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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
207,948,539 |
+469,864 |
4,374,320 |
|
37,466,718 |
+30,883 |
637,561 |
|
|
32,225,175 |
+33,221 |
431,674 |
|
|
20,364,099 |
+13,957 |
569,218 |
|
|
6,600,836 |
+21,624 |
170,499 |
|
|
6,471,035 |
+21,172 |
112,656 |
|
|
6,267,437 |
+26,750 |
130,953 |
|
|
6,078,653 |
+18,847 |
53,159 |
|
|
5,084,635 |
+3,727 |
109,041 |
|
|
4,867,761 |
+3,132 |
123,459 |
|
|
4,693,540 |
+15657 |
82,470 |
|
|
4,440,669 |
+5,664 |
128,432 |
|
|
4,425,821 |
+36,736 |
97,828 |
|
|
3,854,354 |
+20,813 |
117,588 |
|
|
3,828,263 |
+3,736 |
92,373 |
|
|
3,091,971 |
+23,642 |
248,167 |
|
|
2,885,333 |
+148 |
75,299 |
|
|
2,605,586 |
+10,139 |
77,141 |
|
|
2,265,912 |
+695 |
53,255 |
|
|
2,133,812 |
+978 |
197,393 |
|
|
1,901,900 |
+2,253 |
17,909 |
|
|
1,775,764 |
+7,011 |
19,672 |
|
|
1,741,616 |
+14,749 |
30,340 |
|
|
1,676,222 |
+140 |
30,373 |
|
|
1,629,192 |
+899 |
36,380 |
|
|
1,451,969 |
+977 |
26,701 |
|
|
1,418,902 |
+6,684 |
24,175 |
|
|
1,404,899 |
+20,546 |
12,510 |
|
|
1,128,382 |
+20,147 |
15,400 |
|
|
1,098,410 |
+3,711 |
24,406 |
|
|
1,087,223 |
+323 |
34,348 |
|
|
1,003,335 |
+2,217 |
17,562 |
|
|
939,360 |
+3,703 |
6,668 |
|
|
907,157 |
+21,882 |
7,552 |
|
|
783,448 |
+1,238 |
10,213 |
|
|
759,456 |
+7,380 |
11,017 |
|
|
732,272 |
+1,793 |
10,292 |
|
|
732,044 |
+817 |
7,167 |
|
|
701,776 |
+1,189 |
2,001 |
|
|
687,259 |
+7,427 |
7,554 |
|
|
668,732 |
+891 |
10,756 |
|
|
623,940 |
+1,678 |
21,827 |
|
|
583,012 |
+1,515 |
7,976 |
|
|
538,525 |
+542 |
8,412 |
|
|
537,125 |
+1,888 |
13,191 |
|
|
517,668 |
+8,636 |
4,023 |
|
|
482,131 |
+500 |
18,178 |
|
|
481,578 |
+4,314 |
6,406 |
|
|
461,303 |
+1,305 |
3,604 |
|
|
456,695 |
+106 |
15,439 |
|
|
447,824 |
+563 |
6,951 |
|
|
433,234 |
+272 |
18,344 |
|
|
413,040 |
+1,309 |
11,155 |
|
|
406,540 |
+306 |
2,389 |
|
|
393,529 |
+74 |
12,544 |
|
|
383,292 |
+80 |
6,003 |
|
|
368,002 |
+2,993 |
5,153 |
|
|
367,022 |
+298 |
8,283 |
|
|
354,968 |
+3,435 |
6,096 |
|
|
354,279 |
+2,674 |
13,263 |
|
|
330,777 |
+850 |
2,560 |
|
|
324,747 |
+1,758 |
5,059 |
|
|
319,094 |
+909 |
3,799 |
|
|
300,194 |
+163 |
3,993 |
|
|
289,810 |
+434 |
4,451 |
|
|
289,274 |
+486 |
4,478 |
|
|
285,358 |
+101 |
16,619 |
|
|
281,930 |
+2,831 |
3,904 |
|
|
275,044 |
+9,580 |
5,774 |
|
|
270,919 |
+103 |
1,384 |
|
|
262,044 |
+97 |
6,308 |
|
|
261,428 |
+95 |
4,433 |
|
|
234,558 |
+331 |
4,695 |
|
|
229,168 |
+187 |
601 |
|
|
223,928 |
+1,817 |
2,156 |
|
|
220,727 |
+789 |
4,340 |
|
|
202,261 |
+183 |
3,529 |
|
|
187,258 |
+603 |
4,794 |
|
|
182,591 |
+1,300 |
876 |
|
|
182,503 |
+541 |
2,219 |
|
|
172,090 |
+332 |
2,446 |
|
|
162,164 |
+805 |
5,552 |
|
|
144,484 |
+326 |
808 |
|
|
143,041 |
+917 |
976 |
|
|
140,122 |
+73 |
2,561 |
|
|
138,749 |
+405 |
1,716 |
|
|
136,992 |
+203 |
1,279 |
|
|
135,947 |
+397 |
2,464 |
|
|
122,469 |
+242 |
3,277 |
|
|
120,088 |
+235 |
4,109 |
|
|
117,531 |
+535 |
995 |
|
|
110,710 |
+404 |
922 |
|
|
108,872 |
+165 |
456 |
|
|
96,987 |
+309 |
2,882 |
|
|
26,593 |
+54 |
683 |
|
|
13,350 |
+71 |
119 |
Retrieved from：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
By Kanishka Singh
People queue to receive a dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine at an NHS vaccination centre hosted at the Heaven nightclub, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in London, Britain, August 8, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
All 16- and 17-year-olds in England will be offered their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by Aug. 23, according to a target set by British Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
Javid said on Sunday that offering young people the vaccine by that date will allow the teenagers in that age bracket the two weeks necessary to build maximum immunity before returning to school in September.
