#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
	World	9,038,937	+130,382	469,604
1	USA	2,356,657	+26,079	122,247
2	Brazil	1,086,990	+16,851	50,659
3	Russia	584,680	+7,728	8,111
4	India	426,910	+15,183	13,703
5	UK	304,331	+1,221	42,632
6	Spain	293,352	+334	28,323
7	Peru	254,936	+3,598	8,045
8	Chile	242,355	+5,607	4,479
9	Italy	238,499	+224	34,634
10	Iran	204,952	+2,368	9,623
11	Germany	191,575	+359	8,962
12	Turkey	187,685	+1,192	4,950
13	Pakistan	176,617	+4,951	3,501
14	Mexico	175,202	+4,717	20,781
15	France	160,377	+284	29,640
16	Saudi Arabia	157,612	+3,379	1,267
17	Bangladesh	112,306	+3,531	1,464
18	Canada	101,337	+318	8,430
19	South Africa	97,302	+4,621	1,930
20	Qatar	87,369	+881	98
21	China	83,378	+26	4,634
22	Colombia	68,652	+3,019	2,237
23	Belgium	60,550		9,696
24	Belarus	58,505	+569	346
25	Sweden	56,043		5,053
26	Egypt	55,233	+1,475	2,193
27	Ecuador	50,640	+909	4,223
28	Netherlands	49,593	+91	6,090
29	Indonesia	45,891	+862	2,465
30	UAE	44,925	+392	302
31	Argentina	42,785	+1,581	1,011
32	Singapore	42,095	+262	26
33	Kuwait	39,650	+505	326
34	Portugal	39,133	+292	1,530
35	Ukraine	36,560	+735	1,002
36	Poland	31,931	+311	1,356
37	Switzerland	31,292	+49	1,956
38	Iraq	30,868	+1,646	1,100
39	Philippines	30,052	+652	1,169
40	Oman	29,471	+905	131
41	Afghanistan	28,833	+409	581
42	Dominican Republic	26,677	+899	662
43	Panama	26,030	+808	501
44	Ireland	25,379	+5	1,715
45	Romania	24,045	+315	1,512
46	Bolivia	23,512	+1,036	740
47	Bahrain	21,764	+433	63
48	Israel	20,778	+145	306
49	Armenia	20,268	+560	350
50	Nigeria	20,244	+436	518
51	Japan	17,864	+65	953
52	Austria	17,341	+18	690
53	Kazakhstan	17,225	+446	120
54	Moldova	14,200	+247	473
55	Ghana	14,007	+290	85
56	Serbia	12,894	+91	261
57	Guatemala	12,755	+246	514
58	Azerbaijan	12,729	+491	154
59	S. Korea	12,421	+48	280
60	Denmark	12,391		600

 

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

 

 

 

As new cases surge in the U.S., the White House acknowledges preparing for a fall wave.

 

A drive-through Covid testing site in Phoenix on Saturday.Credit...Matt York/Associated Press

 

Peter Navarro, the White House director of trade and manufacturing policy, said in an interview on Sunday that the White House was working to prepare for the possibility of a second wave of the coronavirus in the fall, though he said it wouldn’t necessarily come.

“We are filling the stockpile in anticipation of a possible problem in the fall,” Mr. Navarro told Jake Tapper on the CNN program “State of the Union.” “We’re doing everything we can.”

The comments come in contrast to President Trump’s repeated assertions that the virus will “go away” and his questioning of its ability to last into the fall and winter.

But if anything, the virus is gaining ground. Nationwide, cases have risen 15 percent over the last two weeks. Cases are rising in 18 states across the South, West and Midwest. Seven states hit single-day case records Saturday, and five others hit a record earlier in the week.

In Harris County, Texas, which includes most of Houston, more than 1,100 new infections were reported both Friday and Saturday, by far the two highest daily totals there. Public health experts in Texas warned of a dire outlook.

The Trump administration’s latest reckoning with the magnitude of the health crisis came on the same day that the World Health Organization reported the largest one-day increase in infections across the globe. It said that there were 183,020 new cases, with Brazil and the United States accounting for the most new infections.

 

 

Health experts challenge Trump’s remarks about virus testing.

