The United States is recording on average 60,000 new cases of coronavirus every day as more than a dozen states reach new records.
A week from today, the average is expected to rise from 60,000 to 70,000 infections per day. Public health officials and health care workers are scrambling to contain the surge in case numbers.
Hardest hit states are delaying reopening plans and imposing new measures while other governors remain opposed to tightening restrictions. The city of Nashville in Tennessee is recording 100 new cases each day which shows a 40 per cent increase in the last two week period.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Hospitals struggle as 20 European countries record highest daily number of COVID casesAs the United Kingdom records another staggering 24-hour coronavirus case record of over 26,000 people diagnosed statistics show the nation is not alone as Europe's second wave takes hold and 19 other nations report record daily highs.
Read more »
COVID is not and 'has never been a pandemic': Alan Jones | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Alan Jones says COVID-19 is not, and has never been, a pandemic.\n\n“A pandemic is a disease which is prevalent over a whole country. This is not a pandemic. It was never a pandemic,” Mr Jones said. \n\n“So let's look briefly at the facts surrounding mortality.”\n\nMr Jones said in America, the percentage of the population who had died from COVID was 0.07 per cent, in Italy, 0.06 per cent, in France, 0.05 per cent, yet all of these countries had draconian lockdowns and were filled with 'rampant alarmism'. \n\n“Sweden, no draconian lockdowns, basic precautions, get on with your life. Population 10 million, deaths, much the same - 0.06 per cent,” he said.\n\n“I have for months cited one international authority after an another who has argued that the strategy is wrong,” Mr Jones said. \n\nProfessor Joel Kettner, from Manitoba University in Canada said, 'I have seen pandemics, one every year, it is called influenza, and other respiratory illness viruses. I have never seen this reaction and I am trying to understand why.'\n\nJohn Ioannidis, the Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University, said, 'If we had not known about a new virus out there and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to 'influenza like illness' would not seem unusual this year.\n\n'At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average. The media coverage would have been less than for an NBA game between the two most indifferent teams,” Professor Kettner said. \n\n“So there you have it,” Mr Jones said. \n\n“We are in this economic sewer because we failed to listen to world authorities.”\n
Read more »
Students and key workers given COVID-19 vaccine in China | Sky News AustraliaA coronavirus vaccine developed in China - which has not been scientifically proven - is being given to some students and key workers.\n\nThe company Sinovac is still carrying out late stage trials in Brazil, Turkey and Indonesia.\n
Read more »
Europe becomes the COVID epicenter following the onset of winter | Sky News AustraliaWorldwide cases of coronavirus have passed 40 million and Europe has now become the epicentre of the virus as the onset of winter drives case numbers up. \n\nApproximately 10 million infections have been recorded over 32 days and a record one day increase was reported on Friday with cases passing 400,000 for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nIn the past week there have been 347,000 cases reported on average per day.\n
Read more »
'Australians seeing too much bickering': AMA calls for unified COVID strategy | Sky News AustraliaAMA President Omar Khorshid says Australia needs to re-examine its COVID-19 strategy and develop a unified approach to handling the pandemic across the country. \n\nHe told Sky News while the country was doing very well in terms of case numbers, the community, particularly in Victoria, was becoming fatigued with restrictions and lockdowns. \n\n“People are asking ‘when can we go back to normal?’” Mr Khorshid said. \n\n“We need to look at the map and see what we’re actually aiming for here because going back to normal would require the whole world to be a very different place to what it is now.\n\n“So what we should be aiming for is going back to a new type of normal which does involve a level of restrictions, a level of border controls and that needs to be agreed to at a national level.\n\n“We’re not seeing that national cooperation just at the moment, we’re seeing too much bickering.” \n\n\n\n
Read more »
NSW Health detects COVID-19 in sewage near Bathurst 1000 motor race | Sky News AustraliaNew South Wales Health is calling on anyone who attended the Bathurst 1000 motor race to come forward for a COVID-19 test after remnants of the virus were detected in sewage. \n\nBathurst residents were also advised to be tested for COVID-19 if they detected any symptoms. \n
Read more »