"I have asked the NHS in England to ensure they offer a first dose of the vaccine to everyone aged 16 and 17 by next Monday, Aug. 23, this will make sure everybody has the opportunity to get vital protection before returning to college or sixth form", Javid said in a statement on Sunday.
Britain has suffered more than 130,000 deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test, the second-highest total in Europe after Russia and one of the highest in the world.
However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government recently went ahead with easing COVID-19 restrictions in England due to the broad roll-out of vaccinations which Johnson said had largely broken the link between infections and subsequent hospitalisation and death.
More than three quarters of British adults have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 89% have received at least one.
"NHS England has launched a new online walk-in site finder to help 16- and 17-year-olds locate the nearest available centre. Further sites will come online over the coming days and weeks", the Department of Health said on Sunday.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/all-16-17-year-olds-england-be-offered-first-covid-vaccine-dose-by-aug-23-2021-08-14/
Medical specialists are seen outside a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia July 2, 2021. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
Russia reported 21,624 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 1,954 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 6,600,836.
The government coronavirus task force said 816 people had died of coronavirus-related causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 170,499.
On Saturday, Russia's daily COVID-19 deaths hit a new record of 819, a day after Moscow's health department reported the highest number of monthly deaths in the city since the start of the pandemic.
Russia's daily coronavirus deaths were on the rise after infections peaked in July. Authorities blame the infectious Delta variant and a slow vaccination rate.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-reports-21624-new-covid-19-cases-816-deaths-2021-08-15/
People walk under a Cuban flag at a commercial area amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Havana, Cuba, August 3, 2021. Picture taken August 3, 2021. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Cuba’s public health minister said on Sunday efforts were underway to restart the country’s main oxygen factory which had broken down even as the death toll from COVID-19 on Saturday reached 98, equal to the pandemic record.
Minister Jose Angel Portal’s appearance on the state’s mid-day news broadcast came as a Delta-driven surge in coronavirus cases and deaths swamped some provincial health services.
Daily cases are averaging between 8,000 and 9,000 and fatalities at nearly 1% of cases, low by international standards but high for Cuba which last year had a death rate of 0.67%.
As of Saturday Cuba had reported 577,668 cases and 4,023 deaths.
The health crisis, on top of an economic one that saw the economy fall 10.9% last year, and an additional 2% through June compared with the same period last year, has resulted in a scarcity of consumer goods and frayed nerves in the Communist-run country. Last month tens of thousands took to the streets in protest, the most serious unrest since the early days of the 1959 Revolution.
Residents and some medical staff have taken to social media complaining of treatment in a land that prides itself for the quality of its free health system.
The country of 11.2 million residents has fully vaccinated three million with homegrown vaccines, with another two million expected to get a final shot before September.
