i_need_contribute
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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
|
World |
163,711,672 |
+538,111 |
3,393,226 |
|
33,715,951 |
+17,834 |
600,147 |
|
|
24,964,925 |
+281,860 |
274,411 |
|
|
15,627,475 |
+36,862 |
435,823 |
|
|
5,877,787 |
+13,948 |
107,616 |
|
|
5,117,374 |
+10,512 |
44,760 |
|
|
4,940,245 |
+8,554 |
115,871 |
|
|
4,450,777 |
+1,926 |
127,679 |
|
|
4,159,122 |
+5,753 |
124,156 |
|
|
3,604,799 |
+6347 |
79,339 |
|
|
3,602,939 |
+7,067 |
86,731 |
|
|
3,307,285 |
+16,350 |
70,522 |
|
|
3,118,426 |
+15,093 |
81,300 |
|
|
2,854,079 |
+2,167 |
71,664 |
|
|
2,751,166 |
+11,291 |
76,936 |
|
|
2,380,690 |
+2,695 |
220,380 |
|
|
2,153,864 |
+3,620 |
48,075 |
|
|
1,889,052 |
+4,456 |
66,220 |
|
|
1,739,750 |
+3,080 |
48,093 |
|
|
1,652,842 |
+598 |
29,907 |
|
|
1,613,728 |
+2,585 |
55,210 |
|
|
1,598,164 |
+4,436 |
17,449 |
|
|
1,328,582 |
+4,901 |
24,948 |
|
|
1,286,548 |
+6,296 |
27,832 |
|
|
1,143,963 |
+5,790 |
19,191 |
|
|
1,139,373 |
+2,456 |
15,954 |
|
|
1,071,899 |
+565 |
29,523 |
|
|
1,030,071 |
+1,967 |
24,686 |
|
|
877,130 |
+2,379 |
19,543 |
|
|
842,182 |
+334 |
17,007 |
|
|
839,119 |
+2 |
6,382 |
|
|
798,147 |
+718 |
29,175 |
|
|
780,159 |
+363 |
12,149 |
|
|
724,154 |
+809 |
9,259 |
|
|
706,458 |
+568 |
6,681 |
|
|
677,988 |
+6,425 |
11,463 |
|
|
637,097 |
+673 |
10,474 |
|
|
546,182 |
+1,251 |
1,631 |
|
|
535,753 |
+307 |
7,620 |
|
|
514,944 |
+127 |
9,098 |
|
|
470,110 |
+3,780 |
1,902 |
|
|
455,020 |
+7,316 |
5,001 |
|
|
433,094 |
+825 |
7,162 |
|
|
414,192 |
+151 |
17,259 |
|
|
410,129 |
+609 |
19,699 |
|
|
387,523 |
+103 |
12,224 |
|
|
377,090 |
+1,259 |
11,415 |
|
|
376,341 |
+1,627 |
2,701 |
|
|
370,877 |
+344 |
6,296 |
|
|
358,104 |
+2,459 |
4,054 |
|
|
350,390 |
+480 |
7,708 |
|
|
331,516 |
+1,783 |
13,493 |
|
|
330,375 |
+968 |
4,442 |
|
|
329,843 |
+472 |
4,779 |
|
|
326,572 |
+740 |
11,849 |
|
|
313,527 |
+1,781 |
7,596 |
|
|
303,827 |
+169 |
3,428 |
|
|
291,629 |
+828 |
1,693 |
|
|
266,503 |
+964 |
2,502 |
|
|
266,264 |
+432 |
3,996 |
|
|
265,559 |
+763 |
4,105 |
|
|
255,672 |
+355 |
4,941 |
|
|
253,845 |
+109 |
6,027 |
|
|
249,310 |
+292 |
4,324 |
|
|
245,721 |
+1,201 |
14,327 |
|
|
241,369 |
+252 |
7,887 |
|
|
240,512 |
+2,433 |
3,459 |
|
|
225,964 |
+708 |
5,954 |
|
|
220,860 |
+131 |
4,323 |
|
|
215,301 |
+1,070 |
2,396 |
|
|
213,183 |
+256 |
530 |
|
|
205,511 |
+588 |
2,193 |
|
|
200,977 |
+1,884 |
746 |
|
|
181,410 |
+231 |
3,088 |
|
|
165,709 |
+7 |
2,066 |
|
|
165,465 |
+86 |
3,003 |
|
|
154,698 |
+62 |
5,211 |
|
|
143,065 |
+6 |
3,212 |
|
|
142,746 |
+2,275 |
962 |
|
|
132,015 |
+37 |
2,432 |
|
|
131,671 |
+610 |
1,900 |
|
|
127,978 |
+381 |
2,266 |
|
|
127,053 |
+131 |
1,222 |
|
|
125,311 |
+117 |
3,374 |
|
|
124,454 |
+1,233 |
804 |
|
|
119,299 |
+247 |
774 |
|
|
101,447 |
+2,302 |
589 |
|
|
11,950 |
+122 |
228 |
|
|
10,854 |
+5 |
104 |
|
|
4,175 |
+190 |
36 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
By Isabella Kwai, Raphael Minder and Natasha Frost
Members of India’s National Disaster Response Force clearing fallen trees on Sunday in Goa, a state south of Gujarat on India’s western coast.Credit...National Disaster Response Force, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
A severe cyclone expected to make landfall in India’s northwest state of Gujarat on Sunday evening forced officials to suspend coronavirus vaccinations in parts of the Covid-ravaged country, including the city of Mumbai, at least until Tuesday.
