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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
53,076,770 |
+643,043 |
1,298,596 |
|
10,873,936 |
+161,541 |
248,585 |
|
|
8,727,900 |
+43,861 |
128,686 |
|
|
5,783,647 |
+34,640 |
164,332 |
|
|
1,898,710 |
+33,172 |
42,960 |
|
|
1,858,568 |
+21,608 |
32,032 |
|
|
1,484,868 |
+19,511 |
40,461 |
|
|
1,290,195 |
+33,470 |
50,928 |
|
|
1,284,519 |
+11,163 |
34,782 |
|
|
1,174,012 |
+8,686 |
33,491 |
|
|
1,066,401 |
+37,978 |
43,589 |
|
|
986,177 |
+7,646 |
96,430 |
|
|
930,237 |
+2,231 |
35,067 |
|
|
749,638 |
+23,462 |
12,276 |
|
|
744,732 |
+2,338 |
20,076 |
|
|
726,585 |
+11,517 |
40,121 |
|
|
641,496 |
+22,683 |
9,080 |
|
|
526,438 |
+1,634 |
14,699 |
|
|
515,391 |
+7,916 |
13,758 |
|
|
511,806 |
+3,298 |
11,532 |
|
|
500,865 |
+11,057 |
9,145 |
|
|
452,291 |
+4,173 |
14,933 |
|
|
446,675 |
+7,870 |
5,755 |
|
|
430,453 |
+5,634 |
8,304 |
|
|
427,198 |
+1,845 |
6,140 |
|
|
404,894 |
+2,841 |
11,233 |
|
|
402,820 |
+1,407 |
7,721 |
|
|
352,160 |
+311 |
5,605 |
|
|
349,992 |
+1,808 |
7,055 |
|
|
334,236 |
+10,142 |
8,510 |
|
|
322,159 |
+833 |
2,706 |
|
|
282,577 |
+5,516 |
10,768 |
|
|
276,821 |
+6,195 |
4,570 |
|
|
204,242 |
+1,913 |
1,189 |
|
|
198,011 |
+5,839 |
3,181 |
|
|
181,642 |
+9,262 |
1,608 |
|
|
177,513 |
+883 |
12,946 |
|
|
146,735 |
+1,136 |
523 |
|
|
143,352 |
+887 |
2,830 |
|
|
142,776 |
+112 |
8,818 |
|
|
135,132 |
+245 |
234 |
|
|
134,932 |
+773 |
830 |
|
|
132,086 |
+5,685 |
1,547 |
|
|
Dominican |
131,636 |
+371 |
2,274 |
|
126,790 |
+3,927 |
2,784 |
|
|
120,939 |
+1,171 |
1,527 |
|
|
119,442 |
+256 |
1,326 |
|
|
118,491 |
+587 |
1,899 |
|
|
113,543 |
+732 |
3,858 |
|
|
112,680 |
+2,132 |
1,668 |
|
|
111,711 |
+1,555 |
1,851 |
|
|
110,455 |
+1,098 |
1,027 |
|
|
110,095 |
+214 |
6,417 |
|
|
101,248 |
+521 |
1,554 |
|
|
101,169 |
+365 |
2,797 |
|
|
100,703 |
+1,874 |
775 |
|
|
96,140 |
+390 |
841 |
|
|
90,725 |
+3,414 |
1,970 |
|
|
86,299 |
+15 |
4,634 |
|
|
86,038 |
+1,331 |
1,969 |
|
|
84,192 |
+150 |
332 |
|
|
81,772 |
+2,591 |
464 |
|
|
76,106 |
+1,584 |
2,151 |
|
|
75,922 |
+3,082 |
925 |
|
|
73,765 |
+3,341 |
955 |
|
|
71,804 |
+919 |
985 |
|
|
70,216 |
+1,622 |
905 |
|
|
69,681 |
+3,120 |
599 |
|
|
69,653 |
+547 |
1,543 |
|
|
69,560 |
+230 |
593 |
|
|
66,723 |
+919 |
1,203 |
|
|
66,637 |
+3,316 |
959 |
|
|
66,632 |
+385 |
1,965 |
|
|
65,598 |
+1,145 |
1,508 |
|
|
65,108 |
+851 |
2,111 |
|
|
64,887 |
+527 |
1,193 |
|
|
64,728 |
+212 |
1,162 |
|
|
60,784 |
+719 |
542 |
|
|
58,963 |
+1,011 |
755 |
|
|
58,102 |
+11 |
28 |
|
|
50,870 |
+1,931 |
686 |
|
|
49,957 |
+385 |
320 |
|
|
43,835 |
+1,295 |
1,238 |
|
|
43,791 |
+919 |
303 |
|
|
36,030 |
+168 |
1,028 |
|
|
29,812 |
+1,553 |
244 |
|
|
27,942 |
+143 |
487 |
|
|
27,699 |
+13 |
907 |
|
|
27,228 |
+717 |
291 |
|
|
26,211 |
+410 |
598 |
|
|
25,509 |
+644 |
364 |
|
|
25,218 |
+713 |
211 |
|
|
20,882 |
+27 |
127 |
|
|
18,542 |
+197 |
365 |
|
|
17,056 |
+20 |
350 |
|
|
13,053 |
+100 |
315 |
|
|
12,085 |
+26 |
41 |
|
|
11,692 |
+36 |
318 |
|
|
11,496 |
+40 |
84 |
|
|
6,646 |
+185 |
34 |
|
|
5,261 |
+7 |
114 |
|
|
4,639 |
+8 |
43 |
|
|
3,852 |
+5 |
60 |
|
|
1,253 |
+1 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From Eva Tapiero in Paris
French Prime Minister Jean Castex says one in four deaths currently happening in the country are caused by Covid-19.
