COVID-19 PANDEMIC: WORLD UPDATES
“The 2019 Plague” Day 269
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INDONESIA: Indonesia reports 2,037 new coronavirus cases
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia reported 2,037 new coronavirus cases on Sunday (Aug 23), bringing its total tally to 153,535, data from the country’s Covid-19 task force showed.
The South-east Asian country also added 86 new deaths on Sunday, taking the total number to 6,680, the highest Covid-19 death toll in the region.
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INDIA: India’s virus caseload tops 3M as disease moves south
A health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India. PHOTO: AP
NEW DELHI (AP) – India’s coronavirus caseload topped three million yesterday, with the country leading the world in new infections as the disease marched through impoverished rural areas in the north and the wealthier but older populations of the south.
Health authorities reported 10,339 new cases and 912 deaths, bringing the total to 3,044,940. The number of new infections reported yesterday marked a sharp decline from the previous 18 days, when India had reported more than 60,000 cases daily.
Cases have levelled off in India’s two largest cities, with serological surveys showing widespread prevalence among the residents of the capital, New Delhi, and financial centre Mumbai. New hot spots continue to feed surges in cases in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states in India’s north, and in the southern states of Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, and its 56,706 fatalities are the fourth-highest in the world.
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USA: Trump hails FDA’s authorisation of plasma treatment for coronavirus, after slamming agency
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump on Sunday (Aug 23) hailed the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) authorisation of a coronavirus treatment that uses blood plasma from recovered patients, a day after accusing the agency of impeding the rollout of vaccines and therapeutics for political reasons.
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