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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
117,441,212 |
+372,332 |
2,605,085 |
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29,696,250 |
+41,967 |
537,838 |
|
|
11,229,271 |
+18,691 |
157,890 |
|
|
11,019,344 |
+80,024 |
265,500 |
|
|
4,322,776 |
+10,595 |
89,094 |
|
|
4,218,520 |
+5,177 |
124,501 |
|
|
3,904,233 |
+21,825 |
88,574 |
|
|
3,149,012 |
+6654 |
71,138 |
|
|
3,067,486 |
+20,765 |
99,785 |
|
|
2,780,417 |
+11,187 |
29,030 |
|
|
2,508,655 |
+6,533 |
72,532 |
|
|
2,276,656 |
+3,411 |
60,503 |
|
|
2,149,636 |
+2,922 |
52,880 |
|
|
2,125,866 |
+6,561 |
190,357 |
|
|
1,794,914 |
+13,574 |
45,285 |
|
|
1,689,692 |
+8,010 |
60,687 |
|
|
1,521,068 |
+862 |
50,678 |
|
|
1,401,228 |
+7,167 |
27,022 |
|
|
1,379,662 |
+5,826 |
37,266 |
|
|
1,371,176 |
+6,212 |
47,854 |
|
|
1,321,368 |
+9,092 |
21,791 |
|
|
1,120,075 |
+4,526 |
15,833 |
|
|
886,574 |
+2,488 |
22,239 |
|
|
855,785 |
+5,302 |
21,077 |
|
|
828,283 |
+3,288 |
20,900 |
|
|
810,094 |
+682 |
16,540 |
|
|
801,575 |
+1,848 |
5,891 |
|
|
785,809 |
+2,799 |
22,240 |
|
|
726,548 |
+3,359 |
13,572 |
|
|
594,412 |
+3,276 |
12,516 |
|
|
590,508 |
+1,780 |
13,205 |
|
|
550,330 |
+606 |
8,462 |
|
|
486,223 |
+249 |
8,682 |
|
|
485,439 |
+3,042 |
4,562 |
|
|
475,070 |
+2,199 |
8,713 |
|
|
466,017 |
+6,201 |
15,873 |
|
|
438,956 |
+1,064 |
8,227 |
|
|
427,717 |
+6,302 |
4,935 |
|
|
410,849 |
+2,613 |
1,322 |
|
|
395,604 |
+2,376 |
5,046 |
|
|
379,831 |
+357 |
6,528 |
|
|
344,834 |
+357 |
5,923 |
|
|
323,390 |
+1,286 |
7,836 |
|
|
313,460 |
+1,683 |
1,169 |
|
|
295,511 |
+1,079 |
2,038 |
|
|
294,503 |
+1,560 |
16,039 |
|
|
274,721 |
+66 |
3,010 |
|
|
272,851 |
+234 |
3,576 |
|
|
260,308 |
+497 |
10,614 |
|
|
253,950 |
+653 |
11,807 |
|
|
246,514 |
+394 |
5,590 |
|
|
243,247 |
+587 |
3,172 |
|
|
237,704 |
+676 |
8,201 |
|
|
236,768 |
+403 |
3,241 |
|
|
223,219 |
+520 |
4,422 |
|
|
218,101 |
+802 |
2,812 |
|
|
214,839 |
+513 |
2,379 |
|
|
205,120 |
+1,142 |
6,758 |
|
|
202,214 |
+390 |
3,328 |
|
|
200,572 |
+1,144 |
1,127 |
|
|
196,812 |
+2,264 |
2,140 |
|
|
195,468 |
+382 |
3,891 |
|
|
195,252 |
+647 |
4,111 |
|
|
186,503 |
+581 |
10,995 |
|
|
178,560 |
+223 |
6,473 |
|
|
174,679 |
+422 |
3,221 |
|
|
173,514 |
+494 |
4,249 |
|
|
168,043 |
+1,074 |
3,318 |
|
|
166,949 |
+474 |
262 |
|
|
166,138 |
+1,109 |
2,429 |
|
|
158,506 |
+269 |
1,969 |
|
|
143,955 |
+1,059 |
1,591 |
|
|
142,338 |
+453 |
1,384 |
|
|
142,034 |
+11 |
3,200 |
|
|
138,640 |
+1,158 |
2,273 |
|
|
126,602 |
+476 |
472 |
|
|
114,234 |
+130 |
3,013 |
|
|
112,897 |
+819 |
1,939 |
|
|
108,827 |
+465 |
1,876 |
|
|
107,163 |
+331 |
3,195 |
|
|
92,471 |
+416 |
1,634 |
|
|
90,331 |
+322 |
1,695 |
|
|
89,975 |
+13 |
4,636 |
|
|
86,550 |
+44 |
1,471 |
|
|
86,465 |
+373 |
647 |
|
|
85,695 |
+545 |
502 |
|
|
82,421 |
+410 |
1,124 |
|
|
80,176 |
+51 |
622 |
|
|
79,774 |
+537 |
1,067 |
|
|
75,003 |
+1,321 |
653 |
|
|
74,942 |
+396 |
632 |
|
|
63,837 |
+827 |
651 |
|
|
62,520 |
+389 |
693 |
|
|
62,063 |
+511 |
767 |
|
|
26,370 |
+65 |
85 |
|
|
8,977 |
+6 |
175 |
|
|
