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Total |
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World |
221,960,930 |
+403,479 |
4,588,334 |
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40,865,794 |
+39,644 |
666,559 |
|
|
33,057,320 |
+30,184 |
441,075 |
|
|
20,899,933 |
+9,154 |
583,866 |
|
|
7,030,455 |
+17,856 |
187,990 |
|
|
7,018,927 |
+41,192 |
133,274 |
|
|
6,839,494 |
+3,042 |
115,007 |
|
|
6,519,016 |
+20,962 |
58,377 |
|
|
5,207,695 |
+3,893 |
112,673 |
|
|
5,156,986 |
+27,579 |
111,257 |
|
|
4,919,773 |
+1,124 |
125,331 |
|
|
4,887,394 |
+3,213 |
84,928 |
|
|
4,574,787 |
+3,361 |
129,567 |
|
|
4,133,433 |
+4,413 |
136,473 |
|
|
4,020,573 |
+6,765 |
92,902 |
|
|
3,428,384 |
+7,504 |
263,140 |
|
|
2,890,666 |
+183 |
75,379 |
|
|
2,824,063 |
+4,118 |
83,617 |
|
|
2,298,307 |
+773 |
54,001 |
|
|
2,155,508 |
+474 |
198,523 |
|
|
2,103,331 |
+22,415 |
34,337 |
|
|
1,956,348 |
+2,115 |
18,040 |
|
|
1,922,942 |
+5,650 |
21,162 |
|
|
1,862,187 |
+17,352 |
18,491 |
|
|
1,680,697 |
+139 |
30,406 |
|
|
1,641,526 |
+435 |
37,108 |
|
|
1,571,372 |
+12,908 |
16,354 |
|
|
1,517,166 |
+2,710 |
26,628 |
|
|
1,516,094 |
+927 |
27,022 |
|
|
1,294,522 |
+13,988 |
13,042 |
|
|
1,195,488 |
+1,492 |
25,413 |
|
|
1,182,918 |
+3,613 |
26,232 |
|
|
1,107,043 |
+1,035 |
34,714 |
|
|
1,047,710 |
+663 |
17,810 |
|
|
886,008 |
+1,923 |
13,145 |
|
|
816,896 |
+3,897 |
9,851 |
|
|
813,688 |
+648 |
30,070 |
|
|
802,349 |
+1,061 |
10,477 |
|
|
783,826 |
+4,103 |
7,398 |
|
|
770,759 |
+1,488 |
10,858 |
|
|
724,240 |
+977 |
2,048 |
|
|
697,510 |
+605 |
10,801 |
|
|
696,904 |
+7,230 |
5,788 |
|
|
675,191 |
+1,144 |
23,846 |
|
|
608,041 |
+641 |
8,114 |
|
|
601,716 |
+1,765 |
13,933 |
|
|
565,957 |
+1,120 |
7,867 |
|
|
545,367 |
+124 |
8,585 |
|
|
536,788 |
+12,481 |
13,385 |
|
|
503,883 |
+51 |
32,353 |
|
|
492,680 |
+171 |
18,512 |
|
|
492,399 |
+1,473 |
3,847 |
|
|
488,538 |
+640 |
12,315 |
|
|
478,144 |
+1,435 |
5,642 |
|
|
465,949 |
+3,182 |
10,320 |
|
|
462,710 |
+677 |
19,149 |
|
|
460,073 |
+229 |
7,095 |
|
|
458,922 |
+38 |
15,883 |
|
|
445,278 |
+2,406 |
5,879 |
|
|
417,971 |
+2,555 |
15,985 |
|
|
410,413 |
+71 |
2,425 |
|
|
396,181 |
+101 |
12,551 |
|
|
385,780 |
+120 |
6,034 |
|
|
378,022 |
+184 |
8,375 |
|
|
357,955 |
+1,136 |
5,112 |
|
|
356,474 |
+2,742 |
3,744 |
|
|
351,894 |
+156 |
4,012 |
|
|
349,440 |
+461 |
2,592 |
|
|
345,522 |
+699 |
9,067 |
|
|
341,314 |
+1,127 |
4,115 |
|
|
316,797 |
+1,379 |
4,343 |
|
|
316,174 |
+1,190 |
4,785 |
|
|
302,979 |
+346 |
4,612 |
|
|
302,748 |
+80 |
4,078 |
|
|
290,395 |
+368 |
16,801 |
|
|
273,113 |
+105 |
1,388 |
|
|
270,685 |
+466 |
6,445 |
|
|
270,541 |
+234 |
4,456 |
|
|
261,778 |
+1,375 |
2,327 |
|
|
245,264 |
+239 |
4,924 |
|
|
240,430 |
+258 |
4,795 |
|
|
236,079 |
+3,766 |
968 |
|
|
233,756 |
+189 |
603 |
|
|
207,167 |
+53 |
3,617 |
|
|
198,313 |
+309 |
5,445 |
|
|
195,890 |
+379 |
2,556 |
|
|
180,243 |
+198 |
6,097 |
|
|
176,582 |
+109 |
2,554 |
|
|
168,469 |
+1,204 |
822 |
|
|
162,186 |
+2,869 |
2,309 |
|
|
160,511 |
+640 |
1,120 |
|
|
151,499 |
+502 |
2,519 |
|
|
148,054 |
+131 |
1,881 |
|
|
144,632 |
+114 |
2,588 |
|
|
144,001 |
+212 |
1,302 |
|
|
130,510 |
+408 |
1,030 |
|
|
125,671 |
+121 |
4,493 |
|
|
115,269 |
+223 |
516 |
|
|
31,012 |
+157 |
740 |
|
|
14,861 |
+49 |
151 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
By Angelo Amante
Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza speaks to reporters in Rome, Italy, February 25, 2020. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
The group of 20 rich countries said on Monday more efforts were needed to help poor countries vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, but steered clear of making new numerical or financial commitments.
Italy, which holds the G20 presidency this year, said after the gathering that the "Pact of Rome," where the meeting was held on Sunday and Monday, included a political agreement to increase support for poor nations and send them more vaccines.
