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14,634,732 |
+220,073 |
608,559 |
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1 |
3,898,550 |
+65,279 |
143,289 |
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2 |
2,099,896 |
+24,650 |
79,533 |
|
|
3 |
1,118,107 |
+40,243 |
27,503 |
|
|
4 |
771,546 |
+6,109 |
12,342 |
|
|
5 |
364,328 |
+13,449 |
5,033 |
|
|
6 |
353,590 |
+4,090 |
13,187 |
|
|
7 |
338,913 |
+7,615 |
38,888 |
|
|
8 |
330,930 |
+2,084 |
8,503 |
|
|
9 |
307,335 |
|
28,420 |
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10 |
294,792 |
+726 |
45,300 |
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|
11 |
273,788 |
+2,182 |
14,188 |
|
|
12 |
263,496 |
+1,580 |
5,568 |
|
|
13 |
250,920 |
+2,504 |
2,486 |
|
|
14 |
244,434 |
+218 |
35,045 |
|
|
15 |
219,641 |
+924 |
5,491 |
|
|
16 |
204,525 |
+2,459 |
2,618 |
|
|
17 |
202,845 |
+273 |
9,163 |
|
|
18 |
197,278 |
+6,578 |
6,736 |
|
|
19 |
174,674 |
|
30,152 |
|
|
20 |
126,755 |
+4,231 |
2,260 |
|
|
21 |
110,338 |
+339 |
8,852 |
|
|
22 |
106,648 |
+340 |
157 |
|
|
23 |
92,530 |
+2,310 |
3,781 |
|
|
24 |
87,775 |
+603 |
4,302 |
|
|
25 |
86,521 |
+1,639 |
4,143 |
|
|
26 |
83,660 |
+16 |
4,634 |
|
|
27 |
77,281 |
|
5,619 |
|
|
28 |
74,013 |
+631 |
5,313 |
|
|
29 |
70,339 |
+1,636 |
375 |
|
|
30 |
67,456 |
+2,241 |
1,831 |
|
|
31 |
66,661 |
+1,157 |
318 |
|
|
32 |
66,095 |
+142 |
499 |
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|
33 |
63,706 |
+207 |
9,800 |
|
|
34 |
59,204 |
+300 |
408 |
|
|
35 |
58,842 |
+731 |
1,485 |
|
|
36 |
58,138 |
+2,036 |
2,106 |
|
|
37 |
56,922 |
+211 |
339 |
|
|
38 |
53,468 |
+1,207 |
1,096 |
|
|
39 |
52,855 |
+1,336 |
981 |
|
|
40 |
51,725 |
+144 |
6,136 |
|
|
41 |
50,289 |
+924 |
409 |
|
|
42 |
48,636 |
+246 |
1,689 |
|
|
43 |
47,912 |
+257 |
27 |
|
|
44 |
40,104 |
+358 |
1,624 |
|
|
45 |
38,677 |
+635 |
1,485 |
|
|
46 |
37,458 |
+767 |
2,026 |
|
|
47 |
36,663 |
+556 |
789 |
|
|
48 |
36,422 |
+418 |
126 |
|
|
49 |
35,475 |
+174 |
1,181 |
|
|
50 |
34,877 |
+415 |
641 |
|
|
51 |
33,591 |
+99 |
1,969 |
|
|
52 |
32,793 |
+1,048 |
891 |
|
|
53 |
27,667 |
+607 |
148 |
|
|
54 |
27,521 |
+388 |
354 |
|
|
55 |
26,532 |
+1,926 |
1,003 |
|
|
56 |
25,760 |
+10 |
1,753 |
|
|
57 |
24,642 |
+510 |
985 |
|
|
58 |
23,084 |
+535 |
1,078 |
|
|
59 |
20,980 |
+186 |
684 |
|
|
60 |
20,894 |
+396 |
472 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus
From CNN’s Arman Azad in Virginia, Fred Pleigten in Berlin and Vasco Cotovio in Lisbon
AstraZeneca's building in Luton, England on May 18. Tim Ireland/Xinhua/Getty Images
The British government has secured early access to more than 90 million vaccine doses as well as Covid-19 neutralizing antibody treatments, Business Secretary Alok Sharma announced today.
