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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
26,170,384 |
+286,378 |
866,614 |
|
6,290,737 |
+41,211 |
189,964 |
|
|
4,001,422 |
+48,632 |
123,899 |
|
|
3,848,968 |
+82,860 |
67,486 |
|
|
1,005,000 |
+4,952 |
17,414 |
|
|
663,437 |
+6,308 |
29,259 |
|
|
633,339 |
+9,270 |
20,348 |
|
|
630,595 |
+2,336 |
14,389 |
|
|
606,036 |
+6,476 |
65,241 |
|
|
479,554 |
+8,581 |
29,194 |
|
|
439,172 |
+10,933 |
9,118 |
|
|
414,739 |
+1,594 |
11,344 |
|
|
378,752 |
+1,858 |
21,797 |
|
|
338,676 |
+1,508 |
41,514 |
|
|
317,528 |
+2,582 |
4,351 |
|
|
317,486 |
+816 |
3,956 |
|
|
296,590 |
+441 |
6,318 |
|
|
293,024 |
+7,017 |
30,686 |
|
|
273,301 |
+1,596 |
6,462 |
|
|
271,515 |
+1,326 |
35,497 |
|
|
247,391 |
+1,390 |
9,393 |
|
|
242,284 |
+3,946 |
7,201 |
|
|
226,440 |
+2,218 |
3,623 |
|
|
180,646 |
+3,075 |
7,616 |
|
|
129,923 |
+498 |
9,135 |
|
|
125,798 |
+2,504 |
2,656 |
|
|
121,464 |
+2,926 |
969 |
|
|
119,206 |
+212 |
199 |
|
|
117,267 |
+669 |
5,101 |
|
|
115,457 |
+1,148 |
6,619 |
|
|
105,944 |
+72 |
1,588 |
|
|
99,280 |
+165 |
5,461 |
|
|
Dominican |
95,627 |
+648 |
1,765 |
|
94,084 |
+532 |
2,030 |
|
|
89,891 |
+1,298 |
3,721 |
|
|
86,478 |
+667 |
535 |
|
|
85,487 |
+251 |
9,897 |
|
|
85,066 |
+8 |
4,634 |
|
|
84,532 |
+11 |
5,820 |
|
|
75,644 |
+751 |
2,790 |
|
|
72,141 |
+179 |
691 |
|
|
71,863 |
+734 |
6,235 |
|
|
71,540 |
+735 |
387 |
|
|
69,001 |
+609 |
1,307 |
|
|
68,517 |
+595 |
2,078 |
|
|
65,453 |
+1,672 |
1,216 |
|
|
61,769 |
+755 |
1,888 |
|
|
58,633 |
+390 |
1,827 |
|
|
56,860 |
+8 |
27 |
|
|
54,463 |
+216 |
1,027 |
|
|
54,409 |
+1,105 |
846 |
|
|
52,807 |
+367 |
190 |
|
|
48,883 |
+1,127 |
398 |
|
|
45,158 |
+325 |
1,523 |
|
|
44,658 |
+198 |
276 |
|
|
44,075 |
+197 |
884 |
|
|
44,036 |
+78 |
1,059 |
|
|
43,305 |
+1,121 |
453 |
|
|
42,437 |
+310 |
327 |
|
|
41,649 |
+1,120 |
251 |
|
|
38,243 |
+47 |
1,409 |
|
|
37,740 |
+532 |
1,024 |
|
|
36,732 |
+154 |
538 |
|
|
34,493 |
+178 |
581 |
|
|
31,581 |
+99 |
716 |
|
|
29,114 |
+89 |
1,777 |
|
|
27,969 |
+327 |
734 |
|
|
25,923 |
+104 |
663 |
|
|
25,904 |
+84 |
731 |
|
|
25,773 |
+656 |
425 |
|
|
23,875 |
+594 |
162 |
|
|
20,449 |
+267 |
326 |
|
|
19,460 |
+51 |
415 |
|
|
19,138 |
+800 |
358 |
|
|
18,375 |
+598 |
177 |
|
|
18,161 |
+58 |
117 |
|
|
17,195 |
+111 |
626 |
|
|
16,617 |
+163 |
648 |
|
|
15,156 |
+532 |
250 |
|
|
15,023 |
+66 |
196 |
|
|
14,600 |
+145 |
606 |
|
|
13,743 |
+88 |
287 |
|
|
12,415 |
+34 |
292 |
|
|
11,034 |
+163 |
264 |
|
|
10,757 |
+233 |
273 |
|
|
10,725 |
+311 |
191 |
|
|
10,114 |
+10 |
259 |
|
|
9,728 |
+122 |
296 |
|
|
9,360 |
+6 |
128 |
|
|
9,209 |
+55 |
61 |
|
|
8,654 |
+35 |
69 |
|
|
8,161 |
+19 |
336 |
|
|
8,140 |
+137 |
29 |
|
|
7,844 |
+152 |
82 |
|
|
6,745 |
+43 |
124 |
|
|
6,638 |
+79 |
206 |
|
|
6,622 |
+365 |
619 |
|
|
5,579 |
+3 |
175 |
|
|
5,019 |
+102 |
104 |
|
|
4,831 |
+8 |
92 |
|
|
4,712 |
+1 |
62 |
|
|
4,668 |
+50 |
94 |
|
|
4,218 |
+76 |
17 |
|
|
4,196 |
+233 |
81 |
|
|
4,149 |
+60 |
72 |
|
|
4,126 |
+61 |
98 |
|
|
4,042 |
+53 |
33 |
|
|
3,425 |
+8 |
58 |
|
|
2,979 |
+55 |
134 |
|
|
2,211 |
+107 |
12 |
|
|
1,757 |
+5 |
22 |
|
|
1,495 |
+5 |
21 |
|
|
1,046 |
+2 |
34 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Pierre Bairin in Paris
The French government will announce details of a 100 billion euro ($118 billion) economic recovery plan on Thursday, which Prime Minister Jean Castex says should generate 160,000 jobs by the end of next year.
