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Country, |
Total |
New |
Total |
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World |
43,323,453 |
+404,793 |
1,158,810 |
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8,889,179 |
+60,889 |
230,510 |
|
|
7,909,050 |
+45,158 |
119,030 |
|
|
5,394,128 |
+12,904 |
157,163 |
|
|
1,513,877 |
+16,710 |
26,050 |
|
|
1,138,507 |
+52,010 |
34,761 |
|
|
1,110,372 |
+19851 |
34,752 |
|
|
1,090,589 |
+9,253 |
28,896 |
|
|
1,015,885 |
+8,174 |
30,154 |
|
|
888,715 |
+2,501 |
34,149 |
|
|
886,800 |
+6,025 |
88,743 |
|
|
873,800 |
+19,790 |
44,896 |
|
|
715,868 |
+1,622 |
18,968 |
|
|
568,896 |
+6,191 |
32,616 |
|
|
525,782 |
+21,273 |
37,338 |
|
|
502,063 |
+1,540 |
13,944 |
|
|
451,707 |
+2,554 |
10,623 |
|
|
437,637 |
+9,829 |
10,138 |
|
|
398,815 |
+1,308 |
5,803 |
|
|
389,712 |
+3,732 |
13,299 |
|
|
370,028 |
+2,223 |
6,977 |
|
|
361,801 |
+2,017 |
9,799 |
|
|
344,875 |
+323 |
5,296 |
|
|
343,498 |
+6,088 |
6,391 |
|
|
327,895 |
+832 |
6,736 |
|
|
309,946 |
+533 |
2,397 |
|
|
305,409 |
+17,709 |
10,737 |
|
|
291,254 |
+10,202 |
7,046 |
|
|
258,097 |
+7,300 |
2,201 |
|
|
253,688 |
+11,742 |
4,438 |
|
|
216,104 |
+2,145 |
9,946 |
|
|
209,648 |
+3,855 |
6,391 |
|
|
197,481 |
+3,020 |
3,301 |
|
|
161,635 |
+2,021 |
12,553 |
|
|
158,089 |
+2,856 |
847 |
|
|
140,779 |
+167 |
8,627 |
|
|
131,170 |
+205 |
230 |
|
|
129,200 |
+685 |
2,633 |
|
|
125,123 |
+1,359 |
477 |
|
|
Dominican |
124,527 |
+509 |
2,223 |
|
121,635 |
+708 |
746 |
|
|
118,686 |
+2,577 |
2,316 |
|
|
112,932 |
+1,095 |
1,174 |
|
|
110,402 |
+152 |
1,796 |
|
|
106,540 |
+143 |
6,199 |
|
|
104,787 |
+155 |
3,644 |
|
|
103,088 |
+1262 |
1,282 |
|
|
96,534 |
+699 |
1,711 |
|
|
93,343 |
+485 |
1,426 |
|
|
92,823 |
+845 |
957 |
|
|
92,724 |
+842 |
2,617 |
|
|
89,565 |
+423 |
773 |
|
|
85,790 |
+15 |
4,634 |
|
|
80,811 |
+2,782 |
979 |
|
|
80,255 |
+280 |
312 |
|
|
77,837 |
+2,314 |
1,180 |
|
|
71,503 |
+414 |
1,685 |
|
|
71,390 |
+1,484 |
565 |
|
|
65,307 |
+384 |
549 |
|
|
61,992 |
+62 |
1,130 |
|
|
59,594 |
+551 |
1,309 |
|
|
59,247 |
+3,149 |
1,425 |
|
|
57,970 |
+5 |
28 |
|
|
57,128 |
+1,020 |
1,882 |
|
|
56,143 |
+263 |
1,914 |
|
|
56,013 |
+1,639 |
795 |
|
|
55,750 |
+606 |
1,134 |
|
|
53,087 |
+2,337 |
579 |
|
|
50,442 |
+453 |
448 |
|
|
49,959 |
+946 |
671 |
|
|
49,721 |
+931 |
902 |
|
|
44,774 |
+986 |
1,095 |
|
|
43,843 |
+3,042 |
159 |
|
|
40,356 |
+945 |
702 |
|
|
39,486 |
+614 |
792 |
|
|
37,889 |
+327 |
1,094 |
|
|
36,380 |
+2,421 |
437 |
|
|
30,782 |
+790 |
574 |
|
|
28,431 |
+1,928 |
201 |
|
|
27,520 |
+21 |
905 |
|
|
26,954 |
+560 |
919 |
|
|
26,565 |
+823 |
229 |
|
|
25,836 |
+61 |
457 |
|
|
22,950 |
+1,673 |
240 |
|
|
20,470 |
+41 |
122 |
|
|
19,157 |
+299 |
477 |
|
|
17,909 |
+160 |
279 |
|
|
16,797 |
+168 |
266 |
|
|
16,117 |
+22 |
348 |
|
|
15,551 |
+8 |
321 |
|
|
14,848 |
+196 |
353 |
|
|
14,204 |
+491 |
145 |
|
|
12,660 |
+81 |
133 |
|
|
11,986 |
+91 |
86 |
|
|
11,505 |
+84 |
37 |
|
|
11,443 |
+146 |
101 |
|
|
10,776 |
+40 |
81 |
|
|
10,184 |
+606 |
134 |
|
|
9,381 |
+355 |
268 |
|
|
8,276 |
+7 |
237 |
|
|
6,410 |
+142 |
132 |
|
|
5,890 |
+3 |
183 |
|
|
5,854 |
+7 |
116 |
|
|
5,408 |
+49 |
269 |
|
|
5,170 |
+4 |
109 |
|
|
4,420 |
+10 |
36 |
|
|
3,736 |
+5 |
59 |
|
|
3,545 |
+101 |
25 |
Retrieved from: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
From Nadine Schmidt in Berlin
