Peruvians who were unable to say goodbye to their loved ones who died in the new coronavirus pandemic have taken advantage of the offer of a demonstration area to say their last wholesale farewells.
Around Lima capital and 8 other cities, posters, billboards and advertising trucks pay homage to the sick of the virus, most of whom were transferred directly from the hospitals where they died to cemeterys without a funeral because of the dangers posed by contagious diseases.
“Jano Madrid, you have made this global a bigger place,” he reads; another says: “We’re never going to smile at you, Petty,” and a third: “Fortunato Mestanza, the footprint you left will never be erased.”
Former Turkish economy tsar and opposition deva (Remedio) party leader Ali Babacan said he had tested positive for coronavirus but in smart health, which fits the ultimate prominent Turkish politician to contract COVID-19.
“I just found out that the result of my COVID-19 control is positive. Thank God I’m in good condition right now. My doctors said I had to stay quarantined with my circle of relatives for a while. I’ll continue my house paintings, God ready,” Babacan said on Twitter.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, said he tested positive for the new but asymptomatic coronavirus.
The 39-year-old senator’s workplace said in a statement that he was “feeling well,” isolating himself at home and taking the antimalarial drug chloroquine, which his father vigorously administered as a remedy for COVID-19 despite studies concluding that it is ineffective. opposed to the virus.
Colombia is in talks to enroll in other Phase 3 clinical trials for a vaccine, the 1950s minister said, and will not cancel the end of its national quarantine.
The government said Monday that Colombia, which has just 552,000 cases of coronavirus and completes more than five months of lockout until the end of August, will participate in trials with Johnson and Johnson.
“We are also discussing with other corporations the option of conducting clinical trials,” Health Minister Fernando Ruiz told Reuters in a telephone interview. You may simply call corporations due to confidentiality restrictions.
Other young people are causing the spread of coronavirus in the Americas, said the head of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and noted that deaths and the number of cases have doubled in the region in the past six weeks.
In reporting to the newscasts on a webcast, Dr. Carissa Etienne rebuked governments that caused economic reopenings even though the pandemic was known to worsen.
“That’s a smart sign. Wishing the virus to go away will work,” he said, detailing what he described as a “real disconnect” between the relaxation of containment measures and the continued spread of the virus.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, a former president who ruled the Maldives for 30 years, said he had taken the COVID-19 test.
The Maldives fitness government warned this week that the spread of the virus in the densely populated capital, Male, could succeed on an “uncontrollable” level.
The city of 150,000 other people has reported more than a hundred cases almost every day since the beginning of August.
EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan said he adhered to all COVID-19 regulations during his holiday in Ireland last month, while acknowledging that he deserves not to have attended a golf dinner that outraged the Irish public.
The occasion led an Irish minister to resign and several lawmakers to be punished, but left a series of questions for Hogan, who was also twice denounced by visiting a closed county and his cell phone while driving.
“For the most productive of my wisdom and skills, I complied with public fitness regulations in Ireland during my visit,” Hogan said in a statement.
The French Ministry of Health said it had recorded 3,304 new coronavirus infections, well below last week’s highs, bringing the cumulative total to 248158.
The number of new infections above 1995 reported on Monday, which historically shows a decrease, however, remained well below Sunday’s new post-lockout record of 4897 and below the ranks above 3600 reported at the time of last week.
The Namibian government said the country will reopen its doors to foreign visitors from 1 September in an attempt to save thousands of jobs in tourism, which has been severely affected by coronavirus-related bans.
The announcement came despite a recent increase in coronavirus cases, which nearly tripled to more than 6,000 this month.
Deaths have increased from August 11 to 1.
The coronavirus epidemic in Africa would probably have peaked, said the continental head of the World Health Organization (WHO), cautioning against complacency in the face of a momentary wave.
WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti said at a convention of African health ministers that the number of new cases is declining.
“We found that we have had what appears to have been a peak, and now the number of reported cases in the region is declining,” he said in an online meeting.
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas said he “cured” the coronavirus, which he contracted several weeks ago.
The actor known for his roles in films such as The Mask of Zorro. and, in Philadelphia, he said on Twitter that he had been in “disciplined seclusion” for 21 days since he learned he was infected.
Hungary can reopen schools next week for the first time since mid-March on new knowledge of coronavirus infections, said official MTI news firm, which mentioned Human Capabilities Minister Miklos Kasler.
Kasler said the government had developed a protocol for schools to adhere to social estrangement, the use of disinfectants and the use of non-unusual areas.
He went into the details and specified whether dressing in a mask would be mandatory.
