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WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies said on Friday they may never be able to identify the origins of COVID-19, as they released a new, more detailed version of their review of whether the coronavirus came from animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab.

The Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said in a declassified report that a natural origin and a lab leak are both plausible hypotheses for how SARS-COV-2 first infected humans. But it said analysts disagree on which is more likely or whether any definitive assessment can be made at all.

The report also dismissed suggestions that the coronavirus originated as a bioweapon, saying proponents of this theory "do not have direct access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology" and have been accused of spreading disinformation.

The report issued on Friday is an update of a 90-day review that President Joe Biden's administration released in August, amid intense political infighting over how much to blame China for the effects of the global pandemic rather than governments that may not have moved quickly enough to protect citizens.

China responded on Friday by criticizing the report.

"The US moves of relying on its intelligence apparatus instead of scientists to trace the origins of COVID-19 is a complete political farce," Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said in an emailed statement.

"... It will only undermine science-based origins study and hinder the global effort of finding the source of the virus," the statement said.

Former Republican President Donald Trump - who lost his bid for re-election as the deadly pandemic ravaged the U.S. economy - and many of his supporters referred to COVID-19 as the "China virus."

Security personnel keep watch outside Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), inWuhan, Hubei province, China February 3, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

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Some U.S. spy agencies had strongly favored the explanation that the virus originated in nature. But there has been little corroboration and over recent months the virus has spread widely and naturally among wild animals.

The ODNI report said four U.S. spy agencies and a multi-agency body have "low confidence" that COVID-19 originated with an infected animal or a related virus.

But one agency said it had "moderate confidence" that the first human COVID-19 infection most likely was the result of a laboratory accident, probably involving experimentation or animal handling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

U.S. spy agencies believe they will not be able to produce a more definitive explanation for the origin of COVID-19 without new information demonstrating that the virus took a specific pathway from animals to humans or that a Wuhan laboratory was handling the virus or a related virus before COVID-19 surfaced.

The report said U.S. agencies and the global scientific community lacked "clinical samples or a complete understanding of epidemiological data from the earliest COVID-19 cases" and said it could revisit this inconclusive finding if more evidence surfaces.

China has faced international criticism for failing to cooperate more fully in investigations of COVID's origins.

The embassy statement also dismissed that criticism.

"We have been supporting science-based efforts on origins tracing, and will continue to stay actively engaged. That said, we firmly oppose attempts to politicize this issue," it said.

Reporting by Mark Hosenball and Patricia Zengerle; additional reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Writing by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Sandra Maler and Sonya Hepinstall

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Fourmore Mainers have died while health officials on Saturday reported another 588coronavirus cases across the state.

Saturdays report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 104,259,according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Thats up from 103,671 on Friday.

Of those, 74,444have been confirmed positive, while 29,815were classified as probable cases, the Maine CDC reported.

Two men and two women in their 60s, 70s and 80s from Androscoggin, Cumberland and York counties have succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,167.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 6,534. This is an estimation of the current number of active cases in the state, as the Maine CDC is no longer tracking recoveries for all patients. Thats up from 6,488 on Friday.

The new case rate statewide Saturday was 4.39 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 778.98.

Maines seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 470.3, unchanged from the day before, up from 463.7 a week ago and down from 586.6 a month ago. That average peaked on Jan. 14 at 625.3.

The most cases have been detected in Mainers younger than 20, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases have been recorded in women and more deaths in men.

So far, 2,791 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Of those, 195 are currently hospitalized, with 71 in critical care and 39 on a ventilator. Overall, 41 out of 336 critical care beds and 205 out of 305 ventilators are available.

The total statewide hospitalization rate on Saturday was 20.85 patients per 10,000 residents.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (10,973), Aroostook (4,016), Cumberland (22,138), Franklin (2,393), Hancock (2,884), Kennebec (9,939), Knox (2,063), Lincoln (1,836), Oxford (5,258), Penobscot (12,321), Piscataquis (1,334), Sagadahoc (2,026), Somerset (4,510), Waldo (2,495), Washington (1,928) and York (18,123) counties. Information about where an additional 22 cases have been reported wasnt immediately available.

An additional 4,341 vaccine doses were administered in the previous 24 hours. As of Saturday, 933,765 Mainers are fully vaccinated, or about 78.8 percent of eligible Mainers, according to the Maine CDC.

