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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
25,628,190 |
+244,609 |
854,429 |
|
6,211,796 |
+38,560 |
187,736 |
|
|
3,910,901 |
+48,590 |
121,515 |
|
|
3,687,939 |
+68,770 |
65,435 |
|
|
995,319 |
+4,993 |
17,176 |
|
|
652,037 |
+4,871 |
28,944 |
|
|
627,041 |
+1,985 |
14,149 |
|
|
615,168 |
+7,230 |
19,663 |
|
|
595,841 |
+4,129 |
64,158 |
|
|
462,858 |
+2,489 |
29,094 |
|
|
417,735 |
+9,309 |
8,660 |
|
|
411,726 |
+1,752 |
11,289 |
|
|
375,212 |
+1,642 |
21,571 |
|
|
335,873 |
+1,406 |
41,501 |
|
|
315,772 |
+951 |
3,897 |
|
|
312,996 |
+2,174 |
4,281 |
|
|
295,849 |
+213 |
6,294 |
|
|
281,025 |
+3,082 |
30,635 |
|
|
270,133 |
+1,587 |
6,370 |
|
|
269,214 |
+996 |
35,483 |
|
|
244,792 |
+1,497 |
9,371 |
|
|
234,934 |
+3,757 |
7,042 |
|
|
220,819 |
+3,446 |
3,563 |
|
|
174,796 |
+2,743 |
7,417 |
|
|
128,948 |
+1,008 |
9,126 |
|
|
121,215 |
+2,141 |
2,557 |
|
|
118,778 |
+203 |
197 |
|
|
116,596 |
+2,576 |
939 |
|
|
115,968 |
+614 |
4,966 |
|
|
113,767 |
+119 |
6,556 |
|
|
105,795 |
+111 |
1,523 |
|
|
98,939 |
+212 |
5,421 |
|
|
Dominican |
94,715 |
+474 |
1,710 |
|
92,982 |
+917 |
2,002 |
|
|
87,540 |
+755 |
3,621 |
|
|
85,722 |
+178 |
685 |
|
|
85,109 |
+473 |
531 |
|
|
85,048 |
+17 |
4,634 |
|
|
85,042 |
+443 |
9,894 |
|
|
84,379 |
+421 |
5,808 |
|
|
74,074 |
+162 |
2,760 |
|
|
71,843 |
+156 |
681 |
|
|
70,667 |
+527 |
6,224 |
|
|
70,231 |
+541 |
384 |
|
|
67,865 |
+601 |
1,279 |
|
|
67,372 |
+502 |
2,039 |
|
|
62,590 |
+1,191 |
1,141 |
|
|
60,174 |
+529 |
1,858 |
|
|
58,012 |
+244 |
1,822 |
|
|
56,812 |
+41 |
27 |
|
|
54,008 |
+143 |
1,013 |
|
|
52,131 |
+1,009 |
809 |
|
|
51,972 |
+398 |
190 |
|
|
46,728 |
+860 |
386 |
|
|
44,494 |
+348 |
1,510 |
|
|
44,298 |
+93 |
276 |
|
|
43,898 |
+78 |
1,058 |
|
|
43,781 |
+31 |
879 |
|
|
41,893 |
+469 |
320 |
|
|
41,287 |
+1,588 |
436 |
|
|
39,460 |
+899 |
228 |
|
|
36,920 |
+220 |
995 |
|
|
36,435 |
+126 |
534 |
|
|
34,201 |
+144 |
577 |
|
|
31,406 |
+41 |
713 |
|
|
28,811 |
+53 |
1,777 |
|
|
27,438 |
+272 |
733 |
|
|
25,746 |
+76 |
652 |
|
|
25,729 |
+94 |
717 |
|
|
24,618 |
+251 |
424 |
|
|
22,729 |
+525 |
152 |
|
|
19,947 |
+248 |
324 |
|
|
19,142 |
+0 |
411 |
|
|
18,067 |
+119 |
117 |
|
|
17,662 |
+557 |
326 |
|
|
17,308 |
+438 |
167 |
|
|
16,985 |
+94 |
624 |
|
|
16,266 |
+76 |
629 |
|
|
14,863 |
+20 |
192 |
|
|
14,341 |
+11 |
603 |
|
|
13,966 |
+543 |
237 |
|
|
13,611 |
+55 |
284 |
|
|
13,189 |
+0 |
823 |
|
|
12,097 |
+72 |
288 |
|
|
10,782 |
+139 |
264 |
|
|
10,317 |
+183 |
266 |
|
|
10,269 |
+146 |
186 |
|
|
10,097 |
+52 |
258 |
|
|
9,513 |
+133 |
284 |
|
|
9,340 |
+6 |
127 |
|
|
9,115 |
+39 |
59 |
|
|
8,583 |
+33 |
68 |
|
|
8,086 |
+9 |
336 |
|
|
7,804 |
+137 |
28 |
|
|
7,550 |
+185 |
75 |
|
|
6,677 |
