that's according to johns hopkins university. it's the highest number in the world, with india second at 5.8 million cases and brazil third with 4.7 million. a police officer who died after being shot at a police station in croydon, south london, on friday has been named as matt ratana. he was 54. lawyers for breonna taylor, the woman killed by police in her own home in the united states, call for full transparency over the investigation into her death. the late us supreme courtjudge, ruth bader ginsburg, has become the first woman in american history to lie

johns hopkins university has recorded over 1.1 million lives have been lost to coronavirus.

the latest figures, compiled byjohns hopkins university, also show that almost 6,900,000 people in thes are confirmed to have been infected by the virus. this was president trump's reaction to the latest death toll. i think it's a shame. i think if we didn't do it properly and do it right, you'd have 2.5 million deaths — if you take a look at alternatives, you could have

top stories coronavirus related deaths some surpassed 1000000 that's according to the johns hopkins university tracker more than 33000000 people worldwide have been infected with the virus the u.s. brazil and india can for nearly half of the world's coronavirus deaths runs a 5th of being in the united states alone the daily death toll there is almost a klein but there has been a surge in your affections bringing fears of a 2nd wave donald trump announced the rapid testing system to bomb pop virus detection nationwide he says millions of test kits will be sent out across the country and bourne's arisan positive cases is likely in the days ahead last week we crossed the historic milestone when the united states conducted our 100 millionth test far more than any other country and not even close actually 2nd seems to be india with 1500000000 people and the numbers would be probably at least

johns hopkins university for health security. thanks for taking the time today. >> thank you for having me. >> it's been six months since the w.h.o. declared a covid pandemic. where do we stand now? >> we really have a hodgepodge of different policies and levels of control around the world and across the united states. but areas where you see the percent above and then taiwan, basically back to normal versus places like spain where the outbreak is out of control. i think that's what we would expect based on a virus that transmits efficiently and people having different levels of public health actions that come and go as hot spots go and this is probably going to be what we see until we have enough of the world's population vaccinated against this virus. >> interesting that you mentioned taiwan. it's pretty much a post-pandemic world right now, everything back to normal. we are going to talk to bay area woman author who's in taiwan right now. she's going to take us through her quarantine routine as she arrives as a visitor. i want

coronavirus pandemic is approaching yet another sobering milestone the latest figures from johns hopkins university show any 1000000 people have died so far it's approaching 195000 the u.s. brazil india mexico and the u.k. other countries which have seen the most deaths over the course of the price they go up to date with the headlines al jazeera world continues next. us a lot about a story. and i think without the need for. it all not be something. to

200000 there it's more than any other country according to the data collected by the johns hopkins university despite having less than 5 per cent of the global population in the united states has suffered more than 20 percent of coverage 19 deaths or why it and people know that they also suffer the economic consequences of the pandemic so this is definitely going to be a topic that will have an impact on the elections. in washington d.c. covering the u.s. election which is coming up in november when intimation now has the 2nd highest death toll from covert 19 in all of asia and there's no sign of a slowdown anytime soon even though the capital jakarta has reinstated a partial lockdown on friday indonesia hit a record day the high of nearly 5000 new infections health officials say the real number is probably much higher as decanters grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers in jakarta no work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10. it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of

the number of corona virus infections in the united states has risen above 7000000 the johns hopkins university tally passed the landmark figure on friday afternoon the u.s. has the highest number of confirmed cases in the world followed by india and brazil covert 19 has already killed more than 200000 people in the u.s. also a world record president donald trump has faced harsh criticism for his response to the outbreak after he downplayed the dangers of the disease. carolyne or she why has more on the situation from washington d.c. but this country has just. more than $7000000.00 coronavirus cases and over 200000 there more than any other country according to the data collected by the johns hopkins university despite having less than 5 per cent of the global population the united states has suffered more than 20 percent of coverage 19 deaths or old why people know that they also suffer the economic consequences of the pandemic so this is definitely going to be a topic that will have an impact on the elections. carolyn issue more in washington d.c. covering the u.s. election is coming up on no