“Today in France one in four deaths is due to the virus” Castex said on Thursday. “France is facing an extremely strong second epidemic wave," he added. Over the past week between 400 and 500 people have died every day, he said.
"It would be irresponsible to lift or lighten lockdown now," Castex continued. “We have decided to keep the rules unchanged for at least the next 15 days."
"For a week now, we have noted a drop in the number of positive cases," the Prime Minister said about the numbers. “If that trend is confirmed, the peak of the second wave could be reached at the beginning of next week.”
He added that measures could be eased starting December 1st, emphasizing that those measures would be limited to reopening some shops, and would exclude the reopening of bars and restaurants. “If that trend [of lower numbers] doesn’t confirm next week, we will take further action.” he added.
Commenting on the increased pressure on the hospital system, Castex said 4,803 patients were currently in intensive care, which is "95% of our usual capacity."
From CNN's Christina Maxouris
California just became the second state to surpass 1 million Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic -- closely following Texas, which hit the grim milestone earlier this week.
More than 5,000 new cases and 18 new deaths have been reported so far on Thursday, for a total of 1,000,631 confirmed cases and 18,126 deaths statewide, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Like most other states in the country, health officials are reporting that California's Covid-19 numbers are trending in the wrong direction.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-11-13-20-intl/index.html
By Loveday Morris and Luisa Beck
Demonstrators face riot police during a protest of coronavirus restrictions in Leipzig, Germany, on Nov. 7. (Filip Singer/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Just a few hours earlier, molotov cocktails had been tossed at the front of the Robert Koch Institute, the German federal agency responsible for controlling the virus.
The incidents come against the backdrop of a growing violent undercurrent at large-scale street demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions, including one attended by 20,000 people Saturday in Leipzig. The developments point to an increasingly radicalized movement of virus skeptics in Germany, embraced by the country’s far-right extremist groups and energized by global conspiracy theories, notably those put forth by the U.S.-born QAnon movement.
Far-right groups marched alongside the demonstrators this weekend, stoking concerns among security officials that they will gain recruits and draw more demonstrators to violence, with bomb- and weapon-making material already circulating in coronavirus-skeptic circles online.
A smashed window shows traces of soot at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin on Oct. 25. (Clemens Bilan/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
“The escalation line is going up all the way,” said Stephan Kramer, president of the state-level intelligence agency in the central state of Thuringia, home to high-profile far-right leaders who traveled to the Leipzig demonstration. “We see with the latest events that there is an escalation toward more violence and to more right-wing extremism among the demonstrations.”
Despite having one of the least stringent lockdowns in Europe during the spring surge in coronavirus cases, Germany has had one of the most vociferous anti-lockdown movements.
The main organizer of the demonstrations, a group called Querdenken, or “lateral thinkers,” grew out of demonstrations in Stuttgart, where large early protests included middle-class moms concerned about vaccines. They oppose mask requirements and what they see as curbs on basic freedoms and have demanded early elections. But the demonstrations have also attracted an array of groups.
Protesters hold a banner reading “Stop the corona madness!” in Leipzig, Germany. (Omer Messinger/Getty Images)
In Leipzig on Saturday afternoon, the crowd was mixed: Protesters with heart-shaped balloons and rainbow flags were joined by young men dressed in black, their faces covered with black masks. The black, white and red flag of the pre-1918 German Reich, flown by far-right sympathizers, also fluttered over the crowd.
Police had ordered the gathering in the city’s main square, Augustusplatz, to disperse because participants numbered more than the 5,000 allowed under a court ruling. But as a seething crowd pushed up against police lines chanting, “Peace, freedom, no dictatorship!” officers allowed a stream of demonstrators to march along the city’s ring road as planned.
As night fell, fireworks and other projectiles were hurled at police.
Such incidents at protests send the message to the extreme right that “if you challenge the state, they will give in and we will march,” Kramer said.
