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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
97,282,148 |
+671,720 |
2,081,748 |
|
24,998,975 |
+188,426 |
415,894 |
|
|
10,611,719 |
+15,277 |
152,906 |
|
|
8,639,868 |
+64,126 |
212,893 |
|
|
3,633,952 |
+21,152 |
67,220 |
|
|
3,505,754 |
+38,905 |
93,290 |
|
|
2,965,117 |
+26,784 |
71,652 |
|
|
2,414,166 |
+13,571 |
83,681 |
|
|
2,412,318 |
+41,576 |
54,637 |
|
|
2,406,216 |
+6,435 |
24,487 |
|
|
2,090,161 |
+18,525 |
50,296 |
|
|
1,956,979 |
+17,908 |
49,792 |
|
|
1,831,681 |
+12,112 |
46,216 |
|
|
1,668,396 |
+18,894 |
142,832 |
|
|
1,450,747 |
+6,919 |
34,141 |
|
|
1,369,426 |
+12,710 |
38,854 |
|
|
1,348,316 |
+6,182 |
57,057 |
|
|
1,172,038 |
+4,383 |
21,258 |
|
|
1,078,675 |
+5,461 |
39,157 |
|
|
939,948 |
+12,568 |
26,857 |
|
|
927,110 |
+5,530 |
13,248 |
|
|
909,197 |
+9,600 |
14,908 |
|
|
725,495 |
+5,744 |
18,462 |
|
|
700,898 |
+3,000 |
17,485 |
|
|
681,250 |
+1,479 |
20,554 |
|
|
680,740 |
+3,589 |
17,594 |
|
|
610,598 |
+746 |
12,968 |
|
|
581,605 |
+14,647 |
9,465 |
|
|
575,842 |
+10,213 |
4,181 |
|
|
529,687 |
+656 |
7,950 |
|
|
524,783 |
+1,772 |
11,103 |
|
|
505,934 |
+1,857 |
10,042 |
|
|
462,542 |
+1,152 |
8,043 |
|
|
398,096 |
+1,671 |
7,237 |
|
|
377,445 |
+1,646 |
3,810 |
|
|
365,563 |
+238 |
6,338 |
|
|
354,252 |
+976 |
11,615 |
|
|
339,774 |
+5,446 |
4,647 |
|
|
317,405 |
+978 |
4,187 |
|
|
303,777 |
+2,243 |
4,912 |
|
|
268,310 |
+318 |
1,975 |
|
|
264,647 |
+4,332 |
2,084 |
|
|
263,729 |
+3,506 |
762 |
|
|
249,934 |
+469 |
2,987 |
|
|
234,315 |
+1,747 |
14,437 |
|
|
230,494 |
+1,778 |
1,610 |
|
|
228,778 |
+2,484 |
3,737 |
|
|
228,028 |
+332 |
3,044 |
|
|
226,550 |
+902 |
4,711 |
|
|
213,409 |
+482 |
8,651 |
|
|
198,123 |
+1,532 |
2,470 |
|
|
191,505 |
+886 |
1,872 |
|
|
191,090 |
+2,357 |
9,722 |
|
|
188,373 |
+3,890 |
5,921 |
|
|
187,712 |
+835 |
2,492 |
|
|
179,324 |
+2,485 |
2,768 |
|
|
172,545 |
+1,717 |
2,514 |
|
|
171,232 |
+1,134 |
2,403 |
|
|
169,379 |
+4,008 |
630 |
|
|
165,221 |
+309 |
3,016 |
|
|
159,264 |
+442 |
951 |
|
|
158,963 |
+789 |
8,747 |
|
|
154,118 |
+612 |
3,299 |
|
|
153,590 |
+497 |
1,751 |
|
|
152,851 |
+1,714 |
3,257 |
|
|
151,324 |
+1,047 |
5,343 |
|
|
149,973 |
+511 |
5,545 |
|
|
148,000 |
+271 |
248 |
|
|
136,068 |
+1,130 |
3,391 |
|
|
135,721 |
+478 |
2,997 |
|
|
132,317 |
+171 |
1,516 |
|
|
132,034 |
+307 |
2,044 |
|
|
124,447 |
+1,088 |
2,556 |
|
|
121,691 |
+574 |
1,122 |
|
|
114,691 |
+1,386 |
1,478 |
|
|
111,124 |
+659 |
1,715 |
|
|
104,606 |
+265 |
2,849 |
|
|
99,444 |
+136 |
1,736 |
|
|
98,573 |
+313 |
366 |
|
|
89,463 |
+71 |
2,739 |
|
|
88,557 |
+103 |
4,635 |
|
|
83,430 |
+162 |
1,392 |
|
|
78,163 |
+72 |
620 |
|
|
73,518 |
+403 |
1,300 |
|
|
69,238 |
+670 |
1,291 |
|
|
59,887 |
+431 |
543 |
|
|
59,197 |
+40 |
29 |
|
|
57,808 |
+1,088 |
1,032 |
|
|
56,579 |
+351 |
758 |
|
|
55,189 |
+769 |
274 |
|
|
12,653 |
+59 |
71 |
|
|
7,783 |
+74 |
146 |
|
|
6,562 |
+39 |
52 |
|
|
1,544 |
+4 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN’s Tatiana Arias
A group of Peruvian medics went on hunger strike Tuesday demanding more investment in the health sector and rejecting the country’s handling of the pandemic amid rising cases of Covid-19, according to a statement from Peru’s Social Security National Medical Union (SINAMMSOP) published Wednesday.