it's now these the latest figures on the johns hopkins university tracker as you see there the figure has already soared past the 1000000 mark within the last couple of hours and there are more than 33000000 confirmed cases worldwide the u.s. brazil and india make up more than 50 percent of those cases those 3 countries also account for nearly half of all deaths worldwide the u.s. alone has reported more than 200000 fatalities that's one in 5 covert deaths around the globe where the u.n. secretary general has been reacting to what he called a mind's numbering figure but antonio could terrorist cold in the world not to lose hope and i urge people to continue to observe necessary precautions to curb the spread of the virus our world has reached an agonizing milestone the loss of 1000000 lives from the cover in 1000 pandemic it's a mind numbing figure yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual life there were fathers and mothers wives and husbands brothers and sisters friends and colleagues the pain those mean multiplied by the 7 minutes of these disease research the infec

deaths attributed to the coronavirus about to surpass 1000000 around the world the john hopkins university track the number of fatalities globally at well over 999000 then more than 33000000 recorded infections the u.s. brazil and india make up more than 50 percent of those cases well those 3 countries also account for nearly hoffa global deaths the u.s. alone has reported more than 200000 coronavirus fatalities officials there have just announced a new rapid testing system to ramp up virus detection nationwide this is not the deep brain biopsy that we talk about on this will generally done by health care provider but it can be done supervised it's easy 123-451-2345. into the test twisted 3 times. the adhesive is pulled off and you wait 15 minutes and that is the test it really could not be easier than this this is a very sophisticated little piece of cardboard with lots of antibodies and incredible technology into that. let's cross live to heidi castro who is in the sofa springs maryland for us heidi since i spoke to an hour ago the numbers of top is it a coincidence that we're hearing ab

than 1000000 people have now died from corona virus these are the nexus figures from the johns hopkins university track of the 1000000 fatalities was confirmed with in just the past 30 minutes or so the number of recorded infections is now more than 33000000 the u.s. brazil and india make up more than 50 percent of those cases those 3 countries also account for nearly harf of all global deaths has come out santa maria who's taking a closer look at the numbers and how they compare with the norm pandemic here. from the outset we have to say that data wise we are dealing with an imperfect science when it comes to this pandemic we only have reported deaths actual numbers could be much higher and there are also arguments over what exactly constitutes a death from covert 19 given people have existing illnesses so we go with what we've got and it comes from our world in the university of oxford china was obviously our early focus but by late february iran some european south american countries they're seeing debts to the united states that accelerates very quickly yes the curve starts to bend by late ju

the corona virus have just the past 1000000 around the world this is according to the johns hopkins university tracker which says there are more than 33000000 recorded infections the u.s. brazil and india make up more than 50 percent of those cases those 3 countries alone also account for nearly haul of global deaths. the u.s. has reported more than 200000 coronavirus fatalities officials there have just announced a new rapid testing system to ramp up virus detection nationwide. but the un's actually general has called on the world not to lose hope and tony a good test urged people to continue observing necessary precautions to curb the spread of the virus or will those reached an agonizing milestone the loss of 1000000 lives from the coverage in 1000 pandemic it's a mind numbing figure yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual life there were fathers and mothers wives and husbands brothers and sisters friends and colleagues the pain those mean multi blind by the 7 minutes of these disease reese of infection kept families from bedsides and the process of mourning and celebratin

according to thejohns hopkins university.se official figures are likely to be a considerable underestimate but it is a milestone. the bulk of those come from the americas with more than half the global toll there. europe, with a concerning rise in cases over recent weeks is next worst hit with almost a 250,000 cases. asia, where the virus first originated and the middle east have seen more than 180,000 deaths. africa has recorded at least 35,000's of the pandemic began. let's speak out to an infectious disease physician at the washington school of medicine. first we have to acknowledge how deeply sad this is that we have reached this stage. it has become so normal that we don't even pause to consider how devastating this is but many of us devastating this is but many of us in the public health sector believe that these numbers are grossly understated. for many reasons. one of those is this happened so fast and we are still quite early on in this pandemic although it has felt like such a long time, and in those beginning stage

of the number of cases that go on to texas it's these are the latest figures from the johns hopkins university tracker you can see that figures already soared be yawned the 1000000 mark within the past. a couple of hours the number of recorded infections is now more than 33000000 the us brazil and india make up more than 50 percent of those cases in those 3 countries also account for nearly half of all global deaths well the u.n. secretary general has been reacting to what he called a mind numbing figure but antonio could tears also called on the world's not to lose hope and urged people to continue observing necessary precautions to curb the spread of the virus our world has reached an agonizing milestone the loss of $1000000.00 lives from the cover in $1000.00 pandemic it's a mind numbing figure yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual life there were fathers and mothers wives and husbands brothers and sisters friends and colleagues the pain as mean multiplied by the 7 minutes of these disease research infection kept families from bedsides and the process of mourning and cel

