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| # | Country, | Total | New | Total |
| Other | Cases | Cases | Deaths | |
| World | 20,797,157 | 285,371 | 746,410 | |
| 1 | USA | 5,360,302 | 54,345 | 169,131 |
| 2 | Brazil | 3,170,474 | 58,081 | 104,263 |
| 3 | India | 2,395,471 | 67,066 | 47,138 |
| 4 | Russia | 902,701 | 5,102 | 15,260 |
| 5 | South Africa | 568,919 | 2,810 | 11,010 |
| 6 | Peru | 498,555 | 8,875 | 21,713 |
| 7 | Mexico | 492,522 | 6,686 | 53,929 |
| 8 | Colombia | 422,519 | 12,066 | 13,837 |
| 9 | Chile | 378,168 | 1,552 | 10,205 |
| 10 | Spain | 376,864 | 3,172 | 28,579 |
| 11 | Iran | 333,699 | 2,510 | 18,988 |
| 12 | UK | 313,798 | 1,009 | 41,329 |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | 293,037 | 1,569 | 3,269 |
| 14 | Pakistan | 285,921 | 730 | 6,129 |
| 15 | Argentina | 268,574 | 7,663 | 5,213 |
| 16 | Bangladesh | 266,498 | 2,995 | 3,513 |
| 17 | Italy | 251,713 | 476 | 35,225 |
| 18 | Turkey | 244,392 | 1,212 | 5,891 |
| 19 | Germany | 220,850 | 1,320 | 9,276 |
| 20 | France | 206,696 | 2,524 | 30,371 |
| 21 | Iraq | 160,436 | 3,441 | 5,588 |
| 22 | Philippines | 143,524 | 4,219 | 2,403 |
| 23 | Indonesia | 130,718 | 1,942 | 5,903 |
| 24 | Canada | 120,844 | 423 | 9,006 |
| 25 | Qatar | 113,938 | 292 | 190 |
| 26 | Kazakhstan | 100,855 | 691 | 1,269 |
| 27 | Ecuador | 97,110 | 1,547 | 5,984 |
| 28 | Egypt | 95,963 | 129 | 5,085 |
| 29 | Bolivia | 93,328 | 1,693 | 3,761 |
| 30 | Israel | 88,151 | 1,558 | 639 |
| 31 | China | 84,737 | 25 | 4,634 |
| 32 | Ukraine | 84,548 | 1,433 | 1,970 |
| 33 | Sweden | 83,455 | 5,774 | |
| 34 | Oman | 82,299 | 249 | 539 |
| 35 | Dominican Republic | 82,224 | 1,130 | 1,371 |
| 36 | Panama | 77,377 | 913 | 1,703 |
| 37 | Belgium | 75,008 | 388 | 9,885 |
| 38 | Kuwait | 73,785 | 717 | 489 |
| 39 | Belarus | 69,102 | 97 | 595 |
| 40 | Romania | 65,177 | 1,415 | 2,807 |
| 41 | UAE | 63,212 | 246 | 358 |
| 42 | Netherlands | 60,627 | 654 | 6,161 |
| 43 | Guatemala | 59,089 | 1,123 | 2,267 |
| 44 | Singapore | 55,395 | 42 | 27 |
| 45 | Poland | 53,676 | 715 | 1,830 |
| 46 | Portugal | 53,223 | 278 | 1,764 |
| 47 | Japan | 50,210 | 1,282 | 1,059 |
| 48 | Honduras | 48,403 | 531 | 1,515 |
| 49 | Nigeria | 47,743 | 453 | 956 |
| 50 | Bahrain | 45,264 | 460 | 166 |
| 51 | Ghana | 41,572 | 168 | 223 |
| 52 | Armenia | 40,794 | 201 | 806 |
| 53 | Kyrgyzstan | 40,759 | 304 | 1,484 |
| 54 | Afghanistan | 37,345 | 76 | 1,354 |
| 55 | Switzerland | 37,169 | 274 | 1,991 |
| 56 | Algeria | 36,699 | 495 | 1,333 |
| 57 | Morocco | 36,694 | 1,499 | 556 |
| 58 | Azerbaijan | 33,824 | 93 | 497 |
| 59 | Uzbekistan | 32,465 | 718 | 210 |
| 60 | Venezuela | 29,088 | 1,150 | 247 |
| 61 | Serbia | 28,751 | 254 | 658 |
| 62 | Moldova | 28,697 | 474 | 863 |
| 63 | Kenya | 28,104 | 679 | 456 |
| 64 | Ireland | 26,838 | 37 | 1,774 |
| 65 | Ethiopia | 25,118 | 943 | 463 |
| 66 | Costa Rica | 25,057 | 549 | 263 |
| 67 | Nepal | 24,432 | 484 | 91 |
| 68 | Austria | 22,439 | 194 | 724 |
| 69 | Australia | 22,127 | 414 | 352 |
| 70 | El Salvador | 21,644 | 375 | 577 |
| 71 | Czechia | 19,075 | 292 | 391 |
| 72 | Cameroon | 18,263 | 50 | 401 |
| 73 | Ivory Coast | 16,847 | 105 | |
| 74 | Palestine | 15,184 | 309 | 105 |
| 75 | Denmark | 15,070 | 111 | 621 |
