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Country, |
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Total |
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World |
182,566,713 |
+374,354 |
3,953,528 |
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34,527,493 |
+11,427 |
619,980 |
|
|
30,361,699 |
+45,699 |
398,484 |
|
|
18,513,305 |
+64,903 |
516,119 |
|
|
5,772,844 |
+2,314 |
111,057 |
|
|
5,493,557 |
+20,616 |
134,545 |
|
|
5,420,156 |
+5,846 |
49,687 |
|
|
4,775,301 |
+20,479 |
128,126 |
|
|
4,447,701 |
+24,065 |
93,668 |
|
|
4,259,133 |
+679 |
127,542 |
|
|
4,213,074 |
+25,880 |
105,934 |
|
|
3,799,733 |
+7,091 |
80,829 |
|
|
3,735,382 |
+570 |
91,400 |
|
|
3,192,809 |
+12,717 |
84,127 |
|
|
2,879,811 |
+123 |
75,005 |
|
|
2,507,453 |
+1,661 |
232,608 |
|
|
2,234,463 |
+182 |
52,300 |
|
|
2,156,465 |
+20,467 |
58,024 |
|
|
1,954,466 |
+13,347 |
60,264 |
|
|
1,684,366 |
+538 |
17,745 |
|
|
1,667,127 |
+152 |
30,303 |
|
|
1,553,774 |
+2,637 |
32,489 |
|
|
1,414,736 |
+602 |
26,273 |
|
|
1,408,058 |
+4,479 |
24,557 |
|
|
1,338,604 |
+6,558 |
17,156 |
|
|
1,083,478 |
+94 |
25,168 |
|
|
1,080,740 |
+73 |
33,605 |
|
|
956,392 |
+735 |
22,254 |
|
|
904,436 |
+7,666 |
14,388 |
|
|
877,195 |
+1,746 |
17,092 |
|
|
841,486 |
+290 |
6,429 |
|
|
808,076 |
+34 |
29,991 |
|
|
796,829 |
+1,002 |
14,705 |
|
|
750,886 |
+497 |
9,743 |
|
|
745,703 |
+6,437 |
5,108 |
|
|
716,458 |
+73 |
7,043 |
|
|
650,353 |
+29 |
10,700 |
|
|
636,916 |
+1,728 |
9,071 |
|
|
631,160 |
+2,184 |
1,807 |
|
|
544,705 |
+185 |
7,848 |
|
|
530,585 |
+690 |
9,292 |
|
|
486,106 |
+1,567 |
7,804 |
|
|
457,489 |
+1,746 |
21,545 |
|
|
435,568 |
+1,633 |
16,631 |
|
|
421,829 |
+563 |
12,676 |
|
|
421,751 |
+105 |
18,049 |
|
|
421,589 |
+1,825 |
12,763 |
|
|
421,121 |
+1,321 |
4,336 |
|
|
416,275 |
+495 |
3,132 |
|
|
414,182 |
+5,251 |
14,843 |
|
|
402,581 |
+1,249 |
6,536 |
|
|
391,609 |
+43 |
12,510 |
|
|
368,178 |
+1,263 |
5,558 |
|
|
366,161 |
+1,857 |
4,661 |
|
|
365,068 |
+1,194 |
5,297 |
|
|
359,736 |
+70 |
8,205 |
|
|
354,851 |
+1,718 |
1,961 |
|
|
335,961 |
+87 |
4,973 |
|
|
293,337 |
+243 |
2,534 |
|
|
292,674 |
+697 |
9,147 |
|
|
281,031 |
+261 |
16,148 |
|
|
278,729 |
+38 |
4,383 |
|
|
276,037 |
+63 |
4,320 |
|
|
271,931 |
+342 |
4,989 |
|
|
271,679 |
+1,025 |
3,101 |
|
|
266,536 |
+2,234 |
3,056 |
|
|
265,643 |
+166 |
1,351 |
|
|
260,881 |
+550 |
6,958 |
|
|
257,287 |
+35 |
4,419 |
|
|
257,225 |
+1,717 |
3,030 |
|
|
256,669 |
+55 |
6,191 |
|
|
254,515 |
+4,662 |
1,970 |
|
|
224,967 |
+116 |
4,514 |
|
|
221,953 |
+143 |
588 |
|
|
193,238 |
+452 |
3,191 |
|
|
188,023 |
+3,080 |
1,270 |
|
|
183,603 |
+719 |
3,621 |
|
|
167,543 |
+11 |
2,120 |
|
|
156,167 |
+595 |
2,017 |
|
|
155,697 |
+1,312 |
3,320 |
|
|
155,682 |
+6 |
5,484 |
|
|
152,056 |
+2,395 |
2,138 |
|
|
139,229 |
+389 |
3,708 |
|
|
137,329 |
+89 |
2,508 |
|
|
132,514 |
+1 |
2,456 |
|
|
131,037 |
+225 |
792 |
|
|
131,028 |
+47 |
1,269 |
|
|
123,038 |
+1,092 |
1,992 |
|
|
118,659 |
+1,501 |
4,871 |
|
|
113,232 |
+1,727 |
548 |
|
|
110,190 |
+498 |
733 |
|
|
100,230 |
+26 |
1,610 |
|
|
95,642 |
+166 |
795 |
|
|
95,387 |
+219 |
969 |
|
|
91,771 |
+18 |
4,636 |
|
|
21,519 |
+159 |
516 |
|
|
16,413 |
+372 |
80 |
|
|
11,135 |
+3 |
107 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
By Roni Caryn Rabin, Abdi Latif Dahir, Aina J. Khan and Dan Levin
Going masked in Lisbon, Portugal. Credit...Patricia De Melo Moreira/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
World Health Organization officials, concerned about the Delta variant, have urged even fully vaccinated people to continue wearing masks and taking other precautions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on the other hand, told fully vaccinated Americans in May that they no longer needed to wear masks indoors or to stay six feet from other people. The agency also eased advice about testing and quarantine after suspected exposure.
Asked on Monday about the W.H.O.’s cautions, a C.D.C. spokesman pointed to the existing guidance and gave no indication it would change.
