#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
	World	7,446,229	+134,705	418,137
1	USA	2,066,401	+20,852	115,130
2	Brazil	775,184	+33,100	39,797
3	Russia	493,657	+8,404	6,358
4	UK	290,143	+1,003	41,128
5	Spain	289,360	+314	27,136
6	India	287,155	+12,375	8,107
7	Italy	235,763	+202	34,114
8	Peru	208,823	+5,087	5,903
9	Germany	186,866	+350	8,844
10	Iran	177,938	+2,011	8,506
11	Turkey	173,036	+922	4,746
12	France	155,136	+545	29,319
13	Chile	148,496	+5,737	2,475
14	Mexico	124,301	+4,199	14,649
15	Pakistan	113,702	+5,385	2,255
16	Saudi Arabia	112,288	+3,717	819
17	Canada	97,125	+472	7,960
18	China	83,046	+3	4,634
19	Bangladesh	74,865	+3,190	1,012
20	Qatar	73,595	+1,716	66
21	Belgium	59,569	+132	9,629
22	South Africa	55,421	+2,430	1,210
23	Belarus	51,066	+801	288
24	Netherlands	48,087	+184	6,042
25	Sweden	46,814	+198	4,795
26	Ecuador	44,440	+523	3,720
27	Colombia	43,682	+1,604	1,433
28	UAE	40,507	+603	284
29	Singapore	38,965	+451	25
30	Egypt	38,284	+1,455	1,342
31	Portugal	35,600	+294	1,497
32	Indonesia	34,316	+1,240	1,959
33	Kuwait	33,823	+683	275
34	Switzerland	31,011	+23	1,936
35	Ukraine	28,381	+525	833
36	Poland	27,842	+282	1,206
37	Argentina	25,987	+1,226	735
38	Ireland	25,231	+16	1,695
39	Philippines	23,732	+740	1,027
40	Afghanistan	22,142	+683	405
41	Romania	20,945	+196	1,360
42	Dominican Republic	20,808	+393	550
43	Oman	18,887	+689	84
44	Israel	18,355	+175	299
45	Panama	17,889	+656	413
46	Japan	17,251	+41	919
47	Austria	17,005	+26	673
48	Bahrain	16,200	+469	31
49	Iraq	15,414	+1,146	426
50	Bolivia	14,644	+695	487
51	Armenia	14,103	+428	227
52	Nigeria	13,873	+409	382
53	Kazakhstan	13,319	+245	67
54	Serbia	12,031	+66	251
55	Denmark	12,016	+15	593
56	S. Korea	11,902	+50	276
57	Algeria	10,484	+102	732
58	Moldova	10,321	+296	371
59	Ghana	10,201		48
60	Czechia	9,824	+73	330

 

Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

 

 

 

E.U. issues its most forceful criticism of China’s false information.

 

The European Union leveled its most forceful criticism yet of China’s role in the spread of false information about the pandemic, saying on Wednesday that the country had engaged in “targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns in the bloc.”

In a new report, the European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, blamed “foreign actors and certain third countries, in particular Russia and China,” for the disinformation campaigns. The accusation has been made before against Russia, but the inclusion of China was a significant development.

In April, European Union officials bowed to heavy pressure from Beijing and softened their criticism of China in a report documenting how governments had advanced disinformation about the virus.

A draft of that report noted that Beijing had criticized France as slow to respond to the pandemic and pushed false accusations that French politicians had used racist slurs against the head of the World Health Organization.

The final April report omitted any mention of the French episode and toned down other critical comments about China.

 

In its new report, the European Union called on social media platforms to strengthen fact-checking, to promote authoritative content and to label and combat inaccurate information. The commission said it would strengthen its own abilities to detect disinformation and sound alarms publicly, while working closely with the W.H.O., NATO and other groups.

 

 

 

Cases surpass 2 million in the U.S., with new hot spots emerging.

 

Luke Phillips cleaning at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, a Florida resort that reopened June 1. The state’s number of new coronavirus cases has continued to grow.Credit...Josh Ritchie for The New York Times

The United States surpassed two million coronavirus cases on Wednesday, according to a New York Times database, which showed that the outbreak was continuing to spread, with cases rising in 21 states as governments eased restrictions and Americans tried to return to their routines.

Despite improvement in states that were initially hit hard, such as New York, new hot spots have emerged in others, including Arizona, where an increase in cases and hospitalizations has alarmed local officials.

