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Chilean government officials have presented a plan on Sunday to gradually relax lockdown restrictions after the coronavirus infection rate improved in some regions of the country.
The rest will take a position for five weeks on epidemiological criteria, the ability of the fitness formula and the ability to hint at cases, authorities said.
“These five weeks of improvement allow us to start a new stage today … This plan, which will be step by step, cautiously, prudently, will be applied gradually and flexibly,” said President Sebastian Pinera in the announcement, adding that 12 regions in the country had improved in recent weeks.
A giant component of the population remains lock and key. Chile has recently had 330,000 cases shown and more than 8,500 deaths.
Sudan showed 10992 of coronavirus, Sudan’s ministry of fitness said in a statement, adding that 230 new ones have been reported in the country in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, thirteen other people have died in the last 24 hours as a result of the virus raising the death toll to 693, he added.
More than 5,700 more people have recovered from COVID-19 in Sudan.
There was no agreement between EU leaders on how much in grants to offer member states most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, a diplomatic source said after three full days of fraught talks in Brussels.
The source said 350 billion euros was the maximum acceptable for a camp of thrifty northerners, compared to 400 billion seen as the bare minimum by many others, including Germany and France.
The United Nations has filed an urgent appeal for $283 million for Sudan to fight the coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences, as millions of others in the country face hunger.
“COVID-19 arrived in Sudan at a time when an increasing part of the population was already struggling to meet their basic needs and the health system was already under extreme stress,” said the UN’s Sudan humanitarian coordinator Gwi-Yeop Son.
She said the pandemic had worsened an economic crisis, hitting purchasing power, while movement restrictions had restricted people’s access to food, health care and basic services.
“Unless we act now, we’ll be ready for a series of human tragedies,” he said.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to explode internationally, with deaths increasing to 600,000 and countries from the United States to South Africa and India are experiencing an outbreak of new infections.
According to knowledge compiled through Johns Hopkins, confirmed global deaths from viruses have increased to 603,000. The United States tops the list with more than 140,000, followed by more than 78,000 in Brazil. Europe as a continent recorded around 200,000 deaths.
Experts believe the pandemic’s true toll around the world is much higher because of testing shortages and data collection issues.
The World Health Organization said 259,848 new infections were reported Saturday, its highest one-day increase yet.
People sunbathed and played in the sea along Barcelona’s beaches, ignoring pleas from Catalan authorities for area residents to stay at home as coronavirus cases continued to rise in one of Spain’s worst-hit regions.
As police patrolled in masks to ensure social distancing, Barceloneta beach, a favourite with tourists, reached capacity and had to be closed to new bathers on Sunday afternoon. People were queueing to access the beach.
Earlier in the day, authorities urged the more than 96,000 residents of three Catalan towns to stay home as part of a toughened response to the crisis.
On Friday, some four million people, including in Barcelona, were advised to leave their home only for essential trips.
It is greater for European Union leaders to agree on an ambitious monetary aid programme for the bloc than to reach a quick deal at all costs, said European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde.
“Ideally, the agreement of the leaders must be ambitious in terms of the length and composition of the package, in general in the sense of what has been proposed through the Commission,” Lagarde told Reuters.
“From my point of view, it’s best to agree on an ambitious facility in this direction, even if it takes a little longer. I hope leaders agree on something that’s ambitious than fast.”
The French face a fine of 135 euros ($154) from Monday for failing to comply with a new decree to wear a mask in public places, the announcement announced.
Masks are already required on public transport, punishable with a fine of the same amount, in a country that has lost over 30,150 people to the epidemic.
The health minister had said the new obligation will apply to shops and supermarkets, covered fresh produce markets, banks and other establishments that receive members of the public.
The health department announced contraventions can be punished with a fine of up to 135 euros – almost double the price of a monthly Paris public transport pass.
The German state of Bavaria will soon begin providing loose coronavirus evidence at airports for other people returning on holiday, Prime Minister Markus Soeder said.
Germany has been more successful than many of its neighbours in suppressing the virus, but considerations are being developed that returning travelers may lead to an increase in the number of new COVID-19 instances.
“I think we want to focus on the returning tourists,” Soeder told ZDF.
He said the local government was running to establish hubs at Bavarian airports “where everyone can be loose at any time.”
Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said he tried COVID-19, the first member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s wardrobe to contract the new coronavirus.
Onyeama, 64, said in a tweet that he had underwent a COVID-19 due to throat irritation.
“I did my fourth Covid-19 check at the first sign of throat inflammation and unfortunately this time came back positive,” he tweeted. “Go to the isolation in a gym and pray for the best.”
Florida reported more than 12,000 new instances of COVID-19, the fifth day in a row that the state announced more than 10,000 new infections.
Florida reported 89 new deaths on Sunday. According to a Reuters analysis, deaths in the state increased by more than 500, or 78%, in the last two weeks to the next two weeks.
An EU summit to agree on a massive economic bailout for the coronavirus in danger of collapsing without an agreement on Sunday as leaders struggled to find compromises on a third day of talks.
The 27 leaders fought for more than two days on the scale and regulations of the package, with the Netherlands leading an organization of “frugal” allies, it is not easy to reduce budgets and stricter situations for donations.
