US Worst Vaccination Stats of G-7 Nations

Until May 19, 2021, America was second out of G7 nations in the percentage of people who had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, behind Britain but ahead of Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Japan.

On Thursday, according to the University of Oxford’s Our World in Data project with Japan’s most recent reported figures, the United States sits last, with 61.94 percent of Americans receiving the first dose compared to 62.16 percent of the Japanese population. Canada is top of the pile now with 74.25 percent.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the data is the shape of the graphs, with Japan’s slow rollout showing late takeup but a very steep curve (so now more people are being vaccinated very quickly) whereas the U.K.’s line is the flattest of any G7 country, suggesting most people who are willing to get a vaccine have done so.

America’s line is relatively flat, with many unwilling to get the vaccine but is tracking in a similar pattern to Germany and Canada, suggesting that the anti-vax movement in the U.S. is no more prevalent here than in some other major economies.

What happens now? The vaccine mandate in the U.S. is a strong indication of where Biden wants to go, with the president calling this a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Expect both vaccination numbers, and resistance to it, to increase quickly in coming weeks.

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UK Has 2nd Highest Worldwide Infection Rate–Lancet Editor

The editor-in-chief of medical journal The Lancet has warned that the UK has among the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world, saying: “The pandemic hasn’t gone away yet.”

While Richard Horton said it is positive that two-thirds of UK population is vaccinated, it has the highest number of infections globally after the US.

He told Sky News:

We’re the second highest number of infections of any country in the world after the United States, we’re seeing hospitalisations rise by about 5% every week, there are 1,000 new deaths every single week, we’ve got 1,000 people on ventilators across the country. In other words, the pandemic hasn’t gone away yet. So we’re in a very finely balanced situation.

Leading epidemiologist Prof Neil Ferguson has said the UK must boost its immunity by vaccinating more teenagers to stop the risk of “a large autumn and winter wave”.

The Imperial College professor told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that there will be some effect of ditching Covid passports in England but that he hopes another national lockdown will not be needed.

While he said nothing can be ruled out, he hopes that another lockdown will not be needed. “With this level of immunity that we have in the population, if we do need to further drive down transmission then it may not require full lockdown.”

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Grenada: 182 new COVID cases recorded; 50% police force unvaccinated

Concern has been mounting among security officials in Grenada following reports that approximately 20-per cent of the officers attached to the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) are now infected with COVID-19.

As a result, some officers have been working in shifts of up to 16 hours per day.

According to the Health authorities, the island started recording an upsurge in mid-August.

The latest figures have revealed that local actives cases moved from 5 on August 17 to 1791 on September 10.

Health authorities have since declared that the island is affected by community spread with the Delta variant which was detected in early August as the main strain.

“There are a number of policemen I think is over 160 odd policemen who are infected and many of them have to self-quarantine, and it is affecting them and their families and it’s affecting the productive level of the force,” said Dr Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister and Minister for National Security.

“It’s a tough act for everybody, with the lockdown this weekend, almost every police having to be working 15 to 16 hours, otherwise, we won’t be able to achieve a significant impact with the lockdown we are implementing,” Dr Mitchell said in a live interview late Friday.

“They are trying their best, they are giving the Government the support they can, the leadership is trying but at the same time there are serious limitations,” said the Prime Minister who explained that the purpose of the weekend lockdown is to reduce the movement of people “because when people move the virus moves.”

In a recent interview, Edvin Martin, Commissioner of Police disclosed that less than 50% of the Force were vaccinated but educational sessions facilitated by members of the medical fraternity were in progress with a view to getting officers to become vaccinated.

Data from the Ministry of Health has shown an increase in vaccination since the cases began to increase but it’s not clear if some of the newly vaccinated with the first dose are Police Officers.

The legislation establishing the Police Force allows for 1025 sworn positions for the maintenance of law and order, the preservation of the peace, the protection of life and property, the prevention and detection of crime, the enforcement of all laws and regulations with which it is charged, and the apprehension of offenders.

In a bulletin issued late on Saturday, the Ministry of Health announced that 182 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 2,345.

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Delta Variant Main Strain in the Bahamas

Health authorities in The Bahamas say the Delta variant is the predominant strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, as it continues to grapple with the impact of the virus that has killed 453 people and infected 19,139 others since March last year.

The Ministry of Health in a statement said that results received from the FIOCRUZ Laboratory in Brazil, confirmed the presence of the highly transmissible Delta variant.

It said that the National Reference Laboratory had submitted 98 SARS-CoV-2 virus-positive samples to the FIOCRUZ Laboratory for genomic sequencing. The samples were collected between May 6 to August 8 this year from individuals on New Providence, Grand Bahama, Abaco, Andros, Eleuthera, Exuma and Bimini. According to the ministry 41 of the cases were the Delta variant, while there were 39 cases of the Alpha variant.

“There are 18 samples still going through the testing process. The new sequencing results confirm that the Delta variant is the predominant variant in The Bahamas, followed by the Alpha and Gamma variants,” the ministry said in the statement, adding “it is noteworthy to mention that the Alpha variant is more transmissible than the original COVID-19 virus, and the Delta variant is known to be more transmissible than the Alpha variant.

