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Country, |
Total |
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Total |
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World |
18,435,341 |
+199,770 |
697,090 |
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1 |
4,862,174 |
+48,622 |
158,929 |
|
|
2 |
2,751,665 |
+17,988 |
94,702 |
|
|
3 |
1,855,331 |
+50,629 |
38,971 |
|
|
4 |
856,264 |
+5,394 |
14,207 |
|
|
5 |
516,862 |
+5,377 |
8,539 |
|
|
6 |
439,046 |
+4,853 |
47,746 |
|
|
7 |
433,100 |
+4,250 |
19,811 |
|
|
8 |
361,493 |
+1,762 |
9,707 |
|
|
9 |
344,134 |
+3,044 |
28,472 |
|
|
10 |
327,850 |
+10,199 |
11,017 |
|
|
11 |
312,035 |
+2,598 |
17,405 |
|
|
12 |
305,623 |
+928 |
46,210 |
|
|
13 |
280,093 |
+1,258 |
2,949 |
|
|
14 |
280,029 |
+331 |
5,984 |
|
|
15 |
248,229 |
+159 |
35,166 |
|
|
16 |
242,102 |
+1,356 |
3,184 |
|
|
17 |
233,851 |
+995 |
5,747 |
|
|
18 |
212,320 |
+858 |
9,232 |
|
|
19 |
206,743 |
+4,824 |
3,813 |
|
|
20 |
191,295 |
+556 |
30,294 |
|
|
21 |
131,886 |
+2,735 |
4,934 |
|
|
22 |
117,031 |
+147 |
8,947 |
|
|
23 |
113,134 |
+1,679 |
5,302 |
|
|
24 |
111,322 |
+215 |
177 |
|
|
25 |
106,241 |
+3,137 |
2,104 |
|
|
26 |
94,640 |
+157 |
4,888 |
|
|
27 |
92,662 |
+1,069 |
1,058 |
|
|
28 |
87,041 |
+517 |
5,767 |
|
|
29 |
84,428 |
+43 |
4,634 |
|
|
30 |
81,012 |
+43 |
5,744 |
|
|
31 |
80,153 |
+1,360 |
3,153 |
|
|
32 |
79,159 |
|
421 |
|
|
33 |
74,430 |
+1,615 |
546 |
|
|
34 |
73,158 |
+990 |
1,738 |
|
|
35 |
73,117 |
+874 |
1,183 |
|
|
36 |
69,849 |
+447 |
9,845 |
|
|
37 |
68,456 |
+1,003 |
1,497 |
|
|
38 |
68,299 |
+388 |
461 |
|
|
39 |
68,166 |
+99 |
571 |
|
|
40 |
61,163 |
+164 |
351 |
|
|
41 |
55,470 |
+372 |
6,149 |
|
|
42 |
54,009 |
+823 |
2,432 |
|
|
43 |
53,051 |
+226 |
27 |
|
|
44 |
51,569 |
+106 |
1,738 |
|
|
45 |
51,542 |
+236 |
2,013 |
|
|
46 |
47,469 |
+575 |
1,732 |
|
|
47 |
44,129 |
+288 |
896 |
|
|
48 |
43,197 |
+512 |
1,377 |
|
|
49 |
41,835 |
+299 |
150 |
|
|
50 |
39,102 |
+52 |
762 |
|
|
51 |
38,687 |
+1,998 |
1,012 |
|
|
52 |
37,812 |
+798 |
191 |
|
|
53 |
37,129 |
+410 |
1,420 |
|
|
54 |
36,747 |
+37 |
1,288 |
|
|
55 |
35,616 |
+66 |
1,981 |
|
|
56 |
32,684 |
+241 |
468 |
|
|
57 |
31,972 |
+507 |
1,239 |
|
|
58 |
26,451 |
+258 |
598 |
|
|
59 |
26,208 |
+46 |
1,763 |
|
|
60 |
26,196 |
+659 |
401 |
Source：https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Negotiators on Tuesday are set to reconvene on Capitol Hill to continue hammering out differences over a coronavirus relief package, with top Trump administration officials scheduled to return for another meeting with congressional Democrats.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, will meet with Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader. Mr. Mnuchin and Mr. Meadows will also join Senate Republicans for a closed-door policy lunch.
