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World |
103,513,145 |
+395,490 |
2,237,247 |
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26,767,229 |
+107,816 |
452,279 |
|
|
10,758,619 |
+11,528 |
154,428 |
|
|
9,204,731 |
+27,756 |
224,534 |
|
|
3,850,439 |
+18,359 |
73,182 |
|
|
3,817,176 |
+21,088 |
106,158 |
|
|
3,197,114 |
+19,235 |
76,057 |
|
|
2,830,478 |
+38118 |
58,319 |
|
|
2,553,032 |
+11,252 |
88,516 |
|
|
2,477,463 |
+6,562 |
25,993 |
|
|
2,225,659 |
+8,425 |
57,777 |
|
|
2,094,884 |
+8,078 |
53,983 |
|
|
1,927,239 |
+4,975 |
47,974 |
|
|
1,857,230 |
+15,337 |
158,074 |
|
|
1,513,385 |
+4,706 |
37,180 |
|
|
1,453,761 |
+4,525 |
44,164 |
|
|
1,417,999 |
+6,268 |
57,959 |
|
|
1,219,455 |
+3,177 |
22,707 |
|
|
1,138,239 |
+5,217 |
41,026 |
|
|
1,078,314 |
+12,001 |
29,998 |
|
|
984,789 |
+4,030 |
16,351 |
|
|
978,475 |
+3,700 |
13,998 |
|
|
778,972 |
+3,924 |
20,032 |
|
|
728,743 |
+1,825 |
18,335 |
|
|
727,109 |
+4,209 |
18,452 |
|
|
720,516 |
+9,498 |
12,482 |
|
|
707,837 |
+2,717 |
21,066 |
|
|
643,435 |
+4,646 |
4,796 |
|
|
619,636 |
+714 |
13,047 |
|
|
544,813 |
+1,599 |
11,657 |
|
|
535,139 |
+369 |
8,127 |
|
|
525,614 |
+2,099 |
10,749 |
|
|
471,157 |
+466 |
8,275 |
|
|
414,398 |
+1,190 |
7,721 |
|
|
395,263 |
+1,366 |
4,020 |
|
|
386,742 |
+3,659 |
5,654 |
|
|
368,074 |
+261 |
6,375 |
|
|
367,586 |
+1,307 |
12,524 |
|
|
326,855 |
+1,181 |
4,316 |
|
|
320,379 |
+926 |
5,270 |
|
|
303,609 |
+2,948 |
850 |
|
|
301,052 |
+2,139 |
3,082 |
|
|
270,959 |
+105 |
2,029 |
|
|
258,111 |
+479 |
3,178 |
|
|
250,828 |
+1,049 |
14,859 |
|
|
249,913 |
+1,723 |
4,642 |
|
|
248,336 |
+1,766 |
1,718 |
|
|
232,426 |
+336 |
5,027 |
|
|
230,219 |
+153 |
3,132 |
|
|
218,748 |
+130 |
9,045 |
|
|
215,397 |
+2,005 |
10,330 |
|
|
214,959 |
+5,298 |
760 |
|
|
214,060 |
+1,507 |
2,666 |
|
|
208,885 |
+1,417 |
6,754 |
|
|
198,472 |
+377 |
2,125 |
|
|
196,547 |
+1,244 |
3,307 |
|
|
186,711 |
+1,342 |
2,476 |
|
|
182,539 |
+803 |
2,803 |
|
|
167,026 |
+125 |
3,080 |
|
|
166,473 |
+580 |
3,503 |
|
|
165,951 |
+533 |
9,316 |
|
|
165,257 |
+635 |
959 |
|
|
159,804 |
+291 |
3,438 |
|
|
159,504 |
+386 |
5,643 |
|
|
158,962 |
+403 |
1,833 |
|
|
156,957 |
+484 |
5,796 |
|
|
151,335 |
+351 |
248 |
|
|
147,100 |
+990 |
3,592 |
|
|
140,145 |
+281 |
3,131 |
|
|
137,650 |
+629 |
2,093 |
|
|
134,326 |
+598 |
1,529 |
|
|
133,227 |
+679 |
2,718 |
|
|
131,242 |
+685 |
1,586 |
|
|
126,927 |
+604 |
1,189 |
|
|
118,631 |
+981 |
1,877 |
|
|
107,339 |
+217 |
2,891 |
|
|
103,057 |
+431 |
375 |
|
|
100,773 |
+98 |
1,763 |
|
|
92,693 |
+175 |
2,855 |
|
|
89,522 |
+92 |
4,636 |
|
|
84,529 |
+76 |
1,412 |
|
|
78,711 |
+39 |
621 |
|
|
78,205 |
+355 |
1,420 |
|
|
78,127 |
+876 |
1,380 |
|
|
67,010 |
+1,583 |
416 |
|
|
66,241 |
+533 |
1,195 |
|
|
64,157 |
+864 |
316 |
|
|
62,966 |
+173 |
564 |
|
|
61,659 |
+457 |
805 |
|
|
59,536 |
+29 |
29 |
|
|
55,059 |
+36 |
2,404 |