+4 |
124 |
|
|
6,497 |
+85 |
202 |
|
|
6,139 |
+178 |
615 |
|
|
5,566 |
+30 |
175 |
|
|
4,835 |
+45 |
100 |
|
|
4,811 |
+9 |
89 |
|
|
4,711 |
+11 |
62 |
|
|
4,577 |
+16 |
91 |
|
|
4,063 |
+43 |
16 |
|
|
4,034 |
+25 |
71 |
|
|
4,032 |
+59 |
94 |
|
|
3,917 |
+41 |
33 |
|
|
3,803 |
+118 |
77 |
|
|
3,412 |
+1 |
58 |
|
|
2,883 |
+18 |
133 |
|
|
2,006 |
+9 |
10 |
|
|
1,738 |
+9 |
22 |
|
|
1,488 |
+1 |
20 |
|
|
1,044 |
+4 |
34 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN’s Stefano Pozzebon in Bogota and Leighton Rowell in Atlanta
Colombia’s Health Ministry reported 7,230 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday -- the lowest daily increase since August 4.
This marks the country’s fifth consecutive day reporting fewer than 10,000 new cases.
It also reported 299 new virus-related deaths.
Monday's figures bring Colombia's total to 615,168 cases and 19,663 deaths, according to the ministry.
Rising unemployment: As the number of new infections declines, unemployment is on the rise in Colombia.
The unemployment rate topped 20% in July -- double the rate reported in July 2019, according to the country’s national statistics agency.
On Saturday, Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez announced the government’s plan to open a credit line worth $370 million for the bankrupt state airline Avianca to help prevent further layoffs.
After overtaking Mexico on Thursday, August 27, Colombia now trails only Brazil and Peru with the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in Latin America, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
From CNN's Maggie Fox
A patient receives a coronavirus vaccine as part of a study at the Research Centers of America on August 13 in Hollywood, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images
About three-quarters of people surveyed around the world say they’d be willing to get a coronavirus vaccine if one came out, with the most enthusiasm in China and the least in Russia.
The poll, conducted by Ipsos for the World Economic Forum, surveyed nearly 20,000 people across 27 countries.
The survey showed:
· 74% of all adults surveyed would get the vaccine if it were available.
· China had the highest support for vaccination, with 97% of those surveyed saying they would get immunized.
· Russians showed the least interest, with just 54% saying they would.
· 67% of Americans said they’d get the vaccine while 33% expressed little or no interest. Of those who said they would refuse, 60% said side-effects were their biggest worry and 37% said they did not think it will be effective.
· Only 40% of all respondents expect a vaccine to be available this year.
Experts expressed concern that more than a quarter of people worldwide would not get the vaccine.
