The Nikkei Asian Review tracks the spread of the new coronavirus from The city of Wuhan in central China.
Global instances reached Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for 22,260,914.
The death toll has reached 784,082.
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Here are the advances (Tokyo time):
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Thursday, August 20
9:06 a.m. Victoria, Australia’s most populous state of the moment and COVID’s 1st, reports 240 new daily instances, a small build-up, reinforcing optimism that a hard closure of the state capital, Melbourne, will involve the spread of the virus. Victoria reported 216 cases a day earlier, the lowest one-day build-up in five weeks.
8:13 a.m. Australia’s Qantas Airways reports a net loss of A$1.964 billion ($1.41 billion) for the 12 months ending June 30, one of the largest in history, due to deteriorating fees and restructuring prices designed to cope with the pandemic.
7:22 a.m. Mexico tells Moscow that it would like to conduct phase 3 testing of the Russian coronavirus vaccine, as a component of the Latin American country’s extensive efforts to ensure the immediate source of an effective drug for the pandemic, Reuters reports.
4:45 a.m. U.S. approval of blood plasma as a remedy against COVID-19 was suspended after an organization of senior federal fitness officials, adding that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, said emerging knowledge about the remedy was too weak, the New York Times reports.
Although antibody-rich plasma is safe, clinical trials have not shown whether plasma can help others fight coronavirus.
3 am G42 Healthcare of Abu Dhabi has signed an agreement with The Israeli company NanoScent to explore tactics to trip over the presence of coronavirus from air samples exhaled from the nose, reports Emirates news agency.
The Japanese government plans to amortize payment for any physical fitness disorder that may be kept here due to coronavirus vaccines, to make sure it is a strong source of foreign brands as the global festival intensifies, Nikkei has learned.
12:55 p.m. At least a quarter of other people in India may have inflamed with coronavirus, said A. Velumani, head of personal medical diagnostics company Thyrocare, according to Reuters.
The estimate is based on an investigation of 270,000 antibody tests conducted throughout the company.
00:05 am: Thailand plans to enlarge its state of emergency until September in reaction to the first case of coronavirus transmitted in the country in just about 3 months.
Wednesday, August 19
11.00 p.m. afternoon. The Japanese government will launch an in October that will allow others to search for PCR testing centers and make appointments online. The site is mainly intended for business travelers traveling abroad.
20.30 h. Some others in Germany would likely start vaccinating against coronavirus early next year, said the director of a German institute, as quoted through Reuters.
6:55 p.m. The iranian Health Ministry spokeswoman said on state television that the death toll in the country from the virus has exceeded 20,000.
6:10 p.m. Japan’s Osaka Prefecture reports 187 new infections, more than the 186 in Tokyo. In addition to the capital, Osaka has experienced high degrees of new infections, with a recent peak of 255 on August 7.
5:40 p.m. The Philippines reports 4,650 new infections, bringing the country’s total to 173,774, southeast Asia. The country also reported 111 new deaths, bringing the total to 2,795.
Indonesia reports 1,902 new infections, compared to 1,673 the previous day, bringing the total number of cases to 144,945. He reported 69 deaths, bringing the total to 6,346.
4:40 p.m. Britain is making plans to test the entire population for the spread of the virus and alleviate restrictions that have paralyzed one of the most affected countries. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government is testing a variety of tests that can produce instant effects and hopes to implement them until the end of the year.
3:10 p.m. A New Zealand court finds that the first nine days of strict confinement were justified but illegal. The resolution comes after a lawyer in Wellington challenged the legality of government movements at the start of the five-week closing, which began on March 26, before an order imposing the house’s restrictions was passed on April 3.
14:09 India reports 64,531 cases and 1,092 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s total to 2.77 million infections and 52,889 deaths. The country reports more than 60,000 recoveries in a non-married day, bringing the overall recovery rate to 73.64%.
12:30 p.m. South Korea reports 297 new cases, up from 246 the day before and their largest build-up since early March. The escalation of the figures comes amid restrictions on demonstrations in Greater Seoul, fearing that the spread of the virus will be uncontrollable.
11:40 a.m. Global coronavirus infections now exceed 22 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, and the United States, Brazil and India account for more than the total. International death toll reaches 800,000.
10:40 New Zealand reports five new cases in the community. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the fall in cases indicates that the country does see an outbreak of coronavirus. Thirteen cases were reported on Tuesday.
9:00 a.m. Japan recorded an industrial surplus of 11.6 billion yen ($109 million) in July, according to government data. Exports fell 19.2% from last year and imports by 22.3%.
At 8:20 a.m., the Australian state of Victoria reported 216 new cases, up from 222 the day before. Australia signed an agreement with drug manufacturer AstraZeneca to discharge a vaccine opposite COVID-19.