Austria recorded 6,396 new Covid-19 cases over the weekend, its highest figure over 48 hours, according to the latest data from the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES).
The total number of reported coronavirus infections in the country stands at 84,130.
Public health authorities say that 1,225 people are being treated in hospital for Covid-19, of which 174 are in intensive care units.
At least 979 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded in the country.
Last week, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced a set of new social restrictions to contain the spread of the virus, including limiting indoor gatherings to six people and a maximum of 12 people meeting together outdoors.
In September, Kurz said Austria's ski season will go ahead but with severe restrictions. Popular apres-ski parties will be banned to curb the spread of the virus.
From CNN's Radina Gigova
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he will ask parliamentary groups to support extending a new state of emergency announced Sunday until May 9 in an effort to curb soaring coronavirus infections.
"The battle is going to be tough, but with social discipline, with resistance, with unity and with a spirit of victory, we are going to win it again," he said.
Under the new state of emergency, there will be a curfew for all regions, except the Canary Islands, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time that will go into effect Sunday night. Local authorities would be able adjust the start and end times by an hour.
Local authorities will also be able to restrict travel between regions and limit public gatherings to six people, Sanchez said.
"The reality is that Europe and Spain are fully immersed in the second wave of the pandemic," he said. "The situation we live in is extreme."
Spain has one of the highest numbers of coronavirus cases in the world, with 1,046,132 cases and 34,752 deaths as of Sunday, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
From CNN’s Livia Borghese in Rome
Coronavirus cases in Italy rose by 21,273 on Sunday, according to Health Ministry figures, a new daily high for the country since the start of the pandemic.
A total of more than 525,000 cases have now been confirmed in the country.
On Sunday, a further 128 people died from the virus, bringing Italy's total death toll to 37,338.
There are now 1,208 people with Covid-19 in Italy's intensive care units.
The new figures come as Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte acknowledged during a news conference announcing new restrictions that the “epidemic curve is rapidly increasing” in Italy.
But Conte said he wanted to avoid a nationwide lockdown like the one he imposed in March, because “the country could not afford it."
Italy imposes new measures: New coronavirus restrictions are set to come into force in Italy on Monday.
Unlike the country’s national lockdown in March, not all economic and production activities are obliged to close under the new decree.
The main restrictions concern bars and restaurants and other food services. They must close at 6 p.m. local time and have no more than four customers per table. Gyms, swimming pools, theaters, cinemas, concert halls, bingo halls, casinos and beauty centers all must close.
Kindergartens and primary schools will stay open but to avoid overcrowded public transport, high schools must hold 75% of lessons remotely.
