World Coronavirus Dispatch: WHO to revise guidance on Remdesivir soon

Pfizer to seek FDA approval for Covid -19 vaccine in November, coronavirus drives US budget deficit to record, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Total Covid-19 cases in the US topped 8 million, Johns Hopkins University data showed. There were 63,330 cases reported on Thursday, the most in more than two months. Cases nationwide have been rising since mid-September, after a summertime peak as the virus spread through the Sun Belt. The trailing seven-day average of cases rose by almost 9 percent this week compared to the previous week, illustrating the upward curve faced by the US in less than three weeks before the general election. Read more here.

Let’s look at the global statistics: 


Total Confirmed Cases: 39,339,962


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