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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
23,802,875 |
+213,612 |
816,574 |
|
5,915,630 |
+41,484 |
181,114 |
|
|
3,627,217 |
+21,434 |
115,451 |
|
|
3,164,881 |
+59,696 |
58,546 |
|
|
961,493 |
+4,744 |
16,448 |
|
|
611,450 |
+1,677 |
13,159 |
|
|
600,438 |
+6,112 |
27,813 |
|
|
560,164 |
+3,948 |
60,480 |
|
|
551,696 |
+10,549 |
17,612 |
|
|
420,809 |
+2,080 |
28,872 |
|
|
399,568 |
+1,903 |
10,916 |
|
|
361,150 |
+2,245 |
20,776 |
|
|
350,867 |
+8,713 |
7,366 |
|
|
326,614 |
+853 |
41,433 |
|
|
308,654 |
+1,175 |
3,691 |
|
|
297,083 |
+2,485 |
3,983 |
|
|
293,261 |
+496 |
6,244 |
|
|
260,298 |
+953 |
35,441 |
|
|
259,692 |
+1,443 |
6,139 |
|
|
244,854 |
+1,955 |
30,528 |
|
|
236,117 |
+1,628 |
9,336 |
|
|
207,985 |
+3,644 |
6,519 |
|
|
194,252 |
+4,686 |
3,010 |
|
|
155,412 |
+1,877 |
6,759 |
|
|
125,647 |
+751 |
9,083 |
|
|
117,266 |
+258 |
194 |
|
|
109,149 |
+722 |
4,509 |
|
|
108,289 |
+520 |
6,322 |
|
|
106,757 |
+1,802 |
2,293 |
|
|
104,718 |
+175 |
1,415 |
|
|
104,472 |
+1,809 |
847 |
|
|
97,478 |
+138 |
5,280 |
|
|
Dominican |
91,608 |
+447 |
1,573 |
|
87,485 |
+585 |
1,906 |
|
|
86,721 |
+653 |
5,813 |
|
|
84,967 |
+16 |
4,634 |
|
|
84,509 |
+740 |
637 |
|
|
81,936 |
+468 |
9,992 |
|
|
80,960 |
+432 |
518 |
|
|
79,330 |
+825 |
3,309 |
|
|
70,645 |
+177 |
646 |
|
|
68,533 |
+345 |
2,611 |
|
|
67,282 |
+275 |
376 |
|
|
67,128 |
+574 |
6,202 |
|
|
62,507 |
+760 |
1,181 |
|
|
62,310 |
+548 |
1,960 |
|
|
56,404 |
+51 |
27 |
|
|
55,720 |
+123 |
1,801 |
|
|
54,511 |
+528 |
1,654 |
|
|
53,252 |
+903 |
920 |
|
|
52,548 |
+321 |
1,004 |
|
|
49,719 |
+389 |
185 |
|
|
43,622 |
+117 |
263 |
|
|
43,126 |
+103 |
1,057 |
|
|
42,825 |
+33 |
854 |
|
|
42,143 |
+1,472 |
692 |
|
|
41,858 |
+398 |
1,446 |
|
|
40,338 |
+774 |
337 |
|
|
39,348 |
+402 |
280 |
|
|
35,426 |
+152 |
519 |
|
|
34,463 |
+643 |
362 |
|
|
33,828 |
+350 |
945 |
|
|
32,678 |
+743 |
157 |
|
|
32,557 |
+193 |
554 |
|
|
30,714 |
+57 |
701 |
|
|
28,116 |
+147 |
1,777 |
|
|
25,495 |
+242 |
733 |
|
|
24,916 |
+104 |
517 |
|
|
24,811 |
+189 |
669 |
|
|
22,181 |
+258 |
415 |
|
|
19,213 |
+411 |
133 |
|
|
18,762 |
+0 |
408 |
|
|
17,665 |
+266 |
309 |
|
|
17,506 |
+35 |
114 |
|
|
16,397 |
+80 |
623 |
|
|
15,386 |
+99 |
563 |
|
|
14,402 |
+75 |
178 |
|
|
13,673 |
+78 |
568 |
|
|
13,602 |
+369 |
219 |
|
|
13,155 |
+457 |
126 |
|
|
13,013 |
+64 |
272 |
|
|
12,903 |
+67 |
818 |
|
|
11,148 |
+66 |
280 |
|
|
11,009 |
+572 |
199 |
|
|
10,395 |
+72 |
264 |
|
|
9,842 |
+12 |
251 |
|
|
9,274 |
+7 |
125 |
|
|
8,875 |
+78 |
56 |
|
|
8,819 |
+155 |
242 |
|
|
8,605 |
+178 |
254 |
|
|
8,346 |
+35 |
67 |
|
|
8,311 |
+136 |
173 |
|
|
7,938 |
+18 |
335 |
|
|
7,794 |
+19 |
124 |
|
|
6,912 |
+133 |
27 |
|
|
6,070 |
+140 |
155 |
|
|
6,030 |
+176 |
56 |
|
|
5,419 |
+5 |
169 |
|
|
5,191 |
+36 |
613 |
|
|
4,692 |
+9 |
77 |
|
|
4,378 |
+35 |
84 |
|
|
4,304 |
+79 |
85 |
|
|
3,717 |
+35 |
91 |
|
|
3,632 |
+25 |
60 |
|
|
3,424 |
+68 |
33 |
|
|
3,397 |
+2 |
58 |
|
|
2,665 |
+14 |
133 |
|
|
1,683 |
+9 |
22 |
|
|
1,667 |
+55 |
10 |
|
|
1,628 |
+60 |
7 |
|
|
1,451 |
+30 |
20 |
|
|
1,022 |
+6 |
27 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Gawon Bae in Seoul
