Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
World	33,833,554	+287,906	1,012,014
USA	7,406,146	+44,227	210,785
India	6,223,519	+80,500	97,529
Brazil	4,780,317	+31,990	143,010
Russia	1,167,805	+8,232	20,545
Colombia	824,042	+5,839	25,828
Peru	811,768	+3,054	32,396
Spain	758,172	+9,906	31,614
Argentina	736,609	+13,477	16,519
Mexico	733,717	+3,400	76,603
South Africa	672,572	+903	16,667
France	550,690	+8,051	31,893
Chile	461,300	+1,629	12,725
Iran	453,637	+3,677	25,986
UK	446,156	+7,143	42,072
Bangladesh	362,043	+1,488	5,219
Iraq	358,290	+4,724	9,122
Saudi Arabia	334,187	+539	4,739
Turkey	317,272	+1,427	8,130
Italy	313,011	+1,648	35,875
Pakistan	311,516	+675	6,474
Philippines	309,303	+2,025	5,448
Germany	290,466	+1,848	9,556
Indonesia	282,724	+4,002	10,601
Israel	236,926	+3,661	1,528
Ukraine	204,932	+3,627	4,065
Canada	156,961	+1,660	9,291
Ecuador	135,749	+784	11,312
Bolivia	134,223	+322	7,900
Qatar	125,533	+222	214
Romania	125,414	+1,470	4,792
Morocco	121,183	+2,076	2,152
Netherlands	117,551	+3,011	6,393
Belgium	115,353	+1,174	9,987
Dominican	111,900	+234	2,101
Panama	111,853	+576	2,364
Kazakhstan	107,833	+58	1,725
Kuwait	104,568	+587	607
Egypt	103,079	+124	5,914
Oman	98,585	+528	935
UAE	93,090	+995	416
Sweden	92,466	+1543	5,890
Guatemala	90,968	+705	3,238
Poland	89,962	+1,326	2,483
China	85,384	+12	4,634
Japan	82,494	+363	1,557
Belarus	78,260	+314	828
Nepal	76,258	+1,513	491
Honduras	75,537	+428	2,301
Portugal	74,717	+688	1,963
Costa Rica	74,604	+890	880
Ethiopia	74,584	+640	1,191
Venezuela	74,363	+835	621
Bahrain	70,422	+574	246
Czechia	67,843	+1,960	636
Nigeria	58,647	+187	1,111
Singapore	57,742	+27	27
Uzbekistan	56,354	+578	466
Moldova	52,029	+835	1,310
Algeria	51,368	+155	1,726
Armenia	49,901	+327	958
Kyrgyzstan	46,522	+167	1,064
Ghana	46,482	+38	301
Austria	44,041	+609	796
Azerbaijan	40,119	+58	590
Paraguay	40,101	+669	841
Palestine	39,541	+420	306
Kenya	38,378	+210	707
Lebanon	38,377	+1,105	361
Ireland	35,740	+363	1,803
Libya	34,014	+801	540
Serbia	33,479	+65	749
El Salvador	28,981	+84	839
Denmark	27,464	+392	650
Australia	27,063	+19	882
Hungary	25,567	+851	757
S. Korea	23,699	+38	407
Cameroon	20,838	+103	418
Bulgaria	20,547	+276	813
Ivory Coast	19,669	+28	120
Greece	18,123	+416	388
North Macedonia	17,786	+112	737
Tunisia	17,405	+1,291	246
Croatia	16,380	+135	275
Madagascar	16,377	+29	229
Senegal	14,945	+26	310
Zambia	14,715	+55	332
Norway	13,915	+127	274
Sudan	13,640	+27	836
Albania	13,518	+127	384
Myanmar	12,425	+794	284
Namibia	11,140	+19	121
Malaysia	11,135	+101	134
DRC	10,631	+7	272
Montenegro	10,575	+134	164
Maldives	10,194	+37	34
Jordan	10,049	+823	57
French Guiana	9,929	+34	66
Finland	9,892	+149	345
Tajikistan	9,726	+41	75
Slovakia	9,574	+231	45
Mozambique	8,556	+268	59
Luxembourg	8,431	+55	124
Uganda	8,017	+240	75
Zimbabwe	7,837	+21	228
Mauritania	7,488	+14	161
Jamaica	6,408	+238	101
Cabo Verde	5,900	+83	59
Georgia	5,866	+314	36
Malawi	5,772	+2	179
Cuba	5,531	+48	122
Slovenia	5,487	+99	149
Eswatini	5,462	+10	108
Hong Kong	5,080	+4	105
Angola	4,905	+108	179
Suriname	4,863	+27	104
Rwanda	4,836	+4	29
Trinidad and Tobago	4,463	+77	74
Syria	4,148	+46	197
Aruba	3,934	+62	26
Bahamas	3,903	+65	91
Gambia	3,579	+10	112
Thailand	3,559	+14	59
Malta	3,035	+29	34
New Zealand	1,835	+2	25
Cyprus	1,743	+30	22