8,110 |
+21 |
77 |
|
|
2,512 |
+11 |
35 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From Eric Cheung in Hong Kong and CNN's Beijing bureau
Inactivated SARS-Cov-2 vaccines are seen at the packaging workshop in Sinopharm's headquarters in Beijing during a media tour organized by the State Council Information Office on February 26. Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images
China will launch a program to inoculate Chinese people living abroad with Covid-19 vaccines, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday.
The "spring sprout" program will see China set up vaccination stations "to administer Chinese vaccines for our compatriots in surrounding countries," Wang said in a news conference.
Wang added that China will also roll out health certificates for international travelers.
"We will take care to fully protect personal privacy, and contribute to the mutual recognition of nucleic acid test results and vaccination records, thus facilitating safe and orderly flow of personnel," he said.
From CNN’s Ivana Kottasova
The Czech government has asked Germany, Poland and Switzerland for help in treating coronavirus patients by allowing them to be transferred there, according to statement from the Health Ministry released on Friday.
The Czech Health Ministry stated that the already high number of newly infected patients continues to rise in the country and that many hospitals have ran out of capacity, with only 14% of intensive care unit beds currently available
“We are in a situation nobody wanted to end up in," Czech Health Minister Jan Blatny said in the statement.
"Despite increasing hospital capacities to the maximum possible, despite maximizing the use of health care staff and despite their enormous effort, we have reached the limit. Hospitals in some regions have already ran out of capacities and are no longer able to provide adequate care without the help of other health care facilities," he added.
No patients have been transferred yet, the Czech Health Ministry confirmed.
The government also announced it has called some medical and health care students to begin working in hospitals to help with staff shortages.
From CNN's Rob North
The President of Chile says he hopes to have vaccinated the country’s adult population by the end of June, with five million of the most risky cases vaccinated by the end of the month.
Speaking exclusively to CNN's Julia Chatterley, Sebastián Piñera said, “We started negotiating the acquisitions of vaccines in April, May, and by now we have secured more than 36 million doses and that is enough to cover our whole population.”
“Our immunization program is a sound and solid one…we have vaccines and have capacity to distribute vaccines all over the country, to every corner of the country. Yesterday we vaccinated more than 300,000 people in one day. That’s why we are really pushing the process because we want to vaccinate our population as soon as possible," he said.
“We are working hard to get herd immunity, and we hope to have it by midyear, before the end of June,” Piñera added.