At the beginning of what she said was probably the third “decisive” day of the ordinary summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there were still many divisions among the leaders.
“I still can’t tell if you’ll find a solution,” he said. “There is a great deal of goodwill. However, there may be no effects today.”
British scientists analyzing knowledge of a widely used COVID-19 symptom tracking application have found that there are six different types of diseases, prominent through a symptom organization.
A team at King’s College London found that all six types were also correlated with the severity of the infection and the likelihood that a patient would want to breathe, such as oxygen or ventilator treatment, if he was hospitalized.
The findings could help doctors to predict which COVID-19 patients are most at risk and likely to need hospital care in future waves of the epidemic.
“If you can expect who those other people are on the fifth day, you have time to provide them with early interventions, such as tracking oxygen and blood sugar levels, and to make sure they’re well hydrated,” said Claire Steves, the doctor who co-directed the study.
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Pope Francis assures its closeness to all those who suffer with COVID-19 and its “economic and social consequences”.
Speaking Sunday from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square, Francis said that “the pandemic has no symptoms of stopping.”
He said he was thinking specifically of all those whose suffering in the pandemic is compounded by conflict.
Authorities in China’s western province of Xinjiang have declared a “war situation” as the region tries to fight the sudden accumulation of coronavirus cases. Xinjiang authorities reported that 17 showed cases and 23 asymptomatic infections early in The morning of Sunday, with 269 people under observation. A small midweek increase was observed and on Thursday, the government had put Urumqi, the region’s capital, under lock and key. Flights, subways and other railways were temporarily suspended.
The Catalan government has suggested that more than 96,000 people in 3 cities remain in their homes, as cases of coronavirus continue in one of the hardest-hit regions of Spain.
In addition, about 4 million more people in the region, adding in their capital, Barcelona, were invited to stay at home on Friday when the regional government hardened their reaction to the crisis.
Turkey suspended flights to Iran amid a coronavirus outbreak in the Islamic Republic, a spokesman for the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, Reza Jafarzadeh, told the official IRNA news agency.
The suspension of flights had begun on Saturday, he said.
The Philippines’ health department reported 58 deaths related to COVID-19 and 2,241 additional infections of the new coronavirus.
The total number of deaths is now 1,831, with 67,456 cases shown, he said in a bulletin.
The Philippines recorded 162 COVID-19 deaths a week ago, the highest daily rise in Southeast Asia so far.
Iranian fitness officials minimized President Hassan Rohani’s estimate that another 25 million people were inflamed with coronavirus, saying it was based on serological blood tests that measure exposure to the disease and cannot be trusted to show the current state of the disease.
The figure of 25 million advanced through Rohani on Saturday represents about one third of the population and much more than the official number of COVID-19 instances.
Officially, the number of cases is 273,788, with 14,188 deaths, Ministry of Health spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has rejected allegations that his country’s intelligence services sought to steal information about a coronavirus vaccine.
Andrei Kelin said in an interview broadcast on the BBC on Sunday that it “doesn’t make sense” in the accusations made last week in the US, UK and Canada.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said there were 4 primary divisive problems in EU leaders’ discussions on a massive economic recovery plan, however, the demonstration was taken into our minds to succeed in an agreement on its third day of negotiations.
“We are aware that we have to succeed in an agreement, we are negotiating under pressure that an agreement is a necessity,” Orban told reporters.
He listed the contentious issues as – the size of the new recovery fund; the proportion between free grants and repayable loans as part of that; the scale of rebates on the core EU budget for rich net payers; rule-of-law strings attached to handouts from the bloc.
Non-essential Hong Kong civil servants will work from home starting on Monday as the global financial hub tightens social distancing restrictions further amid an escalating third wave of coronavirus cases, the city’s leader Carrie Lam said.
Lam said the city had recorded more than a hundred cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the count from beyond January to about 1,800 patients, 12 of whom died.
The Pakistani government reported 1,579 new instances of COVID-19, the lowest number in more than a month, as an aptitude plan to resume a long-awaited national polio crusade next week.
Authorities have conducted 22,559 tests in the last 24 hours. Additional cases bring the total number of infections shown to 263,500, with a total of 5,568 deaths.
The infections coincide with Monday’s three-day polio crusade aimed at achieving 800,000 children.
Russia reported 6,109 new cases and 95 coronavirus deaths.
The number of infections nationwide increased to 771546 cases, the Russian Crisis Response Center of Coronavirus.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that it was imaginable that EU leaders simply failed to reach an agreement on their third day of talks on plans to bring the EU’s economies, which have been devastated by the coronavirus, to life.
“There is a lot of goodwill but also many positions. I’ll do everything I can, but it may not have worked,” he said in Brussels.
India recorded its largest build-up in COVID-19 instances to date with 38,902 new instances and 543 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The total number of infections in the country is now 1,077,618 to date, with a total number of deaths of 26,816, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health.
Coronavirus cases in Nigeria increased to 36,107 with 653 new infections, according to official statistics.
Six deaths were recorded in the West African country, with a total of 778, nigeria’s Centers for Disease Control (NCDC) said.
