
+1,142 |
10,413 |
|
|
363,758 |
+143 |
8,263 |
|
|
344,520 |
+671 |
5,027 |
|
|
317,700 |
+893 |
2,549 |
|
|
316,861 |
+123 |
3,604 |
|
|
311,349 |
+2,537 |
4,503 |
|
|
306,673 |
+907 |
3,607 |
|
|
302,665 |
+3,480 |
9,731 |
|
|
302,074 |
+1,098 |
5,035 |
|
|
296,835 |
+265 |
3,850 |
|
|
284,311 |
+49 |
16,528 |
|
|
283,034 |
+202 |
4,416 |
|
|
280,565 |
+200 |
4,390 |
|
|
269,303 |
+117 |
1,384 |
|
|
259,549 |
+71 |
6,255 |
|
|
259,273 |
+58 |
4,429 |
|
|
253,436 |
+4,322 |
3,548 |
|
|
230,339 |
+229 |
4,619 |
|
|
226,390 |
+151 |
601 |
|
|
203,680 |
+467 |
3,946 |
|
|
199,787 |
+1,442 |
2,098 |
|
|
196,293 |
+477 |
3,406 |
|
|
174,315 |
+407 |
2,149 |
|
|
172,564 |
+1,172 |
4,291 |
|
|
165,147 |
+992 |
820 |
|
|
163,846 |
+954 |
2,335 |
|
|
154,306 |
+8,620 |
1,306 |
|
|
138,899 |
+36 |
2,556 |
|
|
137,853 |
+139 |
799 |
|
|
133,685 |
+128 |
1,272 |
|
|
133,121 |
+40 |
2,457 |
|
|
130,216 |
+889 |
880 |
|
|
123,541 |
+1,513 |
1,462 |
|
|
119,285 |
+363 |
3,057 |
|
|
109,546 |
+686 |
3,583 |
|
|
107,321 |
+519 |
982 |
|
|
102,223 |
+277 |
422 |
|
|
102,092 |
+165 |
1,630 |
|
|
94,195 |
+268 |
2,696 |
|
|
93,005 |
+75 |
4,636 |
|
|
25,402 |
+51 |
651 |
|
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11,765 |
+35 |
110 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
By Renju JoseColin Packham
Australia's Queensland state on Monday extended a COVID-19 lockdown in Brisbane, while soldiers began patrolling Sydney to enforce stay-at-home rules as Australia struggles to stop the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus spreading.
Queensland said it had detected 13 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours - the biggest one-day rise the state has recorded in a year. The lockdown of Brisbane, Australia's third-biggest city, was due to end on Tuesday but will now stay in place until late on Sunday.
"It's starting to become clear that the initial lockdown will be insufficient for the outbreak," Queensland state Deputy Premier Steven Miles told reporters in Brisbane.
Queensland has yet to establish how a school child acquired the virus, but has forced students at several schools and their families, including that of Australia's Defence Minister Peter Dutton, to stay home.
Dutton said on Monday he would miss two weeks of parliament after he was told he must quarantine at home for 14 days as his two sons attend a school linked to the outbreak.
The rising new case numbers in two of the country's biggest cities come as disquiet grows on how the government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison is handling the pandemic. read more
Although Australia's vaccination drive has lagged many other developed economies, it has so far fared much better in keeping its coronavirus numbers relatively low, with just under 34,400 cases. The death toll rose to 925 after a man in his 90s died in Sydney.
Australia is going through a cycle of stop-start lockdowns in several cities after the emergence of the fast-moving Delta strain, and such restrictions are likely to persist until the country reaches a much higher level of vaccination coverage.
Prime Minister Morrison has promised lockdowns would be "less likely" once the country inoculates 70% of its population above 16 years of age - up from 19% now. Morrison expects to hit the 70% mark by the end of the year.
A lone bird walks past the quiet Circular Quay train station during a lockdown to curb the spread of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Sydney, Australia, July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo
Meanwhile the lockdown of Brisbane and several surrounding areas comes as Sydney, the biggest city in the country, begins its sixth week under stay-at-home orders.
New South Wales state, home to Sydney, said on Monday it detected 207 COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours as daily new cases continue to linger near a 16-month high recorded late last week.
The state has recorded more than 3,500 infections since the outbreak begun in June, when a limousine driver contracted the virus while transporting an overseas airline crew, and has asked for military personnel to aid efforts to enforce the restrictions.
Some 300 army personnel, who will be unarmed and under police command, on Monday began door-to-door visits to ensure people who have tested positive are isolating at their homes. They also accompanied police officers patrolling the areas of Sydney where most COVID-19 cases have been recorded.
Footage published online showed police asking the few people encountered as to why they were out of their homes in the largely deserted streets in Sydney's south west.
Brigadier Mick Garraway, who is leading the military deployment, sought to downplay the army's presence on the streets of Sydney.
"I want to say right up front that we are not a law enforcement agency and that is not what we will be doing," Garraway told reporters in Sydney.