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“Consequently, all major health facilities in New Providence and Grand Bahama are experiencing increased numbers of cases, hospital admissions and deaths due to COVID-19.”

The Ministry of Health said that the health care system of both the public and private sectors is now severely challenged and over-burdened, and as a result, non-COVID-19 cases requiring health care are at risk of not being able to access life-saving health care.

“Given the predominance of these highly transmissible variants in the country, it is essential to seek medical care early and avoid home remedies that delay accessing medical care. Do not delay seeking medical help if you experience signs and symptoms of COVID-19. Contact your healthcare provider or nearest public health clinic for more information,” the ministry warned.

It urged members of the public  to avoid gatherings of groups of more than five people, remain physically distant, wear a mask at all times, and wash hands regularly.

“Additionally, we strongly encourage all citizens and residents of The Bahamas to be vaccinated. COVID-19 vaccinations are proven to be safe.  They are known to decrease the severity of illness, hospitalizations, and deaths, if infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and all its variants,” the ministry added.

WORLD STATS

Coronavirus Cases:

225,580,776

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Deaths:

4,646,136

Recovered:

202,193,092

		Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	New Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	225,580,776	+125,112	4,646,136	+2,449	202,193,092	+182,727	18,741,548	102,903	28,940	596.1
1	USA	41,853,362		677,988		31,871,868		9,303,506	25,712	125,563	2,034	606,198,852	1,818,636	333,326,050
2	India	33,264,175	+633	442,907		32,447,032	+10,328	374,236	8,944	23,824	317	543,014,076	388,913	1,396,235,199
3	Brazil	20,999,779		586,882		20,050,471		362,426	8,318	97,961	2,738	57,095,219	266,342	214,367,735
4	UK	7,226,276		134,200		5,788,918		1,303,158	1,060	105,782	1,964	282,141,831	4,130,139	68,312,913
5	Russia	7,158,248	+18,178	193,468	+719	6,402,126	+12,469	562,654	2,300	49,026	1,325	184,000,000	1,260,193	146,009,421
6	France	6,905,071		115,517		6,509,260		280,294	2,151	105,507	1,765	132,182,518	2,019,704	65,446,490
7	Turkey	6,658,251		59,886		6,146,662		451,703	633	77,943	701	80,085,044	937,494	85,424,569
8	Iran	5,318,327	+22,541	114,759	+448	4,597,215	+28,979	606,353	7,206	62,364	1,346	30,123,729	353,240	85,278,403
9	Argentina	5,224,534		113,402		5,075,073		36,059	2,103	114,343	2,482	24,252,818	530,790	45,691,959
10	Colombia	4,930,249		125,647		4,767,574		37,028	542	95,674	2,438	24,740,212	480,098	51,531,600
11	Spain	4,907,461		85,290		4,542,552		279,619	1,227	104,913	1,823	62,288,714	1,331,625	46,776,471
12	Italy	4,606,413		129,919		4,349,160		127,334	559	76,322	2,153	87,453,836	1,448,983	60,355,302
13	Indonesia	4,170,088	+2,577	139,165	+276	3,931,227	+12,474	99,696		15,055	502	34,947,154	126,171	276,983,263
14	Germany	4,087,109		93,128		3,831,800	+8,300	162,181	1,217	48,595	1,107	70,379,237	836,805	84,104,745
15	Mexico	3,511,882	+5,139	267,748	+224	2,853,567	+9,618	390,567	4,798	26,900	2,051	10,192,805	78,074	130,553,091
16	Poland	2,893,919	+269	75,425		2,658,685	+311	159,809	80	76,565	1,996	20,244,202	535,604	37,796,948
17	South Africa	2,858,195		84,877		2,667,296		106,022	546	47,476	1,410	17,073,236	283,595	60,202,820
18	Ukraine	2,317,824	+1,205	54,360	+18	2,221,868	+758	41,596	177	53,383	1,252	12,279,748	282,821	43,418,792
19	Philippines	2,248,071	+20,745	35,307	+163	2,032,471	+22,290	180,293	3,170	20,194	317	19,742,325	177,340	111,324,838
20	Peru	2,161,086		198,764		N/A	N/A	N/A	1,100	64,470	5,930	17,230,320	514,017	33,520,929
21	Malaysia	1,979,698		20,711		1,721,710		237,277	1,338	60,243	630	27,846,077	847,368	32,861,834
22	Netherlands	1,970,914		18,069		1,879,275		73,570	210	114,720	1,052	16,718,169	973,102	17,180,278
23	Iraq	1,950,765		21,496		1,822,166		107,103	713	47,234	520	14,763,329	357,467	41,299,795
