Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths
World	38,730,280	+381,466	1,096,323
USA	8,150,043	+59,693	221,843
India	7,305,070	+67,988	111,311
Brazil	5,141,498	+26,675	151,779
Russia	1,340,409	+14,231	23,205
Spain	937,311	+11,970	33,413
Argentina	931,967	+14,932	24,921
Colombia	930,159	+6,061	28,306
Peru	856,951	+2,977	33,512
Mexico	825,340	+4,295	84,420
France	779,063	+22,591	33,037
South Africa	696,414	+1,877	18,151
UK	654,644	+19,724	43,155
Iran	513,219	+4,830	29,349
Chile	485,372	+1,092	13,415
Iraq	413,215	+3,857	10,021
Bangladesh	382,959	+1,684	5,593
Italy	372,799	+7,332	36,289
Philippines	346,536	+1,910	6,449
Indonesia	344,749	+4,127	12,156
Germany	341,742	+6,063	9,771
Saudi Arabia	340,590	+501	5,108
Turkey	340,450	+1,671	9,014
Pakistan	320,463	+615	6,601
Israel	298,500	+1,848	2,098
Ukraine	276,177	+5,590	5,229
Netherlands	196,163	+7,287	6,663
Canada	189,387	+2,506	9,664
Belgium	173,240	+7,360	10,244
Romania	164,477	+4,016	5,601
Morocco	160,333	+3,387	2,726
Ecuador	149,083	+912	12,264
Poland	141,804	+6,526	3,217
Czechia	139,290	+9,543	1,172
Bolivia	138,922	+227	8,351
Qatar	128,603	+198	220
Panama	122,128	+832	2,519
Dominican Republic	119,662	+654	2,186
Nepal	117,996	+2,638	675
Kuwait	113,269	+532	676
UAE	110,039	+1,431	450
Kazakhstan	108,984	+83	1,768
Oman	107,776	+563	1,061
Egypt	104,915	+128	6,077
Sweden	101,332	+678	5,907
Guatemala	99,094	+714	3,430
Costa Rica	91,780	+1,542	1,134
Portugal	91,193	+2,072	2,117
Japan	90,140	+467	1,638
Ethiopia	86,430	+712	1,312
China	85,611	+20	4,634
Belarus	85,121	+597	911
Venezuela	85,005	+614	714
Honduras	84,852	+439	2,528
Bahrain	76,621	+349	287
Moldova	64,424	+1,149	1,514
Uzbekistan	61,950	+308	514
Nigeria	60,834	+179	1,116
Austria	58,672	+1,346	872
Armenia	58,624	+1,058	1,039
Singapore	57,889	+5	28
Lebanon	57,246	+1,377	499
Algeria	53,584	+185	1,827
Paraguay	51,845	+648	1,131
Kyrgyzstan	50,201	+330	1,094
Libya	45,821	+836	669
Palestine	45,658	+458	393
Ireland	45,243	+1,084	1,835
Azerbaijan	42,750	+369	616
Kenya	42,541	+604	797
Hungary	40,782	+920	1,023
Serbia	35,251	+245	768
Tunisia	34,790	+2,234	512
Denmark	33,593	+492	675
Myanmar	31,325	+888	732
El Salvador	30,766	+286	904
Jordan	30,550	+2,423	257
Australia	27,341	+24	904
Bulgaria	26,593	+819	929
S. Korea	24,878	+73	438
Greece	23,495	+435	469
Slovakia	22,296	+1,410	66
Croatia	21,741	+748	334
North Macedonia	21,636	+443	809
Cameroon	21,441	+238	423
Ivory Coast	20,217	+34	120
Malaysia	17,540	+660	167
Albania	15,955	+203	434
Norway	15,953	+162	277
Zambia	15,616	+29	345
Senegal	15,331	+24	316
Montenegro	14,461	+193	217
Georgia	13,521	+680	109
Finland	12,703	+204	350
Namibia	12,069	+69	130
Maldives	11,062	+69	35
DRC	10,935	+63	281
Tajikistan	10,336	+39	79
French Guiana	10,202	+10	69
Uganda	10,069	+124	95
Luxembourg	10,030	+190	133
Slovenia	9,938	+707	175
Zimbabwe	8,055	+19	231
Jamaica	7,989	+79	151
Angola	6,846	+166	227
Lithuania	6,505	+139	109
Cuba	6,035	+18	123
Malawi	5,829	+2	181
Eswatini	5,715	+19	114
Bahamas	5,191	+28	109
Trinidad and Tobago	5,154	+27	93
Suriname	5,083	+11	108
Aruba	4,255	+26	32
Thailand	3,652	+9	59
Cyprus	2,181	+51	25