Among the assembled were leading figures of the ultranationalist National Democratic Party and the Third Way, said the security office for Saxony state, where Leipzig is located.
“It must be assumed that right-wing extremists will continue to exploit future corona protests for their anti-constitutional goals,” it said. It said the demonstrations are being “intensely evaluated.”
Querdenken’s founder Michael Ballweg has said the movement tried to distance itself from right-wing extremists. There was no violence started by the movement, the group said in statement Saturday, and its social media channels blamed far-left infiltrators.
“It is certainly amazing how a peaceful movement from the center of society is unjustifiably criminalized and stigmatized,” it said.
A participant holds up a sign during the Querdenken demonstration in Leipzig. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
But experts say that coronavirus skeptics have been particularly susceptible to more radical conspiracy theories, with overlap online between anti-lockdown channels on platforms such as Telegram and groups supporting QAnon, which has ballooned in Germany in recent months.
German supporters of QAnon’s theories believe President Trump was set to save Germany from a global cabal of child abusers. There are around 77,000 unique users in QAnon-associated Telegram chat groups in Germany, according to Miro Dittrich, a researcher at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation focused on tracking online extremist groups.
The theory found fertile ground for support among Germany’s Reichsbürger movement, which rejects the modern German state and has propensity for violence and a tendency for stockpiling weapons, according to German intelligence authorities.
The overlap between coronavirus skeptics and QAnon groups on Telegram is troubling, researchers say. Most posters in online anti-lockdown groups are first-time Telegram users, but some go on to become active in right-wing extremist groups on the platform, according to a study by German television channel NTV and Süeddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that examined 100,000 Telegram accounts.
For coronavirus skeptics, said Josef Holnburger, a researcher whose data was used in study, Telegram is a “gateway to more extremist content.”
Trump’s loss in the U.S. elections will add to frustrations for followers who may be tempted to instead take things into their own hands, Dittrich said.
Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-lockdown-protests/2020/11/12/3e9879ea-2422-11eb-9c4a-0dc6242c4814_story.html
Phil Harding in Auckland
People wait at a new pop-up testing station in Auckland, after workers in the city were told to work from home on Friday following a mystery Covid case. Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images
New Zealand will stay at alert level one but mandatory mask-wearing on public transport in Auckland and on flights may return next week after a new community case was confirmed on Thursday.
Auckland, which was partially shut down on Friday with about 100,000 people asked to work from home, has reopened and weekend events can go ahead, though the Covid response minister, Chris Hipkins, has urged people to be cautious.
The warning follows the new case, a student who lives in central Auckland,being genomically linked to a defence worker who was infected at a quarantine hotel earlier this month. On Thursday the student’s case was being described as having an unknown source, but Friday’s genomic link made further undetected spread of the virus “less likely”
The defence cluster began with a defence worker passing Covid-19 to a colleague at a work meeting. Hipkins questioned why these meetings weren’t being done virtually and defence on Friday announced that they would be from now on.
While there was not yet the level of risk to lift the alert level, Hipkins said he would take an order to cabinet on Monday seeking to make mask use on public transport in Auckland mandatory, including all flights in and out of the city.
The student, who is aged in her 20s, is the fourth case linked to the defence cluster. Work is continuing to try to determine where and how the student contracted the virus.
Her three close contacts have moved to a quarantine centre and have tested negative. Those who visited places where the student was while contagious have been asked to get tested.
She reported feeling symptoms on Monday and was tested on Tuesday. But on Wednesday she went to work wearing a mask, in a customer-facing role at A-Z Collections clothing store. Her test came back positive on Thursday.
While infectious she took a number of Uber rides and visited four central Auckland restaurants and cafes for food and takeaways, as well as one of New Zealand’s major department stores, Smith & Caughey’s. She also briefly visited a city university campus and doctors’ rooms.
The woman lives in a 170-unit apartment complex, with a shared pool and gym, in the city centre. Residents have been asked to self isolate but some have reportedly been seen leaving carrying overnight bags. In response, public health protection workers were being deployed to secure the building on Friday.
In August, Auckland entered a second three-week lockdown after a cluster of more than 100 infected people developed in the city’s south. Auckland is New Zealand’s largest city and home to 1.7 million people. Fewer than 2,000 people have become infected with Covid-19 in New Zealand while 25 have died.
The results of the government’s elimination strategy and hardline border policies have been praised around the world, and the freedom New Zealanders enjoy is envied. Sporting matches, concerts and eating and drinking out are all possible, and the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has resisted lobbying by Australia and some Pacific nations to open the borders.
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Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/13/new-zealands-mystery-auckland-covid-case-linked-to-previous-cluster
Italy has registered 636 Covid-related deaths over the past 24 hours, up from 623 the day before and the highest figure since 6 April, the health ministry said.