24	Czechia	1,683,315	+138	30,414	+1	1,649,349	+3	3,552	16	156,839	2,834	36,892,880	3,437,403	10,732,776
25	Chile	1,644,071		37,232		1,601,269		5,570	490	85,130	1,928	20,907,192	1,082,571	19,312,541
26	Japan	1,639,545	+7,213	16,797	+55	1,495,501	+17,401	127,247	1,975	13,011	133	23,306,327	184,953	126,012,470
27	Canada	1,542,280		27,198		1,473,825		41,257	405	40,439	713	41,324,700	1,083,554	38,138,093
28	Bangladesh	1,530,413		26,931		1,478,821		24,661	1,394	9,183	162	9,246,733	55,485	166,652,162
29	Thailand	1,394,756	+12,583	14,485	+132	1,248,158	+16,304	132,113	4,387	19,922	207	9,201,621	131,433	70,009,729
30	Pakistan	1,207,508	+2,988	26,787	+67	1,090,176	+3,391	90,545	5,066	5,343	119	18,521,728	81,949	226,014,646
31	Belgium	1,205,516		25,454		1,105,366		74,696	216	103,478	2,185	19,107,102	1,640,093	11,650,012
32	Israel	1,178,933	+2,663	7,384	+1	1,090,790	+4,579	80,759	691	126,414	792	20,149,295	2,160,551	9,326,000
33	Sweden	1,138,017		14,662		1,096,481	+1,017	26,874	58	111,848	1,441	11,935,233	1,173,037	10,174,641
34	Romania	1,122,653	+1,849	35,036	+46	1,065,989	+279	21,628	633	58,827	1,836	11,989,840	628,272	19,083,839
35	Portugal	1,055,584		17,861		999,904		37,819	120	103,885	1,758	17,418,955	1,714,282	10,161,080
36	Morocco	904,647		13,546		857,655		33,446	934	24,167	362	9,354,009	249,882	37,433,754
37	Kazakhstan	842,587	+3,088	10,354	+57	762,049	+3,959	70,184	221	44,241	544	11,575,012	607,762	19,045,293
38	Serbia	816,912		7,548		738,846		70,518	138	93,950	868	5,241,284	602,780	8,695,190
39	Hungary	815,605	+873	30,098	+12	779,005	+365	6,502	34	84,686	3,125	6,715,858	697,320	9,630,957
40	Switzerland	814,113	+6,060	11,010		724,365	+4,213	78,738	276	93,251	1,261	10,200,523	1,168,396	8,730,367
41	Jordan	807,384		10,548		784,613		12,223	545	78,202	1,022	9,581,308	928,034	10,324,305
42	Nepal	778,312	+1,149	10,965	+16	740,717	+1,260	26,630		26,150	368	4,034,593	135,558	29,762,829
43	Cuba	745,202		6,299		699,598		39,305	439	65,840	557	8,624,937	762,032	11,318,333
44	UAE	729,518	+632	2,064	+2	720,653	+705	6,801		72,710	206	78,651,247	7,839,019	10,033,302
45	Austria	711,573	+1,543	10,840	+1	679,480	+1,598	21,253	191	78,472	1,195	81,012,773	8,934,005	9,067,912
46	Tunisia	685,799	+780	24,244	+39	666,431	+4,824	-4,876	454	57,310	2,026	2,738,005	228,805	11,966,544
47	Greece	615,157		14,169		573,823		27,165	378	59,366	1,367	16,642,397	1,606,094	10,362,029
48	Lebanon	613,498		8,192		570,186		35,120	200	90,369	1,207	4,780,275	704,140	6,788,810
49	Vietnam	613,375		15,279		374,578		223,518		6,234	155	42,517,091	432,144	98,386,444
50	Georgia	581,815	+946	8,233	+48	545,961	+4,351	27,621		146,185	2,069	8,450,683	2,123,291	3,979,992
51	Saudi Arabia	545,992		8,623		535,078		2,291	508	15,397	243	28,058,487	791,231	35,461,827
52	Guatemala	510,724		12,710		453,400		44,614	5	27,891	694	2,330,030	127,245	18,311,419
53	Ecuador	505,278		32,448		443,880		28,950	759	28,128	1,806	1,798,012	100,094	17,963,254
54	Belarus	503,073		3,917		493,053		6,103		53,260	415	8,038,526	851,034	9,445,599
55	Bolivia	495,035	+141	18,587	+5	446,067	+619	30,381	220	41,728	1,567	2,336,847	196,980	11,863,382
56	Costa Rica	489,784		5,754		392,993		91,037	474	95,108	1,117	2,156,767	418,808	5,149,772
57	Sri Lanka	485,922		11,296		412,812		61,814		22,579	525	4,950,195	230,020	21,520,747
58	Bulgaria	471,272		19,522		414,157		37,593	373	68,442	2,835	4,467,937	648,869	6,885,731
59	Panama	462,224		7,137		450,194		4,893	108	105,148	1,624	3,755,847	854,390	4,395,939
60	Paraguay	459,291		16,102		440,337		2,852	54	63,462	2,225	1,801,443	248,911	7,237,306
61	Azerbaijan	455,044		6,031		401,300		47,713		44,401	588	4,623,245	451,113	10,248,519
62	Myanmar	431,833		16,530		380,474		34,829		7,874	301	3,954,600	72,103	54,846,363
63	Kuwait	410,784		2,431		407,145		1,208	36	94,519	559	3,944,392	907,579	4,346,061
64	Slovakia	398,744	+54	12,560	+2	382,233	+49	3,951	37	72,992	2,299	3,455,704	632,587	5,462,810
65	Uruguay	386,701		6,040		378,934		1,727	17	110,862	1,732	3,446,031	987,927	3,488,145
66	Croatia	384,082	+167	8,447	+7	370,103	+751	5,532	59	94,255	2,073	2,662,848	653,473	4,074,918