Banner Health, a major hospital system, warned this month that hospitalizations in the state had been increasing and that “most concerning is the steep incline of Covid-19 patients on ventilators.”

In early May, Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona began easing restrictions, starting with retail businesses and then barbershops and restaurants. President Trump traveled to Phoenix on May 5 and spoke at a Honeywell mask production facility, where he praised the nation’s move toward reopening: “So, reopening of our country — who would have ever thought we were going to be saying that?”

The state’s stay-at-home order ended May 15. Mr. Trump said on Wednesday that he intended to hold a rally in Arizona.

Mr. Ducey had ordered the state’s hospitals to increase capacity by 50 percent at the end of March to meet a potential surge in virus cases. The surge did not materialize, but the number of virus patients has doubled since May, with more people showing up in the emergency rooms and testing positive.

 

 

The Federal Reserve says unemployment will remain high as it leaves interest rates near zero.

 

The economic devastation wrought by the virus in the United States and around the world is not likely to recede swiftly, several grim new forecasts warned on Wednesday.

The world economy is facing the most severe recession in a century. It could experience a halting recovery with a potential second wave of the virus and as countries embrace protectionist policies, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned in a new report.

In the United States, officials at the Federal Reserve indicated that they expected the unemployment rate to end 2020 at 9.3 percent and remain elevated for years, as the Fed left interest rates unchanged and near zero. Output is expected to be 6.5 percent lower at the end of this year than it was in the final quarter of 2019.

The new forecasts predict a much slower path back to economic strength than the Trump administration — and perhaps the stock market — seems to expect as the economy begins to climb out of a virus-spurred downturn. The Fed skipped its quarterly economic summary in March as the pandemic gripped the United States, sowing uncertainty as business activity came to a near standstill.

“The ongoing public health crisis will weigh heavily on economic activity, employment and inflation in the near term, and poses considerable risks to the economic outlook over the medium term,” the Fed said in the post-meeting statement that accompanied the data outlook. Here are some other key economic developments:

• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the Senate’s small business committee on Wednesday that the next round of economic stimulus legislation must be targeted to help industries that have been hit hardest by the pandemic, and that the focus must be on creating incentives for jobless workers to be rehired.

• A loan program for small businesses that ran through its initial $349 billion in just 13 days, prompting Congress to swiftly approve a second round of $310 billion, has slowed down. Some businesses have grown more wary of taking the money. As of Monday, more than $130 billion was left in the fund, known as the Paycheck Protection Program. More money was being returned than borrowed on many days last month, according to data from the Small Business Administration, which is overseeing the program.

• With the congressional oversight commission that is supposed to monitor pandemic relief funds still leaderless, two California Democrats urged their leaders to name a chair so the panel can begin scrutinizing how the Trump administration is distributing the money. The Democrats, Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Katie Porter, wrote a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, asking for an update on the long-stalled process of appointing a fifth member of the Coronavirus Oversight Commission to serve as its chair.

 

 

Lockdowns are ending in many developing countries, even as cases rise.

 

Commuters in Mumbai, India, on Monday, after the city eased its lockdown.Credit...Divyakant Solanki/EPA, via Shutterstock

Even as virus cases mount, leaders across the world — particularly in developing countries — say they cannot sustain punishing lockdowns without risking economic catastrophe. In India, Mexico, Russia, Iran and Pakistan, among other countries, officials say they have had no choice but to prioritize the economy and relax lockdowns.

A glimpse from the streets reveals a sharp rise in person-to-person contact in recent days even as the World Health Organization is warning that daily infections from this highly contagious virus are reaching new peaks.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​India is now reporting more new daily infections, around 10,000, than all but two countries: the United States and Brazil. New Delhi and Mumbai, the two biggest cities, are overloaded with infections, and experts said the peak was several weeks away. Government officials have proposed commandeering some of New Delhi’s fanciest hotels to turn into hospitals.

 

In Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kicked off the reopening in early June with a tour of the country. “We have to head toward the new normality, because the national economy and the well-being of the people depends on it,” he said during a stop in Cancún.

 

Health experts say Pakistan will soon be overwhelmed with cases, but it has relaxed restrictions. Outside the cities, almost no one is trying to socially distance, and testing remains scarce. Prime Minister Imran Khan wrote on Twitter in April, “We sought a total lockdown without thinking about the consequences for the daily wage earners, the street vendors, the laborers, all of whom face poverty and hunger.”