The military would help in delivering food and setting up vaccination stations, he said.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-extends-covid-19-lockdown-brisbane-sunday-2021-08-02/
A man wearing a protective face mask reacts as he receives a dose of a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a mass vaccination program at the Jakarta Convention Center building in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 31, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
Indonesia has hit its coronavirus peak with cases now starting to decline, especially on the island of Java, Indonesian Health Minster Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Monday.
"Improvements are starting to appear," he told an online news conference. "I know it is not 100% and we have to be vigilant in accordance with the president's directions."
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesias-second-virus-wave-has-peaked-says-health-minister-2021-08-02/
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS
Thousands turned out in Berlin on Sunday to protest the German government’s anti-coronavirus measures despite a ban on the gatherings, leading to clashes with police and the detention of some 600 protesters.
Local authorities had banned several different protests this weekend, including one from the Stuttgart-based Querdenker movement, but protesters in Berlin defied the ban.
Berlin’s police department deployed more than 2,000 officers to try and disperse the protests, but it said officers who sought to redirect protesters or disband larger groups were “harassed and attacked.”
“They tried to break through the police cordon and pull out our colleagues,” Berlin police said, adding that officers had to use irritants and batons.
As the crowds made their way from Berlin’s Charlottenburg neighborhood through Tiergarten park toward the Brandenburg Gate, police warned via loudspeaker that they would use water cannons if protesters did not disperse. By Sunday evening, police had detained about 600 people, according to German media, and protesters were still marching through the city.
Germany eased many of its coronavirus restrictions in May, including reopening restaurants and bars. Still, many activities, such as dining indoors at restaurants or staying in a hotel, require proof that an individual is either fully vaccinated, has recovered from the virus or can show proof of a recent negative coronavirus test.
Although the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany remains low compared with neighboring countries, the delta variant has sparked an increase in new infections in the last few weeks. On Sunday, Germany reported 2,097 new cases, an increase of more than 500 over the previous Sunday.
The Querdenker movement, the most visible anti-lockdown movement in Germany, has drawn thousands to its demonstrations in Berlin, uniting a disparate mix on both the right and the left, including those opposing vaccinations, coronavirus deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing extremists.
Earlier this year, Germany’s domestic intelligence service warned the movement was becoming increasingly radical and put some of its adherents under surveillance.
Wolfgang Schäuble, president of Germany’s parliament, sharply criticized the Querdenker movement Sunday, encouraging people not to be fooled by “cheap slogans.”
“If practically all experts worldwide say the coronavirus is dangerous and vaccination helps, then who actually has the right to say, ‘Actually, I’m smarter than that?’” he told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. “To me, that is an almost unbearable level of arrogance.”
The protests follow other demonstrations against coronavirus measures around Europe.
More than 200,000 people turned out Saturday in France to protest vaccination requirements for the third straight weekend, at times clashing with police. Some 80,000 others protested in cities across Italy last weekend.
Retrieved from: https://apnews.com/article/europe-health-arrests-coronavirus-pandemic-berlin-874d5e69750ffbb0e8364d15351cc3ad
Protesters converged in Paris to oppose France’s new health pass policy, which bars people without proof of vaccination or a recent negative Covid-19 test from indoor venues. Demonstrations also took place in other cities in France.
PARIS — Pascale Collino, 64, is far more afraid of the Covid-19 vaccines than of the disease itself. So when the French government decided to implement a new health pass policy barring those without proof of vaccination or a recent negative test from many indoor venues, she took to the streets in protest.
“We have to be on the front lines of this fight,” Ms. Collino said on Saturday near the French health ministry in Paris, where a large crowd had converged, banging pots and cowbells.
For the third week in a row, thousands took to the streets around France to protest the government’s health pass law, which was passed by Parliament recently but still needs a final greenlight from a top constitutional council, expected next week, before it can be fully enforced.
The protests come as the authorities try to stem a new wave of infections that is starting to put pressure on France’s hospitals, where 85 percent of Covid-19 patients are unvaccinated, according to a government report published this week.
More than 200,000 people marched in Paris, where 3,000 police officers were deployed, and in other cities, including Marseille, Rennes and Strasbourg, according to the French interior ministry. The growing size of the protests from week to week and their motley mix of demonstrators have become an increasing source of concern for the government.
The demonstrators are united in their distrust of the news media and of President Emmanuel Macron’s government, but that is where the similarities end. They include far-right and far-left activists, Yellow Vest members and vaccine conspiracy theorists, as well as vaccinated people who argue that the health pass is oppressive and unfair. They also encompass families angry over new rules dictating that unvaccinated middle and high school students, but not vaccinated ones, will be sent home if a coronavirus infection is detected in their class.
One march that started in northern Paris ended with violence on the Place de la Bastille, where some protesters set trash cans on fire and threw projectiles at riot police officers, who responded with tear gas and water cannons.
Around France, three police officers were injured and 19 people were arrested, the interior minister said.
In southern Paris, Ms. Collino, maskless and carrying a French flag, said she was angry that health workers were forced to get vaccinated by this fall, and that access to bars, restaurants, movie theaters, museums, gyms and other indoor venues would be restricted.
