Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
World	27,728,150	+247,097	901,079
USA	6,514,231	+28,561	194,032
India	4,367,436	+89,852	73,923
Brazil	4,165,124	+17,330	127,517
Russia	1,035,789	+5,099	17,993
Peru	696,190	+4,615	30,123
Colombia	679,513	+7,665	21,817
South Africa	640,441	+1,079	15,086
Mexico	637,509	+3,486	67,781
Spain	534,513	+8,964	29,594
Argentina	500,034	+12,027	10,405
Chile	425,541	+1,267	11,682
Iran	391,112	+2,302	22,542
UK	352,560	+2,460	41,586
France	335,524	+6,544	30,764
Bangladesh	329,251	+1,892	4,552
Saudi Arabia	322,237	+781	4,137
Pakistan	299,233	+330	6,350
Turkey	283,270	+1,761	6,782
Italy	280,153	+1,370	35,563
Iraq	269,578	+4,894	7,657
Germany	254,956	+1,331	9,409
Philippines	241,987	+3,260	3,916
Indonesia	200,035	+3,046	8,230
Ukraine	140,479	+2,411	2,934
Israel	137,565	+3,590	1,040
Canada	133,748	+1,606	9,153
Bolivia	121,604	+835	7,054
Qatar	120,579	+231	205
Ecuador	110,757	+665	10,627
Kazakhstan	106,425	+64	1,634
Egypt	100,228	+187	5,560
Dominican	100,131	+233	1,889
Panama	98,407	+829	2,107
Romania	97,033	+1,136	3,967
Kuwait	91,244	+857	548
Belgium	88,769	+402	9,909
Oman	87,590	+262	742
Sweden	85,707	+149	5,838
China	85,144	+10	4,634
Guatemala	78,721	+893	2,890
Netherlands	76,548	+964	6,244
Morocco	75,721	+1,941	1,427
UAE	75,098	+644	391
Belarus	73,208	+177	721
Japan	72,234	+378	1,377
Poland	71,526	+400	2,136
Honduras	64,814	+50	2,023
Portugal	60,895	+388	1,846
Ethiopia	60,784	+1,136	949
Singapore	57,091	+47	27
Bahrain	56,778	+702	202
Venezuela	55,563	+1,213	444
Nigeria	55,456	+296	1,067
Costa Rica	49,897	+1,117	531
Nepal	48,138	+902	306
Algeria	46,938	+285	1,571
Ghana	45,012	+143	283
Armenia	44,953	+108	903
Kyrgyzstan	44,526	+68	1,060
Uzbekistan	44,281	+388	358
Moldova	40,556	+501	1,087
Azerbaijan	37,557	+139	552
Kenya	35,356	+151	599
Serbia	31,994	+53	727
Austria	30,081	+520	747
Ireland	30,080	+306	1,778
Czechia	29,877	+1,161	441
Palestine	27,363	+584	190
El Salvador	26,511	+98	765
Australia	26,374	+52	770
Paraguay	24,214	+861	463
S. Korea	21,432	+136	341
Lebanon	21,324	+498	207
Cameroon	19,848	+244	415
Libya	19,583	+749	314
Ivory Coast	18,778	+77	119
Denmark	18,356	+243	628
Bulgaria	17,313	+167	692
Madagascar	15,435	+83	206
North Macedonia	15,226	+99	631
Senegal	14,044	+30	292
Zambia	12,952	+116	297
Croatia	12,285	+204	203
Greece	11,832	+169	290
Norway	11,623	+102	264
Albania	10,553	+147	321
DRC	10,292	+59	260
Malaysia	9,559	+100	128
French Guiana	9,387	+32	62
Hungary	9,304	+341	626
Namibia	8,928	+118	91
Tajikistan	8,860	+36	70
Maldives	8,741	+74	29
Finland	8,337	+10	336
Zimbabwe	7,388	+90	218
Luxembourg	6,974	+14	124
Montenegro	5,875	+216	112
Malawi	5,630	+9	176
Tunisia	5,417	+293	96
Eswatini	4,904	+20	96
Hong Kong	4,896	+6	99
Nicaragua	4,818	+150	144
CAR	4,735	+6	62
Slovakia	4,727	+91	37
Rwanda	4,439	+30	20
Suriname	4,419	+59	91
Cabo Verde	4,400	+42	42
Cuba	4,377	+25	104
Uganda	3,900	+124	46
Thailand	3,446	+1	58
Slovenia	3,232	+42	135
Aruba	2,589	+107	15
New Zealand	1,782	+6	24
Cyprus	1,511	+1	22

 

 

Retrieved from:  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

 

 

Trump, campaign crowd appear to violate North Carolina mask order

From CNN's Kevin Liptak

 

US President Donald Trump made his third visit to North Carolina in as many weeks on Tuesday, pushing a new end-in-sight message on coronavirus.

