Here are the updates:
German health minister Jens Spahn told ZDF tv that he hoped there would be a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming months and indeed next year.
“I’m sure in the coming months, and next year, there’s probably going to be a vaccine,” Spahn said.
He refused to give a month express and said it was not yet imaginable to say how many times other people deserve to be vaccinated or how long they will be granted immunity.
India reported some other cumulative record for new coronavirus infections, while the number of COVID-19 deaths exceeded 47,000.
Infections increased to 66,999 on Thursday from the previous day to be successful in a total of approximately 2.4 million so far, India’s Ministry of Fitness said.
The country, with the largest number of instances in the world, the United States and Brazil, has now reported a jump of 50,000 or more instances each day for 15 consecutive days.
Ukraine recorded a record increase of 1,592 cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the National Security and Defense Council said.
The number of infections has increased dramatically in Ukraine in the past two months, as the government has eased some restrictions, allowing cafes, churches and public transport to reopen.
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Hong Kong International Airport said mainland Chinese passengers can simply transit Hong Kong to other destinations from August 15 to October 15, in a special twist for their dominant airline Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
Transit in the other direction, to mainland China, will continue to be banned at a time when the Chinese aviation regulator has seriously limited the number of foreign flights due to considerations of coronavirus.
Tourism giant TUI and the German government agreed on a major aid program to help the company in its 2020/21 winter season.
Chief executive Fritz Joussen said that while the organization had already brought “massive” reductions in charges, “no one knows when a vaccine or drug will be obtained and what effect the pandemic will have on individual markets in the coming months.”
Jorge Rodríguez, Venezuela’s communications minister and adviser to President Nicolás Maduro, said he had been diagnosed with coronavirus.
“While I’m in good general condition, I’ll have to respect the isolation measures and mandatory care to beat the virus,” Rodriguez said on Twitter.
Argentina and Mexico will produce the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for Latin America maximum, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said after an assembly with corporate executives involved in the project.
An agreement signed between British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and INSUD’s biogeneration company mAbxience includes the generation movement to produce first 150 million doses of the vaccine to supply all of Latin America Brazil, according to the Argentine government.
“Latin American production will be controlled in Argentina and Mexico, which will immediately and effectively allow for all countries in the region,” Fernandez said.
Mexican chancellor Marcelo Ebrard later said on Twitter that the deal had been pushed through Fernandez and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He said the vaccine could be produced through 250 million doses.
Players from the National Football League (NFL) in the United States can expect COVID-19 tests until September 5, the players’ union said before the start of next month.
The league has conducted 109075 COVID-19 tests between players and coaches from the start of education camps through Tuesday, NFL medical director Allen Sills told reporters with a positive overall rate of 0.46% and a positive player rate of 0.81%.
A total of 53 new positives were shown among players when they were admitted to the camp last month.
“Our purpose is the same: to have the safest environment imaginable for everyone,” Sills said. “We need to check to make sure there is no player, coach, staff member, officer, user, to enter a box with an active COVID infection.”
New Zealand reported 14 new cases of COVID-19, thirteen of which were transmitted infections, while the government was working to hint at the source of the country’s first outbreak in more than a hundred days.
There are now a total of 36 assets in the country.
“We can see the seriousness of the scenario we’re on,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said at a televised press conference, noting that the delight showed that “things will get worse before they get better.”
More are expected in the coming days, he said.
Authorities said the thirteen locally transmitted infections were connected to Auckland’s circle 4 of family members where the most recent outbreak was first detected. Three of the new instances were produced in a refrigerated garage facility where one of the members of the family circle worked.
The Actors’ Equity Association had asked Walt Disney Co to provide normal coronavirus evidence to its members, who wear a protective mask while acting as other park workers do.
Disney said Wednesday that it would supply the just outdoor area of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, for a verification site that runs through Florida’s Division of Emergency Management. The site will be open to Disney employees, known as cast members, and the public.
Australia nearly published its smaller one-day build-up in new COVID-19 instances in more than 3 weeks on Thursday, sparking hope that a momentary wave of new infections in Victoria would be controlled in spite of everything.
Victoria reported 278 new infections in the 24 hours, up from 410 the day before.
Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, reported 12 new cases, while the state of Queensland said it had discovered new COVID-19 infections in the following 24 hours.
Unless there is a strong buildup in cases of states that have eliminated the virus well, this means that the total of 290 cases in Australia would be the smallest buildup in a day of new coronavirus cases since July 20.
The Australian government cautiously welcomed the decline.
“We have to wait and see what happens in the coming week to make sure the downward slope continues in the coming days,” Australian Deputy Medical Director Michael Kidd told Channel 9.
Mexico’s Ministry of Health reported 5,858 new cases of coronavirus infection and 737 more deaths, bringing the total in the country to 498,380 cases and 54,666 deaths.
The government has stated that the actual number of other inflamed people is much higher than the cases shown.
The UN leader said at a Security Council assembly that several war-won parties had taken steps to reduce escalation and prevent fighting following their March 23 call for a rapid ceasefire in conflicts around the world to combat coronavirus.
“Unfortunately, in many cases, the pandemic has led the parties to suspend hostilities or agree on a permanent ceasefire,” Guterres said.
All of this makes our commitment to maintain peace more urgent than ever.”
The UN leader also warned that “without concerted action, inequality, global poverty and the prospect of instability and violence can grow in the coming years.”
Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra announced Sunday the return of a full curfew in reaction to a new outbreak of coronavirus cases in the country.
The Peruvian government has reported more than 489,000 infections, a average of more than 7,000 new cases consistent with the day, and the death rate consistent with millions in the Americas, over Chile, the United States, Brazil and Mexico.
A coronavirus contact search app manufactured for England will begin its public testing on Thursday, according to the BBC.
The software will build on Apple and Google’s privacy-focused approach to detecting one smartphone through another, the BBC said, adding that engineers were still looking for how often Bluetooth generation mistakenly indicates that other people are within two meters (6.6 feet). ) of any of the.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, one of President Donald Trump’s wisest negotiators with Democrats on assistance from U.S. coronavirus, has tried to blame a five-day interruption in talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Mnuchin questioned Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer that Republicans had invited more discussions but refused to give in to their initial $1 billion response.
He said Pelosi “has made it clear that she is unwilling to meet to continue negotiations unless we settle for his proposal in advance, which charges at least $2 trillion.”
The frictional problems between the two sides come with the amount of long-term unemployment benefit, assistance to state and local governments, effective for reopening schools, and other problems.
Congress has already approved about $3 trillion in aid for families, hospitals, health care workers, state and local governments, vaccines and testing.
A Reuters/Ipsos ballot released Wednesday found that Americans spread the blame lightly between Democrats and Republicans.
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