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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
106,676,712 |
+345,741 |
2,326,823 |
|
27,611,403 |
+89,691 |
474,933 |
|
|
10,838,843 |
+11,673 |
155,114 |
|
|
9,524,640 |
+26,845 |
231,561 |
|
|
3,967,281 |
+16,048 |
76,661 |
|
|
3,945,680 |
+15,845 |
112,465 |
|
|
3,337,048 |
+19,715 |
78,965 |
|
|
2,971,914 |
+28565 |
61,386 |
|
|
2,636,738 |
+11,641 |
91,273 |
|
|
2,531,456 |
+6,670 |
26,797 |
|
|
2,291,441 |
+6,442 |
62,128 |
|
|
2,157,216 |
+6,009 |
55,993 |
|
|
1,980,347 |
+3,658 |
49,171 |
|
|
1,926,080 |
+13,209 |
165,786 |
|
|
1,550,255 |
+4,728 |
39,087 |
|
|
1,476,135 |
+2,435 |
46,290 |
|
|
1,466,435 |
+7,065 |
58,469 |
|
|
1,244,849 |
+3,370 |
23,597 |
|
|
1,186,698 |
+6,220 |
42,308 |
|
|
1,157,837 |
+10,827 |
31,556 |
|
|
1,034,990 |
+4,806 |
17,280 |
|
|
1,005,760 |
+3,934 |
14,403 |
|
|
804,260 |
+3,203 |
20,767 |
|
|
765,414 |
+3,508 |
14,158 |
|
|
751,886 |
+3,804 |
18,974 |
|
|
745,318 |
+1,975 |
18,881 |
|
|
723,870 |
+2,438 |
21,352 |
|
|
689,339 |
+3,756 |
5,113 |
|
|
628,550 |
+1,134 |
13,120 |
|
|
554,474 |
+1,346 |
11,967 |
|
|
538,062 |
+292 |
8,205 |
|
|
537,310 |
+1,790 |
11,179 |
|
|
475,355 |
+389 |
8,394 |
|
|
423,839 |
+1,317 |
8,012 |
|
|
407,881 |
+1,529 |
4,126 |
|
|
403,435 |
+2,080 |
6,338 |
|
|
376,495 |
+1,370 |
13,090 |
|
|
370,278 |
+317 |
6,402 |
|
|
335,154 |
+1,299 |
4,379 |
|
|
327,091 |
+627 |
5,480 |
|
|
326,495 |
+3,093 |
921 |
|
|
319,917 |
+2,081 |
3,616 |
|
|
271,925 |
+119 |
2,038 |
|
|
263,326 |
+1,552 |
5,199 |
|
|
262,024 |
+404 |
3,283 |
|
|
258,691 |
+1,732 |
1,783 |
|
|
258,282 |
+1,167 |
15,012 |
|
|
242,452 |
+3,731 |
872 |
|
|
235,402 |
+276 |
5,169 |
|
|
231,154 |
+132 |
3,158 |
|
|
227,128 |
+1,218 |
10,753 |
|
|
223,734 |
+182 |
9,331 |
|
|
223,398 |
+1,250 |
2,831 |
|
|
217,086 |
+910 |
7,214 |
|
|
203,568 |
+1,020 |
3,686 |
|
|
201,621 |
+435 |
2,216 |
|
|
195,109 |
+1,143 |
2,540 |
|
|
186,770 |
+491 |
2,937 |
|
|
173,702 |
+498 |
3,623 |
|
|
170,998 |
+962 |
966 |
|
|
169,640 |
+534 |
9,651 |
|
|
168,088 |
+151 |
3,117 |
|
|
164,569 |
+326 |
3,543 |
|
|
163,946 |
+733 |
5,972 |
|
|
163,137 |
+200 |
5,884 |
|
|
162,601 |
+572 |
1,881 |
|
|
154,098 |
+408 |
250 |
|
|
153,905 |
+652 |
3,710 |
|
|
142,338 |
+885 |
2,148 |
|
|
139,748 |
+506 |
1,667 |
|
|
138,118 |
+515 |
2,826 |
|
|
135,674 |
+633 |
1,534 |
|
|
130,116 |
+473 |
1,233 |
|
|
124,026 |
+1,132 |
1,953 |
|
|
109,088 |
+236 |
2,914 |
|
|
107,329 |
+616 |
380 |
|
|
101,819 |
+129 |
1,779 |
|
|
94,798 |
+199 |
2,924 |
|
|
89,692 |
+11 |
4,636 |
|
|
85,336 |
+1,124 |
1,460 |
|
|
85,071 |
+79 |
1,426 |
|
|
80,896 |
+372 |
1,471 |
|
|
79,098 |
+53 |
621 |
|
|
71,800 |
+480 |
1,339 |
|
|
70,768 |
+722 |
457 |
|
|
69,348 |
+772 |
356 |
|
|
65,227 |
+488 |
838 |
|
|
64,772 |
+119 |
582 |
|
|
62,633 |
+1,206 |
853 |
|
|
59,699 |
+24 |
29 |
|
|
8,671 |
+21 |
161 |
|
|
7,223 |
+21 |
62 |
|
|
2,001 |
+20 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From CNN's Nectar Gan, Lily Lee and David Culver
A traveler wearing a protective mask walks toward Beijing Capital International Airport ahead of the Lunar New Year in Beijing, on February 2. Yan Cong/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Normally at this time of year, hundreds of millions of Chinese people would be packing highways, trains and planes on homebound trips to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their family.
