The Nikkei Asian Review tracks the spread of the new coronavirus from The city of Wuhan in central China.
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Global instances reached Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for 21,070,842.
The death toll internationally has reached 763,070.
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Here are the advances (Tokyo time):
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Saturday, August 15
12:15 p.m. South Korea reports 166 new infections, peaking high since March 11. The country has now noticed a 3-figure accumulation in cases for 3 consecutive days, according to Kyodo.
5:00 a.m. Japan marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II with national events, but participation will be as a precaution against the coronavirus that continues to spread.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will face what is expected to be the smallest ever seen in a national war memorial rite in Tokyo, NHK reports.
3:30 a.m. Trump’s management has opted for McKesson Corp. in the United States as the country’s central distributor of long-term coronavirus vaccines.
12:20 p.m. The U.S. will impose greater restrictions on non-essential land borders with Canada and Mexico for 30 days, said Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Friday, August 14
11:27 p.m. North Korea has ended a three-week blockade in the city of Kaesong that was triggered by an imaginable case of coronavirus outside the country. The country still doesn’t seem to report any cases of coronavirus.
11.00 p.m. afternoon. Foreign ministers from Malaysia and Japan agree on access restrictions for long-term trade representatives and citizens in a step towards resumption of travel.
22:00. As Japan enters the peak of its summer holiday season this weekend, others move more around the country, increasing the threat of new COVID-19 infections, especially among the elderly.
Tokyo reported on Friday 389 new instances of COVID-19, the first accumulation above three hundred in five days.
20:00. Average concentrations of pm2.5 air pollutants in China decreased to 10.8% between January and July as the pandemic slowed economic activity, Reuters reports, bringing government data. Average readings have more than 33 micrograms consistent with the cubic meter, below China’s national popularity of 35, but still well above the World Health Organization’s maximum of 10.
19:00 h. Hong Kong revises its annual GDP forecast at a contraction of 6% to 8%, below an earlier forecast of a decrease from 4% to 7%, showing the worsening of coronaviruses in the territory.
17:40 Taiwan’s economy is expected to grow by 1.56% in 2020, according to the statistical agency, below its May forecast of expansion of 1.67%, due to the coronavirus pandemic. But forecasters predict an uptick next year.
5:15 p.m. The Philippines reports 6216 new coronavirus infections, compared to 4002 yesterday, bringing the country’s total to 153660, with 2,442 deaths.
16:15 Indonesian President Joko Widodo said the country will have to use the COVID-19 pandemic to “renew” itself, as it aims to achieve the country’s prestige over the next 25 years.
3:30 p.m. Tokyo has 389 new cases, the highest number in about a week. In other parts of Japan, where many other people are on summer vacation, urban and touristic spaces continue to suffer a lot of infections.
2:50 p.m. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte postpones reopening schools until October 5, said Education Secretary Leonor Briones. The basic education categories were scheduled to resume on August 24. Resolution occurs when the number of infections increases, forcing Duterte to tighten network quarantine measures in the metropolitan domain of Manila and neighboring provinces.
1:55 p.m. Thai Airways International revealed the damage to its monetary scenario through the coronavirus pandemic, leading the company to abandon the concept of self-surgery.
13:00. Malaysia’s economy contracted by 17.1% compared to the year in the current quarter, the central bank said, reflecting the disastrous effect of the cap on the imposed coronavirus during the three-month period.
12:30 p.m. New Zealand reports 12 new instances of COVID-19, all connected to a group that were now first detected in a circle of relatives in Auckland two days ago. Authorities, an imported strain of the virus, are to blame for the first outbreak in the country in 3 months, but are still investigating how the family circle was infected.
11:15 a.m., South Korea showed 103 new cases, up from 56 a day ago. Total infections reached 14,873, with 305 deaths. The government plans social estrangement regulations as church groups and markets multiply.
11:05 a.m. China’s trade output in July increased by 4.8% from the previous year, according to the previous year, expanding by fourth direct month, expansion was below expectations as the economy gradually recovers from coronavirus blockades.
9.50am New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is expected to announce on Friday that the closure in Auckland will relax or spread. Authorities say the country’s first outbreak in more than 3 months appears to be an imported strain, Reuters reports.
5:29 a.m. Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, says coronavirus vaccines developed under the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed program should obtain regulatory approval through November or December.