now has more than seven million coronavirus cases — that's according to statistics from johns hopkins universityn millon five thousand seven hundred and 46 cases, confirmed by tests, is the highest in the world. the united states now has more than seven million coronavirus cases — that's according to statistics seven hundred and 46 cases, confirmed by tests, is the highest bill hanage is an associate professor at harvard th chan school of public health. he gave me his reaction to the figure. in fact, things are potentially worse than they appear, we have detected cases for the start in the spring and however much better hold of the pandemic, but still, some places like florida have not learned their lesson. is it too soon to look back and try and learn lessons because the first things that the us has a very large population and so, you would expect a large number of cases, but did it inevitably have to lead to 7 million cases or other things that could've realistically been done to reduce the number? things that could've realistically been done to reduce the number7m would be genuinely challengi

that's according to johns hopkins university.7 million. lawyers for breonna taylor, the woman killed by police in her own home in the united states,call for full transparency over the investigation into her death. tributes are being paid to the late supreme courtjustice ruth bader ginsburg, whose groundbreaking legacy continues even in death. a police officer who died after being shot at a police station in croydon, south london, on friday has been named by metropolitan police commissioner dame cressida dick as matiu ratana, 54, known as matt. you are watching bbc news. a police officer shot dead at a custody centre in south london in the early hours of this morning has been named as 54—year—old sergeant matiu rata na, known as matt. he had served nearly 30 years as a police officer and was about to retire. a 23—year—old suspect who was being processed in croydon after being arrested is believed to have turned the weapon on himself. the metropolitan police commissioner dame cressida dick gave a news briefing a short while ago. ea

passes 7 million coronavirus cases according to findings from johns hopkins university. police officer is shot dead at a police station in south london by a man who is being detained. it's understood the suspect then turned the gun on himself. police paid tribute to the officer. two people have been wounded in a knife attack outside the former offices of the french's such serial -- satirical magazine, charlie hebdo. the men and women were seriously wounded but both are reported to be out of danger. two people have been arrested. our paris correspondent ports. [sirens] reporter: in central paris, the familiar scenes of a recurring nightmare -- a knife attack that left two people seriously injured at a buildie occupied by the satirical magazine, charlie hebdo. the victims are employees of a television production company with offices there. >> outside the metro, i saw a machete with lots of leaden people shouting. it was a bit of a panic. in the passageway right next to my work, i saw a victim there covered in blood. that is when i panicked and people started panicking and

200000 there it's more than any other country according to the data collected by the johns hopkins university but these are facts that have been shadowed by ginsberg passing despite having less than 5 per cent of the blow up a place in the united states has halfords more than 20 percent of coverage 19 or wide and people know that they also suffer the economic consequences of the pandemic so this is definitely going to be a topic that will have an impact on the elections when indonesia now has the 2nd highest death toll from covert 1000 in all of asia and there's no sign of a slowdown anytime soon even though the capital jakarta has reinstated a partial lockdown on friday in tunisia hit a record daily high of over 4800 new infections health officials say the real number is probably much higher as jakarta's grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers in jakarta now work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10 it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of qubits tragic toll. we're

according to data collected by johns hopkins university here are the latest numbers around the world there are more than 31 million cases, the united states has close to 7 million cases, california continues to lead the nation in the number of cases was 792,000 and here in the bay area. >>there are more than 97,000 cases and more than 1400 deaths reported here in the bay area, the news is more positive the covid numbers in 3 bay area counties have improved so much. >>that the state has moved those counties from the purple tier to the red tier that any outdoor or indoor businesses to reopen at limited capacity, but only 2 of the 3 counties are moving ahead force in kerman is live in san mateo county to explain dan.