More than 14,900 more people have recovered from the virus in Nigeria.
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A fitness officer in the US state of Texas said up to 85 babies underwent coronavirus tests. Corpus Christi’s director of fitness, Annette Rodriguez, said the babies were a younger one, but they gave no additional details.
“These young children have not yet served their first birthday. Please help us prevent the spread of this disease” by staying home unless it’s a mandatory trip, taking social distance, and wearing a mask in public, Rodriguez said in a public fitness update.
According to the Johns Hopkins University count, the U.S. ins increased to 3.7 million, while more than 1.1 million patients recovered. More than 140,000 have died.
El Salvador will move to the reopening phase of its economy, announced President Nayib Bukele, the cases of the new coronavirus continue to accumulate in the Central American country.
Starting July 21, the manufacturing, footwear, paper and cardboard industries will reopen, as public transport, as a component of a plan presented through the government last month, according to the Reuters news agency.
El Salvador recorded a total of 11,508 coronaviruses and 324 deaths.
Albania has reported that 4008 showed cases of coronavirus and 111 deaths in general since the start of the pandemic in the country.
During the following month, the daily number of new instances ranged from 50 to 120, at least double the number from March to May, when the country was completely closed.
Health officials say other people wear masks, stay socially away and wash their hands. Masks are mandatory in enclosed spaces and Americans would likely receive a fine for not dressing with them in public or personal places.
People in Melbourne must now wear masks when leaving their homes as Victoria, Australia’s second-most-populous state, marked two weeks of triple-digit increases in new coronavirus infections on Sunday.
People not wearing face coverings will be fined 200 Australian dollars ($140), said Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews.
Victoria, which has forced nearly five million people into a partial six-week lockdown on July 9, reported 363 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, after 217 cases the previous day. Australia has recorded about 11,800 cases.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 202 to 201,574, Reuters news agency reported on Sunday quoting data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases.
The reported death toll has increased from 1 to 9,084, to the count.
Brazil reported on Saturday 28532 new deaths by COVID-19 and 921 in the last 24 hours, Reuters reported having submitted it to the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
The total number of instances in the country increased to 2,074,860, while 78,722 others died from COVID-19.
Brazil, the country with the worst-affected moment in the world after the United States, has begun to resume operations in many spaces despite the growing cases.
Deaths in the United States from the new coronavirus exceeded 140,000 on Saturday, while cases continued in 43 of the 50 states in the past two weeks, according to Johns Hopkins University and Reuters.
Since last June, the United States has noticed an increase in new cases and now, six weeks ago, deaths have also begun to increase, according to a weekly Reuters investigation of state and county data.
The United States loses about 5,000 people to the virus each week. By contrast, neighboring Canada has reported 8,800 deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
China announced on Sunday that thirteen new cases of coronavirus had been reported in Urumqi city in Xinjiang, bringing the total of the country’s newest local outbreak to at least 30, AP news firm reported.
Three new instances were brought into the country from abroad, raising the total number of instances shown in China to 83,660, 4,634 deaths.
Despite the Urumqi epidemic, China now has only another 251 people in treatment for COVID-19, according to the National Health Commission.
New instances of viruses in South Korea fell below 40 for a consecutive time on Sunday, however, the number of local transmissions exceeded that of the first imported instances in a week, according to the Yonhap news agency.
The country identified 34 new cases, taking the total caseload to 13,745. Of the newly reported cases, 21 were locally transmitted, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
The most recent count marks a steady decline of 61 new infections reported on Thursday and 60 on Friday, largely due to the higher number of imported cases.
Barcelona police are restricting some of the city’s beaches because bathers are ignoring regulations amid a coronavirus resurgence.
The Catalan fitness government reported more than 1,200 new instances on Saturday in the last 24 hours. The new outbreaks forced regional officials to announce a ban on meetings of more than 10 people that took effect on Saturday.
The Greek government has reported on 19 new coronaviruses in the last 24 hours, the Associated Press reported.
The total number of cases shown in Greece since the beginning of the epidemic is 3,983, with 194 deaths.
Despite the relatively low number of cases, authorities are concerned about increasing evidence that social distancing guidelines are not being followed. On Saturday, they extended the requirement to wear masks to supermarket customers – and they are considering expanding the mask requirement further.
South Africa now ranks fifth in the world for confirmed coronavirus cases as the African continent faces the pandemic’s first wave head-on, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
South Africa on Saturday reported 13,285 new confirmed cases for a total of 350,879. That puts the country ahead of Peru, and accounts for roughly half the cases in Africa.
Mexico’s Health Ministry has reported 7,615 new confirmed coronavirus infections and 578 additional deaths, bringing the total in the country to 338,913 cases and 38,888 deaths.
The government has said the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases, according to Reuters.
European Union leaders extended their summit until Sunday after failing to agree on a primary stimulus fund to revive their coronavirus-affected economies after two days of tense negotiations, Reuters said.
When the 27 leaders returned to their hotels after the end of Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron stayed at EU headquarters in Brussels to haggle with the Dutch-led campaign of saver countries, not easy cuts of 1.8 billion euros. ($2.06 billion). Find out more here.
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