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Country, |
Total |
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Total |
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World |
100,269,642 |
+449,186 |
2,148,752 |
|
25,861,597 |
+152,244 |
431,392 |
|
|
10,677,710 |
+9,036 |
153,624 |
|
|
8,872,964 |
+28,364 |
217,712 |
|
|
3,738,690 |
+19,290 |
69,918 |
|
|
3,669,658 |
+22,195 |
98,531 |
|
|
3,057,857 |
+4,240 |
73,494 |
|
|
2,697,294 |
+38,682 |
56,208 |
|
|
2,475,372 |
+8,561 |
85,881 |
|
|
2,435,247 |
+5,642 |
25,210 |
|
|
2,154,656 |
+6,884 |
53,402 |
|
|
2,027,746 |
+12,261 |
51,747 |
|
|
1,874,801 |
+7,578 |
47,034 |
|
|
1,763,219 |
+10,872 |
149,614 |
|
|
1,478,119 |
+2,419 |
35,401 |
|
|
1,417,537 |
+4,551 |
41,117 |
|
|
1,379,286 |
+6,309 |
57,481 |
|
|
1,194,328 |
+2,516 |
21,924 |
|
|
999,256 |
+9,994 |
28,132 |
|
|
952,950 |
+4,017 |
13,579 |
|
|
940,036 |
+2,389 |
15,555 |
|
|
753,011 |
+5,628 |
19,238 |
|
|
712,561 |
+1,551 |
17,841 |
|
|
703,178 |
+4,068 |
17,999 |
|
|
693,666 |
+1,812 |
20,779 |
|
|
643,113 |
+6,923 |
10,721 |
|
|
614,576 |
+813 |
13,000 |
|
|
606,365 |
+8,962 |
4,498 |
|
|
534,041 |
+1,629 |
11,318 |
|
|
532,401 |
+602 |
8,041 |
|
|
514,993 |
+1,578 |
10,292 |
|
|
466,626 |
+337 |
8,172 |
|
|
405,723 |
+1,009 |
7,451 |
|
|
385,126 |
+1,523 |
3,905 |
|
|
366,584 |
+213 |
6,355 |
|
|
364,813 |
+4,152 |
5,084 |
|
|
360,418 |
+844 |
12,024 |
|
|
321,298 |
+845 |
4,239 |
|
|
312,158 |
+914 |
5,098 |
|
|
282,249 |
+2,652 |
2,374 |
|
|
281,546 |
+3,591 |
798 |
|
|
269,789 |
+339 |
2,011 |
|
|
253,816 |
+298 |
3,071 |
|
|
241,567 |
+275 |
14,639 |
|
|
238,635 |
+1,024 |
1,658 |
|
|
237,027 |
+551 |
4,068 |
|
|
229,054 |
+134 |
4,859 |
|
|
229,032 |
+57 |
3,093 |
|
|
215,589 |
+772 |
8,880 |
|
|
205,162 |
+1,216 |
2,545 |
|
|
201,037 |
+1,048 |
9,985 |
|
|
198,636 |
+1,263 |
6,287 |
|
|
195,296 |
+625 |
2,010 |
|
|
190,745 |
+355 |
2,558 |
|
|
188,923 |
+1,369 |
2,977 |
|
|
186,849 |
+3,048 |
689 |
|
|
178,454 |
+1,480 |
2,403 |
|
|
177,248 |
+623 |
2,664 |
|
|
166,094 |
+58 |
3,047 |
|
|
162,486 |
+669 |
9,012 |
|
|
161,777 |
+492 |
954 |
|
|
158,131 |
+293 |
3,379 |
|
|
156,426 |
+224 |
3,368 |
|
|
155,884 |
+470 |
1,796 |
|
|
154,430 |
+218 |
5,469 |
|
|
152,412 |
+432 |
5,671 |
|
|
149,296 |
+277 |
248 |
|
|
140,929 |
+691 |
3,447 |
|
|
137,957 |
+383 |
3,069 |
|
|
134,132 |
+365 |
2,071 |
|
|
133,253 |
+209 |
1,522 |
|
|
128,366 |
+714 |
2,632 |
|
|
124,112 |
+403 |
1,154 |
|
|
122,996 |
+1,430 |
1,507 |
|
|
114,429 |
+741 |
1,782 |
|
|
105,854 |
+258 |
2,866 |
|
|
100,230 |
+413 |
369 |
|
|
100,052 |
+69 |
1,744 |
|
|
90,717 |
+63 |
2,791 |
|
|
89,115 |
+124 |
4,635 |
|
|
83,971 |
+71 |
1,401 |
|
|
78,429 |
+54 |
621 |
|
|
75,521 |
+437 |
1,360 |
|
|
72,812 |
+538 |
1,324 |
|
|
62,135 |
+646 |
372 |
|
|
61,315 |
+233 |
548 |
|
|
61,231 |
+223 |
1,114 |
|
|
59,352 |
+44 |
29 |
|
|
13,687 |
+187 |
75 |
|
|
8,112 |
+55 |
149 |
|
|
6,742 |
+19 |
57 |
|
|
1,549 |
+1 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Zeena Saifi
Around the world, the vaccine rollout has shone a harsh light on global income disparities. Rich countries take the lion's share of inoculations, and poorer states scramble to have even the prospect of life after coronavirus.