The University of Alabama, a case of verification to return to face-to-face learning in the midst of the pandemic, has reported nearly a thousand positive cases of coronavirus since it reopened.
The school has launched a COVID-19 control panel showing a total of 566 positives since last Wednesday when the period began, in addition to another 400 people who tested positive upon arrival.
The UK recorded 1,184 new COVID-19 instances in the most recent statistics, up from 853 on Monday, according to government figures.
Sixteen other people died after testing positive for coronavirus in the last 28 days, to 4 deaths announced Monday.
Angolan security forces killed at least seven young people, as well as minors, due to the violent implementation of coronavirus blocking regulations between May and July, Amnesty International said.
Most of those affected were teenagers who were reportedly shot through police and army officers, who shot directly or accidentally beat the children.
American Airlines announced that it would cut 19,000 jobs in the United States in October, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weigh on the air unless the government extends wage assistance for the airline’s employees.
Airlines earned $25 billion in u.S. government stimulus budget. In March to cover payroll and jobs until September.
As cash runs out, high-risk travel resumes, airlines and unions have pushed Washington for another $25 billion, but talks have stalled.
Approximately 3,700 other people in Sweden were mistakenly informed that they had coronavirus due to a defect in a COVID-19 control kit in China, the Public Health Agency said.
The BGI Genomics kit can distinguish between very low degrees of virus and a negative result, the signature said.
“The provider wants to adjust the functionality required for this verification to be used,” said Karin Tegmark Wisell, head of her microbiology department.
Kentucky Fried Chicken temporarily suspends its old advertising slogan “it’s smart to suck your fingers,” calling it out of place in the scenario of the existing COVID-19 pandemic, where non-public hygiene has the most sensitive precedence to stop transmission.
At a time when masking and hand washing have become the norm and fitness officials are ingesting others to avoid touching their faces, KFC said the slogan “doesn’t seem right.”
India reported the number of new coronavirus cases in the world for the 18th consecutive day, well ahead of the United States and Brazil, showed a Reuters count based on official reports.
India took last January, when the country’s first case was reported, to succeed in approximately 1.6 million cases, an era in which the government imposed a strict blockade. However, infections have increased to an extra 1.5 million since early August, bringing the total to about 3.1 million, only Brazil and the United States.
A representative of the Lebanese hotel industry said service and tourism corporations would challenge a newly restored coronavirus blockade that has exacerbated the country’s explosion-affected economy.
“From tomorrow we will open our doors,” said Tony Ramy, head of the restaurants, cafes, nightclubs and pastry shop.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “really satisfied” with the paintings teachers had made to prepare to reopen from next week, a check from his government after he didn’t send all the youngsters to school before this year.
Johnson, whose conservative government has been criticized for his technique of educating the coronavirus crisis, said it was “crucial” for all young people to return to school and to take a look at the medical evidence to see if it deserves to replace the mind of the government. in dresses with facial toppings.
“In fact, I am very happy with the paintings that teachers, schools, parents and pupils have made to prepare,” he said on a stopover in southwest England.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Tuesday that the army will be deployed to help regional governments fight the buildup of coronavirus infections. Spain’s central government will have 2,000 infantrymen taken to the regions guilty of physical care to help them monitor cases, he said at a press conference.
Uganda’s criminal government warned Tuesday that massive evidence is needed for prisoners in the country’s congested criminals after 153 criminals tested positive for coronavirus. A criminal worker and 153 prisoners tested positive for the virus Saturday in Amuru near the border with South Sudan, Uganda Prison Service spokesman Frank Baine told the dpa news agency. “We are asking the government to help us test all inmates and criminal personnel across the country. That’s when we’ll know the scale of the problem,” Baine said. “The cases are going off and we’re involved with our staff and detainees,” he added.
Finland’s national airline Finnair announced Tuesday its goal of eliminating 1,000 jobs, or 15% of its workforce, amid disastrous warnings about the economic effect of coronavirus. “Unfortunately, there is no immediate change for the most productive on the pandemic stage,” Executive Chairman Topi Manner said in a statement. “Our income has fallen particularly and that’s why we just want to adjust our prices to our new size,” Manner said.
Coronavirus cases in Africa now amount to 1.2 million and the death toll on the continent reaches 28,000, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa) said in an update.
The total number of COVID-19 infections is 1,195,297, 27,783 deaths and 921,783 cures.
Southern Africa is the hardest-hit region on the continent with 652,400 cases and 14,100 deaths.
Global tourism has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with a loss of $320 billion in exports in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk, the UN leader said.