4:18 a.m. The World Health Organization said it had not noticed evidence of the spread of coronavirus through food or packaging and suggested to others that they were not afraid of the virus entering the food chain. Two cities in China reported the location of the virus lines on frozen bird wings imported from Brazil and in frozen Ecuadorian shrimp packages.
3:48 a.m. Mexico’s Energy Secretary, Rocío Nahle, said she was put into isolation due to a COVID-19 infection, which was not suffering from symptoms of the virus.
1:23 a.m. Japanese manufacturer of structure devices Kubota plans to build a new compact track loading plant in the US state of Kansas, expecting a real estate boom as wealthiest Americans move to the suburbs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
12:58 a.m. Brazil wants more data and discussion before committing to buy the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, which is at a very early level of testing, the country’s interim fitness minister said.
12:42 p.m. Foreign ministers from Japan and Singapore agree to paint on the resumption of business between the two countries in September after a month break.
00:30 World’s no.n. tennis player Novak Djokovic will compete at the US Open, which begins on August 31. He is “excited” to play while recognizing the “obstacles and challenges” of organizing the main tournament in the middle of the pandemic. Djokovic says on his website. Djokovic tested positive for COVID-19 in June, but said he had recovered.
Thursday, August 13
11:57 p.m. The Philippines begins clinical trials in October of a COVID-19 vaccine developed in Russia that, according to Moscow, is the first in the world approved to save it from the disease, a government spokesman said.
10:30 p.m. A leader who shared a level with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a rite of liberation to build a giant temple tested positive for coronavirus.
Nritya Gopal Das, an 82-year-old Hindu priest, the public figure inactive to test positive after a number of high-level colleagues in Modi’s closet were hit by COVID-19, home secretary Amit Shah added.
8:16 p.m. The Philippine royal dutch shell announced that it would set up a country-owned oil refinery, with declining margins due to a pandemic. Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. says its 110,000 barrels consistent with the daytime installation in Tabangao province would become an import terminal. There are two oil refineries in the Philippines.
7:57 p.m. Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reported 25 more infections and 3 more deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 905 and deaths to 20. More than 430 of the general cases are similar to the central city of Danang.
6:56 p.m. Iran recorded 174 coronavirus deaths and 2,625 newArray. These figures raise the death toll to more than 19,000 and the total number to 336,324, the Ministry of Health said.
5:38 p.m. Hong Kong reported 69 new cases of coronavirus, of which they were transmitted locally.
5:20 p.m. The Philippines reported 4,002 new coronavirus infections and 23 more deaths.
16:20 Indonesia has announced that a lounge agreement has been reached with South Korea for an essential business between the two countries, and will be effective from Monday. This follows Indonesia’s similar agreement with the United Arab Emirates, which entered into force here at the end of July. Tourism is not part of these agreements.
3:40 p.m. Most Asian actions are rising as global actions due to new symptoms of the U.S. economy, ignoring the resurgence of coronavirus in several countries.
3:35 p.m. Japanese trading company Mitsubishi Corp. reports a 77% drop in the net source of income for the April-June quarter.
3:20 p.m. Ukraine says it recorded a big jump of 1,592 instances on Wednesday.
14:00. The Philippines plans to begin clinical trials of a Russian coronavirus vaccine in October, and President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to be inoculated in May, the presidential spokesman said.
1:50 p.m. India reports some other infection record of 66,999, bringing the total number of cases to about 2.4 million. Meanwhile, the death toll in the country increased to 47,033, 942 more than Wednesday morning.
1:30 p.m. Lenovo Group of China, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit after seizing opportunities for global labor and distance trends.
10:45 a.m. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she hopes the country’s coronavirus group will carry numbers before dissipating. “As we all learned from our first delight with COVID, once a group is known, it grows before it diminished,” he told reporters. “We hope this will be the case here.”
9:45 a.m. Japan’s average baseline Nikkei stock increases in morning trading, as investors expect the progression of a COVID-19 vaccine. The Nikkei average is 23,000 yen, more than 1% higher than the previous day and the point since February.
9:35 a.m. China reports 19 new cases of coronavirus on the continent on August 12, compared to 25 the day before, announced Thursday the country’s fitness.
7:18 a.m. Actors who opposed Walt Disney’s proposed coronavirus coverage measures at Walt Disney World in the US state of Florida reached an agreement to return to work, Reuters reports. The company is committed to providing COVID-19 testing to its members, who cannot use protective mask execution.
