U.S. President Donald Trump has signed executive orders that partially restore early unemployment bills to tens of millions of Americans who lost their jobs on the coronavirus pandemic, while the United States has hit nearly five million cases of COVID-19, according to Reuters news. Agency.
Negotiations failed this week between the White House and top Democrats in Congress about how Americans more productively cope with the high human and economic cost of the crisis, which has killed more than 160,000 people across the country.
Trump said the orders would provide another $400 per week on unemployment benefits, less than the $600 per week spent before the crisis. Some of these measures were likely to face legal challenges, as the U.S. Constitution gives Congress authority over federal spending.
“It’s the money they need, it’s the money they want, it makes them come back to work,” the Republican president said of the drop in payments. He said 25% of this amount would be paid through the states, whose budgets have been greatly affected by the crisis.
More than 10,000 other people have died of coronavirus in South Africa since the country’s pandemic began in March, the ministry of fitness said.
The continent’s highest industrialized economy recorded 553,188 infections, more than the number of continental cases and the fifth largest number of COVID-19 cases in the world.
Minister Zweli Mkhize said in his daily update that 301 new deaths similar to the virus had been recorded.
“This is that we have crossed the 10,000 mark, with 10,210 accumulated deaths now recorded,” he said.
Thousands of Israelis piled up outdoors in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jerusalem apartment amid growing anger over allegations of corruption and its handling of the coronavirus crisis.
“Time ran out,” it read in the giant letters thrown into a construction at the scene of the protest, as demonstrators waved Israeli flags and asked Netanyahu to resign for what they say is his inability to work and business affected by the pandemic.
Protests have intensified in weeks, with critics accusing Netanyahu of being distracted by a case of corruption against him. He denies acting badly.
Netanyahu, who swore a fifth term in May after a heavily contested election, accused protesters of trampling on Israeli democracy and the media for encouraging dissent.
The mask will have to be worn outdoors in Paris along the banks of the Seine and along the Canal de San Martín, as well as in the outdoor markets and other places where social estrangement is difficult, the prefecture of Paris.
The mask will be mandatory from 06:00 GMT on Monday and the order will be effective for one month, the prefecture said.
Ireland reported 174 new cases of COVID-19, with much the number of infections since May and an increase from 98 on Friday and an average of 58 cases consistent with last week’ day.
Medical Director Ronan Glynn said 118 of the new instances were similar to the 3 counties (Kildare, Laois and Offaly) where some movement restrictions were reintroduced on Friday after an increase in the number of instances.
“Although the existing number of instances shown is high, they are not unexpected,” Glynn said. “Our priority nowArray … is for those instances and clusters that lead to widespread transmission of the disease in the network.”
Pakistan announced that it would allow the full resumption of all foreign flights to and from the country’s airports from Sunday amid a steady decline in COVID-19 deaths and infections.
The announcement comes weeks after Pakistan reopened its airports for domestic and foreign advertising flights.
A total ban on domestic and foreign advertising flights imposed in March when Pakistan imposed a domestic blockade to involve the spread of coronavirus. Later, restrictions gradually eased and Pakistan experienced an increase in deaths and virus infections in June.
Pakistan reported 14 coronavirus deaths on Saturday in more than 24 hours, bringing the total number of COVID-19-like deaths to 6068.
The British are expected to wear masks in maximum indoor environments starting Saturday, as the country is trying to reduce the buildup of coronavirus infections that followed the easing of blocking measures.
England and Scotland now require a mask in the highest indoor spaces, adding places of worship, museums, cinemas, banks and libraries. They were already mandatory on and on public transport.
Part of the north of England has been subject to stricter restrictions that prevent families from mixing, after an increase in infections that the government partly characterizes others ending up in houses and bars. The official number of coronavirus deaths in Britain is more than 46,500, in Europe.
The Ukrainian government said it had temporarily closed its border with Crimea, the peninsula annexed through Russia in 2014, to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.
The 3 crosses between the mainland and Crimea, which is explained through Ukraine as occupied territory, will be closed from 9 to 30 August, according to a government statement.
Only Residents of Crimea of Ukrainian nationality will be allowed to enter Ukraine.
Ukrainians living permanently on the continent will be able to return home after the closure of three weeks.
Ukraine has noticed a steady buildup of new coronavirus infections since late July. The number of instances shown has been increased to 1,489 in the last 24 hours.
The total number of cases is 79,750, 1,879 deaths.
At least 17 participants in a giant Afghan meeting tested positive for the new coronavirus, authorities said, a day after the start of the high-level demonstration in Kabul to plan the fate of Taliban prisoners and the start of the war peace procedure. -Country torn.
After being convened by the Afghan government, the demonstration, known as Loya Jirga, began on Friday with more than 3,600 participants amid increased security and the COVID-19 pandemic to talk about whether Taliban prisoners would be released, posing a major impediment to peace. Negotiations.
It was not without delay to become apparent whether the tests had been carried out before or after the start of the meeting, however, the infection was deemed to have spread given the length of the meeting, which took place in a tent.
Afghanistan has officially recorded 37,015 cases of viruses and 1,307 COVID-19 deaths, but officials said this week that at least 10 million other people would have been infected.
Hundreds of thousands of young people marched through the streets of the Gaza Strip to return to school after five months of closure; the government said they were in a position to close schools if coronavirus cases increased.
Gaza, most commonly isolated from the world through an Israeli blockade, has not recorded any cases of COVID-19 in the cities and refugee camps where some two million Palestinians live.
