Country,	Total	New	Total
Other	Cases	Cases	Deaths
World	22,569,290	271,837	790,195
USA	5,700,931	44,957	176,337
Brazil	3,460,413	48,541	111,189
India	2,835,822	69,196	53,994
Russia	937,321	4,828	15,989
South Africa	596,060	3,916	12,423
Peru	558,420	9,099	26,834
Mexico	531,239	5,506	57,774
Colombia	502,178	13,056	15,979
Chile	390,037	1,182	10,578
Spain	387,985	3,715	28,797
Iran	350,279	2,444	20,125
UK	321,098	812	41,397
Argentina	312,659	6,693	6,330
Saudi Arabia	302,686	1,363	3,506
Pakistan	290,445	613	6,201
Bangladesh	285,091	2,747	3,781
Italy	255,278	642	35,412
Turkey	253,108	1,303	6,039
Germany	229,700	1,595	9,314
France	225,043	3,776	30,468
Iraq	188,802	4,093	6,121
Philippines	173,774	4,650	2,795
Indonesia	144,945	1,902	6,346
Canada	123,490	336	9,049
Qatar	115,956	295	193
Ecuador	104,475	1,534	6,146
Kazakhstan	103,571	271	1,415
Bolivia	103,019	1,796	4,172
Israel	97,969	1,560	781
Egypt	96,914	161	5,197
Ukraine	96,403	1,967	2,144
Dominican Republic	88,127	1,004	1,501
Sweden	85,411	192	5,802
China	84,888	17	4,634
Panama	83,754	964	1,827
Oman	83,606	188	603
Belgium	78,897	363	9,959
Kuwait	78,145	675	507
Romania	73,617	1,409	3,106
Belarus	69,801	128	622
UAE	65,341	435	367
Guatemala	64,881	1,034	2,467
Netherlands	64,525	552	6,181
Poland	58,611	735	1,913
Japan	57,550	865	1,128
Singapore	56,031	93	27
Portugal	54,701	253	1,786
Honduras	51,670	675	1,593
Nigeria	50,488	593	985
Bahrain	47,950	369	178
Morocco	46,313	1,510	743
Ghana	43,094	101	256
Kyrgyzstan	42,325	179	1,498
Armenia	42,056	210	833
Algeria	39,847	403	1,402
Switzerland	38,760	311	1,996
Uzbekistan	37,112	760	248
Venezuela	36,868	1,171	303
Azerbaijan	34,620	146	510
Ethiopia	34,058	1,336	600
Moldova	31,415	626	914
Kenya	31,015	379	506
Costa Rica	30,409	766	321
Serbia	30,048	158	684
Nepal	28,938	681	120
Ireland	27,547	48	1,775
Austria	24,084	255	729
Australia	23,993	220	450
El Salvador	23,717	255	633
Czechia	20,798	315	404
Cameroon	18,624	25	406
Palestine	17,606	300	119
Ivory Coast	17,232	82	111
Bosnia and Herzegovina	16,691	340	507
S. Korea	16,058	297	306
Denmark	15,940	85	621
Bulgaria	14,820	151	527
Madagascar	14,074	65	173
North Macedonia	13,076	106	551
Sudan	12,546	61	808
Senegal	12,446	141	258
Paraguay	11,133	527	165
Lebanon	10,347	589	109
Zambia	10,218	237	269
Norway	10,162	51	262
DRC	9,741	20	246
Libya	9,463	395	169
Malaysia	9,235	16	125
Guinea	8,792	77	53
French Guiana	8,711	54	54
Tajikistan	8,166	35	65
Haiti	7,949	28	196
Albania	7,812	158	234
Finland	7,805	29	334
Greece	7,684	212	235
Luxembourg	7,566	67	124
Croatia	7,074	219	168
Mauritania	6,829	40	158
Maldives	6,225	146	24
Zimbabwe	5,643	265	150
Djibouti	5,374	2	59
Malawi	5,240	47	164
Hungary	5,002	32	609
Namibia	4,665	201	39
Hong Kong	4,587	26	72
Montenegro	4,174	42	80
Eswatini	4,058	69	79
Cuba	3,482	74	88
Thailand	3,382	1	58
Cabo Verde	3,321	68	36
Suriname	3,295	79	54
Slovakia	3,022	100	33
Sri Lanka	2,902	2	11
Slovenia	2,493	37	129
Estonia	2,207	7	63
Iceland	2,035	8	10
New Zealand	1,649	6	22
Malta	1,470	47	9
Cyprus	1,385	26	20
Georgia	1,361	10	17
Latvia	1,326	3	33
Aruba	1,296	91	5
Vietnam	994	5	25

 

Retrieved from:  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

 

 

 

President Trump again points out New Zealand's fresh coronavirus outbreak

 

President Donald Trump speaks during a White House news conference on Wednesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

United States President Donald Trump highlighted New Zealand's fresh coronavirus outbreak for the second time this week, while claiming the US has done a good job of containing the virus.

