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World |
103,921,884 |
+392,597 |
2,247,108 |
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26,911,375 |
+125,454 |
454,213 |
|
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10,767,206 |
+8,587 |
154,522 |
|
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9,230,016 |
+25,285 |
225,143 |
|
|
3,868,087 |
+17,648 |
73,619 |
|
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3,835,783 |
+18,607 |
106,564 |
|
|
3,201,461 |
+4,347 |
76,512 |
|
|
2,852,729 |
+25,867 |
59,081 |
|
|
2,560,957 |
+7,925 |
88,845 |
|
|
2,485,182 |
+7,719 |
26,117 |
|
|
2,232,316 |
+6,630 |
58,396 |
|
|
2,104,506 |
+9,622 |
54,272 |
|
|
1,933,853 |
+6,614 |
48,249 |
|
|
1,864,260 |
+7,030 |
158,536 |
|
|
1,515,889 |
+2,507 |
37,222 |
|
|
1,456,309 |
+2,548 |
44,399 |
|
|
1,424,596 |
+6,597 |
58,038 |
|
|
1,221,485 |
+2,030 |
22,768 |
|
|
1,142,716 |
+4,477 |
41,181 |
|
|
1,089,308 |
+10,994 |
30,277 |
|
|
987,397 |
+2,569 |
16,482 |
|
|
981,663 |
+3,188 |
14,025 |
|
|
783,589 |
+4,617 |
20,136 |
|
|
730,888 |
+3,779 |
18,537 |
|
|
730,056 |
+1,313 |
18,402 |
|
|
726,321 |
+5,805 |
12,757 |
|
|
710,153 |
+2,316 |
21,092 |
|
|
652,246 |
+8,811 |
4,816 |
|
|
620,620 |
+984 |
13,057 |
|
|
546,428 |
+1,615 |
11,683 |
|
|
535,582 |
+443 |
8,137 |
|
|
527,270 |
+1,656 |
10,807 |
|
|
525,095 |
+3,775 |
9,452 |
|
|
471,438 |
+281 |
8,287 |
|
|
415,522 |
+1,124 |
7,778 |
|
|
397,002 |
+1,739 |
4,038 |
|
|
389,518 |
+2,776 |
5,722 |
|
|
368,710 |
+1,124 |
12,578 |
|
|
368,329 |
+255 |
6,379 |
|
|
328,062 |
+1,207 |
4,326 |
|
|
321,103 |
+724 |
5,296 |
|
|
306,339 |
+2,730 |
859 |
|
|
303,072 |
+2,020 |
3,145 |
|
|
271,118 |
+159 |
2,029 |
|
|
258,351 |
+240 |
3,194 |
|
|
250,986 |
+158 |
14,890 |
|
|
250,357 |
+444 |
4,711 |
|
|
249,295 |
+959 |
1,728 |
|
|
232,520 |
+94 |
5,054 |
|
|
230,296 |
+77 |
3,136 |
|
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219,580 |
+832 |
9,142 |
|
|
219,173 |
+4,214 |
770 |
|
|
216,835 |
+1,438 |
10,379 |
|
|
215,086 |
+1,026 |
2,688 |
|
|
210,045 |
+1,160 |
6,802 |
|
|
198,960 |
+488 |
2,145 |
|
|
197,553 |
+1,006 |
3,317 |
|
|
194,569 |
+289 |
2,634 |
|
|
187,970 |
+1,259 |
2,476 |
|
|
182,898 |
+360 |
2,825 |
|
|
167,088 |
+62 |
3,084 |
|
|
166,836 |
+363 |
3,522 |
|
|
166,492 |
+541 |
9,360 |
|
|
165,843 |
+586 |
959 |
|
|
160,086 |
+282 |
3,446 |
|
|
159,632 |
+128 |
5,673 |
|
|
159,443 |
+481 |
1,840 |
|
|
157,495 |
+538 |
5,829 |
|
|
151,720 |
+385 |
249 |
|
|
147,843 |
+743 |
3,610 |
|
|
140,354 |
+209 |
3,138 |
|
|
138,384 |
+734 |
2,103 |
|
|
134,524 |
+198 |
1,532 |
|
|
133,781 |
+554 |
2,733 |
|
|
131,918 |
+676 |
1,607 |
|
|
127,346 |
+419 |
1,196 |
|
|
119,402 |
+771 |
1,883 |
|
|
107,578 |
+239 |
2,894 |
|
|
103,582 |
+525 |
376 |
|
|
100,856 |
+83 |
1,766 |
|
|
92,753 |
+60 |
2,866 |
|
|
89,564 |
+42 |
4,636 |
|
|
84,588 |
+59 |
1,412 |
|
|
78,992 |
+865 |
1,393 |
|
|
78,755 |
+44 |
621 |
|
|
78,508 |
+303 |
1,425 |
|
|
66,652 |
+411 |
1,202 |
|
|
64,983 |
+826 |
323 |
|
|
63,262 |
+296 |
567 |
|
|
61,972 |
+313 |
811 |
|
|
59,565 |
+29 |
29 |
|
|
55,195 |
+229 |
1,632 |
|
|
30,996 |
+120 |
202 |
|
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8,449 |
+11 |
156 |
|
|
6,986 |
+20 |
59 |
|
|
1,850 |
+33 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan
With multiple new coronavirus strains spreading across the country, Americans need to get vaccinated as quickly as possible to stop more mutations from emerging, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday.