The Delta variant, a highly infectious form of the virus that has spread to at least 85 countries since it was first identified in India, is now responsible for one in every five Covid-19 cases across the United States. Its prevalence here has doubled in the past two weeks, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease doctor, has called it “the greatest threat” to eliminating the virus in the United States. Public health experts generally agree that getting vaccinated offers the best protection against any type of the virus.
Los Angeles County said on Monday that it strongly recommended that everyone wear masks indoors as a precaution against the Delta variant, adding that it accounted for nearly half of all cases sequenced in the county.
“Until we better understand how and to who the Delta variant is spreading, everyone should focus on maximum protection with minimum interruption to routine as all businesses operate without other restrictions,” county officials said in a statement.
The rise of new variants “makes it even more urgent that we use all the tools at our disposal,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the W.H.O., said at a news briefing on Friday.
The comments were made in the context of broader statements criticizing inequitable distribution of vaccines and the lack of access to vaccination in many parts of the world.
Though fully vaccinated people are largely protected, studies suggest the Pfizer vaccine’s efficacy against the Delta variant is slightly lower than against other variants, and significantly lower for individuals who have received only one dose.
Britain — where some two-thirds of the population have received at least one dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine and just under half have received two — has seen a sharp rise in cases driven by the variant. And Israel, with one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, has partially reimposed mask mandates in response to an uptick in cases.
Given how fast-moving the variant is, “the vaccine approach is not enough,” said Eric Feigl-Ding, senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington. “We’re not at the level of vaccinations where we can release the brakes on everything else.”
Other scientists disagreed, saying guidance has to be tailored to local conditions.
“The W.H.O. is looking at a world that is largely unvaccinated, so this makes sense,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, adding that parts of the United States might also need different advice.
“If I were living in Missouri or Wyoming or Mississippi, places with low vaccination rates,” he said, “I would not be excited about going indoors without wearing a mask — even though I’m vaccinated.”
In other news from around the world:
The African Union and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have voiced concerns that a planned European Union digital travel pass does not cover people vaccinated with Covishield, the shot made at the Serum Institute of India on which many low-income countries have relied. The vaccine is the same as the one manufactured by AstraZeneca, which has E.U. approval and is included in the E.U. travel pass, but the Serum Institute has not received its own separate E.U. authorization to market the shot under the name Covishield. In a joint statement, the A.U. and the Africa C.D.C. said the exclusion was “concerning” and urged Brussels to expand its list of acceptable vaccines.
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, will bar unvaccinated residents over the age of 15 from accessing most public places from Aug. 20, including schools and universities as well as malls, gyms, restaurants, cafes and cultural venues. The new rules were announced on Twitter by the government’s media office on Monday, and come as an Emirati federal authority reported a rise in cases and deaths linked to the more infectious Delta variant, according to Reuters.