| 76 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14,961 | 253 | 453 |
| 77 | S. Korea | 14,714 | 54 | 305 |
| 78 | Bulgaria | 13,893 | 171 | 482 |
| 79 | Madagascar | 13,397 | 80 | 156 |
| 80 | North Macedonia | 12,217 | 134 | 530 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Vanesse Chan in Hong Kong
Medical workers hand out coronavirus test kits to local residents on August 7 in Hong Kong. Qin Louyue/China News Service/Getty Images
Hong Kong reported 69 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, 65 of which were locally transmitted. Four of the cases were imported, according to officials at the city's daily health briefing.
Among the local infections, 33 cases are untraceable and 32 are linked to previous infections.
Of the latter group, 27 cases are linked to family and friends gathering, Dr. Chuang Shuk-kwan of the health department's Communicable Disease Branch said.
The health official did not break down the remaining five cases but did note that two were linked to a domestic helper cluster and one was linked to previous cases at the city's Kwai Chung Container Terminal.
One more person has died bringing the city's death toll to 65.
Hong Kong officials have struggled to contain a third wave of the virus in recent weeks.
The total number of cases in the city stands at 4,312.
From CNN's Julia Hollingsworth
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with media at a Covid-19 briefing on August 13 in Wellington, New Zealand. Mark Tantrum/Getty Images
New Zealand reported 13 new community coronavirus cases on Thursday as the country tackles a fresh outbreak that ended an enviable run of more than 100 days without any locally transmitted infections.
The new cluster, which now totals 17 cases, has prompted the country to put its most populous city under lockdown as authorities scramble to trace the source of the outbreak. New Zealand now has 36 active infections, including imported cases. In total, the country has reported 1,238 confirmed cases and 22 deaths.
Authorities are warning that the number of cases are likely to increase, raising the prospect that a three-day lockdown in Auckland could be extended and putting the date of the country's upcoming general election in doubt.
"As we all learned from our first experience with Covid, once you identify a cluster it grows before it slows," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said at a news conference Thursday. "We should expect that to be the case here."
New Zealand's outbreak is a dramatic turn of events for the country, which was heralded as a world leader in how it handled the outbreak. For months, life was largely back to normal, and the country went 102 days without a locally acquired case.
From CNN Health’s Jen Christensen
Michael Caputo, Health and Human Services assistant secretary for public affairs. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
In a letter, public health advisers to the US government said they are “extremely concerned” and “troubled” about the change in how hospitals report Covid-19 data.
Nearly three dozen current and former members of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee shared their concerns in a letter intended to be read by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and obtained by CNN.