“With the (Covid) crisis we are going to lose more or less 100 billion euros of wealth and with that we have an unemployment rate skyrocketing,” he told RTL Radio Thursday morning.
“We want to inject massive amounts of money into the economy so that the economy and business activity pick up. If companies start up again, there is less unemployment. There are more jobs. It's as simple as that.”
The details of the stimulus plan will be announced in a news conference later on Thursday after a cabinet meeting.
From journalist Fernanda Wenzel in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Vaccination against Covid-19 will not be mandatory when a preventive drug arrives in Brazil, the Brazilian Health Ministry said on Wednesday, though it stressed that immunization would be essential for the country to defeat the virus.
"As we have been doing so far and will continue to do so, we encourage the vaccine to immunize the population. Otherwise, we may have the risk of returning diseases that had already been eradicated from the country as happened with measles recently," said Elcio Franco, the ministry's executive secretary.
"We also remember that the vaccine is not mandatory but it will be a great tool for us to return to normal."
Franco's statement confirms what President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday when responding to a supporter who asked him to ban Covid-19 vaccines.
"No one can oblige anyone to take a vaccine," Bolsonaro said. His statement was tweeted the following day by the Brazilian Government's Twitter account.
Vaccines in Brazil trials: There are three types of Covid-19 vaccines undergoing clinical trials in Brazil. One of them, from Oxford University and drugmaker AstraZeneca, has been conducted with the support of the Ministry of Health and in partnership with the public health federal research institute Fiocruz.
According to Franco, the public may have access to an Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine by January of next year.
From CNN’s Chris Eldergill
Neymar of Paris Saint-Germain is interviewed after the UEFA Champions League quarter final match between Atalanta and PSG at Estadio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica on August 12, in Lisbon, Portugal. Michael Regan/UEFA/Getty Images
Brazilian soccer star Neymar is one of three Paris Saint-Germain players to have contracted coronavirus, according to multiple reports, including the New York Times which cited people familiar with the matter.
French media said that the 28-year-old, along with Argentine midfielders Angel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes, all tested positive after returning from a vacation in Ibiza, Spain.
Earlier on Wednesday, PSG had confirmed in a news release that three unnamed players tested positive and "have undergone the appropriate health protocols. All players and staff will continue to be tested over the next few days.”
CNN has reached out to each of the three players’ representatives for comment. The club declined to confirm the identity of the players to CNN.
Neymar is the world’s most expensive soccer player, having signed for PSG for $263 million in 2017. Ten days ago, the Brazilian was part of the PSG team that lost in the Champions League final.
Neymar, along with the other two players, now faces the prospect of missing the start of the new season, due to begin on September 10. There are strict protocols requiring players that have tested positive for the virus to self-isolate.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-09-03-20-intl/index.html
By Marianna Spring and Mike WendlingBBC Anti-disinformation unit
Online and in real-life demonstrations, two viral conspiracy theories are increasingly coming together.
At first glance the only thing they appear to have in common is their vast distance from reality.
On one hand, QAnon: a convoluted conspiracy theory that contends that President Trump is waging a secret war against Satan-worshipping elite paedophiles.
On the other, a swirling mass of pseudoscience claiming that coronavirus does not exist, or is not fatal, or any number of other baseless claims.
These two ideas are now increasingly coming together, in a grand conspiracy mash-up.
Linked up
It was apparent on the streets of London last weekend, where speakers addressing thousands of followers at an anti-mask, anti-lockdown demonstration touched on both themes. Posters promoting QAnon and a range of other conspiracy theories were on display.
On Sunday, President Trump retweeted a message claiming the true number of Covid-19 deaths in the United States was a small fraction of the official numbers. The tweet was later deleted by Twitter under its policy on misinformation.