But this year, the largest annual human migration on Earth has been put on hold, following the Chinese government's call to avoid "nonessential" trips during the holiday period to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus.
That is a lot to ask: The Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival in China, is the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar -- the equivalent of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve combined.
For many Chinese who left their hometowns for better job opportunities in big cities, it is the only chance they may get to see their families this year. Parents who left children behind in villages so they could work may face another 12 months without them.
To discourage people from traveling, China's National Health Commission has imposed new rules that require people returning to rural areas to produce a negative Covid-19 test taken within the previous seven days, and to spend 14 days in "home observation" upon arrival.
Some local governments have added their own, stricter rules: For example, in some places, returnees need to spend two weeks in a government-approved quarantine hotel, instead of remaining under observation at home with their families.
The new restrictions have provoked fury on social media, with some questioning the government's policy at a time when many people had hoped to go home.
"I would like to ask, did you seriously think about it and look into it before making this policy?" one person posted on Weibo, China's Twitter-like service.
"Do medical conditions in the vast rural areas allow everyone to have a coronavirus test every 7 days? Doesn't the gathering for coronavirus tests bring a bigger risk of infection? In addition, the state only gives us 7 days of statutory holiday, and now you ask returnees to be isolated for 14 days. What are your brains made of?"
Just as the United States seems to have emerged from the worst of a surge in coronavirus cases that ravaged the country for months and peaked after Americans crowded indoors for the winter holidays, public health officials are concerned about another potential superspreader date: Super Bowl Sunday.
January was the country’s deadliest month so far in the pandemic, accounting for 20 percent, or 95,246, of the more than 460,000 coronavirus deaths the United States has recorded in the past 12 months. That’s more people than could fit into even the largest N.F.L. stadium. More than 27 million cases have been recorded, according to a New York Times database.
Experts worry that football fans gathering on Sunday in Tampa, Fla., for the championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or at watch parties across the country, could set back the nascent progress of recent weeks.
The daily reports of new cases and deaths remain high but have fallen somewhat. The seven-day average of new case reports in the U.S. dropped to 125,804 on Friday, the lowest level since Nov. 10. Reports of deaths, a lagging indicator because patients who die from Covid-19 generally do so weeks after being infected, averaged 2,913 a day, the lowest rate since Jan. 7.
The United States is administering 1.3 million vaccine doses a day on average, as the Biden administration pushes to speed distribution before more contagious variants that might evade vaccines can become dominant. The N.F.L. has offered President Biden all 30 of its stadiums for use as mass vaccination sites.
Officials like Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Mr. Biden’s chief medical adviser for Covid-19, have warned Americans against gathering for Super Bowl parties with people from other households, especially in places without ideal ventilation.
“You’re really putting yourself and your family in danger,” Dr. Fauci said Friday on MSNBC.
“It’s the perfect setup to have a mini superspreader event in your house,” he added. “Don’t do that for now.”
While health experts worry about a rise in cases after the game, some said they don’t anticipate anything as deadly as the post-holiday wave that peaked in January. That is because Thanksgiving and Christmas tend to spur more domestic travel than the Super Bowl does, said Dr. Catherine Oldenburg, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
Still, even parties pose a threat, said Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington.
“My sense is that it’s a really great year to watch it at home with your family, and not go to Super Bowl parties that you usually would, because we’re just starting to get this under control in this country,” Dr. Bergstrom said.
Dr. Bergstrom said he was also concerned about the more than 20,000 people who are expected to attend the game in person at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa — about one-third of the stadium’s usual capacity.
“Any time you get 25,000 people together yelling and screaming during a pandemic, you’re going to have transmission,” Dr. Bergstrom said.
Public health experts worry that new, more contagious variants, like one first identified in Britain and known as B.1.1.7, will soon become dominant and drive a deadly surge this spring. At least 187 cases of the B.1.1.7 variant have been detected in Florida, more than in any other state, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bars will be open in Florida during the game, and some are advertising Super Bowl parties. Before the game, Tampa’s mask order was extended to apply to outdoor areas where people could gather.