Heavy rainfall and winds from the storm, Cyclone Tauktae, have already killed at least six people and prompted tens of thousands more to evacuate their homes. But the storm’s effects could be far graver, coming as India is grappling with a terrible wave of illness and death from the coronavirus that has left hospitals filled to capacity and sick people struggling to get care.
More than 266,200 people in India have died from the virus, but experts say that is almost certainly an undercount. India reported 4,106 new deaths and an additional 281,386 coronavirus infections on Monday.
Officials in Gujarat said that arrangements had been made for patients at Covid centers to continue to receive treatment. Hospitals were sealing windows and doors, and more than 170 mobile intensive care unit vans were being deployed to provide emergency care, according to local media.
Dozens of disaster management teams have been deployed in several states, along with army, navy and coast guard units, the government said, adding in a statement on Sunday that it was taking steps to ensure “zero loss of life.”
By Hari Kumar and Jeffrey Gettleman
A man pleaded for his oxygen cylinder to be refilled at a local shop in Delhi earlier this month.Credit...Atul Loke for The New York Times
A coronavirus second wave has devastated India’s medical system and undermined confidence in the ability of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to treat its people and quell the disease. There are widely believed to be far more deaths than the thousands reported each day. Hospitals are full. Drugs, vaccines, oxygen and other supplies are running out.
Pandemic profiteers are filling the gap. Medicine, oxygen and other supplies are brokered online or in hushed phone calls. In many cases, the sellers prey on the desperation and grief of families.
Sometimes the goods are fraudulent, and some are potentially harmful. Last week, police officers in the state of Uttar Pradesh accused one group of stealing used funeral shrouds from bodies and selling them as new. The day before, officers in the same state discovered more than 100 vials of fake remdesivir, an antiviral drug that many doctors in India are prescribing despite questions about its effectiveness.
Over the past month, the New Delhi police have arrested more than 210 people on allegations of cheating, hoarding, criminal conspiracy or fraud in connection with Covid-related scams. Similarly, the police in Uttar Pradesh have arrested 160 people.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/05/16/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-cases/a-desperate-india-falls-prey-to-covid-scammers
People receiving oxygen in Delhi last month.Credit...Atul Loke for The New York Times
India’s devastating Covid-19 surge has galvanized corporations, nonprofit organizations and individuals in the United States to raise millions of dollars and send medical supplies to assist the nation of 1.4 billion.
But a sweeping change to India’s law governing foreign donations is choking off aid just when the country needs it desperately. It is struggling through a second wave of coronavirus that, since beginning in mid-March, has more than doubled the country’s total confirmed infections to over 24 million and raised the known overall death toll to more than 266,000 — numbers that experts say are vast undercounts.
The amendment, abruptly passed by the government in September, limits international charities that donate to local nonprofits. Almost overnight, it gutted a reliable source of funding for tens of thousands of nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, which help provide basic health services in India, picking up the slack in a country where government spending in that area totals just 1.2 percent of gross domestic product.
The amendment also prompted international charities to cut back giving that supported local efforts in fields such as health, education and gender.
Newly formed charities are rushing to find NGOs that can accept their donations without tripping legal wires. And nonprofits are being smothered in red tape: To receive foreign funds, charities must get affidavits and notary stamps and open accounts with the government-owned State Bank of India.
“Everyone was caught off-guard,” said Nishant Pandey, chief executive of the American India Foundation, which has raised $23 million for Covid-19 efforts. On May 5, his group wired $3 million to an Indian affiliate to build 2,500 hospital beds. A week later, Mr. Pandey said, the money still hadn’t cleared.
From CNN’s Esha Mitra in Delhi
Covid-19 vaccination drives were suspended in the city of Mumbai on Monday and in Gujarat state for Monday and Tuesday as Tropical Cyclone Tauktae bears down on southern and western states in India, officials said.
The storm intensified from "very severe" to "extremely severe" on Monday, according to the Indian Meteorological Department.
At least two people were killed on Sunday as a result of the storm, which caused heavy rainfall in Goa, the chief minister of the state, Parmod Sawant, said at a press conference.
“One boy died due to a tree falling on his head, and the second death, two people were on a motorcycle when an electric pole fell on them and one died on the way to the hospital,” Sawant said.
