Coronavirus Watch

Global Statistics

More than 20, 2 million cases of Covid-19 have been recorded worldwide, including at least 738,000 deaths. Approximately 13, 1 million cases have recovered.

The United States has reported the most deaths and the most confirmed cases worldwide. At least 5,251,446 coronavirus cases have been recorded in the US, including at least 166,192deaths.

There’s been a 90% increase in the number of coronavirus cases among US children over the past four weeks, according to a new report. There were 179,990 new Covid-19 cases among US children between July 9 and August 6. Children make up just over 9% of the total cases in states that report cases by age, according to the report

Brazil and Mexico reporting a combined 27,000 infections in just one day. Brazil has registered 21,888 new cases of coronavirus and 721 deaths.  Overall, Brazil now has 3,057,470 confirmed cases, while the death toll has risen to 101,857

 India has recorded more than 2.2 million infections and they now have the third highest number of cases next to the US and Brazil.

South Africa now has 563 598 new cases of the virus after 3,379 new cases were recorded yesterday. This is one of the lowest daily cases recorded over the past two weeks. According to the latest update, 10 621 deaths have been recorded in the country. There have been 417 200 recoveries.

Zambian cases are increasing exponentially and positive cases of the virus are now at 8,210 after 241 cases were recorded.

Zimbabwe recorded 99 new cases to bring the total number of cases 4,748. No new death was recorded hence the death toll still remains at 104. Recoveries to date are now at 1,524.

172 new cases were recorded in Botswana after close to 15 days of no new cases. The caseload is now at 1,066 cases and 2 deaths.

Expert says children may be able to spread coronavirus like they spread the common cold

Children may be able to spread Covid-19 just as easily as they spread another type of coronavirus — the common cold, said William Haseltine, a former professor at Harvard Medical School. According to Haseltine, there’s every reason to suspect that this virus, even though it can kill, behaves pretty much like a cold virus, in terms of transmission. He also mentioned that it’s true of almost all respiratory diseases, including the colds that are caused by coronaviruses as they even use the same receptor in the nasal passages as one of the cold viruses. Haseltine warned that children can be infected and infect others, so they should wear masks. He said that children up to 5 years old can be “highly infectious to other people.” CNN

Drug Company eyes 500-600 million doses of vaccine by 2021

The US-listed drug company, Novavax Inc, said that its manufacturing capacity is sufficient to meet the US demand for COVID-19 vaccines in 2021, according to reports. Executives of the company said that demand of vaccines could be as high as 500 million to 600 million doses. Last week, Novavax said that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced high levels of antibodies against COVID, according to initial data from a small, early-stage clinical trial. Novavax expects to be able to produce well over 2 billion doses of its vaccine annually overall, the executives told reporters. Aljazeera

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