Total Corona Virus cases hit 6 million in USA .

The total number of Coronavirusw cases in the U.S. passed 6 million on Monday, with deaths in the country attributed to COVID-19 now at 183,203. The confirmed cases milestone was reported by the Johns Hopkins Resource Center today, with the total now at 6,002,615 representing about one-fourth of the worldwide total.

The latest numbers come as most of the country is seeing declining trends in cases, deaths and hospitalizations, with better numbers in states like California, Texas and Florida over the past two weeks. That trio top all states with more than 600,000 confirmed cases apiece.

California, the most infected of the states, is nearing 700,000 cases and most recently reported 5,329 new cases and 140 new deaths Friday. The downward trends have resulted in Gov. Gavin Newsom issuing new, protocols that will enable counties to  further reopen across the state .
Other states have been more liberal in their reopening plans, while the past few weeks spikes are being seen at universities and colleges that are allowing students on campus.

Globally, as of Sunday there are 25,118,689 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 884,312 deaths reported, per the World Health Organization. Brazil (3.85 million), India (3.62M) and Russia (995,319) follow the U.S. as the most infected countries.

Two killed in unrest Wisconsin following shooting of Jacob Blake.

Three people were shot, two of them fatally, as gunfire broke out on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on the third straight night of unrest sparked by the police shooting of a black man, the New York Times reported, citing law enforcement.
According to his father Jacob Blake was shot in the back by police, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
 Social media video posted on Wednesday showed a gun battle among civilians, with several people rushing a man with a long gun who apparently had been knocked to the ground. The video shows him firing at the people rushing towards him, one of whom falls to the ground. Several other shots are heard in the background .
Another social media video of the aftermath shows a man with a severe arm wound sitting on the ground who is tended to by a man with a long gun as police approach .

Kenosha has been rocked by protests since Sunday, when police shot Jacob Blake in the back as he walked away from two officers and opened his car door, according to a bystander video that went viral. Three of his young sons were in the car, witnesses said .

The sky has no limit . Amazing view from Airplane.

North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un in coma : Sister Kim Yo- Jong to take control .

Kim Jong Un and his sister Kim Yo- Jong

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un  in a coma and his sister Kim Yo-jong will be exercising to control over national and international matters, several media outlets said quoting a former aide of South Korea’s late president Kim Dae-jung.

Chang Song-min, who served Kim Dae-jung as a political affairs secretary and as head of the state affairs monitoring office, reportedly claimed in a social media post that no North Korean leader would entrust any of his authority to another person unless he was too sick to rule or he was ousted  through a coup .

According to the South Korean daily, Seoul’s spy agency told lawmakers in a closed-door meeting about a ruling system that Kim seemed to have set up following which he shall share authority and responsibility with his most trusted aides. The National Intelligence Agency, however, said that the new system is not associated with any serious health issue.

Hollywood Actor Demi Moore Become Aged Gracefully .

Hollywood actor Demi Moore is just a few years away from turning 60. The actress screen debut was in the movie Choices, then shortly after she was cast in the soap opera General Hospital. Armed with a beautiful face and the so-called ‘X Factor,’ Moore became a member of Hollywood’s 80s Brat Pack, and appeared in the movies featuring other members of the group, such as Blame it on Rio, St. Elmo’s Fire, and About Last Night.

Moore’s career peaked during the 90s — it was the decade her movie Ghost, became the top grossing film of 1990, and she became movie history’s highest paid actress with the salary she got for Striptease ( $12.5 million dollar ). 

Serial Killer Joseph DeAngelo sentenced to life in prison

Joseph DeAngelo sentenced for life in prison  for over a dozen murders in the 1970s and '80s .

  former California police officer who lived a double life as the "Golden State Killer" was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for a string of 1970s and '80s murders and rapes that were solved through the use of public genealogy websites.

A Sacramento County judge granted prosecutors' request that Joseph James DeAngelo, 74, serve life in prison without the possibility of parole following emotional statements from victims or  their family members in open court .

When given the opportunity to speak, DeAngelo slowly rose from a wheelchair, took off a mask, looked around at surviving victims and family members of those he murdered and said: "I've listened to all your statements.. And I'm truly sorry to everyone out there. Thank you, your honour."

In June, Joseph DeAngelo confessed to 13 murders and 13 rape-related charges for crimes carried out between 1975 and 1986 as part of a plea deal with prosecutors sparing him from a potential death sentence .
DeAngelo, whom a prosecutor on Friday called a bogeyman who haunted California for decades, also publicly admitted to dozens of more rapes for which the statute of limitations had expired. prosecutors said he invaded 120 homes across 11 counties during his crime spree.

The identity of the Golden State Killer remained a mystery, his crimes unsolved, for decades until DeAngelo's arrest in Sacramento County on April 24, 2018.

Investigators tied DeAngelo to the crimes using a then-novel technique of tracing him through family DNA from commercial genealogy websites.
 Moral : Crime never pace .

Oxford Covid-19 vaccine phase 3 trail begins in India

 Oxford corona virus vaccine will begin phase 3 trials at 20 centres in India this week. But the top question on everyone's mind is just exactly who will get the first dose of the vaccine once it is approved for use in the real world?

Union health minister said that oxford covid vaccine will start phase 3 trial in India in this week .
It is likely that the Oxford University vaccine candidate -- Covishield -- will be the first one to move into production in India, sources have indicated .

 The Oxford vaccine will begin phase 3 trials at 20 centres in India predominantly in Pune and Mumbai in Maharashtra and Ahmedabad in Gujarat. In this phase, the vaccine will be administered to 1,600 people.

But as India prepares to host phase 3 trials of the Oxford Covid vaccine, the top question on everyone's mind is just exactly who will get the first dose of the vaccine once it is approved for use in the real world?