New Hampshire reported 2,076 new cases on Saturday and 21 deaths. Vermont reported 299 new cases and four deaths, while Massachusetts reported 1,391 new cases and 11 deaths.

As of Saturday afternoon, the coronavirus had sickened 45,942,788 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as caused 745,622 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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Illinois health officials on Friday reported 14,616 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, along with 183 additional deaths and over 348,196 new vaccine doses administered.

In all, 1,695,524 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the state since the pandemic began, according to the latest data from the Illinois Department of Public Health. The additional deaths reported this week bring the state to 25,771 confirmed COVID fatalities.

The state has administered 796,018 tests since last Friday, officials said, bringing the total to more than 35 million tests conducted during the pandemic.

The states seven-day positivity rate on all tests remained at 2.2% last week, officials said. The rolling average seven-day positivity rate for cases as a percentage of total tests dropped to 1.8% from 2% one week prior.

Over the past seven days, a total of 348,196 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered to Illinois residents. The latest figures brought the states average to 49,742 daily vaccination doses over the last week, per IDPH data.

More than 15.5 million vaccine doses have been administered in Illinois since vaccinations began in December. More than 54% of Illinois resident are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with more than 69% receiving at least one dose.

As of midnight Thursday, 1,256 patients were hospitalized due to COVID in the state. Of those patients, 281 are in ICU beds, and 133 are on ventilators.

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Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 245.5 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths stands at more than 4.98 million. More than 6.94 billion vaccination doses have been administered globally, according to Our World in Data.

Pfizer and BioNTech have agreed a contract to supply 50 million COVID-19 vaccines for US children.

Malaysia has also announced it will buy the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11.

New COVID-19 cases in Britain are down nearly 10% in the past week, with 39,842 new confirmed cases reported yesterday.

It comes as the UK announces will it will remove the final seven countries on its COVID-19 travel 'red list'. New arrivals from these countries - Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela - are currently required to spend 10 days in hotel quarantine.

COVID-19 restrictions have been tightened in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. It comes as the country reported new record daily COVID-19 cases - 26,071.

From Monday, some COVID-19 restrictions will be eased in South Korea, marking the start of its plan to 'live with COVID-19'.

One hundred former presidents, prime ministers and government ministers have written to the G20 urging them to agree on how to transfer surplus COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries.

COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at Australia's Casey research station in Antarctica, authorities said on Friday, allowing researchers to be inoculated before they return home.

Moscow has introduced its strictest COVID-19 curbs in more than a year as nationwide cases and deaths hit new highs.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and other aid groups have appealed to leaders of the world's biggest 20 economies to fund a $23.4 billion plan to bring COVID-19 vaccines, tests and drugs to the world's poorest countries in the next 12 months.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Group of 20, whose leaders are meeting in Rome at the weekend, had the political and financial power needed to end the pandemic by funding the plan, which he said could save five million lives.

"The request is for $23.4 billion. That's a fair amount of money, but if you compare with the damage also done to global economy by the pandemic it is not really that much," Carl Bildt, WHO Special Envoy to the ACT-Accelerator, told reporters earlier.

"I hope and urge that the G20 will make a commitment to end the pandemic," Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, whose country co-chairs the fund-raising effort, told the media briefing.

The WHO has warned that less than 10% of African countries are set to hit the year-end target of fully vaccinating 40% of their populations unless efforts are made to accelerate the pace.

Just five African countries are on course to hit the goal, with just three - Seychelles, Mauritius and Morocco - having already done so. Only Tunisia and Cabo Verde are set to join them.

It's not just vaccine dose supplies that are a concern, though. UNICEF has reported an imminent shortfall of up to 2.2 billion auto-disable syringes for COVID-19 vaccination and routine immunization in 2022.

The looming threat of a vaccine commodities crisis hangs over the continent. Early next year COVID-19 vaccines will start pouring into Africa, but a scarcity of syringes could paralyze progress. Drastic measures must be taken to boost syringe production, fast. Countless African lives depend on it, said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

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Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 245 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths stands at more than 4.97 million. More than 6.92 billion vaccination doses have been administered globally, according to Our World in Data.