67	Palestine	369,761		3,817		335,065		30,879	73	70,526	728	2,314,313	441,415	5,242,936
68	Ireland	366,659		5,155		313,421		48,083	59	73,277	1,030	6,415,912	1,282,219	5,003,755
69	Dominican Republic	353,303		4,014		344,231		5,058	146	32,183	366	1,995,366	181,760	10,978,042
70	Denmark	352,373		2,611		341,621		8,141	32	60,580	449	82,387,596	14,164,156	5,816,626
71	Honduras	350,879		9,319		107,925		233,635	606	34,765	923	1,008,878	99,960	10,092,859
72	Venezuela	347,647		4,203		331,727		11,717	681	12,267	148	3,359,014	118,528	28,339,389
73	Libya	325,221	+1,291	4,441	+14	239,259	+1,594	81,521		46,573	636	1,592,662	228,077	6,982,998
74	Ethiopia	323,104		4,929		290,748		27,427	746	2,730	42	3,325,376	28,095	118,360,938
75	Lithuania	308,956	+489	4,711	+19	287,753	+181	16,492	135	115,423	1,760	4,597,965	1,717,762	2,676,718
76	Oman	303,163	+58	4,089		293,343	+89	5,731	28	57,619	777	25,000,000	4,751,451	5,261,551
77	Egypt	292,957		16,871		246,726		29,360	90	2,800	161	3,068,679	29,326	104,639,695
78	Slovenia	276,456	+282	4,470	+1	262,192	+143	9,794	41	132,958	2,150	1,493,798	718,421	2,079,280
79	Moldova	274,812		6,521		262,759		5,532	60	68,315	1,621	1,636,566	406,830	4,022,728
80	S. Korea	274,415	+1,433	2,360	+1	245,505	+1,046	26,550	342	5,347	46	13,735,743	267,638	51,322,037
81	Bahrain	273,743		1,388		271,377		978	2	154,482	783	6,152,114	3,471,842	1,772,003
82	Mongolia	257,770	+2,351	1,046	+10	230,716	+4,543	26,008	192	77,145	313	3,647,780	1,091,700	3,341,377
83	Armenia	249,146	+296	5,018	+16	233,105	+577	11,023		83,891	1,690	1,616,849	544,416	2,969,876
84	Kenya	243,725		4,906		232,918		5,901	148	4,416	89	2,454,663	44,481	55,185,104
85	Qatar	234,642		604		232,105		1,933	20	83,568	215	2,568,229	914,675	2,807,805
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	220,636		9,995		192,218		18,423		67,756	3,069	1,168,373	358,798	3,256,355
87	Zambia	207,938		3,631		203,342		965	67	10,945	191	2,352,542	123,832	18,997,815
88	Algeria	200,068		5,578		136,662		57,828	33	4,466	125	230,861	5,153	44,796,937
89	Nigeria	199,151		2,598		186,418		10,135	11	938	12	2,884,034	13,589	212,234,999
90	North Macedonia	183,523		6,259		163,852		13,412		88,094	3,004	1,223,054	587,083	2,083,272
91	Kyrgyzstan	177,226	+68	2,574	+2	171,523	+95	3,129	131	26,639	387	1,689,107	253,894	6,652,813
92	Norway	176,142		827		88,952		86,363	17	32,190	151	7,519,960	1,374,269	5,471,969
93	Uzbekistan	164,890	+526	1,159	+6	157,139	+644	6,592	23	4,843	34	1,377,915	40,469	34,049,012
94	Botswana	163,665		2,325		158,338		3,002	1	67,958	965	1,671,764	694,161	2,408,324
95	Albania	157,026		2,543		141,717		12,766	3	54,636	885	1,117,868	388,955	2,874,032
96	Afghanistan	154,180	+86	7,171	+2	118,180	+601	28,829	1,124	3,857	179	755,285	18,894	39,974,738
97	Mozambique	149,207		1,892		141,392		5,923	32	4,619	59	877,405	27,165	32,299,486
98	Latvia	147,328	+135	2,613	+4	139,746		4,969	22	79,158	1,404	3,940,064	2,116,964	1,861,186
99	Estonia	146,884	+268	1,313	+1	137,519	+55	8,052	15	110,638	989	1,815,636	1,367,604	1,327,604
100	Finland	133,851	+213	1,039		46,000		86,812	28	24,113	187	6,833,558	1,231,043	5,551,029
101	Namibia	126,290		3,435		121,373		1,482	19	48,650	1,323	677,226	260,886	2,595,873
102	Zimbabwe	126,269		4,538		118,792		2,939	12	8,350	300	1,316,109	87,035	15,121,547
103	Ghana	123,521		1,096		117,352		5,073	51	3,879	34	1,668,839	52,401	31,847,334
104	Montenegro	121,908		1,800		112,640		7,468	11	194,071	2,866	666,511	1,061,051	628,161
105	Uganda	121,587	+77	3,099	+4	95,787	+8	22,701	429	2,562	65	1,626,546	34,270	47,462,143
106	Cyprus	116,209		528		90,755		24,926	45	95,419	434	9,366,973	7,691,231	1,217,877
107	Cambodia	100,133	+629	2,049	+9	94,326	+422	3,758		5,892	121	2,308,515	135,830	16,995,576
108	El Salvador	99,701	+324	3,032	+10	83,342	+857	13,327	158	15,279	465	1,250,900	191,698	6,525,385
109	China	95,248	+49	4,636		89,861	+38	751	6	66	3	160,000,000	111,163	1,439,323,776
110	Rwanda	92,620		1,172		45,396		46,052	18	6,945	88	2,593,862	194,511	13,335,263
111	Cameroon	84,210		1,357		80,433		2,420	152	3,081	50	1,751,774	64,087	27,334,185
112	Maldives	82,822		227		80,545		2,050	18	150,062	411	1,410,009	2,554,748	551,917