The committee is an independent group of experts that provide guidance to the HHS and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on infection control practices and strategies. When asked by CNN, HHS did not confirm if it had received the letter. Members of the committee said that the CDC, which is part of HHS, was informed of the letter.
The letter, dated July 31, described hospitals as “scrambling” to determine how to meet new daily Covid-19 reporting requirements to HHS.
In a memo posted on the HHS website on July 10, the Trump administration ordered all hospitals to report all Covid-19 patient information to HHS, rather than to the CDC and HHS, as they had been doing. The Trump administration said the change would streamline the data collection process.
“We are extremely concerned about this abrupt change in Covid-19 reporting,” the letter said. Retiring the CDC system that was in operation would have “serious consequences on data integrity.”
By removing the data collection task from the CDC, the country would lose decades of expertise in interpreting and analyzing information about infectious disease and it would jeopardize the department’s goals of developing interventions that would improve public health, the letter said.
In a statement to CNN, an HHS official said the CDC system “was unable to keep up” with the demands of the pandemic.
“Today, CDC has access to all the data it once had and more. The CDC’s NHSN was unable to keep up with the fast-paced data collection demands of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Michael Caputo, HHS assistant secretary for public affairs, said in an email.
From CNN Health’s Naomi Thomas
World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at a news conference at its head office in Geneva on July 3. Kyodo via AP Images
More than 800 million children globally are not able to wash their hands at school, according to a new joint report from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund released Wednesday.
Guidelines for reopening schools during the Covid-19 pandemic emphasize the need for hygiene to reduce transmission and recommend that schools enforce regular hand washing, among other measures.
“However, in the 60 countries identified as having the highest risk of health and humanitarian crisis due to Covid-19, one in two schools lacked basic water and sanitation services and three in four lacked basic handwashing services at the start of the pandemic,” the report said.
There are 818 million children globally who do not have access to basic handwashing at school. Of those children, 355 million -- mainly in Northern Africa and Western Asia -- have access to water but not soap. The remaining 462 million have no access to hand washing.
Over half of the children without access to hand washing live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nearly 70% of schools had basic drinking water services, but this still left 584 million children globally without access to basic drinking water at school, the report said. Many lived in sub-Saharan Africa, and three countries in particular: Ethiopia, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Nearly 700 million children lacked basic sanitation at school, and 20%, or over 350 million schools, had no sanitation service at all.
“Access to water, sanitation and hygiene services is essential for effective infection prevention and control in all settings, including tools,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, in a news release alongside the report.
“It must be a major focus of government strategies for the safe reopening and operation of schools during the ongoing Covid-19 global pandemic.”
WHO and UNICEF also launched the global initiative “Hand Hygiene for All” in June 2020, which aims to scale up hand hygiene in response to Covid-19.
From CNN Health’s Lauren Mascarenhas
The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called on all Americans to pull together "for your country" to help stop the spread of Covid-19, saying the US was in a "war" against the disease.
“I'm asking you to do four simple things: wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands and be smart about crowds,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said Wednesday in an interview with WebMD.
“I'm not asking some of America to do it ... We all gotta do it.”
Redfield reiterated his warning that if Americans do not adhere to these recommendations, this could be “the worst fall (season), from a public health perspective, we've ever had.”
The CDC director urged Americans to prepare for a difficult fall season by getting the flu vaccine.
“Please don’t leave this important accomplishment of American medicine on the shelf for yourself, your family, your church, your workforce,” he said.
“By getting vaccinated, you can protect your children ... Clearly when we look at the mortality that we see with flu, one thing is for certain, the kids that get vaccinated, they basically get protected against death.”
Redfield said the CDC has purchased 10 million doses of the flu vaccine for uninsured adults this year, compared to the typical 500,000 doses.
“Eventually this virus is going to have its day,” Redfield said of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. “It's either going to infect a majority of the global population, or we're going to have a biological countermeasure that's going to be an effective vaccine.”