Workers and volunteers disinfect as a precaution against the coronavirus on a street in Goyang, South Korea, on August 25. Ahn Young-joon/AP
South Korea confirmed 280 new coronavirus cases on Monday, according to the country's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Of these cases, 264 were local transmissions. The country also reported one new virus-related death.
Monday's figures raise the national total to 17,945 cases and 310 deaths. Some 14,286 patients have recovered so far. Among the remaining active cases, 3,349 remain in quarantine and 38 patients are in critical condition.
Crucial time: Senior Health Ministry official Yoon Tae-ho said this week is a critical period to combat the spread of Covid-19.
Social distancing Level 3 requirements will be reviewed depending on this week’s numbers, he said.
This autumn presents a threat; the national holiday Chuseok takes place during the first week of October, and is often referred to as "Korean Thanksgiving" -- a time when people travel across the country to spend time celebrating with their families.
The government is now reviewing strategies to minimize the spread of the virus during this period.
From CNN's Rodrigo Pedroso in São Paulo
Brazil's federal government agency has approved the humanitarian non-profit Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to enter indigenous communities and assist with the coronavirus surge there.
The approval came Monday for select MSF teams to enter seven Terena people villages of the Aquidauana region, in the midwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, according to the official Brazilian gazette.
Some context: Last week, the indigenous association reported that the government didn’t give permission for the MSF teams to enter Terena's villages, where more than 6,000 people live, according to the organization.
The agency said that the plan presented by the organization needed to be evaluated in order to not interfere with their own work.
Covid has devastated Indigenous communities: By early August, more than 22,000 Brazilian indigenous people had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and at least 631 had died from it, according to indigenous group APIB. But due to limited testing, the real toll could be higher.
The deaths included prominent indigenous leader Chief Aritana Yawalapiti of the Upper Xingu territory.
These indigenous communities are often far from hospitals, in areas which often lack basic infrastructure. Those who move to towns or cities can end up in precarious living conditions with few public services, increasing their vulnerability to health issues.
From CNN’s Jim Acosta
Any effort to authorize and distribute a coronavirus vaccine before it has been proven safe and effective in large trials could damage efforts to develop other vaccines, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Reuters Monday.
Two sources have told CNN that White House officials have raised the possibility of an early emergency use authorization of a vaccine -- before late-stage trials are finished. Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services, denied that there was any effort to fast-track vaccine development for political purposes.