About a dozen medics from the national social security union have been protesting outside Peru’s Ministry of Labor, where the group began the hunger strike on Tuesday.
Fiorella Molinelli, the president of Peru’s Health Social Security, has not commented on SINAMMSOP’s demands as of Thursday. She is currently leading government efforts to adapt temporary health and isolation Covid-19 centers to combat the spread of the virus.
The hunger strike comes in addition to numerous protests in different parts of the country since last week, where medics and other health workers are demanding more medical equipment, adjusted salaries and an “increase in the budget for the health sector,” according to the Peruvian Medical Federation.
"Our ICUs are collapsing and we are not receiving any response and we are seeing the indifference of a government that assigns us the budget. We urgently need to acquire this equipment to prevent more Peruvians from dying. The Peruvian state has a constitutional obligation to guarantee the accessibility of health services and right now they are denying access to hospitals because we no longer have the capacity to provide patients with what they need so much," Peruvian nurse Ketty Solier told Reuters Tuesday.
Second wave: Peru is now facing a second wave of Covid-19 cases, according to the country’s Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti.
“We are starting on a second wave (of Covid-19 cases). This wave is rising. I can tell you that we’ve made some calculations and we are more or less right were we were in mid-April, and the figures keep ascending,” Mazzetti said during an interview with local media Monday.
Peru has reported at least 1,073,214 Covid-19 cases, including 39,044 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
From CNN's Kylie Atwood
President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20. Evan Vucci/AP
The White House released US President Joe Biden's letter reversing the Trump administration's decision to leave the World Health Organization after the new US leader was sworn in on Wednesday.
In the letter, Biden writes, "The WHO plays a crucial role in the world’s fight against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic as well as countless other threats to global health and health security. The United States will continue to be a full participant and a global leader in confronting such threats and advancing global health and health security."
US re-engagement: US diplomats around the world have already been notified of changes they must make as they conduct American diplomacy after Biden signed a series of executive orders tonight.
The first department wide memo sent by Acting Secretary of State Dan Smith instructed all US diplomats to re-engage with WHO and halt any staff drawdown at the UN health agency, according to the memo reviewed by CNN.
The memo was sent shortly after Biden signed a series of executive orders, including one to reverse former President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from WHO.
“The United States will re-engage with the World Health Organization (WHO), and resume regular engagement of US government personnel with the organization. The United States also reverses its decision to recall US government personnel from secondments to WHO,” Smith wrote on Wednesday evening.
