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COVID-19 Live Updates: Number of Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Exceeds 20 Mln Worldwide - JHU

05:01 GMT 10.08.2020 (Updated: 13:03 GMT 06.08.2022)

The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has reached 733,103; over 20 million cases of the infection have been detected, according to Baltimore, Maryland's Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from national and local authorities, the media and other sources.

The United States crossed the 5 million threshold in coronavirus cases on Sunday, becoming by far the worst-hit nation.

Data collected by Johns Hopkins University shows that the country has over 3 million confirmed active cases and 162,455 virus-related deaths, while more than 1.6 million people have recovered.

More than five months into the pandemic, the global coronavirus tally has reached 20 million, according to statistics from JHU. Brazil remains the world's second worst-affected country, with over 3 million cases, followed by India with 2.1 million.

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Number of Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Exceeds 20 Mln Worldwide - Johns Hopkins University

23:23 GMT 10.08.2020

Federal Reserve Enables Smooth US Markets During Coronavirus Pandemic, IMF Says

23:19 GMT 10.08.2020

US Conducts Trial of Medicine for Short-Term Prevention of COVID-19 - Health Dept.

18:00 GMT 10.08.2020

Cuba Registers Record COVID-19 Daily Rise of 93 Cases Since Start of Pandemic

17:13 GMT 10.08.2020

New US Coronavirus Relief Bill Could Be Done This Week If Reached Deal 'Fair', Mnuchin Says

16:58 GMT 10.08.2020

Denmark's COVID-19 Reproduction Rate Rises Again, Reaches 1.4 - Health Minister

16:34 GMT 10.08.2020

Greece to Require Negative COVID Test for Entry From Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden

16:14 GMT 10.08.2020

Gun Seizures at US Airports Triple Despite COVID-19 Drop in Passengers

16:13 GMT 10.08.2020

Greece Cancels International Fair Over Coronavirus

12:18 GMT 10.08.2020

Paris Makes Masks Compulsory While Outdoors in Most Crowded Areas Amid COVID-19 Surge

11:02 GMT 10.08.2020

Australia Reports Another Record of Daily Deaths From COVID-19 as Increase in Cases Slows Down

11:02 GMT 10.08.2020

Situation With Coronavirus in Moscow Has Been Stable for Two Months, Mayor Says

10:40 GMT 10.08.2020

WHO's Tedros Says Message is to "Suppress, Suppress, Suppress" Coronavirus

08:09 GMT 10.08.2020

Indonesia Registers 1,687 New Coronavirus Cases, 42 More Deaths

07:55 GMT 10.08.2020

India's Former President Pranab Mukherjee Tests Positive for COVID-19

07:38 GMT 10.08.2020

Australia Borders to Stay Shut as COVID-19 Deaths, Cases Increase

07:37 GMT 10.08.2020

India Registers 62,064 New Cases, 1,007 Fatalities

07:33 GMT 10.08.2020

Russia Records 5,118 COVID-19 Cases in Past 24 Hours

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23:50 GMT 10.08.2020

The number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases globally has exceeded 20 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, which collects data from federal and local authorities, as well as the media and other open sources.

As of Monday 11:47 p.m. GMT, the global cumulative COVID-19 case count had reached 20,001,019. According to the university, 733,103 people have died of the virus worldwide, while 12,200,847 have recovered from the disease.

The United States holds the lead in infections, with over 5 million currently, and the number rising steadily.

23:22 GMT 10.08.2020

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Federal Reserve’s decisive action at the outset of the novel coronavirus outbreak enabled the smooth functioning of markets in the United States, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a document of its assessment of the US response to the pandemic.

"[The IMF] Directors appreciated the Federal Reserve’s decisive response in the early stage of the crisis, which had helped maintain the smooth functioning of financial markets, ease financial conditions, and relieve strains in global dollar funding markets," the document, dubbed "2020 Article IV Consultation with United States," said on Monday.

However, the IMF directors said they saw a need for more action, given that inflation and employment are likely to remain below targets for an extended period of time, while closely monitoring potential risks to financial stability.

Possible Federal Reserve action could be conducted through expanded asset purchases and more explicit forward guidance, they said.

The IMF’s directors observed that the US financial system has been resilient in the face of the recent economic and financial shock, but called for continued vigilance given the rising corporate leverage, a continued migration of activity to nonbank financial institutions and complex interlinkages among institutions and markets.

"[The] Directors emphasized the need to preserve bank capital buffers and stringency of prudential requirements, enhance macroprudential tools, intensify crisis preparedness, and address data gaps," the document said. "They also recommended that the authorities consider strengthening institutional arrangements for systemic risk oversight and introducing a more explicit financial stability mandate for principal regulators."

The IMF directors also said the US authorities needed to reverse trade restrictions and work constructively with partner countries to resolve trade tensions and modernize multilateral trading systems, noting that Washington’s plans for currency-based countervailing duties would increase policy uncertainty, have negative spillovers and undermine the multilateral trading and international monetary systems.