The Senate is scheduled to take a monthlong recess at the end of the week, but it is unclear if lawmakers will leave Washington without a deal. Tens of millions of Americans have lost crucial unemployment benefits as well as a federal moratorium on evictions, and economists warn that permanent damage could be wrought on the economy without action.
“I’ve never been a gambler,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, when asked about the prospect of a deal before the end of the week. “But if I were a gambler, I’d say we need to have some long days, long nights. Work hard.”
White House officials and Democratic leaders reported some progress over the weekend, but there are still substantial differences. Democrats are proposing a $3 trillion rescue plan that would include restoring $600-per-week jobless aid payments that expired on Friday and extending them through January, while Republicans are pushing a $1 trillion package that would reduce those payments substantially.
President Trump on Monday raised the idea of using an executive order to address the moratorium on evictions, while also hurling insults at Democratic leaders who were meeting with his top advisers in search of a compromise. But he has been notably absent from the negotiations themselves.
Gymnasia Ha’ivrit high school in Jerusalem became the center of a major virus outbreak after Israeli schools reopened in May.Credit...Dan Balilty for The New York Times
As the United States and other countries anxiously consider how to reopen schools, Israel, one of the first countries to do so, illustrates the dangers of moving too precipitously.
Confident that it had beaten the coronavirus and desperate to reboot a devastated economy, the Israeli government invited the entire student body back in late May.
Within days, infections were reported at a Jerusalem high school, which quickly mushroomed into the largest outbreak in a single school in Israel, possibly the world.
The virus rippled out to the students’ homes and then to other schools and neighborhoods, ultimately infecting hundreds of students, teachers and relatives. Other outbreaks forced hundreds of schools to close. Across the country, tens of thousands of students and teachers were quarantined.
Israel’s advice for other countries?
“They definitely should not do what we have done,” said Eli Waxman, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and chairman of the team advising Israel’s National Security Council on the pandemic. “It was a major failure.”
The lesson, experts say, is that even communities that have gotten the spread of the virus under control need to take strict precautions when reopening schools. Smaller classes, mask wearing, keeping desks six feet apart and providing adequate ventilation, they say, are likely to be crucial until a vaccine is available.
“If there is a low number of cases, there is an illusion that the disease is over,” said Dr. Hagai Levine, a professor of epidemiology and the chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians. “But it’s a complete illusion.”
The United States is facing similar pressures to fully reopen schools, but is in a far worse position than Israel was in May: Israel had fewer than 100 new infections a day then. The United States is now averaging more than 60,000 new cases a day, and some states continue to set alarming records.
On Tuesday, the secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, said that over a billion children worldwide were affected by school closures last month, exacerbating what he called a “learning crisis” before the pandemic in which more than 250 million children had been out of school. “We are at a defining moment for the world’s children and young people,” Mr. Guterres said.
Census data is used to divvy up trillions of dollars in federal aid.Credit...Gabriele Holtermann/Sipa, via Associated Press
Counting for the 2020 census will end on Sept. 30, a month earlier than previously scheduled, the Census Bureau said in a statement on Monday.
The census is constitutionally required to count all residents of the United States every 10 years, but the 2020 effort has faltered amid the pandemic. In recent weeks, the Trump administration and Senate Republicans appeared to signal that they wanted the census finished well ahead of schedule.
Census data is enormously important. It is used to reapportion all 435 House seats and thousands of state and local districts, as well as to divvy up trillions of dollars in federal aid.
“Under this plan, the Census Bureau intends to meet a similar level of household responses as collected in prior censuses, including outreach to hard-to-count communities,” the Census Bureau said in its statement.
Critics said the move was pushed by the White House and motivated by partisanship.
