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99,756,051 |
+455,876 |
2,138,378 |
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25,702,125 |
+135,182 |
429,490 |
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10,668,674 |
+13,239 |
153,508 |
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8,844,600 |
+28,346 |
217,081 |
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3,719,400 |
+21,127 |
69,462 |
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3,647,463 |
+30,004 |
97,939 |
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3,053,617 |
+18,436 |
73,049 |
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2,603,472 |
+42885 |
55,441 |
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2,466,813 |
+11,629 |
85,461 |
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2,429,605 |
+5,277 |
25,073 |
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|
2,147,740 |
+10,051 |
52,777 |
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2,015,485 |
+12,516 |
51,374 |
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|
1,867,223 |
+5,031 |
46,827 |
|
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1,752,347 |
+20,057 |
149,084 |
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1,475,445 |
+4,683 |
35,363 |
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|
1,412,986 |
+8,147 |
40,874 |
|
|
1,372,977 |
+5,945 |
57,383 |
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|
1,191,812 |
+3,915 |
21,861 |
|
|
1,099,013 |
+5,075 |
39,777 |
|
|
989,262 |
+11,788 |
27,835 |
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|
948,933 |
+4,891 |
13,540 |
|
|
937,628 |
+4,230 |
15,399 |
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|
747,383 |
+4,852 |
19,094 |
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711,010 |
+1,816 |
17,776 |
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699,110 |
+4,463 |
17,933 |
|
|
691,854 |
+2,583 |
20,726 |
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|
636,190 |
+11,721 |
10,469 |
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|
613,763 |
+893 |
12,993 |
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597,403 |
+3,442 |
4,419 |
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532,412 |
+1,594 |
11,295 |
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531,799 |
+473 |
8,023 |
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513,619 |
+1,949 |
10,242 |
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466,289 |
+520 |
8,150 |
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404,714 |
+1,202 |
7,418 |
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383,603 |
+1,318 |
3,886 |
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366,371 |
+186 |
6,352 |
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360,661 |
+4,587 |
5,019 |
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359,574 |
+1,257 |
11,968 |
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320,453 |
+934 |
4,224 |
|
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311,244 |
+1,393 |
5,063 |
|
|
279,597 |
+3,010 |
2,320 |
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|
277,955 |
+3,579 |
792 |
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269,450 |
+270 |
2,001 |
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253,518 |
+546 |
3,055 |
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241,292 |
+3,060 |
14,623 |
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237,611 |
+1,752 |
1,649 |
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|
236,476 |
+1,905 |
4,068 |
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228,975 |
+287 |
3,082 |
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228,920 |
+352 |
4,827 |
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214,817 |
+121 |
8,820 |
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203,946 |
+1,439 |
2,531 |
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199,989 |
+1,732 |
9,927 |
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197,373 |
+2,059 |
6,234 |
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194,671 |
+754 |
1,983 |
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187,554 |
+1,370 |
2,970 |
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183,801 |
+3,346 |
678 |
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176,974 |
+1,584 |
2,403 |
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176,625 |
+774 |
2,649 |
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166,036 |
+127 |
3,039 |
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161,817 |
+674 |
8,959 |
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161,285 |
+384 |
952 |
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157,830 |
+537 |
3,360 |
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156,202 |
+265 |
3,361 |
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155,414 |
+408 |
1,791 |
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154,212 |
+322 |
5,465 |
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151,980 |
+334 |
5,646 |
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149,019 |
+247 |
248 |
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140,238 |
+1,056 |
3,441 |
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137,574 |
+476 |
3,062 |
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|
133,767 |
+469 |
2,066 |
|
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133,044 |
+558 |
1,521 |
|
|
127,652 |
+571 |
2,617 |
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123,709 |
+464 |
1,148 |
|
|
121,566 |
+964 |
1,504 |
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|
113,688 |
+1,148 |
1,763 |
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105,596 |
+227 |
2,863 |
|
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99,983 |
+85 |
1,744 |
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|
99,817 |
+361 |
367 |
|
|
90,654 |
+183 |
2,785 |
|
|
88,991 |
+80 |
4,635 |
|
|
83,900 |
+104 |
1,400 |
|
|
78,375 |
+58 |
621 |
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|
75,084 |
+392 |
1,349 |
|
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72,274 |
+833 |
1,315 |
|
|
61,082 |
+279 |
544 |
|
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61,008 |
+512 |
1,111 |
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|
60,794 |
+679 |
367 |
|
|
59,308 |
+48 |
29 |
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13,628 |
+71 |
885 |
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13,500 |
+198 |
73 |
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8,057 |
+57 |
149 |
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6,723 |
+15 |
56 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Beijing bureau
Volunteers check orders of daily necessity goods at a supermarket according to wish lists of residents in quarantine in Tonghua, China, on January 24. Xu Chang/Xinhua/Sipa USA
Residents of a city in northeast China have taken to social media to complain that a stringent coronavirus lockdown has left them short of food and medicine, triggering an online uproar and an apology from local officials.