 

Health experts directly contradicted President Trump’s recent promise that the disease will “fade away” and his remarks at a rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday night that disparaged the value of virus tests.

Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said on “Fox News Sunday” that the spikes in confirmed cases were not simply a result of increased testing. Pointing to increased hospitalizations, he said, “That’s a real rise.”

On “Face the Nation” on CBS, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said, “We’re seeing the positivity rates go up. That’s a clear indication there is now community spread underway, and this isn’t just a function of testing more.”

Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director for the Center of Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, warned on Sunday that the country was likely to experience one long stretch of cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

“I don’t think this is going to slow down. I’m not sure the influenza analogy applies anymore,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” referring to a report he and colleagues wrote in April using influenza pandemics as a model for understanding the virus. “I think that wherever there’s wood to burn, this fire is going to burn it.”

“I don’t think we’re going to see one, two and three waves — I think we’re just going to see one very very difficult forest fire of cases,” Dr. Osterholm said.

Peter Navarro, the White House director of trade and manufacturing policy, said that Mr. Trump’s comment at the campaign rally about wanting to slow down virus testing had been “tongue in cheek.”

At the rally, Mr. Trump said: “When you do testing to that extent, you will find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’”

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, tweeted on Sunday: “The president’s efforts to slow down testing to hide the true extent of the virus means more Americans will lose their lives.”

Mr. Trump’s call for fewer tests to be conducted also drew condemnation from prominent doctors, including Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School.

“He acknowledges what we’ve seen — active obstruction of testing in a pandemic which claimed 120K lives so far,” Dr. Gawande wrote Sunday on Twitter. “If I did this for 10 people at my hospital, it’d be a crime.”

At the rally, which drew roughly 6,200 attendees to a 19,000-seat indoor arena, according to the Tulsa Fire Department’s count of scanned tickets, Mr. Trump also boasted about his coronavirus response and blamed China for the pandemic’s economic damage in the United States, saying the country “sent us the plague.”

He referred to the virus disparagingly as “kung flu,” echoing past remarks of a White House official, despite criticism that the phrase, as well as “Chinese virus,” which Mr. Trump has also used, was racist. Public health experts have repeatedly noted that viruses have no ethnicity and expressed concern that associating them with an ethnic group encourages discrimination.

An earlier version of this item incompletely described the forecast of a researcher, Dr. Michael Osterholm, in a report discussing the pandemic’s possible course in the United States. Dr. Osterholm and his co-authors did not predict a first and second wave, with a decline in between. They outlined several possible scenarios, among them one characterized by successive waves.

 

 

The leader of Belarus, in power for 26 years, faces criticism over his response to the virus.

 

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus at a parade in Minsk last month that marked the end of World War II.Credit...Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, who has been in power for 26 years, was once praised by a large segment of the population for keeping the country stable — and avoiding the turmoil and mass unemployment seen across much of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s.

Now Mr. Lukashenko faces a groundswell of criticism, particularly over his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. He is so unsettled by a surge of discontent and support for prospective rivals in the August 9 election that he has turned his propaganda machine on Moscow, long his closest ally and principal benefactor.

Despite only patchy testing for the virus, Belarus has reported over 58,000 cases, compared with about 32,000 in neighboring Poland, which has four times its population. Mr. Lukashenko has spent weeks criticizing lockdowns elsewhere, calling them a “frenzy and psychosis.”

“There are no viruses here,” he said in March, gesturing to a crowded arena after playing in an amateur ice hockey tournament. “Do you see any of them flying around? I don’t see them either.”

Last month, Mr. Lukashenko pressed on with his own Victory Day parade, saying it was better to “die standing up than live kneeling down.”

By contrast, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia bowed to health warnings and put off a big military parade in Red Square to celebrate the Red Army’s defeat of Nazi Germany. (It is now scheduled for this Wednesday.)

Maryna Rakhlei, an Eastern European expert at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, said that Mr. Lukashenko’s troubles were largely the result of widespread fatigue among citizens over his long time in office and his poor response to the virus.

“The situation threatens to spin out of control for Lukashenko,” Ms. Rakhlei said. “He is not really able to silence the protests as they are largely on social media and spread like forest fire.”

 

 

India’s hospitals, crammed with Covid patients, turn others away.

