söndag 28 juni 2020

Covid-19 - More than 10 million cases world wide

Coronavirus live news: confirmed Covid-19 cases exceed 10m globally

Infections pass milestone; new Covid-19 clusters across world spark fear of second wave; Iran makes masks compulsory
Australia considers new lockdown in Melbourne
Victoria nurse tests positive as state reports jump of 41 cases
US cases pass 2.5m
US one-day case high as states delay reopening

As cases near 10m, nearly half a million people have died over the course of the pandemic. The current death toll stands at 498,841, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of infections is 9,984,111.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States rose to more than 2.5 million on Saturday. More than 125,000 Americans have died of Covid-19, the highest known death toll from the disease in the world. New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker noted on Twitter that more Americans have died than in the Vietnam War since US President Donald Trump stopped his daily coronavirus task force briefings at the White House.
Video footage appears to show Trump campaign removing social-distancing stickers in Tulsa. Video has emerged of Trump campaign volunteers apparently removing social distancing stickers from seats in the arena where the US president gave a campaign rally that many public health experts had warned against because of the still-surging coronavirus pandemic.
China reported 17 new cases. Mainland China on Sunday reported 17 new coronavirus cases, mostly in the Chinese capital of Beijing. The National Health Commission said 17 new infections were confirmed on Saturday, down from 21 a day earlier. In Beijing, 14 new confirmed cases were reported, down from 17 a day earlier.
South Korea reported 62 new cases. South Korea South Korea has confirmed 62 additional cases of the coronavirus over a 24-hour period as the Asian country continues to face new clusters of infections amid eased social distancing rules. The additional cases reported Sunday took the country’s total to 12,715, with 282 deaths.
New Zealand’s Covid-19 isolation facilities are under ‘extreme stress’, review finds. A review of New Zealand’s managed isolation and quarantine facilities has found that the system is under “extreme stress” as more and more Kiwis return home. It came as four more returnees tested positive to Covid-19 in the biggest one-day jump in cases in two months.
The US states of Florida, Arizona, Nevada, South Carolina and Georgia each recorded daily highs for coronavirus infections on Saturday, highlighting the worsening spread of the virus in several southern and western states, which is prompting some of them to roll back their reopening plans.
Brazil recorded 38,693 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours and 1,109 additional deaths. The country has now registered 1,313,667 total confirmed cases of the virus and 57,070 deaths.
A growing number of Covid-19 infections among people under 35 years of age is a “worrying trend,” Ireland’s chief medical officer said on Saturday as the country reported the highest number of new infections for two weeks.

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