23:18 GMT 10.08.2020

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States has began enrolling healthy volunteers who live in households with a COVID-19 patient to test an experimental drug designed to offer short-term protection against the disease, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in a press release on Monday.

The medicine was produced using laboratory-grown monoclonal antibodies that mimic naturally produced antibodies found in recovered COVID-19 patients, which are believed to protect against re-infection, the release said.

“Monoclonal antibodies may provide short-term protection from SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] and could serve as important components of the COVID-19 pandemic response until vaccines become available,” the release said.

NIAID [NIH’s National Institute for Allergy and Infections Diseases] and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will enroll about 2,000 asymptomatic adults who are household contacts of persons with COVID-19, the release also said.

Participants must have been in close contact with the infected person in a 96-hour window preceding administration of either the drug or a placebo, the release added.

In addition to assessing safety, the trial could help determine whether the drug can prevent in a household member who later tests positive from developing symptoms, according to the release.

18:00 GMT 10.08.2020

BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - The Cuban authorities have registered 93 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, which is the highest daily increment since the start of the outbreak in the country, the country's Health Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

"[A total of] 93 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, the total tally amounts to 3,046," the statement said, adding that the death toll in Cuba stood at 88.

Cuba recorded low numbers of new cases per day — from one to seven — during almost whole July, while on some days no new infections were registered. However, in early August, the Cuban health authorities reported a surge in new cases with the daily increment has risen to about 50 per day.

Amid the deteriorating epidemiological situation, Havana tightened measures of epidemiological security, limiting operations of public transport and restaurants.

17:13 GMT 10.08.2020

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Republican lawmakers aligned to President Donald Trump could agree to a new coronavirus relief bill this week with their Democrat rivals in Congress if the deal is fair, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday.

"If we can get a fair deal, we’ll do it this week," Mnuchin told CNBC. "If they're reasonable, we can get deals done. If they're going to be unreasonable, we're not going to get a deal done."

Mnuchin said Democrats and the Republicans need to come together, as they have done in the recent past.

"The good news is that those programs worked [but] there is much more diversity of ideas. We're not nearly in the same emergency that we were the last time, but you still have more work to do and that's why we need to pass legislation," he said.

Mnuchin’s comments came after Trump signed four executive orders over the weekend to extend unemployment and other benefits. Trump signed the orders after two weeks of negotiations in Congress ended in a stalemate.

Congress has so far passed four phases of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) that have approved roughly $3 trillion in grants and loans to businesses, paycheck protection for workers and personal aid to qualifying US citizens.

16:58 GMT 10.08.2020

STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) - Denmark is seeing another wave of the coronavirus outbreak and the transmission rate has risen to 1.4, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said on Monday during a press conference.

"The spread of the virus is growing again, the infection rate is now 1.4, meaning that 10 infected people can infect 14 more," Heunicke said, citing data from the national infectious disease institute.

Over the past week, Denmark registered 756 coronavirus cases, including 341 cases in the country’s second-biggest city of Aarhus, meaning that the daily average of newly-detected cases has reached early May levels.

Denmark had planned to allow public gatherings of up to 200 people starting on Saturday, but the decision was reversed amid the high infection rate. At the moment, most of the coronavirus-related restrictions have been lifted, but night clubs remain closed.

The Scandinavian country has so far confirmed over 14,800 coronavirus cases, more than 13,000 recoveries and 620 related deaths.

16:33 GMT 10.08.2020

ATHENS (Sputnik) - The Greek authorities to obligate tourists entering the country from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands to present a negative test for the coronavirus infection, Aristotelia Peloni, the deputy government spokesperson, said on Monday.

"Based on an assessment of epidemiological data, it was decided that starting from August 17, a negative molecular test [PCR] for coronavirus will be required for those flying from the following countries: Sweden, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands," Peloni said in a broadcast by a government TV channel.

A negative PCR test is also mandatory for all who enter through land borders, and should be passed 72 hours before entry, the deputy spokesperson said.

On Sunday, Greece registered a single-day COVID-19 record of 203 new infections, with 29 of them detected during border checks in tourists entering the country. Greece's overall COVID-19 tally amounts to 5,623 cases, with a death toll of 212.

16:14 GMT 10.08.2020

The number of guns discovered by US airport screeners in July tripled from a year earlier, despite a 75 percent drop in passengers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said in a press release on Monday.

"TSA officers detected 15.3 guns per million people last month compared to 5.1 guns per million people screened during July 2019. The rate is particularly alarming, given that TSA screened about 75 percent fewer passengers in July 2020, over the previous year’s volume," the release said.

TSA pointed out in the release that 80 percent of the time the confiscated guns were loaded.

"Travelers need to know that if they bring a gun to the security checkpoint, regardless of whether it is in a handbag, knapsack, roller-bag or strapped to their belt, it will be an inconvenient and expensive mistake on their part," TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in the release.

The recommended federal civil penalty for an unloaded firearm starts at $2,050 and $4,100 for a loaded gun. The penalty can go up to the statutory maximum of more than $10,250 per violation, depending on the circumstances, according to the release.

