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12,155,602 |
+213,279 |
551,192 |
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1 |
3,158,932 |
+61,848 |
134,862 |
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2 |
1,716,196 |
+41,541 |
68,055 |
|
|
3 |
769,052 |
+25,571 |
21,144 |
|
|
4 |
700,792 |
+6,562 |
10,667 |
|
|
5 |
312,911 |
+3,633 |
11,133 |
|
|
6 |
303,083 |
+2,064 |
6,573 |
|
|
7 |
299,593 |
+383 |
28,396 |
|
|
8 |
286,979 |
+630 |
44,517 |
|
|
9 |
268,008 |
+6,258 |
32,014 |
|
|
10 |
248,379 |
+2,691 |
12,084 |
|
|
11 |
242,149 |
+193 |
34,914 |
|
|
12 |
237,489 |
+2,980 |
4,922 |
|
|
13 |
224,665 |
+8,810 |
3,602 |
|
|
14 |
220,144 |
+3,036 |
2,059 |
|
|
15 |
208,938 |
+1,041 |
5,282 |
|
|
16 |
198,765 |
+410 |
9,115 |
|
|
17 |
172,134 |
+3,489 |
2,197 |
|
|
18 |
169,473 |
+663 |
29,965 |
|
|
19 |
128,638 |
+4,144 |
4,527 |
|
|
20 |
106,434 |
+267 |
8,737 |
|
|
21 |
101,553 |
+608 |
138 |
|
|
22 |
87,030 |
+3,604 |
1,694 |
|
|
23 |
83,572 |
+7 |
4,634 |
|
|
24 |
78,304 |
+1,025 |
3,564 |
|
|
25 |
73,858 |
+302 |
5,482 |
|
|
26 |
68,079 |
+1,853 |
3,359 |
|
|
27 |
67,442 |
+2,741 |
2,779 |
|
|
28 |
64,224 |
+221 |
443 |
|
|
29 |
63,245 |
|
4,873 |
|
|
30 |
62,123 |
+65 |
9,776 |
|
|
31 |
53,045 |
+445 |
327 |
|
|
32 |
52,007 |
+762 |
379 |
|
|
33 |
51,059 |
+1,376 |
264 |
|
|
34 |
50,746 |
+52 |
6,135 |
|
|
35 |
50,414 |
+807 |
1,306 |
|
|
36 |
50,359 |
+2,486 |
1,314 |
|
|
37 |
50,207 |
+1,210 |
233 |
|
|
38 |
45,298 |
+158 |
26 |
|
|
39 |
44,859 |
+443 |
1,631 |
|
|
40 |
41,545 |
+1,036 |
1,530 |
|
|
41 |
41,251 |
+960 |
819 |
|
|
42 |
39,588 |
+1,158 |
829 |
|
|
43 |
36,689 |
+277 |
1,542 |
|
|
44 |
33,594 |
+210 |
936 |
|
|
45 |
33,557 |
+1,335 |
344 |
|
|
46 |
32,498 |
+129 |
1,966 |
|
|
47 |
30,931 |
+610 |
98 |
|
|
48 |
30,249 |
+460 |
684 |
|
|
49 |
30,175 |
+555 |
1,817 |
|
|
50 |
29,820 |
+535 |
521 |
|
|
51 |
25,542 |
+11 |
1,738 |
|
|
52 |
25,428 |
+763 |
677 |
|
|
53 |
25,411 |
+624 |
1,053 |
|
|
54 |
22,822 |
+854 |
129 |
|
|
55 |
21,916 |
+542 |
274 |
|
|
56 |
20,174 |
+193 |
980 |
|
|
57 |
18,513 |
+92 |
706 |
|
|
58 |
18,471 |
+330 |
614 |
|
|
59 |
17,348 |
+469 |
978 |
|
|
60 |
17,076 |
+357 |
341 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
A potential coronavirus vaccine is being developed at the Novavax labs in Gaithersburg, Md.Credit...Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Federal health officials in the United States are trying to decide who will get the first doses of any effective coronavirus vaccines, which could be on the market this winter but may require many additional months to become widely available to Americans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an advisory committee of outside health experts have been working on a ranking system for what may be an extended rollout. According to a preliminary plan, any approved vaccines would be offered to vital medical and national security officials first, then to other essential workers and those considered at high risk — the elderly instead of children, people with underlying conditions instead of the relatively healthy.