 

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

 

 

 

Lockdown or a drip feed of Covid restrictions? One path is better for the economy

From CNN's Zamira Rahim, Pierre Bairin and Gaëlle Fournier

 

 

Governments across Europe are choosing between two vastly different strategies as a second wave of Covid-19 arrives in force.

Most are imposing limited local restrictions and keeping their economies open. But in the UK and Ireland, scientific advisers have pushed for second national lockdowns, despite fears of an economic shock.

The crisis, which hit Europe for the first time in early spring, is back -- but this time around, many people feel that locking down society is too high a price to pay.

Yet most medical and economic experts CNN spoke to agree that, in the long run, a short lockdown is better than a constant battle to contain the pandemic.

 

 

Italy records its highest daily coronavirus case increase since the pandemic began

From CNN’s Zahid Mahmood in London and Nicola Ruotolo in Rome

 

A woman undergoes a swab test for Covid-19 at a drive-through testing site of the Santa Maria della Pieta hospital in Rome on October 12. Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images

Italy on Wednesday recorded its highest daily increase in coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, the latest figures from the country's Ministry of Health show. 

Italian health authorities said there had been 7,332 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to at least 372,799.

The number exceeds the previous daily high set during the first wave of the pandemic on March 21, when at least 6,557 cases were recorded over a 24-hour period. 

Over the past day, 43 people have died of coronavirus, bringing Italy’s total number of deaths to at least 36,289.

The number of patients in intensive care has increased by 25.

Some background: Italy was one of the worst-hit countries in Europe during the first wave of the pandemic and the country is battling to contain another outbreak.

Additional restrictions were announced on Tuesday by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Health Minister Roberto Speranza making masks mandatory indoors except when at home and urging people to not gather in groups of more than six at home. 

 

 

Germany just recorded a daily high number of new Covid-19 cases

From CNN’s Fred Pleitgen in Berlin and Martin Goillandeau in London 

 

German authorities identified a single-day high of 6,638 new coronavirus cases, according to data published Thursday by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country's disease control and prevention agency.

To date, more than 341,000 Covid-19 infections have been identified in Germany since the pandemic began, killing at least 9,710 people. Another 33 Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, according to the RKI.

A spike in Europe: Thursday marked the highest number of cases identified in a day in Germany since March 28. It is just one of many countries in Europe fighting to contain new outbreaks of Covid-19.

Thousands of cases are being identified in France, where authorities in several cities have begun enacting curfews in an attempt to limit the virus' spread. Numbers are also soaring in the United Kingdom and Italy.

 

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Night on the town, Moscow style: Few masks, but lots of worry about another lockdown

By Isabelle Khurshudyan

 

A man walks his cat in Moscow’s Red Square this month. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)

 

At the Mendeleev Bar, the bouncers took our temperatures and then handed us face masks. We wore them as we entered. But ­inside, everyone except for the staff had shed their masks and crammed in for what they feared could be their last big night out.

“People are more afraid of a second lockdown than they are of the coronavirus,” said Kirill Khaustev, a bartender at Mendeleev.

That morning, Russia had announced more than 12,000 new coronavirus cases in the past day — a record increase for the country with the world’s fourth-largest number of cases. Then, on Tuesday, Russia set a record for daily deaths from the coronavirus with 244. On Wednesday, it was 239 deaths linked to the virus and 14,200 new cases.

 

 

Fauci warns Americans may have to ‘bite the bullet’ and cancel Thanksgiving

By Antonia Farzan

 

Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, testifies before the Senate in September. (Graeme Jennings/AP)

 

Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said late Wednesday that Americans may have to rethink large family gatherings this Thanksgiving as dozens of states witness a significant rise in coronavirus cases.

“That is unfortunately a risk, when you have people coming from out of town, gathering together in an indoor setting,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told “CBS Evening News.” “It is unfortunate, because that’s such a sacred part of American tradition — the family gathering around Thanksgiving.”