according to figures from johns hopkins university, more than 940,000 people worldwide have died with disease since it first emerged in china late last year. the worst affected countries remain the united states, india and brazil, but there's been a surge in positive tests across europe in recent weeks. figures from the world health organization show that new weekly coronavirus cases in europe exceed those reported when the pandemic first peaked in march. well, let's look at europe — spain recorded almost 5,000 new infections in 2a hours, up from just over 3,000 the previous day. almost 2,000 were in the madrid region, which is planning targeted lockdowns. in france, 10,593 cases were recorded on thursday — marking the highest single—day count since the pandemic began. in the uk, the government announced almost 3,400 new infections on thursday. to help prevent the spread of the virus, almost 2 million people living in the north—east of england are now under new restrictions that came into place at at midnight, local time. we'll have a report from our correspondent in marseille, a new

200000 there it's more than any other country according to the data collected by the johns hopkins university but these are facts that have been shadowed by ginsberg passing despite having less than 5 percent of the global population the united states has suffered more than 20 percent of coverage 19 orld wide and people know that they also suffer the economic consequences of the pandemic so this is definitely going to be a topic that will have an impact on the elections. in d.c. indonesia now has the 2nd highest death toll from cova 1000 in all of asia and there's no sign of a slowdown anytime soon even though the capital jakarta has reinstated a partial lockdown on friday in tunisia hit a record a daily high of over 4800 new infections health officials say the real number is probably much higher as jakarta's grave diggers can attest they've never seen anything like it grave diggers in jakarta now work around the clock racing to dig up to 40 burial plots a day before the pandemic it was just 10 it's a job that carries the risk of contagion and offers a frontline view of qubits tragic toll. we

johns hopkins university now reports 987,000 deaths worldwide. the world health organization official went on to say that countries should be doing more than just waiting for a vaccine. and they should use lockdowns as a last resort. joining me now from geneva, switzerland, to talk about these developments, dr. david know var r navarro. good morning. thank you very much to you. there's not much encouraging news in the world right now. we'll try to find some, okay? first of all, the w.h.o. has written recently that lockdowns, as i mentioned, should be a last resort, in the event of surges. talk about that. why is that? >> we said right from the beginning we have to learn to hold this virus at bay, while getting on with our lives at normal. and i know that sounds crazy because it's not fitting in with what we're hearing most of the time. it's what we're asking everybody to do. and getting on with our lives is normal, does mean some changes to how we behave. we have to keep distance from each other. we have to wear masks. we have to pay attention to

states now has more than 7 million coronavirus cases — that's according to statistics from johns hopkins university thousand 7 hundred and 46 cases, confirmed by tests, is the highest in the world. bill hanage is an associate professor at harvard t. h.chan school of public health. he gave me his reaction to the figure. it's an enormous number. it actually covers an even larger number which is the true number of cases which have been here. in fact, things are potentially worse than they appear. we under detected cases read in the start of the spring, but importance in places like florida have not learned a lesson. is it too soon to look back and try and learn lessons? because the us has a very large population and so, you would expect a large number of cases. but did it inevitably have to lead to 7 million cases? words are the things they could've realistically been done to reduce the number? it would be generally challenging for the united states, which obviously has the division of power between the federal government in the state. but it is noticeable but the federal government did not make it re

recorded coronavirus cases has now climbed above 30—million, according to figures from thejohns hopkins universityan 36,000 on thursday — bringing the countries total number of cases to more than four and a half million — as the government struggles to contain its outbreak. let s get some of the day s other news associates of the russian opposition leader alexei navalny say they‘ve found traces of the novichok nerve agent on a plastic bottle, which suggest he was poisoned before he left his hotel room. it had been thought he was given contaminated tea at an airport in siberia. mr navalny continues to recover in hospital — the kremlin has denied any involvement. china says it‘s put millions of people in xinjiang through a controversial programme that it calls "vocational education". the program has drawn worldwide criticism for forcing mostly uighur muslims into re—education camps. in a new report china said 1.3 million people had been through the programme every yearfor six years — to tackle poverty and eradicate religious extremism. footballer lionel messi can register his name as a trademark aft

figures from the johns figures from thejohns hopkins university in the united states show that brazilannounce plans to rollout a rapid and new covid test. it could transform the global response to the pandemic. it will cost just $5 and could see results and is a 15 minutes. less than 24—hours before the first presidential debate, donald trump dismisses accusations he has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. the democrats say if true, the president's depths pose national security concerns as foreign nations or individuals could have leveraged over mr trump. it is