The announcement follows an existing global licensing agreement signed with AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford to research, develop and manufacture 100 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine for the UK public.
“The hunt to find a vaccine is a truly global endeavor, and we are doing everything we can to ensure the British public get access to a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible,” Sharma said, announcing a partnership with companies BioNTech/Pfizer and Valneva, which are developing vaccines against COVID-19.
“This new partnership with some of the world’s foremost pharmaceutical and vaccine companies will ensure the UK has the best chance possible of securing a vaccine that protects those most at risk.”
France-based Pharmaceutical Valneva confirmed the “agreement in principle” with the British government saying it would “provide up to 100 million doses of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate.”
“The UK government is expected to contribute to UK clinical studies costs and is negotiating funding to expand Valneva’s Scottish facility,” it also said.
Sharma encouraged people to sign up for a newly created NHS website which aims to make it “quicker and easier” for volunteers to join studies and trials.
“The public can also play their part in vaccine research through the new NHS vaccine research register,” he said, setting a target of 500,000 people on the platform by October. “By signing up and participating in important clinical studies, together we can speed up the search for a vaccine and end the pandemic sooner.”
From CNN's James Frater in Brussels
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd R), President of the European Council Charles Michel (R) and Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen (L) and Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Costa (L) attend EU summit to discuss EU's long-term budget and coronavirus recovery plan in Brussels, Belgium on July 18. Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
After three days of marathon talks, European leaders have been unable to reach an agreement on a landmark initiative to fund Europe’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Leaders will reconvene in Brussels on Monday afternoon.
After all-night discussions, talks stalled early Monday after leaders couldn’t find a way to break through on long list of disagreements including the size of loans and grants required for the EU’s economic recovery plan.
European Council President Charles Michel had proposed that countries would be able to access a recovery package of more than $857 billion (€750 billion) from which $571 billion (€500 billion) would be paid as grants.
Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, the so-called "Frugal Four," had vehemently opposed the idea of €500 billion in grants over concerns of loading their countries with national debt to fund the spending of other countries.
Countries like Spain and Italy said they couldn’t accept a reduction in the volume of grants.
“For us, we don't believe in this grants-based system,” said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, speaking to journalists on Friday. The Netherlands had proposed linking access to grants to an increased governance mechanism to ensure that countries met the requirements for receiving money.
From journalist Karol Suarez in Mexico City
Workers from the Crematorio San Isidro prepare a person for cremation who died from the coronavirus on July 17, in Mexico City, Mexico. Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Mexico's coronavirus epidemic is continuing to grow, with the country's death toll now nearing 40,000 people.
The Health Ministry reported 296 people died of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours on Sunday. To date, a total of 39,184 people have died of the coronavirus since the pandemic began.
Mexican authorities also announced 5,311 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday, bringing the country’s total number of infections to 344,224.
From CNN's Eric Cheung in Hong Kong
Medical workers conduct testing for the coronavirus (COVID-19) at a drive-thru testing site in Melbourne, Australia on July 10, 2020. Recep Sakar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The Australian state of Victoria has reported 275 new coronavirus cases in the past day, most of which are still under investigation, State Premier Daniel Andrews announced at a press conference today.
Of the 275 new cases, 28 were linked to known outbreaks, while 247 are still being looked into by Victorian authorities.
Andrews also announced that a woman in her 80s had died due to Covid-19, bringing Victoria's death toll to 35.
The number of coronavirus-related patients in hospitals in Victoria has risen to 147 with 31 in ICU, Andrews said.
On July 8, Metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire, a regional area of Victoria, returned to a Stage Three lockdown for six weeks amid a rise in cases.