Some border cities in northeastern China have started to tighten COVID-19 measures after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, that's affecting a number of areas.

Australia has eased its COVID-19-related travel advice for several countries, including the United States, Britain and Canada as it prepares to reopen its borders next week.

Merck has signed an agreement with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool that will allow more companies to manufacture generic versions of its experimental oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment.

Novavax has announced it has completed the real-time submission of an application for the authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the United Kingdom.

New daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in Poland have risen to their highest levels since April, with 8,361 reported yesterday.

Sweden will start to offer COVID-19 booster shots to people aged 65 or older, as well as many care workers, the government said yesterday. It plans to gradually extend third jabs to most Swedes.

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COVID-19 appears to be retreating across most of North, Central and South America, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported yesterday. Last week, the continent's death and case figures were the lowest in over a year, the organization said.

Many of the larger Caribbean islands are seeing downward trends, including Cuba, the site of a major months-long COVID-19 outbreak. However, Paraguay saw a doubling of coronavirus cases in the last week and Belize a sharp jump in COVID-related deaths, the PAHO said in a briefing.

"We have reason to be optimistic, but we must remain vigilant," PAHO Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa said.

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Singapore is looking into an 'unusual surge' of 5,324 new COVID-19 infections, its health ministry has announced. It's the highest such figure since the start of the pandemic.

"The infection numbers are unusually high today, mostly due to many COVID-positive cases detected by the testing laboratories within a few hours in the afternoon," the health ministry said in a statement.

"The Ministry of Health is looking into this unusual surge in cases within a relatively short window, and closely monitoring the trends for the next few days," it added in Wednesday's statement.

Intensive care utilization rate is nearly 80%, and last week the country extended some social curbs for around a month to tackle a rise in cases and ease pressure on the health system.

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A further 41,278 coronavirus cases and 166 related deaths have been reported in the UK, the latest government figures show.

It compares with yesterday's figures when 43,467 positive COVID-19 infections and a further 186 deaths were logged, and this time last week, when 44,985 cases and 134 fatalities were recorded.

A total of 49,922,090 first doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the UK, while 45,672,948 second doses have been given.

Meanwhile, the latest data shows that 7,564,463 booster jabs, or third doses of a coronavirus vaccine, have been administered so far.

The total number of COVID vaccine doses administered in the UK now stands at 103,159,461.

The latest figures come as coronavirus infections in England have increased to their highest level since the beginning of the year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Around one in 50 people had the virus in the week ending 22 October - the highest level since 2 January, the body reported.

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That is the same proportion of people who were estimated to have coronavirus at the peak of the second wave in early January.

The weekly R - or reproductive - number in England is estimated to have risen to between 1.1 and 1.3 - with the number of COVID infections in the country now at its highest level since January.

The pandemic appears to be growing in England, as the R figure was estimated to be between 1.0 and 1.2 last week.

The R number indicates the average number of people each COVID-positive person goes on to infect.

Elsewhere, the ONS also said this week that the percentage of people testing positive remains highest for those in school years 7 to 11, at 9.1%.

Hospital admissions and deaths remain well below levels seen during the second wave in January, despite the prevalence of COVID-19 across the four nations.

Government data on Friday showed that over seven million of the UK's most vulnerable people had so far received their COVID-19 booster jab - with more than two million being administered in the last seven days alone.

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Health Secretary Sajid Javid has urged people to get their booster jab as the colder weather usually leads to increased transmission of viruses and will be challenging for the NHS.

"Our life-saving booster vaccines are ensuring millions are protected over the winter - and it's fantastic that more than seven million people have now received their third jab," he said.

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A month ago, health experts thought Utah might have seen the worst of its autumn surge of the coronavirus. Cases were declining and hospitalizations were beginning to plateau.

But since mid-October, case counts have been rising rapidly again, driven by new outbreaks in some of Utahs less-vaccinated, rural communities.

Nearly 1 in 59 residents of Carbon County and 1 in 63 residents of Emery County tested positive in the past two weeks, according to Thursday data from the Utah Department of Health. Rates werent much lower in Box Elder, Morgan, and Tooele counties.

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In eight communities, more than 1 in every 100 residents have tested positive in the past two weeks. Six of those areas posted vaccination rates of less than 45 percent: rural Box Elder County, Tremonton, Carbon County, Emery County, rural Tooele County and the Tooele Valley.