113	Luxembourg	76,632		834		74,674		1,124	10	120,085	1,307	3,461,064	5,423,616	638,147
114	Jamaica	75,857		1,731		49,561		24,565	60	25,484	582	571,403	191,962	2,976,641
115	Australia	75,342	+1,732	1,098	+7	36,173		38,071	125	2,914	42	34,256,993	1,325,031	25,853,722
116	Senegal	73,500	+22	1,833	+2	67,314	+389	4,353	20	4,256	106	769,787	44,573	17,270,180
117	Singapore	71,687		58		68,188		3,441	7	12,139	10	18,197,667	3,081,529	5,905,401
118	Malawi	61,113		2,238		50,384		8,491	285	3,099	113	396,422	20,103	19,719,575
119	Ivory Coast	58,009		515		55,925		1,569		2,136	19	888,751	32,726	27,157,565
120	DRC	56,096		1,068		30,858		24,170		604	12	306,299	3,300	92,806,327
121	Réunion	51,651		354		49,439		1,858	33	57,202	392	1,279,618	1,417,139	902,959
122	Guadeloupe	51,467		612		2,250		48,605	23	128,601	1,529	418,152	1,044,842	400,206
123	Angola	50,446		1,339		44,652		4,455	8	1,480	39	924,815	27,133	34,084,500
124	Fiji	48,986		535		35,272		13,179	39	54,175	592	390,386	431,738	904,219
125	Trinidad and Tobago	47,130		1,376		41,844		3,910	22	33,547	979	325,500	231,687	1,404,915
126	Eswatini	44,863		1,172		42,510		1,181	10	38,196	998	330,254	281,179	1,174,533
127	Madagascar	42,894		958		41,318		618	3	1,503	34	249,081	8,727	28,540,158
128	French Polynesia	40,178		551		33,500		6,127	51	142,046	1,948	26,355	93,176	282,852
129	Martinique	38,868		509		104		38,255	1	103,671	1,358	335,215	894,107	374,916
130	Sudan	37,715		2,837		31,675		3,203		837	63	238,579	5,293	45,071,029
131	French Guiana	36,859		227		9,995		26,637	29	119,705	737	376,565	1,222,947	307,916
132	Malta	36,793	+35	449		35,225	+43	1,119	4	83,063	1,014	1,211,456	2,734,966	442,951
133	Cabo Verde	36,588		320		35,212		1,056	23	64,963	568	209,041	371,160	563,210
134	Mauritania	34,878		754		32,872		1,252	22	7,273	157	458,254	95,561	4,795,424
135	Suriname	33,573		764		25,931		6,878	12	56,623	1,289	113,290	191,071	592,921
136	Guinea	30,029		367		28,038		1,624	24	2,215	27	545,224	40,215	13,557,587
137	Syria	29,498		2,077		22,752		4,669		1,638	115	103,566	5,751	18,007,901
138	Guyana	27,976		683		24,156		3,137	29	35,364	863	287,779	363,773	791,096
139	Gabon	26,638		170		25,893		575	19	11,640	74	1,125,782	491,951	2,288,404
140	Togo	23,718		205		18,639		4,874		2,787	24	487,347	57,266	8,510,267
141	Haiti	21,244		596		18,961		1,687		1,836	52	114,661	9,911	11,568,750
142	Seychelles	20,593		110		19,878		605		207,851	1,110	21,504	217,046	99,076
143	Mayotte	20,015		175		2,964		16,876		71,312	624	176,919	630,347	280,669
144	Benin	19,841		141		13,756		5,944	5	1,587	11	604,310	48,337	12,501,931
145	Bahamas	19,335		453		15,557		3,325	15	48,612	1,139	137,915	346,747	397,739
146	Timor-Leste	18,597	+82	96	+1	15,489	+174	3,012		13,792	71	169,501	125,702	1,348,437
147	Papua New Guinea	18,412	+8	196		17,836		380	7	2,012	21	167,473	18,304	9,149,445
148	Somalia	18,373		1,023		9,000		8,350		1,119	62	211,088	12,854	16,421,904
149	Belize	17,405		373		15,651		1,381	8	42,843	918	235,725	580,245	406,251
150	Laos	17,357		16		5,568		11,773		2,345	2	423,212	57,177	7,401,757
151	Tajikistan	17,084		124		16,948		12		1,744	13			9,793,332
152	Taiwan	16,093	+5	839		15,019		235		674	35	5,591,650	234,270	23,868,404
153	Curaçao	15,713		154		15,195		364	4	95,290	934	252,032	1,528,430	164,896
154	Andorra	15,083		130		14,906		47	4	194,838	1,679	193,595	2,500,807	77,413
155	Aruba	15,076		155		14,571		350	14	140,491	1,444	177,885	1,657,689	107,309
156	Mali	14,983		543		14,173		267		715	26	399,236	19,060	20,946,171
157	Lesotho	14,395		403		6,830		7,162		6,656	186	146,630	67,804	2,162,571
158	Burundi	14,189	+142	38		773		13,378		1,152	3	345,742	28,080	12,312,880
159	Burkina Faso	13,942		171		13,606		165		646	8	214,358	9,930	21,586,754
160	Congo	13,701		183		12,421		1,097		2,412	32	188,207	33,134	5,680,132
161	Mauritius	13,114		42		1,854		11,218		10,291	33	358,675	281,469	1,274,296
162	Nicaragua	12,350		201		4,225		7,924		1,838	30			6,718,808
163	Hong Kong	12,147	+1	212		11,846		89		1,605	28	24,014,928	3,172,481	7,569,762
164	Djibouti	11,860		157		11,627		76		11,799	156	211,639	210,550	1,005,174