The Middle East is a microcosm of that global problem.
While oil-rich Gulf Arab nations were among the first in the world to receive a vaccine, war-torn countries such as Yemen and Syria must contend with vague timelines and complex distribution plans for the rollout, despite being among the worst affected by the virus.
Gulf nations lead the way: The first Arab countries to begin vaccinating their citizens and residents were also the richest: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
The UAE stands out. The country of almost 10 million, which has one of the highest GDPs per capita in the world, also has one of the highest vaccination rates globally. More than 2 million residents and citizens have already been vaccinated using the Pfizer/BioNTech shot and China's Sinopharm vaccine.
The Gulf state has already vaccinated more people than middle-income Jordan plans to inoculate in the first phase of its roll out. Lebanon, currently in the throes of a financial meltdown, has not yet had any vaccines delivered.
Conflict zones: Syria, already on its knees after almost a decade of civil war, is facing an economic crisis. The country's president, Bashar al-Assad, does not control all of its territory. The government in Damascus will rely on GAVI, the vaccine alliance that co-leads COVAX. Opposition groups in Syria's largely Kurdish northeast, and rebel-controlled northwest will do the same.
In war-torn Yemen, suffering a devastating humanitarian crisis, rival governments in the country's south and north appear to have only a vague notion of what the vaccine rollout will look like.
In Israel and the Palestinian territories, region-wide vaccine disparities also come into sharp focus. Israel's world-leading vaccination campaign, which is on course to meet the government's target of inoculating the entire country by the end of March, leaves at least 4.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza behind.
From CNN Health’s Elizabeth Cohen
An Israeli man receives his second Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from a medical professional at a vaccination center set up on a mall parking lot in Givataim, Israel, on Wednesday, January 20. Oded Balilty/AP
About 0.01% of a large group of people who received two doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine tested positive for coronavirus after their second shot -- and those patients had only a mild illness, according to preliminary data from an Israeli health care system.
Maccabi Healthcare Services found that out of approximately 128,600 people who received two doses of the vaccine, 20 became infected and tested positive more than a week after their second dose.
Maccabi did not test all patients after receiving their second dose. Instead, they tested an unspecified number of people who developed symptoms or who were exposed to someone with Covid-19.
The clinical trials for Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine showed it to be about 95% effective.
The press release stated that the data is “preliminary” but that “the numbers are very encouraging.”
Of the 20 patients who tested positive, 50% suffer from chronic illnesses. All of the 20 patients experienced a mild illness with symptoms including headaches, cough, weakness or fatigue. No one was hospitalized.
Out of a population of just over 9 million people, Israel has given first vaccine doses to about 2.5 million people, and second doses to about 1 million people.
Police confront protesters in Hyde Park after the main section of the "Invasion Day" Rally had ended on January 26 in Sydney, Australia. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
Five people were arrested Tuesday after an "unauthorized" Australia Day protest in Sydney that breached health restrictions put in place to avoid the spread of Covid-19, New South Wales police said in a statement.
Australia's national day, observed January 26, regularly sees large protests around the country over concerns that the date inappropriately celebrates the mass dispossession of the country's Indigenous population.
