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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
219,231,865 |
+682,274 |
4,543,751 |
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40,330,712 |
+184,420 |
659,927 |
|
|
32,856,863 |
+45,971 |
439,559 |
|
|
20,804,215 |
+26,348 |
581,228 |
|
|
6,937,333 |
+18,368 |
184,014 |
|
|
6,825,074 |
+35,693 |
132,742 |
|
|
6,783,329 |
+17,621 |
114,577 |
|
|
6,412,277 |
+23,946 |
57,000 |
|
|
5,190,948 |
+5,328 |
112,005 |
|
|
5,025,233 |
+33,170 |
108,393 |
|
|
4,911,082 |
+1,996 |
125,016 |
|
|
4,861,883 |
+6,818 |
84,472 |
|
|
4,546,487 |
+6,503 |
129,290 |
|
|
4,100,138 |
+10,337 |
133,676 |
|
|
3,970,033 |
+14,615 |
92,757 |
|
|
3,352,410 |
+11,146 |
259,326 |
|
|
2,889,036 |
+366 |
75,358 |
|
|
2,787,203 |
+9,544 |
82,496 |
|
|
2,288,371 |
+2,075 |
53,833 |
|
|
2,151,010 |
+1,004 |
198,329 |
|
|
2,003,955 |
+14,216 |
33,533 |
|
|
1,943,882 |
+2,827 |
18,012 |
|
|
1,895,459 |
+7,309 |
20,878 |
|
|
1,765,016 |
+18,762 |
16,942 |
|
|
1,679,476 |
+287 |
30,404 |
|
|
1,639,123 |
+448 |
36,945 |
|
|
1,503,680 |
+3,062 |
26,274 |
|
|
1,503,019 |
+3,856 |
26,962 |
|
|
1,486,153 |
+17,713 |
16,041 |
|
|
1,219,531 |
+14,802 |
11,841 |
|
|
1,184,664 |
+1,854 |
25,380 |
|
|
1,163,688 |
+3,569 |
25,889 |
|
|
1,100,208 |
+1,443 |
34,591 |
|
|
1,082,981 |
+16,629 |
7,086 |
|
|
1,039,492 |
+1,565 |
17,757 |
|
|
866,968 |
+6,020 |
12,749 |
|
|
812,531 |
+194 |
30,059 |
|
|
798,091 |
+965 |
10,422 |
|
|
793,791 |
+4,320 |
9,402 |
|
|
766,279 |
+3,346 |
7,307 |
|
|
764,295 |
+1,648 |
10,770 |
|
|
719,355 |
+985 |
2,043 |
|
|
690,153 |
+1,848 |
10,775 |
|
|
666,168 |
+2,134 |
23,538 |
|
|
659,464 |
+6,609 |
5,377 |
|
|
603,288 |
+1,022 |
8,061 |
|
|
590,832 |
+2,868 |
13,669 |
|
|
553,697 |
+3,886 |
7,482 |
|
|
544,634 |
+185 |
8,552 |
|
|
502,146 |
+403 |
32,296 |
|
|
490,879 |
+412 |
18,452 |
|
|
483,231 |
+1,699 |
3,791 |
|
|
475,548 |
+5,271 |
12,007 |
|
|
473,530 |
+11,434 |
11,868 |
|
|
466,574 |
+2,848 |
5,523 |
|
|
458,614 |
+86 |
15,785 |
|
|
458,157 |
+670 |
7,066 |
|
|
457,487 |
+1,745 |
18,950 |
|
|
444,130 |
+3,828 |
9,400 |
|
|
428,736 |
+3,845 |
5,677 |
|
|
409,961 |
+101 |
2,420 |
|
|
402,640 |
+3,358 |
15,490 |
|
|
395,122 |
+199 |
12,548 |
|
|
385,078 |
+144 |
6,034 |
|
|
374,803 |
+805 |
8,338 |
|
|
354,236 |
+1,789 |
5,112 |
|
|
350,468 |
+295 |
4,008 |
|
|
346,518 |
+825 |
2,584 |
|
|
344,957 |
+2,675 |
3,688 |
|
|
339,841 |
+1,084 |
8,932 |
|
|
336,088 |
+855 |
4,039 |
|
|
310,637 |
+1,665 |
4,263 |
|
|
309,351 |
+1,217 |
4,692 |
|
|
302,393 |
+93 |
4,068 |
|
|
299,532 |
+695 |
4,569 |
|
|
288,732 |
+291 |
16,743 |
|
|
272,635 |
+95 |
1,388 |
|
|
268,105 |
+579 |
6,406 |
|
|
267,962 |
+764 |
4,450 |
|
|
253,445 |
+2,024 |
2,292 |
|
|
242,750 |
+615 |
4,857 |
|
|
236,881 |
+1,018 |
4,739 |
|
|
232,910 |
+166 |
602 |
|
|
217,546 |
+3,726 |
944 |
|
|
206,522 |
+195 |
3,605 |
|
|
196,527 |
+447 |
5,302 |
|
|
193,013 |
+582 |
2,480 |
|
|
177,399 |
+905 |
5,964 |
|
|
175,876 |
+142 |
2,532 |
|
|
161,814 |
+1,640 |
822 |
|
|
157,136 |
+742 |
1,088 |
|
|
153,306 |
+46 |
7,127 |
|
|
147,369 |
+982 |
2,501 |
|
|
146,754 |
+438 |
1,866 |
|
|
143,106 |
+469 |
2,579 |
|
|
142,363 |
+408 |
1,293 |
|
|
127,861 |
+679 |
1,030 |
|
|
114,131 |
+256 |
507 |
|
|
29,599 |
+306 |
725 |
|
|
14,662 |
+86 |
146 |
Retrieved from：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
By Michael Erman and Manojna Maddipatla
Vials of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines of Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca are pictured at St. Mary's Hospital, in Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland, February 14, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) on Wednesday asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the use of a third booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA is considering booster shots of the Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and BioNTech SE vaccine, but so far has only allowed people with weakened immune systems to receive third doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer shots. read more
The agency said on Wednesday that a group of its advisers will meet to discuss Pfizer's booster shot application on Sept. 17, but it is not clear whether they will discuss Moderna's.
