MELBOURNE, Australia – The Australian state of Victoria reported on Wednesday a record 21 deaths from viruses and 410 new cases due to an outbreak in the city of Melbourne that resulted in a strict closure.
State Minister Daniel Andrews said 16 of the deaths were similar to nursing home facilities. The number of new cases in Victoria has declined from the peak, giving the government hope that the epidemic will subside.
Meanwhile, three Melbourne academics have been fined after posting videos on social media in which they appeared violating the night’s curfews for a McDonald’s race, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
The five-minute video, which has since been removed, showed academics walking down the alleys, dodging police officers and dancing at the restaurant, ABC reported.
Victoria police showed that each student was fined A$1,652 ($1,178).
The state of New South Wales reported 18 new cases on Wednesday, two of which were connected to a staff organisation in Sydney.
In progress in the Asia-Pacific region:
– The New Zealand fitness government was running to locate the source of a new outbreak when the country’s largest city returned to the lockout. The 4 cases reported in an Auckland outbreak are the first cases of local transmission in New Zealand in 102 days. The remaining 22 were in mandatory quarantine after returning from abroad. Two of the other inflamed people had traveled the city of Rotorua to the tourist last weekend with symptoms, and the government sought to stay awake.
– The number of coronavirus cases in India exceeded 2.3 million after adding 60963 new cases in the last 24 hours. India also reported 834 deaths on Wednesday, bringing its death toll to 46,091. India has the third highest number of cases after the United States and Brazil, but only the fifth highest number of deaths, and the government says the mortality rate has fallen below 2% for the first time. Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested to leaders in 10 states representing about 80% of India’s general bodies that rigorous containment, follow-up and contact seek to reduce the mortality rate below 1%. Modi also requested more testing in several states.
– The Singapore government says that maximum foreign personnel can now repaint because their bedrooms have been cleaned from COVID-19 after months of blocking and virus testing. People living in crowded dormitories accounted for the majority of Singapore’s 55,353 cases. Only 27 deaths were recorded in the small island state. The Ministry of Labour said last Tuesday that all bedrooms of 17 separate blocks serving as quarantine facilities had been cleaned. He said all foreign personnel living in those dormitories have been recovered or tested virus-free, with the ion of 22,500 lone employees. He said most could now return to paints, adding 81% of the 387,000 employees in total in the construction, shipyard and procedures industries.
– South Korea has reported 54 new coVID-19 cases such as government paints of fitness to stop transmissions as a component of superior social and recreational activities. Figures announced through the South Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised the total number of cases to 14,714, adding up to 305 deaths. The media says 35 of the new instances were local streams, all still 3 from the Seoul area. The other 19 cases were similar to foreign arrivals. Health governments should be less threatening to the community, as others arriving from abroad are subject to mandatory testing and two-week quarantines.
– New cases of domestic coronavirus in China fell to a figure on Wednesday, while Hong Kong reported only 33 new cases. The National Health Commission said the nine new cases had been discovered in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose capital, Urumqi, was in the midst of China’s last primary outbreak. Another 25 cases were brought through Chinese travelers who arrived from abroad. Hong Kong, which is densely populated, also recorded six other deaths, bringing the total to 58 deaths from 4,181 cases. The government has ordered the use of mask in public places, restrictions on indoor food and other measures of social estrangement in order to involve the latest epidemic.
– A municipal government in China donated 40,000 medical grade masks to the Maryland capital amid the coronavirus pandemic. Changsha’s gift, China, was first presented to Annapolis city officials in April, when the need for masks among public protection personnel was superior at the start of the pandemic, Annapolis city manager David Jarrell said in a statement. Both municipalities are sister cities. The mask arrived this month, with one of the boxes containing American and Chinese flag stickers with a message that reads: “Come on, annapolis city! Changsha’s best wishes! True unity inspires others to paint in combination to succeed over adversity. The Capital Gazette reported. A note from Yani Xia, representative of the Chinese city’s foreign affairs office, accompanied the shipment. “We sincerely hope that you and all the inhabitants of Annapolis will remain healthy and have the courage to persevere at this difficult time,” he reads. Annapolis’ appointments with Changsha began with a former city administrator, according to Jarrell’s statement.