WHO reports worrying rise; second Venezuelan minister tests positive; Brazil records 1,200 more deaths
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US prison officials have announced California will release up to 8,000 people from state prisons to curb the spread of Covid-19 throughout the institutions.
Authorities announced three separate efforts, approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom, on Friday, which said they will reduce the criminal population to 8,000 by the end of August. These measures mark the maximum life-liberation efforts that the State Administration has made since Covid-19 began circulating among criminal and imprisoned persons.
The first initiative expands a previous effort to speed up the release of others with just 180 days to serve serious crime sentences.
The measure of the moment is a rapid review of instances of others less than a year old to serve in 8 prisons with giant populations at the greatest threat of Covid-19 headaches.
In Australia, most Victorians are waking up this morning for their first weekend of return patron lock, which took effect on Thursday. Border states, namely New South Wales, are on high alert after Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews announced a new record of 288 instances on Friday, the largest accumulation of any state since the start of the pandemic. He warned that the numbers would increase in the coming days.
The blockade led the government to announce a $500 million stimulus package for affected companies. Andrews also said Melbourne would avoid taking foreign flights for at least two weeks as he ran into the outbreak.
There are now 47 people in hospital in the state, including 12 in intensive care. The vast majority of the 288 new cases have been locally acquired. By comparison, New South Wales reported just 14 new cases on Friday, with 12 of those in returned travellers now in hotel quarantine.
Meanwhile, to ensure that no more cases of viruses are imported while Victoria tries to regain control, Australia’s national cabinet, made up of the Prime Minister and state and territorial leaders, has to limit the number of incoming flights allowed in Australia.
The replacement means at least 4,000 fewer Australians will return home week. Prime Minister Scott Morrison stated that the replacement meant “it will be more difficult” for Australians to come home.
Dr Kerry Chant, NSW’s Director of Health, suggested that the network be incredibly alert after the closure of the Victoria-New South Wales border to prevent the spread of the virus on Wednesday. The border will remain closed for at least six weeks, the first time it closes in more than a hundred years.
Brazil has suffered 1,214 more deaths and recorded another 45,048 instances in 24 hours, its ministry of physical fitness said. The country has now recorded a total of 1,800,827 cases shown and 70,398 deaths.
The pandemic has led to the biggest drop in heat entrapment emissions in human history, in a new study.
Locks, bans and closures of production sites have resulted in a 4.6% drop in global emissions, or 2.5 gigatonnes, according to a University of Sydney review of 38 regions and 26 sectors published in Plos One magazine. Fine particulate pollutants decreased by 3.8% and two other types of air pollutants decreased by 2.9%: sulfur dioxide, which is connected to a number of respiratory disorders, and nitrogen oxide, which leads to contamination.
The largest decreases in emissions occurred in the United States and China, largely due to floor air and reduced consumption of electricity, water, and fuel, but had a significant economic cost.
From February to May, the test found that the pandemic had caused 147 million people, or 4.2% of the global workforce, to lose full-time jobs and caused a $3.8 billion fall in consumption, making it the worst economic surprise since The Great Depression, according to co-author Arunima Malik.
A federal ruling passed by the United States issued a court order prohibiting what would have been the first execution of a federal prisoner in 17 years the Monday after the prosecution of the victims’ family circle, saying they feared that their presence would disclose them to Covid-19, Reuters reports. .
Daniel Lewis Lee was convicted of murdering three members of the Arkansas Family Circle in 1996, but some relatives of his patients opposed his death sentence.
Relatives said they were entitled to the execution if it occurred, but sued the Department of Justice in the U.S. Indianapolis District Court. To block execution until the pandemic passed.
In Australia, the leader of the Labour Senate and foreign affairs spokesman argues that the pandemic “has strengthened the machist tension of nationalism” while fueling the degrees of destructive “mistrust” between countries, and Australia cannot resist as long as the pandemic hastened threats to the world. Order.
Penny Wong presents a more autonomous and globally active case for Australia in a rehearsal for the next edition of Australia’s Foreign Affairs newspaper.
He also warns that nationalism, xenophobia and extremism are on the rise around the world, and Australia’s collective responses to existing demanding situations will have to focus on unity and leaders will not have to be in classes of the 1930s.
Here is a summary of the events:
Coronavirus deaths among Americans aged 65 years and younger are less common among white people than any other group, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported.
Overall, 34.9% of deceased Hispanic patients were under the age of 65, while 29.5% of those in an ethnic organization other than the deceased whites were under the age of 65, at just 13.2% of non-Hispanic white deaths, Reuters reported. .
Researchers analyzed 10647 deaths between February 12 and April 24, 2020 in 16 public fitness departments in 15 states. Most of the deaths occurred in New York, as well as in the states of New Jersey and Washington; 3 spaces hit very early.
