Coronavirus in Present Days.

The price from the coronavirus infection within the world topped 761,000, over 21 million cases of infection were detected, and over 13 million of these patients were cured, consistent with the US-based Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from Federal and native authorities, media and other sources.

As of 21:00 GMT Friday, the amount of cases globally is 21,010,700, including 761,260 fatalities.

Us still has the very best case count within the world, with 5,280,315, including 167,828 fatalities and 1,774,648 recoveries.

The European Commission announced on Friday reaching its first agreement with the multinational drug company AstraZeneca on purchasing a possible vaccine against the coronavirus and also distributing it to countries in need.

The UK government has secured deals with another two pharmaceutical firms for a complete of 90 million doses of candidate vaccines against COVID-19, taking the country’s potential vaccine stockpile to 340 million doses.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he hopes Russia’s vaccine against the novel coronavirus works, but added that he didn’t have much information about it.

The Russian Health Ministry has not sent any official proposal regarding assistance in COVID-19 vaccine development to us, Alexey Kuznetsov, an aide to the Russian health minister, told Sputnik.

Russia will release the knowledge about pre-clinical and clinical trials of the new vaccine against the coronavirus within the coming days, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon said that Chisinau had officially addressed Moscow with an invitation to provide the country with the Russian coronavirus vaccine once it’s approved for export.

Thailand will carefully watch Russia’s coronavirus vaccine rollout before deciding whether to recommend it for local use, Nakorn Premsri, the top of the National Vaccine Institute, said.

Tajikistan’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection has sent requests to the Russian health authorities to supply a vaccine against COVID-19, Tajik Health Minister Jamoliddin Abdullozoda told Sputnik.

Indian companies have asked the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) to supply the technical details of Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, the world’s first registered vaccine against COVID-19, which could leave the production to require a place in India for export and domestic use, sources at the Indian Embassy in Moscow told Sputnik.

Indian Ambassador to Russia Venkatesh Varma told Sputnik that discussions with the top of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, on the subject of bilateral cooperation on a possible vaccine against COVID-19 had been productive, which he hoped for a positive outcome.

The novel coronavirus pandemic will probably claim 200,000 lives within us by September 5, consistent with a replacement projection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

German researchers have found that nearly fourfold more people had contracted COVID-19 within the town of Kupferzell in Baden-Wurttemberg than it had been registered, Lars Schaade, the vice-chairman of the Koch Institute said on Friday, adding that the antibodies were detected in almost 8 percent of the residents, which wasn’t enough to stop a second wave of the epidemic within the region.

Long-term exposure to pollution makes people more vulnerable to respiratory conditions, becoming one among many comorbidity factors in COVID-19 patients, Dr. Jean-Luc Gala, an infectious diseases specialist, and professor at the UCLouvain University school of medicine told Sputnik on the heels of the recent study a few link between dirty air and coronavirus mortality.

The COVID-19 case death rate in Moscow since the start of the outbreak comes in at about 4.9 percent when counting cases where the disease was the most or a contributing explanation for death, the health department of Moscow said.

Us has extended the so-called non-essential travel restrictions to Mexico and Canada through September 21 thanks to the novel coronavirus pandemic, US Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said.

The UK authorities have extended coronavirus-related restrictions regarding social gatherings within the North West, West Yorkshire, East Lancashire, and Leicester over a spike within the number of infections within the areas, the united kingdom Department of Health and Social Care said.

Thousands of UK citizens who are currently in France and therefore the Netherlands are rushing to urge back to their homeland before a compulsory 14-day quarantine order for returnees enters into force at 04:00 civil time [03:00 GMT] on Saturday.

Paris and therefore the Bouches-du-Rhone department in southeastern France return to the “red zone” status after a surge in COVID-19 infections in recent weeks, consistent with the government’s decree within the Official Gazette, published and effective Friday.

Spain is introducing new restrictions, including the closure of nightclubs and limits on smoking outdoors, during a bid to curb the coronavirus pandemic amid a resurgence in infections, Health Minister Salvador Illa said.

Argentina has extended its lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic through August 30 with several regions reintroducing tough restrictions, President Alberto Fernandez said.

The Philippine Department of Agriculture has banned imports of poultry meat from Brazil after China reported it had detected COVID-19 in samples and packaging of frozen chicken wings from the Latin American country, media reported.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has instructed the govt to intensify quarantine measures at churches during a bid to curb a surge in COVID-19 cases associated with new clusters of infections within the places of worship, presidential spokesman Kang Min-Seok said.

The Hong Kong economy can contract by 6–8 percent in 2020 over the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdown measures, also as external shocks, the special administrative region’s government said during a downgraded GDP outlook.

The Belgian authorities decide to impose sanctions on laboratories that conduct coronavirus testing if they’re not fast enough in providing the test results so that the tracking of possible virus carriers can prevent the spread of the disease, local media reported.