tout during the election understand thank you for that professor professor nasa from johns hopkins university. i was on a today to meet the president of the republic michel who informed me of the decision of the legislators in the binding consultations to designate me to form the new lebanese government. i thanked him and the legislators for their confidence we prayed to court to enable us to form a new government as soon as possible before. they get lost mr deaves well having got the job lebanon's prime minister designate that went out onto the streets of the capital beirut to talk to the people and get an idea of the scale of the job facing. we're nothing can xpress words fail to describe this horrific scene and. i hope we can join hands as soon as possible to rebuild what has been destroyed by this explosion somewhere that awful we will try as soon as the government is formed to speed up the investigation. and to have the investigations result made public as soon as possible yes i was going. to tell us way they must do more to help people people want to go home many have moved in with thei

deal is their state now is professor of middle east studies and international affairs at johns hopkins university he joins us from washington d.c. welcome to day to. start with the point that we heard at the end of that report how likely do you think. countries are to follow suit. not immediately at least not in the way that the. administration would like for them to be in washington in september for a signing ceremony and the reason is that other countries don't necessarily have. already the relationships that you he had with israel they don't have necessarily the incentives that u.a.e. has for signing the deal at this point in time and also most of them have much larger populations that they have to listen to the u.a.e. has a very small indigenous population and it can contain any kind of adverse reaction that the population may have had the leaderships move at this point in time very successfully other countries don't have that calculation but but nevertheless i do think it creates momentum for additional countries to come forward over talks ok so you could i would suppose the question has to

is professor of middle east studies and international affairs at johns hopkins university he joins us from washington d.c. welcome to day to. start with the point that we heard at the end of that report how likely do you think. countries are to follow seems. not immediately at least not in the way that the. administration would like for them to be in washington in september for a signing ceremony and the reason is that other countries don't necessarily have. already the relationships that you and he had with israel they don't have necessarily the incentives that u.a.e. has for signing the deal at this point in time and also most of them have much larger populations that they have to listen to the u.a.e. has a very small indigenous population and it can contain any kind of adverse reaction that the population may have had today leaderships move at this point in time very successfully other countries don't have that calculation but but nevertheless i do think it creates momentum for additional countries to come forward over talks ok so you could i would suppose the question has to be as

according to figures from johns hopkins university, more than 940,000 people worldwide have died with disease since it first emerged in china late last year. the worst affected countries remain the united states, india and brazil, but there's been a surge in positive test results across europe in recent weeks. figures from the world health organization show that new weekly coronavirus cases in europe exceed those reported when the pandemic first peaked in march. it came as spain recorded almost 5,000 new infections in 2a hours, up from just over 3,000 the previous day. almost 2000 were in the madrid region, which is planning targeted lockdowns. in france 10,593 cases were recorded on thursday — marking the highest single—day count since the pandemic began. in the uk, the government announced almost 3,400 new infections on thursday. to help prevent the spread of the virus, almost 2 million people living in the north—east of england are now under new restrictions that came into place an hour ago, at midnight. we'll have a report from our correspondent in marseille, a new french virus ho

the uk now has more than 431,000 cases, according to johns hopkins university.bout it from scott mclean standing by live for us in london. it is really interesting, scott, we see this in many countries, even though cases are on the rise, people do not want their freedoms encroached upon. >> yeah, you know, a lot of people look at those protest pictures and wonder how protests is allowed in this type of climate. believe it or not, protests are perfectly fine. provided that the organizers submit a plan for risk assessment, and then commit to social distancing, wearing masks, things like that. then they're allowed to go ahead. despite the fact that the uk has limited social gatherings to six people, the police in this case felt that the crowd wasn't adhering to the plan that it had put forward in the first place. the bottom line is in the uk, cases are rising quickly. pretty alarming rate. for the last couple of days we had more than 6,000 new confirmed cases every single day. the government last week said the virus is doubling about every seven days. the number of

