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World |
10,238,287 |
+163,172 |
504,078 |
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1 |
2,637,077 |
+40,540 |
128,437 |
|
|
2 |
1,345,254 |
+29,313 |
57,658 |
|
|
3 |
634,437 |
+6,791 |
9,073 |
|
|
4 |
549,197 |
+19,620 |
16,487 |
|
|
5 |
311,151 |
+901 |
43,550 |
|
|
6 |
295,850 |
+301 |
28,343 |
|
|
7 |
279,419 |
+3,430 |
9,317 |
|
|
8 |
271,982 |
+4,216 |
5,509 |
|
|
9 |
240,310 |
+174 |
34,738 |
|
|
10 |
222,669 |
+2,489 |
10,508 |
|
|
11 |
212,802 |
+4,410 |
26,381 |
|
|
12 |
202,955 |
+4,072 |
4,118 |
|
|
13 |
197,239 |
+1,356 |
5,097 |
|
|
14 |
194,864 |
+175 |
9,029 |
|
|
15 |
182,493 |
+3,989 |
1,551 |
|
|
16 |
162,936 |
29,778 |
||
|
17 |
138,134 |
+6,334 |
2,456 |
|
|
18 |
137,787 |
+3,809 |
1,738 |
|
|
19 |
103,250 |
+218 |
8,522 |
|
|
20 |
94,413 |
+750 |
110 |
|
|
21 |
91,769 |
+3,178 |
3,106 |
|
|
22 |
83,500 |
+17 |
4,634 |
|
|
23 |
65,188 |
+1,265 |
2,789 |
|
|
24 |
65,137 |
5,280 |
||
|
25 |
61,475 |
+380 |
383 |
|
|
26 |
61,295 |
+86 |
9,732 |
|
|
27 |
59,933 |
+2,189 |
1,232 |
|
|
28 |
55,255 |
+681 |
4,429 |
|
|
29 |
54,010 |
+1,198 |
2,754 |
|
|
30 |
50,147 |
+73 |
6,105 |
|
|
31 |
47,797 |
+437 |
313 |
|
|
32 |
45,402 |
+2,140 |
1,756 |
|
|
33 |
44,942 |
+551 |
348 |
|
|
34 |
43,459 |
+213 |
26 |
|
|
35 |
42,982 |
+917 |
1,129 |
|
|
36 |
41,646 |
+457 |
1,564 |
|
|
37 |
38,150 |
+1,197 |
163 |
|
|
38 |
35,455 |
+652 |
1,244 |
|
|
39 |
33,907 |
+193 |
1,438 |
|
|
40 |
31,686 |
+1,028 |
604 |
|
|
41 |
31,617 |
+62 |
1,962 |
|
|
42 |
31,373 |
+754 |
726 |
|
|
43 |
30,967 |
+351 |
721 |
|
|
44 |
30,676 |
+1,253 |
970 |
|
|
45 |
26,313 |
+291 |
1,612 |
|
|
46 |
25,705 |
+438 |
83 |
|
|
47 |
25,439 |
+2 |
1,735 |
|
|
48 |
24,645 |
+736 |
426 |
|
|
49 |
24,567 |
+490 |
565 |
|
|
50 |
23,755 |
+334 |
318 |
|
|
51 |
20,780 |
+461 |
178 |
|
|
52 |
18,390 |
+93 |
971 |
|
|
53 |
17,654 |
+74 |
702 |
|
|
54 |
17,007 |
+1,013 |
479 |
|
|
55 |
16,742 |
+311 |
112 |
|
|
56 |
16,424 |
+534 |
198 |
|
|
57 |
16,397 |
+569 |
706 |
|
|
58 |
16,250 |
+170 |
530 |
|
|
59 |
14,046 |
+254 |
270 |
|
|
60 |
13,273 |
+305 |
897 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
A cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, on Friday.Credit...Bruno Kelly/Reuters
The global total of deaths passed 500,000 on Sunday, according to a New York Times database, while the number of confirmed cases surpassed 10 million.
The grim markers were hit as countries around the world struggle to keep new infections from reaching runaway levels while simultaneously trying to emerge from painful lockdowns.