Moderna said it submitted initial data for the use of a 50-microgram booster dose of its two-shot vaccine. The original Moderna vaccine contains 100 micrograms of mRNA in each shot.
Recipients of the 50-microgram dose had robust antibody responses against the Delta variant, Moderna Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel said in a statement.
Although Moderna has said its COVID-19 vaccine was still about 93% effective 6 months after the second dose, it has observed that antibody levels had waned significantly at that point.
It said that nearly 350 participants of its original Phase II trial were given a third vaccine dose that generated a better immune response than what was seen after the second dose in its large Phase III clinical trial.
Moderna said the safety profile of the third dose was similar to that of the second dose.
The company said it expects to submit data to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and other regulatory authorities around the world in the coming days.
Several countries are already offering or have plans to give booster doses to older citizens or people with weak immune systems as infections and hospitalization soar due to the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus and evidence of waning antibody levels in vaccinated people after six months.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-submits-initial-data-covid-19-vaccine-booster-us-fda-2021-09-01/
By Ann Wang
The first batch of BioNTech vaccines bought by private entities including Foxconn's Terry Gou and Taiwanese chip giant TSMC, arrives in Taoyuan, Taiwan, September 2, 2021. REUTERS/Ann Wang
The first batch of BioNTech SE's (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Taiwan on Thursday, helped by the involvement of two of the world's most important tech firms after months of heated political and diplomatic wrangling.
Taiwan has blamed China, which claims the island as its own territory, for nixing an original order from the German firm this year - charges Beijing has angrily denied.
Taiwan's government then allowed major Apple Inc (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn - formally Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (2317.TW) - as well as its high-profile billionaire founder, Terry Gou, along with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (2330.TW), to negotiate on its behalf for the doses.
A $350 million deal for 10 million shots was inked in July, which will be donated to the government for distribution.
A cargo flight from Luxembourg carrying the vaccines landed at Taiwan's main international airport at Taoyuan, outside of Taipei, at 7 a.m. (2300 GMT), and was met on the tarmac by Health Minister Chen Shih-chung and Sophie Chang, the TSMC Charity Foundation's chairwoman and Gou's cousin.
Chen spoke briefly to thank the companies, and a Taiwanese Buddhist group that has also ordered 5 million doses, for their efforts to get the vaccine.
"They've worked very hard and overcome all the difficulties," he said.
Chen did not mention Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (600196.SS), which has the right to sell the shots on BioNTech's behalf in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and whose unit signed the deal for the island's doses.
A large label on the side of one of the crates with the names of BioNTech, Fosun and the vaccine, using simplified Chinese characters, which are not used in Taiwan, was removed before arrival.
Fosun had posted a picture on its Weibo account of the crate in the warehouse, with the label, before it was loaded onto the aircraft.
In another flourish of drama, China announced the exact arrival date of the vaccines on Wednesday, shortly before Chen began his daily news briefing.
The roughly 900,000 doses of the vaccine, jointly developed with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N), are expected to start being administered later this month.
Taiwan is getting the shots earlier than expected as a delay in regulatory approval of the shot for use in mainland China made a surplus available for the island. The vaccine is approved for use in Chinese-run Hong Kong and Macau.
While a relatively small domestic coronavirus outbreak is well under control in Taiwan, only around 5% of its 23.5 million people are fully vaccinated, though the government has millions of vaccines on order.