 

India is now reporting more infections a day than any other nation except the United States or Brazil. On Sunday, it reported a single-day record of more than 15,000 new cases.

Now the country’s already strained and underfunded health care system has begun to buckle: A database of recent deaths reveals that scores of people have died in the streets or in the back of ambulances, denied critical care.

Indian government rules explicitly call for emergency services to be rendered, yet people in desperate need of treatment are being turned away, especially in New Delhi.

Infections are rising quickly, Delhi’s hospitals are overloaded and many health care workers are afraid of treating new patients in case they have the virus, which has killed more than 13,000 people in the country. On Monday alone, the government recorded more than 400 deaths, nearly half of them in the hard-hit western state of Maharashtra.

“There is currently little or no chance of admission to hospitals for people with Covid-19, but also for people with other intensive care needs,” the German Embassy in New Delhi warned.

After watching television reports showing bodies in the lobby of a government hospital and crying patients being ignored, a panel of judges on India’s Supreme Court said, “The situation in Delhi is horrendous, horrific and pathetic.”

As complaints began to pile up, the government issued a directive re-emphasizing that hospitals should remain open for “all patients, Covid and non-Covid emergencies.”

But clearly not everyone has been listening. A 13-year-old boy in Agra died of a stomach ailment after being turned away from six hospitals, his family said. Another boy, in Punjab, with an obstructed airway, was rejected from seven hospitals and died in the arms of a family friend.

“This is inhuman,” one doctor said.

 

 

Wildlife trade spreads coronaviruses as animals go to market.

 

Rats ready for roasting at a restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam.Credit...Hoang Dinh Nam/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A study of the wildlife trade in three provinces in southern Vietnam has confirmed that the sale of bushmeat offers an ideal opportunity for viruses to jump between animal species.

The results of the tests — conducted in 2013 and 2014 long before the emergence of the virus behind the current pandemic — show unequivocally how viruses spread between animals as they are transported in crowded conditions.

The percentage of field rats, eaten in Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia, which tested positive for at least one of six coronaviruses jumped significantly after being transported with other species. It rose from 20 percent of wild-caught rats sold by traders, to slightly over 30 percent at large markets, to 55 percent of rats sold in restaurants.

A team of scientists including Sarah H. Olson, an epidemiologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society who directed the research, posted a report of their research, which has not yet been peer reviewed but has been submitted to a scientific journal, on a website for unpublished research, bioRxiv.

Dr. Olson said she expected some increase in infections, because many animals are shipped together in proximity, putting them under high stress and more prone to disease. “It’s classic disease ecology,” she said.

But she had not expected the degree of rising infections.

“We saw this huge step-by-step increase,” she said. “I kept going back to check the data.”

 

 

Tribal governments trying to claim federal relief funds in the U.S. are stuck in limbo.

 

Distributing supplies at a food bank set up at the Navajo Nation town of Casamero Lake, N.M., last month.Credit...Mark Ralston/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A question of how to distribute $8 billion set aside for tribal governments in the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package is descending into legal infighting, holding up funds at a critical phase in the pandemic.

As new coronavirus hot spots emerge almost daily in the United States and unemployment continues to tick upward, some tribes have filed lawsuits saying that they have not received the amounts they are entitled to.

The lawsuits boil down to disputes over how tribal populations are calculated. One method counts a tribe’s enrolled members, not all of whom live on a given reservation. The other relies on government population figures for specific locations.

Some tribes that would stand to gain more funding if counts were revised have said they would be willing to wait for the litigation to move forward in order to receive a more equitable share. But for many others, the immediate damage from economic downturn has already left members in dire straits.

The lawsuits come weeks after many families and businesses have already received stimulus funding and individual paychecks.

 

 

Alarm is building over an explosion of cases in Houston.

 

Jasmine Lyons, a medical assistant, providing paperwork at a walk-up Covid test site in Dallas.Credit...Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press

As cases and deaths rose earlier this spring in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the country’s three largest cities, the outlook seemed much better in Houston, the fourth largest.

But this month, as new case reports plummeted around New York City and Chicago, they exploded around Houston. More than 1,100 new infections were reported both Friday and Saturday in Harris County, which includes most of Houston, by far the two highest daily totals there.