|
|
54,966 |
+243 |
1,623 |
|
|
54,217 |
+865 |
763 |
|
|
50,699 |
+152 |
580 |
|
|
45,238 |
+367 |
671 |
|
|
44,208 |
+468 |
419 |
|
|
41,738 |
+557 |
436 |
|
|
39,579 |
+46 |
324 |
|
|
38,654 |
+949 |
367 |
|
|
33,944 |
+112 |
352 |
|
|
33,388 |
+115 |
1,217 |
|
|
30,876 |
+106 |
199 |
|
|
8,438 |
+35 |
154 |
|
|
6,966 |
+22 |
59 |
|
|
1,817 |
+50 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Nick Paton Walsh and Sandi Sidhu
The World Health Organization team is briefed outside of the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of their field visit in Wuhan, China, on January 31. Ng Han Guan/AP
A team of World Health Organization investigators in China researching the origins of the coronavirus tell CNN they now have months of Chinese influenza data which might contain vital clues as to the early spread of the virus.
On Sunday, the team visited the wet market thought to be central to the disease's spread: The now disinfected and shuttered Huanan seafood market in the city of Wuhan, where an initial cluster of pneumonia-like illnesses were noticed by doctors in mid-December 2019. The market has become the anecdotal "ground-zero" for Covid-19, even though later studies have suggested it may have begun elsewhere.
Peter Ben Embarek, the leader of the WHO team and a food safety specialist, told CNN that "even if the place had been to some extent disinfected, all the shops are there -- and the equipment is there. It gives you a good idea of the state of the market in terms of maintenance, infrastructure, hygiene and flow of goods and people." The team was able to talk to locals and workers, said Ben Embarek. He cautioned it was too early in their investigations to draw conclusions.
"It's clear that something happened in that market," Ben Embarek said. "But it could also be that other places had the same role, and that one was just picked because some doctors were clever enough to link a few sporadic cases together."
From CNN's Chandler Thornton
Parts of Western Australia went into a five-day lockdown Sunday, after a hotel security guard tested positive for coronavirus.
The Perth metropolitan area and the Peel and South West regions of the Australian state are now under "full lockdown," Premier Mark McGowan announced Sunday, with residents only able to leave their homes for essential shopping, medical needs, exercise, and for jobs that cannot be done at home or remotely.
Schools, most businesses, entertainment venues and places of worship are all closed, and restaurants restricted to takeaway only.
"This is a very serious situation and each and every one of us has to do everything we personally can to help stop the spread in the community," McGowan said.
The Perth metropolitan area and the Peel and South West regions have a combined population of more than 2 million people, with the vast majority living in the state capital Perth.