“The 26% shortfall in vaccine confidence is significant enough to compromise the effectiveness of rolling out a Covid-19 vaccine,” said Arnaud Bernaert, Head of Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare at the World Economic Forum, in a statement.
From CNN's Betsy Klein
As US President Donald Trump was painting a positive picture of the coronavirus pandemic and urging states to reopen the nation's businesses and schools, data from the White House coronavirus task force released Monday shows he was getting increasingly dire reports about the spread of the pandemic in July and August.
The House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus on Monday published eight weeks' worth of state reports compiled by the White House task force.
The task force releases these reports each week to governors' offices for their respective states, and has previously declined to make them publicly available or confirm the authenticity of any of the data reported. There had been some discussion on a call with governors earlier this month, audio of which was obtained by CNN, about making some of the data publicly accessible in real time, but that has yet to happen.
"Rather than being straight with the American people and creating a national plan to fix the problem, the President and his enablers kept these alarming reports private while publicly downplaying the threat to millions of Americans," subcommittee Chairman James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, said in a statement.
The most recent of the eight reports released by the subcommittee is dated August 9. Since then, the course of the pandemic has changed, improving in some places and getting worse in others.
The 459-page August 9 report has a section for each state, which includes extensive data on the state's cases down to a county level, as well as detailed, private recommendations to state and local officials to slow the spread, including promoting social distancing and face coverings, implementing contact tracing, and closing bars and nightclubs in "red zone" states.
The "red zone" indicates there are more than 100 new cases per 100,000 population and/or test positivity is above 10%, per the task force's definition. There were 20 states in the task force's "red zone" as of August 9.
The "yellow zone" indicates between 10 and 100 new cases per 100,000 population and/or test positivity between 5 and 10%, per the task force's definition. There were 28 states plus the District of Columbia in the "yellow zone."
Just two states, Maine and Vermont, were in the green zones for test positivity and cases.
On the same day that report was released, Trump claimed that coronavirus cases were rising due to increased testing, which is disproven by the many states in the report with rising test positivity rates -- meaning the proportion of people who test positive compared to negative, which can signal a burgeoning outbreak.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-09-01-20-intl/index.html
Mon 31 Aug 2020 18.42 BST
Tour guides await customers in Lisbon, Portugal. Last year, UK travellers made more than 2.5m visits to the country. Photograph: Rafael Marchante/Reuters
British travellers may once again have to quarantine when returning from Portugal amid a rise in its Covid-19 cases to levels considered dangerous – just over a week after the country was added to the UK’s safe travel list.
There were 21.1 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in Portugal in the seven days to 30 August, up from 19.4 in the seven days to 29 August.
That is over the threshold seven-day rate of 20 per 100,000, above which the UK government considers triggering quarantine conditions requiring those returning to self-isolate for 14 days.
A decision is not expected until Thursday at the earliest and exceeding the figure does not automatically trigger the imposition of quarantine restrictions.
The boss of British Airways’ parent company warned the move would cause further misery for holidaymakers. Writing in The Times, Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, said: “Another U-turn by the government, adding Portugal to the quarantine list, will cause further chaos and hardship for travellers.”
He said the “ever-shifting list” of countries requiring quarantine means “the UK has officially hung up the ‘Closed’ sign”, accusing the government of “using arbitrary statistics to effectively ban 160 countries and in the process destroying the economy’”.
A source at the Department for Transport said: “Decisions around which countries are added or removed to the list are based on the joint biosecurity centre coronavirus risk assessment, which is informed by a number of factors, including the continued increase of coronavirus within a country and the numbers of new cases and potential trajectory of the disease in the coming weeks.”
The travel corridor list is reviewed each Thursday, ahead of the weekend when the revised conditions come into force. The devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland usually follow the UK government’s lead, with some recent exceptions.
Last year, UK travellers made more than 2.5m visits to Portugal. Searches for flights to Portugal soared after the country was removed from the UK’s quarantine list just over a week ago.