Whether the situation on the ground there helps him is an open question; the state still has a mask requirement in place, and many businesses -- including bars and movie theaters -- remain closed.

But the President did not wear a mask during his speech in Winston-Salem.

And while many supporters visible in stands directly behind Trump were wearing masks, most individuals higher up on the stands away from Trump and most supporters on the ground in front of Trump's podium were not sporting masks.

Before Tuesday's event, the Republican chairman of the local county commission said the President should wear a mask during his speech, a virtually unimaginable prospect for a President who has been mocking his rival for wearing one and who demanded reporters remove their face coverings when asking him questions on Monday.

"The President of the United States sets the example for everybody else. You can hear it: if the President of the United States says I don't have to wear it, I'm not going to wear it. And I can guarantee you that will be done," said David Plyler, the chairman of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners.

As the campaign enters its heated final months, Trump is betting an imminent coronavirus vaccine and a rebounding economy will provide an eleventh-hour boost to his flagging reelection effort.

He has begun accelerating his public timeline on a potential Covid vaccine, saying Monday one might be available "very soon, maybe even before a very special date" -- a reference to Election Day.

And a new Trump campaign ad out Tuesday crystallized the impression the President is hoping to call an end to the coronavirus pandemic before voters decide his fate.

"In the race for a vaccine, the finish line is approaching," a narrator says in the opening lines of the commercial, concluding: "President Trump's great American comeback is now underway."

 

 

UK's Boris Johnson will lower limits on social gatherings to control coronavirus spread

From CNN’s Zahid Mahmood

 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce new measures on Wednesday to reduce the number of people legally allowed to socially gather from 30 to six in England to control the coronavirus spread.

The new lower limit, due to take effect starting Monday, will make it easier for police to identify and disperse illegal gatherings of more than six people unless it meets one of the exemptions.

Exemptions include, a household or support bubble larger than six, if gatherings are for work or education purposes, weddings, funerals, or organized team sports.

“We need to act now to stop the virus spreading. So we are simplifying and strengthening the rules on social contact – making them easier to understand and for the police to enforce,” Johnson said in a statement.

“It is absolutely critical that people now abide by these rules and remember the basics – washing your hands, covering your face, keeping space from others, and getting a test if you have symptoms.”

The statement added the new measures are supported by the government, Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance after the UK has seen the number of daily coronavirus cases rise to almost 3,000.

On Tuesday, Britain recorded an increase of 2,460 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 352,560.

 

 

The pandemic is jeopardizing decades of work in reducing preventable childhood deaths, new report finds

From CNN Health’s Shelby Lin Erdman

 

Preventable deaths in children under 5 were at the lowest number on record in 2019, according to a new report by United Nations agencies and the World Bank, released on Tuesday.

They found that there were just over 5 million preventable deaths last year, down from 12.5 million in 1990.

But the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to undermine those gains made in reducing deaths among children and young adolescents.

The report on mortality estimates comes from UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the World Bank Group.

“We must not let the Covid-19 pandemic turn back remarkable progress for our children and future generations,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.

Recent surveys by UNICEF and WHO have found the pandemic is disrupting child and maternal healthcare services worldwide, including prenatal and post-natal care, vaccinations and check-ups due to fewer resources and a fear of contracting Covid-19.

“The global community has come too far towards eliminating preventable child deaths to allow the COVID-19 pandemic to stop us in our tracks,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a news release. 
“When children are denied access to health services because the system is overrun, and when women are afraid to give birth at the hospital for fear of infection, they, too, may become casualties of COVID-19,” Fore said. 

She added that millions of young children, especially newborns, could die "without urgent investments to re-start disrupted health systems and services."