In April, roughly a month after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic, deaths topped 100,000. In early May, the figure climbed to 250,000. Now it has doubled in less than two months.
More than a quarter of all known deaths have been in the United States.
The number of confirmed infections — which took about 40 days to double — may be substantially underestimated, public health officials say. Data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that the actual figures in many regions are probably 10 times as high as reported.
Vice President Mike Pence urged the public to wear masks during a visit to Texas on Sunday, the first stop on a multistate swing of the most severe virus hot spots that quickly highlighted the contradictory message of the Trump administration on testing and facial coverings.
Mr. Pence wore a mask to a religious service at a Dallas area megachurch, but more than 100 members of the choir sang without any facial coverings.
Later, he and Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a briefing on the outbreak at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, during which Mr. Abbott said that the virus had taken a “very swift and a very dangerous turn” in the nation’s second-most populous state.
In Texas, the rate of positive Covid-19 tests had risen to more than 13 percent from less than 4 percent in the past month, which Mr. Abbott, a Republican, called an “alarm bell.”
“We encourage everyone to wear a mask in the affected areas,” Mr. Pence said. “We know it will slow the spread.”
Mr. Pence is expected to visit Florida and Arizona, also virus hot spots, in the coming days for similar briefings. Officials in Arizona announced more than 3,800 new cases on Sunday, a single-day record. In Florida, more than 8,500 new cases were announced for a third consecutive day.
On Sunday, Mr. Pence declined to directly answer a question about whether President Trump’s refusal to wear a mask — and his assertion that people who do are making a political statement against him — was responsible for the high numbers of Texans and others who do not wear masks when they are in crowded areas.
Governors in some states have complained that the federal government has failed to provide the resources they needed to test for the virus and treat patients. On Sunday, Mr. Pence pledged that the government would help Texas and other states seeing a new surge in cases.
“We’re going to stay with you to make sure that Texas, and your health care system in Texas, have the resources and supplies and the personnel to meet this moment,” he said
Mr. Pence and the nation’s top health official, Alex M. Azar II, continued to assert on Sunday that reopenings in many states were not causing the sharp rises in coronavirus cases, but rather that increased testing was uncovering more and more infections. Experts says this is not the case.
The vice president also asserted that anyone who wanted a test could get one. “Because of the public-private partnership that President Trump initiated, we are literally able to test anyone in the country that would want a test who comes forward,” Mr. Pence said.
But in some states, residents have been turned away from testing sites that have reached capacity.
People were tested for the virus at a drive-through site in Phoenix on Saturday.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
It’s not just case counts that are going up. In many places, another statistic is also trending the wrong way: A rising share of coronavirus tests are coming back positive.
In Los Angeles County, officials said Saturday that the positivity rate there had risen to 9 percent; two weeks ago it was averaging 5.8 percent. In Texas, the rate climbed above 13 percent on Friday; it was around 7 percent two weeks ago.
Arizona’s positivity rates have been climbing steadily since early May and have been averaging above 20 percent for a week, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Public health experts watch positivity rates, along with hospitalization rates, deaths and other key indicators, to get a sense of how prevalent the virus is in a particular city or state, and how fast it is spreading.
“The positivity rate is a very important marker for how a state’s testing is going, and for how the state is doing,” said Dr. Thomas Inglesby, the director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center for Health Security.
The figures, however, can vary greatly from one place to another because of major differences in testing availability and criteria in the way the data is compiled, among other factors. All else being equal, more limited testing would be expected to yield higher positivity rates than widespread testing would.
What’s most significant about positivity rates is if they are moving up, it’s a strong suggestion that the pandemic is gaining strength — and that rapidly rising case counts are not merely the result of having performed more tests, as President Trump and Vice President Pence have argued recently.
The C.D.C. criteria for each stage of reopening from a lockdown include a requirement that positivity rates decline for 14 days. According to Johns Hopkins, only 12 states reported lower average positivity rates last week than the week before.
The criteria also call for widespread availability of testing, but in hot-spot states like Arizona, Florida and Texas, many people have had a hard time getting tested, with long lines and crowding that raises tensions and the risk of infection.