People are only allowed to leave their homes to buy food, go to work, receive or give care and exercise, according to the Victoria government.
From Junko Ogura in Tokyo and Eric Cheung in Hong Kong
Workers disinfect inside of Osaka City Juso Hospital ahead of reopening of outpatient care in Osaka, Japan, on July 9. The Yomiuri Shimbun/AP
Osaka, the second largest prefecture in Japan, announced its highest daily total of new coronavirus cases yet, half of which it said were still untraceable.
Japan recorded 510 coronavirus cases on Sunday, the Health Ministry said in a statement released today. Osaka confirmed 89 infections on Sunday, including 59 untraceable cases.
This is the highest daily figure reported in the prefecture since April 9.
Another 188 cases were reported in Tokyo on Sunday, the first time in four days that the number fell below 200, the statement read.
No new deaths were reported on Sunday.
The total number of confirmed cases across Japan is now 25,808, which includes 25,096 land cases and 712 cases from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
From CNN's Paul Vercammen and Jennifer Selva
Health officials in Los Angeles have reported the highest number of hospitalizations in a day with 2,216 people hospitalized, up from the previous record of 2,193, set July 15.
Eleven people died and 2,848 new cases were reported Sunday, according to a Los Angeles Department of Public Health news release. This is a significant drop in both of those numbers from the past week.
More than half of all new cases reported in Los Angeles were in people younger than 41, the release said.
Across the state, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) reports that both hospitalizations and the positivity rate continue to trend upward in the 14-day average.
The seven-day average number of new cases has surpassed 9,000, with 9,127 per day.
The 32 counties on the state’s "watch list" that have shut down most indoor activities are home to 80% of California’s population, according to CPDH.
California has 384,692 confirmed cases and 7,685 deaths due to coronavirus.
From CNN’s Taylor Barnes and journalists Rodrigo Pedroso and Juliana Arini
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right President of Brazil and his country’s highest-profile Covid-19 patient, took a walk on the grounds of his presidential palace Sunday afternoon and greeted a crowd of supporters, video broadcast live on his Facebook page showed.
While Bolsonaro was wearing a mask, he was closely flanked by a number of aides who did not appear to consistently maintain a significant social distance from him. He repeatedly lowered his mask while talking, including when aides were nearby.
Supporters were separated from the President by a small water canal, but two people crossed over to Bolsonaro's side. One man helped a second man, who appeared to have a physical disability, walk close to the President for a greeting.
“Thank you for the trust,” Bolsonaro told the pair. “I want to make a government for you all.”
Bolsonaro also raised what appeared to be a small box of medicine. During the pandemic, Bolsonaro has repeatedly endorsed the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine, even though the Brazilian Society of Infectious Disease issued a report Friday calling for medical professionals to stop using the drug for Covid-19 patients. Bolsonaro has said he has taken it since testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
From CNN's Naomi Thomas
Researchers in South Korea have found that children between the ages of 10 and 19 can transmit Covid-19 within a household just as much as adults, according to new research published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Researchers also found that children ages 9 and younger transmitted the virus within their household at rates that were a lot lower.
Researchers from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at reports of 59,073 contacts of 5,706 coronavirus patients.
Overall, the researchers detected Covid-19 in 11.8% of 10,592 household contacts. For 48,481 non-household contacts, 1.9% tested positive for Covid-19.
When the initial patient in a household was younger than 10, the researchers found that 5.3% of household contacts tested positive for Covid-19. When the initial patient was between the ages of 10 and 19, 18.6% of contacts tested positive.
Rates were higher for contacts of children than adults,” the authors said. “These risks largely reflected transmission in the middle of mitigations and therefore might characterize transmission dynamics during school closure.”
Researchers also found that the highest Covid-19 rate for household contacts of school-age children and the lowest rates for children younger than 9 was the middle of school closures.