7:50 a.m. China and the United States will allow airlines to double the number of flights between the world’s two largest economies to 8 per week, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. The branch said it would allow 4 Chinese airlines that currently serve the United States to double their flights on 8 weekly trips, as China agreed to allow US airlines to double their flights to China.
5:00 a.m. The S-P 500 closes to an all-time high, recovering from the massive losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The index rose 0.23% to 3389.78. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 67 points, or 0.24%, to 27,778.07.
4:00 a.m. The Canadian province of Quebec announces its goal of addressing past mistakes in the fight opposed to the COVID-19 pandemic, as it prepares its fitness sector for a coronavirus wave at a imaginable time in the fall, Reuters reports. Once the most COVID-19 province in the country, Quebec will encourage hiring in the public fitness sector, reduce screening times, and ensure that staff and care staff can no longer paint in multiple long-term care facilities. a practice in the past accused of spreading the virus.
3:30 a.m. The World Health Organization is calling for widespread flu vaccination this year, and senior adviser Bruce Aylward mentioned a desire to avoid the threat of coronavirus headaches.
At 3:10 a.m., Ireland tightened its national limitations on coronavirus in an attempt to involve an increase in cases, urging everyone to limit visitors to their homes, public transport and the elderly to limit their contacts, according to Reuters.
Tuesday, August 18
9:30 a.m. Australia signed an agreement with drug manufacturer AstraZeneca to discharge a possible COVID-19 vaccine, Minister Scott Morrison said, joining a list of developing countries queuing up to obtain the drug.
9:01 p.m. A possible coronavirus vaccine that is being developed through a unit of China’s national pharmaceutical organization (Sinopharm) may not charge more than 1,000 yuan ($144.27) for two injections, Reuters reported. Sinopharm said his experimental vaccine could be in a position for public use until the end of this year.
8:47 p.m. The Thai cupboard approved a loan plan of 214 billion baht ($6.87 billion) to cover a profit shortfall in the fiscal year through September due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. After the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha planned his government to organize a forum to gather student opinions.
8:12 p.m. Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said COVID-19 would remain in the country for a long time, adding that it would take at least a year for people to access a vaccine. The Southeast Asian country, which first detected the virus in January, reported 983 cases and 25 deaths, adding more than part of its infections in the following month alone, Reuters reported.
20:00. Singapore Press Holdings, the editor of the Straits Times, announced the loss of 140 jobs, or 5% of the total in its media department, due to the pandemic. The measure will result in a price reduction of approximately S$8 million ($5.9 million).
“Subscriptions and readers of our news titles have increased since the inception of COVID-19. However, the economic downturn has had a significant effect on our advertising revenue,” SPH general manager Ng Yat Chung said in a statement.
7:44 p.m. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization, said in a virtual briefing that countries that expose their own interests to those of others in seeking to protect the source of a imaginable COVID-19 vaccine are exacerbating the pandemic.
“[Acting] strategically and globally is in fact in the national interest of each country. No one is until they’re all in Array,” he said.
7:04 p.m. French champagne brands reach a last-minute agreement to reduce the volume of grapes they will harvest this year as they withdraw from a drop in sales caused by the coronavirus crisis, Reuters reported.
19:00 h. To complicate its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, parts of China have been affected by what officials call flooding “once a century” on Tuesday, with damage to the country and is expected to make landfall on Wednesday.
18:00 The Indian Embassy in Moscow contacts the Russian Medical Research Institute that developed the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine to be used through the public, The Indian Express newspaper reported.
5:40 p.m. Indonesia reports 1,673 new infections, up from 1,821 the previous day, bringing the total to 143,043 cases, according to the government. The country also recorded 70 more deaths, bringing the total to 6277.
5:10 p.m. The Philippines reports 4,836 new infections, compared to 3,314 reported a day earlier and the seventh consecutive day recorded more than 3,000 cases. President Rodrigo Duterte has eased the strict blockade of coronaviruses in the capital Manila and neighboring provinces to reopen the economy, even though the country has the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia.
4:40 p.m. The U.S. and South Korea will launch a joint army on Tuesday, and the year will shrink amid the coronavirus pandemic, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said.
3:09 p.m. Tokyo confirms 207 new infections, according to resources in Nikkei, up from 161 the day before. The spread of the virus is due to other people in their twenties, according to the metropolitan government.
15:00. Indonesia recorded an industry surplus of $3.26 billion in July, the largest in nine years, while exports took a step forward while demand for domestic imports remained moderate amid the pandemic, according to government data. July exports rose to June 14.33% to $13.73 billion, 9.9% less than the price of shipments in the same month last year.