The United States will start sending 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Bangladesh, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said on Tuesday. The shipment, part of President Biden’s pledge to dispatch doses to countries in need, follows an announcement on Monday that the U.S. would start sending two million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to Peru and 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Pakistan. A shipment of 1.5 million Moderna doses to Honduras was announced over the weekend.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/world/who-mask-guidelines.html
By Eshe Nelson
A sign posted in London’s Heathrow Airport. Visitors from the United States, an amber list country, must quarantine for 10 days. But Britain is allowing an exemption for executives of companies with over 500 employees.Credit...Andy Rain/EPA, via Shutterstock
The British government introduced a new exemption to its quarantine rules on Tuesday for business travelers “bringing significant economic benefit” to England, but the move is unlikely to quell frustrations that certain travel routes in and out of Britain remain effectively shut.
The exemption has strict criteria and applies only to executives whose work supports at least 500 British jobs. It is much tighter than one that was in place for about six weeks from early December, when travelers needed to support only 50 jobs in Britain.
There has been a growing concern that Britain’s strict travel rules could lead the country to miss out on business opportunities as other countries welcome the return of travelers, especially from the United States. Since Britain left the European Union, it is also particularly anxious about not losing lucrative business activity to its neighbors across the English Channel.
Parts of Britain, such as the financial and legal district of the City of London, rely heavily on the presence of large multinational corporations. But most people entering the country either must quarantine for 10 days and take coronavirus tests on the second and eighth days or must pay for an additional test to end their self-isolation after five days.
Earlier this month, France reopened its borders to vaccinated American tourists, and last week, Germany said all Americans could enter the country.
Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, met with President Emmanuel Macron of France this week in Paris and opened up a new European Union trading hub on Tuesday. The bank is increasing the number of staff in Paris to 700 by the end of the year, up from 265 before Britain left the European Union. But Mr. Dimon won’t be stopping in Britain, where the company has 19,000 employees and offices in four cities, as he has in past trips to Europe, because of the country’s travel restrictions.
Any executives hoping to leave quarantine will have to meet strict requirements, including proving that the work being done in England “has a greater than 50 percent chance of creating or preserving at least 500 U.K.-based jobs” at a company that already has at least 500 employees or at a new British business. Executives have to apply to the government and get written approval, which can take up to five days, before traveling. When the executive isn’t doing business activity, they must self-isolate at all other times, the government said.
For more than a year, only a handful of flights each day have operated between New York and London, which used to be one of the world’s busiest travel routes. There are even fewer direct flights from London to other major American cities.
The issue of limited flights between New York and London has been raised several times a day, said Emanuel Adam, the executive director in London of BritishAmerican Business, which represents some trans-Atlantic companies.
“It’s frustrating to many businesses and scary because they don’t know yet what it will mean down the line,” he said.
At the same time, businesses are conscious of the health concerns raised by the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in Britain, he said. And now, restrictions against Britons are tightening; this week, Hong Kong barred all travelers from Britain.
In March 2020, President Donald J. Trump banned nearly all non-Americans traveling from Britain, and President Biden has kept the rule in place. There was a small breakthrough at the Group of 7 meetings in Britain earlier this month when the two sides agreed to set up a working group to restart international travel, but likelihood of an agreement for travel to return before the fall is reportedly getting slimmer.
“Many other countries have introduced similar exemptions, and it is important the U.K. does not lose out on prospective major investments and new jobs as a result,” a government representative said in a statement.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/business/britain-travel-quarantine-exemption.html
At-home rapid coronavirus tests allow you to swab your own nose and get the results in minutes.Credit...Wilfredo Lee/Associated Press
Got the sniffles? Worried about that night out in a crowded club? Or maybe you just want to visit grandma but are concerned about her risk, even though you’re vaccinated against the coronavirus.
At-home rapid virus tests, which give results in minutes, can be useful and reassuring for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Given the availability of vaccines for all people 12 and older in the United States, it may be hard to imagine why anyone would still need a home test. But the coronavirus isn’t going away anytime soon, and a rise in infections this fall among the unvaccinated appears inevitable.
In most cases, regular home testing isn’t necessary for someone who is fully vaccinated. The vaccines available in the United States have been shown to be effective against the variants, including Delta. But breakthrough infections, although rare, continue to occur.
A home test can offer reassurance to a vaccinated person who has traveled recently or spent time in a crowded bar. It can be used more frequently for families with young children who aren’t yet eligible for vaccination.
Here are some scenarios in which a rapid home test may be useful:
For unvaccinated children, who could be tested periodically before going to camp or school or right before a birthday party.