In a political briefing and video to deal with on Tuesday, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said foreign tourist arrivals were more than halved due to the global fitness crisis that has cried out in global economies.
Tourism is the world’s third-largest export sector, fuels and chemicals, employing one in 10 people in the world, Guterres said. In 2019, it accounted for 7% of world trade.
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Indonesia reported on Tuesday 2,447 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of cases to 157859, according to the knowledge of the group of COVID-19 corridors in the country.
There were 99 more deaths, bringing the total to 6858, the number of COVID-19 deaths in Southeast Asia.
An increasing number of other young people are now inflamed with the new coronavirus, a group of cases that arise elsewhere as countries ease restrictions and lift the hurdles.
Between February and July, there was an increase in the proportion of americans aged five to 24 infected, according to a six-million-case investigation of more than 23 million international infections overall, reported to WHO through Member States.
Among the knowledge to be held on these six million cases, one-third of them in the United States, the proportion of inflamed seniors aged five to 14 increased from 0.8% to 4.6%, while the proportion of elderly people aged 1 to 24 years over 4 to 5 years. Percent.
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Humanitarian staff battling coronavirus in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have suggested to the government repair the high-speed Internet to help fight emerging infections.
3-team help staff said the government repairs 4G Internet access to help inform others about the virus.
“If they don’t now, when data is essential, it will go into history as a crime,” said Zaw Zaw Tun, secretary to one of the aid groups, the Rakhine Ethnic Congress.
Citing security, Myanmar has limited Internet in large swaths of the region, where many others live in camps due to clashes between the army and ethnic minority fighters.
Australian airline Qantas on Tuesday announced plans to eliminate nearly 2,500 more jobs, just days after recording a massive annual loss while recovering from a collapse in the knockout caused by the coronavirus. Qantas and its budget subsidiary, Jetstar, said they would outsource their ground assistance operations at all domestic airports, pending a final performance review. It adds to the 6,000 layoffs already announced when the company embarks on a $10 billion cost-cutting bombing in reaction to the “most complicated period” of its 99-year history.
Russia reported on Tuesday 4696 new cases of coronavirus, which raises its national level to 966189, the fourth in the world.
Authorities said another 120 people had been killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 16,568.
An experimental COVID-19 vaccine being developed through the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca could be sent to regulators this year if scientists want to collect enough data, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group said Tuesday.
“It is simply imaginable that if instances are temporarily collected in clinical trials, we can have this knowledge in front of regulators this year, and then there will be a procedure they will adhere to to to make a full assessment of knowledge,” Andrew said. Pollard told BBC Radio.
South Korea has ordered maximum schools in and around Seoul to close and return to online categories, the latest in a series of precautionary measures to prevent a resurgence of coronavirus cases.
All students, with the exception of the best students from schools, Seoul and Incheon and Gyeonggi Province will take online courses until September 11, the Ministry of Education announced Tuesday.
The beginning of the spring semester had been postponed several times since March, but as daily coronavirus cases dropped sharply since a February peak, most of South Korea’s schools reopened in stages between May 20 and June 1.
In the past two weeks, at least 150 academics and 43 schools tested positive in seoul, Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae said in a briefing.
AstraZeneca said Tuesday that it had introduced initial trials for an antibody-based remedy for the prevention and remedy of COVID-19, while the British drug manufacturer is also looking for its candidate vaccine.
The trial will assess whether AZD7442, a mixture of two monoclonal antibodies, is safe and tolerable in up to 48 healthy participants over the age of 18 to 55 in the United States and the United States.
The Mexican fitness administration will begin to employ a broader definition this week to identify imaginable cases of coronavirus, a senior official said, after considering whether the evidence was too limited.
A new definition of “suspected” infections will take effect on Tuesday and will come with loss of odor, loss of taste and diarrhea as imaginable symptoms of COVID-19, said Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell.
This will also allow a user with a single symptom, of two or more, to be considered potentially infected.
“This has more potential, resulting in increasingly rapid attention for more people,” Lopez-Gatell said at a news conference.
Hong Kong has announced that it will take some action against coronaviruses from 28 August, with the government’s caution of complacency despite a steady decline in the number of new cases.
Hong Kong had noticed a resurgence of instances transmitted since early July, however, the daily number has increased from 3 figures in recent weeks to double digits.
The daily number of infections in nine new cases on Monday was the lowest in nearly two months.
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Pakistan’s most recent figures show that the country has 8934 active cases of coronavirus, the lowest since 24 April, according to Al Jazeera correspondent Asad Hashim.