The US had been in the process of withdrawing staff at WHO in the final months of the Trump administration. That withdrawal will now be halted and reversed.
From CNN's Maggie Fox
New research out this week provides reassuring evidence that people vaccinated against coronavirus will be protected against emerging new variants of the virus.
Two teams tested two of the new variants against blood taken from people who had received the full two-course dose of either the Moderna or the Pfizer vaccine.
While the mutations in the new variants of the virus -- one first seen in Britain, and another first identified in South Africa -- did allow them to evade some of the immunity induced by vaccination, it was far from a complete escape, the two teams reported separately.
A team led by Dr. Michel Nussenzweig of the Rockefeller University tested plasma taken from 20 people who got two doses of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccine as part of clinical trials.
They found the vaccines produced strong antibody responses, as well as cells that keep producing new antibodies for months or years.
"We measured their antibody responses to the wild-type virus. Then we took their plasmas and measured them against the variants," Nussenzweig told CNN.
Wild-type virus is the catchall name for virus generally circulating that is not changed enough to be designated a variant.
Different mutations in the viruses did allow some escape from some types of antibodies, but the bodies of the volunteers threw an army of different types of antibodies at the viruses, the team reported in a pre-print study -- not peer reviewed -- published online.
"When you start putting all these mixtures of antibodies together, what it means is that together they can take care of the variants," Nussenzweig said. Even though they had a reduced effect, overall the response was so overwhelming that it should not matter, he said.
"What we really want to do with these vaccines is keep people out of the hospital. They are extremely likely to do that, irrespective," Nussenzweig added.
Eventually, the vaccines should be updated -- but the new mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna can be changed very quickly. "Should the vaccines be tweaked?" he asked. "Probably -- but that doesn't mean that they won't be effective."
From CNN's Madeline Holcombe, Jason Hanna and Maggie Fox
As state leaders clamored for more Covid-19 vaccine doses, Joe Biden became President on Wednesday with an eye toward changing approaches to the pandemic that has claimed more than 400,000 lives in the US.
Some state officials say they aren't seeing as many doses as the federal government reports distributing and the demand for the vaccine is outpacing the supply. Georgia, for example, reports adequate staff, volunteers and infrastructure but not enough doses.
"We've been getting about 80,000 doses a week, and that's not much for a state with 11 million people," Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey said Tuesday.
Biden, meanwhile, has signaled he intends to alter the federal government's approach to the pandemic and public health in several ways, and one of his first acts as President, a few hours after his inauguration, was to sign an executive order mandating masks on federal property.
He also intends to restore a previously disbanded National Security Council office that would focus on pandemic preparedness and to stop the previous administration's process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization, one of his aides has said.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the agency is conducting a comprehensive review of all existing Covid-19 guidance. "The toll that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on America is truly heartbreaking," she said.
Biden took office just a day after the country surpassed 400,000 recorded deaths for the pandemic.
Across the country, hospitalizations and daily new cases and deaths have been dipping, though experts have warned that more-transmissible virus variants, including one first seen in the UK, could send cases surging again:
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-21-21/index.html
A vaccination in Atlanta.Credit...Nicole Craine for The New York Times
That Covid-19 vaccine appointment may not just be hard to get — it may not even be all that secure.
Thousands of people across the country learned that their appointments had been abruptly canceled in the last few days, after vaccine shipments to local health departments and other distributors fell short of what was expected.
The health department in Erie County, N.Y., which includes Buffalo, canceled seven days of appointments this week, affecting 8,010 people, saying the state had sent far fewer doses than the county ordered. All future appointments should be considered “tentative, and are subject to vaccine availability,” the department said in a statement on Wednesday.
“We made appointments based on our hope and expectation that we would be able to fill those,” said Kara Kane, a department spokesperson. “There’s a lot of confusion, a lot of questions, a lot of concern.”
Dianne Bennett, 78, lost her first-dose appointment at the Erie County Medical Center because of the cancellations, and so did her husband. They were told to try again later, but Ms. Bennett said they had no idea when another appointment will be available.
“It’s such a lottery,” she said. “I just think it’s outrageous.”