Out of 77 countries surveyed by UNICEF over the summer, 68% reported disruptions in childhood checkups and vaccinations. A WHO survey of 105 countries also found 52% reported interruptions in medical services for sick kids and 51% reported disruptions in malnutrition programs.

These kinds of services are critical for preventing newborn and child deaths, WHO said.

 

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Coronavirus LIVE: Oxford vaccine pause a reality check, says Biocon chief

BS Web Team  | New Delhi 

Last Updated at September 9, 2020 12:40 IST

 

Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) during a rapid antigen testing for coronavirus disease at Kalupur railway station premises in Ahmedabad on Monday.

 

Coronavirus update: India has recorded nearly 90,000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours. With this, the country's tally has surged past the 4.3 million mark to 4,370,128. Death toll has climbed to 73,923. According to the health ministry, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu account for 62% of total active coronavirus cases in the country. India's cumulative tests for detection of the virus has surpassed 50 million, while tests per million have risen from 6,396 on July 1 to 36,703.
Delhi recorded 3,609 fresh corona cases, taking tally to 197,135. Uttarakhand's tally has surged to 26,094.
 

Coronavirus vaccine update: The clinical trials for the Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford, which was expected to start at PGIMER in Chandigarh, have been delayed by at least a week over safety approvals. Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine candiate are on temporary hold while the company investigates whether a recipient's "potentially unexplained" illness is a side effect of the shot. The AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine is seen as a strong contender among dozens being developed globally.
World coronavirus update: The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 27,721,018. While 19,808,577 have recovered, 900,844 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 6,513,264 cases. It is followed by India which has 4,367,436, Brazil (4,165,124) and Russia (1,035,789).

 

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France could face 'critical situation' in winter if cases keep rising

 

Final clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, have been put on hold after a participant had a suspected adverse reaction in the UK.

AstraZeneca described it as a "routine" pause in the case of "an unexplained illness".

The outcome of vaccine trials is being closely watched around the world.

The AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine is seen as a strong contender among dozens being developed globally.

§ How close to developing a vaccine are we?

§ What drugs can help treat coronavirus?

Hopes have been high that the vaccine might be one of the first to come on the market, following successful phase 1 and 2 testing.

Its move to Phase 3 testing in recent weeks has involved some 30,000 participants in the US as well as in the UK, Brazil and South Africa. Phase 3 trials in vaccines often involve thousands of participants and can last several years.

Stat News, the health website which first broke the story, said details of the UK participant's adverse reaction were not immediately known, but quoted a source as saying they were expected to recover.

 

At first glance this may seem alarming. A vaccine trial - and not just any vaccine, but one receiving massive global attention - is put on hold due to a suspected serious adverse reaction. But such events are not unheard of. Indeed the Oxford team describe it as "routine". Any time a volunteer is admitted to hospital and the cause of their illness is not immediately apparent it triggers a study to be put on hold.

This is actually the second time it has happened with the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial since the first volunteers were immunised in April. An Oxford University spokesperson said: "In large trials, illnesses will happen by chance but must be independently reviewed to check this carefully."

A final decision on restarting the trial will be taken by the medical regulator the MHRA, which could take only days. But until then all international vaccination sites, in the UK, Brazil, South Africa and the USA are on hold.

The Oxford University team believe this process illustrates that they are committed to the safety of their volunteers and the highest standards of conduct in their studies.

 

 

Where are we in the search for a vaccine?

 

US President Donald Trump has said he wants a vaccine available in the US before 3 November's election, but his comments have raised fears that politics may be prioritised over safety in the rush for a vaccine.

On Tuesday, a group of nine Covid-19 vaccine developers sought to reassure the public by announcing a "historic pledge" to uphold scientific and ethical standards in the search for a vaccine.

AstraZeneca is among the nine firms who signed up to the pledge to only apply for regulatory approval after vaccines have gone through three phases of clinical study.

Industry giants Johnson & Johnson, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Merk, Moderna, Sanofi and Novavax are the other signatories.

They pledged to "always make the safety and well-being of vaccinated individuals our top priority".

§ Short cuts and 'dirty tricks' in the scramble for a vaccine

§ How will the world vaccinate seven billion people?

The World Health Organization (WHO) says nearly 180 vaccine candidates are being tested around the world but none has yet completed clinical trials.

The organisation has said it does not expect a vaccine to meet its efficacy and safety guidelines in order to be approved this year because of the time it takes to test them safely.