 

Iran decided to open up last month in an attempt to salvage its economy, which was already suffering under international sanctions and huge budget deficits. Iran’s leaders said the pandemic was a reality that Iranians had to learn to live with. Now a second surge of infections has arrived.

 

The number of new infections in Russia has hovered around 8,000 to 9,000 each day. But the mayor of Moscow, a hot spot that had been under a strict lockdown, lifted many restrictions this week. Analysts said the reopening was partly aimed at ensuring high turnout for a July 1 vote on an amendment to extend President Vladimir V. Putin’s rule.

 

 

Increased voting by mail this spring offers lessons for November.

 

 

Shaye Moss, a Fulton County employee, scanned mail-in ballots at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta during the state’s primary elections on Tuesday.Credit...Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via Associated Press

The elections held around the United States during the pandemic have revealed a mixed picture as different states experienced huge increases in voting by mail.

The good news: The rapid expansion of voting by mail over the last few months allowed millions of people to vote without risking their health. Turnout in the 15 states that have held elections, and Washington, D.C., was high, and in some cases at near-record levels, even after former Vice President Joseph R. Biden had all but secured the Democratic presidential nomination.

The bad news: A host of infrastructure and logistical issues might have cost thousands of Americans their opportunities to vote. There have been complaints of ballots lost in the mail; of some ballots printed on the wrong paper, with the wrong date or the wrong language; and of some that arrived late or not at all.

Absent from any reported issues in the states, however, were indications of widespread fraud. Mr. Trump has repeatedly made false arguments suggesting that voting by mail was riddled with fraud.

But the most definitive lesson for the election in November may be what many have already begun to accept — there’s a strong possibility that many states, including key battlegrounds, will not finish counting ballots on election night.

Georgia’s election this week was perhaps the nadir, with a full-scale meltdown of new voting systems, a shortage of poll workers that some officials attributed to fears about the virus and also some glitches with the state’s rapid expansion of voting by mail.

The vast expansion of vote-by-mail and absentee ballots was not enough to offset the drastic reduction in polling locations that has occurred in many states. In cities around the country, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., voters waited in lines for hours, even as those cities experienced exponential increases in voting by mail.

 

 

Coachella and Stagecoach are canceled over fear of virus resurgence.

 

People watching as Janelle Monae performed during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last year.Credit...Etienne Laurent/EPA, via Shutterstock

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the marquee pop extravaganza that was postponed in March as the pandemic led to shutdowns across the United States, is officially canceled for the year.

Dr. Cameron Kaiser, the public health officer for Riverside County, Calif., called off the weekend-long concert series on Wednesday and also canceled Stagecoach, a country music festival that, like Coachella, is held annually at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Both events were originally scheduled for April before being pushed to October as the entire live-music industry paused.

“I am concerned as indications grow that Covid-19 could worsen in the fall,” Kaiser said in a statement on Wednesday announcing the cancellations.

The concert industry has been essentially frozen since mid-March, when AEG Presents and Live Nation, the corporations that dominate the live-music sphere, suspended all touring in North America in response to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving artists — as well as their crews and all other affiliated workers — unsure of when such large-scale events will return. Other major music festivals, including Lollapalooza in Chicago, Levitation in Austin, Texas, and Summerfest in Milwaukee, have also been called off for the year.

The announcement came while many places eased restrictions tied to the virus and made plans to reopen — including the Disneyland Resort in California — even as the U.S. surpassed two million coronavirus cases and saw rising rates of infection in 21 states.

 

 

Faced with huge needs, leading foundations will borrow in order to increase their philanthropy.

 

Darren Walker at the Ford Foundation headquarters in Manhattan in 2017.Credit...Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times

With thousands of nonprofits fighting for their survival amid the downturn spurred the pandemic, the Ford Foundation plans to announce on Thursday that it will borrow $1 billion so that it can drastically increase the amount of money it distributes.

To raise the money, the foundation — one of the country’s oldest charitable organizations — is preparing to issue a combination of 30- and 50-year bonds, a financial maneuver common among governments and companies but extremely rare among nonprofits.

“For most foundations, the idea of taking on debt is outside of normative thinking,” Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, wrote in a letter last month to Ford’s board. “Covid-19 has created unprecedented challenges that require foundations to consider ideas — even radical ones that would have never been considered in the past.”

Four other leading charitable foundations — the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation — will pledge on Thursday that they will join with Ford and increase their giving by at least $725 million.

The decision by the five influential foundations — major sponsors of social justice organizations, museums and the arts and environmental causes — could shatter the charitable world’s deeply entrenched tradition of fiscal restraint during periods of economic hardship.