“Although the detection rate for contacts of preschool-aged children was lower, young children may show higher attack rates when the school closure ends, contributing to community transmission of Covid-19,” the study said.
This is one study in many,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, speaking on CNN’s "Inside Politics" on Sunday. “And the general consensus that I think most of us has had is that younger kids definitely spread a lot less. Older kids, especially as you start getting into teenagers and older teenagers, start looking like adults.”
Jha said that, ultimately, what you want to do is get the virus suppressed in the community so schools can reopen safely.
“You might have a different threshold for getting kids kindergarten through 5, let’s say, back in at an earlier level,” Jha said. “And you may need to wait a little bit longer until the virus levels really are down before you open up high schools.”
There are some limitations to the study, the authors said, including that the number of cases may have been underestimated and that they were unable to assess the true difference in transmissibility between household and non-household contacts because of the different testing thresholds.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-20-20-intl/index.html
Ben Doherty
Papua New Guinea has recorded its first Covid-19-related death – the first Pacific island fatality outside US territories and the first in Melanesia – as it seeks to contain an outbreak in the main hospital in its capital, Port Moresby.
The 48-year-old woman – who had stage four breast cancer – died in Port Moresby general hospital on Sunday. She died with the novel coronavirus, doctors said, and her illness and death “may have been complicated by Covid-19”.
Before the woman’s infection and death, all five confirmed cases in PNG in the past week were among workers at the central public health laboratory, where Covid-19 tests are being conducted, at Port Moresby general hospital. A cluster in the hospital has raised questions about the country’s capacity to safely test and treat cases in an outbreak.
Josh Taylor
In Australia, government decision makers, departments, hotel operators and private security operators are on notice they will be expected to give evidence to the Victorian inquiry into the coronavirus hotel quarantine management, as the inquiry hears nearly all current cases in Victoria could be linked to hotel outbreaks.
The inquiry was launched by the state government after it was revealed that protocol breaches by security guards overseeing hotel quarantine had led to outbreaks in Victoria.
The inquiry heard on Monday that there is evidence that many if not all of the current cases of coronavirus could be linked to the hotel outbreaks.
“Information already available to the inquiry suggests the possibility of a link between many of the cases of coronavirus identified in the Victorian community in the past few weeks, and persons who were quarantined under the hotel quarantine program,” Neal said.
“Comments made by the chief health officer to the media have suggested that it might even be that every case of Covid-19 in Victoria in recent weeks, could be sourced to the hotel quarantine program.”
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Sunday that he would postpone the second phase of the country’s economic reopening, slated to begin Tuesday, after evaluating inputs from experts and the Salvadoran health ministry, Reuters reports.
Just on Saturday, the president had reiterated his intention to move forward with the next stage of restarting the economy.
Members of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute workers’ union gather around an empty coffin as they participate in a protest asking for quarantine measures to contain the spread of coronavirus in San Salvador, El Salvador 16 July 2020. Photograph: José Cabezas/Reuters
“After listening to the opinions of experts and above all, the Ministry of Health ... I have decided to suspend Phase 2 of the economic reopening,” Bukele wrote in a post on Twitter.
Bukele and El Salvador’s congress have clashed over how to manage the pandemic. Lawmakers have so far refused to approve a request from Bukele’s government for new emergency measures to restrict the movement of people.
El Salvador has registered a total of 11,846 coronavirus cases and 335 deaths.
South Africa’s death toll from coronavirus has passed the 5,000 mark, according to official figures released on Sunday by the continent’s hardest hit country, AFP reports.
South Africa registered 85 new deaths from the virus in the previous 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 5,033. A total of 13,449 new infections were also officially diagnosed, taking the number to 364,328, figures released by the health ministry showed.
Minister of Health Zweli Mkhiz urged citizens to respect recommended hygiene measures. “As government, we have mobilised every resource.... But government cannot manage this unilaterally,” he said in a statement.
“We are extremely concerned that fatigue seems to have set in and South Africans are letting down their guard at a time when the spread of infection is surging.
