COVID-19 Pandemic Update: 3 Million Fatalities Expected Worldwide by End of Year
- The world added more than 361,000 new COVID-19 cases as it approaches 100,000 dead from the coronavirus.
- Scientist believes that actual fatalities may be closer to 1.8 million, a toll that could grow to as high as 3 million by the end of the year
- Both the UK and the EU’s biggest economies are all struggling to curb spiking coronavirus cases and mounting hospitalization numbers without resorting to full-scale lockdowns
- US, cases topped 7 million on Thursday – 20% of the global total – as outbreaks in Midwestern states continue to spread.
- Britons fearing another lockdown has led to runs on supermarkets as we saw in March and April.
- British supermarket Tesco introduced new restrictions on certain goods: 3 items per customer for flour, dried pasta, toilet paper, baby wipes, and anti-bacterial
- New York City may have to roll back reopenings in certain neighborhoods to contain growing clusters; its top doctor warned Friday, “This may be the most precarious moment that we’re facing since we have emerged from lockdown”
- Florida moves to “Phase 3” reopening lifting all restrictions on bars and restaurants blocking them from operating at full capacity and from enforcing social distancing requirements like wearing masks in public
- The Netherlands just reported 2,777 cases, a new record tally, as Europe’s ‘second wave’ of the outbreak continues to worsen.
- London added to list of COVID Wave-2 hotspots
- Madrid imposes local lockdown on more than 1 million people
- Poland prepares new restrictions
- Madrid braces for lockdowns
- Russia, Iran team up for vaccine production
- Germany has seen an uptick in new cases since the start of August, though its daily rate remains well below 7,000
- North Dakota, Wisconsin report record breaking COVID cases
- Germany records most new infections since late April
- Italy reported the biggest daily increase of COVID cases since May 1, before the end of Italy’s grueling lockdown, yet another sign that Italy – which has managed to avoid the level of resurgence seen in France and Spain – is seeing a genuine ‘second wave’
- The Japanese government is planning to offer up to 1 million yen ($9,500) to people who move to rural areas while continuing to do their jobs in Tokyo remotely
- Russia’s daily tally of new cases hit its highest level since June 23, with the surge largely being driven by Moscow, where new cases are up almost 50% overnight to 1,560 from 1,050
- Experts believe the virus is probably becoming more contagious but a US study did not find mutations made it more lethal
- A team of analysts at Deutsche Bank has just put together the rankings showing the biggest outbreaks relative to the population around the world over the past week showing that Spain, France, and Belgium are all among the leaders in terms of the weekly change in proportion to their respective populations
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