"The level of (vaccine) inequality is too high and is not sustainable," Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza told reporters.
"If we leave part of the world without vaccines we risk new variants which will hurt all of us...Our message is very clear: no one must be left behind in the vaccination campaign."
Vaccines are being shipped to poor countries through the international COVAX facility, backed by the World Health Organization and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).
However, richer nations have come under fire for allegedly stockpiling COVID-19 jabs as many underdeveloped countries with low inoculation rates and rising infections struggle to get supplies.
"The strongest countries...are committed to investing significant resources and sending vaccines to the most fragile...We should strengthen this system bilaterally and through international platforms starting from COVAX," Speranza said.
However, asked whether the G20 had made any new concrete financial commitments, he warned such pledges risked being a "straitjacket," and the important thing was a "political goal" of global vaccination.
"We want to take the vaccine to the whole world and we'll make the investments necessary. Will they be enough? Will more be needed? The countries of the world are making a commitment in this direction," he said.
A 11-page declaration released after the meeting made no new financial pledges, but Speranza said these may be delivered at a joint meeting of G20 health and finance ministers in October.
That will be "a decisive occasion to find the resources to finance the instruments we have put on the table", he said.
A little over 230 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been delivered to 139 countries under COVAX, GAVI data shows, against a target to secure 2 billion doses for lower-income countries by the end of 2021.
Speranza stressed that poor countries must also be helped to produce vaccines at home. "Transferring doses is not enough. We have to make other areas of the world capable of producing, sharing methodologies and procedures," he said.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/g20-vows-more-covid-help-poor-states-italian-presidency-says-2021-09-06/
By Marcelo Rochabrun
A vial labelled "Sputnik V coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine" is seen in this illustration picture taken May 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo said on Monday that the government has reached an agreement with Russia to install a plant to produce the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.
Castillo did not provide further information on the timeline for the installation or production targets during a speech broadcast on national television, but added that the health minister would provide further information. Peru signed a contract to buy 20 million doses of Sputnik V in July.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-build-plant-make-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-president-2021-09-07/
Vietnam police officers inspect authorised travel documents of commuters at a check point during the first day of the extended lockdown in Hanoi, Vietnam, September 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, extended COVID-19 restrictions on Monday for a further two weeks, as authorities launched a plan to conduct tests on the city's 8 million people to try to curb a climb in infections that started in late April.
The Southeast Asian country dealt successfully with the virus for much of the pandemic, but the virulent Delta variant has proved more challenging in recent months.
COVID-19 has infected more than 536,000 people in Vietnam and killed 13,385, the vast majority in the past few months.
Hanoi, which has ordered people to stay home and halted all non-essential activities since July, has divided the city into "red", "orange" and "green" zones based on infection risk.