Health personnel will disinfect Gaza’s 751 schools twice a day, authorities said. Children do not have to wear a mask but will have to bring their own food and breaks outdoors are prohibited.
About 40 kilometers (25 miles) away, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which reported an increase in COVID-19 cases, the main categories of schools began this week, but primary schools remain closed.
Health in the West Bank has reported 94 deaths and 13,600 cases, the maximum of them in the following two months.
Poland has reported 843 new cases of coronavirus, according to the Ministry of Health’s Twitter account, the seventh record in two weeks.
Poland reported a total of 51167 of new coronaviruses and 1,800 deaths.
Australia’s most populous state at the time of Victoria reported 11 coronavirus-related deaths and 450 new infections in the last 24 hours on Friday, with 8 deaths and 471 cases a day earlier.
The state began a six-week blockade on Thursday, and retail outlets and end-of-business involved a momentary wave of infections that forced its five million citizens to stay at home.
Victoria on Wednesday reported her deadliest day of the coronavirus outbreak with 15 deaths and a record accumulation of 725 cases.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern launched her re-election campaign, promising a ransom of 311 million New Zealand dollars ($205 million) for those affected by the coronavirus blockade.
He told his supporters in Auckland that the measure aimed to secure the employment of another 40,000 people hired through corporations who had suffered severe monetary losses as a result of the pandemic.
“When other people ask if it’s a COVID choice, my answer is yes,” Ardern said.
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India has recorded 933 new COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, while new infections have increased by an additional 61,537 to nearly 2.1 million.
The Department of Health reported that the total number of deaths 42,518, totaling more than 20,000 in the last 30 days. On average, around 50,000 new instances have been reported every day since mid-June.
The ministry asked the state government to check on grocery store workers and street vendors, saying that if they were detected, they could pass the infection on to a large number of people.
India has the third number of instances in the world after the United States and Brazil.
The Australian state of Victoria reported 466 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths, adding a man in his 30s.
Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews said six of the deaths were linked to epidemics in nursing homes. The figures were released as the City of Melbourne remained closed and the night’s curfew.
On Friday, Victoria reported 450 new cases and 11 deaths. This is below the record for 725 infections reported a week earlier.
New Zealand says it may have hosted the Women’s Cricket World Cup next year, but supports the International Cricket Council (ICC) resolution to postpone the occasion for a year.
The ICC announced Friday its resolution to postpone the 50+ tournament until February 2022 due to the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19. One feared that no team had played since March and that time was running out to host a qualifying tournament to locate the last 3 teams.
“This is a disappointing resolution for cricketers and enthusiasts around the world,” New Zealand Minister of Recreation and Sports Grant Robertson said in a statement.
“The organizing committee in New Zealand has worked with the government to ensure a fun tournament. We may have done it in 2021, but now we’re looking for 2022. As a government, we have reiterated our commitment to supporting the tournament.”
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador has ruled that an executive decree of protocols for the slow reopening of the economy is unconstitutional.
The court said President Nayib Bukele’s decree describing a step-by-step reopening “contradicts established constitutional parameters” before involving the spread of the new coronavirus.
“In every country in the world, governments are gradually ordering the pandemic reopening,” Bukele said on Twitter. “In Today’s Savior it is also unconstitutional.”
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico, defended his government’s record in the fight against coronavirus and pulled out a replacement in the strategy after the official death toll exceeds 50,000.
The Latin American country of 128 million people recently overcame the United Kingdom as the third most affected country in terms of virus deaths, after Brazil and the United States.
But López Obrador said that in terms of deaths relative to the length of the population, “we have not been so beaten”, and on this basis, Mexico ranks fifth in the Americas, united States, Brazil, Chile and Peru.
“And if we compare ourselves to Europe, there are deaths in Spain, France and England that in Mexico,” he said.
Nearly 600 young people were admitted to U.S. hospitals. With rare inflammatory syndrome related to the new coronavirus for 4 months at the height of the pandemic, the CDC said in a report.
Multisiste inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) is a rare but serious condition that accumulates symptoms with poisonous surprise syndrome and Kawasaki disease, adding fever, rashes, inflammation of the nodes and, in severe cases, cardiac inflammation.
It was reported in young people and adolescents about two to 4 weeks after the start of COVID-19. The CDC report indicates that physical fitness in the country’s states reported a total of 570 mis-C patients diagnosed with the disease from March 2 to July 18.
Of the MIS-C cases, all patients who were tested for COVID-19 and 10 died, the CDC said in the report.
Mexico has recorded 6717 new coronavirus demonstrations in more than 24 hours, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 469407.
Authorities reported that the number of deaths shown through COVID-19 was higher across 794 for a total of 51,311.
Hopes for a significant drop in cases have been dashed by continued maximum infection rates, and Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatell warned that “this is going to be an extended pandemic.”
Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte approved a recovery package totaling 25 billion euros ($29 billion) to revive an economy hit by the coronavirus crisis.
The plan, which will have to be approved by Parliament, allows for greater tax benefits for southern Italian regions and calls on ocean liners to resume navigation from 15 August and at industry fairs from September.
It also extends monthly emergency bills to vulnerable families ranging from 400 to 800 euros ($472 to $943) and a sum of 500 million euros ($589 million) allocated for invoices to extended fitness workers.
“We protect jobs, we workers, we reduce the tax burden, we help the regions,” Conte told reporters.
He also said that social estrangement and mask will be mandatory until September 7, adding: “These are the minimum rules.”
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