Similar issues have cropped up across the country, as demand far outpaces supply and vaccine providers struggle to predict how many doses will actually arrive.
At Beaufort Memorial Hospital in South Carolina, hospital officials canceled 6,000 scheduled appointments through March 30 after they were notified that thousands of vaccine doses they expected were not coming.
San Francisco’s public health department expects to run out of vaccine on Thursday, The Los Angeles Times reported, because the city’s allocation dropped sharply from a week ago and the state did not replace doses that had to be discarded.
Local health officials throughout California say they have trouble scheduling appointments because they are unsure how much vaccine they will receive from week to week, the paper said.
In New York City, 23,000 vaccination appointments scheduled for Thursday and Friday were postponed because of a shipping delay, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday, a day after warning that the city’s supply would soon be exhausted.
“We already were feeling the stress of a shortage of vaccine,” the mayor said at a news conference. “Now the situation has been made even worse.”
Recent moves to open up eligibility have aggravated the situation.
After the state of Georgia announced that anyone 65 or older could get the vaccine, the 10-county Northwest Health District was swamped with more than 10,000 appointment requests in one weekend — far more than it could satisfy with the supply it had on hand. So it shut down its scheduling website, and told people to call their local health department to arrange an appointment instead, frustrating many people who thought they had already secured a slot.
“We’re having to schedule appointments at least a week out, based on anticipated delivery, but we don’t know what will show up on a daily basis,” said Logan Boss, the spokesman for the health district. “It’s difficult to explain that to the public.”
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/20/world/covid-19-coronavirus/its-such-a-lottery-disappointment-and-frustration-as-vaccine-offers-melt-away
By Emma Bubola
Preparing a dose of coronavirus vaccine in Rome on Monday. On Friday, Pfizer announced a reduction in planned deliveries to E.U. countries this week.Credit...Angelo Carconi/EPA, via Shutterstock
Italy plans to take legal action against the American drugmaker Pfizer for delays in the delivery of coronavirus vaccines, Domenico Arcuri, Italy’s special commissioner for the pandemic, said in a statement on Tuesday night.
On Friday, Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, said they would deliver fewer doses than expected to European Union countries this week because they were changing the production process to increase future supply. They said deliveries would return to the original schedule next week.
Italian officials discussed the situation with company officials on Tuesday.
“The result of today’s dialogue with Pfizer did not have the effect we were hoping for,” Mr. Arcuri wrote, announcing that Italy would press charges, both “civil and criminal, where possible” in coming days.
Mr. Arcuri said that Pfizer would not make up the shortfall in next week’s delivery, which would instead be smaller than previously expected. Italian officials worried that a shortage of doses could dangerously slow the country’s vaccination program, which has reached more than 1.2 million people so far, starting with health care workers and nursing-home residents.
Some regional governors announced that they would pause new vaccinations because of the shortage, and focus on distributing the second dose of the vaccine to people who had already received the first. But they warned that if the delays continued even the distribution of the booster doses would be at risk.
“The health care of Italian citizens is not a negotiable issue,” Mr. Arcuri said in the statement. “The vaccination campaign cannot be slowed down, especially for giving the second doses to the many Italians who already received the first.”
Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Go-Ahead is providing four of its staff to drive the vehicles.
NHS staff are preparing to transport patients using two London buses that have been converted into makeshift ambulances, in another sign of the strain Covid is putting on the capital’s health services.
Most of the seats on the single-decker buses have been removed so that each can carry four patients, in an attempt to relieve the intense pressure on hospitals and the London ambulance service.
Go-Ahead, the bus company which owns the vehicles, has loaned them to the NHS in the capital to help transfer patients, including to the reopened London Nightingale field hospital.
They will be staffed by doctors and nurses who work in the NHS, especially in intensive care, as well as volunteers from the St John Ambulance first aid charity.
Go-Ahead is also providing four drivers for the vehicles, which have been adapted so that vital medical equipment – including infusion pumps and monitors – can be used to keep patients stable and observe their condition. All have been vaccinated against coronavirus. Go-Ahead was inundated with offers from its drivers to help.