"People in quarantine camps, isolated areas or in red areas will be tested three times per week," city authorities said in a statement late on Monday, adding that people in other zones would be tested every five to seven days by either a PCR or rapid antigen test.
Barricades on Monday separated red zones from other areas, photographs posted on social media and media outlets showed.
Hanoi has been reporting 50 cases daily on average and has recorded over 4,100 cases since the pandemic began, official data showed.
Hanoi authoritiesare eager to keep the outbreak from reaching the intensity seen in Ho Chi Minh City, which accounts for nearly half of the total infections and 80% of fatalities.
In the southern business hub,where a strict lockdown is in place until Sept. 15, people have been encouraged to test themselves using antigen COVID-19 kits after health services were overwhelmed.
In a rare live broadcast of questions from the public to an official late on Monday, Phan Van Mai, chairman of Ho Chi Minh City, said some restaurants in safe zones would be allowed to reopen for takeaway and that city authorities would look to gradually reopen the economy.
One-third of Hanoi's residents have received at least one dose of a vaccine and the Health Ministry on Sunday called on the capital and Ho Chi Minh City to vaccinate all adult residents with at least one dose by Sept. 15. read more
Vietnam has one of the lowest coronavirus vaccination rates in the region, with only 3.4% of its 98 million people fully vaccinated, and 19% with one shot.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/vietnams-capital-ramps-up-testing-after-extending-covid-19-curbs-2021-09-06/
Since being discovered in Colombia in January, the mu variant of COVID-19 has spread to nearly four dozen countries and has made its presence known in Hawaii and Alaska. It has so far been found in 49 states with Nebraska being the only state to not have a mu variant case detected.
Health officials believe mu is even more transmissible than the delta variant and has the potential to resist vaccines.
In the U.S., the mu variant has been detected in 49 states and the District of Columbia, according to Newsweek.
California has reported the highest number of the latest variant with 384. A total of 167 of those cases were found in Los Angeles County.
“The identification of variants like mu, and the spreading of variants across the globe, highlights the need for L.A. County residents to continue to take measures to protect themselves and others,” said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of LA County Public Health, in a statement.
“This is what makes getting vaccinated and layering protections so important. These are actions that break the chain of transmission and limits COVID-19 proliferation that allows for the virus to mutate into something that could be more dangerous.”
On Aug. 30, the World Health Organization called the mu variant a variant of interest due to its ability to be more transmissible than any of the other strains of COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet made similar classifications about mu in the U.S.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that health officials were maintaining a “close eye” on the mu variant despite it being “not at all even close” to becoming the dominant COVID-19 strain in the U.S.
“Even though it has not in essence taken hold to any extent here we always pay attention to at all times variants,” Fauci said.
The U.S. saw its peak of mu variant cases in mid-July but case numbers involving that variant have been declining since, signaling either a weakening of the strain or indicating a worrisome future.
Retrieved from: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-mu-variant-covid-19-us-coronavirus-vaccine-20210906-4aslq6ueqndb5myst5blsynqoq-story.html
By Mitch Smith and Julie Bosman
Anne Marie Baker, a pediatric nurse, disinfects the room of a patient who died of Covid-19 at the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. Credit...Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
A summer that began with plunging caseloads in the United States and real hope that the worst of Covid-19 had passed is ending with soaring death counts, full hospitals and a bitter realization that the coronavirus is going to remain a fact of American life for the foreseeable future.
Vaccination rates are ticking upward, and reports of new infections are starting to fall in some hard-hit Southern states. But Labor Day weekend bears little resemblance to Memorial Day, when the country was averaging fewer than 25,000 cases daily, or to the Fourth of July, when President Biden spoke about nearing independence from the virus.
Instead, with more than 161,000 new cases a day for the last week, as of Sunday, and about 100,000 Covid patients hospitalized nationwide, this holiday feels more like a flashback to 2020. As of Sunday night, the total of known virus cases in the United States surpassed 40 million, according to a New York Times database.
In Kansas, many state employees were sent home to work remotely again. In Arizona, where school mask mandates are banned, thousands of students and teachers have had to go into quarantine. In Hawaii, the governor has issued a plea to tourists: Don’t visit.
“The irony is that things got so good in May and most of June that all of us, including me, were talking about the end game,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, Berkeley. “We started to enjoy life again. Within a very few weeks, it all came crashing down.”