Public health experts in Texas warned of a dire outlook. Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, pleaded with residents to wear masks.

“The numbers are only getting worse,” said Lina Hidalgo, Harris County’s top elected official, who spoke of “significant, uncontrolled spread” of the virus and “very disturbing trends” in hospitalizations.

 

 

Contact tracing in New York City is off to a rough start.

 

Daniel Okpare, one of New York City’s contract tracers.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

New York City hired 3,000 disease detectives and case monitors for its contact-tracing program, but the effort has gotten off to a troubling start.

The tracers are expected to identify anyone who has come into contact with the hundreds of people in the city who are still testing positive for the coronavirus every day. But the first statistics from the program, which began June 1, indicate that tracers are often failing to find infected people or are unable to get information from them.

Of the 5,347 people whose contacts needed to be traced in the first two weeks of the program, only 35 percent provided information about close contacts, the city said in releasing the first statistics.

In lieu of a vaccine, contact tracing is one of the few tools that public health officials have to fight Covid-19, along with widespread testing and isolation of those exposed to the coronavirus. The stumbles in New York’s program raise fresh concerns about the difficulties in preventing a second surge of the outbreak in the city, which is to enter a new phase of its reopening on Monday.

China, South Korea and Germany and other countries have set up extensive tracking programs that have helped officials make major strides in reducing outbreaks. But in Britain, the program has struggled to show results with a low-paid, inexperienced work force.

In Massachusetts, which has one of the United States’ most established tracing programs, health officials said in May that only about 60 percent of infected patients were picking up the phone. In Louisiana, less than half were answering.

 

Source：https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-national&variant=show®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storylines_menu

 

 

 

Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian students took their final exams in protective gear

 

Students wearing face masks are seen at a high school exams site in Cairo, Egypt, on June 21. Alaa Ahmed/Xinhua/Getty Images

More than 650,000 Egyptian students took their Thanaweya Amma final exams over the weekend -- all while taking precautions against the coronavirus threat.

More than 100 million personal protection products were distributed, and students took the exams wearing face masks and gloves, state media reported.

Students lined up outside their schools, got their temperatures checked, and practiced social distancing inside classrooms. Bottles of hand sanitizer were readily available, and all the spaces had been disinfected in advance.

Despite the measures taken, worry of spreading the coronavirus still loomed. 

Egypt has reported at least 55,233 total cases and 2,193 coronavirus-related deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

Germany’s coronavirus reproduction rate soars after outbreak at meat processing plant

From CNN's Fred Pleitgen in Berlin

 

A paramedic wearing full body protection stands inside an ambulance on June 20, in Verl, near Guetersloh, Germany. Alexander Koerner/Getty Images

The reproduction number of the coronavirus has risen sharply in Germany, said the country's center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute, on Sunday. 

This figure, also called the R-number, stands at 2.88 in Germany.

An R-number of 1 means that each person with coronavirus infects one other person on average.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly warned that the country must keep the R-number below 1 to contain the disease, and that a rise in the rate could see restrictions reinforced.

This massive leap in the national R-number is due to a local outbreak at a meat processing plant in the town of Gutersloh, said the Robert Koch Institute. There are now at least 1,331 positive cases at the factory, said town authorities on Sunday.

“Since case numbers in Germany are generally low, these local outbreaks have a relatively strong influence on the value of the reproduction number,” the Robert Koch Institute said in its daily report.

 

 

More than 7,000 Brazilians died of coronavirus in one week, pushing death toll past 50,000

From journalist Rodrigo Pedroso in São Paulo and CNN’s Taylor Barnes in Atlanta.

 

Brazil’s Health Ministry reported 641 new coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday, raising the country’s death toll to 50,617.

The Ministry also reported 17,459 new cases, bringing the nationwide total to 1,085,038.

Brazil saw 7,285 new deaths over the past seven days. It is now the country with the second-highest number of cases worldwide, the only other country besides the United States to surpass a million confirmed cases.

 

Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-06-22-20-intl/index.html

 

 

 

Family celebrations send parts of Australia back into coronavirus restrictions

 

Australia is battling a coronavirus outbreak in its second largest city – fuelled by family gatherings and birthday parties – that has resulted in large parts of Melbourne being shut down in an attempt to halt the spread of the virus just weeks after authorities lifted restrictions.