And Fauci said it would be a bad idea. “The one thing that you would not want to see with a vaccine is getting an EUA before you have a signal of efficacy,” Reuters quoted Fauci as saying. “One of the potential dangers if you prematurely let a vaccine out is that it would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the other vaccines to enroll people in their trial.”
Several vaccines are being tested in the US and companies are working to ramp up production while testing is going on, so that if a vaccine is proven safe and effective it could be distributed immediately.
“To me, it's absolutely paramount that you definitively show that a vaccine is safe and effective, both,” Fauci told Reuters. “We would hope that nothing interferes with the full demonstration that a vaccine is safe and effective
From CNN's Sophia Saifi in Islamabad
Tourists visit the Lake View Park after the government recently eased Covid-19 restrictions in Islamabad, Pakistan, on August 23. Ahmad Kamal/Xinhua/Getty Images
Pakistan recorded 346 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, according to the country's Health Ministry -- the lowest daily figure since April.
Infections were still surging earlier this summer, reaching more than 6,000 cases a day in June.
The government announced reopening plans two weeks ago as cases began to drop; cinemas, hotels, restaurants and the tourism sector have all since reopened. The Ministry of Education will conduct a final review of the situation in early September, and has scheduled for schools to reopen later that month.
Restrictions on transport and airlines are expected to lift in October, officials said.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-25-20-intl/index.html
Ashifa Kassam in Madrid @ashifa_k
Tue 25 Aug 2020 05.30 BST
People wait to be tested in Barcelona. Photograph: Alejandro García/EPA
As officials across Spain wrestle with a surge in coronavirus cases, a chorus of voices is warning that another lockdown could have dire consequences for a country that just months ago emerged from one of Europe’s strictest confinements.
While cases of the virus have climbed across Europe, Spain has led the pack in recent days. More than 78,000 cases have been detected in the past two weeks, pushing the 14-day infection rate to 166 per 100,000, compared with 67 in France and 22 in the UK.
The steady rise has raised the spectre of fresh lockdowns in the coming weeks, particularly in Madrid where unions have warned that the primary care system is “on the edge of collapse”, due to a lack of staff and testing resources.
“If things continue as they are going, we’ll probably have to return to some sort of confinement, at least partially,” José Felix Hoyo Jiménez of the Spanish non-profit Médicos del Mundo told the broadcaster TeleMadrid on Monday. While the recent rise had been steady, it was likely to be less pronounced than what the country experienced in March and April, he added
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-25-20-intl/index.html
An Australian court has jailed a woman for six months for breaching coronavirus quarantine laws by sneaking across a state border in a truck.
Asher Faye Vander Sanden, 28, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a direction under Western Australia's Emergency Management Act, local media reported.
Perth Magistrates Court heard that she had an exemption to fly to Western Australia and quarantine in a hotel for 14 days at her own expense. Instead she concealed herself at the border with South Australia by hiding in a car that was being transported by the truck.
Australia has recorded 25,053 total cases of Covid-19 and 525 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Earlier this month, Victoria declared a state of disaster and imposed strict lockdown measures after a surge in infections. Other Australian states have imposed strict border restrictions to stop cases spreading.
Oxford University/John CairnsCopyright: Oxford University/John Cairns
AstraZeneca has said there have been no discussions about fast-tracking its potential vaccine in the USImage caption: AstraZeneca has said there have been no discussions about fast-tracking its potential vaccine in the US
About 50,000 people worldwide are to be given shots of the Oxford University vaccine to test its safety and effectiveness, says Prof Andrew Pollard, part of the group developing it.
The potential vaccine, which is being developed by Oxford University and drug company AstraZeneca and is thought to be the most advanced candidate in clinical trials, is being tested on 10,000 people in the UK, and a further 10,000 in Brazil and South Africa. They also hope to enrol 30,000 people in US trials.
Prof Pollard told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the number of new cases in the coming weeks and months would determine how quickly the researchers could prove the vaccine offered effective protection.
But he said it is "just possible that if the cases accrue rapidly, we could have that data to put before regulators this year".
Following reports that US President Donald Trump wants to speed up approval of the vaccine in time for the November election, AstraZeneca said it had not discussed any fast-tracking with regulators.
Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com
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