Chile has largely been using the Chinese Sinovac vaccine which the President insists is safe, saying it was “approved by our own family health institute, we have made sure that it is safe and efficient. We sent our own people to China to confirm that it is safe and secure and therefore we’re confident.”
Piñera also called for greater international cooperation to tackle future pandemics, including strengthening the World Health Organization. He said “This pandemic has shown with two super powers, China and the US, instead of collaborating, they face each other, it doesn’t work. We need more collaboration, need better institutions.”
From CNN's Zamira Rahim
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is pictured at a press conference at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned countries to abandon the "me first" approach to vaccines in an opinion article for The Guardian.
"Of the 225m vaccine doses that have been administered so far, the vast majority have been in a handful of rich and vaccine-producing countries, while most low- and middle-income countries watch and wait," Ghebreyesus said.
"A me-first approach might serve short-term political interests, but it is self-defeating and will lead to a protracted recovery."
It's not the first time Ghebreyesus has made such a plea.
"I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure -- and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world's poorest countries," he said, while speaking at WHO headquarters in Geneva on January 18.
WHO is co-leader of the COVAX initiative, which is aimed at distributing vaccines to low-income countries who cannot easily purchase them directly from manufacturers.
But even among wealthier nations trouble is brewing, with Europe in particular struggling with disrupted vaccine supplies.
"The future is ours to write. Let’s not be held back by politics, business as usual or those who say we can’t," Ghebreyesus wrote in The Guardian, adding that the world should make sure "no country is left behind."
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-03-08-21/index.html
By Ben Hubbard
People praying outside Hasan Anani mosque in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, in January.Credit...Amr Nabil/Associated Press
Saudi Arabia on Sunday lifted most restrictions that had been imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, permitting indoor dining at restaurants and allowing gyms and barbershops to reopen.
After getting hit hard by the virus last summer, the kingdom has done comparatively well at controlling its epidemic with on-again, off-again restrictions. The country of 34 million, more than one-third of them noncitizens, has recorded more than 379,000 cases and 6,500 deaths.
After a rise in cases, the government on Feb. 3 imposed restrictions on recreational activities that were supposed to last 10 days but were extended for another 20 days.
Under the new rules, indoor dining at restaurants has resumed, with mandatory temperature checks upon entry and no more than five people at tables that must be three meters apart. Movie theaters, gyms and sports centers have also reopened.
Larger events such as weddings, banquets and corporate conferences are still banned, with a 20-person cap on other events.
Saudi Arabia and its wealthy Gulf Arab neighbors have generally fared better against the virus than other countries in the Arab world.
The United Arab Emirates has heavily invested in vaccination and is now a world leader, having given more than 6.2 million vaccines and reaching rate of 63 doses per 100 people, according to government figures.
Kuwait on Sunday imposed a 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew for the next month after a rise in cases. Last month, the country had reduced opening hours for nonessential business and barred noncitizens from entering the country. Kuwait also has a strict mandate on face masks in public places; violators can be fined up to $16,000 and given three-month jail terms.
The pandemic has put economic pressures on Gulf states since it has reduced demand for oil and gas, on which the nations rely heavily for income. The pandemic has also increased stress on the millions of low-paid foreign laborers, mostly from South Asia, who do a range of essential jobs. Across the region, many such workers have seen their wages cut, been laid off or had to return home because of lost jobs.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/world/saudi-arabia-covid.html
A child tossed a surgical mask into a fire during a protest at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise on Saturday.Credit...Nathan Howard/Getty Images
A group of parents urged their children to burn masks on the steps of the Idaho State Capitol on Saturday, videos show, in a state that has never had a statewide mask mandate.
“Destroy them! Feed them to the fire! We don’t want them in our world anymore!” young children are heard shouting as they grab handfuls of surgical and cloth masks and toss them into a barrel of flames. Adults in the background cheer them on.
Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, has resisted a mask mandate in Idaho, despite research showing mask mandates are linked to fewer infections and Covid-19 deaths in counties across the United States. Conservative lawmakers in the state have nonetheless pushed legislation banning any such measures, The Associated Press reported.