let's get more on this we're joined by a skype with edward joseph he's a senior fellow at john hopkins university many thanks for speaking to us on our desire how much pressure can the trump administration genuinely put on public health bodies to fast track the approval of a vaccine before it is safe to do so. it can bring a lot of pressure we see that the president is already putting pressure here obviously on the c.d.c. trying to. spin their reports make sure that they the reports are positive and optimistic rather than allowing the scientists of the center for disease control to do what they're supposed to do which is to tell the american people the truth and to provide accurate scientific guidelines and they are trying to pressure them this c.d.c. it's absolutely clear and those who are in the public health field are quite concerned about it with respect to vaccines the same is true the president has already made it clear that he expects the vaccine he's already mentioned that he wants a vaccine by election day he has pressured as you indicated for the approval of this controversy on blood pl

as a global community get to this point and you'll be very familiar with this map the johns hopkins university virus tracker which shows more than a 1000000 people have been killed by a new disease there's novel coronavirus from the outset we have to say that data wise we are dealing with an imperfect science when it comes to this pandemic we only have reported deaths actual numbers could be much higher and there are also arguments over what exactly constitutes a death from covert 19 given people have existing illnesses so we go with what we've got and it comes from our world in days here at the university of oxford china was obviously our early focus but by late february iran some european south american countries they're saying debts to the united states that accelerates very quickly yes the curve starts to bend by late june but as the summer holidays kicked in it picked up again it now sits above 200000 these are by the way the 12 countries with the most deaths so you've got you can see brazil india mexico clearly above the rest and while places like the u.k. italy and spain have definitely

this is thejohns hopkins university covid—19 dashboard — a widely used source of the data on the pandemicu can see america's total there. far higher than any other country. this chart shows you how the course the virus has taken in the us — from an initial peak in april, when there were more than 2500 deaths a day. to this monday, when the figure was 350. at the washington monument, this is a memorial for those who died. each flag represents ten victims. senior democrat nancy pelosi attended today — and turned her fire on the trump administration. this was preventable — not all of it, but much of it. and what could be lost in the future is preventable, too, if we embrace science. science instead of politics. just look at the lives lost and multiply it. notjust by the number but by the family in the sense of community. the loss to our country. the new yorker magazine has sought to place this new milestone in context. writing... president trump though has defended his response to the virus. this is from his speech to the un general assembly earlier. we have waged a fierce battle against the

. 19 has claimed its millionth life the milestone has been reached today according to johns hopkins university the virus has spread around the world and daily deaths have been rising through most of all ghost and september the u.s. for zille india and mexico account for more than half of the total and new hotspots keep emerging such as in smaller countries like israel. it led the world in new cases per capita over the past week despite a return to law. it's the w.'s teri schultz reports now from the belgian tell of sanctuary and one family's heartbreaking loss to the panda. the world has lost a 1000000 lives. one of them meant the world to 10 year old lorenzo my grandpa was the best his grandpa luke picked him up from school each day and when he comes to we made it all merch and after dad. me just played in the couch and just didn't really want to deal. mostly i got snacks and anything but their hometown st true then was hit early and hard by the coronavirus we had 53 people. who had to enter the hospital and we only had bets for 20 people but luke was already hospitalized failing fast and he

figure is probably much higher the tragic milestone has been officially recorded by the johns hopkins university database it shows the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and the fatalities have been rising through most of all this and september after weeks of gradual decline many countries are seeing a resurgence in corona virus cases including here in europe experts say the crisis is far from over. most of the countries with the most deaths resulting from coated 19 they all are the u.s. brazil india mexico the u.k. italy spain france peru spain and iran but. if we look at the number of deaths as a proportion of the population of each country we get a slightly different picture and a better indication of the impact of the virus you can see that it includes peru belgium bolivia spain ecuador chile the u.k. brazil italy and the us let's focus on just one of those countries for a moment belgium the government there has been criticized for being slow to act but the high per capita death rate may also be because of a statistical cork belgium has a broader definition of deaths caused by the vi

that is according to johns hopkins university. and the world's largest vaccine manufacturer is warning it could take years for everyone to get vaccinated. cnn's athena jones has the details. >> reporter: a major warning on the vaccine front. the world's largest vaccine maker telling "the financial times" there won't be enough vaccines to inoculate everyone in the world until the end of 2024 at the earliest if two doses are needed to provide immunity. >> all of the studies are showing to get an adequate immune response is going to require two doses probably spaced a month apart. >> reporter: but -- >> what we need to keep in mind is it may not require first and foremost everyone in the world to get vaccinated to slow down or even stop the spread. >> meanwhile, a bold prediction from pfizer manufacturing hundreds of thousands of doses in the hopes its covid vaccine is deemed safe and effective. >> we will know whether it works by the end of october. >> reporter: six months after they declared a state of emergency to combat covid-19,