“Pushing, yelling, ZERO social distancing enforced,” one Houston resident wrote on Twitter. Two testing sites at Houston stadiums reached capacity and had to turn people away just a few hours after opening on Saturday, according to the local health department.
In Florida, the first car was on line at 12:30 a.m. Saturday at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, according to the Florida Association of Public Information Officers, even though testing did not start there until 9 a.m. At a site in Jacksonville, the testing line was cut off in the early afternoon, before closing time, the association said on Twitter.
Lines of cars at drive-up sites in Phoenix stretched up to three miles, and the state’s largest laboratory received twice as many samples on Friday as it could process.
Coronavirus cases nationwide have risen 65 percent over the past two weeks. More than 37,800 new cases of the coronavirus were announced across the United States on Sunday, the country’s fourth-highest daily total of the pandemic.
Two days after declaring Houston and its surrounding county to be at a “severe” level of threat from the pandemic, the county’s top official, Lina Hidalgo, said Sunday that she had been exposed to the virus by a staff member and would self-quarantine.
Ms. Hidalgo, the telegenic judge of Harris County, which includes Houston, said in a statement that “there are thousands of residents across Harris County that are increasingly finding themselves in the same position I am in today.”
She was exposed to the virus on June 22 by one of the handful of staff members in her office who were not working from home and still had contact with Ms. Hidalgo as she worked out of the county’s emergency operations center, said Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesman.
All those exposed have been identified, he said, and were being tested for the virus.
Ms. Hidalgo did not have symptoms as of Sunday, Mr. Lemaitre said.
Ms. Hidalgo became a familiar figure on national television as attention focused in recent days to the unfolding crisis in Houston.
Two days ago, Ms. Hidalgo had the county send messages to millions of phones advising residents to stay at home and leave only for essential activities. On Sunday, she reiterated that.
“I continue to call on everyone to stay home except for essential activities,” she said in the statement.
Her 14-day self-quarantine lasts through July 6.
Dog-walking in Tulsa, Okla. on Sunday.Credit...Chris Creese for The New York Times
Two governors who have had sometimes testy relationships with the White House during the pandemic expressed harsh reactions to the administration’s insistence on deferring to local governments rather than offering strong national policies to contain the virus at a time when outbreaks are escalating in a number of states.
Vice President Mike Pence strongly defended the approach on the CBS show “Face the Nation,” while attributing the rise in cases to increased testing and irresponsible behavior by young people.
“One of the elements of the genius of America is the principle of federalism, of state and local control,” Mr. Pence said. “We’ve made it clear that we want to defer to governors. We want to defer to local officials and people should listen to them.”
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo characterized that approach as negligent on the NBC program “Meet the Press.” “They’re basically in denial about the problem,” he said. “They don’t want to tell the American people the truth. And they don’t want to have any federal response, except supporting the states.”
Mr. Cuomo said that New York, once a global epicenter, had reported five deaths on Sunday, the lowest number since the start of the pandemic. But he said that he was afraid that travelers from states with higher infection rates could reverse his state’s hard-won gains.
Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington expressed frustration at the president’s unwillingness to wear masks or to do more to encourage his supporters to wear them. “Instead of tweeting the other day about the importance of masks, he tweeted about monuments,” he said on “Face the Nation.” “We need a president who will care more about living Americans and less about dead confederates.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she supported a federal mandate that all Americans must wear masks. “Definitely long overdue for that,” Ms. Pelosi, Democrat of California, said on ABC’s “This Week.” She urged Mr. Trump to start wearing one in public, saying: “Real men wear masks. Be an example to the country.”
The health and human services secretary, Alex M. Azar II, noted on “Meet the Press” that Mr. Pence had donned a mask for a public appearance on Friday, “even though he doesn’t need to in the sense that everybody around him is tested, he’s in a bubble.”
President Trump and those around him “are tested constantly,” he said, reiterating that the government recommends that people wear face coverings if they cannot practice social distancing.
A restaurant employee checks customers temperatures before entering in Miami Beach, Florida, on Sunday.Credit...Saul Martinez for The New York Times
As more restaurants and bars open for indoor dining, hard-to-trace outbreaks are prompting warnings from public health officials in several states.