On Monday, a national health committee recommended that more than one million people remain in their suburbs amid the growing health emergency in the southern state of Victoria. The state government is now considering making the stay-home advice legally enforceable.

After months of lockdown, the majority of states and territories in Australia have been able to reduce their number of active cases to nearly zero, relaxing state borders and, in the case of Queensland, reopening sports stadiums. In the New South Wales capital of Sydney, life is largely back to normal, with schools and beaches open and relatively loose restrictions on social distancing. In Western Australia, crowds of 30,000 people will be allowed to attend sporting matches from Saturday and live music venues will open their doors again.

 

 

Summary

• The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases passed 8.9 million. The figure currently stands at 8,929,394, while the global death toll is at 467,676, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. Both figures are likely to be higher in reality, due to differing testing rates and definitions, time lags and suspected underreporting.

• WHO reported a record daily increase in coronavirus cases. The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 183,020 in a 24-hour period. The biggest increase was from North and South America with over 116,000 new cases, according to its daily report. Total global cases are over 8.7 million with more than 461,000 deaths, according to the WHO. The previous record for new cases was 181,232 on 18 June.

• Beijing reported 9 new cases. Beijing’s municipal health authority reported on Monday nine new cases of the coronavirus in the city for June 21, down from 22 a day earlier. The city of more than 20 million people reported its first case in the latest wave on 11 June. The resurgence has been linked to a wholesale food centre in the southwest of Beijing. So far, 236 people in the city have been infected in the outbreak.

• China suspended imports of poultry from US-based Tyson plant over Covid-19. China’s customs authority said on Sunday it had suspended imports of poultry products from a plant owned by US-based meat processor Tyson that has been hit by coronavirus. The General Administration of Customs said on its website it had decided on the suspension after the company confirmed a cluster of coronavirus cases at facilities in Arkansas where a total of 481 people tested positive for the virus.

• Boris Johnson to announce lockdown easing plans on Tuesday. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will unveil the latest easing of England’s coronavirus lockdown on Tuesday when he will also announce the conclusion of a review into whether a two-metre rule on social distancing should be relaxed, his office said. England’s economy has been hammered by the lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19 and although non-essential retailers were allowed to reopen last Monday, many businesses, particularly in the hospitality and leisure sectors, have remained closed.

• EU and China to seek to cool tensions at video summit. The European Union and China will seek to cool tensions on Monday at a video summit, their first formal talks since ties soured over European accusations that Beijing has spread disinformation about the novel coronavirus. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel - the EU’s chief executive and chairman - will hold video conferences with Premier Li Keqiang and President Xi Jinping.

• Mexico’s cases passed 180,000. Mexico on Sunday reported 5,343 new infections and 1,044 additional deaths from the coronavirus, the health ministry said, bringing the totals for the country to 180,545 cases and 21,825 deaths. The government has said the actual number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.

• Citizens returning home to New Zealand could undergo two weeks of quarantine in campervans because hotels in Auckland were nearing capacity, the ministry of health has warned.The government was also “actively considering” placing returnees in defence force bases, according to director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield. On Saturday, more than 200 travellers who had returned to New Zealand via Auckland Airport were put on buses and taken to hotels in Rotorua because Auckland was full. New Zealand currently has nine active cases of coronavirus.

• German police were injured as clashes erupt over virus quarantine. Several police officers were hurt in clashes with residents of a high-rise apartment block in the German city of Goettingen who had been placed under quarantine over a coronavirus outbreak, authorities said on Sunday.

• Dutch arrest dozens at virus protest clashes. Dutch police on Sunday charged on horseback and fired water cannon to disperse protesters frustrated with the government’s coronavirus policies, arresting dozens after skirmishes broke out.

• Delhi to transform 25 luxury hotels into Covid-19 care centres. Amid growing concerns that there are not enough hospital beds to cope with the rising number of cases, the Delhi government has become the first in the country to requisition its hotels. Starting this week, 25 establishments will be repurposed as emergency Covid-19 care centres for patients with mild to moderate symptoms.

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Source：https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/22/coronavirus-live-news-covid-19-update-china-us-uk-brazil-latest-updates