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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
3,913,644 |
+96,262 |
270,426 |
|
1,292,623 |
+29,531 |
76,928 |
|
|
256,855 |
+3,173 |
26,070 |
|
|
215,858 |
+1,401 |
29,958 |
|
|
206,715 |
+5,614 |
30,615 |
|
|
177,160 |
+11,231 |
1,625 |
|
|
174,791 |
+600 |
25,987 |
|
|
169,430 |
+1,268 |
7,392 |
|
|
135,693 |
+9,082 |
9,188 |
|
|
133,721 |
+1,977 |
3,641 |
|
|
103,135 |
+1,485 |
6,486 |
|
|
82,885 |
+2 |
4,633 |
|
|
64,922 |
+1,426 |
4,408 |
|
|
58,526 |
+3,709 |
1,627 |
|
|
56,351 |
+3,364 |
1,889 |
|
|
51,420 |
+639 |
8,415 |
|
|
41,774 |
+455 |
5,288 |
|
|
33,731 |
+1,793 |
219 |
|
|
30,298 |
+878 |
1,654 |
|
|
30,126 |
+66 |
1,810 |
|
|
27,634 |
+1,609 |
2,704 |
|
|
26,715 |
+533 |
1,105 |
|
|
24,644 |
+1,430 |
585 |
|
|
24,623 |
+705 |
3,040 |
|
|
24,581 |
+1,533 |
285 |
|
|
22,385 |
+137 |
1,403 |
|
|
20,939 |
+741 |
20 |
|
|
20,168 |
+913 |
116 |
|
|
18,890 |
+918 |
12 |
|
|
16,381 |
+71 |
240 |
|
|
16,240 |
+502 |
165 |
|
|
15,752 |
+68 |
609 |
|
|
15,477 |
+224 |
577 |
|
|
15,047 |
+307 |
755 |
|
|
14,499 |
+392 |
888 |
|
|
13,691 |
+507 |
340 |
|
|
12,776 |
+338 |
930 |
|
|
12,425 |
+706 |
199 |
|
|
10,810 |
+4 |
256 |
|
|
10,343 |
+339 |
685 |
|
|
10,083 |
+145 |
514 |
|
|
9,848 |
+57 |
206 |
|
|
9,456 |
+497 |
407 |
|
|
9,095 |
+288 |
373 |
|
|
8,232 |
+424 |
161 |
|
|
8,034 |
+38 |
217 |
|
|
8,031 |
+57 |
270 |
|
|
7,981 |
+393 |
482 |
|
|
7,731 |
+208 |
218 |
|
|
6,896 |
+21 |
97 |
|
|
6,567 |
+278 |
44 |
|
|
6,467 |
+39 |
107 |
|
|
5,673 |
+100 |
255 |
|
|
5,548 |
+140 |
183 |
|
|
5,371 |
+163 |
282 |
|
|
5,182 |
+185 |
483 |
|
|
4,605 |
+129 |
145 |
|
|
4,578 |
+156 |
30 |
|
|
4,199 |
+265 |
8 |
|
|
3,859 |
+8 |
100 |
|
|
3,563 |
+171 |
106 |
|
|
3,526 |
+381 |
107 |
|
|
3,150 |
+39 |
383 |
|
|
3,091 |
18 |
||
|
2,992 |
+3 |
55 |
|
|
2,958 |
+55 |
15 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Passengers waiting for buses in Wuhan, China, last month.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
President Trump’s go-to defense of his early response to the coronavirus is his decision to close down travel from China, the virus’s original center, and then from ravaged Europe.
But those hasty decisions led to exoduses of American citizens, packed airports and, according to a new congressional report, very few rigorous screenings for passengers who could have been bringing the virus home with them.
Medical officials on contract from the Department of Homeland Security checked the temperatures of just 10 percent of the more than 250,000 travelers who got some screening when they arrived at U.S. airports from travel-restricted countries during a 10-week span from January to March, according to a report released Thursday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee. The finding raised questions about one of the centerpieces of Mr. Trump’s argument that his administration responded aggressively to contain the outbreak.
If customs officers noticed symptoms in travelers returning from restricted countries, they were told to refer them to federal or local medical officials at the airport for more screening.
But officials from the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, which is part of the Homeland Security agency, told the committee that the informal policy was to check one of every 10 passengers because they “don’t want to slow things down,” according to the report.
And they said that just under 1,500 arriving passengers were passed along for more rigorous screening by officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between Jan. 17 and March 29.
At least 53 residents at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center II in New Jersey have died since March after testing positive for the coronavirus.Credit...Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times
One patient was found dead in bed, 12 hours after falling on a wet floor and sustaining a head injury. Sick residents who were awaiting the results of coronavirus tests shared rooms with healthy residents. Since March, at least 53 have died after testing positive.
Those were among the findings of a federal inspection last month of a northern New Jersey nursing home, Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center II, that is now the site of one of the state’s largest outbreaks.