Phase 3 trials are currently underway for several coronavirus vaccine candidates.
Redfield said he is cautiously optimistic that the United States will have one or more vaccines deployed by the start of 2021.
From CNN's Swati Gupta in New Delhi
Minister of State for AYUSH, Shripad Naik. Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Indian cabinet minister Shripad Naik tested positive for Covid-19 Wednesday, he announced on his official Twitter page.
Naik heads the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy -- also known as AYUSH.
Naik is the latest member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to test positive for Covid-19, including Home Minister Amit Shah and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Naik tweeted Wednesday that he was tested even though he was not exhibiting any symptoms.
“I underwent Covid-19 test today & it has turned out assymptomaically (sic) positive. My vitals are within normal limits and I have opted for home isolation," he wrote.
"Those who have came in contact with me in last few days are advised to get tested for themselves and take required precautions."
From CNN's Sarah Moon
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti wears a face mask at a news conference at a coronavirus testing site at Lincoln Park, on August 5, in Los Angeles. Kirby Lee via AP
Los Angeles is "making good progress" and has seen success over the past three weeks in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced in a news conference on Wednesday.
According to Garcetti, there are fewer coronavirus cases, deaths, hospitalizations, a lower positivity rate, and stable and strong hospital bed availability in Los Angeles hospitals.
“We are making progress. We are making good progress, Los Angeles,” Garcetti said. “Our success over the last three weeks is real. It’s tangible and it’s reflected in our numbers.”
The mayor attributed the drop in new infections and deaths to the wearing of face masks, washing hands, maintaining physical distance from others, and staying home, calling these actions “sacrifices to protect one another.”
The rate of transmission for Los Angeles County has dropped to 0.86 from 0.91 last week, Garcetti said.
While the Covid-19 threat level in Los Angeles still remains at “orange” -- the second highest level meaning residents should minimize contact with anyone outside of their households -- Garcetti said the past few weeks have made a difference and there are no plans to move forward with any further closures or restrictions.
Electronic reporting system issues: Garcetti confirmed that a fraction of the case data numbers from a backlog has been received. He also warned that case numbers may increase once the county receives the backlog of data.
Garcetti urged residents to continue wearing masks, washing hands, physical distancing, and staying home.
“These things work and they are working to drive down the curve.”
From Alexander Durie and Benjamin Berteau in Paris
A medical staff member collects a swab sample from a woman at a Covid-19 testing site in Saint-Nic, France, on August 12. Fred Tanneau/AFP/Getty Images
France has recorded its biggest jump in daily Covid-19 cases since around the time it began to ease its lockdown.
The French Health Ministry on Wednesday reported an increase of 2,524 Covid-19 infections in 24 hours.
This is the biggest single-day increase in coronavirus cases since May 6, five days before France eased lockdown restrictions.
This rise comes after French Prime Minister Jean Castex said Tuesday that the coronavirus situation in France has been "trending in the wrong direction."
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-13-20-intl/index.html
German authorities have worked through the night to clear a backlog of coronavirus tests from travellers after it emerged that 900 people who were positive for Covid-19 had yet to be informed.
The Bavarian health minister, Melanie Huml, said all people with positive results would be informed on Thursday and that systems were being improved to prevent any further delays.
Bavaria has been offering free voluntary tests at airports, as well as specific train stations and highway rest areas, and has carried out some 85,000 since the end of July, Huml said.
The interest was higher than expected, and the delays were almost exclusively at the rest areas and train stations, where about 60,000 people were tested. Those operations were initially run by aid organisations, but are now being taken over by private companies, which are digitising the transmission of the results, among other things, the dpa news agency reported.
The world’s largest tour operator, TUI, said on Thursday it had slumped to a huge loss in the third quarter as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the global travel sector.
The German tourism giant, which has already announced job cuts and store closures, posted a bottom-line net loss of €1.42bn ($1.7bn) in the period from April to June. In the same period a year earlier it booked a net profit of €22.8m.
