A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 852,000 people worldwide.
More than 25.5 million people internationally have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to knowledge collected through the Center for Science and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.Diagnostic criteria: by clinical means or a laboratory.check – vary from country to country.However, the actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to lack of control, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments hide or minimize the scope 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 worst-affected country, with more than 6 million cases diagnosed and at least 184,114 deaths.
California has the maximum instances of any U.S. state.With more than 713,000 other people diagnosed, according to Johns Hopkins’ knowledge.California is followed throughout Texas and Florida, with more than 633,000 cases and more than 631,000 cases, respectively.
Nearly 170 COVID-19 vaccine applicants are being monitored through the World Health Organization, six of which are in 3 of the critical trials.
The Hong Kong government has introduced a massive coVID-19 flexible and voluntary program.
The government said 141 checkpoints had been opened and that another 126,000 people had been controlled on Tuesday.
More than 674,000 other people have made online appointments for testing, the government said.
Hong Kong, home to about 7.5 million people, had 4,823 cases of coronavirus on Tuesday and another 90 people died in Hong Kong.
Christine Theodorou of ABC News contributed to this report.
Apple and Google jointly announced Tuesday that they would release “express exposure notifications” to make it less difficult for eligible users to see an imaginable coVID-19 exhibition.
The update will necessarily allow iOS and Android users to get exposure notifications on their phones from public fitness officials who want a traditional app.
“As a component of the next step in our public aptitude governing paintings on exposure notifications, we allowed them to use the exposure notification formula more smoothly and temporarily without having to create an app,” Apple and Google said in their statement.
Notification generation is based on Bluetooth knowledge and is requested through local public fitness officials who will provide your name, criteria for activating a notification and fabrics for users in case of exposure.
Maryland, Nevada, Virginia and Washington, DC will be the first in the United States to implement the new notification system and are expected to be implemented in the states by the end of this fall.
Catherine Thorbecke of ABC News contributed to this report.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warns state leaders to allow Labor Day demonstrations to ruin the country’s progress in the fight against coronavirus.
“It’s not forgotten after the Fourth of July, after Memorial Day, when other people come out and meet naturally, we had waves,” Fauci said in Vice President Mike Pence’s weekly call with the governors, according to an audio record received through ABC News.
“If we can spend Labor Day weekend with cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in general across the country, we can start smart as we enter the fall,” Fauci said.’The only thing you don’t need is to play mole as you go down the fall, where it all fell off and then we’re going to get up again.”
“You can laugh a lot without necessarily gathering in crowds without a mask, conditions in which you can spread the infection,” Fauci said.”We can do it Array … I have a lot of religion in the United States, other people who do “Pence and the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, dr.Deborah Birx, have asked governors to tell university presidents to isolate academics who are positive for COVID rather than sending them to spread the virus at home or in an off-campus community.”Most academics, even on online campuses, remain on their off-campus accommodation they rented,” Birx said.Therefore, it is very vital that these academics are continually examined, remote and cared for, and do not return to their multigenerational homes where they can increase the spread, especially during Labor Day weekend.ABC News’s Katherine Faulders contributed to this report.
Schools in Greece will reopen on September 14, he said on Tuesday.
Masks will be mandatory indoors. Students will be informed in grades 3 and under that they wear their mask correctly.
Greece has 10317 cases of COVID-19 and 266 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s knowledge.
“The evolution of the pandemic is dynamic,” Greek Education Minister Niki Kerameus told journalists in Athens on Tuesday, adding that the measures will be adjusted at the local, regional and national levels.
“We will hesitate to take more austere action as the pandemic progresses,” Kerameus said.
Christine Theodorou of ABC News contributed to this report.