The report, released on Thursday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, offers the first detailed glimpse into how the pandemic has ravaged nursing homes across the country.
It was released on the same day that members of the National Guard arrived in Andover, N.J., to assist at the nursing home, a 543-bed facility that has been chronically short of staff members and masks and has over the past two years received poor grades from federal and state inspectors.
Nursing homes have been hit particularly hard by the outbreak. A tally by The Times found that more than 118,000 residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have contracted the virus, and more than 19,600 have died.
But a separate Times investigation also found that, when the pandemic struck, a majority of the nation’s nursing homes were losing money, some were falling into disrepair, and others were struggling to attract new occupants.
President Trump said on Thursday that he and Vice President Mike Pence, as well as the White House staff, would be tested every day for the coronavirus after a military aide who has had contact with the president was found to have the virus.
Asked by reporters about the aide, whom a senior administration official described as a personal valet to the president, Mr. Trump played down the matter. “I’ve had very little contact, personal contact, with this gentleman,” he said. But he added that he and other officials and staff members at the White House would be tested more frequently.
A White House spokesman said that Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence had both tested negative for the virus since their exposure to the aide. But the episode raised new questions about how well-protected Mr. Trump and other top officials are as they work at the White House, typically without wearing masks.
The president has said that the White House uses a test kit made by Abbott, which can return results on the spot in as little as five minutes. But health professionals have warned that the Abbott test kit produces less reliable results than those shipped to labs but which can take days.
Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/coronavirus-updates-cases-deaths.html
From CNN's Simon Cullen and Sharon Braithwaite
third grade students at Nordstrand Steinerskole school in Oslo learn after school reopened on April 27. Heiko Junge/AFP/Getty Images
Norway announced it will ease many of the restrictions put in place to stop the spread of coronavirus, including reopening all schools next week and lifting the maximum number of people allowed at public gatherings.
The country has identified 8,034 confirmed cases of the virus, according to the tally by Johns Hopkins University. At least 217 have died.
“Thanks to everyone’s joint efforts since mid-March, we have got the spread of coronavirus under control,” Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg said Thursday.
“This means that we can now gradually lift the strict measures we introduced. Our aim is to allow as many businesses and activities as possible to reopen and start up again before the summer.”
Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a news conference following a National Cabinet meeting at Parliament House on May 8 in Canberra, Australia. Rohan Thomson/Getty Images
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison today outlined a three-point plan to reopen the economy and society -- and hopes to have it completed by July.
Morrison held up a board detailing the plan, saying that states and territories would be allowed to adhere to it at their own pace.
The prime minister said the government will work to better define steps two and three when authorities get closer to implementing them. He said the plan would be reviewed every three weeks, according to CNN affiliate Nine News Australia.
From CNN's Maggie Fox
This scanning electron microscope image shows 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes Covid-19, isolated from a patient in the US, emerging from the surface of cells (pink) cultured in the lab. Source: NIAID-RML
The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can persist in men’s semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said Thursday.
A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, in January and February.
About 16% of them had evidence of the coronavirus in their semen, the team reported in the journal JAMA Network Open. About a quarter of them were in the acute stage of infection and nearly 9% of them were recovering, the team reported.
“We found that SARS-CoV-2 can be present in the semen of patients with COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 may still be detected in the semen of recovering patients,” Diangeng Li of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing and colleagues wrote.
“Even if the virus cannot replicate in the male reproductive system, it may persist, possibly resulting from the privileged immunity of testes,” the team added. Privileged immunity means the immune system cannot fully reach the region to attack viral invaders.
Why this finding isn't terribly surprising: Many viruses can live in the male reproductive tract. Ebola and Zika virus were both found to spread in semen, sometimes months after a male patient had recovered.
But it’s not yet clear if coronavirus can spread this way. Finding evidence of virus does not necessarily mean it’s infectious.
“If it could be proved that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted sexually in future studies, sexual transmission might be a critical part of the prevention of transmission,” the team wrote.
“Abstinence or condom use might be considered as preventive means for these patients. In addition, it is worth noting that there is a need for studies monitoring fetal development. Therefore, to avoid contact with the patient’s saliva and blood may not be enough, since the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in a recovering patient’s semen maintains the likelihood to infect others.”
From CNN’s Maggie Fox
Kenyan police officers patrol in Eastleigh, Nairobi, on May 7, during the government partial lockdown. Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images
The novel coronavirus could kill as many as 190,000 people in Africa during the first year of the pandemic if containment measures fail, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday.
“While Covid-19 likely won’t spread as exponentially in Africa as it has elsewhere in the world, it likely will smoulder in transmission hotspots,” Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, said in a statement.
“Covid-19 could become a fixture in our lives for the next several years unless a proactive approach is taken by many governments in the region. We need to test, trace, isolate and treat.”
The WHO predicted that between 29 million to 44 million Africans could be infected in the first year. As many as 5.5 million of these people could require hospital treatment, a number that would overwhelm the medical capacity of most places on the continent.