“We’re dealing with a census that’s been really challenged by Covid-19,” said Vanita Gupta, a former head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division who is now the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “And in the middle of this pandemic, the administration has tried to sabotage the census for partisan gain, to move its anti-immigrant agenda and to silence communities of color.”
She added that rural communities could be badly hurt by an undercount.
On Monday night, the White House referred questions to the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
From CNN's Stefano Pozzebon in Bogota, Colombia
Medical personnel are seen outside the emergency room of the University Hospital in Maracaibo, in Venezuela, on July 2, amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Luis Bravo/AFP via Getty Images
Twenty-two doctors have died of Covid-19 in the northwestern Venezuelan state of Zulia, Dr. Daniela Parra, the president of the Zulia College of Doctors, told CNN on Monday.
Speaking with CNN from the state capital, Maracaibo, Parra said, "It's in front of everyone's eyes that the medical staff is paying the highest price because of the pandemic."
Parra added that the College of Doctors presented recommended measures to both Maracaibo City Hall and the governor of Zulia to lower the risks for doctors on the front line against Covid-19.
"We recommended to reduce the hospital's shift from 12 hours to eight hours, so to reduce the (exposure) of our doctors to the virus, and purchase more PPE," Parra said.
Located near the Colombia border, Zulia is the country's second most affected state, with 3,421 reported cases.
CNN has previously documented the difficult conditions of medical facilities in Venezuela and particularly in Zulia, where most hospitals lack running water, electricity and basic resources.
The Venezuelan Ministry of Communications did not respond to a request for comment from CNN.
From CNN's Isaac Yee
A man grimaces as health workers collect his blood sample at a Covid-19 rapid testing center in Hanoi, Vietnam, on August 1. Manan Vatsyana/Getty Images
Vietnam on Tuesday morning reported 10 new cases of the novel coronavirus, according to the state-run Vietnam News Agency.
The 10 new cases, in people between the ages of 30 and 68, were all linked to a hospital cluster in the resort city of Da Nang, Vietnam News Agency reported on Tuesday.
The new cases bring the total number of infections in the country to 652, of which 205 are linked to the outbreak in Da Nang. The death toll remains at six.
As of Tuesday morning, more than 130,000 people who have been in close contact with confirmed cases are in quarantine across the country. Some 1,258 of them are in hospitals, 20,417 at quarantine centers, and 111,594 at their place of residence.
From CNN's Isaac Yee
Australia’s Defense Department will deploy 500 more troops to enforce stay-at-home orders in the state of Victoria, according to State Premier Daniel Andrews.
“I can confirm there will be more than 500 additional ADF (Australian Defense Force) personnel come to Melbourne in the coming days, they will be accompanied by more than 300 additional authorized officers from the health department, they will continue to go out in teams to door knock,” Andrews said on Tuesday morning.
Andrews also announced new penalties for people found to be in breach of directions from the chief health officer, including a newly increased $3,540 on-the-spot fine for people who breach isolation orders, the largest instant penalty in Victoria.
Andrews added that people who conduct in “particularly selfish behavior” may also be taken to court, where they can be fined up to $14,290.
Andrews said the new fines were being imposed because of the 3,000 door knocks on infected people -- who are meant to be self isolating -- 800 patients were not home.
Victoria’s Minister for Police Lisa Neville also warned that Victorian Police will be out in force to find people who are in breach of coronavirus restrictions, saying officers “will not hesitate” to fine people or even detain them in certain cases.
Victoria recorded 439 new Covid-19 cases and 11 fatalities in the past 24 hours, Andrews said. That brings the total number of cases reported in the state to 12,335 and the total death toll to 147.
From CNN's Livia Borghese in Rome and Mia Alberti in Lisbon
Authorities in Italy have found that only 2.5% of Italians, or 1,482,000 people, have Covid-19 antibodies despite it being one of the countries hardest hit by coronavirus in Europe.
According to the results of a national survey released on Monday, the northern region of Lombardy, the worse-hit by the pandemic, reported the highest number of people with antibodies, 7.5%, while the two main Italian islands, Sicily and Sardinia, had the lowest number of 0.3 % of the population.