In Michigan, more than 70 cases were linked to Harper’s Restaurant and Brewpub in East Lansing. In Alaska, the Seward Alehouse closed and encouraged customers to get tested after an employee contracted the virus.
And in Kansas, cases were linked to the Wild Horse Saloon in Topeka and a bar called the Hawk in Lawrence. Sonia Jordan of Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health said her department released details of the Hawk outbreak because “we are not confident in being able to identify everyone who was there.”
Many times, restaurant outbreaks are contained to a handful of known cases. But in recent weeks, they have also been the sites of more widespread infections. At least 100 cases were tied to the Tigerland nightlife district in Baton Rouge, La.
In Michigan, where dozens of the people infected at Harper’s Restaurant were between the ages of 18 and 23, officials urged others who visited the business to isolate themselves.
“There are likely more people infected with Covid-19 not yet identified,” Linda S. Vail, the Ingham County health officer, said in a statement. “We need help from people who went to Harper’s during the exposure dates so that we can contain the outbreak. We need everyone exposed to stay home.”
In California on Sunday, the state ordered bars to close in some cities, among them Los Angeles and Fresno, and recommended that they close in others, including Sacramento, Contra Costa and Santa Barbara.
The rapid identification of restaurant clusters contrasts with the continuing uncertainty about infections stemming from protests against racially biased policing, which have been held in more than 2,000 U.S. cities since the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25. The Times has reached out to dozens of cities that have had large protests, finding some small case groupings but no major clusters.
Thus far, the effort has found about 50 infections connected to protests, including members of the National Guard in Nebraska, Minnesota and Washington, D.C.
“These cards do not carry the force of law. The ‘Freedom to Breathe Agency,’ or ‘FTBA,’ is not a government agency,” a federal prosecutor said.Credit...Department of Justice
Cards for sale that claim to exempt people from wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic are fraudulent, federal officials said.
The cards — featuring a red, white and blue eagle logo and approximately the size of a business card — say the bearer is exempt from ordinances requiring them to wear masks in public.
“Wearing a face mask posses a mental and/or physical risk to me. Under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), I am not required to disclose my condition to you,” reads the card, which misspells “poses” and incorrectly names the Americans with Disabilities Act.
There’s also a warning that businesses or organizations can be reported to the Freedom to Breathe Agency, the group behind the cards. One version of the cards featured the Justice Department’s logo and listed a legitimate phone number where complaints about violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act can be submitted.
The cards were being sold online in boxes of at least 500 for $49.99.
The cards were created in response to complaints, the group selling them said in an email, and as “an educational tool” to help people “understand their legal and human rights so they can stand up to the unlawful, unscientific and unconstitutional mandates.”
The founder of the Freedom to Breathe Agency, Lenka Koloma, advertised the cards on her Facebook page, and they were sold on a site created through the commerce platform Shopify. The site was unavailable on Sunday afternoon.
The original Facebook group and a website on the Wix platform for the Freedom to Breathe Agency were also taken down.
A Ukrainian soldier takes the temperature of a woman on Monday at an eastern checkpoint between territories controlled by Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian militants.Credit...Yevgen Honcharenko/EPA, via Shutterstock
A rule in Ukraine that requires travelers to self-quarantine has had a surprising effect, stranding dozens of people in a buffer area within the war zone in the country’s east.
Ukraine has been fighting a Russian-backed uprising in the east since 2014, which long ago settled into a stalemate along a line of trenches separated by a no man’s land pocked with landmines, snipers and artillery shelling. Each side maintains its own checkpoints.
Before the pandemic, Ukrainians crossed that no man’s land more than a million times a month, sometimes for reasons as simple as collecting pensions, though some also have family and property across the war zone.
But this week, a group of civilians who passed through the separatists’ territory were suddenly faced with Ukraine’s requirement that new arrivals quarantine for two weeks, either by checking into a hospital or staying home while using a location-tracking app.
About 50 people trying to cross — including pregnant women, elderly people and children — either did not have smartphones to download the app or, in some cases, were unable to figure out how to use it. The separatists declined to let them back into their territory, leaving them stranded, with no way to quarantine as Ukraine required.