“We believe that during the next month (November) we will suffer a bit, but gritting our teeth and facing these restrictions, in December we will breathe again” Conte said.
Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-10-26-20-intl/index.html
By Quentin Ariès and Michael Birnbaum
Members of M2 Ambulance company prepare to transport a covid-19 patient in Ottignies, Belgium, on Oct. 23. (Johanna Geron/Reuters)
BRUSSELS — Well into Europe's second wave of the coronavirus, so many Belgians are sick or quarantining that there aren't enough police on the streets, teachers in classrooms or medical staff in hospitals.
In some hospitals, doctors and nurses who have tested positive but don’t have symptoms are being asked to keep working, because so many others are out sick with covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. School principals are marshaling secretaries and parent volunteers to replace falling ranks of teachers.
“We have runaway numbers in terms of contamination and a major issue is the risk of the collapse of the hospital system of our country,” the minister-president of Brussels, Rudi Vervoort, said Saturday as he announced a host of new restrictions.
Unlike in the spring, there are enough masks and gowns to go around. But months of preparation haven’t been able to avert a shortage of people. And a decision by the national government to remove a mask mandate and loosen restrictions on social contacts this month contributed to an acceleration of the virus before being largely reversed in hard-hit areas since Friday.
Belgium’s infection rate is second only to the Czech Republic in the European Union and five times higher than in the United States.
The country's testing infrastructure is overloaded. As of this past week, Belgium is no longer testing people without symptoms, even if they may have been exposed.
“The situation is more serious” than in April, Christie Morreale, health minister of the French-speaking region of Belgium, told the RTL broadcaster on Friday. “If you are a nurse and you have a few hours to dedicate in a nursing home or a hospital, if you’re a nursing student, a medical student, an educator, they have need of support.”
This is what it means to be close to a coronavirus “tsunami” — a word used in northern Italy in the spring and deployed this past week by Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke, who said that the virus could soon escape authorities’ control.
Vandenbroucke’s statement came before Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmès — who stepped down as prime minister earlier this month — was admitted into an intensive care unit with covid-19 on Wednesday. Wilmès is 45 and otherwise healthy.
“The situation is catastrophic,” said Philippe Devos, an intensive care doctor at the CHC Montlégia Hospital in Liège, the worst-hit Belgian city. “Liège is now is probably the most affected region in the world. We have a lot of doctors and nurses affected. But, starting this week, positive cases were asked to go back to work if they are asymptomatic.”
Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/belgium-covid-hospitals-schools/2020/10/23/85358010-14a9-11eb-a258-614acf2b906d_story.html
By Robyn Dixon
Passengers in the waiting area last week at Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg News)
MOSCOW — When Moscow tech specialist Vasily Korobtsov had early symptoms of what might have been covid-19, the 37-year-old consulted family and the Internet. But he avoided taking a test or going to a clinic.
Igor Silayev, 50, also did not take a test when he had possible symptoms — a cough and runny nose — after traveling to a Moscow hospital by ambulance with his parents, who both had covid-19.
Silayev simply bought the same drugs his parents were given and treated himself.
It was another example of Russians’ DIY pandemic response.
Russians are generally suspicious of doctors and state hospitals, polls show, partly a hangover from Soviet times when hospitals were free but forbidding places. Many prefer self-diagnosis and self-medication. For them, going to the doctor is a last resort.
Distrust of the state health system, coupled with the tendency to ignore rules on self-distancing and mask-wearing, provides additional clues to why the country is struggling to stem the spread of the virus.
Night on the town, Moscow style: Few masks, but lots of worry about another lockdown
In recent weeks, cases have spiraled upward in an alarming new wave, breaching records almost daily.
Russia is seeing more than 17,000 cases a day, nearly 28 percent of them asymptomatic. There are stiff penalties — and even jail — for knowingly hiding covid-19. But it is difficult to determine when people knew they had the illness.
In addition, many people with minor symptoms are steering clear of tests rather than risking compulsory isolation, mandatory tracking via their smartphones and possible fines — and advising their friends on social media to do the same.
“Getting into a hospital can be more dangerous than the disease itself,” a post on Facebook by a Russian doctor, Artemy Okhotin, warned in April, advising people not to take a test — because of the risk of contracting the virus while getting the test and the high number of false negative results.