At 5:15 a.m., U.S. stocks advanced, with the S.P.500 exceeding a final all-time high of approximately 6 points. Investors are evaluating the possibilities of additional fiscal stimulus in Washington, as well as customers of an effective COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, New York crude oil futures recovered after U.S. oil inventories fell.
3:10 a.m.: The Brazilian state of Paraná reached an agreement with Russia to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine that Moscow says is the world’s first vaccine, Reuters reports.
12:49 p.m. South Korean company Celltrion has announced that it will export its coronavirus antibody kits to the United States, which has struggled to track evidence of its population.
12:37 p.m. Jordan will close its land industry’s border with Syria for a week after a build-up of COVID-19 cases from its northern neighbor, Reuters reports.
Wednesday, August 12
11:31 p.m. US justice organization Carlyle will invest more than $9 billion in Japan, estimating that corporations will be restructured in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
23:03 Switzerland makes the decision to allow events for more than 1000 people from 1 October, provided that the organizers adhere to hygiene measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
6:28 p.m. Russia says the first batch of its COVID-19 vaccine will be available to some doctors within two weeks.
5:56 p.m. Filipino scientists planned to meet on Wednesday with representatives of the Russian State Study Center that developed a coronavirus vaccine to discuss participation in clinical trials and data from their studies.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte praised the Russian vaccine and proposed being “injected in public” to allay public fears about their safety.
16:45 Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko has said that accusations that the harmful Russian COVID-19 vaccine are unfounded and competitively motivated, the Interfax news agency reports.
3:50 p.m. Cathay Pacific Airways reported a record net loss of nearly $1.3 billion during the first part of the year due to the effect of the coronavirus pandemic that wiped out a small portion of the group’s passenger flights.
3:18 p.m. The city of Jingzhou, in central Chinese province of Hubei, reports a case of coronavirus in which a user tested positive for the back after recovering from COVID-19 months earlier, the city government said. The 68-year-old woman, who tested positive for coronavirus on February 8 and recovered a few months ago, tested positive on August 9.
3:10 p.m. Cathay Pacific Airways of Hong Kong warns that it expects a significant recovery in passenger calls for some time due to the pandemic, after reporting a record loss of HH.9.870 million in the first part of the year.
3:08 p.m. Tokyo confirms 222 new coronavirus infections, up from 188 a day and 197 on Monday.
3:02 p.m. New Zealand officials are investigating the option that the country’s first COVID-19 infection in more than 3 months may have occurred through the cargo, as published by Aukland on Wednesday.
14:44 German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Wednesday that he doubted russia would become the first country to grant regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, saying it was imperative to have a proven product rather than being the first. The Russian vaccine, called “Sputnik V” in homage to the world’s first satellite introduced through the Soviet Union, has not yet completed the final testing. Approval came after less than two months of human testing.
14:00. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her wardrobe would explain on Friday the next steps on the new coronavirus restrictions, as she reported 4 new suspected cases of spread in the community. Of the 4 new instances, two are colleagues of a positive boy and two are similar to a family where an inflamed user has stayed.
1:27 p.m. While others feel the depression of returning to a general life, extravagant demands for coronavirus healing and prevention have sprung around the world. Asia has noticed that several politicians, officials and others are offering suspicious treatment. Here are a variety of some questionable claims made in recent months in the region.
11:25 a.m. South Korea confirms 54 new cases, compared to 34 a day ago, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,4714 with 305 deaths. The government has tightened social estrangement regulations in funeral homes and wedding halls to prevent the spread of contagion.
11:12 a.m. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand maintains its official monetary rate at 0.25% in a widely anticipated resolution, while extending its large-scale asset acquisition program to 100 billion New Zealand dollars ($65.4 billion).
10:44 a.m. South Korea and the United States will launch their joint annual army training this week, but mobilize U.S. troops after cutting off training due to coronavirus, South Korean media reports.
9:28 a.m. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is delaying a key step towards next month’s general election, as the country returns to lockdown mode after the first COVID-19 cases were discovered in more than 3 months. Ardern says he is postponing the dissolution of parliament, which must give way to an election scheduled for September 19, until Monday. No resolution has been taken on the postponement of the vote, he said.
