Virus rages as Asia, US record grim milestones

Asia surpassed 10 million Covid-19 circumstances on Saturday, the second largest regional tally on the earth. In one other grim milestone, the US broke its every day report for brand new coronavirus infections on Friday, reporting 84,218 new circumstances on account of outbreaks in nearly each a part of the nation.

Behind solely Latin America, Asia accounts for about one-fourth of the worldwide caseload of 42.1 million of the virus. With over 163,000 deaths, the area accounts for some 14% of the worldwide Covid-19 toll.

Within the area, South Asia led by India is the worst affected, with practically 21% of the reported world coronavirus circumstances and 12% of deaths. This contrasts with international locations like China and New Zealand which have crushed infections and Japan.

Bangladesh is Asia’s second worst-hit nation, with practically 400,000 circumstances. But every day infections have slowed to 1,453, lower than 40% of the July peak.

In the US, the spike in circumstances comes lower than two weeks earlier than the election on November three and is hitting battleground states akin to Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. On Thursday, the US reported a near-record 76,195 new circumstances.

The earlier report was 77,299 new circumstances on July 16. At the time, hospitalisations for Covid-19 sufferers hit 47,000 and two weeks later deaths rose to a median of 1,200 per day.

Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of an “exponential” rise in infections threatening well being programs’ capacity to manage. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated “too many countries are seeing an exponential increase in Covid-19 cases and that is now leading to hospitals and intensive care units running close to or above capacity – and we’re still only in October”.

Expect to stay with Covid until mid-2021, says Macron

France must stay with the coronavirus at the least till subsequent summer season, President Emmanuel Macron stated on Friday.

Macron stated there have been no plans at this stage to scale back curfews aimed toward stopping the virus spreading. “When I listen to scientists I see that projections are for at best until next summer,” he stated, including it was too early to say if France was headed in direction of lockdowns.

France reported 41,622 new Covid-19 circumstances on Thursday and can break by the 1,000,000 cumulative tally on Friday.

Poland’s president checks positive for coronavirus

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has examined positive for coronavirus however is feeling nicely, his spokesman stated on Saturday. Duda’s prognosis comes amid an enormous surge in confirmed new circumstances of Covid-19 and virus-related deaths in Poland, a nation that noticed solely very low an infection charges within the spring.

His spokesman, Blazej Spychalski, stated on Twitter that the 48-year-old conservative chief was examined the day earlier than and his outcome was positive. He stated the president is in isolation.