Police said they worked with organizers to separate the crowd Tuesday into groups of fewer than 500 people in an effort to minimize health risks.
"No issues arose at the protest and the crowd began to disperse just after 11am, before a large group attempted to commence a march in Hyde Park about 11.45am," the NSW police statement said.
"Police spoke with the organiser and the crowd, giving them a formal warning regarding a breach of public health regulations before the crowd eventually dispersed."
Four of those arrested were involved in a scuffle in which a police officer was allegedly assaulted, according to police. A 27-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man would be charged with failure to follow Covid-19 directions from police, among other charges, police said. Two other men were each issued with a 1,000 Australian dollar ($770) penalty and released.
One man who was not part of the gathering was charged with breach of the peace, the police statement added.
In Melbourne, two men were also detained during Australia Day protests for breaching the peace but were released without charge a short time later. "Police were pleased with the behaviour of those that attended," Melbourne police told CNN.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-26-21/index.html
The European Commission proposed on Monday to restrict nonessential travel to slow the spread of the new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus.CreditCredit...Yoan Valat/EPA, via Shutterstock
The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, recommended on Monday restricting nonessential travel in a bid to curb the spread of new more contagious variants of the coronavirus.
At the same time, the commission’s proposal aims to prevent blanket border closures, which would obstruct trade and the movement of cross-border workers. Traveling without restrictions would still be possible for family, work and health reasons, which are deemed essential.
“The situation in Europe with the new variants have led us to take difficult but necessary decisions,” Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the commission, wrote on Twitter. “We need to keep safe and discourage nonessential travel.”
Also on Monday, Moderna announced that while its vaccine is effective against new variants, it appears to be less protective against the one that emerged in South Africa, raising further concern.
President Biden’s press secretary said Monday that he would ban travel by noncitizens into the United States from South Africa because of concern about a coronavirus variant spreading in that country, and will extend similar bans imposed by his predecessor on travel from Brazil, 27 European countries and the United Kingdom.
In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was expected to announce an extension and tightening of lockdown rules in England this week amid growing concern.
In the E.U. plan, countries and regions where the 14-day infection rate is more than 500 per 100,000 inhabitants would qualify as “dark red,” or high-risk zones, and moving between them should be limited to essential reasons, the commission said. At the same time, those coming in from outside the bloc, even for essential reasons, would have to undergo testing and quarantines. “The first recommendation is: don’t travel,” said Ylva Johansson, the bloc’s commissioner for home affairs.
The commission’s proposal is nonbinding and needs to be endorsed by national governments, who will discuss it Monday afternoon. It comes after last week’s meeting of the leaders of 27 European Union nations, who agreed in principle to selectively restrict nonessential travel, but did not decide on the details.
“There is currently a very high number of new infections across many member states,” said Didier Reynders, the bloc’s commissioner for justice. “There is an urgent need to reduce the risk of travel-related infections, to lessen the burden on overstretched health care systems.”
Freedom of movement is the cornerstone of the bloc, but travel restrictions remain the province of national governments and vary from country to country, creating a chaotic patchwork of measures. Belgium, for example, has announced a ban on nonessential travel coming into force this Wednesday, with fines for those who don’t comply.
By Thomas Erdbrink
Protesters clashed with the police during a demonstration against coronavirus restrictions in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on Sunday.Credit...Rob Engelaar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands said on Monday that anyone involved in riots over the weekend protesting the country’s coronavirus measures had engaged in “criminal violence” and warned that perpetrators would be treated accordingly.
Hundreds of people were detained during unrest in Amsterdam, Eindhoven and at least eight other cities after the start of a 9 p.m. curfew on Saturday, the police said. Officers used tear gas, attack dogs and water cannons to disperse crowds in the southern city of Eindhoven, where shops were looted and cars set on fire. In Urk, a staunchly protestant fishing village young people burned down a Covid test facility.
The riots repeated for a third night on Monday evening in the Dutch cities of Rotterdam and Geleen, Reuters reported.
“This has nothing to do with protest or fighting for freedom,” Mr. Rutte, told reporters on Monday. “This is criminal violence, and we will treat it as such.”