Last week, official comments seemingly blaming health workers for collapsing health services provoked an unusual push back on social media with doctors blaming the government for a lack of supplies and poor management.
Portal took pains on Sunday to praise “the work of our health professionals on the front lines” while admitting there were shortages of some medicines used to treat COVID patients, 80% of which are produced locally.
Cuba’s Health Minister said a high-level commission was doing everything possible to make up for the oxygen shortage without indicating when the main plant would come back online.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/main-cuban-oxygen-plant-fails-amid-covid-19-surge-2021-08-15/
A nurse checking Covid patients at a hospital in Tehran last month.Credit...Wana News Agency/Reuters
Hospital medics in Iran are triaging patients on the floors of emergency rooms and in cars parked on the roadside. Lines stretch for blocks outside pharmacies. Taxis double as hearses, transporting corpses from hospitals to cemeteries. In at least one city, laborers are digging mass graves.
Iran is under assault from the most cataclysmic wave yet of the coronavirus, according to interviews with physicians and health workers, social media postings from angry citizens, and even some unusually frank reporting in the state news media. The aggressive Delta variant has led to record numbers of deaths and infections, and appears to be overwhelming the health system of a country that has been reeling from Covid-19 since the scourge began.
The latest phase of the crisis has intensified the challenges facing Iran’s new hard-line president, Ebrahim Raisi, testing his abilities just days after he took office.
“The situation we are facing is beyond disastrous,” said Dr. Mahdiar Saeedian, a 39-year-old physician in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. “The health care system is on the verge of collapse.”
The official virus death toll is 500 to 600 people a day, but even these record-high figures are disputed as low by some government media. Frontline doctors in Tehran, Isfahan, Ahvaz and Mashhad told The New York Times that the real death toll was closer to 1,000 a day.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/12/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/iran-is-struggling-with-its-worst-wave-yet-of-the-virus
A man holding his son as they took coronavirus tests in San Francisco on Aug. 1. Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
The Delta variant is nearly twice as contagious as prior variants of the coronavirus and just as contagious as chickenpox — meaning more than the seasonal flu, the common cold or polio. It replicates rapidly in the body, and people carry large amounts of the virus in their nose and throat.
Dr. Andrew T. Chan, an epidemiologist and physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and one of the lead investigators of the Covid Symptom Study, has been tracking millions of people from Britain, the United States and Sweden via an app that asks participants to monitor their symptoms.
Among vaccinated adults, “the symptoms we are seeing now are much more commonly identified with the common cold,” Dr. Chan said. “We are still seeing people presenting with a cough, but we are also seeing a higher prevalence of things like runny nose and sneezing.” Headaches and sore throat are other top complaints, he added. Fever and loss of taste and smell are being reported to a lesser degree.
Pediatricians in New York City, where 67 percent of adults are fully vaccinated, say they are seeing many of the same symptoms in children that they have seen since the start of the pandemic, and that the more severe cases tend to be among unvaccinated adolescents, especially those with underlying conditions like diabetes or obesity. Some toddlers or school-age children can get very ill from Covid-19 as well, but doctors don’t always know why one child gets much sicker than another, said Dr. Sallie Permar, pediatrician in chief at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/14/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/what-are-delta-symptoms
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· All 16- and 17-year-olds in England are to be offered a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine by Monday 23 August, the Department of Health has announced. The health secretary, Sajid Javid, said the date would give teenagers two weeks to build up immunity before school starts again in September.
· France’s pass sanitaire health permit system will be extended to more than 120 major department stores and shopping centres on Monday in areas where levels of Covid infection are causing concern, including Paris and the Mediterranean coast. The measure restricts entry to customers who can prove they have been vaccinated, have had a negative Covid test or have recovered from coronavirus.
· Iran has reported more than 600 Covid-linked deaths in a day for the first time, as the government tightens curbs aimed to contain the spread of the virus.
· The Austin area of Texas is in the midst of a dire Covid-19 crisis, after setting local records this week for the most patients in intensive care and on ventilators. Only seven ICU beds remain in a region of almost 2.4 million.
· A million workers in the UK are employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months, as the government is poised to withdraw critical Covid support schemes, according to new analysis.
· A Tory donor and his son are facing questions about two private companies they run offering Covid-19 PCR tests for travellers, amid complaints about poor service.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/aug/15/covid-live-news-coronavirus-vaccination-jab-latest-updates
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