Pakistan recorded 450 more cases and 11 deaths on Monday.
It carried out 24,231 tests with a positivity rate of 1.87 percent.
The Muslim-majority Rohingya will be three years old since a brutal crackdown through the Myanmar army forced them into refugee camps in Bangladesh with a “silent demonstration” forced through the brakes of the coronavirus.
Fear of an epidemic has led the Bangladeshi government to ban all meetings and limit refugee movements; only 84 cases have been confirmed.
Mohib Ullah, a Rohingya leader in the camps, says other people will mark the day with silence and prayers in their makeshift huts.
“There will be no demonstrations, no work, no prayers, no mosques, no NGOs, no activities, no schools, no madrassas, no distribution of food,” he told the AFP news agency.
Some 750,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in August 2017 in an army offensive that led the country to be charged with genocide at the United Nations court.
While Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), told news firm Reuters that the FDA makes its decisions based on clinical and public concerns, he turned to social media to apologize for distorting a key statistic similar to blood effectiveness. plasma remedy for COVID-19.
The firm issued an emergency authorization for plasma use Sunday and Hahn was put under strain after repeating a false claim through the U.S. president that the remedy reduced mortality rates by 35%.
In a series of tweets, Hahn said the complaint “is entirely justified.”
Dr. Hahn says the firm will be influenced by political tension when it comes to approving a vaccine opposite COVID-19.
“I will not participate in an FDA ruling based on anything other than knowledge and science,” Hahn Reuters said. “I can guarantee that.
Hahn said the FDA’s ruling to consider an emergency authorization for the remedy of the blood plasma opposite the coronavirus this weekend was not political.
The commissioner said the firm pointed only at the intelligence of the U.S. public and rejected President Trump’s claims that a so-called “deep state” within the organization sought to curb vaccine development.
Malaysian police said the abuse of elderly parents through young adults was more confinement, known locally as the MCO.
Siti Kamsiah Hassan, senior deputy director of the Police Sexual Investigations Division, told The Malay Mail that the unit had recorded 134 such cases in the first 3 months of the MCO, compared to the last 3 months.
The unit recorded 205 cases of domestic violence, up from 261 previously.
Police figures are in real court cases won when investigations were opened, he said.
Malaysian NGOs say there has been an increase in domestic violence confinement, with families forced to stay home for an extended period of time.
Jamaica’s Ministry of Health has shown that Usain Bolt tested for the new coronavirus.
Eight-time Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the previous hundred and two hundred yards posted a video of himself on Twitter saying he had passed a checkpoint and quarantined.
Bolt passed the check on Saturday after celebrating his 34th birthday at a big party where he didn’t dress up in a mask. He retired from speed racing in 2017.
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South Korea has reported 280 new cases of the new coronavirus, adding 264 infections.
While many instances are connected to the Sarang Jeil Church and a mass collection in which many members later participated, there are an increasing number of unrelated instances, according to the Yonhap news agency.
It indicates that about 18.5% of known cases in the last two weeks do not have a known address of infection, at 8.5% in the last two weeks.
Physical distance measurements have already been strengthened in Seoul and from Wednesday all teachings in the metropolitan’s schools will be online again.
Usain Bolt has been quarantined after being on COVID-19 on Saturday.
“I’m looking to be responsible, so I’m going to stay and be for my friends,” said the sprinter, who won 8 Olympic gold medals, in a video he posted on Twitter.
The Australian state of Victoria has shown 148 new coronaviruses and 8 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The state capital, Melbourne, is halfway through a six-week blockade imposed when a wave of cases arose in the state.
Anthony Fauci, the largest infectious disease specialist in the United States, warned of the threat of rushing to get a vaccine without it properly.
Fauci, who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Reuters that approving a possible vaccine would make it “difficult, if not impossible, for other vaccines to recruit others in their trial.”
Scientists and fitness experts are concerned that U.S. President Donald Trump may pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the country’s wisest regulator, to approve a vaccine that increases its chances in the November presidential election.
On Sunday, Trump signed an emergency use authorization for coVID-19 plasma before the remedy was evaluated in clinical trials.
“It is surely imperative that a vaccine is definitively proven to be effective at the same time,” Fauci said.
The UN says the risk of ISIL (ISIS) has been reduced through coronavirus blockades imposed in many countries.
“Measures to minimize COVID-19, such as closed closures and movement restrictions, appear to have reduced the threat of terrorist attacks in many countries,” said Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism.
Voronkov warned, however, that there is evidence that ISIS clusters in war zones such as Syria and Iraq, and has about 3,500 fighters in West Africa.
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