165	South Sudan	11,610		120		11,195		295		1,023	11	219,648	19,351	11,350,672
166	CAR	11,309		100		6,859		4,350	2	2,294	20	60,228	12,216	4,930,090
167	Iceland	11,247		33		10,817		397	6	32,705	96	1,014,156	2,949,037	343,894
168	Channel Islands	11,029		95		10,487		447		62,743	540	848,803	4,828,780	175,780
169	Equatorial Guinea	10,498		131		9,152		1,215	1	7,201	90	195,087	133,815	1,457,890
170	Gambia	9,848		328		9,457		63	3	3,943	131	101,817	40,766	2,497,615
171	Saint Lucia	9,823		132		7,121		2,570	3	53,203	715	74,464	403,310	184,632
172	Yemen	8,414		1,584		5,244		1,586	23	275	52	265,253	8,666	30,610,072
173	Isle of Man	7,008		38		6,741		229	1	81,896	444	83,753	978,743	85,572
174	Eritrea	6,655		40		6,611		4		1,846	11	23,693	6,572	3,605,099
175	Sierra Leone	6,385		121		4,374		1,890		781	15	160,729	19,671	8,170,679
176	Guinea-Bissau	6,022		125		5,144		753	4	2,976	62	94,915	46,906	2,023,505
177	Niger	5,919		199		5,651		69		234	8	148,667	5,888	25,249,742
178	Barbados	5,906		52		5,157		697		20,521	181	283,291	984,347	287,796
179	Liberia	5,459		148		2,715		2,596	2	1,050	28	128,246	24,665	5,199,536
180	Gibraltar	5,436	+5	97		5,271	+2	68	3	161,406	2,880	346,266	10,281,362	33,679
181	San Marino	5,351		90		5,195		66	1	157,308	2,646	76,261	2,241,916	34,016
182	Chad	5,016		174		4,816		26		295	10	141,798	8,347	16,987,762
183	Brunei	4,163		21		2,647		1,495	27	9,408	47	275,244	622,034	442,490
184	Comoros	4,097		147		3,931		19		4,595	165			891,715
185	Sint Maarten	3,979		57		3,703		219	14	91,560	1,312	41,509	955,152	43,458
186	New Zealand	3,949	+36	27		3,308	+21	614	5	789	5	3,148,945	629,525	5,002,100
187	Saint Martin	3,582		45		1,399		2,138	7	90,789	1,141	54,303	1,376,362	39,454
188	Bermuda	3,465		35		2,817		613	1	55,885	564	490,487	7,910,825	62,002
189	Liechtenstein	3,386	+6	60		3,242		84	1	88,502	1,568	49,126	1,284,038	38,259
190	Monaco	3,276		33		3,175		68	6	82,780	834	54,960	1,388,756	39,575
191	Sao Tome and Principe	2,816		39		2,504		273		12,570	174	14,689	65,570	224,020
192	Turks and Caicos	2,758		20		2,623		115	1	70,101	508	94,789	2,409,298	39,343
193	British Virgin Islands	2,642		37		2,555		50	7	86,703	1,214	79,575	2,611,414	30,472
194	Bhutan	2,596		3		2,586		7		3,321	4	1,119,584	1,432,114	781,770
195	Dominica	2,498		7		1,860		631		34,598	97	60,207	833,892	72,200
196	St. Vincent Grenadines	2,487	+41	12		2,323		152	2	22,333	108	69,982	628,419	111,362
197	Grenada	2,386		27		404		1,955		21,088	239	64,079	566,334	113,147
198	Antigua and Barbuda	2,166		48		1,468		650	9	21,901	485	17,409	176,028	98,899
199	Caribbean Netherlands	1,932		17		1,781		134		72,864	641	20,707	780,954	26,515
200	St. Barth	1,542		2		462		1,078		155,553	202	38,369	3,870,574	9,913
201	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,476	+12	8	+1	848	+38	620	1	27,512	149	34,730	647,356	53,649
202	Tanzania	1,367		50		183		1,134	7	22	0.8			61,762,636
203	Faeroe Islands	1,035		2		1,003	+1	30		21,086	41	417,000	8,495,467	49,085
204	New Caledonia	957	+256	1		58		898	6	3,314	3	42,756	148,057	288,781
205	Cayman Islands	729		2		691		36		10,939	30	130,676	1,960,777	66,645
206	Diamond Princess	712		13		699		0
207	Wallis and Futuna	445		7		438		0		40,444	636	20,508	1,863,855	11,003
208	Greenland	395				341		54	2	6,943		57,192	1,005,344	56,888
209	Anguilla	312				285		27		20,576		38,936	2,567,830	15,163
210	Falkland Islands	67				63		4		18,606		7,531	2,091,364	3,601
211	Macao	63				63	+1	0		95		4,811	7,290	659,917
212	Montserrat	31		1		24		6		6,205	200	1,408	281,825	4,996
213	Saint Pierre Miquelon	31				30		1		5,382		8,671	1,505,382	5,760
214	Vatican City	27				27		0		33,624				803
215	Solomon Islands	20				20		0		28		4,500	6,365	706,981
216	Western Sahara	10		1		8		1		16	2			614,861
217	MS Zaandam	9		2		7		0
218	Vanuatu	4		1		3		0		13	3	23,000	72,852	315,710
219	Marshall Islands	4				4		0		67				59,668
220	Samoa	3				3		0		15				199,992
221	Palau	2				2		0		110		9,304	511,293	18,197
222	Saint Helena	2				2		0		328				6,099
223	Micronesia	1				1		0		9				116,465
	Total:	225,580,776	+125,112	4,646,136	+2,449	202,193,092	+182,727	18,741,548	102,903	28,939.9	596.1