"You need to get vaccinated when it becomes available as quickly and as expeditiously as possible throughout the country," Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, said in a virtual news briefing with the White House Covid-19 response team. "And the reason for that is ... viruses cannot mutate if they don't replicate. And if you stop their replication by vaccinating widely and not giving the virus an open playing field to continue to respond to the pressures that you put on it, you will not get mutations."
Speaking to CNN's Wolf Blitzer later Monday, Fauci said even if someone has had coronavirus, there's a "very high rate" of being reinfected with the new variants if they become dominant.
"If it becomes dominant, the experience of our colleagues in South Africa indicate that even if you've been infected with the original virus that there is a very high rate of reinfection to the point where previous infection does not seem to protect you against reinfection," Fauci said on CNN.
He emphasized the importance of getting vaccinated to prevent severe and potentially fatal illness that may require hospitalization.
"Even though there is a diminished protection against the variants, there's enough protection to prevent you from getting serious disease, including hospitalization and deaths," Fauci said. "So, vaccination is critical."
From CNN's Keri Enriquez
N95 masks sit stored in a medical supply area at the Austin Convention Center on August 7, 2020 in Austin, Texas. John Moore/Getty Images
Several Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to increase the supply and availability of higher quality masks, and to encourage the education of the public on which masks are most effective.
In a letter published Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Ro Khanna of California urged Biden to “consider invoking the Defense Production Act to increase the supply of higher quality masks, including N95 or other medical grade masks.”
The letter recommends the use of the United States Postal Service to distribute the highest quality medical-grade masks and the creation of pick-up locations in local communities.
The lawmakers also ask Biden to direct the CDC and FDA to “provide the public with clear, actionable, and specific information on how to discern which masks are most effective and where they can get them, as well as how to utilize existing options.”
“While many Americans understand that wearing a mask can help prevent transmission of the disease, many don’t realize that a high-quality mask can make it far less likely that the wearer will contract the disease, even if exposed to an infectious person,” the letter reads.
From CNN’s Amanda Sealy and Michael Nedelman
A health worker administers a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Petah Tikva, Israel on February 1. Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
After getting just one shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, people who were previously infected showed antibody levels equal to or above those of people who had gotten both doses but never been infected, according to a study published Monday.
Those with previous infections also appeared to have more generalized side effects after the first dose, such as fatigue, fever and muscle pain -- similar to what other participants might be expected to have after a second dose of an mRNA vaccine, the researchers wrote.
The authors of this preprint study, which has not been peer reviewed, argued that changing policy to give these individuals only one dose would "spare them from unnecessary pain and free up many urgently needed vaccine doses.”
How the research was conducted: The study involved 109 vaccine recipients, 41 of whom were previously infected with the virus.
The study does not specify which vaccine participants received or how severe their illness was when they were infected with the virus.
People who had not been infected before showed a "relatively low” antibody response in the first nine to 12 days after vaccination, researchers said.
People with previous infections quickly developed high antibody titers "within days," which were measured to be 10 to 20 times higher at times.
The study did not demonstrate whether that resulted in a greater level of protection from getting infected, and follow-up studies are ongoing.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that people should get vaccinated even if they had Covid-19, since it’s yet unclear how long antibody protection lasts.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-02-02-21/index.html
By Aurelien Breeden and Marc Santora
A shopping mall in Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris, on Sunday. France is still under a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, and places like cafes, museums and theaters are closed.Credit...Andrea Mantovani for The New York Times
PARIS — Public frustration with lockdowns is palpable across Europe, with retirees protesting this weekend in Vienna, restaurateurs taking to the streets in Budapest and demonstrators clashing with the police in Belgium, prompting dozens of arrests. The Dutch authorities fined more than 10,000 people last week for violating the national curfew.