Fauci noted that people need to be especially cautious if members of their family are at risk due to age or underlying health conditions. “You may have to bite the bullet and sacrifice that social gathering,” he said, “unless you’re pretty certain that the people that you’re dealing with are not infected.”

Fauci added that his own three children, who all live in different states, will not be flying home for Thanksgiving “because of their concern for me and my age.” Fauci is 79, placing him in a high-risk category.

During the CBS interview, Fauci cast doubt on President Trump’s claim that 100 million vaccine doses could be available before the end of the year, saying it was more likely that a vaccine would be rolled out to the general public at the end of the first quarter of 2021. Even then, having 100 million doses available would require all the vaccines that are in late-stage trials to be proven safe and effective, which is not guaranteed, he said.

Fauci also expressed confidence that Trump has recovered from his battle with the coronavirus and is no longer infectious, but he warned that others in the president’s age and weight category shouldn’t expect to fare as well.

“That’s sort of like saying somebody was speeding in a car at 95 miles an hour and didn’t get in an accident, so I can go ahead and speed and not get in an accident,” he said.

 

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European roundup: French cities given curfew; Italy breaks March record

 

Jon Henley in Paris, Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Sam Jones in Madrid

Wed 14 Oct 2020 22.31 BST

 

 A woman passes empty tables in Berlin. Germany reported 5,132 confirmed infections in the past 24 hours. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

Residents of major French cities including the Paris region are to be confined to their homes between 9pm and 6am, Emmanuel Macron has said, as governments across Europe battle to contain record numbers of Covid-19 infections.

The French president used a prime-time TV interview on Wednesday to announce the curfew, which will be in place for four weeks from midnight on Saturday and will affect nine cities including Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse and Lille.

“The situation is worrying but not out of control,” Macron said. “We are in a second wave that is happening all across Europe.”

France’s health ministry on Wednesday announced 22,950 new coronavirus cases and said 32% of the country’s intensive care beds were occupied by Covid patients. The government restored a national state of health emergency minutes before the president spoke.

Macron said the objective was to reduce the number of new infections per day to between 3,000 and 5,000, and he warned the country would have to live with the virus until at least next summer.

“We have to act,” he said. “We need to put a brake on the spread of the virus. We have to reduce the number of social contacts … of festive contacts, that are taking place. It will demand a big effort from everyone – but it is necessary.”

A full nationwide lockdown would be “disproportionate”, Macron said, and state aid would again be available to employers in sectors that would be most affected, such as hospitality and entertainment.

“People will have to forget about night-time visits to restaurants or to friends’ houses,” he said. Essential trips during curfew would still be allowed, but people breaking the new rules would face a fine of €135 (£120).

In Germany, Angela Merkel and the premiers of the country’s 16 federal states agreed to a new rule whereby cities or regions where infection rates are rising rapidly will have to impose an 11pm curfew for bars and restaurants.

Under Wednesday’s agreement, the threshold at which tougher measures, which also include tighter restrictions on private gatherings, kick in will be lowered to 35 new infections per 100,000 people over seven days, compared with 50 before.

An 11pm curfew for bars, restaurants and off-licences had already been imposed in the capital, Berlin, which is enforcing a closing time on drinking establishments for the first time in more than 70 years.

Italy reported 7,332 new cases in 24 hours on Wednesday, exceeding its previous high of 6,557 on 21 March, before widespread testing was available. There were 43 fatalities.

A government health adviser said new cases could eclipse 16,000 a day by November. Meanwhile, Carlo Palermo, the head of a doctors’ union, warned that if the daily rate reached the same level as in France, the country’s hospitals would not be able to cope for longer than two months.

Masks became mandatory outdoors in Italy last week and are now advised indoors when families are together or with guests, who should be limited to six. Restaurants and bars must close at midnight. Cases have leapt since economic activity resumed after the summer holidays, with many experts blaming packed public transport.

The Netherlands goes into partial lockdown from 10pm on Wednesday to curb a surge in cases, with all bars, cafes and restaurants to close. For months the Dutch government took a more relaxed line than its European neighbours, but it has scrambled to control the second wave of the disease.

Belgium’s Covid crisis centre said intensive care units would reach capacity by mid-November if new cases continued to increase at the current rate, as the country registered 7,360 new cases and an 80% rise in hospitalisations over the past week.