data tracked by johns hopkins university shows the u.s.oaring past 7 million total cases and over 200,000 deaths. cnn's john king takes a look at the trends. >> new coronavirus numbers are getting worse. let's take a look if you go through the 50 state trend map. 21 states in orange and red. the northern part of the country reporting new infections than a week ago. the president says we've turned the final corner. this is not a turn from the worse. the peak near 80,000 new cases. you've seen below 40,000. we are trending back up. 55,000 new infections on friday. over 40,000 again on saturday and they tend to tip. they tend to dip during the weekend heading in the wrong direction. then you look at the positivity map. this tells you next week. the deeper the color, the higher the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive. 25 in south dakota, 21 in idaho and 11 in texas. still 10 in florida. those are bad metrics. more people testing positive, that means more infections as the virus spreads. i don't like to look at this from a poli

that's according to johns hopkins university. it's the highest number in the world, with india second at 5.8 million cases and brazil third with 4.7 million. a police officer who died after being shot at a police station in croydon, south london, on friday has been named as matt ratana. he was 5a. lawyers for breonna taylor, the woman killed by police in her own home in the united states, call for full transparency over the investigation into her death. the late us supreme courtjudge, ruth bader ginsburg, has become the first woman in american history to lie in state in the capital building in washington. at ten o'clock, clive myrie will be here with the bbc news at ten. now, in a change of schedule, it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best movies available for viewing in cinemas and in the home. the standout new release this week is missjuneteenth, the directorial feature debut from channing godfrey peoples, whose cv includes writing credits on tv series quee

but in a sign of hope, johns hopkins university says the death rate may be easing. brazil has the second-highest behind only the united states. >>> a russian vaccine candidate is showing promising results after first two phases of testing. while that's encouraging, health experts want to see it undergo more testing. >> reporter: in russia, the battle against covid-19 is being fought with real soldiers. this is the country's defense minister getting a vaccine. on state tv, russian's mayor says he has been vaccined too. did your temperature rise, president putin asks. no, says the man. just a headache. the vaccine is safe. even top officials trust it. the kremlin won't confirm to cnn if putin himself has taken the plunge. but there is now some reason for russia's confidence. first data from phase run and two clinical trials, published in "the lancet" medical journal, said the vaccine has no adverse side effects. it seems to be safe, in other words. it generated an antibody response, in all of the test participants, only 76 people. but russian scientists say that's mor

corona virus infections have now passed 30000000 that according to the latest figures from john hopkins university more than 940000 people have died of covert 900 now these numbers announced as israel heads back into a nationwide coronavirus lockdown as coming up later on friday it's the 1st country to shut down for a 2nd time hundreds protested the return of the measures in tel aviv saying another lockdown would cause yet more harm to the economy. the 3 week long restrictions come into effect just hours before the start of the jewish new year russia shauna. israeli authorities say the measures are necessary after the infection rate soared back to become one of the highest in the world. just a few hours before the country goes into its 2nd prolonged lockdown people in this market here in jerusalem rushing to get their shopping done the lockdown comes at the start of one of the most important holidays on the jewish new year starting friday israelis who only be allowed to venture 500 meters from their home the final list of frustrations and extensions published on thursday is slow the new lockdown c

johns hopkins university tallies more than 6.8 million cases in the u.s. alone.e, the u.s. has recorded more than 40,000 new cases each day over the last week. president donald trump keeps praising his handling of the pandemic. >> we're rounding the corner. with or without a vaccine. they hate it when i say that, but that's the way it is. we're rounding the corner on the pandemic and we've done a phenomenal job. not just a good job, a phenomenal job. on the job itself, we take an a plus. >> the cdc is facing questions over mixed messaging and potential political pressure. its website noted the virus particles could remain suspended in the air and infect people further than six feet away, but that language has since been removed. the world health organization says its position remains the same on the spread of covid-19. >> we still based on the evidence believe that there is a wide range of transmission modes. we believe the disease is primarily or predominantly spread through droplet spread. we have always said the smaller droplet spreads this disease and that is