Paul Charles, a spokesman for the Quash Quarantine group, pointed out that many English and Welsh holidaymakers would be heading home this week anyway because of the start of the school term.
Passengers arriving in the UK from Portugal no longer had to self-isolate from 4am on Saturday 22 August after an approved travel corridor was confirmed.
Google search data showed a significant rise in searches for the term “flights to Portugal” by users in the UK at around 6pm on Thursday 20 August, the day the news about the quarantine change was announced.
A number of easyJet flights from London airports to destinations across Portugal on the weekend of Saturday 22 August were already unavailable on the Friday.
Jet2 was among the airlines aiming to capitalise on the rush, adding extra seats to Faro from Monday 24 August from across the UK.
Travellers returning from Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic were the latest to be told they must quarantine for 14 days if they were arriving in the UK after 4am on Saturday following rises in coronavirus infection rates.
Portugal was initially excluded from England’s quarantine-free list when the full list of air bridge destinations was announced in July.
The government’s decision not to include Portugal on that list was thought to be linked to a rise in coronavirus cases in the capital Lisbon.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/31/portugal-may-go-back-on-uks-quarantine-list-as-covid-cases-rise
Bethany Lindsay · CBC News · Posted: Aug 31, 2020 9:24 AM PT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
A health-care worker directs a person waiting in line at a COVID-19 testing facility in Burnaby on Aug. 12. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
Four people have died of COVID-19 in B.C. since Friday, and 294 new cases of the virus have been confirmed.
There is now a record-high 1,107 active infections of the novel coronavirus in the province out of 5,790 to date, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Monday. Three of the deaths recorded this weekend were in long-term care; to date, 208 people have died from infection caused by the virus.
The number of COVID-19 patients in hospital has risen to 28, including 10 in intensive care. There is one new outbreak in the Normanna long-term care home in Burnaby, after a staff member tested positive.
Since the province entered Phase 3 of its recovery plan, active cases have spiked beyond what was seen in the spring.
During Monday's briefing, Henry urged British Columbians to be more cautious as summer turns into fall, describing the current situation as the "messy middle" of a pandemic that no one expected.
"After many months of restrictions, we all needed to reconnect with our family, our friends this summer. We travelled, we enjoyed our summer, and we recharged. Now we must slow down our social interactions for the respiratory [illness] season ahead," Henry said.
"As the cooler weather arrives, we all have to be ready. We have seen the challenges that this virus has, and now is our time to prepare. As we step into our offices, our workplaces, our schools, we need to take a step back from some of the social interactions that we've had this summer. Being ready means all of us going back to the basics."
That means vigilant handwashing, keeping social circles small and especially staying at home when you are feeling ill.
Two outbreaks in the health-care system have been declared over, as has the outbreak linked to numerous exposure events in Kelowna around the time of the Canada Day holiday.
Also on Monday, the McDonald's restaurant at 8191 Alderbridge Way in Richmond was closed for cleaning after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus. The worker's last shift was on Thursday, and everyone who may have been in close contact with them has been asked to self-isolate.
Retrieved from: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-records-4-covid-19-related-deaths-over-the-weekend-as-numbers-continue-to-spike-1.5705851
by Umut Uras, Farah Najjar & Ted Regencia
31 Aug 2020
§ Global coronavirus cases surged past 25 million, according to a Johns Hopkins University's tally, as deaths exceed 843,000. More than 16.4 million have recovered.
§ India's health ministry announced on Sunday at least 78,761 new infections in 24 hours, setting a new daily record worldwide.
§ Brazil's Ministry of Health has reported at least 758 additional coronavirus fatalities during the last 24 hours, with 41,350 new cases, bringing the death toll to 120,262, and the confirmed cases to 3,846,153.
§ Every Italian region reported new coronavirus cases after a record 99,000 tests turned up another 1,444 cases.
Retrieved from: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/brazil-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-120000-live-updates-200829232301925.html
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