 

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How you can help fight the hunger crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic

From CNN's Lauren Lee

 

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 28. WHO

The coronavirus is leading to a secondary pandemic -- hunger.

The need for emergency food has exploded since March of 2020. According to an Oxfam report, this hunger crisis could soon kill more people each day than the infection itself.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates about 821 million people were suffering from chronic undernourishment before the pandemic. Globally this hunger crisis has already been exacerbated by climate change, existing conflicts, and inequalities. But now, coupled with Covid-19, people worldwide have hunger and malnutrition to worry about even more.

 

 

How the world's best airport is adapting during the pandemic

From CNN's Lilit Marcus

 

What happens to the world's best airport when the aviation industry comes to a halt?

That's a question that the operators of Singapore's Changi Airport have had to answer amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Changi -- which has a hawker center, butterfly garden, movie theater and more among its offerings -- is so beloved by travelers that it has won the "best airport" award from Skytrax, an airline industry group, every year since 2013.

But as the country went into lockdown and tourists could no longer enter, those amenities risked going to seed. That's when Singapore Airlines (SIA), the city-state's national carrier, decided to get creative.

"With Covid-19 drastically reducing the number of flights operated by the SIA Group, we have created unique activities that would allow us to engage with our fans and customers during this time," the airline's CEO Goh Choon Phong said in a statement.

The airline is unveiling several activities, including a meal served inside of a parked Airbus A380.

 

 

Covid-19 cases surged among college-aged people just as universities reopened, studies say

From CNN's Lauren M. Johnson

 

Cases of Covid-19 surged among college-age individuals in August and September, just as schools were opening across the United States.

Two new studies released on Tuesday take an in-depth look what may be driving the numbers up.

Study 1: In the first study, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at nearly 100,000 coronavirus cases reported to the agency between August 2 and September 5.

The study found that during that period, weekly Covid-19 cases among people aged 18-22 increased 55% nationally. Researchers found the greatest increases in the Northeast at 144% and the Midwest at 123%.

"The observed increases in Covid-19 cases among persons aged 18-22 years could be driven by many factors, including changes in behavior or risk profiles resulting from multiple social, economic, and public policy changes during this period. Because approximately 45% of persons aged 18-22 years attend colleges and universities and 55% of those attending identified as White persons, it is likely that some of this increase is linked to resumption of in-person attendance at some colleges and universities," the researchers wrote in the CDC's weekly report on death and disease, the MMWR.
"Previous reports identified young adults as being less likely than other age groups to adhere to some Covid-19 prevention measures, which places them and their close contacts at higher risk for Covid-19," they added.

Study 2: The second study, led by a team at the North Carolina Department of Health and the University of North Carolina, showed what happened in real time as students began to return to campus on August 3. The university tried to make moving in safe, spreading it out over a week, reducing crowding in dining halls and taking other measures. But the students gathered and partied, anyway.

The university quickly determined the virus was spreading too fast and moved all classes online. It also asked students to move back home or off-campus.

By August 25, 670 cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed, almost all of them in people under the age of 22.

The largest cluster was at an off-campus apartment complex affiliated with the university.

 

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In Japan, a revolutionary response to the pandemic: Better work-life balance

By Simon Denyer

 

 

A 330-foot-tall Buddhist statue towers over Awajishima Island in Awaji, Japan. (Kyodo News/Kyodo News via Getty Images)

 

TOKYO — Picture the traditional grind of the Japanese salaryman: the corporate warrior in suit and tie, commuting to the office in a packed subway train, working long hours, then drinking with his boss and going home to a cramped Tokyo apartment.

Then imagine another type of worker — perhaps a woman — cycling to her office on a picturesque island, with an equally challenging career but spending her weekends by the sea, immersed in nature or relaxing in a hot spring.