At 9:19 a.m., Australia recorded the deadliest day of the pandemic and the largest buildup of infections in 3 days, disappointing hopes that a momentary wave seizing Victoria can simply stabilize. Victoria reported 21 deaths, two more than the deadliest day after this week, and 410 new cases in the 24 hours that followed, ending a series of 3 consecutive days with new infections below 400.
8:09 a.m. South Korea’s unemployment rate fell in July for the time being in a month in a row as the business climate progressed and considerations on coronaviruses dissipated. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in July from a peak of 4.5% in May, according to statistics Korea.
7:42 am The Brazilian state of Paraná is in talks to produce a Russian-approved COVID-19 vaccine despite not completing mass clinical trials, but it is unclear whether the state study institute would discharge regulatory approval in Brazil, according to Reuters. .
7:36 a.m. Ecuador expects a quick solution to an industry dispute with China over coronavirus lines in an exported shrimp container that has led Beijing to suspend imports from 3 companies, Ecuador’s minister of production and industry said.
The number of new infections in France has almost doubled, according to Reuters, bringing out the fitness authorities.
Tuesday, August 11
10:51 p.m. Mexico will conduct complex clinical trials for the progression of COVID-19 vaccines through Johnson and Johnson and two Chinese companies, the Chancellery announced.
Some of the vaccine’s production may be in the country, Reuters reports, mentioning the ministry.
20:00. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government discovered four cases of coronavirus in a family in Auckland, which came here from an unknown location and are the first cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
7:50 p.m. Russia named its first COVID-19 vaccine for foreign markets, a reference to the world’s largest satellite, a senior official reported, who mentioned a senior official. Russia has already won applications from more than 20 countries per billion doses of its new COVID-19 vaccine.
7:07 p.m. The World Health Organization and the Russian fitness government are discussing the imaginable prequalification procedure for the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine in the country, a spokesman for the organization said.
6:39 p.m. The Yantai city government in eastern China said the government had known the new coronavirus in the frozen shell packaging of the port city of Dalian, which recently faced an increase in the number of cases, Reuters reported.
18:05 President Vladimir Putin has declared that Russia is the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine, after less than two months of human testing. Moscow says the approval reflects Russia’s clinical prowess.
5:58 p.m. Hong Kong reports 33 new cases, the lowest accumulation since July 15. A total of 4,182 more people were inflamed in the city and 58 died.
3:19 p.m. Tokyo confirms 188 more infections. The number compares to 197 the day before and 331 on Sunday.
2:15 p.m. India reports 53,601 in the last 24 hours, up from 62,064 in the following day, bringing the country’s total to 2.27 million. The death toll increased to 45,257, up from 871 since Monday morning.
1:38 p.m. Daewoong Pharmaceutical of South Korea said it won Regulatory Approval from India to verify its antiparasitic drug niclosamide to treat COVID-19 patients in an early human clinical trial. The Phase 1 trial, approved through the Central Drug Control Organization of India, will involve about 30 healthy participants to verify protection and begin this month, Daewoong said in a statement. The South Korean manufacturer is checking the remedy in partnership with New Delhi-based Mankind Pharma.
13:23 Chinese company Sinovac Biotech launches a complex human trial with up to 1,620 patients in Indonesia for a COVID-19 candidate vaccine that is being developed with its Indonesian state counterpart, Bio Farma. The candidate, known as CoronaVac but in the past piCoVacc, is one of the few prospective vaccines that have entered complex trials in a large-scale examination to gather evidence of effectiveness for regulatory approval.
12:30 p.m. A village of New Zealand retirees has been blocked after citizens developed symptoms of respiratory disease, the New Zealand Herald reports. The network of retirees at Village Palms in Christchurch informed the circle of relatives members of the lockdown in a letter he sent them Tuesday, the newspaper said. No additional main points were available without delay.
11:35 a.m. Car sales in China in July increased by 16.4% compared to last year, the fourth consecutive month of profits, as the world’s largest vehicle market reached lows due to the country’s coronavirus blockade. Sales reached 2.11 million cars in July and continue to decline 12.7% so far this year to 12.37 million cars.
11:05 a.m. South Korea confirms 34 new cases, up from 28 a day ago. The total number of infections reached 14,660, with 305 deaths.
10:52 a.m. Narita Airport, one of Tokyo’s major hubs, is taking new precautions as Japan seeks to resume business abroad.