A survey done in March of health services in Africa found an average of nine intensive care unit beds per 1 million people in 47 African countries.
“These would be woefully inadequate,” the WHO said.
From CNN’s Jen Christensen
A new estimate of the US infection fatality rate from the novel coronavirus puts it at 1.3%, making it deadlier than the seasonal flu, which in a typical season has a 0.1% infection fatality rate.
Anirban Basu, a professor in the department of pharmacy at the University of Washington in Seattle, used publicly available data on infection numbers and deaths from the novel coronavirus through April 20.
At a county level, the fatality rate ranged from 0.5% to 3.6%, Basu reported in the journal Health Affairs on Thursday.
The study did not include New York City, which has had the highest number of cases and deaths in the country. The numbers of cases and deaths were changing too fast to include in the study, Basu said.
The lowest rate of deaths was in Putnam County, New York -- estimated at 0.5%. The highest was in King County, Washington at an estimated 3.6%. By April 20, there were 134 counties in the US that had reported no Covid-19 deaths.
Some context: These are just preliminary figures, Basu said. The case fatality rate is based on the reported number of confirmed cases and confirmed Covid-19-related deaths.
Since it is still unclear how many people have actually been infected, the rate is probably not that high, although the authors did create a model that tried to account for some of the unknowns. The model doesn’t account for the number of asymptomatic cases. The numbers will be clearer when there is more testing, Basu said.
From CNN's Milena Veselinovic in London
The British government has failed to complete 100,000 daily coronavirus tests for the fifth day in a row, with 86,583 tests carried out on Wednesday and 69,463 on Tuesday.
The last time that threshold was reached was Friday, when 105,937 tests were completed, according to the Department of Health and Social Care data.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday set a new target of 200,000 daily Covid-19 tests by the end of May, after meeting the initial challenge of 100,000 by April 30, but his spokesperson added that it only covered testing capacity “across all of the different testing pillars,” according to PA.
Overall, 1,534,533 tests have been carried out across the UK and 206,715 people have tested positive -- an increase of 5,614 from the day before, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday.
Background: The UK is the second worst-hit country in the world in terms of deaths, behind the US. So far 30,615 people have died with coronavirus in UK, according to Department of Health and Social Care data.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-05-08-20-intl/index.html
From: The Guardian
Moving away from that very sad news now to Germany, where exports plunged by 11.8% in March, their worst month-on-month fall since the country’s 1990 reunification, statistics authority Destatis said Friday.
The data illustrated the first monthly impact of the coronavirus epidemic on Europe’s biggest economy. The drop was far steeper than a five percent forecast from analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Cars intended for export wait at the port for loading, as the spread of the coronavirus continues in Bremerhaven, Germany, 24 April 2020. Photograph: Fabian Bimmer/Reuters
Some €108.9bn (US$118 billion) of German goods were sold abroad, while the country bought imports worth €91.6bn - down by 5.1% from the level in February. The bigger plunge in exports than imports reduced Germany’s widely-criticised trade surplus to €17.4bn, compared with €22.3bn a year before, Reuters reports.
In Germany, late March brought the first shutdowns of much of public life to limit the spread of the coronavirus. But some vital trade partners like Italy and China had already been battling the disease for weeks or months by the time such decisions fell in Berlin and regional capitals.
In a geographic breakdown, March brought a bigger fall for exports to Germany’s European Union neighbours, at 11.0% from March 2019, compared with a 4.3%-drop in shipments to the rest of the world.
Exports to the eurozone single currency area were particularly hard-hit, falling by 14%.
Global death toll nears 270,000. The total number of coronavirus deaths across the world has reached at least 268,999, according to Johns Hopkins University, which has tracked the spread of the virus. There are 3,846,949 confirmed cases.
White House blocks release of CDC guidance on reopening businesses. A report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was abruptly shelved by the White House, according to Associated Press. The document includes step-by-step guidance on how and when local authorities should allow businesses to reopen and life to resume as normal. US unemployment claims hit 33.3m, while the death toll passed 75,000.
Trump revives theory that virus originated in a lab. “Something happened,” Trump told US reporters in the Oval Office when asked about the theory that the coronavirus was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “Probably it was incompetence. Somebody was stupid,” the US president added during a meeting with the Texas governor. It comes after Mike Pompeo claimed he had seen “enormous evidence” that the virus had originated at the lab. No evidence has been produced. China has denied the claims. Trump meanwhile tested negative for coronavirus, after his personal valet was confirmed to be infected.
The Australian government has pushed back at US claims the coronavirus may have originated in a Wuhan lab and has determined that a “dossier” giving weight to the theory is not a Five Eyes intelligence document.
Australia outlines three-step plan for easing restrictions. Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison outlined the three steps the country will take to achieve a “Covid-safe economy in July of this year”. However, the final decisions on the easing of restrictions remains in the hands of state governments.
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