 

 

Journalists in Latin America say they’re facing grave risks to cover the pandemic.

 

Downtown Lima, Peru, last week.Credit...Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press

For some journalists in Latin America, covering the pandemic has meant putting their lives at risk.

In Peru, the National Journalists Association has identified at least 22 journalists who were believed to have died of Covid-19, including 11 who covered the outbreak, said Zuliana Laínez, its general secretary. Many were freelancers without access to protective equipment, Ms. Laínez said.

“They did their coverage using homemade masks and working in unsafe conditions,” she said in an interview. “Many feel they are invisible to the eyes of the government.”

The region is confronting outbreaks rivaling those in Europe at the peak of its crisis, but without robust health and social welfare systems to rely on. At the same time, the devastating economic fallout of lockdowns has spurred layoffs at news organizations, and freelancers have seen gigs dry up. Many journalists have struggled to find adequate protective gear while in the field.

In Ecuador, one of the hardest-hit countries, the press freedom organization Fundamedios said that 11 journalists who had symptoms of the virus had died. Many were never tested, said Desirée Yépez, the group’s director of content.

In both countries, journalists have protested firings and demanded delayed payments and other benefits. Ms. Yépez said that many media workers had not received government aid and were struggling.

The pandemic has also raised the specter of new threats to press freedom. A report published in April by Reporters Without Borders concluded that President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil had stepped up his attacks on the news media, blaming journalists for “hysteria.”

On May 31, a television station in Guayaquil, the center of Ecuador’s outbreak, was targeted by an assailant who lobbed a stick of dynamite at its entrance. The attack may have been linked to the station’s reporting on corruption linked to sales of protective equipment during the pandemic. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists called it “a clear message of intimidation.”

 

 

Indonesia’s new concern? A post-pandemic baby boom.

 

Newborns at a maternity facility in Jakarta in April.Credit...Adek Berry/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The government vehicles began appearing in Indonesian towns and cities in May, equipped with loudspeakers blaring a blunt message:

“You can have sex. You can get married. But don’t get pregnant,” health workers read from a script. “Dads, please control yourself. You can get married. You can have sex as long as you use contraception.”

Indonesian officials are worried about a possible unintended consequence of the country’s coronavirus restrictions: a post-pandemic baby boom.

In April, as people across Indonesia stayed home, about 10 million married couples stopped using contraception, according to the National Population and Family Planning Agency, which collects data from clinics and hospitals that distribute birth control.

Many women couldn’t get access to contraceptives because their health care provider was closed. Others did not want to risk a visit, for fear of catching the virus. Now, officials are expecting a wave of unplanned births next year, many of them to poor families who were already struggling.

“We are nervous about leaving home, not to mention going to the hospital, which is the source of all diseases,” said Lana Mutisari, 36, a married woman in a suburb of Jakarta, the capital, who has been putting off an appointment to get an IUD. “There are all kinds of viruses there.”

Hasto Wardoyo, an obstetrician and gynecologist who leads the family planning agency, has estimated that there could be 370,000 to 500,000 extra births early next year, in a country that typically sees about 4.8 million a year.

That would be a setback for Indonesia’s extensive efforts to promote smaller families, a key aspect of its fight against child malnutrition. Many poor and young married women in Indonesia get free contraceptives, many through hormone shots. But their clinic visits were disrupted by the virus.

 

Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/world/coronavirus-live-updates.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-national&variant=show®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu

 

 

 

US hits over 2 million coronavirus cases as expert warns deaths will nearly double by September

From CNN's Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton

 

 

Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is tested for coronavirus at a testing site in the Anacostia neighborhood June 10, in Washington, DC.

The US surpassed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday night as new hotspots emerge and hospitalizations go up in some states.

More than 112,000 people have died from Covid-19 nationwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The spike in numbers highlights how complicated it is to stop the spread of the virus despite early hotspots such as New York and New Jersey seeing improved numbers.

Since Memorial Day, the number of coronavirus hospitalizations has gone up in at least a dozen states, according to data CNN aggregated from the Covid Tracking Project between May 25 to June 9. They are Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and Utah. An additional 22 states are trending downward while nine others are holding steady.

Health experts issued a bleak prediction.