Around her, families waved French flags and protesters shouted “freedom” and “resistance” while carrying makeshift cardboard signs with slogans like “Don’t give in to blackmail” and “No to segregation.”
When the protesters passed a statue of Louis Pasteur, the renowned 19th-century French scientist credited with discovering the principles of vaccination, few seemed to take notice. One elderly man, who was walking past the demonstrators, did. “Pasteur must be turning over in his grave,” he grumbled.
The march there was organized by Florian Philippot, a former member of the far-right National Rally party who has become a figurehead of the anti-health pass movement. Two video journalists for Agence France-Presse left the march after protesters insulted them, spat on them and prevented them from filming, the agency reported.
“We no longer have the freedom to seek the treatment that we want,” said Ms. Collino, a retired I.T. specialist who lives in the nearby town of Sèvres. She did not trust officials to tell the truth about vaccines and said that she had taken it upon herself to seek out information about the pandemic online.
Her attitude, however, has isolated her from some friends and family who favor the health pass policy, as do a majority of French people, according to recent polls. Millions have rushed to get their Covid shots since the pass was announced. But Ms. Collino said she would rather die than get vaccinated.
“I don’t understand why they are in favor while I’m against,” she said.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/world/europe/france-covid-pass-protest.html
Ordering takeaway food at a restaurant in Bangkok last month.Credit...Candida Ng/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Thailand will enforce stricter coronavirus measures in more areas of the country starting Tuesday, as the Delta variant is sharply driving up the numbers of cases and deaths.
Rules were already in place in areas deemed virus hot spots — including Bangkok, the capital — and were set to expire on Monday. But officials said on Sunday after an emergency meeting that they would instead add 16 provinces to their designated “dark-red zones,” including provinces near Bangkok and in the country’s central and southern regions, to try to stem transmission of the virus.
Residents in those zones, where rules are the tightest, must abide by a 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew and a five-person limit on gatherings. They also cannot use public transportation.
Restaurants can be open for takeaway and delivery services, but salons and sports venues must be closed.
The new measures are meant to “help to control and contain Covid,” Natapanu Nopakun, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said, adding that officials hoped the effort would “bear fruit” by the government’s next review in two weeks. But he said that the measures would most likely be in place until the end of August.
In the past week Thailand has reported a daily average of 16,474 cases and 132 deaths, according a New York Times database, after months of reporting no local transmission. But that changed this spring after an outbreak linked to nightclubs in Bangkok led to a surge in cases in the capital.
A national vaccination campaign is underway, but only about 5 percent of Thailand’s population is fully vaccinated. Almost 200,000 vaccine doses were administered on Saturday, the government said, bringing the total number given in the country to about 17 million.
Tourists in Miami last week. Credit...Scott McIntyre for The New York Times
The nation’s top infectious disease expert predicted on Sunday that the number of cases and hospitalizations in the United States “will get worse” but that measures seen in the early days of the pandemic, such as closing businesses, were unlikely to return.
In an interview on the ABC program “This Week,” Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the number of Americans who were already vaccinated was most likely sufficient to prevent caseloads and hospitalizations on the scale seen by much of the country last winter.
“I don’t think we’re going to see lockdowns,” he said. “I think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country — not enough to crush the outbreak — but I believe enough to not allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter. But things are going to get worse.”
Over the past two weeks, new coronavirus infections have risen 148 percent in the United States, and hospitalizations have increased 73 percent, according to New York Times data. The surge of infections has been largely attributed to the highly contagious Delta variant and to low vaccination rates in some states.
“We are seeing an outbreak of the unvaccinated,” Dr. Fauci said, noting that there are 100 million people in the United States who are eligible to get vaccinated but have not done so.
As of Sunday, 57 percent of eligible Americans had received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine and 49 percent were fully vaccinated, according to New York Times data.
“We’re looking not, I believe, to lockdown, but we’re looking to some pain and suffering in the future because we’re seeing the cases go up,” Dr. Fauci said. “The solution to this is: Get vaccinated, and this would not be happening.”
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· The UK has registered 24,470 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours. There were 911 further hospitalisations and 65 more people have died within 28 days of a positive test.
· Italy reported five coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday, down from 16 the day before, the health ministry said. The daily tally of new infections fell to 5,321 on Sunday compared with 6,513 the previous day.
· A day after it recorded the most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, Florida on Sunday broke a previous record in the US for current hospitalisations, as the number of patients in hospitals because of Covid-19 once again broke through the 10,000-person threshold.
· US president Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci has told ABC News he does not expect the US will be returning to lockdowns, despite the growing risks of Covid-19 infections posed by the Delta variant.
· Health authorities in China are battling to contain the country’s most widespread coronavirus outbreak in months and several Chinese cities have rolled out mass testing of millions of people and imposed fresh travel restrictions. China reported 75 new coronavirus cases with 53 local transmissions, with a cluster linked to an eastern airport now reported to have spread to over 20 cities and more than a dozen provinces.
· Tunisia, which has one of the world’s highest coronavirus death rates, received 1.5m Covid-19 vaccine doses from Italy on Sunday, the president’s office announced.
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