Super Bowl ticket holders have not been discouraged by the pandemic. Jeremiah Coleman, a Chiefs fan from Wichita, Kan., said, “On my deathbed, this will probably be one of the top five days I remember in my life, you know?”
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/us/super-bowl-coronavirus-surge.html
A small but vocal band of demonstrators caused the Los Angeles Fire Department to shut down the vaccination site at Dodger Stadium for about an hour last weekend.Credit...Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times, via Shutterstock
An out-of-work stand-up comic originally from New Jersey. An actor and conservative podcast host dressed in a white lab coat. A gadfly who has run several unsuccessful campaigns for Congress in Los Angeles. And at least a few who had been in Washington the day of the Capitol riot.
They were among the motley crew of vaccine skeptics who recently converged on the entrance of the mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles to protest distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.
The loosely formed coalition represents a new faction in California’s long-established anti-vaccine movement. Their protest was the latest sign that Californians have become the unlikely standard-bearers for aggressive opposition to the vaccine at a time when virus cases continue to spread in the state.
California, which has averaged 500 daily deaths tied to the virus over the past week, will soon become the state with the largest number of coronavirus deaths, surpassing New York.
For months, far-right activists across the United States have been rallying against mask-wearing rules, business lockdowns, curfews and local public-health officials, casting the government’s response to the virus as an intrusion on individual liberties. But as masks and lockdowns have become an increasingly routine part of American life, some protesters have shifted the focus of their antigovernment anger to the vaccine.
Protesters appeared on Sunday at the Super Bowl, where health care workers who won tickets to the event had to pass anti-vaccine protesters to enter the stadium. The protesters, not wearing masks, held up signs with false or dubious claims.
Last week at Dodger Stadium, the same small but vocal band of demonstrators who previously staged anti-mask and anti-lockdown protests in the Los Angeles area disrupted a mass vaccination site that gives an average of 6,120 shots daily. About 50 protesters — some carrying signs reading “Don’t be a lab rat!” and “Covid = Scam” — marched to the entrance and caused the Los Angeles Fire Department to shut down the entrance to the city-run site for about an hour.
Then vaccinations continued as scheduled.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/07/world/covid-19-coronavirus/a-new-front-in-the-anti-vaccine-fight-emerges-in-california
A World Health Organization panel is due to meet to discuss the AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday, the use of which has been suspended in South Africa over concern over its efficacy in over-65s.
AFP writes that a trial showed the vaccine provides only “minimal” protection against mild to moderate Covid-19 caused by the variant first detected in South Africa, a setback to the global fight against the pandemic as many poorer nations are relying on the logistical advantages offered by the AstraZeneca shot (it doesn’t need to be stored at very low temperatures).
“It’s a temporary issue that we have to hold on AstraZeneca until we figure out these issues,” Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told reporters on Sunday.
The 1.5m AstraZeneca vaccines obtained by South Africa, which will expire in April, will be kept until scientists give clear indications on their use, he added.
AstraZeneca, which developed the shot with the University of Oxford, told AFP: “We do believe our vaccine will still protect against severe disease.”
A company spokesperson said researchers were already working to update the vaccine to deal with the South African variant, which has been spreading rapidly around the world.
The WHO panel is due to meet in Geneva to examine the shot, which is a major component of the initial Covax global vaccine rollout that covers some 145 countries.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· A further 410 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported in hospitals to 75,767, NHS England said on Sunday.
· In Scotland, 584 new cases of coronavirus were recorded along with a further seven deaths from the disease. There were also a further 461 cases of coronavirus in Wales and 28 deaths.
· Relaxations of coronavirus restrictions were enacted in Israel and Jordan, with barbershops and some other businesses opening in Israel and pupils returning to school in Jordan.
· Austria tightened border controls to all neighbouring countries, saying non-essential travel should be prevented during the pandemic.
· The UK has no plans to introduce vaccine passports, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said, arguing that such a measure would be discriminatory.
· Kate Bingham, former Chair of the UK Government’s Vaccine Taskforce, gave a wide-ranging interview to two European newspapers, saying that Brexit was not the reason for the relative success of the UK’s approach compared to the EU’s but adding that “to get 27 countries all to agree is very difficult”.
· The United Arab Emirates will temporarily only vaccinate residents and citizens who are elderly or who have certain health conditions, following a spike in infections over the past weeks, state media said on Sunday.
· Researchers told the Guardian that herd immunity can no longer be the goal for Covid vaccines following the news that the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine does not stop people with the South African variant becoming mildly or moderately ill.
· European Central Bank (ECB) chief Christine Lagarde rejected calls to cancel debts run up by eurozone members to buttress their economies during the Covid-19 crisis.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/feb/05/coronavirus-live-news-us-records-40000-deaths-in-two-weeks-mexico-runs-out-of-vaccine
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