1.General Manager of TikTok Europe: in September, the number of monthly active users in Europe reached 100 million, which is similar to that in the United States. The European team continues to expand, with more than 1000 employees and will continue to recruit in the future. This year, TikTok posted more than 200 job openings in London and Dublin. 

2.About 207500 people died of measles in 2019, the highest in 23 years, as global measles vaccination failed to reach optimal coverage for a decade, according to a report released jointly by the World Health Organization ((WHO)) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States. 

3.Federal Reserve Chairman Colin Powell: the economic recovery in the United States is better than expected, but it is still quite slow and uneven. There is a difference between high-income people and low-income people, whose unemployment rate is as high as 20%. It is a positive factor in the medium term of the epidemic, but there is still a lot of uncertainty about when the vaccine will be launched, full production and how to distribute it. We should not prematurely evaluate the impact of the vaccine on economic recovery in the short term.

4.November 15 at 19:27 the EST,SpaceX manned dragon spacecraft blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket to send four astronauts to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s first commercial manned mission, Crew-1. 

5.On November 14, thousands of families in Texas stood in line to receive “relief food” from the epidemic, including people waiting in line for 12 hours all night. Organizers said it was the largest food distribution since the outbreak, and said that as the epidemic became more and more serious, public demand for food soared. On that day, about 8500 families received 600000 pounds of food (about 270000 kilograms), with a total population of about 25000 people. The organizers also distributed more than 7000 turkeys as Thanksgiving Day approached. 

6.Milan’s National Cancer Institute recently published the results of a study: novel coronavirus antibodies were detected in blood samples collected from some residents in September 2019, and positive blood samples were collected from 13 regions of Italy. 23 were collected in September 2019, 27 in October and 26 in November. This means that COVID-19 spread in Italy much earlier than in February this year.

7.The number of cancer cases worldwide is expected to reach 18.1 million in 2018, with about 9.6 million deaths, according to a report released by World Health Organization (WHO) International Cancer Research Institute ((IARC)). Among many cancers, the morbidity and mortality of lung cancer rank first, and the number of fatal cases accounts for 18.4% of the total cancer deaths.

8.According to statistics from several US media on the 13th, the ownership of electoral votes in all states in the United States has been confirmed. Biden won 306 electoral votes and Trump won 232. According to the election rules, the presidential candidate who gets more than 270 electoral votes wins. Currently, the Trump campaign has launched a series of lawsuits against the multi-state vote count, but it has been rejected in Michigan, Pennsylvania and other places.

9.18.3% of COVID-19 ‘s deaths in Africa were diabetic. Diabetics infected with novel coronavirus face a higher risk of serious illness and death, and people aged 60 and over are at greater risk. People who suffer from this chronic disease will suffer a double whammy if they are also infected with novel coronavirus.

10.Kenya Tea Development Authority: between July and October 2020, the price of tea at the Mombasa tea auction was 10% lower than that of the same period last year. A kilogram of black tea cost US$2.45 in the same period last year, and the average price this year is only US$2.2. Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Kenya in March, the average price of all tea at auction in Mombasa has fallen to US$1.89 a kilogram, compared with $2.01 in the same period in 2019.

11.According to an article on the website of the US “Foreign Policy” magazine, the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States has reached the level of “great disaster,” but the US government has not paid enough attention to the prevention and control of the epidemic. The Kaiser Family Foundation in the United States has been mapping the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States, marking the areas with the worst outbreak in red. At present, 49 of the 50 states in the United States have been marked red.

12.The Austrian government: will upgrade the national “blockade” measures from November 17 to contain the COVID-19 epidemic. The upgrading measures mainly include the closure of all commercial facilities, with the exception of supermarkets, drugstores, banks, post offices and other industries that ensure basic living supplies; all enterprises arrange employees to work from home as far as possible; and expand the scope of “grounding”. Residents are not allowed to leave their homes all day unless necessary; all primary and secondary schools are converted to distance learning.

13.Global anti-epidemic for 24 hours. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects 40,000 more deaths in the United States in the next three weeks, while Italy raises its risk levels by five regions.