TUI runs its business year from October to September, and in the nine months to June, TUI’s cumulative net loss amounted to €2.3bn.
In the third quarter alone, revenues plunged 98% to €71.8m, as hotels, cruise-ship and flight operations all but shut down because of global coronavirus lockdowns.
The company restarted tourism operations in June, including a much-publicised first trip with German tourists to the Spanish island of Mallorca.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Global deaths near 750,000. There are 749,358 known coronavirus deaths globally, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, as the world nears the sombre milestone of 750,000 dead in nearly eight months since the first coronavirus cases were reported. Two days ago, cases passed the staggering total of 20 million. Already, they stand at 20,620,847.
· India reported another record daily rise in novel coronavirus infections on Thursday, while the death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 47,000. Infections grew by 66,999 on Thursday from a day earlier to reach a total of nearly 2.4 million to date, India’s health ministry said. The country, with the world’s biggest caseload behind the US and Brazil, has now reported a jump of 50,000 cases or more each day for 15 straight days.
· France records most new daily virus cases since May. More than 2,500 new coronavirus cases were registered in France in 24 hours, in the sharpest increase since May, government data showed on Wednesday, as officials said indicators were “clearly worsening”. Of 600,000 tests over the past week, more than 11,600 were positive, the health ministry’s DGS public health division said.
· Jordan will close its border with Syria for a week starting on Thursday, after staff at their only open land crossing tested positive for coronavirus, state media said. Jordan has reported a drop in virus cases, with new infections recorded mainly among travellers arriving from abroad, but it registered 25 cases of Covid-19 in the past two days, mostly at the Jaber crossing with its war-torn northern neighbour.
· The Australian state of Victoria has recorded 278 new coronavirus cases overnight, consistent with a recent downward trend that is bringing cases to numbers closer to those seen in mid-July, after increases to the 600s in early August. Eight people have died overnight.
· Venezuela’s communications minister and close adviser to President Nicolás Maduro said on Wednesday that he had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, as the daily cases in the nation steadily rise. Jorge Rodríguez becomes the latest of several high-ranking officials in Maduro’s government to become infected in the pandemic, following the July announcement by Venezuela’s socialist party boss, Diosdado Cabello, who says he is recovering.
· Germany on Wednesday added Bucharest and several other areas of Romania to a list of places considered a high risk for coronavirus infections, forcing a German minister to cancel a work trip to the Romanian capital.
· Peru extended its lockdowns following surge in coronavirus cases. The Peruvian president, Martín Vizcarra, has banned family gatherings and extended lockdowns to five more regions of the country amid a fresh surge in cases of coronavirus. Fifteen of Peru’s 25 regions were already covered by rolling lockdowns.
· Italy has ordered travellers arriving from Croatia, Greece, Malta and Spain to be tested for Covid-19 and added Colombia to a list of countries under a complete travel ban amid growing concern over new infections. With the annual summer holiday reaching its peak, health services are bracing for a return of travellers from destinations where social distancing, face masks and other protective measures appear to have been widely ignored.
· France reported 2,524 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, a new post-lockdown daily record. Despite the rise in infections, the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 continued to fall and was down by 121 to 4,891, the first time it fell below 5,000 since 19 March.
· Turkey is to delay the reopening of schools by almost a month. Students will return to classrooms in Turkey in late September, nearly a month after the start of the new academic year, the government announced, as daily coronavirus cases remain above 1,000. It will be a gradual transition, starting with online learning before transitioning to in-person education.
· Chile will lift one of the world’s longest lockdowns on Monday. The capital Santiago’s central business district and adjoining Central Station will move to a “transitional” stage under a “Step by Step” reopening. The mayor said citizens should remain indoors whenever possible, wear masks in public and wash their hands. People may leave their homes on weekdays without the previously required police permissions, and meet in small groups, while businesses can gradually reopen.
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