 

"New Zealand had a big outbreak, and other countries that were held up to try and make us look not as good as we should look, because we have done an incredible job," Trump said at a news briefing on Wednesday.
"They’re having a lot of outbreaks, but they’ll be able to put them out, and we put them out."

 

New Zealand is currently grappling with a reemergence of cases, which came shortly after the country went more than 100 days with no local transmissions.

On Monday, Trump called New Zealand's surge in Covid-19 cases "terrible."

"Even New Zealand, did you see what's going on in New Zealand? 'They beat it, they beat it.' It was like front page, they beat it, because they wanted to show me something," he said.

In response, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she didn't see any real comparison between her country's current cluster and the tens of thousands of cases that are reported daily in the US.

 

"Obviously, every country is experiencing its own fight with Covid-19; it is a tricky virus, but not one where I would compare New Zealand's current status to the United States," she said.
"New Zealand's nine cases in a day does not compare to the United States' tens of thousands, and in fact does not compare to most countries in the world. I'm not concerned about people misinterpreting our status."

 

New cases: New Zealand recorded five new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, Director-General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield said on Thursday.

That raises the country's total to 1,304 confirmed infections -- 101 of which remain active. New Zealand has also reported 22 coronavirus-related deaths.

The US has recorded at least 5,527,306 Covid-19 cases, including 173,114 related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

Mexico reports more than 5,700 new Covid-19 cases

From journalist Karol Suarez in Mexico City

 

Mexico recorded 5,792 new cases of Covid-19 and 707 new deaths on Wednesday, according to the Health Ministry.

The total number of confirmed infections in the country now stands at 537,031, with 58,481 deaths.

Mexico has reported the third-highest number of deaths in the world from coronavirus, following the United States and Brazil, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Only Brazil and Peru have recorded more Covid-19 cases than Mexico in Latin America, according to JHU.

 

 

Egypt requires negative COVID-19 PCR test from all travelers starting September 1

From CNN's Hande Atay Alam

 

Travelers stand in line for a security check at the Sharm El Sheikh International Airport in June. Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images/File

Egypt will require all travelers arriving in the country to present a negative Covid-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) lab test result starting September 1.

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly made the announcement in a news conference on Wednesday, according to the state-run Al-Ahram news agency.

Madbouly said the decision to require the test for all travelers came due to “increasing infections in some countries,” according to Al-Ahram.  

“We are keen on ensuring the health of those arriving in the country and Egyptian citizens, therefore we agreed that any traveler arriving in the country should be tested,” he said. 

Egypt shut its airspace in March but resumed regular international flights gradually from July 1, Al-Ahram reported. 

Foreign tourists are currently allowed entry only into the three coastal Egyptian governorates with the lowest coronavirus infection rates in the country -- South Sinai, Red Sea, and Matrouh, according to the news agency. 

 

 

New data on the number of confirmed and probable Covid-19 deaths in New York City

From CNN's Rob Frehse

 

Medical personnel move a deceased patient to a make shift morgues at Brooklyn Hospital Center on April 9 in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

New York City has 19,005 confirmed and 4,638 probable coronavirus deaths as of Aug. 19, according to the most recent data on the city website.

The New York City Health Department defines probable deaths as people who did not have a positive Covid-19 laboratory test, but their death certificate lists as the cause of death “Covid-19” or an equivalent.

The total number of confirmed coronavirus deaths and probable coronavirus deaths in New York City is 23,643.

There have been 227,419 coronavirus cases in the city and 56,831 people have been hospitalized, according to the city.

The data is from the New York City Health Department and was updated on Aug. 19 at 1 p.m., according to the website.

To note: The numbers may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.

 

 

Norway to impose 10-day quarantine on travelers from UK, Greece, Ireland and Austria

From CNN's Sharon Braithwaite in London

 

Norway will impose a 10-day quarantine on travelers arriving from the United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland and Austria, due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in those countries, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry told CNN on Wednesday.

The new restrictions will go into effect at midnight local time on Friday.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is now advising against non-essential travel to Austria, Greece, Ireland and the UK," the ministry said in a statement. "This also applies to Greater Copenhagen in Denmark." 

The ministry statement added that this week, these countries "have all exceeded the threshold for level of infection, which has been set at 20 confirmed new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people during the past two weeks.