What happened? The drastic measures come after a man in his 20s who worked as a security guard at the Sheraton Four Points, a hotel quarantine facility, tested positive for the coronavirus. Of the four active cases at the hotel while the man was on shift, two were carrying the United Kingdom strain and one the South African strain of the virus, which are believed to be more contagious than other variants.
"We are told the guard was working on the same floor, as a positive UK variant case," McGowan said. As the man had worked two 12-hour shifts on January 26 and 27, it was possible he had contracted the UK strain, the premier added, though he said "exactly how the infection was acquired remains under investigation."
What happens next? Officials are calling on all people who visited a specified list of venues on a certain date to get tested. All close contacts of the man are required to quarantine for 14 days.
"Western Australians have done so well for so long but this week it is absolutely crucial that we stay home, maintain physical distancing and personal hygiene and get tested if you have symptoms," McGowan said.
From CNN's Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan
Paramedics arrive with a Covid-19 patient at the emergency department of Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, California, on January 28. Bing Guan/Bloomberg/Getty Images
For the first time in almost two months, fewer than 100,000 Americans are hospitalized for Covid-19.
The United States on Sunday reported 95,013 Covid-19 hospitalizations, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project. And 97,561 patients were hospitalized Saturday. The last time the number was below 100,000 was December 1.
Yet the seven-day average of new cases is still about the same as it was December 1. Even worse, the average number of daily deaths is more than double what it was then.
January has been by far the deadliest month of the pandemic: At least 95,245 people died from Covid-19 in January, surpassing December's total of 77,486 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
"Right now it's the worst of possible worlds. It's the winter. It's getting cold out, people are together more, there's still a critical number of people in the United States who don't wear masks, who don't social distance," said Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the Food and Drug Administration's vaccine advisory committee.
"I think the next six weeks or two months are going to be rough. I think we could have another 100,000, 150,000 deaths."
He's not alone in that prediction. About 120,000 more Americans could die from Covid-19 over the next two months, according to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
So health experts are urging all Americans to double down on wearing masks and keeping their distance from others.
And while vaccine makers and officials scramble to get more Americans vaccinated, they're racing against the spread of highly contagious strains of coronavirus that are now in the US.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-02-01-21/index.html
By Steven Erlanger and Matina Stevis-Gridneff
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, is under fire for the slow rollout of vaccinations in the 27 member states, especially compared with Britain and the United States.Credit...Olivier Hoslet/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The European Union early Saturday abruptly reversed an attempt to restrict vaccine exports from the bloc into Britain, the latest misstep in the continent’s faltering vaccine rollout.
The bloc had come under harsh criticism on Friday from Britain, Ireland and the World Health Organization when it announced plans to use emergency measures under the Brexit deal to block Covid-19 vaccines from being shipped across the Irish border into Britain.
The reversal came as the European Commission and its president, Ursula von der Leyen, were already under fire for the comparatively slow rollout of vaccinations in the 27 member states, especially compared with Britain and the United States.
The commission announced the restrictions without consulting member states or Britain, a former member — unusually aggressive behavior that is not typical of the bloc, said Mujtaba Rahman, the head of Europe for the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.
“There’s clearly panic at the highest levels of the commission, and the issue of the Northern Ireland agreement has been swept up in this bigger issue of the E.U.’s poor vaccine performance,” he said.
The drama unfolded just as the bloc’s plan to vaccinate 70 percent of its adult population by the summer was unraveling. Already slow in ordering and delivering the vaccines, the European Union was hit with a devastating blow when AstraZeneca announced that it would slash vaccine deliveries because of production problems.
The initial E.U. plan for export controls brought cries of outrage from both the Republic of Ireland, a member of the European Union, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. Both sides are committed to not recreating any land border between the two parts of the island of Ireland.
Triggering the emergency measures in the Brexit agreement so soon after Britain left the bloc’s authority at the end of 2020 seemed to call into question the European Union’s sincerity in following through with the deal regarding Ireland — which was one of the biggest sticking points to reaching the deal. Ireland’s prime minister, Micheal Martin, immediately raised the issue with Ms. von der Leyen.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain spoke to both leaders. And Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland’s first minister, called the bloc’s move “an incredible act of hostility.”