Similar sentiments have been shared by Thomas Cueni, director-general of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers. The industry body represents the companies that signed the pledge.

Despite this, China and Russia have begun inoculating some key workers with domestically developed vaccines. All of them are still listed by the WHO as being in clinical trials.

Meanwhile, the US national regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has suggested that coronavirus vaccines may be approved before completing a third phase of clinical trials.

Last week it also emerged that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had urged states to consider waiving certain requirements in order to be ready to distribute a potential vaccine by 1 November - two days before the 3 November presidential election.

Although President Trump has hinted that a vaccine might be available before the election, his Democratic rival Joe Biden has expressed scepticism that Mr Trump will listen to scientists and implement a transparent process.

 

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India surpasses Brazil, second behind U.S., in total coronavirus cases

A jump of 90,802 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours has made India the second hardest hit country with more than 4.2 million people infected.

 

NEW DELHI — India's increasing coronavirus caseload made the Asian giant the world's second-worst-hit country behind the United States on Monday, as its efforts to head off economic disaster from the pandemic gain urgency.

The 90,802 cases added in the past 24 hours pushed India’s total past Brazil with more than 4.2 million cases. India is now behind only the United States, where more than 6.2 million people have been infected, according to Johns Hopkins University.

India’s Health Ministry on Monday also reported 1,016 new deaths for a total of 71,642, the third-highest national toll.

The world's second-most populous country with 1.4 billion people, India has been recording the world’s largest daily increases in coronavirus cases for almost a month. Despite over 2 million new cases in the past month and the virus spreading through the country’s smaller towns and villages, the Indian government has continued relaxing restrictions to try and resuscitate the economy.

On Monday, in India’s sprawling capital, New Delhi, commuters were scarce. Only asymptomatic people were allowed to board the trains, with masks, social distancing and temperature checks mandatory.

But New Delhi’s streets have already returned to their normal bustle, and people are again flocking to markets. The city's bars will reopen on Wednesday.

The reopenings come after India's economy shrank faster than any other major nation’s, nearly 24 percent in the last quarter.

 

A government representative makes announcement for coronavirus tests in a residential area of Mumbai on Monday.Punit Paranjpe / AFP - Getty Images

 

India's economic pain dates to the demonetization of the nation's currency in 2016 and a hasty rollout of a goods and services tax the next year. But the strict virus lockdown that started on March 24 exacerbated the economic woes.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered everyone in the country to stay indoors, the whole economy shut down within four hours. Millions lost their jobs instantly and tens of thousands of migrant workers, out of money and fearing starvation, poured out of cities and headed back to villages. The unprecedented migration not only hollowed out India's economy but also spread the virus to the far reaches of the country.

Now, as cases surge, most of the country, except in high-risk areas, has already opened up, with authorities saying they have little choice.

“While lives are important, livelihoods are equally important,” Rajesh Bhushan, the top official of India’s federal health ministry, said at a news briefing last week.

 

Almost 60 percent of India’s virus cases are now coming from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Infections are also returning to areas that had managed to slow the spread of the virus, offsetting marginal gains.

Initially hit hard by the virus, New Delhi had seemed to turn the tide through its aggressive screening for patients. But after reopening steadily, the state has reported a recent surge in cases and fatalities. The reopening of the metro is expected to further worsen the situation, experts fear.

 

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Brazil Eyes Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout in January, Acting Health Minister Says

By Reuters, Wire Service Content Sept. 8, 2020, at 5:50 p.m.

 

Pazuello and other ministers were responding to questions from Esther Castilho, a 10-year-old YouTuber wearing a cowboy hat. Pazuello did not give details on which vaccine would be rolled out.

Brazil has the third-worst outbreak of coronavirus globally with more than 4.1 million cases, passed this week by India for the second highest number of cases after the United States. More than 127,000 people have died from the disease, according to the official Health Ministry death toll.

The high number of cases has led several vaccine makers to seek out Brazil for clinical trials. The country is testing a potential vaccine from AstraZeneca and has signed a memorandum of understanding to receive 30 million doses of it.

Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has downplayed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, on Tuesday repeated prior statements that vaccination would not be mandatory, although the government would still mount a vaccine campaign.

"People cannot be injected with whatever, or forced," Bolsonaro said in an afternoon event with Brazilian doctors.

 

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