1.Association officially announced that Ronaldo novel coronavirus tested positive. At present, the players are in good condition, have no symptoms, are being quarantined, and the test results of the rest of the team are negative. Two days ago, Portugal drew 0-0 with France in the Europa League group stage, and Cristiano Ronaldo started for 90 minutes.

2.Organization (WHO): compared with the initial stage of the epidemic, the mortality rate of COVID-19 has decreased in many countries, in part because of the enhanced detection ability, more testing and tracking contacts can be done, thus more mild cases can be found. In addition, the age of infected people has changed, and many infections occur in social occasions and places of entertainment, while young people have fewer basic diseases and develop into COVID-19 ‘s critically ill patients than the elderly.

3.Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and Harvard University economics professor David Cutler released the results that the COVID-19 epidemic is expected to cause about U$16 trillion in economic losses to the United States. Of this loss of about US $16 trillion, about US $7.6 trillion is the direct economic loss caused by the decline of GDP, and about US $8.4 trillion is the indirect economic loss caused by premature death, long-term health damage, mental health damage and so on.

4.SensorTower:Google topped the global list of mobile app publishers in September with 294 million downloads, up 20 per cent from a year earlier. Facebook ranks second with more than 204 million downloads. The other three publishers in the top five are Voodoo,AppLovin and byte jump. 

5.[World Health Organization (WHO)] compared with the initial stage of the epidemic, COVID-19 ‘s mortality rate has decreased in many countries, in part because of enhanced detection capacity, more testing and tracking of contacts, resulting in more mild cases. In addition, the age of infected people has changed, and many infections occur in social occasions and places of entertainment, while young people have fewer basic diseases and develop into COVID-19 ‘s critically ill patients than the elderly.

6.According to the report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in the past 50 years, there have been more than 11000 weather, climate and water-induced disasters around the world, resulting in 2 million deaths and 3.6 trillion US dollars in economic losses. although the average death toll in each disaster has dropped by 1/3, the number of recorded disasters has increased fivefold and economic losses have increased sevenfold. The construction of climate risk and early warning system needs to be further strengthened.

7.NASA: announced the latest arrangements for the Artemis moon landing plan. Sending astronauts to the moon in 2024, in three steps, will cost U$28 billion, of which U$16 billion will be spent on the development of the lunar module. The Artemis 1 mission, an unmanned flight, will begin in November 2021. In 2023, Artemis 2 will carry astronauts around the moon, but will not land on the moon. In 2024, Artemis 3 will land on the moon.

8.WSA: global steel demand is expected to fall 2.4 % to 1.725 billion tonnes in 2020, compared with 6.4 % previously expected. China’s share of the world’s stainless steel production is expected to rise to about 60% this year. Although the output ranks first in the world, the main raw materials for stainless steel production in China, nickel and chromium resources, are highly dependent on imports, of which the external dependence of nickel ore is more than 80%; the external dependence of chromium ore is close to 100%.

9.Two famous American singers Madonna and Rihanna have been named in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the 100 richest self-made female entrepreneurs in the United States. Among them, Rihanna ranked 33rd with an annual income of US$ 600m and Madonna ranked 40th with an income of US$550 million. Celine Dion ranked 51st (US$455 million) and Beyonce ranked 55th (US$420 million).