At the moment, the US tops the list of the most affected countries with over 4.7 million infected and more than 156,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. Brazil is second with 2.8 million cases and a death toll of 95,000, while India, which is showing the highest daily increase, has confirmed 1.9 million cases and around 39,000 dead.
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ALMATY (Sputnik) - Kazakhstan has registered, over the past 24 hours, 1,060 cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), bringing the total number of cases to 95,942, an interdepartmental commission said Thursday.
The country's death toll from COVID-19 stands at 1,091. More than 67,000 have recovered.
"A total of 1,060 new cases of coronavirus infection have been registered, of whom 547 are symptomatic carriers, 513 asymptomatic carriers", the commission said in its Telegram channel.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Germany has confirmed 1,045 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, with the total count reaching 213,067, the Robert Koch Institute said on Thursday.
The death toll has grown by seven to 9,175 people within the same period of time. More than 195,000 people have recovered since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 741 new coronavirus cases and 12 fatalities.
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - The number of registered cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Israel has risen by 2,094 in the past 24 hours to 77,919 by Wednesday evening, the country's Health Ministry said.
The death toll increased by six to 565, the ministry said.
It said 25,956 people were currently sick, 345 patients were in serious condition, of whom 106 needed lung ventilation.
A total of 51,395 people have recovered from COVID-19 in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday coronavirus incidence in Israel was one of the world's highest, but recently the country reached a plateau.
In Israel, a second increase in the incidence of coronavirus began in early June. The government decided to impose new restrictions, including the closure of restaurants, swimming pools and gyms, but a special Knesset commission lifted these restrictions.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mexico has increased by 6,139 within the past 24 hours and has thus reached 456,100, Jose Luis Alomia, the director of epidemiology at the Health Ministry, said.
He also said on late Wednesday that the death toll had risen by 829 to 49,698 people within the same period of time.
The country has conducted more than 1 million COVID-19 tests since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the Latin American nation recorded 6,148 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with 857 fatalities.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 57,152 to 2,859,073 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Wednesday.
The death toll has risen by 1,437 to 97,256 people within the same period of time.
A day earlier, Brazil reported 51,603 new cases of the coronavirus disease and 1,154 new fatalities.
Brazil comes second on a global tally of coronavirus cases after the United States, which has recorded more than 4.8 million COVID-19 patients.
"Using a silkworm, we create an artificial spike protein that is extremely similar to the protein of the novel coronavirus, but it does not contain a virus inside, so it is harmless", Prof. Takahiro Kusakabe said.
Scientists inject into a silkworm a baculovirus, which infects only insects but is harmless to humans, with the genetic information of the coronavirus in it. In a few days, a protein very similar to the spike protein of the coronavirus develops in the silkworm.
"We are currently developing a vaccine of two types — in the form of injection and oral administration. The vaccine for injection requires purification and safety testing. In any case, I think the vaccine will be as safe as those currently in use. As for oral use, in Asian countries, silkworm larvae are historically used for food, so there should be no problems", the professor said.
The scientist believes that the project will yield "a highly effective vaccine in larger quantities than conventional vaccines". In addition, its price will be within the limits of that for the influenza vaccine — several thousand yen.
Kusakabe added that the vaccine trials on animals are expected to take place during this fiscal year, namely until 31 March 2021.
"We are at a stage of this pandemic where extreme caution is necessary, and also in my view, sensible", First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said at a press conference.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has registered 5,204 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours (5,159 yesterday), bringing the cumulative total to 866,627, the country's coronavirus response centre said on Wednesday.
"Over the past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 5,204 COVID-19 cases in 83 regions, of which 1,342 (25.8 percent) have been detected with people showing no clinical symptoms", the response centre said in a statement.
This takes the total case count to 866,627, with the daily increase standing at 0.6 percent.
Moscow registered 687 coronavirus cases in the given time period, which is more than any other region in Russia, followed by the Sverdlovsk Region with 181 cases and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region with 169 new cases (compared to 691, 182, and 177 yesterday).
No new cases have been recorded in the Chukotka Autonomous Region and the city of Sevastopol.
"In such an uncertain situation, nothing is impossible. But it seems unlikely to me," Switzerland's Health Minister Alain Berset told newspaper Tages-Anzeiger when asked if he was mulling national restrictions.
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - The overall number of COVID-19 cases in Mexico has increased to 449,961 after 6,148 new cases were registered in the past 24 hours, the country's Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
The ministry stated that 857 people died from the disease over the past 24 hours with the total death toll now at 48,869.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The worldwide number of COVID-19 fatalities has surpassed 700,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University, which compiles data from federal and local authorities, media, and other sources.
According to the university, the exact death toll currently stands at 700,647, with the global case count totaling 18,480,000, and the number of recoveries recorded across the world since the onset of the pandemic amounting to 11,083,012.
India's Health Ministry on Wednesday announced that the number of COVID-19 cases in the country has surpassed the 1.9 million mark.