The videos, taken by an Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter and a New York Times contributor, Sergio Olmos, show about 100 people on the steps of the state capitol building.
In one video, several children not much taller than the burning barrel itself approach to drop in masks. “Here fire, you hungry?” says one child. In another video, police officers approaching a woman about a fire are repeatedly told to back off. “Leave her alone!” protesters call out. Idaho State Police said in a statement that open flames were not allowed on State Capitol grounds and that the incident was under review.
The demonstrations were in part organized by Darr Moon, the husband of Dorothy Moon, an Idaho State representative.
In a video posted to YouTube on Friday, Ms. Moon, along with another state representative, Heather Scott, called the demonstrations a “grass-roots project that we have become aware of and fully support.”
Ms. Moon claimed in the video that the state has a low caseload that doesn’t justify protective measures. A total of 1,880 people in Idaho have died from the coronavirus, according to a New York Times database.
A senior European Medicines Agency (EMA) official has urged European Union members to refrain from granting national approvals for Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V while the agency reviews its safety and effectiveness, Reuters reports.
“We need documents that we can review. We also don’t at the moment have data ... about vaccinated people. It is unknown. That’s why I would urgently advise against giving a national emergency authorisation,” EMA managing board head Christa Wirthumer-Hoche told a talk show on Austrian broadcaster ORF.
“We can have Sputnik V on the market here in future when the appropriate data have been reviewed. The rolling review has begun now at EMA,” she added after the agency said last week it had launched such a review.
“Data packages are coming from Russian manufacturers and of course they will be reviewed according to European standards for quality, safety and efficacy. When everything is proven then it will also be authorised in the European Union,” she added.
Sputnik V has already been approved or is being assessed for approval in three EU member states – Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic – and EU officials have said Brussels could start negotiations with a vaccine maker if at least four member countries request it.
Wirthumer-Hoche said EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) would hold an extraordinary meeting on 11 March to review Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in the EU.
“We expect a positive assessment and that the (European) Commission will quickly grant authorisation,” she added.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Schools in England are reopening on Monday for all children under the first step to ease restrictions, but secondary schools can stagger the return of students over the week to allow for mass testing. It comes as the UK recorded its lowest daily death toll on Sunday (82) since October.
· Half of all women think the social impact of the pandemic risks setting back gender-equality gains, after a year in which they bore the brunt of job losses, home schooling and domestic chores.
· Vietnam has launched its vaccination programme with healthcare workers first in the queue, as the country looked set to contain its fourth outbreak of the coronavirus since the pandemic began. Monday’s shots were part of Vietnam’s first batch of 117,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that arrived late last month.
· A senior European Medicines Agency official has urged European Union members to refrain from granting national approvals for Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V while the agency reviews its safety and effectiveness.
· Slovakia, a country suffering the world’s highest mortality rate from Covid-19, has received a donation of 15,000 coronavirus vaccine doses from France, Slovak prime inister Igor Matovič said on Sunday.
· Norway will probably need stronger restrictions to combat the latest resurgence in coronavirus infections, prime minister Erna Solberg said in a televised speech on Sunday. “Ahead of us is another hill to climb, probably with tighter national measures before we can ease and then lift the restrictions,” Solberg said.
· The US is approaching Joe Biden’s target of 100m vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, with 90,351,750 doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of Sunday morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The vaccine doses are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines.
· More than a thousand clubbers in Amsterdam were given a short break from lockdown as part of a trial investigating how large events can operate safely amid the pandemic.
· A German MP has announced his resignation after it was revealed that his company had made hundreds of thousands through deals to procure face masks.
· Police used teargas against protesters in Athens on Sunday night after footage of an officer beating a man during a coronavirus lockdown patrol went viral.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/mar/08/coronavirus-live-news-us-passes-90m-vaccinations-uk-daily-deaths-drop-to-82
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