Agency officials and the advisers are also considering what has become a contentious option: putting Black and Latino people, part of the population that has disproportionately fallen victim to Covid-19, ahead of others in the population.
Some medical experts are not convinced there is a scientific basis for such an option. They foresee court challenges or worry that prioritizing minority groups would erode public trust in vaccines at a time when immunization is seen as crucial to ending the pandemic.
“Giving it to one race initially and not another race, I’m not sure how that would be perceived by the public, how that would affect how vaccines are viewed as a trusted public health measure,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, a group represented on the committee.
It is the first major pandemic-related unrest in Europe since the virus hit, and the authorities have moved quickly to try to put it down. Thousands of Serbs demonstrated for a second straight night on Wednesday, partly in response to President Aleksandar Vucic’s handling of the crisis.
The protests were met by a violent police response that some analysts said they had not witnessed in Serbia since the era of Slobodan Milosevic, who governed Serbia during the 1990s.
Serbs first took to the streets on Tuesday, soon after Mr. Vucic announced that Belgrade would be placed under a new three-day lockdown because of a new wave of infections. Some protesters briefly entered the Parliament building before being forced out by the police.
Even after Mr. Vucic backed down, suspending the second shutdown, the protests continued. They quickly grew into a wider expression of frustration with Mr. Vucic.
After initially enforcing one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns in March, Mr. Vucic lifted social restrictions in early May, claiming his government had defeated the virus. But while other European countries eased their lockdowns gradually, Mr. Vucic opted for a faster process, soon allowing Serbs to gather in the tens of thousands at sports matches and to crowd into reopened nightclubs.
“We went from one extreme to another,” said Jelena Vasiljevic of the University of Belgrade.
Protesters said they were less angry about the return of the lockdown than about the governmental missteps that had led to it, including a decision to proceed with a general election last week.
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The authorities in the northeastern Catalonia region of Spain on Thursday reintroduced the mandatory use of face masks outdoors, along with a fine of 100 euros ($113) for anyone not wearing one. There have been a series of outbreaks in the region, the most serious of which has led to the lockdown of about 200,000 people living around the city of Lleida. In the Balearic archipelago, off Spain’s east coast, the authorities are also preparing to make masks compulsory again starting this weekend.
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Australia stepped up its efforts to isolate the outbreak spreading through Melbourne on Thursday, as the state of Queensland shut its doors to people trying to flee the city’s six-week lockdown. Most of Australia is now off limits to people from the state of Victoria, where Melbourne is the capital, as the state authorities reported 165 new cases on Thursday, including six infections tied to a school where a cluster has now spread to 113 people.
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Tokyo recorded 224 new infections on Thursday, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK said, surpassing a record set in April. The city has more than 7,000 cases.
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A man in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan was executed on Thursday, after he killed two village officials tasked with combating the virus, a local court and the state-run news media said. The killing was in February, and the man was sentenced to death in March.
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The Indonesian island of Bali, a popular tourist destination, began reopening beaches and businesses on Thursday, despite a steady increase in the number of coronavirus cases. Bali was never locked down, but residents were encouraged to stay home, practice social distancing and wear masks. Over the past three weeks, the number of reported infections has more than doubled, to 1,971, and the number of deaths has more than quadrupled, to 25.
Some New York neighborhoods, like Corona in Queens, were hit so hard during the spring peak of the epidemic that they might now have herd immunity.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
According to antibody test results, some of New York City’s neighborhoods were so disproportionately exposed to the coronavirus during the peak of the epidemic in March and April that the most vulnerable communities might have a higher degree of protection during a potential second wave.
The testing results from the urgent-care company CityMD were shared with The New York Times.
At a clinic in Corona, a working-class neighborhood in Queens, more than 68 percent of people have tested positive for antibodies to the virus, suggesting that their immune systems had encountered an infection and responded to it. At a clinic in Jackson Heights, also in Queens, that number was 56 percent. But at a clinic in Cobble Hill, an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood, only 13 percent of people tested positive for antibodies.
While stopping short of predicting that hard-hit neighborhoods like Corona and Jackson Heights would be relatively protected in any major new outbreak — a phenomenon known as herd immunity — several epidemiologists said that the different levels of antibody prevalence were likely to play a role in what happens next, assuming that antibodies do, in fact, offer significant protection against future infections.
“Some communities might have herd immunity,” said Dr. Daniel Frogel, a senior vice president for operations at CityMD, which runs urgent-care centers throughout the metropolitan area and plays a vital role in the city’s testing program.