The number of new infections also rose by more than 5,000 compared with the previous day – up from 32,961 on Wednesday to 37,978.
Infections in Italy since the disease first came to light in February total 1.066m, while 43,589 people have died to date because of the coronavirus.
There were 234,672 coronavirus swabs carried out in the past day, the ministry said, against a previous 225,640.
The northern region of Lombardy, centred on Italy’s financial capital Milan, remained the hardest hit area on Thursday, reporting 9,291 new cases, up from Wednesday’s 8,180
A controversial French professor who touts the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment – without evidence, scientists say – will appear before a disciplinary panel charged with ethics breaches, an order of doctors said today.
Marseille-based Didier Raoult is accused by his peers of spreading false information about the benefits of the drug.
His promotion of hydroxychloroquine was taken up by the US and Brazilian presidents, Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro respectively, who trumpeted its unproven benefits in a way, say critics, that put people’s lives at risk.
No clinical trials have yet found in favour of using hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19. Critics say that due to potential serious side effects, treating coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine is worse than no treatment at all.
In June, the British-led Recovery trial team said that hydroxychloroquine does nothing to reduce coronavirus mortality.
A group representing 500 specialists of France’s Infectious Diseases Society (SPILF) filed a complaint with the national Order of Doctors of the Bouche-du-Rhone department, which includes Marseille, in July.
They accused Raoult of breaking nine rules of the doctors’ code of ethics. Other doctors and patients have also lodged complaints.
On Thursday, the group of doctors confirmed it had given the go-ahead for a disciplinary hearing after reviewing the complaints against Raoult. A hearing will likely only take place next year.
Raoult’s lawyer, Fabrice Di Vizio, confirmed they had received notice of the decision, but insisted his client would be cleared. If found guilty, Raoult could be fined, warned, or barred from practicing.
Raoult, who heads the infectious diseases department of La Timone hospital in Marseille, said in March that his study of 80 patients showed “favourable” outcomes in four out of five treated with hydroxychloroquine.
But his peers insist there is no scientific evidence to back up the claim.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, visited the scientist on 9 April at the height of the pandemic, when the French were observing strict stay-at-home rules.
Here is a recap of the main developments from the last few hours:
· Portugal announced an expansion of a nightly curfew and weekend lockdown already in place across more than 100 municipalities to a further 77 areas as it scrambles to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
· The UK government said a further 563 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Thursday, bringing the official tally to 50,928. However, separate figures from the UK’s statistics agencies, which take into account all deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, put the death toll at almost 67,000.
· The Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, issued a 30-day advisory telling residents to stay at home and not to have visitors in the home, including for Thanksgiving. If residents travel out of the state, they must quarantine for 14 days or submit a negative virus test, she said.
· Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government has agreed to extend Covid-19 restrictions for between one and two weeks, falling short of stricter measures demanded by Irish nationalist parties. The five-party power-sharing executive agreed the reopening of cafes and close-contact services such as hairdressers will be delayed by a week and the reopening of bars and restaurants serving alcohol will be delayed by two weeks.
· Italy recorded 636 Covid-related deaths over the past 24 hours – its highest daily figure since 6 April. The number of new infections also rose by more than 5,000 compared with Wednesday – up from 32,961 to 37,978. The northern region of Lombardy remains the hardest-hit area.
· France’s lockdown is to last for at least two more weeks, with the number of people in hospital infected by the coronavirus now higher than at the peak of the first wave, the prime minister, Jean Castex, told a news conference. He said that if the current slowdown in the rate of new cases was maintained, France would pass the peak of the second wave early next week but that if the spread of infections began to accelerate he would not hesitate to impose stricter measures.
· Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus has risen above 40,000 after 457 more fatalities were recorded in the past 24 hours. The number of people who have died from Covid in Iran, which has the highest death count in the Middle East, now stands at 40,121.
· A senior health department official in Delhi has said that Diwali, starting on 14 November, could be “a super spreader event”. India has so far reported about 8.6 million coronavirus infections – the world’s second highest after the US – and 127,571 deaths. But overall, it has been adding fewer cases daily since a mid-September peak, and its fatality figure of 92 per million people is well below the world’s tally of 160 and the US’s 711.
· A controversial French professor who touts the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment – without evidence, scientists say – is to appear before a disciplinary panel charged with ethics breaches. Marseille-based Didier Raoult is accused by his peers of spreading false information about the benefits of the drug, which has been trumpeted by the US and Brazilian presidents, Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro.
· Russia, Croatia, Greece were among countries to report respective daily records in the number of infections.
· Germany is seeing tentative signs that a surge in coronavirus infections may be easing, officials said today. “The curve is flattening,” said Lothar Wieler, who heads the country’s disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). He said it showed anti-transmission measures were working but warned there was still scope for the situation to deteriorate in coming weeks.
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