The buses will also have oxygen onboard and will be able to give it to patients who need it, including those with Covid, through a facemask. The electric vehicles will be able to charge the equipment from their batteries.
The first patients are due to be moved in the buses in the next few days. Initially, they are likely to be patients from London hospitals who are being moved to the Nightingale at the ExCeL arena to receive “step-down” care before they are discharged. It reopened last week but, unlike in the first wave, is being used for less sick patients rather than those who are seriously ill with Covid.
It is thought to be the first time any part of the NHS has had to use specially adapted buses like this to move patients around. Personnel onboard will wear personal protective equipment.
The NHS staff on the buses will be doctors and nurses who work for the Specialist Retrieval and Intensive Care Transfer Service (Sprint), an NHS service which was set up in March, as the Covid pandemic struck, to move sick people between intensive care units at hospitals in south London to ensure none became overwhelmed.
Dedicated stops have been created outside King’s College and Guy’s hospitals in south London to ensure the buses can park and collect patients and have priority. The sides of the buses bear large stickers saying “NHS patient transport” and bearing the health service’s logo.
They will help the London ambulance service, which has been under serious pressure and struggled to answer the huge number of 999 calls it has been receiving since the capital once again became the centre of the lethal second wave of coronavirus around Christmas.
They have had holes inserted in their floors to secure four ambulance stretcher trolleys on wheels made by a firm called Stryker and make sure they do not move around while the bus is in motion.
Patients who need it can be given help to breathe or intravenous medication during the journey.
The initiative has been arranged by Go-Ahead, Sprint and Transport for London.
The London Nightingale opened amid great fanfare in March and was originally intended to be a massive 4,000-bed Covid critical care unit. However, staffing proved problematic and in the first wave it only treated a few dozen patients. It is now being used to take up to 300 non-Covid patients who are close to discharge and is also acting as one of the NHS’s mass vaccination centres.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/21/london-buses-turned-into-ambulances-to-ease-covid-strain
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Joe Biden marks start of presidency with executive orders to tackle Covid-19. The president signed orders to mandate mask wearing and social distancing in federal buildings and lands, and to create a position of a Covid-19 response coordinator.
· UK reports 1,820 more Covid deaths, the most recorded in one day. The number of new cases also rose sharply to 38,905, after a fall earlier in the week which inspired optimism that lockdown restrictions were working.
· France may follow Germany in making clinical masks mandatory. Medical-grade face masks rather than cloth coverings could become mandatory in a number of European countries to help contain the rapid spread of highly contagious Covid variants first identified in the UK and South Africa.
· Dubai cancels non-essential surgery as Covid-19 cases surge. Dubai has ordered hospitals to cancel non-essential surgery for the next month after a surge in coronavirus cases in the Middle East’s tourism and business hub.
· Indian hesitancy sets back world’s biggest Covid vaccination drive. India’s Covid-19 vaccine drive has been hampered by turnout as low as 22% in some states, as fears over the safety of the vaccine and the spread of misinformation has fuelled widespread hesitancy.
· Spain logs record number of new Covid infections. Spain recorded 41,576 new cases in the preceding 24 hours, bringing the country’s total caseload to 2,412,318. It also recorded 464 deaths.
· Italy considers legal action over Pfizer vaccine delivery delays. Italy is preparing to take legal action against Pfizer over delays in delivery of pre-ordered Covid-19 vaccines. Italy received 48,000 vaccines for this week, out of an allocated 397,000, and was also left short by 165,000 last week.
· Record 343,00 people in UK receive first dose of Covid vaccine in one day. The NHS is scaling up its push to vaccinate 15 million people by mid-February, although with 25 days to go it will require about 400,000 immunisations a day to remain on track.
· Syria’s White Helmets awarded £920,000 to make PPE. Syria’s White Helmets, who rescue victims from the rubble of airstrikes, have added making personal protective equipment to their efforts saving lives in areas of the country outside Bashar al-Assad’s control.
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