More than 10 million vaccine doses have arrived in Taiwan to date, split between Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) and AstraZeneca Plc (AZN.L), while local developer Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp's (6547.TWO) shots have also started to be administered.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/helped-by-tech-giants-biontech-vaccines-finally-reach-taiwan-2021-09-01/
By David Ljunggren
Ontario Premier Doug Ford receives the Astrazeneca-Oxford coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from pharmacist Anmol Soor at Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 9, 2021. Nathan Denette/Pool via REUTERS
Ontario, Canada's most populous province, said on Wednesday that people would have to show digital proof they had been inoculated against COVID-19 to enter a wide range of establishments, dropping earlier opposition to the idea.
From Sept. 22 people will need proof of full vaccination to visit bars, restaurants, nightclubs and indoor sporting facilities. Beginning on Oct. 22, the information will be stored as a digital vaccine passport on mobile devices.
Premier Doug Ford, who initially opposed the idea on grounds that it would "create a split society," said the spread of the Delta variant had shown the need for additional steps.
"We must take immediate action and we will, because we need to protect our hospitals. We need to avoid lockdowns," he told reporters, urging people to get vaccinated.
"This is something I did not want to do. This is a serious step we're not taking lightly," he said. Officials say 76% of Ontarians have had both shots.
The issue is featuring on the federal election campaign, where Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regularly criticizes vaccine opponents.
Last month his government said it would require all federal public servants and many other workers to be vaccinated. The mandate also includes air, train and cruise ship travelers.
"I will continue to be steadfast and unequivocal - unlike some of the other leaders - on the way we get through this pandemic," Trudeau told reporters on Wednesday.
The rival Conservatives suggest rapid testing is an alternative to passports. Leader Erin O'Toole, though, says he will respect whatever the 10 provinces decide to do.
Ontario is the fourth province to opt for the passports. Quebec, the second-most populous province, introduced its own version on Wednesday while British Columbia and Manitoba have announced plans to do so.
Retrieved from：https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-most-populous-province-changes-mind-will-adopt-digital-vaccine-passports-2021-09-01/
By Apoorva Mandavilli, Benjamin Mueller and Shalini Venugopal Bhagat
At a coronavirus vaccination and testing site in San Francisco last month.Credit...Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
The United States has entered the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic — or fifth, depending on which expert you ask. As the vaccination campaign lags and the contagious Delta variant spreads, cases and hospitalizations are at their highest since last winter. Covid-19 deaths, too, are on a steady incline.
After every other peak has come a trough, however, often for reasons that were not immediately obvious. In Britain, where the variant is also the dominant form of the coronavirus, daily cases fell from a peak of 60,000 in mid-July to half that within two weeks, though they have since been climbing again.
In India, the numbers spiked to more than 400,000 daily cases this spring; experts estimated that the true figure could be more than 20 times greater. The unimaginable toll shocked many who had declared that the country had successfully eluded the virus. But then, in June, infections fell drastically.
Scientists are struggling to understand why Delta outbreaks in those countries dissipated, even if temporarily, and what that may mean for similar surges, including the one in the United States.
In the United States, the variant’s pace has slowed, and new infections are falling in some states, like Missouri, that Delta struck hard. The number of infections over the last week is now 14 percent higher than it was two weeks ago, a fraction of the rate during much of July and early August.
Is the Delta surge beginning to slow in the United States? Or is the variant putting the country on course for months of bumps and valleys?
Expert opinion varies widely on the direction of the virus in the coming months. A number of national forecasts being tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predict that cases will rise in the early weeks of September — but many foresee the opposite.
By Daniel Politi
Officials of the World Health Organization on Wednesday called on countries with a surplus of Covid-19 vaccines to speed up donations of doses to Latin American and Caribbean nations where immunization is moving slowly.
“While every country in our region has begun administering Covid-19 vaccines, immunizations are following the fault lines of inequality that have long divided our region,” Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, the director of the Pan American Health Organization, a division of the W.H.O., said at a news conference.
Only one in four people in Latin America and the Caribbean has been fully immunized against Covid-19, “and for many, vaccines remain months away,” Dr. Etienne added.
The divisions within the region are stark. Chile and Uruguay have managed to fully vaccinate more than 60 percent of their populations while more than a third of countries in the region have yet to reach 20 percent.
“Vaccination rates remain in the teens in several Caribbean and South American countries and coverage is still in the single digits in Central American nations like Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua,” Dr. Etienne said, referring to percentages of people vaccinated. The numbers are especially low in countries with particularly fragile health systems, such as Haiti and Venezuela.
Infections overall are declining in most of South America, while they are rising in much of the Caribbean and in several Central American countries, including Costa Rica and Belize.