Tonghua, a city of about 2 million in Jilin province, has been locked down since January 18 amid rising Covid-19 infections. All flights, trains, buses and taxis have been suspended, and residents barred from leaving their homes.
Under the restrictions, people must order daily necessities online, and have them delivered to their residential compounds by volunteers, according to the municipal government.
However, Tonghua residents complained on Chinese social media last week that there had been a delay in deliveries, causing a shortage of food, medicine, and infant milk powder.
The backlash: The residents' posts ignited a wave of criticism against the Tonghua government, with some accusing local officials of disregard for people's livelihood in order to meet epidemic control targets.
Following the backlash, city officials admitted Sunday that the delivery of daily necessities is "untimely and unavailable" to some residents, citing a shortage of manpower.
"The municipal party committee and the municipal government express their sincere apologies," Deputy Mayor Jiang Haiyan said at a news conference.
On Sunday night, some residents posted photos online of vegetable packages they received, but many others said they were still waiting.
The Tonghua government said Monday that vegetables had been delivered to nearly 67,000 households, and more than 7,000 officials and volunteers would continue to distribute food to the rest of the residents.
Stark contrast: Some social media users pointed to the disparities between the harsh lockdown measures in Tonghua and the more humane quarantine policies in some major cities.
In Shanghai, the government was lauded for allowing residents of "medium-risk" neighborhoods to bring their pets to government-designated hotels for quarantine.
The Beijing municipal government said it would allow each household to leave one family member at home to take care of pets if they are ordered to go into quarantine.
From CNN Health’s Naomi Thomas
Dr. Anthony Fauci opened up about his experience working under the Trump administration, his relationship with the former president and threats to his personal safety, in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times published Sunday.
As cases rapidly escalated in the Northeast, the former president had “almost a reflex response” to try to minimize the situation, Fauci said.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that he was concerned about who Trump was getting his information from. He said Trump based his assessment of coronavirus treatments on anecdotes rather than data from clinical trials.
“That’s when my anxiety started to escalate,” Fauci said.
When leadership of the White House coronavirus task force changed last February, into the hands of the White House, the situation turned from “the standard kind of scientifically based, public-health-based meetings,” to “the anecdotally driven situations, the minimization, the President surrounding himself with people saying things that didn’t make any scientific sense,” Fauci said.
When Fauci contradicted Trump’s misinformation, he said the White House response started to become “somewhat nefarious - namely, allowing Peter Navarro to write an editorial in USA Today saying I’m wrong on most of the things I say. Or to have the White House press office send out a detailed list of things I said that turned out to be not true.”
Fauci said that Trump even called him personally to ask why he wasn’t being more positive about the pandemic.
Fauci said he and his family received death threats, starting in the spring. He said the death threats to his family upset him more than anything else. He shared an experience where he received a letter containing white powder, which turned out to be nothing. He recalled the moment, saying:
“My wife and my children were more disturbed than I was. I looked at it somewhat fatalistically. It had to be one of three things: A hoax. Or anthrax, which meant I’d have to go on Cipro for a month. Or if it was ricin, I was dead, so bye-bye.”
From CNN's Michael Nedelman in New York, Martin Goillandeau and James Frater in London
Boxes of vials of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine sit in a fridge at Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol, England, on January 9. Andrew Matthews/WPA Pool/Getty Images
Reduced yields in the European supply chain are the reason that lower volumes of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine will initially be delivered to EU member states, according to a spokesperson for the drugmaker.
