The United States has surpassed millions of cases of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The United States is the country most affected by the virus in the world, with more cases and deaths than any other country.
To date, 143,800 more people have died in the country after contracting the virus, according to Johns Hopkins’ knowledge.
As the coronavirus began to close giant swathes of the U.S. economy. In March, taking on millions of people in unemployment, a patchwork of state and federal deportation bans enacted to keep others at home.
Up to 28 million more people can be deported in the coming months, according to Emily Benfer, a visiting law professor at Wake Forest University and co-creator of the expulsion lab at Princeton University, a national eviction study center.
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The World Health Organization has said that the United States, Brazil and India, which are experiencing immediate accumulation in cases of coronavirus, can still cause the pandemic.
These are “powerful, capable and democratic countries with internal capacity to deal with this disease,” Said Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the emergency program, at a briefing in Geneva.
US. coronavirus cases are set to exceed 4 million on Thursday, with over 2,600 new cases recorded every hour on average, the highest rate in the world, according to a Reuters tally.
The head of the World Organization said the comments wondered whether his independence would distract from the organization of his paintings to combat coronavirus.
The United States is expected to pass millions of instances of coronavirus on Thursday, amid an increase in instances in the southern and western states.
The United States, which is the most affected in terms of the number of instances and deaths, has so far registered more than 3.97 million instances and more than 60,000 new instances consistent with the day have been reported.
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Government claims through newly unemployed U.S. personnel rose to 1.42 million last week, the Department of Labor said, reversing weeks of decline as coronavirus instances soared nationwide. The build-up defied analyst expectations of some other weekly drop in new apps, which increased in March when U.S. corporations shut down to prevent the spread of coronavirus and have since declined. The other 974,999 people in 49 states who implemented benefits under a program for ineligible staff, an accumulation of approximately 20,000 from last week, was added to the balance sheet.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said more than 10,000 people in 40 African countries have become inflamed with the new coronavirus. The pandemic is accelerating in Africa, with some 750,000 instances and more than 15,000 deaths across the continent, according to WHO. “The expansion we’re seeing Array… is putting increasing pressure on fitness across the continent,” said WHO Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti.
Cuba has been able to send thousands of doctors and nurses overseas to help other countries fight COVID-19.
That is because the island nation has had huge success containing the virus domestically, with a rigorous active screening campaign and strict restrictions.
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The South African Medical Research Council reports a “big gap” between COVID-19-confirmed deaths in the country and the number of more sensitive deaths from herbal causes, while Africa’s most sensitive fitness officer says the virus spreads “like a wildfire.”
The new report, released Wednesday night, shows more than 17,000 more deaths in South Africa from 6 May to 14 July, according to the last two years, while the deaths shown through COVID-19 are 5940.
Iran has shown an additional 221 deaths due to the new coronavirus, bringing the number of deaths nationwide to 15074, according to the Ministry of Health.
Another 2,621 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, with a total of 284,034, ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said.
The proportion of the contacts of coronavirus-positive cases reached by England’s test and trace system rose in its latest week of operation, figures from the health ministry showed.
The Ministry of Health reported that 3,887 instances had been transferred to the service in the week leading up to July 15, with 77.9% of the 16,742 known contacts contacted and begged to self-isolate, compared to 72% last week.
The Philippine Ministry of Health reported on Thursday 2,200 new coronavirus infections and 28 new deaths.
In a bulletin, the ministry reported that the total number of deaths was greater than 1,871, while the infections were 74,390.
Small Arab countries in the neighboring Gulf of Bahrain and Qatar have rates of crownvirus infections consistent with the world.
In either country, COVID-19 epidemics were not detected for the first time in camps housing young healthy foreign workers.
The famous Bishop Broderick Pabillo, in Manila, tested positive for coronavirus, the local Filipino medium Rappler reported.
In a statement, Pabillo said that his result had been negative and that those with whom he had come into contact had been “duly informed”.
Pabillo, who runs the Archdiocese of Manila, is the unofficial head of the Catholic Church of the Philippines.
The advent of a key source of transitional income for the world’s poorest other people will not only give them the means to buy food and medicine, but can also prevent the spread of coronavirus, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in a new report. report released on Thursday.
The report, Temporary Basic Income: Protecting the Poor and Vulnerable in Developing Countries, requires an unconditional limited-time monetary movement to ensure a minimum source of income for 2.7 billion people living below or near the poverty line in 132 nearby countries.
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The Philippines has re-imposed a ban on non-essential products abroad, more than two weeks after allowing tourists to leave the country, a government spokesman said. Filipinos were barred from entering all non-essential nationals and foreigners from mid-March when a blockade was imposed to involve the spread of coronavirus.
A coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) could be ready for public use by the end of this year, state media reported, ahead of previous expectations that it may become available in 2021.
Sinopharm President Liu Jingzhen told the state-owned CCTV television channel that the company planned to conduct full tests of the type on a complex level in about 3 months.