Latin America and the Caribbean had received donations of around 43.3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines by mid-August through bilateral agreements and the United Nations-backed Covax program, according to agency estimates.
The Pan American Health Organization is starting a program to boost regional production of so-called messenger RNA vaccines — the same type as the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots — but that effort will not provide doses in the short term.
An additional 540 million doses are needed to make sure every country in the Americas can fully inoculate 60 percent of the population.
Officials deplored the fact that administering booster shots is being discussed in some countries while in others people are desperate to receive a first dose.
“This is not only an ethical and moral problem, it is also a public health problem,” Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, the pan-American agency’s assistant director, said. The best way to control transmission and prevent other variants from emerging is to increase vaccination everywhere, Dr. Barbosa said.
While the highly contagious Delta variant continues to spread rapidly in much of the world, Latin America and the Caribbean have so far largely been spared by the variant — and experts aren’t sure why.
“It’s not easy to explain,” Jairo Méndez Rico, a regional adviser to the agency for viral diseases, said. “Perhaps some sort of cross-protection because of the previous circulation of many other variants” could be helping to delay the community spread of Delta, he suggested, adding, “It’s early to say what is happening.”
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/world/health-officials-plead-for-vaccine-donations-to-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.html
By Tess McClure in Christchurch
Laborers lined up to receive a coronavirus vaccine at a construction site in New Delhi on Tuesday.Credit...Adnan Abidi/Reuters
The coronavirus continues to batter India’s damaged economy, putting growing pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to nurture a nascent recovery and get the country back to work.
Infections and deaths have eased, and the country is returning to work. Economists predict that growth could surge in the second half of the year on paper. But, still, the damage could take years to undo. Economic output was 9.2 percent lower for the April-through-June period this year than what it was for the same period in 2019, according to India Ratings, a credit ratings agency.
Just 11 percent of the population is fully inoculated, and economists are particularly concerned that the slow rate of vaccinations could lead to a third wave of the coronavirus, which could prove to be disastrous for any economic recovery.
Since the start of the pandemic, about 10 million people have lost salaried jobs, which are difficult to get back, said Mahesh Vyas, the chief executive of the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy. At least 3.2 million Indians lost stable, well-paying salaried jobs in July alone.
Mr. Modi’s government moved this month to rekindle the economy by selling stakes worth close to $81 billion in state-owned assets like airports, railway stations and stadiums. But economists largely see the policy as a move to generate cash in the short term.
Economists say that India needs to splurge to unlock the full potential of its huge low-skilled work force. “There is a need for very simple primary health facilities, primary services to deliver nutrition to children,” Mr. Vyas said. “All these are highly labor-intensive jobs, and these are government services largely.”
Throughout India’s second wave, core infrastructure projects across the country, which employ millions of domestic migrant workers, were exempted from restrictions and helped bolster the economy.
The “only solution,” Mr. Vyas said, is for the government to spend and incite private investment. “You have a demotivated private sector because there isn’t enough demand. That’s what’s holding India back.”
Retrieed from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/31/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/indias-economy-slammed-by-the-pandemic-needs-its-lost-growth
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Half a million severely immunosuppressed people in the UK will be offered a third vaccine dose. The offer, which follows a recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, is separate from any broader booster vaccine programme.
· The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said there was no urgent need for the administration of booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines to fully vaccinated individuals based on available data on vaccine effectiveness, Reuters reports.
· Spain said on Wednesday 70% of its population had been fully vaccinated, fulfilling a goal set by the government for August.
· Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, said people will have to show digital proof of vaccination to enter a wide range of establishments, dropping earlier opposition to the idea. From 22 September people will need proof of full vaccination to visit bars, restaurants, nightclubs and indoor sporting facilities.
· France began administering vaccine booster shots to over-65s and people with underlying health conditions on Wednesday as the country tries to increase protection levels to fight the effects of the Delta variant.
· Egypt has set out its ambitions to manufacture 1bn doses of China’s Sinovac vaccine annually, claiming it will become the “biggest vaccine producer” in the Middle East and Africa. Two factories will produce doses to cover domestic demand as well as for export across the region.
· About 10,000 unvaccinated health workers in Greece – 10% of the sector’s workforce – are facing suspension, a union has said. The Greek parliament in July passed legislation to make vaccinations mandatory for health staff from 1 September, leading to protests outside hospitals across the country.
· Contaminants found last week in suspended Moderna vaccines in Japan were particles of stainless steel, the health ministry has said, adding that it did not expect they would pose health risks.
· The Scottish government is proposing vaccine certificates for entry to nightclubs and large-scale indoor and outdoor events in an attempt to curb escalating Covid infections before the autumn.
· Cuba plans to vaccinate children aged two to 18 with its domestically developed Soberana-2 vaccine as the country tries to reach inoculation levels of 90% by December.
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