His caretaker government implemented harsh new lockdown measures last week, vetted by Parliament, to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Flights to Britain, South Africa and most of South America were halted on Saturday. It also implemented a nationwide curfew, the first since World War II.
The mayor of Eindhoven, John Jorritsma, was visibly upset when he spoke to reporters about the violence in the city. He called the rioters “scum of the earth” and said he feared the Netherlands, normally one of the quietest countries in the European Union, was “on a path of civil war.”
A spokesman for the Dutch police union said the group feared that the illegal protests and riots were just the start of the curfew-related unrest. “I hope it was a one-off, but I’m afraid it was a harbinger for the coming days and weeks,” the spokesman, Koen Simmers, said, according to the public broadcaster NOS. “We haven’t seen so much violence in 40 years,” he added.
The protesters also gathered last week in Amsterdam after calls on social media to “resist” the lockdown rules and the government’s policies overall. Mr. Rutte is one of the longest-serving European leaders. Elections in the Netherlands are scheduled for March.
Protests also erupted over the weekend in Denmark. Five people were arrested on Saturday during an anti-lockdown demonstration in Copenhagen, local news outlets reported. Around 1,000 protesters gathered to demonstrate against what they said were limitations of their freedoms, after a call for protest by a Facebook group. Protesters tied an effigy of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to a pole and burned it, Danish channel TV2 reported. A sign was hung around the effigy’s neck saying, “She must and should be killed.”
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/25/world/covid-19-coronavirus/dutch-prime-minister-condemns-lockdown-riots-as-criminal-violence
By Michael D. Shear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
A health care worker tending to a patient at a temporary ward set up during the coronavirus outbreak at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, last week.Credit...Pool photo by Phill Magakoe
President Biden will ban travel by noncitizens into the United States from South Africa because of concern about a coronavirus variant spreading in that country, and will extend similar bans imposed by his predecessor on travel from Brazil, 27 European countries and Britain, his press secretary said on Monday.
The move comes as officials in the new Biden administration are trying to get their hands around a fast-changing pandemic, with public health officials racing to vaccinate the public — and to expand the supply of vaccine — as more contagious variants of the coronavirus spread.
Mr. Biden’s travel ban is a presidential proclamation, not an executive order; typically, proclamations govern the acts of individuals, while executive orders are directives to federal agencies. It will go into effect Saturday and apply to non-U.S. citizens who have spent time in South Africa in the last 14 days. The new policy, which was earlier reported by Reuters, will not affect U.S. citizens or permanent residents, officials said.
On his last full day in office, President Donald Trump tried to eliminate the Covid-19-related ban on travel from Brazil, Britain and much of Europe, saying it was no longer necessary. Jen Psaki, now the White House press secretary, said at the time that ending the ban was the wrong thing to do; on Monday, she announced during her regular briefing that it would remain intact.
“With the pandemic worsening and more contagious variants spreading, this isn’t the time to be lifting restrictions on international travel,” she said.
Ms. Psaki also said the Biden administration intended to hold regular public health briefings three times a week, beginning on Wednesday. She said Mr. Biden would be “briefed regularly” on the pandemic, adding, “I suspect far more regularly than the past president.”
The first confirmed case of the Brazilian variant in the United States has been identified in Minnesota, the state’s health department said on Monday. It was found in a Minnesota resident who had recently traveled to Brazil.
The variant now spreading in South Africa has not yet reached the United States, but it has been reported in more than two dozen countries.
In addition to the travel bans, Mr. Biden issued an executive order last week requiring that all international travelers present negative coronavirus tests before leaving for the United States. The move extended a requirement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was issued by the Trump administration but set to expire on Tuesday.
A White House official said Sunday that the C.D.C. would not issue waivers from that policy as some airlines had requested.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/world/white-house-travel-ban-europe-brazil-south-africa.html
By Guardian staff
The UK’s vaccine minister, Nadhim Zahawi, says: ‘Pfizer has made sure that they have always delivered for us, they will continue to do so.’ Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA
The UK’s vaccine minister, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident that Pfizer will deliver the number of coronavirus injections needed in the UK.
It follows concerns over vaccine supply in the EU, prompting the bloc to tell pharmaceutical companies they can only export to Britain with its explicit permission.
Asked whether the EU could prevent Pfizer vials from leaving its borders, Zahawi told Sky News: “No, I’m confident that the Pfizer vaccine will be delivered.”