10:41 a.m. Australian employment remained stable until July, according to weekly knowledge on Tuesday, the southeastern state of Victoria, which is grappling with a new wave of coronavirus infections, suffered a setback. The number of salaried jobs nationwide fell by 0.1% in July and Victoria recorded a 1.5% decline with the arrival of strict mobility restrictions and curfews.
9:04 a.m., Australia’s most populous state at the time, reported a slight increase in new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, raising hopes that the number of cases will stabilize after a momentary wave forced the government to block the city of Melbourne. Victoria has detected 331 new infections and 19 deaths in the last 24 hours, up to 322 infections and the same number of deaths a day earlier. Daily infections in Victoria peaked at 72 and five on August 5 and have tended to decline in recent days, following the imposition of a strict closure in Melbourne on 19 July.
At 9:02 am, Singapore revised this year’s economic expansion projection on Tuesday at a diversity of -5% to -7%, from -4% to -7%, underlining the widespread effect of COVID-19 on city-state business.
8:58 a.m. Confirmed cases of international COVID-19 exceeded 20 million, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, while the total number of deaths reached 733897.
6:22 a.m. Novavax’s production capacity is sufficient to meet the U.S. request. From COVID-19 vaccines in 2021, they say could be successful in 500 to 600 million doses, according to executives.
6:06 a.m. Gilead Sciences says it has filed an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For full approval of the reuser, your experimental drug COVID-19 recently in use with emergency authorization.
5:40 a.m. The Philippines will settle for an offer for a Russian vaccine against pending coronavirus as soon as a source is available, President Rodrigo Duterte said.
“I will volunteer to present it in public,” Duterte said. “I’ll be the first to have experience.”
4:40 a.m. Japanese indexed corporations are heading for their worst fall since the global currency crisis, and overall profit is expected to fall by 36% for the existing fiscal year, according to Nikkei analysis.
4 a.m. Tens of millions of garment workers, many in South and Southeast Asia, lost up to $6 billion in wages for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study published through the Clean Clothing Campaign.
The fate of them is at stake in countries such as Cambodia and Bangladesh.
1:30 a.m. Japan, the UK and more than 70 other countries plan to form a partnership this fall to jointly acquire 2 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines through 2021, monetary leverage in discussions with pharmaceutical companies.
Monday, August 10
21:24 Philippines reports 6,958 additional infections, the number of one-day infections in the country, bringing the total to 136,638, with 2,293 deaths.
8:19 p.m. Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reports six more coronavirus infections and two more deaths, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 847, with thirteen deaths.
8:18 p.m. Macau says tourist visas, through which most casino players on Chinese territory, will be reinstated to the nearby city of Zhuhai, paving the way for a resurgence of climbers. Macau Culture Secretary Ao Ieong U said the long-awaited individual scale in the program, or IVS, will resume on August 12.
7:42 p.m. The total number of coronavirus cases in Japan is 50,000, expanding to 10,000 in just one week, while urban centers, adding up Tokyo and Osaka, continue to revel in the highest degrees of infection since the central government fully lifted state of emergency across the country in late May. The spread of the virus has accelerated since infections reached 20,000 in early July, surpassing 30,000 in late July and 40,000 on August 3. The national count includes about 700 of the sent Diamond Princess cruiser, quarantined in Yokohama in February.
5:16 p.m. As COVID-19 continues its devastating global uproar, countries compete fiercely to protect the source of vaccines once they become available. Rich countries are making a strong investment to make sure they get millions of doses, leaving emerging countries in their wake. Researchers around the world are working with more than 150 prospective vaccines, and 26 applicants have already arrived in human trials.
15:00. The Red Cross has trained 43,000 North Korean volunteers in communities, adding the closed city of Kaesong, fighting the new coronavirus and providing flood assistance, said an aid organization official.
14:00. India reports more than 1,000 deaths and 62,000 infections in more than 24 hours, bringing the country’s total to 44,386 deaths and more than 2.2 million cases. This is the fourth day in a row that India carries more than 60,000 cases.
12:10 p.m. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said internal border closures are unlikely to be lifted until Christmas, as the country reports a record increase in COVID-19 deaths in one day. The outbreak comes when evidence seems to show that drastic blocking measures in the City of Melbourne are changing, and new infections in Victoria are decreasing to a minimum of about two weeks.
10:00 a.m. China reports 49 cases, up from 23 the day before. Of the new cases, 35 arrived in the country through travelers. China reports 31 new asymptomatic patients, up from 11 the day before.