“Dozens of people have had to camp out, in some cases overnight, in the middle of an active military conflict, just because they didn’t have a smartphone to download an app,” Laura Mills, Europe and Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
By Friday, 17 had agreed to check into a hospital in government-held territory to escape the buffer zone. Others managed to exit after relatives or volunteers from nongovernmental groups passed them smartphones at a checkpoint, said Denys Yaroshenko, a monitor for a nonprofit organization in the area called Right to Protection. Separatists finally allowed others to reenter. Nobody was harmed, but it’s unclear how many remain.
Ukrainian authorities have provided tents and food for those who are still stranded.
Ethiopian migrants being forced to quarantine in April by Yemeni security forces. Credit...Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images
Yemeni militiamen rumbled up to a group of migrants in a settlement one morning, firing their machine guns at Ethiopians caught in the middle of somebody else’s war. The militiamen shouted: Take your coronavirus and leave the country, or face death.
“The sound of the bullets was like thunder that wouldn’t stop,” said Kedir Jenni, 30, an Ethiopian waiter who fled the settlement near the Saudi border in northern Yemen that morning in early April. “Men and women get shot next to you. You see them die and move on.”
This scene and others were recounted in telephone interviews with a half dozen migrants now in Saudi prisons. Although their accounts could not be independently verified, human rights groups have corroborated similar incidents.
The Houthis, the Iran-backed militia that controls most of northern Yemen, have driven out thousands of migrants at gunpoint over the past three months, blaming them for spreading the coronavirus, and dumped them in the desert without food or water.
From CNN's Esha Mitra in New Delhi
Three Indian states are extending lockdown measures past June 30, the date that the country's final stage of nationwide lockdown is set to lift.
The eastern states of West Bengal and Jharkhand have extended their lockdowns until July 31, while the northeastern state of Assam has imposed a total lockdown in its Kamrup metropolitan area until July 12.
In Jharkhand: The state's Chief Minister Hemant Soren tweeted on Friday that the "struggle is still going on."
"Considering the seriousness of the situation, the state government has decided to extend the lockdown till 31 July. The relaxations in lockdown already issued will remain in place," Soren said.
In Assam: The state announced a "total lockdown" in the Kamrup metropolitan area, meaning all activity will remain closed apart from essential services, including public transport and industrial activity, according to an order issued by the government of Assam on Friday.
In West Bengal: All non-essential activities will remain closed. Academic institutions across the country are scheduled to resume classes in July, but West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that schools and colleges in the state will remain shut until July 31 -- aside from a few examinations, which will be carried out while maintaining social distancing.
"Since Covid is increasing across the country, it is our responsibility to help the country the little bit that we can in reducing cases so let us try to extend the lockdown for a few more days," Banerjee said Wednesday.
Nationwide: India issued a nationwide lockdown till June 30 in containment zones with a high number of cases. Directives are yet to be issued on whether the restrictions in these zones will be extended.
India has reported more than 548,000 coronavirus cases, including over 16,000 deaths, according to the country's health ministry.
From CNN Business' Laura He in Hong Kong
A woman walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm on June 29 in Tokyo. Eugene Hoshiko/AP
Asian markets fell sharply Monday as the number of coronavirus cases around the world crossed more than 10 million, with at least half a million deaths.
Japan's Nikkei 225 (N225) declined 2%. South Korea's Kospi (KOSPI) dropped 1.6%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index (HSI) lost 1.2%, while China's Shanghai Composite (SHCOMP) shed 0.8% after trading for the first time since an extended holiday.
US stocks futures, meanwhile, were muted following sharp declines Friday. Dow (INDU) futures inched up 15 points, or nearly 0.1%. Futures for the S&P 500 (SPX) were up 0.1%, while Nasdaq (COMP) futures were down 0.2%.
On Friday, the Dow tumbled more than 700 points as some states were forced to pause their reopening amid rising Covid-19 cases. Upticks have been reported in 36 states, including Florida, which some experts have cautioned could be the next epicenter for infections. Officials there and across the United States are also warning of an increase in cases among younger people.