“We see poor or no social distancing in communities. Masks are abandoned or not worn properly,” he said.
“This will directly influence the rise in numbers in the next two weeks. Our ability to break the cycle of infections depends on our willingness to remain focused and disciplined and take non pharmaceutical interventions seriously,” the minister said.
The peak of the pandemic in South Africa is expected over the next few weeks. Authorities imposed a strict lockdown in late March, but the measures have been progressively eased to avoid economic collapse.
As Hong Kong confirmed a record 108 new cases, on Sunday, 83 of which are locally transmitted, leader Carrie Lam introduced a series of new restrictions, including the mandatory wearing masks while indoors in public spaces.
Lam also ordered civil servants to work from home starting today, and advised schools to give students their university entrance exam results online, the South China Morning Post reports.
On restaurants:
The 6pm to 5am ban on dine-in services at restaurants and the rule limiting tables to only four people would be extended for a week to July 28. The closure of bars and 12 other types of premises, including gyms and karaoke lounges, would also be extended to the same date.
Lam said the government had also considered banning dine-in services during breakfast and lunch, but decided against it because many people needed to eat out.
Hong Kong was held up months ago as a model for its success in keeping down Covid-19 cases in the crowded city-state of 7.5 million people, but its caseload – although still low by European and American standards – had grown by a third in the past fortnight to nearly 1,800.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Nearly 14.5 million people have been tested positive for coronavirus worldwide so far, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official government data.The current total stands at 14,457,916. The death toll is 605,205.
· China reported 22 new coronavirus cases, according to the People’s Daily, with 17 of these community transmission cases from Xinjiang. China launched mass health screenings in the western Xinjiang province late last week after a spike in cases raised fears of a fresh outbreak. “The whole city has entered a ‘wartime state’, and will suspend all kinds of group activities,” state media quoted an official giving a briefing.
· A record 100 new cases were confirmed in Hong Kong, the territory’s leader said on Sunday, as she tightened social distancing measures, including mandating the wearing of masks in public indoor spaces, to tackle the sudden rise in number of infections.
· Donald Trump is seeking to block billions of dollars in funding for coronavirus testing and contact tracing efforts as cases soar across the US, where around 70,000 people are testing positive each day.
· South Africa’s death toll from coronavirus passed the 5,000 mark, according to official figures released on Sunday. South Africa registered 85 new deaths from the virus in the previous 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 5,033. A total of 13,449 new infections were also officially diagnosed, taking the number to 364,328, figures released by the health ministry showed.
· The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, said on Sunday that he would postpone the second phase of the country’s economic reopening, slated to begin Tuesday, after evaluating inputs from experts and the Salvadoran health ministry.
· Papua New Guinea recorded its first Covid-19-related death – the first Pacific island fatality outside US territories and the first in Melanesia – as it seeks to contain an outbreak in the main hospital in its capital, Port Moresby.
· The United Nations has made an urgent appeal for $283m to help Sudan tackle the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences, as millions in the country face hunger. An official said the pandemic had worsened an economic crisis, hitting purchasing power, while movement restrictions had restricted people’s access to food, healthcare and basic services.
· France will issue €135 fines to people flouting new mask rules. The French government has announced that it will issue a €135-euro (£122) fine to people who flout its decree to wear a mask in indoor public spaces. onday in a bid to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infections.
· NFL stars attack NFL for having ‘no clear plan’ over Covid-19. Some of the NFL’s biggest names took to social media on Sunday to express their concerns and anger over the lack of Covid-19 safety protocols as teams prepare to open training camps this week.
· The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has insisted he can avoid imposing another England-wide lockdown this winter, describing it as a “nuclear deterrent” that he hopes never to use.
· Authorities in Australia are stepping up their battle against coronavirus with the second biggest city of Melbourne announcing the introduction of mandatory face coverings from Wednesday when leaving the house.
Medicine