8:50 a.m. The Australian state of Victoria has recorded 322 new cases of coronavirus in more than 24 hours, the lowest overall level on a non-married day since 29 July. One-hour period.
3:00 a.m. Cases of coronavirus in the five million most sensitive in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University, through the number in the world and more than 2.5% of all cases in the world. The country has recorded more than 160,000 deaths, or nearly a quarter of the world’s total.
On 1 a.m., Britain showed 1062 new positive tests, compared to 758 the day before for the biggest jump since late June, according to official data.
Sunday, August 9
11:50 p.m. Saudi Arabia will soon begin Phase 3 clinical trials involving about 5,000 more people for a candidate vaccine developed through CanSino Biologics of China, said a spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health. Last month, the co-founder of CanSino said the company in talks with Russia, Brazil, Chile and Saudi Arabia will launch an Ad5-nCOV Phase 3 test.
10:40 p.m. Japan confirms 1,345 new infections in the country, and Tokyo reports 331 cases.
8:30 p.m. Vietnam reports 31 new cases and one more death, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 841 infections and 11 deaths. All new instances are connected to the central city of Danang, where the new outbreak began last month. There have been 355 cases since the virus reappeared in the coastal city, and all the deaths in the country have occurred since then.
18:00 Indonesia reports 1,893 new infections, compared to 2,277 the previous day, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 125,396.
1:29 p.m. New Zealand celebrates one hundred days without national transmission. “Achieving a hundred days without network transmission is a vital step, yet, as we all know, we can’t be complacent,” said Chief Health Officer Ashley Bloomfield.
11:08 a.m., China reported 23 new cases, up from 31 the day before. Of the new cases, 15 were transmitted and 8 entered the country through travelers.
6:51 a.m. Brazil reports 49,970 new instances and 905 deaths in the following 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health. The country has recorded 3,012,412 cases since the start of the pandemic; the official death toll is now 100,447.
Saturday, August 8
5:26 p.m. Indonesia reports 2,277 new coronavirus infections and 65 more deaths, according to the knowledge of its Ministry of Health. This brings the country’s total to 123,503 coronavirus infections and 5,658 deaths.
5:13 p.m. The Philippine Ministry of Health reports 4,226 new coronavirus infections and 41 more deaths. In a bulletin, the ministry says the total number of infections shown increased to 126,885, while the deaths reached 2,209, and many cases and casualties were reported in the capital.
4:42 p.m. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reports 429 new cases of coronavirus infection, surpassing the mark for the time in a row.
1640 The Russian government reports 5,212 new cases of the new coronavirus, bringing the national total to 882,347, the fourth largest in the world. The official death toll is 14,854 after authorities said 129 more people had died across the country in the past 24 hours.
14:00. Takahiro Kusakabe, a professor at kyushu Japanese University, and his team are working on an exclusive vaccine using silk computer viruses. Each computer virus is a plant that produces a protein that will serve as key curtains for vaccine production. Kusakabe says it is imaginable to create an oral vaccine and aims to start human clinical trials next year.
9:56 a.m. Mexico is receiving a $3 million grant from the United States to combat the new coronavirus, a fitness official said. Mexico’s Ministry of Health reports 6,717 new infections and 794 more deaths, bringing the country’s total to 469,407 cases and 51,311 deaths.
9:47 a.m. President Donald Trump has said he will spend the next two weeks drafting an order requiring fitness insurers to cover pre-existing conditions.
7:57 a.m. The base of Brazilian billionaire Jorge Lemann and other commercial interests will finance the structure of an average progression of COVID-19 vaccine production through the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC.
7:39 a.m. More than 160,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States, Reuters said when discussions about a financial aid bill between Democrats in Congress and the White House failed. The bleak milestone, which includes 10,000 deaths over the more than nine days, comes when Americans and their political leaders remain divided over the reopening of schools, trials, end businesses, and masked dresses.
6:18 a.m. An approved coronavirus vaccine could end up being effective only 50 to 60 percent of the time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. most sensible infectious disease expert, said Friday. “We still don’t know what the effectiveness might be. We don’t know if it’s 50% or 60%. I wish it was 75% or more,” Fauci said at a webinar organized through Brown University. the chances of it being 98% effective are not great, meaning they never abandon the public aptitude approach.”
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