"The rebound of the infection rate, especially in the US, shows that the road to full recovery is going to be long and that it will require medical solutions, such as a vaccine," Tai Hui, chief Asia market strategist for JP Morgan Asset Management wrote in a Monday note.
The situation in the US could also prompt concerns in Europe, as European governments are considering opening borders more during the summer holiday season, he added.
"We expect market sentiment to turn cautious in the near term, with investors hedging risks from the pandemic and ongoing tensions between the US and China," Hui said.
From CNN's Ramin Mostaghim in Tehran and Mostafa Salem
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised statement on Sunday that this year has been the toughest in the nation's history because of United States sanctions and the spread of coronavirus.
“From the enemy's economic war and the coronavirus pandemic, this year is the most difficult year in our country’s history," Rouhani said during his cabinet’s meeting.
“For 140 years we have not experienced such a disease”, Rouhani added.
Confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran surpassed 220,000 with deaths crossing the 10,000 mark over the past week, according to data from the Iranian health ministry.
Rouhani added that face masks are set to become mandatory starting next week in areas at risk of increased coronavirus infections.
Despite a decrease in Iran's number of reported cases in April, infections started increasing once again in May and June.
From CNN's Alaa Elassar
Max Melia, 15, wearing his Vybpro watch. Vybpro
We touch our faces for many reasons: to groom, to gesture, to scratch. The act can even be soothing in times of stress.
But in the midst of a pandemic, such an ordinary habit can quickly turn fatal -- with our hands transferring germs from contaminated surfaces to our eyes, ears, noses or mouths.
That's what inspired 15-year-old Max Melia from the United Kingdom to invent Vybpro, a watch that can help stop people from subconsciously touching their faces and possibly contracting the coronavirus.
"Watching this pandemic unfold on the news, it was clear the devastating effect it was having on people's lives across the world," Max told CNN. "However it wasn't until I saw the severity of the virus first-hand, when both my parents contracted Covid-19, that I truly appreciated just what we were dealing with."
The watch works by recognizing gestures that are associated with hand movements toward the face. Combining unique technology and algorithms to differentiate between predicted face touchings and other hand movements, the watch vibrates every time a wearer's hand gets close to the face. Max recommends people to wear one watch on each wrist to monitor the movements of both hands.
Max and his mother, Natalie Melia, first came up with the idea in 2018 when the family was discussing ways to prevent the cold and flu. But when the coronavirus pandemic began affecting people worldwide, the rising death toll inspired Max to get to work.
From CNN’s Angus Watson in Sydney
A member of the Covid-19 testing team holds a vile with a swab from a test conducted at a pop-up testing facility on June 28 in Melbourne, Australia. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images
The fourth day of a coronavirus "testing blitz" in the Australian state of Victoria returned 75 positive results on Sunday, Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos announced Monday.
Sunday’s count was the 14th consecutive day of double-digit increases in new coronavirus cases in Victoria -- and the largest single-daily increase reported by the state since March 30.
Of the 75 cases, 74 were considered to be locally transmitted, according to the Victorian Department of Health.
“I think it’s a concerning number,” said Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton, adding: “I think it will get worse before it gets better.”
Testing blitz: Victorian authorities said 15,000 people were tested on Sunday and 53,000 since the "blitz" began on June 25, with tests being offered to all people living in 10 targeted hotspots in the state. The Victorian state government has sought help from the Australian Defence Force to conduct extra tests.
There are currently 288 active cases in Victoria, with nine people in hospital in intensive care, according to the Victorian Department of Health. Victoria is home to one of Australia's largest cities, Melbourne.
Elsewhere in Australia: New South Wales -- home to Sydney, and Australia’s worst hit state since the beginning of the pandemic -- recorded just seven new daily cases as of 8 p.m. local time Sunday, according to its health department.
Australia has reported a total of 7,764 coronavirus cases, including 104 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
From journalist Karol Suarez in Mexico City
A worker tests swabs for coronavirus at Central de Abastos on June 19 in Mexico City, Mexico. Hector Vivas/Getty Images
Mexico reported 4,050 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, according to the country's health ministry.
The country's total number of confirmed cases now stands at 216,852.