Britons who favored Brexit point to their country’s more rapid vaccination rollout as a benefit of leaving the bloc and its slower, collective processes.
With nearly eight million people, or 11.7 percent of the population, having already received their first shot, Britain’s pace of vaccination is the fastest of any large nation in the world. Only Israel and the United Arab Emirates are moving faster.
The rapid rollout is a rare success for a country whose response to the coronavirus has otherwise been bungled — plagued by delays, reversals and mixed messages. All of which have contributed to a death toll that recently surged past 100,000 and cemented Britain’s status as the worst-hit country in Europe.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/30/world/covid-19-coronavirus/the-eu-makes-a-sudden-reversal-on-vaccine-restrictions-to-britain
By Carl Zimmer
A medical worker administering remdesivir to a Covid-19 patient at a hospital in Rio Grande City, Texas, last summer.Credit...Christopher Lee for The New York Times
Nearly a year into the pandemic, as thousands of patients are dying every day in the United States and widespread vaccination is still months away, doctors have precious few drugs to fight the virus.
A handful of therapies — remdesivir, monoclonal antibodies and the steroid dexamethasone — have improved the care of Covid patients, putting doctors in a better position than they were when the virus surged last spring. But these drugs are not cure-alls and they’re not for everyone, and efforts to repurpose other drugs, or discover new ones, have not had much success.
The government poured $18.5 billion into vaccines, a strategy that resulted in at least five effective products at record-shattering speed. But its investment in drugs was far smaller, about $8.2 billion, most of which went to just a few candidates, such as monoclonal antibodies. Studies of other drugs were poorly organized.
The result was that many promising drugs that could stop the disease early, called antivirals, were neglected. Their trials have stalled because researchers could not find either enough funding or enough patients to participate.
At the same time, a few drugs have received sustained investment despite disappointing results. There is now a wealth of evidence that the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine do not work against Covid. And yet there are still 179 clinical trials with 169,370 patients in which at least some are receiving the drugs, according to the Covid Registry of Off-label & New Agents at the University of Pennsylvania. And the federal government funneled tens of millions of dollars into an expanded access program for convalescent plasma, infusing almost 100,000 patients before there was any robust evidence that it worked. In January, those trials revealed that, at least for hospitalized patients, it doesn’t.
The lack of centralized coordination meant that many trials for Covid antivirals were doomed from the start — too small and poorly designed to provide useful data, according to Dr. Janet Woodcock, the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. If the government had instead set up an organized network of hospitals to carry out large trials and quickly share data, researchers would have many more answers now.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/30/world/covid-19-coronavirus/the-us-has-covid-19-vaccines-but-few-treatments-what-happened
Protesters takes part at an unauthorised demonstration against measures taken in order to stem of the Covid-19 pandemic near the Brussels central station, in Brussels, today. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images
Police in the Belgian capital said Sunday they have detained scores of people in a bid to prevent two banned demonstrations against measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, AFP reports.
“We are above 200 arrested at the moment,” mainly around the rail stations in Brussels, a police spokesman said around midday.
Police evacuated one square in front of the main railway station, where some of the protesters were football supporters from Belgian clubs.
Dozens of people, responding to calls on social media for protests against measures to check the coronavirus, also began gathering at the Atomium, a landmark building in Brussels.
“We remind you that there is no authorisation to come and demonstrate this Sunday,” the Brussels police said in a Tweet.
“Those people who still intend to demonstrate in Brussels today will be approached, dissuaded from staying and if necessary” detained, it said.
Belgium has registered one of the highest death rates in the world during the coronavirus pandemic, but restrictions closing bars and restaurants since October along with a night time curfew have brought infection and hospital cases down in the past two months.