Those who have been infected with coronavirus and have developed antibodies against the virus will likely not fall in the priority category.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier said that healthcare workers and front-line workers should be given priority as initial vaccine candidates.

China grants country's first Covid-19 vaccine patent

Chine  has granted the its first patent for a COVID-19 vaccine . The patent was jointly applied for by a research team with the Academy of Military Sciences and CanSino Biologics Inc., a Chinese high-tech biopharmaceutical company.
The team led by Chen Wei, a researcher at the Institute of Military Medicine under the academy, developed the recombinant COVID-19 vaccine, with the modified defective adenovirus as the vector, reports  Xinhua.
In March 2020, the vaccine became the first in China to be approved to enter clinical trials.
The vaccine has now finished phase-1 and phase-2 clinical trials, which have verified its safety and immunogenicity, said the report .
Besides China , Russia has begun production of the first batch of vaccines against COVID-19 Sputnik V , its health ministry said in a statement released  on 15th August .

Saudi Arabia said this month it plans to begin Phase III clinical trials for the CanSino vaccine. CanSino has said it is also in talks with Russia, Brazil and Chile to launch Phase III trials in those countries.

Russia Registers World's First Covid -19 Vaccine . Good news for the world .

President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia has officially registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine.

Moscow : Russia registered world's first Covid-19 vaccine. A very good news for Russia and better news for the world .  President Vladimir Putin said that marking a milestone in the fight against the new coronavirus but amid safety concerns in the West over the country’s accelerated clinical evaluations.
Putin emphasized that the vaccine underwent the necessary tests. He added that one of his two daughters has received a dose of vaccine and she is feeling well .
Russian authorities have said that medical workers, teachers and other risk groups will be the first to be inoculated.
We don't want to lose any more life and we don't want to lose any more job for coronavirus pandemic .

Unrest Lebanon - Civil War scenerio : Riots , fire , killlings

 

  Violent, anti-Hezbollah groups demonstrated in Place des canons and then seized and sacked the Foreign Ministry. Important and sensitive documents were burnt. Papers were also destroyed at the Environment and Economy ministries. A member of the security service is killed. Prime Minister Hassan Diab calls for early parliamentary elections, echoed by the Maronite patriarch who also wants an international inquiry

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 Security forces fired tear gas and clashed with stone-throwing demonstrators Saturday in Beirut, and a group of protesters stormed the Foreign Ministry amid mounting fury over this week's explosion that devastated much of the city and killed nearly 160 people. Dozens were still missing and nearly 6,000 people injured.

 

Activists who called for the protest set up symbolic nooses at Beirut's Martyrs' Square to hang politicians whose corruption and negligence they blame for Tuesday's blast.

The disaster has taken popular anger to a new level in a country already reeling from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis and near bankruptcy 

"Resignation or hang," read a banner held by protesters, who also planned to hold a symbolic funeral for the dead. Some nooses were also set up along the bridges outside the port .

 

Russia to register the world's first covid -19 vaccine on August 12

Moscow - Russia to register its first corona virus vaccine on August 12 . A ray of hope is showing against deadly covid-19 virus . 

The vaccine has been developed jointly by Gamaleya Research Institute and The Russian Defence Ministry .

"The vaccine developed by the Gamaleya centre will be registered on August 12,” Russian Deputy Health Minister Oleg Gridnev said on Friday on 07th August . 

“At the moment, the last, third, stage is underway. The trials are extremely important. We have to understand that the vaccine must be safe. Medical professionals and senior citizens will be the first to get vaccinated," Gridnev told reporters at the opening of a cancer centre building in the city of Ufa.

Clinical trials of the vaccine began on June 18 and included 38 volunteers. All of the participants developed immunity. The first group was discharged on July 15 and the second group on July 20 . 

Reports of the country approving the first vaccine for public-use by mid-August had also come to light previously.

Till now, no vaccine for COVID-19 has been approved for public use. According to the WHO, six vaccines are under phase 3 trials. Meanwhile, coronavirus cases globally stand at more than 19 million, with more than 7 lakh deaths that have occurred so far due to the covid -19 disease.

 

Husband cuts off wife's nose after she asked for divorce in Afghanistan

An Afghan man cut off his wife's nose with a kitchen knife after she asked for a divorce, officials said on Friday, amid a surge in domestic violence triggered by the coronavirus lockdown .

The mother of a seven-year-old boy was trying to leave her abusive husband, who had prevented her from moving out of their house in the southwestern province of Paktika, said Khoshboo Maidanwal, head of the provincial women's affairs department .

The attack on the 24-year-old victim happened earlier this month and police arrested the husband this week. The woman was sent to her father's home after treatment .

'The lockdown due to the coronavirus has made domestic situation even worse for women,' she said, adding that one reason behind the increase could be that more women are reporting abuse. 

Rights groups estimate that more than half Afghan women face domestic abuse at some point in their lives. 

Afghanistan has recorded a total of 6,053 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 153 fatalities. 

Lebanon Explosion , death toll rises to 154, wounded 5000.

Lebanon's cabinet declared a two-week state of emergency in the capital city and handed control of security in the capital to the military following a massive explosion in Beirut that killed at least 154 people and injured 5000 others and 300,000 homeless..

The explosion on Tuesday sent shockwaves across the city, causing widespread damage as far as the outskirts of Beirut.

Officials said they expect the death toll to rise further as emergency workers dig through the rubble to search for survivors.

Beirut's city governor Marwan Abboud said up to 300,000 people have lost their homes and authorities are working on providing them with food, water and shelter.
The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Officials linked the blast to some 2,750 tonnes of confiscated ammonium nitrate that were being stored in a warehouse at the port for six years .

People run for safe place following explosion in Beirut .