“The different results of the survey in the country’s territory are very relevant. This means that the tough and rigorous measure adopted by the central and regional governments, and the correct behavior of the Italian people avoided a more massive spread of the virus,” Minister of Health Roberto Speranza said during a news conference on Monday.
According to the survey, almost a third of those who tested positive for antibodies were asymptomatic and the most frequent source of infection, in 41.7% of the cases, is from a relative living in the same house.
The current number of people with antibodies is six times higher than that registered during the pandemic, said Linda Laura Sabbadini, director of the National Institute for Statistics (Istat).
More on the survey: The survey, carried out in collaboration with the Italian Red Cross, between May 25 and July 15, tested blood samples from 64,660 people from 2,000 villages and cities across Italy, split by sex, occupation and age groups. The survey did not include people living in health care facilities.
In May, the government had said the survey would include 150,000 people, but "the health emergency made the survey procedure more complicated," but still "an incredibly useful source of data," Sabbadini explained during a news conference.
Source：https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-04-20-intl/index.html
I will be handing over to my colleagues in London shortly, but before then, here’s a summary of the main news so far.
· The Philippines has begun a lockdown of 27 million people, imposing stricter measures in an attempt to halt the country’s spiralling coronavirus case numbers. The measures were reintroduced on Tuesday after the country’s infection tally topped 100,000 and a coalition of health groups issued a “distress signal” urging President Rodrigo Duterte to act.
· The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, warned on Tuesday that the world faced a “generational catastrophe” because of school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic and said that getting students safely back to the classroom must be “a top priority” once local transmission drops.
· The World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned that there may never be an effective Covid-19 vaccine: “A number of vaccines are now in phase three clinical trials and we all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help [protect] people from infection,” Tedros said. “However there’s no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be.”
· President Trump has rejected a national lockdown to bring the coronavirus pandemic in the US under control and insisted the US had done “very well” fighting the virus. The US has recorded 4.7m cases and more than 155,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker.
· In Australia, the state of Victoria recorded another 439 cases and 11 deaths, the day after the premier, Daniel Andrews, announced a six-week lockdown with much more significant restrictions including a night-time curfew in the state capital, Melbourne, for the next six weeks, the closure of non-essential businesses, and a ban on weddings. Andrews also introduced significant fines of A$5,000 (US$3,500) for people not following self-isolation directions.
· China reported 36 new cases of Covid-19 (including 6 imported cases). Of the 30 local cases, 28 were in the western province of Xinjiang, and two in the eastern province of Liaoning. Of the six imported cases four were in Guangdong, one in Shanghai, and one in Sichuan.
· For the first time in two weeks Hong Kong reported fewer than 100 new cases of Covid-19 in a day. The city is experiencing its third and worst wave of the outbreak since the virus first appeared there in January. Driven largely by community transmission, 2,342 of Hong Kong’s 3,590 total cases have been recorded in the past month.
· Latin America broke through 5 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Monday according to a Reuters tally, underscoring the region’s position as the area of the world hardest hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Brazil has the second-worst coronavirus outbreak in the world after the United States, with more than 2.75m and 94,665 deaths, according to health ministry data.
· Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s chief of staff has tested positive to Covid-19. General Walter Souza Braga Netto is the the seventh Brazilian minister to have contracted the disease. Last week, Bolsonaro’s wife tested positive, following her husband’s infection.
· One person is dying from Covid-19 every seven minutes in Iran, state television said on Monday, as the country’s health ministry reported 215 new deaths from the disease. The combined death toll in Iran rose to 17,405 on Monday, Sima Sadat Lari, the health ministry spokeswoman, said, while the number of confirmed cases rose by 2,598 to 312,035. Of those, 270,228 have recovered.
· New Zealand has recorded no new cases of Covid-19. There are 22 cases of the disease in the country, all in managed isolation. The country’s health director general, Ashley Bloomfield, warned that a single case outside of quarantine facilities could turn into a wider outbreak if people were not vigilant. “We have worked too hard to let that happen here,” he said at a news conference.
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