A pandemic of the new coronavirus has caused more than 965,000 people to die worldwide.
More than 31. 3 million people internationally have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused through the new respiratory virus, according to knowledge collected through Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Diagnostic criteria: by clinical means or a laboratory. check – vary from country to country. However, real numbers are believed to be much higher due to lack of control, many un reported cases and suspicions that some national governments hide or minimize the extent of their epidemics.
Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the virus has spread to all continents except Antarctica.
The United States is the most affected country, with more than 6. 8 million cases diagnosed and at least 199,962 deaths.
California has the highest instances of any U. S. state. With more than 790,000 others diagnosed, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins. California is followed through Texas and Florida, with more than 734,000 cases and more than 685,000 cases, respectively.
Nearly 170 COVID-19 vaccine applicants are being monitored through the World Health Organization, of which at least six are in 3 critical trials.
An ABC News investigation of COVID-19 trends in all 50 US states, as well as Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico, found an increase in cases shown in the last two weeks in 33 states, the capital. of the nation and the island territory of the US Caribbean.
The research also revealed an increase in the positivity rate of COVID-19 testing in 16 states and Washington, D. C. , an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations in 17 states, as well as in DC and Puerto Rico, and an increase in the number of COVID-19 deaths in 15 states and Puerto Rico.
All trends have been analyzed from knowledge collected and published through the COVID Tracking Project for more than two weeks, the seven-day moving average linear regression trend line.
National accumulation in COVID-19 cases can be similar with several factors. While accumulation may be partly similar to Labor Day festivities, it may also be similar to the spread of the virus to epidemic communities on college campuses. .
In addition, the increase in the number of new instances would possibly be related to the expansion of mobility between states and communities. Several states, such as Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Utah, have noticed increased mobility, according to a tracking tool created through Apple.
Benjamin Bell, Brian Hartman, Soorin Kim and Arielle Mitropolous of ABC News contributed to this report.
As the death toll in the United States by COVID-19 approaches the 200,000 mark, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that the new coronavirus “affects no one. “
He commented to a crowd of supporters Tuesday at an election rally in Swanton, Ohio.
“Now we know the disease. We didn’t know, now we know. It affects the elderly, the elderly with center disorders and other disorders. If they have other up disorders, that’s what it affects, that’s all,” Trump said. Said.
“You know, in some states, [are] thousands of other people — young people. Under 18, like no one else,” he continued. They have a strong immune system, who knows. Take off your hat to the kids because they have an amazing immune system. But no one. It’s an amazing thing. “
Trump’s comments contradict what fitness experts around the world told reporter Bob Woodward in March.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday unveiled a series of difficult new measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 in England, which he said could remain in force for six months.
“I look forward to avoiding taking this step, as decentralized administrations do, but we can only avoid it if our new measures work and our behavior changes,” Johnson told members of the House of Commons. “We will spare no effort to expand vaccines, treatments, new mass testing bureaucracy. But unless we make tangible progress, we assume that the restrictions I have announced will remain in place for perhaps six months. “
Johnson announced a curfew at 10 p. m. for all reception spaces in England from Thursday and said pubs, bars and restaurants across the country will also offer table-only service, with the exception of takeaways.
In the meantime, the use of masks will be extended to all users of taxis and personal rental vehicles, to all retail staff and to all workers and consumers of enclosed places, when they are seated at a table to eat or drink. fined if they broke the new rules.
Johnson also announced that as of Monday, the number of legal participants in wedding ceremonies and receptions in England will be limited to 15 people, as a limit of 30 for all funerals held in the country.
While Johnson has said that other people who can paint from home do so again, under pressure from his government he will “do everything in our power” to keep schools open and youth in classrooms.
The Prime Minister noted that the other three deposed governments in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales would take action.
“At the moment, this virus is a component of our lives,” he said, “and I will have to tell the House and the country that our fight against it will continue. “
The former acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that the company is wasting the public’s trust by rechecking its COVID-19.
“The challenge is that there have been so many cases where there have been political footprints in CDC documents, and the CDC has not been able to know what is going on. This leads to a weakening of accepting as true with and when trust is lost, he loses lives,” Dr. Richard Besser, who is now president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, told George Stephanopoulos, abc News’s lead presenter, in an interview on “Good Morning America. “
The CDC recently published and removed the updated rules on its official online website to address the developing evidence of limited air transmission of the virus that caused COVID-19. The firm said Monday that the new data was published by mistake. .
“CDC deserves to be there every day and every day to know what they’re learning, to know why the tips change,” Besser said. “I spoke to a CDC leader and hopefully soon there will be rules describing other transmission routes, such as aerosols, and what can also be done to reduce the threat of transmission.
As the death toll in the United States by COVID-19 approaches 200,000, Besser described the pandemic as the worst public health crisis of his life and the danger of minimizing the situation.
“When you think about this loss of trust and the loss of human life, you know, each and every network is affected but not too. African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and low-income Americans are the most affected,” he said. “So when other people minimize the importance of this, there are safe equipment that pays the price. “
Besser warned that restrictions on coronavirus may want to be removed this winter, as others spend more time indoors, increasing the threat of respiratory viruses.
“Viruses grow more in winter,” he says. It’s anything other people anticipate. “