 

 

Spain reports highest daily increase in Covid-19 cases since the end of lockdown

From CNN's Duarte Mendonca

 

Health workers wait to administer PCR tests for COVID-19 at Vilafranca del Penedes in the Barcelona province, Spain, August 10. Emilio Morenatti/AP

Spain reported 3,715 new coronavirus infections within the last day, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The latest reports mark the highest increase in Spain’s Covid-19 daily coronavirus cases since the end of the country’s lockdown in late June.

Until Wednesday, Spain’s record number of new cases since the lockdown ended was on Aug. 14, with a total of 2,987 new cases — making the latest figures a significant increase of 728 cases in comparison to the previous record.

Spain's cumulative case number, which includes antibody tests on people who may have already recovered from the virus, rose by 6,671 to 370,867.

 

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Live updates: Centers that help victims of abuse have seen 40,000 fewer children during pandemic

A California classroom sits empty after schools were ordered to close in April. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

 

Experts warned that closing schools during the novel coronavirus pandemic meant more child abuse would go undetected. A new survey shows that children’s advocacy centers that work with victims who were referred by law enforcement and other government agencies served 40,000 fewer children in the first half of the year than during the same period last year, appearing to confirm those fears.

“What we were dreading did in fact happen,” said Teresa Huizar, executive director of the National Children’s Alliance.

 

 

Here are some significant developments:

· The union representing New York City’s public-school teachers said its members would not return to classrooms next month if the city fails to meet their health and safety demands, including offering testing for all students and staff.

· New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) acknowledged in a Wednesday interview with WAMC that he should have instituted a mask mandate earlier and that doing so would have made a “dramatic difference” in the hard-hit state.

· President Trump’s top adviser overseeing coronavirus vaccine efforts told Business Insider that he expects a vaccine to be widely available by next spring.

· Native Americans are disproportionately represented among U.S. coronavirus infections and fatalities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report.

· The tally of new coronavirus cases reported in both Italy and Spain on Wednesday was the highest since the former hot spots ended their lockdowns, the Associated Press reported.

 

 

 

South Korea COVID-19 infections 'in full swing' after protest outbreak

Josh Smith, Sangmi Cha

 

South Korea’s coronavirus infections are back “in full swing” and spreading nationwide after members of a church attended a political demonstration, authorities said on Thursday, threatening one of the world’s COVID-19 success stories.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 288 new cases as of midnight on Wednesday, marking a week of triple-digit daily increases, although down slightly from the previous day’s 297.

“This is a grave situation that could possibly lead to a nationwide pandemic,” Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip told a briefing.

Without aggressive contact tracing, the country could experience the types of spikes and continued infections witnessed in the United States and Europe, said KCDC deputy director Kwon Jun-wook.

“Consider the COVID-19 pandemic now to be in full-swing.”

South Korea was one of the first countries outside China to see an explosive spread of the new coronavirus, but intensive tracing and testing had brought infections under control and quelled a subsequent series of spikes.

The latest outbreak is driven by hundreds of infections among members of a church run by a far-right preacher. They had attended an anti-government protest in Seoul on Aug. 15, the 75th anniversary of the Japan’s World War Two surrender and the end of colonial rule.

Kwon urged all demonstrators to get tested immediately at nearby public health clinics to protect the vulnerable around them.

The demonstration may have been a “catalyst” for the nationwide outbreak, as churchgoers chartered buses to the capital from their homes across the country, including the southern port of Busan, Kwon said.

 

NODS NOT HUGS

South Korea has reported 16,346 cases of the new coronavirus with 307 COVID-19 deaths.

If infections continue rising at the current rate or accelerate, authorities say they will likely impose the strictest level of social distancing - closing schools, requiring employees to work from home and limiting gatherings to 10 people.

“Please do not make physical contact. Exchange nods instead of handshakes,” Kwon said. “Refrain from physical contact such as hugging.”

At least 53 of the new infections are linked to the Sarang Jeil Church, bringing the group’s total to 676. Hundreds more church members are being traced for testing.

Infections from the Seoul rally and one on Aug. 8 include people from nine cities and provinces. Health authorities said epidemiological work is underway in 150 facilities, including the workplaces of infected church members.

Sixty infections, including 33 from the church, have been linked to the anti-government rallies in Seoul, which drew thousands of people. At least 8,500 demonstrators had been tested as of Thursday, Kwon said.

• The government has banned in-person church meetings in the greater Seoul area - an urban sprawl of 25 million people - and closed other high-risk locations, including nightclubs, karaoke bars, buffets and cyber cafes.

  The Seoul city government restricted rallies there to fewer than 10 people from Friday through the rest of August.

 

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-southkorea/south-korea-covid-19-infections-in-full-swing-after-protest-outbreak-idUKKCN25G0CN

 

 

 

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