While none of the protests resulted in the kind of violence seen in the Netherlands in recent weeks, they reflect a growing impatience as political leaders extend restrictions to guard against a resurgence of the virus fueled by new variants.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron has resisted a full lockdown, making a calculated gamble that his government can tighten the rules just enough to avoid a new wave of infections.
Prime Minister Jean Castex appeared in front of television cameras for an unexpected statement on Friday night, announcing a handful of new curbs, including strict border closures.
“Even if the path is very narrow, we must take it,” Mr. Macron was reported to have said at a cabinet meeting last week, according to The Journal du Dimanche, pushing back against the advice of several senior aides. According to the newspaper, he added: “When you are French, you have all you need to get by, as long as you dare to try.”
Polls in France have shown weariness with restrictions, and grumbling about the rules is growing in some quarters.
France is still under a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, and places like cafes, museums and theaters are closed. Schools and shops are open.
After a widely publicized breach of the rules at a restaurant in the southern city of Nice last week and a call to “civil disobedience” by some restaurant owners, the French economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, warned on Monday that any establishments that flouted the rules would be cut off from coronavirus aid.
In the French Alps, protesters blocked roads on Monday to demand that ski lifts reopen.
Critics say that Mr. Macron’s approach may simply be delaying the inevitable and that he could be forced to change course if cases started to surge.
“It’s a risk, I’m hoping it was a calculated risk,” Karine Lacombe, an infectious-disease specialist, told the French news channel LCI on Sunday.
Mr. Macron’s plan is rooted partly in the relative stability of the pandemic in France. The number of new daily cases has inched up only slowly and while hospitalizations remain high, there has been no sudden surge. More contagious variants of the virus have been registered in the country, but the authorities say they believe that their spread, so far, is under control.
“Everything suggests that a new wave could occur because of the variant,” Olivier Véran, the French health minister, told The Journal du Dimanche. “But perhaps we can avoid it thanks to the measures that we decided early and that the French people are respecting.”
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/01/world/covid-19-coronavirus/amid-mounting-public-frustration-france-resists-a-new-national-lockdown
By Sheri Fink
Workers loading South Africa’s first coronavirus vaccine doses at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Monday.Credit...Elmond Jiyane for GCIS, via Reuters
A million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine arrived in South Africa on Monday, paving the way for the country to begin vaccinating its population of nearly 60 million. Health care workers will be the first to be offered the shots, officials said.
The country has reported by far the most cases and deaths from the coronavirus on the African continent. It has participated in clinical trials of several vaccines.
The plane delivering the eagerly awaited doses from the Serum Institute of India, which produced them, was met at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The president has come under criticism over the country’s lagging start to widespread vaccination, with many countries in Asia and the West able to begin immunizing their populations weeks before South Africa could secure a supply of vaccines.
Health officials have said that it could take up to two more weeks before the country starts widely administering the doses that arrived on Monday.
South Africa experienced a surge in new cases around the turn of the year, fueled by a more transmissible variant of the virus that was first detected in the country. But the surge has begun to ease in recent weeks. Information has not yet been released on the AstraZeneca vaccine’s effectiveness against the variant, which is now predominant in the country.
Over the course of the pandemic, South Africa has reported about 1.45 million cases, and has lately been averaging about 5,800 new cases a day, according to a New York Times database.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/01/world/covid-19-coronavirus/south-africa-where-a-worrisome-variant-emerged-gets-its-first-vaccine-supply
By Carl Zimmer
Researchers at Aalborg University in Denmark analyze all positive coronavirus samples for the variant B.1.1.7.Credit...Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters
A fast-spreading coronavirus variant first observed in the United Kingdom has gained a new mutation that could potentially make it harder to control with vaccines, Public Health England reported on Monday. It is the latest evidence that the virus is undergoing a worrisome evolution worldwide.
The variant, known as B.1.1.7, first came to light in December. Researchers determined that it had rapidly became more common across the United Kingdom in just a couple of months.
Experiments in test tubes suggest that some of its mutations allow the coronavirus to hold onto cells more tightly.
Since B.1.1.7’s discovery in the United Kingdom, the variant has been reported in 72 other countries. The United States confirmed its first case of B.1.1.7 on Dec. 29. Since then, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 467 samples of the variant in 32 states.
In its latest analysis, Public Health England estimated that the variant’s rate of infection is 25 to 40 percent higher than that of other forms of the coronavirus. Some preliminary evidence suggests that it may also cause more deaths.