The European Union expressed its “deep dissatisfaction” on Friday, after being informed by AstraZeneca that vaccine deliveries to member states -- pending authorization -- would not arrive before the end of the first quarter of 2021, as originally forecast.
An AstraZeneca spokesperson told CNN that reduced yields at a manufacturing site in the European supply chain have caused the lower volumes of initial deliveries, but there is no schedule delay to the start of shipments once its vaccine receives approval in Europe.
"We will be supplying tens of millions of doses in February and March to the European Union, as we continue to ramp up production volumes," the spokesperson said, without offering details on how much lower the initial volume of vaccine supply would be.
EU's expectations: The EU was expecting 100 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the first quarter of this year. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) received an application for conditional marketing authorization for the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford on January 12. The decision on granting marketing authorization could be given by January 29.
“The European Commission will continue to insist with AstraZeneca on measures to increase predictability and stability of deliveries, and acceleration of the distribution of doses,” European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides tweeted Friday.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-25-21/index.html
By Vivian Yee and Nada Rashwan
A large screen showed a nurse, Ahmed Hamdan Zayed, receiving the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine during a news conference at the Abou Khalifa hospital in Ismailia, Egypt, on Sunday.Credit...Khaled Desouki/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
CAIRO — Egypt began vaccinating health care workers at 40 isolation facilities, pulmonology hospitals and fever wards on Sunday, the authorities announced, in the first wave of the country’s vaccine rollout.
Photos posted to Facebook by the Health Ministry from the first hospital to receive the doses, a medical center in the northeastern city of Ismailia, on the west bank of the Suez Canal, showed doctors and nurses in scrubs receiving shots of the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine on Sunday afternoon.
The health minister, Hala Zayed, said at a news conference on Sunday that the government would begin by offering the vaccine to medical staff on a voluntary basis, then proceed to the general public in the next several weeks, starting with people over 65 and those with underlying health conditions. A ministry spokesman, Khaled Megahed, said in television interviews on Saturday evening that the government would distribute 50,000 doses over the next three weeks.
The Egyptian government initially said it would begin vaccinations soon after receiving the first shipment of the Sinopharm vaccine as a gift from the United Arab Emirates in December, but then delayed the campaign without explanation.
Ms. Zayed said more Chinese-, British- and Russian-produced vaccines were to arrive in Egypt soon.
The Egyptian government has received criticism from its health care workers throughout the pandemic over the lack of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies for hospitals, as well as over the low rate of testing. Some doctors have also raised questions about the efficacy and safety of the Sinopharm vaccine, given the lack of detailed data available about clinical trials of the vaccine. With the AstraZeneca vaccine on the way, some doctors have expressed reluctance to take Sinopharm’s, even though it is available sooner.
“Many of us will wait until there’s Pfizer or AstraZeneca or something more credible than Sinopharm,” said one doctor at a hospital in greater Cairo, who asked not to be named because the government has targeted doctors who spoke up about its management of the pandemic. “With those, you know they come from a transparent system. With Sinopharm, there’s a risk.”
Egypt’s official infection rate has been falling, with 680 new cases and 49 deaths reported on Saturday, though international and Egyptian officials have acknowledged that the official rate is an undercount.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/24/world/covid-19-coronavirus/egypt-begins-its-vaccination-campaign-with-50000-doses-from-chinas-sinopharm
The police used tear gas, horses and water cannons to disperse anti-government demonstrators in Amsterdam and Eindhoven in the Netherlands on Sunday, who had gathered to protest a national coronavirus lockdown.CreditCredit...Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Demonstrators clashed with the Dutch police in two cities on Sunday, and a coronavirus testing facility was burned on Saturday, as anger at a nationwide lockdown in the Netherlands grew more violent.
A two-week curfew that went into effect at 9 p.m. on Saturday was repeatedly broken. In the fishing village of Urk, where unrest occurred in November and December, young people set the testing facility on fire right after the curfew began.
Officials said that 3,600 people were fined nationwide for violating the stay-at-home order, and 25 people were arrested and accused of breaching the curfew or violence.
On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered in unauthorized demonstrations organized through social media in the capital city of Amsterdam and the southern city of Eindhoven, where violence was sharpest. Bicycles and cars were set on fire, and shop windows broken, the public broadcaster NOS reported, and dozens of people were arrested. The police used water cannons, officers on horses and tear gas to disperse the protesters.