As the virus has swept through New York, it has exposed stark inequalities in nearly every aspect of city life, from who has been most affected to how the health care system tended to those patients. Many lower-income neighborhoods, where Black and Latino residents make up a large part of the population, were hard-hit, while many wealthy neighborhoods had far fewer cases.
But if there is a second wave of the virus, some of those vulnerabilities may flip, with the affluent neighborhoods becoming most at risk for a surge of infections.
The CityMD statistics reflect tests done from late April to late June. As of June 26, CityMD had administered about 314,000 antibody tests in the city; citywide, 26 percent of the tests came back positive.
The testing results in Jackson Heights and Corona seemed to “jump off the map,” Dr. Frogel said.
From Angus Watson in Sydney
Lines of healthcare professionals are seen entering the North Melbourne Public Housing tower complex in Melbourne, Australia, on July 8. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
A Melbourne apartment block that has been identified as an epicenter of the city's new coronavirus outbreak will remain in a "hard lockdown."
The building at 33 Alfred Road in North Melbourne and eight other public housing towers have been subject to strict restrictions since Saturday, with a total of 3,000 residents unable to leave their homes for any reason.
33 Alfred Road is the only block that will remain under the hardest measures, the Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews said Thursday.
“We’ll continue to support these Victorians with food, back to school resources, and any other kind of assistance they might need as they stay home and stay safe," a statement from Andrews' office said. A police presence will remain at all towers, to assist in managing the restrictions.
Health authorities have now tested all residents of the nine towers. Of the 2,515 tests conducted, 158 came back positive.
From CNN's Angus Watson and Sophie Jeong
Authorities take food to residents in a locked-down public housing estate in Melbourne, Australia, on July 9. William West/AFP/Getty Images
The Australian state of Victoria recorded 165 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the state's health department announced today.
Of the new cases, 30 have been linked to known outbreaks -- while 135 remain under investigation, the department said.
The announcement came just hours after Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city and the state capital, went into lockdown. The state border with neighbouring New South Wales has also been shut to stop the virus from spreading further.
Victoria has had 3,098 Covid-19 cases with 22 related deaths since the pandemic began.
New South Wales recorded 13 new cases on Wednesday, the state's Premier Gladys Berejiklian said Thursday.
From CNN Health’s Shelby Lin Erdman
A large bottle of hand sanitizer near a pool in Spring Township, Pennsylvania, on June 13. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Images
The US Food and Drug Administration has added more types of hand sanitizer to its growing list of products that are either confirmed or potentially contaminated with toxic methanol.
More than two dozen hand sanitizer products sold by Mexico-based 4E Global -- many carrying the Blumen label -- contain high levels of methanol and have been recommended for recall, the agency said.
The FDA said it has seen an increase in products containing ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, that tested positive for potentially poisonous methanol contamination.
Methanol can be life-threatening if ingested and toxic if absorbed through the skin. States have also reported cases of blindness, hospitalizations and deaths in adults and children after drinking hand sanitizer products tainted with methanol, the FDA said.
Methanol, or wood alcohol as it’s often known, is used in antifreeze and fuel production. Exposure can also cause nausea, headaches, dizziness, agitation, amnesia, coma and seizures, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC advises people to frequently wash their hands with soap and water to avoid contracting the novel coronavirus. If soap and water are not available, the CDC recommends using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% ethanol.
The FDA is urging consumers to check their hand sanitizers to find out if they are on the list of bad products posted on the agency's website and to report any adverse events or quality problems.
From CNN's Maggie Fox
Cloth masks made by Fort Bend County Jail inmates in Richmond, Texas. Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP
Cloth masks are better than nothing at protecting wearers and the people around them from disease, but they are not equivalent to medical-grade masks and shouldn’t be recommended for health care workers, researchers said Wednesday.
The researchers, from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, said their results showed cloth versions don’t work as well.
“In 2015, we conducted a randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy of cloth masks with that of medical masks and controls (standard practice) among healthcare workers in Vietnam,” Dr. Abrar Chughtai, an epidemiologist, and colleagues wrote in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. They checked the workers for influenza-like illnesses, which include a range of respiratory infections.
“Rates of infection were consistently higher among those in the cloth mask group than in the medical mask and control groups. This finding suggests that risk for infection was higher for those wearing cloth masks,” they added.
“The mask tested was a locally manufactured, double-layered cotton mask. Participants were given five cloth masks for a 4-week study period and were asked to wash the masks daily with soap and water. The poor performance may have been because the masks were not washed frequently enough or because they became moist and contaminated.”