To regularly check and protect the health of a babysitter who spends time with your unvaccinated children, or a home-health aide who is caring for a high-risk individual.
As an added precaution for a vaccinated person who wants to spend time with a grandparent or someone who is immune compromised. (An unvaccinated person shouldn’t spend time indoors with a person at high risk.)
To be sure a cough or sniffle is just allergies or a common cold rather than Covid-19.
To test houseguests before a dinner party or overnight stay, if someone in the group is unvaccinated or at high risk.
For guests at weddings or other large gatherings if they can’t provide proof of vaccination.
People walk along the beach at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland’s Gold Coast. The state authorities have said supplies of the Pfizer Covid vaccine are running low in the Australian state. Photograph: Jono Searle/EPA
The Australian state of Queensland has just eight days of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine left, authorities warned on Wednesday, as confusion over who should receive the AstraZeneca jab continued and outbreaks across the country grew.
The state’s health minister, Dr Yvette D’ath, said the federal government had denied Queensland’s request for more doses of the Pfizer vaccine, despite having given another state, Victoria, 100,000 doses three weeks ago.
“So we are getting to that point that we’ll have to start prioritising only second doses if the commonwealth do not have any vaccine left,” she said. “And they need to tell us. Is what they gave Victoria the end of it? Have we only got what is allocate and no contingency stock left until that big delivery in October? Because we all need to know.”
Large parts of Queensland have begun a snap three-day lockdown, triggered by an unvaccinated Covid-positive hospital worker who travelled between Brisbane and north Queensland.
The state of New South Wales – home to Sydney and the centre of a major outbreak – confirmed 22 new infections, all of which were linked to previous cases and half of which had been in isolation for all or part of the time they were infectious.
A 72-hour lockdown was announced for the Northern Territory town of Alice Springs because a mineworker who spent more than six hours at the town’s airport – but did not leave the airport – was believed to be infected. The man was tested for Covid and the result was negative, but four of his five household contacts had subsequently been infected.
“We will operate on the assumption that he has Covid-19 and we will operate on the assumption that he was infectious while in the Territory,” chief minister Michael Gunner said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, state leaders and health officials addressed continuing confusion sparked by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s comments on Monday night that people under 40 could receive an AstraZeneca jab and that the government would indemnify doctors who administered the vaccine in such cases. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (Atagi) still advises against under-40s receiving AstraZeneca due to the risk of rare blood clots.
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian said in response to questions about Morrison’s comments: “The New South Wales government always follows the health advice, and the health advice from the federal regulatory bodies is that those over 60 should be getting AstraZeneca.”
Victorian state health minister Martin Foley said the confusion was an “unfortunate reflection of the rushed conversation that the prime minister kicked off late on Monday night without talking to anyone.”
When Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeanette Young was asked whether those under 40 should get the AstraZeneca vaccine she said: “No, I do not want under-40s to get AstraZeneca,” and that she didn’t “want an 18-year-old in Queensland dying from a clotting illness who, if they got Covid, probably wouldn’t die.”
The latest cases include two healthcare workers in two states. In New South Wales, multiple wards of the Fairfield and Royal North Shore hospitals were locked down and not accepting new patients after a student nurse tested positive for Covid. None of the patients who came into contact with the nurse had yet tested positive, said state chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant.
In Queensland, authorities announced that one of the state’s cases was a clerical worker at Brisbane’s Prince Charles hospital. The woman had been offered a vaccine but had not had any doses. D’ath added that the the woman should not have been posted outside the Covid-19 ward without being vaccinated and the government was investigating who was responsible.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/30/australia-covid-queensland-says-pfizer-vaccine-supply-will-run-out-in-days
Here are the other key developments from the last few hours:
· Tunisia has extended curfew hours to try and stop the rapid spread of coronavirus as it recorded a daily record number of cases.
· Maree Todd, Scotland’s minister for public health, has tested positive for coronavirus. Announcing the news on Twitter tonight, the SNP MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross said she is self-isolating after testing positive today but has not had any symptoms.
· Brazil is to suspend its $324m Indian vaccine contract that has mired President Jair Bolsonaro in accusations of irregularities.
· Romania is to sell 1.7m excess doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to Denmark because it was unable to use them within its own population due to vaccine hesitancy.
· Guatemala has demanded its money back from Russia after it failed to deliver paid-for vaccines. Guatemalan health minister Amelia Flores has said the government has not received its promised Sputnik V vaccines.
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