Most of those who died were older than 65 years and had underlying medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes, according to the report in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
All ethnic groups other than white were disproportionately affected when compared to their share of the US population, the report said.
While underlying medical conditions are known to be risk factors in coronavirus-related deaths, researchers were not able to assess how race or ethnicity contributed. The researchers noted that a larger proportion of people of colour work in occupations or essential activities that do not allow physical distancing.
In June, the US Department of Health and Human Services asked laboratories to report a patient’s age and ethnicity along with Covid-19 test results, to better understand why the respiratory illness affects certain demographics more severely.
Although additional studies are needed, researchers said understanding the points that contribute to differences in mortality can help communication to inspire at-risk teams to seek temporary care if they get sick.
El Aissami, who was named to the position this year and also serves as the country’s economic vice president, has been indicted in the United States on drug trafficking allegations he denies. He said he was beginning self-isolation.
“A new battle that I will take on, clinging to God and to life,” he wrote in his tweet. Omar Prieto, the governor of the western Zulia state, has also tested positive. Venezuela has reported 8,010 cases – far fewer than Latin American neighbours, such as Brazil – but its cases have risen at a brisker pace in recent weeks.
Another Venezuelan said she tested positive. Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami tweeted that he was isolated Friday after his trial.
He quoted the lyrics to the songs: “The game is momentary, I do write goodbye” and added, “We will win!”
His tweet comes a day after Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s number two leader and leader of the Socialist Party, announced his diagnosis on social media.
Kuwait has advised its citizens and residents against travelling abroad because it does not consider the global pandemic to be under control, its health ministry has said. Last month, Kuwait’s communications office said commercial flights at Kuwait International Airport would resume from 1 August, having been suspended in March.
France has the sixth country to report a death toll of more than 30,000, publishing its most recent official account.
The country’s ministry of fitness said 25 other people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total from early March to 30,004.
Friday’s accumulation compares to an average accumulation of 15 in the last seven days. Reuters reported that in June, France had an average of 34 new deaths consistent with the day, compared to 143 in May and 695 in April.
The number of other people hospitalized fell from 115 to 7062, with a downward trend of several weeks, and the number of other people in intensive care fell from 16 to 496, the first time the number fell to less than 500 since mid-March. . Training
The City of Melbourne returned to the close on 8 July after Victoria registered 191 new instances since the beginning of the week, which at the time was the largest daily accumulation since the start of the pandemic.
Melissa Davey of Guardian Australia explains why Level 3 housing orders were announced, how the newest lock was received with an addition of fury and acceptance, and whether this obvious ‘second wave’ could have been avoided:
Below is a review of the world’s most sensible news today.
Serbia announced on Friday a record number of coronavirus deaths for a single day, as it responded to protests opposed to its handling of the pandemic.
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the state of the Balkans had recorded 18 deaths and 386 new ones in 24 hours, described as a “dramatic increase.”
Meanwhile, Brnabic criticized Thursday’s “irresponsible” protests for the third day in a row in Belgrade and the cities, after protests in the capital the last two days turned into violence.
“When it comes to protests, there is no more irresponsible behavior right now,” Brnabic said.
“We will see the effects of the protests in 3 to 4 days,” he said, and asked others to “respect the current measures” to restrict the spread of the virus.
A driving force of a French bus declared brain death after an attack on passengers who refused to wear face masks, died Friday, his circle of relatives told AFP.
Philippe Monguillot, 59, died in hospital, said his daughter Marie. “We must let him go. The doctors were in favor and so were we,” he said.
Monguillot attacked Sunday in the southwestern town of Bayonne after asking 3 passengers to wear a mask, in accordance with coronavirus regulations in France, and attempt to verify another man’s ticket.
Two men were charged with attempted murder, another two for not lending a hand to a user in distress and another for trying to hide a suspect, the local prosecutor’s workplace said.
The two defendants of attempted murder are 22 and 23. In the past, the police knew them.
The Czech Republic reported 82 new instances of the new coronavirus defeated on Friday afternoon, bringing its total from the start of the pandemic to more than 13,000, following a recent accumulation of infections caused by local epidemics. The country of 10.7 million other people reported 352 deaths in the country. Covid-19, much less than its western European neighbors. It is one of the first European countries to impose drastic blockade measures to combat the pandemic in March, but has lifted many restrictions since May. Since June 18, it has reported at least one hundred new instances per day 14 times, most recently on Thursday when the highest peak occurred on June 28 when 305 new instances were reported. The accumulation largely caused an outbreak in an eastern mining region that led state coal miner OKD to close its mines in the region in early July. Health officials said the epidemic contained there, however, the government has been criticized for its slow speed of action. Other smaller shoots were also observed at two other local speeds last week.