The EU issued an angry warning to AstraZeneca on Monday over its unexpected delay in delivering millions of doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to the bloc.
Last Friday, the pharma multinational said it would not meet its contractual delivery commitments to the EU because of unexplained “reduced yields” in its European supply chain.
The EU has currently authorised two vaccines for distribution, manufactured by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.
Zahawi said: “Pfizer has made sure that they have always delivered for us, they will continue to do so.
“They have made a very important announcement on the equitable supply of the whole world, including the European Union, and I’m sure they will deliver for the European Union, the United Kingdom and for the rest of the world.
“We have got 367m vaccines that we have ordered from seven different suppliers, so I’m confident we will meet our target and continue to vaccinate the whole of the adult population by the autumn.”
He added: “The EU has to make decisions as it does. We will always support them and it is unwise for me to engage in their negotiations or deliberations on vaccine programs … No one is safe until the whole world is safe, which is why we need to work together.”
On Sky News, he also said that “it is far too early for us to speculate about the summer” and booking holidays later in the year.
He added that an announcement about quarantine hotels would be made later on Tuesday. Boris Johnson is expected to make a decision about a requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days after discussing the proposals with senior ministers later.
The measures are likely to apply to UK citizens and those with permanent residency arriving from high-risk countries such as South Africa. Most foreign nationals from high-risk countries already face UK travel bans.
Concernshave been raised about the impact of this on the travel industry and Zahawi said that they will be “engaged with heavily to explain the decision-making” at a health and business level.
When pressed on whether people could book holidays for the summer, the minister said it was still “far too early to speculate about this” as 37,000 people were in hospitals with Covid-19.
The vaccine minister was also asked about schools, saying he could not give a definite date on when they were likely to reopen. “Once we see infection rates drop to levels that are safe and acceptable we will as much to teachers and schools,” he said.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/26/eu-threat-will-not-impact-covid-vaccine-deliveries-to-uk-says-minister-pfizer
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Joe Biden warned of 600k deaths before US turns corner. US President Joe Biden warned the nation was going to be “in this for a while, and could see between “600,000 and 660,000 deaths before we begin to turn the corner in a major way.” The US toll is currently just over 420,000.
· Indonesia is set to officially surpass one million coronavirus cases on Tuesday, a grim milestone for the Southeast Asian nation that has struggled since last March to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control.
· The Australian government expects doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to be rolled out in March and that there will be no shortfalls, despite threats by the European Union to block exports of the vaccine due to a lack of supply.
· New Zealand and “the world” need to return to some semblance of normality before the country’s borders open to foreign nationals, said New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern. The prime minister shut the border in mid-March and said on Tuesday she would not open it again until New Zealanders were “vaccinated and protected” – a process that will not start for the general population until the middle of this year.
· California eased strict stay-at-home orders on Monday, allowing restaurants to reopen for outdoor dining and greater social mixing as state public health officials cited slowing rates of coronavirus infections and hospitalisations.
· A Minnesota lab confirmed the first US coronavirus case associated with Brazil variant. Laboratory testing by the Minnesota Department of Health has confirmed the first known coronavirus case in the United States associated with a more contagious variant of the novel coronavirus originally seen in Brazil, the agency said on Monday.
· Wuhan doctor: China authorities stopped me sounding alarm on Covid. A doctor from the Wuhan hospital hit hardest by the Covid-19 epidemic has said he and colleagues suspected the virus was highly transmissible in early January last year, weeks before Chinese authorities admitted it, but were prevented from warning anyone.
· Mexico’s official death toll from the coronavirus passed 150,000 on Monday following a surge in infections in recent weeks that has stretched the health system in the capital to the limit and led to the president contracting Covid.
· The Covid-19 vaccine divide between rich and poor nations is worsening by the day, the World Health Organization warned Monday, insisting the failure to distribute doses fairly could cost the global economy trillions of dollars.
· Moderna said on Monday it believes its coronavirus vaccine protects against the British and South African variants, although it will test a new booster shot aimed at the South Africa variant after concluding the antibody response could be diminished. Britain’s health minister and health officials have said they believe the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines being rolled out in the country work against the UK variant.
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