Nikkei Asian Review tracks the spread of the new coronavirus from Wuhan city in central China.
Global cases have reached 19,936,547, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The death toll internationally has reached 732,467.
To see how the disease has spread, see our virus tracking tables:
Here are the advances (Tokyo time):
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Tuesday, August 11
5:40 a.m. The Philippines will settle for offering a pending Russian coronavirus vaccine 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. Macao says tourist visas, through which the majority of gamblers come to casinos in the Chinese territory, will be reinstated for the neighboring city of Zhuhai, paving the way for a revival of visitors. Macau’s culture secretary, Ao Ieong U, says the highly anticipated individual visit scheme, or IVS, will resume Aug. 12.
7:42 p.m. Japan’s total coronavirus cases top 50,000, rising by 10,000 in just one week, as urban centers including Tokyo and Osaka continue to see high levels of infections since the central government fully lifted the nationwide state of emergency in late May. The spread of the virus has accelerated since infections reached 20,000 in early July, eclipsing 30,000 in late July and 40,000 on Aug. 3. The nationwide tally includes about 700 from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was 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 using more than 150 potential 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 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 rise until Christmas, and 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 slowing to a low 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. Australia’s state of Victoria records 322 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the lowest single-day tally since July 29. The state also records its highest single-day increase in deaths, 19 more than during the previous 24-hour period.
3:00 a.m. Cases of coronavirus in the five million most sensitive in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University, by far the number in the world and more than 2.5% of all showed cases globally. The country has recorded more than 160,000 deaths, or nearly a quarter of the world’s total.
At 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 III clinical trials involving about 5,000 more people for a candidate vaccine developed through CanSino Biologics of China, a spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health said. 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 III 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 resurfaced in the coastal city, and all 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 one hundred days without network transmission is a vital step; However, as we all know, we can’t be complacent,” said General Manager of Health 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 cases and 905 deaths in the past 24 hours, the health ministry says. The country has registered 3,012,412 cases since the pandemic began; the official death toll now sits at 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.
4:40 p.m. The Russian government reports 5212 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 launch 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 officer 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 in the more than nine days, comes when Americans and their political leaders remain divided over the reopening of schools, trials, end-to-end businesses, and dressed in masks.
6:18 a.m. An approved coronavirus vaccine may end up effective only 50 to 60 percent of the time, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S.’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 having 98% efficiency are not great, meaning they never leave the public aptitude approach.”
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