The resurgence has left the country exhausted, nervous and less certain than ever about when normalcy might return.
More than 1,500 Americans are dying most days, worse than when cases surged last summer but far lower than the winter peak. Though the rate of case growth nationally has slowed in recent days and incremental progress has been made in Southern states, other regions are in the midst of growing outbreaks.
Vaccines are effective in preventing severe disease and death, but 47 percent of Americans are not fully vaccinated, allowing the highly infectious Delta variant more than enough opportunity to inflict suffering and disrupt daily life. Health officials say that most of the patients who are being hospitalized and dying are not vaccinated, and that it is those unvaccinated people who are driving the current surge and burdening the health care system.
By Jin Yu Young
Outside a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea, last week.Credit...Anthony Wallace/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
South Korean health officials relaxed some of the country’s social distancing regulations on Monday, as new coronavirus cases level off after hitting new highs in August.
In the Seoul area, groups of up to six are now allowed to gather in restaurants and cafes, which will be allowed to stay open until 10 p.m., an hour later than in the past few weeks. Before 6 p.m., at least two people in the group must be fully vaccinated. After 6 p.m., at least four must be.
In recent weeks, groups of no more than two were allowed past 6 p.m.
The capital and surrounding metropolitan areas will remain at the strictest level of the anti-Covid regulations, Level 4, until Oct. 3. In regions that are at Level 3, groups of up to eight will be permitted, with at least four of those required to be fully vaccinated.
South Korea reported 1,375 new daily cases on Monday, a slight drop from the week before. According to Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford, the nation has fully vaccinated 34 percent of its population. As of Monday, 58.4 percent of South Koreans had received their first dose of the vaccine, according to health officials.
Over the weekend, up to 244 people were mistakenly given expired or nearly expired doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Seoul and Pyeongtaek, health officials said. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said it would inspect vaccines at local hospitals to make sure they are administered properly.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/06/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/south-korea-relaxes-some-social-distancing-rules
Chilean health authorities have approved the use of the Sinovac vaccine for children six and older. Heriberto García, director of Chile’s Public Health Institute, said the institution approved the new measure by five votes in favour and one against.
Now, the Health Ministry has to determine dates and the mechanism to start vaccinations.
The approval was taken in a moment that the South American nation has fully immunised more than three-fourths of its adult population.
Catholic University of Chile is currently conducting a study with 4,000 children aged three and 17 to study the Sinovac effects on them. But García said the experts at the Public Health Institute based their decision on a review of information given by the Sinovac laboratory and information published in medical journals.
In Latin America, a few countries have approved only the Pfizer vaccine for children 12 and older. China has authorized Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines for children ages three to 17.
Few regulators around the world have evaluated the safety of Covid shots in kids, but the approvals are starting. The United States, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong are all allowing the use of the Pfizer vaccine in children as young as 12.
Chile has reported more than 1.6 million cases and more than 37,100 deaths.
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· Britain will set aside £5.4bn for the National Health Service to help it cover the costs and the patient backlog caused by the pandemic.
· The Philippines recorded a record high of 22,415 new infections. It also recorded 103 more deaths. Meanwhile, the government said it would replace a stay-at-home order in the capital Manila with localised lockdowns.
· Afghanistan could lose the majority of its Covid-19 isolation beds because foreign funding for its core health programme has been suspended since August, potentially forcing 2,000 health facilities to close. The WHO said it is hoping to get several planes of medical supplies into Kabul airport this week to support health facilities.
· Vietnam’s capital Hanoi extended Covid-19 restrictions for a further two weeks, as authorities launched a plan to test up to 1.5 million people for coronavirus in higher-risk areas of the capital to contain a climb in infections.
· Europe’s medicines regulator said on Monday it was evaluating data on a booster dose for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech.
· The education of hundreds of millions of children is hanging by a thread as a result of an unprecedented intensity of threats including Covid 19 and the climate crisis, according to a new report warned today.
· Coronavirus rules are set to be renewed in England for another six months as No 10 admitted cases are likely to increase sharply because children are returning to school.
· London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said acting on air pollution is a “matter of life and death” after a report found it increases the risk of Covid-19 hospital admission.
· The American state of Mississippi’s hospitals are being overwhelmed by a surge in cases, which has been driven by its low vaccination rate. Only about 38% of the state’s 3 million people are fully inoculated.
· New Zealand will ease Covid curbs in all regions outside its biggest city of Auckland from midnight on Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference.
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