The team also reviewed 19 other studies of masks and found the fabric used is important.
“Filtration effectiveness of cloth masks depends on many factors, such as thread count, number of layers, type of fabric, and water resistance,” they wrote. “Current evidence suggests that multilayered masks with water-resistant fabric, high number of threads, and finer weave may be more protective.”
The researchers said that for coronavirus, all frontline health care workers should wear medical masks or N95 respirators.
“During a pandemic, cloth masks may be the only option available; however, they should be used as a last resort when medical masks and respirators are not available,” they concluded.
Ohio Stadium, also known as the Horseshoe, at The Ohio State University. Shutterstock
The Ohio State Department of Athletics has announced that the school has paused all voluntary workouts, “following the results of its most recent Covid-19 testing of student-athletes.”
The school is not sharing infection data publicly because "it could lead to the identification of specific individuals and compromise their medical privacy," the athletics department said in its statement.
The pause affects men’s and women’s basketball, field hockey, football, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball.
“If a student-athlete tests positive for Covid-19, he/she will self-isolate for at least 14 days and receive daily check-ups from the Department of Athletics medical staff. Student-athletes living alone will isolate in their residence. If they have roommates, they will self-isolate in a designated room on campus," the statement said.
Earlier Wednesday, the University of North Carolina suspended its football program’s voluntary workouts after 37 players and staff tested positive for Covid-19.
From CNN’s Shelby Lin Erdman
The United States' leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said White House coronavirus task force leader Vice President Mike Pence is doing “a very good job.”
Fauci and task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx regularly sound the alarm about the pandemic at briefings or in interviews, while Pence has touted what a good job the Trump administration is doing.
“He is trying in his role as the vice president to really, in a certain sense, also point out some of the things that are going well,” Fauci told the Wall Street Journal in a podcast Wednesday.
“So, he's a person who's an optimistic person and he's doing a very good job as the leader of the task force, I must say.
“I look at the data, I analyze the data and I give my best opinion based on the evidence."
Fauci said there are many facets to the task force discussions, and he and his colleagues are primarily focused on public health. Pence, he said, has other concerns.
“There’s the issue and the need, from an economic standpoint, to get open," Fauci said. "So all of that goes into the mix and then you see the kind of recommendations that go out but you know as a member of the task force, I’m telling you that we have a serious situation that we really do need to address.”
Fauci said the public health and economic policies need to work in tandem. Other health experts worry that President Donald Trump has pushed his economic priorities at the expense of American lives. So far, more than 132,000 Americans have died from Covid-19.
“We shouldn't think of it as one against the other because once you start thinking there’s public health and there's the economy opening it looks like they're opposing forces,” Fauci said.
“So, what we're trying to do is to get the public health message, if heard and implemented, be actually a gateway to facilitate opening and an easier way instead of there’s guys are on this side and those guys and ladies are on the other side.”
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-09-20-intl/index.html
The number of confirmed infections worldwide over the course of the pandemic so gar is nearing 12 million, according the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official government data, with 11,982,883 currently confirmed.
The US, the worst-affected country worldwide in terms of number of cases and deaths, accounts for a quarter of the world’s cases, and just under one in four coronavirus-related deaths globally.
There have been 547,722 deaths over the course of the pandemic so far.
The true case and death figures are likely to be higher, due to delays in reporting, differing definitions and testing rates, and suspected underreporting in some countries.
Here are the countries worldwide with more than 200,000 known infections:
. US: 3,040,957 (deaths: 132,095)
. Brazil: 1,713,160 (deaths: 67,964)
. India: 742,417 (deaths: 20,642)
. Russia: 699,749 (deaths: 10,650)
. Peru: 312,911 (deaths:11,133 )
. Chile: 303,083 (deaths: 6,573)
. United Kingdom: 288,510 (deaths: 44,602)
. Mexico: 268,008 (deaths: 32,014)
. Spain: 252,513 (deaths: 28,396)
. Iran: 248,379 (deaths: 12,084)
. Italy: 242,149 (deaths: 34,914)
. Pakistan: 237,489 (deaths: 4,922)
. South Africa: 224,665 (deaths: 3,602)
. Saudi Arabia: 220,144 (deaths: 2,059)
. Turkey: 208,938 (deaths: 5,282)
. France: 206,072 (deaths: 29,936)
US President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa in late June that drew thousands of participants and large protests “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday.
Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday. By comparison, during the week before the June 20 Trump rally, there were 76 cases on Monday and 96 on Tuesday.
Although the health department’s policy is to not publicly identify individual settings where people may have contracted the virus, Dart said those large gatherings “more than likely” contributed to the spike.
“In the past few days, we’ve seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots,” Dart said.
Trump’s Tulsa rally, his first since the coronavirus pandemic hit the US, attracted thousands of people from around the country. About 6,200 people gathered inside the 19,000-seat BOK Center arena far fewer than was expected.
Dart had urged the campaign to consider pushing back the date of the rally, fearing a potential surge in the number of coronavirus cases.
Although masks were provided to rally goers, there was no requirement that participants wear them, and most didn’t, AP reports.
Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.
My name is Helen Sullivan and I’ll be bringing you the latest news from around the world for the next few hours.
Please do get in touch on Twitter @helenrsullivan or via email – helen.sullivan@theguardian.com – with news, questions, tips and suggestions.
The US has reported the highest one-day rise in new coronavirus for any country since the start if the pandemic, with 60,000 new cases recorded in a single day, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official figures, as 35 states see growing numbers of new cases from last week.
ICUs at 56 hospitals in Florida have reached capacity. California hospitalisations are at an all-time high, and Texas hospitalisations have broken state records for the tenth say in a row, according to the health department.
· Cases worldwide are nearing 12 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, with 11,982,883 currently confirmed. There have been 547,722 deaths over the course of the pandemic so far.
· Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, has re-entered lockdown, as the state of Victoria struggles to contain a coronavirus outbreak that has seen daily cases rise by over 100 for several days.
· The US has surpassed three million confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. It said there have been 131,960 deaths among the total of 3,022,899 cases.
· US President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said. Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday. The rally drew thousands of people in June.
· Vice President Mike Pence urged schools to reopen despite the pandemic, echoing comments from Trump. During a White House coronavirus task force briefing at the US department of education, Pence said, “It’s time for us to get our kids back to school.” But many school officials are expressing doubts about their ability to safely reopen their doors.
· Trump threatened to withhold funding from schools that don’t reopen. The president also criticised the school reopening guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “very tough” and “expensive.”
· Jair Bolsonaro vetoed provisions of a law requiring government to provide drinking water, disinfectants and guaranteed hospital beds to indigenous communities amid the pandemic. The Brazilian President, who has tested positive for coronavirus, vetoed 16 parts of the law on efforts to address the coronavirus threat to the indigenous population, but still allowed for provisions on adequate testing, ambulance services and medical equipment.
· Argentina posted a daily record of cases. Argentina has posted a daily record of 3,604 confirmed cases of Covid-19.The sharp rise, the first time daily cases have surpassed 3,000, took the total number to 87,030, fivefold the number at the start of June, though still well below case loads in Brazil, Chile and Peru.Argentina’s center-left government imposed a strict lockdown in mid-March, which has been loosened in most of the country but was extended and reinforced last month in and around Buenos Aires due to a spike in cases.The country’s death toll from the pandemic stands at 1,694.
· The Australian city of Melbourne has begun a new lockdown after a surge of infections. Among the restrictions are that visits to other people’s homes are limited to if you are giving or receiving care or if you are in an “intimate personal relationship”.
· Italian authorities stopped 125 Bangladeshi people from entering the country today after they landed at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on a flight from Qatar. Yesterday, Italy suspended flights from Bangladesh for a week after 36 people who arrived in Rome on board a flight the day before tested positive for coronavirus.
· The number of coronavirus cases has passed the 301,000 mark in Chile, according to the Johns-Hopkins University tracker. The figure is currently 301,019, which is the sixth highest in the world after the US, Brazil, India, Russia, and Peru.
· Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has warned the European Union not to waste time in agreeing a recovery plan to pull the continent out of a historic recession caused by the coronavirus lockdown. Merkel said she hoped to see a deal before the summer break on a proposed €750bn recovery plan.
· Austria’s government has announced travel restrictions for fellow EU members Romania and Bulgaria after a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in both countries. Greece, which like Austria, has had a low number of infections and deaths compared with other European nations, has also expressed concern about imported cases from the Balkans.
· Iran’s coronavirus death toll exceeded 12,000 on Wednesday, the health ministry said, with 153 deaths in the past 24 hours, amid a sharp rise in the number of daily infections and deaths in the past week as lockdown measures have eased.
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