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• 6,060 new cases in Switzerland [source] [source]

• 22 new cases and 2 new deaths in Senegal [source]

• 22,541 new cases and 448 new deaths in Iran [source]

• 167 new cases and 7 new deaths in Croatia [source]

• 5 new cases in Gibraltar [source]

• 77 new cases and 4 new deaths in Uganda [source]

• 35 new cases in Malta [source]

• 1,849 new cases and 46 new deaths in Romania [source]

• 1,149 new cases and 16 new deaths in Nepal [source]

• 2,577 new cases and 276 new deaths in Indonesia [source]

• 632 new cases and 2 new deaths in the United Arab Emirates [source]

• 2,663 new cases and 1 new death in Israel [source]

• 1,291 new cases and 14 new deaths in Libya [source]

• 82 new cases and 1 new death in Timor-Leste [source]

• 58 new cases in Oman [source]

• 213 new cases in Finland [source]

• 1 new case in China, Hong Kong SAR [source]

• 269 new cases in Poland [source]

• 18,178 new cases and 719 new deaths in Russia [source]

• 268 new cases and 1 new death in Estonia [source]

• 135 new cases and 4 new deaths in Latvia [source]

• 282 new cases and 1 new death in Slovenia [source]

• 1,543 new cases and 1 new death in Austria [source]

• 7,213 new cases and 55 new deaths in Japan [source]

• 20,745 new cases and 163 new deaths in the Philippines [source]

• 5 new cases in Taiwan [source]

• 86 new cases and 2 new deaths in Afghanistan [source]

• 54 new cases and 2 new deaths in Slovakia [source]

• 142 new cases in Burundi [source]

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LIMA, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died on Saturday while in prison and following several weeks of poor health, the government said. He was 86.

Guzman was captured in 1992 in Lima and jailed for the rest of his life after being convicted as a terrorist. He died one day before the anniversary of his capture, when he was paraded in front of the press in a striped white and black uniform that is not normally used in Peru.

Susana Silva, head of Peru’s prison system, told RPP radio on Saturday that Guzman had been ill in recent months and had been released from a hospital in early August.

She said his health condition worsened in the past two days, without elaborating further, adding Guzman was set to receive more medical attention on Saturday but died in his cell around 6:40 a.m. local time (1140 GMT). Defense minister Walter Ayala said Guzman had died of a “generalized infection.”

“The terrorist leader Abimael Guzman has died, responsible for the loss of an uncountable number of lives” tweeted President Pedro Castillo. “Our position condemning terrorism is firm and unwavering. Only in democracy will we build a just Peru.”

A former philosophy professor, Guzman was a lifelong communist who traveled to China in the late 1960s and was awed by Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. He resolved to bring Mao’s brand of communism to Peru through a class war that he launched in 1980 on the day that Peru held its first democratic elections following over a decade of military dictatorship.

Guzman founded the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, transforming it from a ragtag band of peasants and radical students into Latin America’s most stubborn guerrilla force. An estimated 69,000 people, mostly in Peru’s poor interior, were killed between 1980 and 2000 in the internal conflict launched by the Shining Path, mostly in indigenous Andean communities.

Shining Path’s bold and immaculately planned attacks, its networks of informants and spies, and Guzman’s uncanny ability to evade arrest gave him an almost legendary reputation for seeming to be in all places at once.

During years of fighting, he had been rumored to be dead, gravely ill, or living a comfortable life in Europe.