The ministry also reported 267 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 26,648.
The new numbers come as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the country's capital, Mexico City, is set to begin a gradual reopening process Monday.
Mexico has recorded the seventh highest number of Covid-19 deaths worldwide.
From CNN's Elizabeth Cohen
Dr. Anthony Fauci says he would "settle" for a Covid-19 vaccine that's 70% to 75% effective, but that this incomplete protection, coupled with the fact that many Americans say they won't get a coronavirus vaccine, makes it "unlikely" that the US will achieve sufficient levels of immunity to quell the outbreak.
With government support, three coronavirus vaccines are expected to be studied in large-scale clinical trials in the next three months.
"The best we've ever done is measles, which is 97 to 98% effective," said Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "That would be wonderful if we get there. I don't think we will. I would settle for (a) 70, 75% effective vaccine."
A CNN poll last month found one-third of Americans said they would not try to get vaccinated against Covid, even if the vaccine is widely available and low cost.
In an interview Friday, CNN asked Fauci whether a vaccine with 70% to 75% efficacy taken by only two-thirds of the population would provide herd immunity to the coronavirus.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-06-29-20-intl/index.html
Here are the most important developments from the last few hours:
· The total number of people to test positive for Covid-19 worldwide has exceeded 10 million, while deaths passed 500,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. It stands at 10,117,700, while known global deaths stand at 501,281.
· US health secretary Alex Azar has warned that “the window is closing” on the country’s chance to take action to effectively curb the coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases surpassed 2.5m. The Health and Human Services secretary pointed to a recent surge in infections, particularly in the south and said people have “to act responsibly” by social distancing and wearing face masks especially “in these hot zones”.
· In response to a surge in US cases, California governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered bars in seven counties – an area home to 13.5 million residents – to close. California had already ordered some areas to reinstate stay-at-home orders, and San Francisco announced a “pause” in its reopening.
· In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis conceded there had been an “explosion” in new cases as the state notched a record 9,585 cases in 24 hours. Young people frustrated by months of confinement have poured back to the state’s beaches, boardwalks and bars, often without masks and seemingly unconcerned about social distancing.
· The premier of Victoria, Australia is considering stay-at-home orders and suburban lockdowns to contain several coronavirus clusters in Melbourne, after more than 70 cases of coronavirus were confirmed on Monday.
· The biggest job creation package in peacetime is needed for the UK to prevent the worst unemployment crisis for a generation, a leading thinktank warned.
· Half of Tokyo residents oppose Olympics in 2021: poll. Just over half of Tokyo’s residents don’t think the postponed 2020 Olympics should be held next year, backing either a further delay or outright cancellation because of fears over the coronavirus, according to a poll published Monday.
· The Philippines’ strictly enforced coronavirus lockdown has severely disrupted access to family planning services and could lead to the highest number of births in two decades, with projections by the University of the Philippines Population Institute and the United Nations Population Fund suggesting an additional 214,000 babies could be born next year as a result of unplanned pregnancies caused by the pandemic.
· Miami announced beaches would close over the 4 July holiday weekend and bars are also shutting their doors. New coronavirus cases have been surging in more than half of US states, reaching record highs.
· Beijing’s city government reported seven new Covid-19 cases for 28 June, down from 14 a day earlier. China has imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people in a province surrounding the capital to contain a fresh cluster, as authorities warn the outbreak is still “severe and complicated”. Health officials say Anxin county - about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Beijing - will be “fully enclosed and controlled”, the same strict measures imposed at the height of the pandemic in the city of Wuhan earlier this year.
· Brazil recorded 30,476 new cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours and 552 additional deaths, the health ministry said on Sunday. The country has now registered a total of 1,344,143 confirmed cases and 57,622 deaths.
· Sudan is extending a lockdown in the state of Khartoum aimed at curbing the spread of the new coronavirus by one week until 7 July, the government spokesman said on Sunday.From 8 July there will be a gradual return to normal, though a night curfew will be imposed from 6 pm until 5 am, Faisal Salih told Reuters. Sudan has confirmed 9,258 cases of the coronavirus, including 572 deaths.
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