14:02 India confirms 55,079 cases in the last 24 hours, compared to 57,981 the previous day, bringing the country’s COVID-19 total to more than 2.7 million. The death toll for the 876th day, raising the total to 51,797. In addition, it is reported that 57,937 patients have recovered, bringing the cure rate to more than 73% and the mortality rate to less than 2%. The number of active instances in India is now 673,166, according to the Ministry of Health.
1:20 p.m. The Chinese-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) announced that it would lend $100 million to Uzbekistan to take on the country to confront the COVID-19 pandemic and long-term public conditioning disasters. The allocation will be co-financed through the Manila-based Asian Development Bank.
12:00 p.m. South Korea reports 246 new infections, compared to 197 the day before and the fifth consecutive day of three-digit increases, as fitness personnel struggle to involve transmissions in greater Seoul, where church-related infections remain active.
10:40 a.m. New Zealand reports thirteen new cases in the last 24 hours, compared to nine the previous day, as the country struggles to involve an epidemic in its largest city. Twelve instances are connected to the existing virus group in Auckland, which remains blocked due to the outbreak of infections there.
9:50 a.m. China reports 22 new cases of coronavirus up to Monday, as is the previous day’s count. All new infections were imported, making it the consecutive day of the time for 0 new transmitted instances.
9:20 a.m., Australia Victoria reported 222 new cases, up from 282 the day before, and the smallest build-up in a month, raising hopes that the wave of infections in the state will wane. The state has recorded 17 deaths from the virus in more than 24 hours, a day after recording its deadliest day of the pandemic with 25 victims.
6:00 a.m. The Mexican president volunteered to get the newly developed Russian coronavirus vaccine and said he would appreciate an injection if effective.
“I would be the first to vaccinate myself,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said of the Russian product at a press conference.
5:00 a.m. The nasdaq high-tech index is final in a record close, aided by a gain on Nvidia’s stock after analysts raised their target for the chipmaker.
4:40 am Fitness rooms, one of the industries most affected by the pandemic, may open next Monday in New York City, but will need to take steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus, forcing consumers to wear masks, Governor Andrew said Cuomo.
3:45 a.m. In a U.S. premiere, the mink on two Utah farms was tested for the new coronavirus, the Department of Agriculture reports.
2:45 p.m. Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi embarked on a wide-rated tour of Southeast Asia, providing medical assistance to countries involved in the spread of coronavirus.
2:10 a.m. U.S. drug developer Novavax said he had begun the medium-term clinical period of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate in South Africa.
1:15 p.m. The finance ministers of the Group of Seven Nations agreed to extend the freezing of low-income countries’ debt payments as a component of foreign aid, a U.S. Treasury spokesman said.
00:05 While parts of Japan and the United States are cooked at record temperatures, there are considerations that wearing a mask could increase the threat of a heat stroke.
Another 27 people died from a heatstroke in Tokyo between six days and Saturday, NHK reports. Temperatures in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, equaled Japan’s all-time record of 41.1 degrees Celsius on Monday. In the United States, Death Valley Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert recorded 54.4 C.
Monday, August 17
11:20 p.m. 60% of Japanese publicly traded regional banks report falls in profits or losses for the April-June quarter. Provisions opposing the credit threat have increased by approximately 20% compared to the previous year, as the pandemic is affecting small and medium-sized enterprises.
8:19 p.m. Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reports 14 more coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of Southeast Asian countries to 976, with 24 deaths, Reuters reports.
7:08 p.m. Singapore set aside another $5.8 billion in businesses and residents on Monday after the city-state economy experienced its worst quarter recorded: a 13.2% contraction during the year in the 3 months through June.
6:50 p.m. The Philippines recorded 3,314 new cases of coronavirus and 18 more deaths from the disease, bringing the total number of cases to 164,474 and the number of deaths to 2,681.
At the same time, Indonesia reported 1,821 new cases, bringing the total to 141,370. Another 57 people died from the disease, bringing the total number of deaths to 6,207, the number of deaths in Southeast Asia.
5:40 p.m. Hong Kong will take further social estrangement measures for another week, after the city recorded 44 new cases of coronavirus on Monday. Dinners will not be allowed in restaurants until before 6 p.m., with a maximum of two other people depending on the table.
17:00 h. According to registration records, a complex trial of a COVID-19 candidate vaccine from CanSino Biologics has begun in Russia, as the Chinese drug manufacturer intensifies testing to accelerate regulatory approval. The Ad5-nCoV vaccine has already been approved for use through the Chinese army after initial and mid-term trials, and extra complex trials are underway for Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
4:47 p.m. Fujifilm said it would produce a component for a coronavirus vaccine candidate that is being developed through us drug manufacturer Novavax in its British unit. The Japanese company aims to manufacture up to 60 million doses, which the British have obtained, at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies’s facility starting next year.
3:08 p.m. Tokyo confirms 161 new infections, according to resources in Nikkei, up from 260 the day before, the first time the Japanese capital has had fewer than two hundred new instances of coronavirus in one day since August 11.