Sinopharm’s National National Biotechnology Group (CNBG), which is to blame for two coronavirus vaccine projects, said in June that the vaccine would probably not be in condition until at least 2021, as the lack of new infections in China made it difficult for other friends to verify it.
An official German government had linked more than 2,000 coronavirus infections to an outbreak at a slaughterhouse last month that led to a partial closure in two western counties.
Regional authorities restored some coronavirus restrictions in the Guetersloh and Warendorf areas in late June after more than 1,400 people at the Toennies slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck tested positive for the virus.
Australia reported its highest number of coronavirus-related deaths in 3 months, and new infections began to increase at their peak population.
Victoria’s condition said it had shown another 403 infections, while five other people had died from the virus in the last 24 hours.
The deaths, adding to a man in their 50s, mark the largest accumulation of a day of COVID-19 deaths in the country since last April.
Russia reported 5848 new instances of the new coronavirus, bringing its national total to 795038, the fourth in the world.
The country has recorded just over 12,700 deaths to date and more than 570,000 recoveries.
South Korea’s economy saw its worst functionality in more than 20 years in the quarter, the central bank said, as the coronavirus pandemic affected its exports.
Asia’s fourth-largest economy 2.9% year-on-year in the period from April to June, the Bank of Korea said.
This is the fastest decline since a 3.8% decline in the fourth quarter of 1998, following the Asian currency crisis.
Confirmed cases of coronavirus in South Africa have nearly reached 400,000, while the country reports a new record of 572 deaths.
South Africa is now one of the world’s top five countries in terms of reported virus cases, and it makes up more than half of the cases on the African continent with 394,948. Deaths are at 5,940.
Public hospitals are suffering as the number of patients increases and more than 5,000 people have been infected.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has named a public health professional to head the coronavirus response, his office announced, amid mounting calls for Israel’s government to appoint a dedicated coronavirus response coordinator.
It said in a statement that the job went to Professor Ronnie Gamzu, CEO of Tel Aviv’s Sourasky medical complex, who was appointed the National Coronavirus Project Manager, his office said.
“Professor Gamzu has many years of administrative experience in the health field, including previous service as health ministry director-general,” it added.
India’s health ministry reported a new record surge of 45,720 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally of infections to 1,238,635.
India has recorded 685 deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours, as well as 444 in unreported deaths beyond, bringing the number of national pandemics to 29,861.
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Australia says its economy is expected to shrink to its fastest speed in history in the quarter.
The government expects gross domestic product (GDP) to fall to 7% in the 3 months ended June, leaving Australia in its first recession in 30 years. The economy is 0.3% in the first quarter.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg also forecasts a record budget deficit as the government increases spending to keep the economy running and others at work.
Papua New Guinea has called on the WHO for help, citing a “high likelihood of expanded community transmission”. It has asked the WHO to deploy Emergency Medical Teams for an initial period of one month.
PNG is one of the poorest countries in the Pacific and has limited medical resources. It currently has 30 cases of COVID-19, compared with 11 on Sunday. Most of those affected are medical workers.
National pandemic response controller David Manning said the WHO was in the process of mobilising international medical teams to deploy to PNG. Manning said testing was limited beyond the capital, Port Moresby.
China’s National Health Commission has reported 22 new cases of coronavirus on the mainland, most of them in the far western region of Xinjiang where mass testing is under way.
China will offer a $1 billion loan to manufacture any coronavirus vaccine it develops for Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, China, made the promise in a virtual meeting.
California has overtaken New York to record the number of coronavirus instances in all U.S. states.
Health says the state’s overall workload is now 413,576, about 4,700 more than in New York.
The death toll in California, however, remains much lower. It has recorded 7,870 deaths since the start of the pandemic, to 25,068 in New York.
Brazil and Argentina have established new registrations for coronavirus cases.
Brazil showed 67,860 instances on Wednesday, while Argentina registered 5,782 instances. The two countries also reported more deaths from the disease, while Peru added 3,688 in the past to others who were not reported to their death toll, with a total of 17,455.
Meanwhile, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has yet to shake up the virus, which he once described as a “little flu.” On Wednesday, his third, he showed that he still had COVID-19.
South Korea has entered recession after exports recorded their steepest decline since 1963. The economy shrank by 3.3 percent in the three months ended June, compared with the previous quarter.
Exports account for 40% of South Korea’s economy and have plummeted to 16.6%.
Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki, however, issued a positive note. He says government spending, money distributions and a slowing pandemic can only recover from expansion.
A British parliamentary committee on art and culture said the blockade of the coronavirus had brought the British theatre to the point of collapse.
The committee estimates that more than 15,000 theatrical performances were canceled in the first 12 weeks of the close, which began on March 23, and total losses amount to 603 million pounds ($768 million).
The UK has around 1,100 theatres from London’s West End to small ones across the country.
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Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I’m Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur.
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