Last week the government introduced a series of restrictions including local curfews, closing bars in Brussels for at least a month and limiting indoor sports activities. Authorities have urged residents to limit social encounters.

The Catalan government said on Wednesday that all bars and restaurants in the region would be limited to takeaway and delivery service for two weeks from Thursday. Shops and markets will operate at 30% capacity and gyms, cinemas and theatres at 50%, and children’s play areas will close at 8pm.

Rolling weekly case totals in the autonomous Spanish region have risen from 7,000 to 11,000 over the course of a few days. “We need a huge collective effort built on individual efforts to change our day-to-day habits,” said the acting regional president, Pere Aragonès.

Tougher measures will be adopted in Portugal, too, from Thursday, including stricter limits on gatherings and heavier penalties for rule-breaking establishments. Gatherings will be limited to five people, with weddings and baptisms allowed 50 guests but university parties banned.

A day before an emergency national “crisis summit” to determine how a second lockdown can be avoided, Switzerland recorded its highest single-day increase in infections, with 2,823 cases recorded on Wednesday – nearly double the figure for the day before.

Poland reported a record 6,526 new infections and 116 deaths, and doctors said the healthcare system was becoming overloaded. The country is ramping up training for nurses and could consider setting up military field hospitals for Covid patients, officials said.

Authorities in Croatia reported a new daily record of 748 infections, after earlier this week making masks obligatory indoors in public places and ordering bars and restaurants to restrict customer numbers and close at midnight.

Czech hospitals are converting general wards into Covid units and cancelling non-urgent procedures as the number of hospitalisations reaches six times the peak seen during the first wave of the virus.

The EU has approved a traffic light information system for travel within the bloc in an effort to provide clarity for travellers. The European council adopted the common criteria on Tuesday, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control will publish a weekly map of EU countries coloured green, orange or red according to their infection rate.

The information is available on the Re-Open EU website, where users can search for specific countries to see whether borders are open, and what restrictions may be in place, as well as links to the country’s epidemiological information.

 

Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/european-roundup-french-cities-face-curfews-italy-breaks-march-record

 

 

 

Summary

 

· Keir Starmer called on the UK government to impose a national circuit breaker lockdown of at least two weeks in England as the death toll from Covid-19 soared to a four-month high. In a significant escalation, the Labour leader said the prime minister Boris Johnson had “lost control of the virus” and must take urgent action to impose a near-total shutdown across the country over the October half-term. Full story here.

· The Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki tested negative for Covid-19. Morawiecki went into quarantine after he had contact on Friday with a person who has tested positive. A government spokesman said the prime minister had no coronavirus symptoms and continued to fulfil his duties.

· Dutch bars and restaurants ordered to close to stem surge in coronavirus cases. The Dutch government announced the new round of measures on Tuesday as the number of cases in this country surged in recent weeks to a daily record of nearly 7,400.

· Italy announces new restrictions. Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday imposed new restrictions on gatherings, restaurants, sports and school activities in an attempt to slow a surge in novel coronavirus infections.

· UK reports 143 new deaths from Covid-19, highest daily figure since June. This brings the UK death total to 43,018. There had been a further 17,234 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK on Tuesday. It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 634,920.

· Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for coronavirus. The 35-year-old is said to be “doing well, without symptoms, and in isolation”, with no further positive tests reported in the squad before Portugal’s Nations League match against Sweden on Wednesday.

· Russia’s regulator has granted approval for a trial of its controversial Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine on people aged over 60. In August Russia approved the vaccine for use after less than two months of human testing, including a dose administered to one of Vladimir Putin’s daughters.

· Hospitals in Paris could have up to 90% of intensive care beds packed with Covid-19 patients as soon as next week. The warning came from the healthcare system’s chief as France braces for new measures to slow a surge in cases.

· Ireland’s government offered more support on Tuesday to those hit hardest by some of Europe’s toughest Covid-19 restrictions. The budget stimulus package was described as “unprecedented in the history of the state” by Reuters.

· Russia reports record daily coronavirus cases and deaths. On Tuesday, the country’s coronavirus crisis centre said 13,868 new cases had been reported in the past 24 hours, pushing the overall number of infections to 1,326,178.

 

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