The country last week banned non-essential trips in and out of the country until 1 March.
Belgium’s neighbour, the Netherlands, was rocked by anti-curfew riots last week.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· China’s daily new cases fell to a three-week low. China reported the lowest daily increase in new Covid cases in more than three weeks, official data showed on Monday, reversing a sharp uptick a day earlier, amid efforts to contain the disease ahead of a major holiday break. New confirmed reported cases more than halved to 42, the National Health Commission said in a statement, down from 92 a day earlier and marking the lowest one-day increase since 33 reported on 8 January.
· An expert warned the US to brace for virulent Covid strain. A leading infectious disease expert predicted on Sunday that the deadlier British variant of Covid-19 will become the dominant strain of the virus in the US and could hit the country like a hurricane.
· Chicago schools postponed in-person classes over Covid safety plan. Chicago Public Schools on Sunday delayed the resumption of in-person classes for thousands of elementary and middle school students by at least a day as the district and teachers failed to reach an agreement on a Covid safety plan.
· Japan is expected to extend a state of emergency this week for Tokyo and other areas as hospitals remain under pressure despite a decline in cases from their peaks, local media reported on Monday.
· Taiwan health authorities are still battling an outbreak centred around a Taoyuan hospital, which claimed the first Covid-related death almost nine months on Friday. The woman in her eighties was a relative of another confirmed case. Authorities said she presented with Covid-like symptoms on Thursday and was taken to hospital. A test returned a negative result for Covid, but she passed away on Friday night. She had chronic kidney disease and other underlying health issues.
· Hong Kong is continuing its “ambush lockdowns” on housing blocks. As Hong Kong continues to fight its widespread outbreak, authorities have employed a new tactic in response to clusters of infection in residential housing blocks. Since last week, police have launched four ambush-style lockdowns, arriving unannounced at buildings to immediately prevent anyone leaving and to run mandatory testing.
· The NHS has offered Covid jab to all older residents in care homes in England. The NHS has said official figures are expected to confirm on Monday that it has offered a coronavirus vaccine to every older care home resident across England.In another milestone for the vaccine programme, coming after it set a new daily record of almost 600,000 people being inoculated against Covid-19 on Saturday, nurses, GPs and other NHS staff have offered the jab to people living at more than 10,000 care homes with older residents.
· Pakistan received its first batch of Covid vaccine doses, 500,000 from China’s Sinopharm, on Monday, Health Adviser Faisal Sultan said in a statement released on Twitter. “Thank God, the first batch of Sinopharm vaccine has arrived! Grateful to China and everyone who made this happen,” he said. “I salute our frontline healthcare workers for their efforts and they’ll be first to get vaccinated.”
· Ghana tightened restrictions as virus cases climb. Ghana has reimposed a ban on social gatherings as the number of Covid-19 cases spiral in the West African nation, the president announced Sunday. Schools reopened in January after a 10-month closure, but President Nana Akufo-Addo said a return to stricter measures was needed. “Our hospitals have become full, and we have had to reactivate our isolation centres,” he said.
· Israel extended lockdown as Covid variants offset vaccination drive. Israel extended a national lockdown on Sunday as Covid variants offset its vaccination drive and officials predicted a delay in a turnaround from the ongoing crisis.
· EU wants 70% of adults vaccinated by end of summer. AstraZeneca will increase its coronavirus vaccine deliveries to the EU by 30%, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday as the bloc sought to claw back time lost rolling out the jabs. The aim was still to vaccinate 70% of adults in the EU by the end of summer, she added.
· WHO team to visit Hubei CDC on Monday. A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic was due on Monday to visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Hubei province, the central Chinese region where the outbreak emerged in late 2019. The team has already visited the Huanan food market in Wuhan.
· Two million Australians in lockdown over one case. About 2 million Australians begun their first full day of a strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday following the discovery of one case in the community in Perth, capital of Western Australia state, but no new cases have since been found.
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