That’s the vision of Yasuyuki Nambu, the chief executive of the Japanese employment and staffing company Pasona, who aims to move its headquarters from Tokyo, population 37 million, to the Japanese island of Awaji in the Seto Inland Sea, population 129,000.

 

 

Covid deaths pass 10,000 in Belgium

 

 A man wearing a face mask walks in Brussels, Belgium. The country’s Covid-19 death toll has passed 10,000. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

 

Belgium, one of the European countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, said today its death toll from the pandemic has surpassed 10,000.

The country, which has a population of 11.5 million, recorded 14 more deaths over the past 24 hours, taking the total to 10,001.

Reported infections rose to 117,115 from 115,353, the Sciensano research institute said.

Since the start of the pandemic seven months ago, Belgian authorities have included as wide a number of cases as possible in the toll, adding fatalities in hospitals and care homes, and those people whose deaths may have been caused by the virus but were not tested.

During the peak of the pandemic in April, Belgium recorded more than 250 deaths daily over about 10 days, according to Sciensano.

Since the summer, testing capacity has been stepped up, leading to a sharp rise in the number of positive cases recorded, particularly in September when people returned to work and school after the summer holidays.

The daily number of deaths has increased since the start of this month, going from three to an average of seven to eight in recent days, with the elderly and those in poor health increasingly among those infected.

Older people in about 1,500 care homes have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. These facilities have recorded around half of the deaths, according to official figures. This rises to around two-thirds if residents of care homes who died in hospital are included, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

 

 

60m Indians may have contracted Covid

 

More than 60 million people in India - 10 times the official figure - could have contracted the novel coronavirus, the country’s lead pandemic agency said Tuesday, citing a nationwide study measuring antibodies.

According to official data India, home to 1.3 billion people, is the world’s second most infected nation, with more than 6.1 million cases, just behind the United States.

But the real figure could be much higher, according to the latest serological survey - a study testing blood for certain antibodies to estimate the proportion of a population that has fought off the virus, AFP reports.

“The main conclusions from this sero-survey are that one in 15 individuals aged more than 10 have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 by August,” Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director-general Balram Bhargava said at a health ministry press conference.

Bhargava said evidence of virus exposure was more prevalent among people tested in urban slums (15.6%) and non-slum urban areas (8.2%), than in rural areas, where 4.4% of those surveyed had antibodies.

 

 

Summary

 

Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 60 million people in India could have contracted Covid-19, the country’s lead pandemic agency said, citing a nationwide study measuring antibodies. The study found that the number of Indians to have had the disease may be 10 times higher than the official figure of 6.1 million.

Meanwhile the UK reported 7,143 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, the highest single figure to date, and 71 deaths, the biggest toll since July, according to the government’s dashboard.

· Disney will lay off roughly 28,000 employees in its theme parks division, the company said, as its resorts struggle with limited attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic. Disney has reopened all of its parks except California’s Disneyland. About two-thirds of the laid-off employees are part-time workers, the company said in a statement.

· The World Bank has announced plans for a $12bn (£9.3bn) initiative that will allow poor countries to purchase Covid-19 vaccines to treat up to 2 billion people as soon as effective drugs become available. In an attempt to ensure that low-income countries are not frozen out by wealthy nations, the organisation is asking its key rich-nation shareholders to back a scheme that will disburse cash over the next 12 to 18 months.

· The global coronavirus death toll passed one million. The world has suffered the loss of more than one million people in just nine months since the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, China, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, who rely on official government data.The current total is: 1,003,337. The true toll is likely to be higher due to time lags, differing testing rates and definitions (of what constitutes a coronavirus-related death, for example) and suspected underreporting in some countries.

· The director-general of the World Health Organisation described the one millionth death as a “difficult moment for the world”. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus urged urged countries to “bridge national boundaries” to fight back against the virus and said it was never too late to turn the tide on the disease.

· Germany is heading for nearly 20,000 new infections a day unless urgent action is taken, its chancellor Angela Merkel said. Merkel said she wanted to avoid another nationwide lockdown “at all costs” but that measures were necessary on a state-by-state basis. Restrictions will include a cap on the number of people at parties and family gatherings in areas worst affected by the coronavirus.

· The Netherlands is in grip of a fast-growing second wave of coronavirus. The country reported 3,011 new cases on Tuesday, a daily record, as it imposed new measures to combat a resurgence of infections

 

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