In 1980, after years of preparation, Guzman, a former university professor, led a band of supporters into the Andes Mountains outside the town of Ayacucho.

Armed with shotguns, dynamite and machetes, they began attacking security forces, elected officials and peasants who resisted their indoctrination with a fervor and ruthlessness never seen in a Latin American rebel group.

Fanning out from the Southern city of Ayacucho, the Shining Path attracted thousands more militants from poor peasant communities and universities.

People in the capital city of Lima got their first taste of the Shining Path in 1981 when guerrillas hung dozens of dead dogs from lampposts – “the dogs of capitalism,” said signs pinned to the animals.

By the late 1980s, the group had become such a threat to the state that two-thirds of Peruvians lived in areas under emergency rule – essentially, martial law.

His followers called Guzman the Fourth Sword of Marxism, after Marx, Lenin and Mao, and idolized him in revolutionary chants, songs, posters and literature.

His few written works, though little esteemed by Marxist academics, became like mantras for Shining Path followers who repeated his sayings as if they were biblical truths.

Shining Path propaganda posters showed the bespectacled Guzman towering over peasant masses and guerrilla armies, pointing with one hand and holding Mao’s revolutionary “Little Red Book” in the other.

But the first image most Peruvians saw of Guzman was anything but revolutionary. Apparently drunk, he danced to the main tune of the film Zorba the Greek and posed for snapshots with supporters in a Shining Path video captured by police in 1990 and shown on television.

The video made it clear he was alive and still in charge, but it punctured his reputation for austerity and demoralized Shining Path militants.

Nevertheless, their attacks intensified, leading then-President Alberto Fujimori to seize near-dictatorial powers, in what he said was an attempt to crush the revolt.

After Guzman was captured by police at a spacious safe house in a middle-class neighborhood of Lima in 1992, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Shining Path largely collapsed as a military threat, although remnants remain to this day. Authorities say that rebels claiming to belong to a dissident faction of the Shining Path killed 16 people in a remote jungle area just this year.

In 2018, Guzman was given a second life sentence for a 1992 Lima car bomb attack that killed 25 people.

Guzman’s first wife, Augusta La Torre, died in mysterious circumstances in the late 1980s. In 2010, he married his longtime girlfriend, Elena Iparraguirre, who, like Guzman, is serving a life sentence. Both women were Shining Path leaders.

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BBC Environment & Rural Affairs Correspondent

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Amazon announced today that it will pay 100% of college tuition for its approximately 750,000 U.S. hourly employees. The company estimated that the new benefit along with other new training it will offer would require a total investment of $1.2 billion by 2025.

Amazon’s announcement comes on the heels of other major employers such as Target and Walmart extending similar offers to their U. S. employees as national companies continue to sweeten the compensation pot to lure and retain workers during the tight labor market.

The Amazon offer will begin in January 2022 and will include the cost of college tuition, fees and textbooks for warehouse, transportation and other hourly employees who want to pursue bachelor’s degrees. To be eligible an employee must have been employed by Amazon for 90 days.

The new benefit will also begin covering educational costs for high school diploma programs, GEDs and English as a second language certifications. Amazon will also add three new education programs to provide its employees with the opportunity to learn skills in data center maintenance and technology, IT, and user experience and research design.

Amazon previously offered to pay for 95% of tuition, fees and textbooks for hourly associates through its career choice program, a benefit that provided up to $12,000 over four years for hourly associates who’d been with the company for at least one year. It was limited to “certificates and associate degrees in high-demand occupations such as aircraft mechanics, computer-aided design, machine tool technologies, medical lab technologies and nursing.”

“Amazon is now the largest job creator in the U.S., and we know that investing in free skills training for our teams can have a huge impact for hundreds of thousands of families across the country,” said Dave Clark, CEO of Worldwide Consumer at Amazon, in the company’s press release. “We launched Career Choice almost 10 years ago to help remove the biggest barriers to continuing education—time and money—and we are now expanding it even further to pay full tuition and add several new fields of study.

“This new investment builds on years of experience supporting employees in growing their careers, including some unique initiatives like building more than 110 on-site classrooms for our employees in Amazon fulfillment centers across 37 states. Today, over 50,000 Amazon employees around the world have already participated in Career Choice and we’ve seen first-hand how it can transform their lives.”

Amazon said it will pay employees’ tuition and fees in advance rather than offering reimbursement after coursework completion, thereby permitting employees who don’t have sufficient funds on hand to begin immediately accessing the education options they want to pursue. Front-line employees will have access to the annual education funds as long as they remain at the company, with no limit to the number of years they can benefit from the offer.

Amazon has not yet indicated which colleges workers will be eligible to attend using the new benefit.

Amazon’s decision today will allow it to keep pace with several other national employers in addition to Walmart and Target that have recently geared up their educational benefits for employees.

This is just the latest move by Amazon to strengthen its workforce. Last May, it said it was hiring 75,000 new workers, and that it would boost the starting pay from $15 to an average of $17 an hour. It also introduced sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000 to attract workers.

Amazon also announced Thursday that it plans to retrain a total of 300,000 employees – about 30% of its total workforce – for higher-skilled, fast-growing jobs within the company over the next four years. That up-skilling will also be tuition-free for employees.

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