Those protesting the pandemic restrictions are a relatively small but vocal coterie of groups and individuals, and they have taken aim at Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his policies as well as at established media organizations. Much like the Trump loyalists who stormed the U.S. Capitol, they believe the system needs to be uprooted.
The strict measures taken to stop the spread of the coronavirus come as Mr. Rutte is facing a storm of criticism over a child benefit scandal in which thousands of innocent families were given high fines by overzealous tax inspectors for fraud they didn’t commit. His party, however, continues to lead in the polls ahead of a general election scheduled for March.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/24/world/covid-19-coronavirus/protests-against-a-lockdown-in-the-netherlands-turn-violent
By Gina Kolata
The Tuileries Garden in Paris last week before the 6 p.m. curfew.Credit...Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
With coronavirus infections rising and a contagious new variant threatening to accelerate the pandemic, France has issued a stringent curfew, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Citizens nationwide are sequestered indoors, and businesses must close down.
In Quebec, Canadian officials imposed a similar restriction this month, running from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. It has frayed nerves: Notably, a woman who was walking her boyfriend on a leash at 9 p.m. has argued that the activity is one of the exemptions from the curfew, surely one of the pandemic’s most unexpected moments.
The question for scientists is this: Do curfews work to slow transmission of the virus? If so, under what circumstances? And by how much?
The scientific evidence on curfews is far from ideal. There has not been a pandemic like this one in a century. Although curfews make intuitive sense, it’s very hard to discern their precise effects on viral transmission, let alone transmission of this coronavirus.
Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Florida, believes curfews are, on the whole, an effective way to slow the pandemic. But he acknowledged his view is based on intuition.
“Scientific intuition does tell you something,” Dr. Longini said. “It’s just that you can’t quantify it very well.”
One study, published recently in Science, analyzed data from Hunan Province, in China, at the start of the outbreak. Curfews and lockdown measures, the researchers concluded, had a paradoxical effect: These restrictions reduced the spread within the community, but they raised the risk of infection within households, Kaiyuan Sun, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, reported along with his colleagues.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/24/world/covid-19-coronavirus/do-curfews-slow-the-coronavirus
Helen Sullivan and agencies
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrado – who has long been accused of complacency in his approach to the pandemic – has tested positive for Covid-19 and is undergoing treatment with mild symptoms, according to his Twitter account.
As the United States prepared to reinforce travel restrictions from a host of other countries on Sunday night, López Obrador tweeted: “I regret to inform you that I am infected with Covid-19. The symptoms are mild but I am already under medical treatment. As always, I am optimistic. We will all move forward.”
The 67-year-old has rarely been seen wearing a mask and has continued to keep up a busy travel schedule including travelling on commercial flights
He has resisted locking down the economy, noting the devastating effect it would have on many Mexicans who live day to day.
Early in the pandemic, asked how he was protecting Mexico, López Obrador removed two religious amulets from his wallet and proudly displayed them. “The protective shield is the ‘Get thee behind me, Satan,”’ he said, reading off the inscription on the amulet, “Stop, enemy, for the Heart of Jesus is with me.”
In November, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, said that “Mexico is in bad shape” with the pandemic and urged its leaders be serious about the coronavirus and set examples for its citizens.
Mexico has registered nearly 150,000 coronavirus deaths and more than 1.7 million infections, according to Johns Hopkins University. Hospitals in the capital have been near capacity for weeks as a surge of cases followed the holiday season.
Adhanom Ghebreyesus did not name López Obrador, but said: “We would like to ask Mexico to be very serious.”
“We have said it in general, wearing a mask is important, hygiene is important and physical distancing is important and we expect leaders to be examples,” he added.
At the start of the pandemic López Obrador was criticised for still leaning into crowds and giving hugs. The eternal campaigner, López Obrador’s style of politics has always been very hands on and personal. As the pandemic grew he began limiting attendance to his events and maintaining his distance from supporters.
As of Sunday night, Mexico had administered nearly 630,000 doses of vaccine.
López Obrador’s announcement came shortly after news emerged that he would speak to Russian president Vladimir Putin on Monday about obtaining doses of the Sputnik V vaccine. The vaccine has not been approved for use in Mexico, but the government is desperate to fill supply gaps for the Pfizer vaccine.