Several lines of evidence suggest that vaccines will work against B.1.1.7. On Thursday, the vaccine maker Novavax announced that its British trial found no evidence that B.1.1.7 could evade the vaccine’s defenses.
But in South Africa, where a variant called B.1.351 has surged to dominance, the Novavax and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have both been less effective in trials.
That variant has been reported in 31 countries so far. In the United States, it has turned up in South Carolina and Maryland.
Whenever these variants infect a new host and multiply, there’s a small chance that they will gain yet another mutation. Most of the mutations are of little concern, but scientists have worried that by mutating, these already dangerous variants could evolve into more fearsome forms.
Even if a mutation alters a coronavirus variant, that’s no guarantee it will have the same effect in another variant. The effect of each new mutation depends on all the other mutations carried by the virus.
Public Health England said that the worrisome mutation known as E484K appears to have arisen more than once in the B.1.1.7 coronavirus variants in the United Kingdom. Two variants in Brazil have also been discovered to have independently gained the same mutation.
Moderna and other companies are already preparing by developing vaccines to work against the E484K mutation. Kristian Andersen, a virologist at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., said that while seeing the mutation known as E484K spread was not good, it was impossible yet to say whether it would make these coronaviruses not only more contagious but more resistant to vaccines. “We’ll have to wait for data,” he said.
Last week, scientists reviewed all the coronavirus genomes sequenced in the United Kingdom. They discovered 11 coronavirus variants that belong to the B.1.1.7 lineage that also carried the worrying mutation.
Exactly why the E484K mutation turns up so often remains a mystery. Nicholas Davies, a mathematical biologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said it was possible that it enabled the coronavirus to evade antibodies created by previous infections from other variants. “E484K may well convey a fitness advantage in settings where there is existing immunity,” he said.
But he cautioned that the 11 variants out of over 200,000 samples were exceedingly rare, and it was possible that they might actually lose against other B.1.1.7 viruses without the mutation. “I think it’s potentially concerning, but hard to tell from the report what it means,” he said.
Germany’s military will send more than 20 doctors and nurses to Portugal, where hospitals are close to being overwhelmed as the country reports the world’s biggest seven-day rolling average of new daily cases per capita.
The country will send 26 doctors, nurses and hygiene experts alongside 40 mobile and 10 stationary ventilators to Lisbon on Wednesday, a statement by the defence ministry reported by Reuters said.
“We support our friends in Portugal who find themselves in an especially dramatic situation,” defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said on Monday.
Portugal is battling a devastating third wave, nearly half of its total coronavirus death toll registered during January. On Saturday, health authorities said that only seven of 850 ICU beds set up for Covid-19 cases on its mainland remained vacant.
The German military team will also bring 150 hospital beds to Portugal and aims to stay initially for three weeks, the Berlin defence ministry said.
“The coronavirus is a challenge for us all, and the German health care system is under pressure too,” Kramp-Karrenbauer said. “Nevertheless, we are convinced that especially in times like these European solidarity is indispensable.”
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Many places in China plan to suspend religious gatherings during the upcoming Spring Festival holidays to control the coronavirus outbreak, the Global Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.
· Black Americans make up only 5.4% of Covid-19 vaccine recipients, CDC finds. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found only 5.4% of coronavirus vaccine recipients were black, in its first analysis of how vaccines were given out among different demographic groups in the first month of US distribution.
· Biden and Republicans agreed to further Covid relief talks but deep divisions remain. Ten Republican senators have agreed to carry on talks with the White House in an attempt to negotiate a bi-partisan coronavirus relief package, after a two-hour meeting with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Monday night ended short of a breakthrough.
· China reports lowest cases in a month. China reported the fewest new coronavirus cases in a month as imported cases overtook local infections, official data showed on Tuesday, suggesting the country’s worst wave since March 2020 is being stamped out ahead of a key holiday. Thirty cases were reported in the mainland on 1 February, the National Health Commission said in a statement, down from 42 cases a day earlier and marking lowest total since 24 cases were reported on 2 January.
· Chinese police busted a fake vaccine ring. Chinese police arrested more than 80 people and confiscated over 3,000 fake doses of Covid-19 vaccine as part of a campaign to combat vaccine-related crimes, state news agency Xinhua reports.
· The first vaccine doses have arrived in South African, where president Cyril Ramaphosa hailed their arrival on Monday as a chance to “turn the tide” on a disease that has devastated the country.
· The European Union tightened its rules for visitors from outside the bloc, specifying that they would only be allowed in freely from countries with very few coronavirus cases and almost none of the more transmissible variants.
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