If you get a positive test result, “you’re under house arrest with the risk of being put in quarantine,” warned one Facebook user, Olga Prokhonova. Russia’s smartphone case-tracking app issues stiff fines for those who fail to upload geo-located selfies at specified times to prove they are at home, penalizing many people too sick to post.
Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-russia-doctors-medical/2020/10/23/ab91c58e-fdc0-11ea-b0e4-350e4e60cc91_story.html
Here are the key developments from the last few hours:
· China has detected 137 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases in Kashgar in the north-western region of Xinjiang, after one person was found to have the virus the previous day – the first new local cases for 10 days in mainland China.All the cases detected on Sunday were linked to a garment factory where the parents of a 17-year-old girl who was found on Saturday to have the virus – but showed no symptoms – worked, a Xinjiang health commission official told a press briefing.
· The United States saw 83,718 new cases reported nationally on Saturday, nearly matching the record 83,757 infections reported on Friday, as US Vice President Mike Pence announced that he will continue campaigning on Sunday, despite his chief of staff and four other top aides having tested positive for coronavirus.
· Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, declared a new nationwide state of emergency on Sunday – including a curfew – in the hope of stemming a resurgence in coronavirus infections. The Socialist leader told the nation in a televised address that the extraordinary measure will go into effect on Sunday from 11pm to 6am.
· Australia’s coronavirus hot spot of Victoria on Monday reported zero cases of coronavirus for the first time since June, and the premier, Daniel Andrews, announced that restrictions would be easyed – among these are that hospitality and beauty businesses could reopen.
· Five aides to US Vice President Mike Pence tested positive. The coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the White House itself, with the chief of staff to Mike Pence and four othersin the vice-president’s inner circle having tested positive. Despite Pence being exposed to the disease, he planned to continue an aggressive campaign schedule in the final nine days of the race. The vice-president was scheduled to hold a rally on Sunday afternoon in Kinston, North Carolina.
· India’s total coronavirus infections stood at 7.91 million on Monday, having risen by 45,148 cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed. India recorded its lowest death toll in about four months on Monday with 480 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 119,014.
· Mexican health authorities acknowledged Sunday that the country’s true death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is far higher than thought, saying there were 193,170 “excess” deaths in the year up to 26 September, with 139,153 of those judged to be attributable to Covid-19. That is about 50,000 more deaths than Mexico’s official, test-confirmed death toll of about 89,000, and about 56% higher than the previous estimate of 103,882 pandemic deaths.
· Malaysia’s king on Sunday rejected a proposal by embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to declare a state of emergency to fight a new outbreak of the coronavirus. The plan by Muhyiddin, which involves suspending Parliament, has sparked national outrage, with critics slamming the move as an undemocratic means for him to hang on to power amid challenges to his leadership.
· Israel will begin its first clinical trials of a novel coronavirus vaccine next month, authorities said Sunday, as the country grapples with a second wave of infections.
· The World Health Organization’s coronavirus dashboard showed a third consecutive daily record high in the number of new confirmed cases. Nearly half of Saturday’s new cases were registered in the WHO’s Europe region, which logged a one-day record high of 221,898 cases.
· The WHO chief warned against “vaccine nationalism”, calling for global solidarity in the rollout of any future coronavirus vaccine, as the number of cases soared across the world. In a video address at the opening of the three-day World Health Summit in Berlin, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged leaders to choose to, “vaccinate some people in all countries rather than all people in some countries.”
· Australia’s coronavirus hot spot of Victoria on Monday reported zero cases of coronavirus for the first time since June,a day after the state delayed the easing of restrictions because of a fresh outbreak in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
· France registered 52,010 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, following a record 45,422 on Saturday, the health ministry said in a statement on Sunday. It also said that 116 people had died from coronavirus infection over the past 24 hours, compared to from 137 on Saturday, taking the total confirmed death toll to 34,761.
· An official from China’s Xinjiang health commission said that 137 new asymptomatic cases have been detected in the region. All of the new cases were linked to a garment factory.
· The prime minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte announced a raft of new restrictions and warned that the country’s escalating coronavirus infection rate was already having a worrying impact on hospitals. Italy reported a new daily record of 21,273 coronavirus cases with 128 deaths, health ministry figures showed on Sunday, up from the 19,644 new infections reported on Saturday.
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