The account that posted it - "Mel Q" - is still live, and is a copious spreader of QAnon ideas.
QAnon's main strand of thought is that President Trump is leading a fight against child trafficking that will end in a day of reckoning with prominent politicians and journalists being arrested and executed.
Mel Q is just one of many QAnon influencers who have also been plugging coronavirus disinformation.
The merger between QAnon and Covid-19 conspiracies is also apparent in a number of emails received by the BBC.
"Coronavirus is a cover-up for… child sex trafficking - a major issue in this world and nobody wants to report about it," one typical email read.
Another man got in touch to explain how his mother - who attended the protests - has been led down the rabbit hole over the course of the pandemic, taken in first by coronavirus conspiracy theories and now by QAnon.
Satanic paedophiles, anti-vaxxers and 5G
There has long been overlap between QAnon influencers and pandemic conspiracists, but the weekend protests in London and other cities around the world were the biggest offline demonstration to date of their increasing ties.
"Proponents of Covid conspiracies have found ready-made audiences in the QAnon crowd and vice versa," says Chloe Colliver, senior policy director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a think tank focused on extremism.
"In the face of the pandemic, conspiracy theories paint a world that is ordered, and controllable," explains Open University psychologist Jovan Byford. "Conspiracy theories flourish when social machinery breaks down and available ways of making sense of the world prove inadequate for what is going on."
While the pandemic has increased the overall potential audience for such ideas, the QAnon and coronavirus strands are also linked by a preoccupation - or obsession - with children and their safety.
That explains why we've seen these theories spread in local Facebook groups where more benign discussions cover which cafes are baby-friendly or which local schools make the grade.
"Child abuse is the epitome of sexual and moral depravity and something that is indisputably evil," Jovan Byford says, "so its incorporation into the theory helps take the idea of the conspirators' monstrosity and iniquity to the absolute, unquestionable extreme."
QAnon slogans such as 'Save our children' were seen side-by-side with coronavirus conspiracy posters at Saturday's rally
Conspiracy stream
Some of those in Saturday's crowd were presumably drawn by legitimate concerns about mental health, the economy, criticism of government policy or by questions about still-evolving science.
But, overwhelmingly, what attendees heard from the speakers was a steady stream of bad information (about coronavirus death rates), groundless speculation (about child abuse and "mandatory" vaccinations) and baseless assertions (about the pandemic being planned by governments or shadowy forces - or in the words of the conspiracy theorists, a "plandemic").
Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-53997203
By Andrew Harding
BBC Africa correspondent, Johannesburg
A science teacher uses a thermometer to check a student's temperature at a high school on July 14, 2020 in Wylie, Texas. (LM Otero/The Associated Press)
Is there a link between poverty, crowded accommodation, and Africa's bafflingly low infection and death rates from the pandemic?
As the number of infections dips sharply in South Africa, and stays relatively low across much of the continent, experts are reaching towards a startling hypothesis.
Crowded townships. Poor hygiene. The impossibility of social distancing in communities, where large families often share a single room.
For months health experts have been warning that living conditions in poor, urban communities across Africa are likely to contribute to a rapid spread of coronavirus.
"Population density is such a key factor. If you don't have the ability to social distance, the virus spreads," said Professor Salim Abdool Karim, the head of South Africa's ministerial advisory team on Covid-19.
But what if the opposite is also true?
From early in the pandemic, South Africans were urged to wear masks when outside
What if those same crowded conditions also offer a possible solution to the mystery that has been perplexing experts on the continent for months?
What if - and this is putting it rather crudely - poverty proves to be the best defence against Covid-19?
'It's an enigma'
Let's start with that mystery.
In the early stages of the pandemic, all the experts and all the modelling agreed that Africa was in trouble.
Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53998374
By Hannah Jackson Global News
Canada added 492 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, as the global case count hovered just below 26 million.
The new infections bring Canada’s total case load to 129,843.
Wednesday marked the third day in a row Canada saw less than 500 new cases of the virus.
Provincial health officials also said three more people had died after testing positive for COVID-19, bringing the country’s death toll to 9,137.
In Ontario, 133 new cases of the virus were detected on Wednesday, but health officials said no more deaths had occurred.
The province has now tested more than 3 million people for COVID-19 and 38,506 people have recovered after falling ill.
Meanwhile, in Quebec — the province hit hardest by the pandemic — 132 new cases of the virus were reported.
Health officials said two more people had died, bringing the province’s death toll to 5,764.
So far, 1,686,838 people have been tested for the novel coronavirus in Quebec, and 55,515 have recovered from infections.
In Manitoba, 12 new COVID-19 cases were reported, but health authorities said the death toll in the province remained at 14.
Retrieved from: https://globalnews.ca/news/7313150/coronavirus-canada-sept-2/
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