An additional 100,000 more people will die from coronavirus by September, said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

 

 

The coronavirus is still surging in Latin America and the Caribbean, which have surpassed 70,000 deaths

From CNN's Matt Rivers and Natalie Gallón in Mexico City and Shasta Darlington in Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

 

A Chilean military police member stops a driver at a check-point during the mandatory quarantine in Santiago, on June 10. Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images

Latin America and the Caribbean have now recorded more than 70,000 deaths due to Covid-19.

Several countries in the region are struggling to contain the outbreak -- most notably Brazil, which has identified more than 772,000 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University (second only to the US), Peru and Mexico, which just reported a record daily surge in new cases.

Mexican paramedics are responding to 911 calls at an alarming rate, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the capital of Mexico City. Many have died, and others say they feel scared and unsupported by the government as they continue to respond to the state of emergency

Quarantine measures extended in Chile: Chile’s mandatory quarantine measures against coronavirus will be extended effective Friday at 10:00 p.m. local time, Chile’s health ministry said in a statement released Wednesday.

The extended measures and new additions come as Chile reports 148,496 confirmed cases and 2,475 confirmed deaths.

“Given the evolution in the number of people infected, and in conjunction with the COVID-19 committee headed by the President of the Republic, we have made the decision to implement new restrictive measures in order to contain and mitigate the propagation, avoiding the number of people infected,” the statement says, citing Chile’s Health Minister Jaime Mañalich.

 

 

As business reopen in Los Angeles, the county is still seeing an average of 1,300 new coronavirus each day

From CNN's Sarah Moon

 

A pedestrian wears a face mask while walking past boarded up shopfronts in Los Angeles, on June 10. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Los Angeles County is allowing some businesses, including gyms and museums, to reopen, but authorities say they are still seeing about 1,300 new coronavirus cases a day. 

There are 67,064 confirmed coronavirus cases and 2,768 deaths in Los Angeles County. 

At a press conference Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that businesses reopening in the county made him "nervous.”

“We are still in the biggest medical pandemic of our lives,” he reminded residents. He urged people who participated in protests to quarantine for 14 days or get a free test from the 24 testing sites across the city and county. The sites have the capacity to test 20,000 people a day, Garcetti said.

Test kits are also being offered at 49 CVS Pharmacy locations in the city, Garcetti said.

 

Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-06-11-20-intl/index.html

 

 

 

Summary

Here are the most important developments from the last few hours:

• Confirmed US cases passed 2 million. The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the US, which is by far the worst-affected country worldwide, passed 2 million on Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, which lists 2,000,464 cases.The country has recorded 112,908 deaths.Brazil, with the next highest number of cases, has 772,416 confirmed infections.

• US deaths could reach 200,000 in September. Ashish Jha, the head of Harvard’s Global Health Institute, told CNN in an interview on Wednesday that without drastic action, the number of US deaths would march on.

• Trump to hold rally in Oklahoma, first since coronavirus pandemic began. Donald Trump will hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, next Friday – his first since since states began shutting down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The 19 June rally will likely rattle some public health experts, as coronavirus infections rise in about a dozen states.

• Latin America pandemic deaths passed 70,000, according to a Reuters count, as Mexico hit a daily record for confirmed infections. Brazil, with the largest economy in the region, remains Latin America’s most affected country as total fatalities are just shy of 40,000, the world’s third highest death toll after the United States and Britain.

• Cuba to test all international visitors for coronavirus. Cuba will test all visitors for coronavirus when it reopens to international tourism, which will be limited at first to the beach resorts at the keys of the Caribbean’s largest island, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz said on Wednesday.

• Mexico City will embark on a large-scale testing effort as the centrepiece of its plan to reopen its economy, its mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has said. The plan sees it diverge from the federal governments strategy, which has shunned widespread testing as a waste of resources. The goal will be performing some 100,000 tests per month by July and trying to detect and isolate new infections as quickly as possible, Sheinbaum said. On Wednesday, Mexico confirmed 4,883 coronavirus cases in new daily record.

• The Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, is to be questioned as part of an investigation driven into alleged errors made by authorities. Prosecutors in Bergamo, the Lombardy province worst hit by the virus, will also question the health minister and the interior minister.

•  Prince Joachim of Belgium has been fined €10,400 by authorities in Spain after going to a party in Cordoba, where he caught Covid-19. Joachim flew from Brussels to Madrid, then travelled to Cordoba to attend a party with 27 other guests on 26 May, at a time when gatherings were restricted to a maximum of 15 participants.

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Source：https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/11/coronavirus-live-news-us-cases-near-2-million-as-mexico-city-ramps-up-testing-in-push-to-reopen