Airline passenger traffic has slowed to a trickle due novel coronavirus-related travel restrictions combined with fear of contracting the disease in cramped airline cabins.

The Second amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the right of Americans to keep and bear arms.

16:13 GMT 10.08.2020

The Greek authorities have canceled the 2020 Thessaloniki International Fair, the largest in the Balkans, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni said on Monday.

The decision was made after a teleconference between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with responsible ministers, government officials and the head of the infectious diseases committee, Sotirios Tsiodras, according to Peloni.

"The 85th Thessaloniki International Fair, scheduled for September 5-13, will not take place," the spokeswoman said in a broadcast by a government TV channel.

Peloni added that the government would also impose restrictions on the work hours of various public places, including bars and restaurants.

"Following the data and epidemiological load, we have decided to ban the work of sanitation-related facilities from midnight to 7:00 in the morning. from August 11-23, in the following areas: Crete, East Macedonia and Thrace, Thessaloniki, Halkidiki, Larissa and Corfu, the municipalities of Mykonos, Paros, Santorini, Volos, Katerini, Rhodes, Antiparos, Zakynthos, Kos," Peloni said.

The fair has taken place every year since 1926, except for the Second World War and several years after. The fair is visited by more than 200,000 people and counts hundreds of businesses from dozens of countries among its participants.

Greece has recorded a total of 5,623 cases, with a death toll of 212.

12:18 GMT 10.08.2020

The Paris authorities on Monday made wearing masks obligatory in the most crowded public places to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus disease, as the recent weeks have been marked with a surge in new COVID-19 infections in the French capital and the Il-de-France region.

“Amid an increase in COVID-19 infections in Paris and the Paris region, the prefect of police, in full agreement with the mayor of Paris, adopted a decree that requires the wearing of a mask in certain high-density areas, starting from Monday 10 August, 2020 until 8 am for people aged 11 years and older,” the Paris administration said in a statement.

The measure is linked to an increased incidence of the coronavirus infection in the region since mid-July, with an average of 400 positive cases per day, or a rate of 2.4 percent. The country’s average stands at 1.6 percent, the statement added.

Those who violate the rule, which will last for at least a month, will be fined 135 euros (nearly $159).

At the end of July, the municipal authorities were allowed to make masks mandatory in their departments in line with the health situation. This preventive measure has already been applied in Marseilles, Lille and the Mayenne region.

Nevertheless, the French government has ruled out a second virus wave and nationwide lockdown.

According to the most recent update by Johns Hopkins University, France has confirmed 235,237 COVID-19 infections with a death toll of 30,327.

11:01 GMT 10.08.2020

The death toll from the coronavirus infection in Australia has exceeded the record from the day before and totaled 19 fatalities on Monday, all in the state of Victoria and all of the victims were older than 50, Australian health authorities said.

On Sunday, health authorities in Victoria reported 17 new coronavirus-related deaths, of which one was later removed due to duplication.

"Sadly, there have been 19 new deaths reported since yesterday. To date, 228 people have died from coronavirus (COVID-19) in Victoria," the Victorian government's Health and Human Services said in a daily situation report.

According to the authorities, 14 out of 19 new fatal cases were linked to outbreaks in aged care facilities, while the age range broke down to one man in his 50s, one woman in her 60s, two men in their 70s, six women in their 80s, one man in his 80s, seven women in their 90s and one man in his 90s.

The nationwide death toll has now increased to 313 fatalities, according to the Australian government's update on the dedicated COVID-19 website.

At the same time, the infection appears to be slowing down as authorities reported the lowest daily case number increase in two weeks — 337.

As of Monday, Australia's cumulative case count has reached 21,397, including 12,134 recoveries.

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On a visit to the hospital for a separate procedure, I have tested positive for COVID19 today.
I request the people who came in contact with me in the last week, to please self isolate and get tested for COVID-19. #CitizenMukherjee
— Pranab Mukherjee (@CitiznMukherjee) August 10, 2020

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07:30 GMT 10.08.2020

Russia has registered 5,118 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours (5,189 yesterday), bringing the cumulative total to 892,654, the country's coronavirus response centre said Monday.

"Over the past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 5,118 COVID-19 cases in 83 regions, of which 1,356 (26.5 percent) have been detected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms," the response center said in a statement.

This brings the total case count to 892,654, with the daily increase standing at 0.6 percent.

Moscow has registered 694 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, which is more than any other region in Russia, followed by the Sverdlovsk Region with 179 cases and St. Petersburg with 157 cases (compared to 689, 184 and 160 yesterday, respectively).

No new cases have been recorded in the Nenets Autonomous Region and the Chukotka Autonomous Region.

A total of 70 COVID-19 patients died in Russia in the past 24 hours (77 on the previous day), which brings the death toll to 15,001.

As many as 3,259 coronavirus patients have been discharged (3,215 yesterday), bringing the total number of recoveries to 696,681.

According to the Russian public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, over 30.8 million tests to detect COVID-19 have been conducted in the country since the beginning of the outbreak, and 240,000 suspected virus carriers remain under medical monitoring.