2:19 p.m. The Philippines, the COVID-19 hot spot in Southeast Asia, is expected to begin clinical trials of Avigan, the antiviral drug developed through Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings, according to Undersecretary of Health Rosario Vergeire. Trials will involve one hundred patients aged between 18 and 74 at 4 hospitals in the Metropolitan area.
1:40 p.m. China’s Geely Automobile Holdings says its first-half profit fell 43% during the year as the coronavirus outbreak slowed car sales in the world’s largest market. Geely, China’s leading automaker in the world due to the group’s investments in Volvo Cars and Daimler AG, reported a profit of 2.3 billion yuan ($331.37 million) from January to June, up from 4.010 million yuan at the same time a year earlier.
1:30 p.m. Chinese vaccine specialist CanSino Biologics won a patent in Beijing for his COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Ad5-nCOV, to state media, presenting documents from the country’s high-level asset regulator. This is China’s first COVID-19 vaccine patent for the People’s Daily public newspaper.
1:20 p.m. Deaths from the virus in India exceed 50,000, and the total number of infections reaches approximately 2.65 million, with an increase of 57,981. The death toll, which has risen to 941 in the last 24 hours, is now 50,921.
12:10 p.m. Thailand’s gross domestic product fell 12.2% in this quarter compared to the previous year, the biggest economic contraction in 22 years for the quarter ending June. The largest economy of the time in Southeast Asia has been a huge success in the pursuit of the virus, but in charge of a deep recession.
11:30 a.m. South Korea reports 197 new cases, the fourth consecutive day of three-digit increases, as fitness personnel advance to slow transmissions in Greater Seoul, where churches are leading to groups. The country reported 279 cases a day earlier, peaking since early March.
10:20 a.m. China did not report new cases of local coronavirus in western Xinjiang on Sunday, marking the first time the number of cases has been 0 since mid-July for the region, which had a seedbed of the virus. Nationwide, the country reports 22 new instances for Sunday, up from 19 the day before. All were imported instances.
8:50 a.m. The Japanese economy declined by 7.8% in April-June to the last quarter, or to an annualized rate of 27.8%, according to the Cabinet Office, while personal intake and exports carried the weight of the coronavirus pandemic.
8:15 a.m. Rare Australian land manufacturer Lynas is recording an annual loss, affected by the transient closure of its Malaysian processing plant connected to the coronavirus and declining market prices, the company said. The after-tax loss A$19.4 million (US$13.9 million) for the year ended June 30, compared to a profit of A$83.1 million the previous year.
8:10 a.m. The Australian state of Victoria reports the deadliest day of the pandemic with 25 deaths in more than 24 hours and 282 new cases. The state had recorded deaths and 279 new cases a day earlier.
7:35 a.m. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country’s general election, scheduled for September 19, will be postponed until October 17 due to considerations of the spread of coronavirus.
5:40 a.m. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador posted a video on Twitter saying that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available to Mexico in the first quarter of 2021.
3:16 a.m. Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori took the COVID-19 test. The former global 4th 30-year-old is staying at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
Sunday, August 16
5:29 p.m. The Philippines is registering 3,420 new instances and 65 more deaths, according to the Ministry of Health. The country’s totals amount to 161,253 infections and 2,665 deaths.
16:45 Indonesia reports 2,081 new infections and 79 deaths, according to the knowledge of Indonesia’s COVID-19 government working group. Knowledge placed the total number of infections in the fourth most populous country in the world at 139,549.
3:10 p.m. New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is calling for the postponement of elections scheduled for September, given the resurgence of COVID-19 in the country, increasing pressure on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to postpone the vote.
10:31 a.m. South Korea reports 279 new cases, the highest since early March, according to the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the new instances, 267 were transmitted locally, basically to Seoul and surroundings. New instances raise the country’s total to 15,318 infections; there were 305 COVID deaths in the country.
10:25 New Zealand reports thirteen new cases shown in more than 24 hours, bringing the number of active cases in the country to 69. Since the beginning of the year, New Zealand has recorded 1,271 cases.
2:47 a.m. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 5,285,546 cases of new coronavirus, a buildup of 56,729 of its previous count. According to Reuters, the number of deaths increased from 1,229 to 167,546.
Saturday, August 15
8:08 p.m. Vietnam reports 21 new infections and two deaths, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 950, with 23 deaths. More than 470 cases are connected to the central city of Danang, where an outbreak began last month.
12:45 p.m. In the rite marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Asia, the Emperor and Prime Minister of Japan deliver speeches to mourn the war dead, either by adding words about the coronavirus pandemic.
12:15 p.m. South Korea reports 166 new infections, peaking high since March 11. The country has now noticed a 3-figure increase 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.
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