The seventh, Morgan County, reports that 45.3% of its residents are fully vaccinated. That leaves only one of the eight Brigham City with more than half of its residents (50.2%) fully vaccinated.

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In Salt Lake County, over the last two weeks, the rolling seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases has risen from 399 per day on Oct. 14 to 497 per day on Oct. 27, according to the county health departments data.

Its 14-day case rate is 559.3 cases per 100,000 people or one out of every 179 people. Salt Lake County also boasts 59.5% of its people are fully vaccinated, a higher percentage than the less-populated communities with the highest case rates.

Southeast Utah provides an apt example of the effect of vaccination rates, said Bradon Bradford, director of the health department that oversees the three counties.

Grand County whose tourist center of Moab has made it a COVID-19 hotspot on and off during the pandemic reported less than half of the cases per capita than neighboring Emery and Carbon counties, which have the worst rates in the state.

In Carbon and Emery counties, the rate of fully vaccinated people is just not incredibly high, Bradford said.

Among those eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination, 50.76% of Carbon County residents, and 48.25% of Emery County residents, are fully vaccinated, according to the Southeast Utah Health Departments dashboard.

In contrast, Grand County has 68.5% of its eligible population fully vaccinated. Grand County also has a mask mandate in place, Bradford noted.

Grand County is doing much better than Carbon County and Emery County, Bradford said. Certainly, we dont think of it as an experiment, but realistically, theres a lot to be gleaned from whats happening in our different counties.

Natural immunity does not appear to account for Grand Countys advantage in the recent surge. While influxes in tourists have led to sharp spikes in cases there, overall, since the pandemic began, a slightly smaller percentage of its residents have tested positive than in Emery or Carbon counties.

Castleview Hospital in Price recently issued a letter, basically a plea for help to the community, Bradford said. The letter, signed by hospital CEO Greg Cook, urged residents of Carbon and Emery counties to seriously consider getting vaccinated, as well as to wear masks indoors in large groups, and maintain social distance. Cook also advised people not to delay emergency care.

The uptick in hospitalizations, Bradford said, is putting a strain on a lot of their supply chain, oxygen in particular. Theyre going through a lot of oxygen. And the whole situation, as we hear from throughout the country, is really wearing on their staff.

Bradford said his department has heard from people who have close friends or relatives that are impacted by COVID, and in a serious way, and still continue think that its not going to reach out and touch their lives. Either they dont think theyre going to get exposed, or they dont think theyre going to get sick. So they dont access this very miraculous vaccine.

Case rates also were exceptionally high in Box Elder County, where vaccination rates ranged from 34% in Tremonton to 50% in Brigham City.

But low vaccination rates arent the only reason for the case spikes in Box Elder County, said Estee Hunt, spokeswoman for the Bear River Health Department. Hunt said poor access to COVID-19 testing is one factor, because that means people are more likely to go out in public without knowing whether they are carrying the coronavirus.

Also, Hunt said, the county has seen a number of outbreaks in elementary schools in recent weeks.

[Read more: Its real: Utah doctors and nurses talk about treating kids sick and dying from COVID-19]

Not all communities with low vaccination rates are reporting the states highest case rates. While transmission levels are deemed very high statewide, case rates were below 1 in 250 residents in six of Utahs 99 small areas. Health officials use the small-area data to track local health trends.

In those six communities with low case rates, three reported less than half of residents were fully vaccinated: Provo, near Brigham Young University and east of city center, and Hurricane and La Verkin.

The other three spots with low case rates were Park City, Cottonwood Heights and the west side of Orem.

But none of the states most-vaccinated communities reported anything close to the states highest case rates.

Of 20 communities that are more than 60% vaccinated, only one Midvale reported new cases for more than 1 in 150 residents. Nearly all of the rest reported new cases in less than 1 in 175 residents.

The Bear River Health Department, Hunt said, is ramping up testing in Box Elder County. The department recently began offering testing every day of the week in Brigham City, and four days per week in Tremonton.

Hunt said her department is preparing to distribute at-home coronavirus testing kits, to help vulnerable populations who may not be able to get to a testing site.

In Carbon and Emery counties, Bradford said his department has increased availability of testing, so we can hope to overcome this current surge.

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