A total of 101 teams of India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed across six states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Goa and Maharashtra, and 22 teams have been readied for back up, according to Satya Pradhan, director general of the NDRF.
“The main impact state will be Gujarat, and that’s where we expect maximum impact,” Pradhan said, adding that more than 50 teams had been deployed to that region alone.
The Indian Coast Guard and Navy have also deployed ships and helicopters for search and rescue operations and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed senior officials to take “every possible measure to ensure that people are safely evacuated by the State Governments and to ensure maintenance of all essential services,” a statement from the Prime Minister’s office on Saturday said.
Modi, who reviewed preparedness for the cyclone on Saturday, also directed officials to “ensure special preparedness on COVID management in hospitals, vaccine cold chain and other medical facilities on power back up and storage of essential medicines and to plan for unhindered movement of oxygen tankers,” according to a statement Saturday.
In Mumbai, 580 Covid patients from “jumbo centers” -- the city’s makeshift covid care centers -- were shifted to various hospitals ahead of the storm on Friday and Saturday, a statement from the city’s municipal corporation said.
From CNN’s Beijing bureau and Sophie Jeong in Hong Kong
Taiwan Medical Staff provide guidelines to residents willing to undergo a Covid-19 screening process at Bopiliao Historical Blockin Wanhua District of Taipei City. Taiwan on May 15. Jose Lopes Amaral/NurPhoto/Getty Images
Taiwan reported 335 new coronavirus cases Monday, all but two of which were domestically transmitted, officials from the Central Epidemic Command Center told reporters. This is the second record-breaking day in a row for the island, which had until now largely avoided the pandemic.
All schools from kindergarten to high school level in Taipei and New Taipei cities will be closed for two weeks starting Tuesday, the two city governments said earlier.
The suspension of on-site classes from May 18 to 28 includes elementary, junior and senior high schools, kindergartens, nurseries and cram schools, according to the two city governments. During that time, online learning platforms can be used to continue classes, the two city governments said.
Several local councils have also been suspended. Taipei City Council has been suspended from Monday until June 8, while Yilan County Council has been suspended from Monday until further notice, according to announcements on councils’ websites. Taichung City Council will also be suspended from Tuesday until May 31.
On Saturday, Taiwan raised its Covid-19 alert for Taipei and New Taipei to level 3, under which people are required to wear masks at all times and indoor gatherings of more than five people and outdoor gatherings of more than 10 people are prohibited until May 28.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-05-17-21/index.html
Health minister Zweli Mkhize said late Sunday that the target would be achieved if the anticipated orders of vaccines were delivered on time. “We will begin to vaccinate citizens 60 years and older, who are the most vulnerable for becoming ill or dying of Covid-19,” the minister said during a webinar.
South African health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize pictured last year confirming the first case of Coronavirus in South Africa at parliament. Photograph: Sumaya Hisham/Reuters
South Africa has so far vaccinated less than 480,000 people or just one percent of its population, mainly health workers in a mass clinical trial operation. The immunisation of health workers started in February when it became the first country worldwide to administer inoculations by US pharma group Johnson & Johnson.
The government, which has been widely criticised for the sluggish immunisation campaign, says it has ordered enough doses to vaccinate at least 45 million of the estimated 59 million population. “By the end of June we expect to have received 4.5 million doses of Pfizer and two million doses from Johnson & Johnson,” Mkhize said.
South Africa earlier this year purchased AstraZeneca vaccines and then sold them to other African countries following fears that they would be less effective. Then, after it started innoculating health workers, using the Johnson & Johnson jabs, it had to pause for two weeks mid-April to vet risks over blood clots that had been reported in the US.
Here are the other key developments from the last few hours:
· The prime minister, Scott Morrison, rebuffed calls for a swifter reopening of the borders, saying Australians understand the government taking a “cautious approach” that will see a gradual easing of restrictions.
· It came as a passenger on board Saturday’s repatriation flight from India tested positive for Covid-19, and Qantas said it was investigating whether rapid testing conducted at the departure gate could have resulted in some false positives that barred people who did not have the virus from returning home.
· At the same time, the majority of Australia’s stranded cricket cohort has returned home after a charter flight carrying the Indian Premier League players, coaches and broadcasters touched down in Sydney on Monday morning.
· The counsel assisting the royal commission into disability care described the Covid-19 rollout in the sector as an “abject failure” after it heard that fewer than 1,000 people with disability in Australia’s residential care facilities have been vaccinated.
· Lawyers for Christian Porter accused the ABC of dragging its feet to avoid a trial date in the former attorney general’s high-stakes defamation case against the national broadcaster.
· Crown Resorts lied to investigators in interviews with the Victorian casino regulator during an investigation into the arrest of 19 staff in China in 2015 over allegations of illegal gambling, a royal commission into the gambling group heard.
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