In the United States, which on the weekend passed 25m coronavirus cases and is nearing 420,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, President Joe Biden will reinstate coronavirus travel restrictions on non-US travellers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders, according to two White House officials.
The officials, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the order, also confirmed on Sunday that South Africa would be added to the restricted list because of concerns about a variant of the virus that has spread beyond that nation.
Biden is reversing an order from then-president Donald Trump in his final days in office that called for the relaxation of the travel restrictions as of Tuesday.
The South Africa variant has not been discovered in the United States, but another variant originating in the United Kingdom has been detected in several states.
New Zealand officials said on Monday that its first community case for two months was the South African variant.
In north-east China, Tonghua, a city of close to 400,000 people, was placed under sudden lockdown a week ago, prompting complaints on social media that people were left short of provisions and could not buy medicines. Some of them had only two or three days of food rations.
The city’s deputy mayor, Jiang Haiyan apologised on Sunday for slow deliveries of daily necessities to residents at a daily briefing. In addition, the local epidemic control department issued an announcement promising residents that five days of basic living materials will be supplied to each household at half price from now on.
Tonghua has reported 246 coronavirus cases including 50 asymptomatic ones.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/global-coronavirus-report-mexicos-president-tests-positive-joe-biden-to-reinstate-travel-bans
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Mexico’s president tested positive for coronavirus. Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has become the latest world leader to contract Covid-19. “I’m sorry to inform you that I’ve been infected,” the 67-year-old politician announced on Twitter on Sunday evening.
· The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping up efforts to track coronavirus mutations and keep vaccines and treatments effective against new variants until collective immunity is reached, the agency’s chief said on Sunday.
· Residents in Tonghua, a city of about 2 million in northeastern Jilin province which has been locked down since 18 January, complained on social media that the lockdown had left them short of food and medicines, triggering an apology from local officials.
· Turkey received 6.5 million further doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by China’s Sinovac Biotech on Monday, CNN Turk and other media reported, allowing its nationwide rollout to continue. An initial consignment of 3 million doses previously arrived in Turkey and it has so far vaccinated 1.245 million people, mostly health workers and elderly people, according to health ministry data.
· China reported a climb in new Coronavirus cases driven by a spike in infections among previously symptomless patients in northeastern Jilin province, official data showed on Monday. The total number of confirmed cases in the mainland rose to 124 on Jan. 24 from 80 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said in a statement, amid the worst wave of new infections China has seen since March 2020.
· The Hong Kong government lifted a lockdown in an area of Kowloon district in the early hours of Monday after testing about 7,000 people for coronavirus to curb an outbreak in the densely populated area.
· New Zealand authorities have said a new case of Covid-19 that emerged outside quarantine appeared to be the South African variant. Health officials said on Monday that they believed the infected woman, aged 56, contracted the virus from an infected person on the same floor of the Pullman hotel in Auckland where they were both quarantining.
· Travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand suspended for 72 hours. Amid concern the single case of community transmission in New Zealand is of the South African variant, Australia’s federal health minister, Greg Hunt, has announced the Australian government will suspend the travel bubble with New Zealand for 72 hours.
· Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for Australia rollout. In Australia, the Pfizer vaccine has met strict standards for safety, quality and efficacy, a statement from the prime minister’s office said on Monday, and the vaccine has been approved for rollout in Australia for people age 16 years and older.
· US president Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate Covid travel restrictions on non-US travellers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders, according to two White House officials. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the order, also confirmed Sunday that South Africa would be added to the restricted list because of concerns about a variant of the virus that has spread beyond that nation.
· Israel ‘closes skies’ to air travel to prevent virus spread. Israel on Sunday announced a week-long ban on most incoming and outgoing flights in a bid to slow the spread of new coronavirus variants. The measure will begin at midnight from Monday into Tuesday and remain in effect until Sunday, a statement from the prime minister’s office said.
· World nears 100m cases. The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 99 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, as the total moves rapidly towards a shocking 100 million people infected with Covid-19 in just over a year. The current total is 99,105,389 infections. At least 2,127,206 people have died. On average, around 650,000 coronavirus cases have been reported daily in the last week.
· Netherlands anti-curfew protests spark clashes with police, looting. Protests against a curfew to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the Netherlands degenerated into clashes with police and looting in cities across the country Sunday, authorities and reports said.
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