Critics and the opposition say the government will avoid the anti-government protests planned for next week through activists who say government corruption has exacerbated economic hardship.
Brazil is in talks with US biotechnology company Moderna to prioritize the acquisition of a possible COVID-19 vaccine that the company is developing, said Acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello.
Pazuello said Brazil also had an agreement with AstraZeneca for the company to supply 30 million doses of its future vaccine.
California has the time of the state of the United States. After New York to report more than 400,000 instances of COVID-19, according to a Reuters County data count.
The most populous U.S. state recorded a total of 400166 cases of COVID-19, aiming to surpass New York, the epicenter of the origin of the epidemic in the United States, by the number of infections in the country since the new coronavirus was first detected in California in January.
At this point, if California were a country, it would rank fifth in the world for the total number of COVID-19 instances in the United States, Brazil, India, and Russia. New York has lately more than 412,800 instances in total and adds an average of 700 new instances consistent with The Day of July, while California is expanding across an average of 8,300 instances consistent with the day.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has predicted that the death toll could be successful at 157,000 through August 8.
A buildup of coronavirus cases is expected as the Canadian economy reopens, a senior medical official said, while expressing fears about the number of young people contracting the virus.
Deputy Director of Public Health Howard Njoo said in a briefing that the good fortune of efforts to fight the fragile epidemic and may be affected by people’s complacency.
The number of instances in Canada is now approximately 460, compared to the previous three hundred in the month. Authorities in the 10 provinces are gradually lifting the social and economic restrictions imposed in March, when the epidemic began.
“The provinces [try] Array … reopening at a very cautious pace, I think, slowly opening bars and restaurants. But everyone recognizes that we would expect to have money records,” Njoo said.
The pandemic of the new coronavirus shows no “signs of slowdown” in the Americas, said the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), with the landing of the virus in Guyanese countries on the northeastern coast of South America and with waves in Bolivia. , Ecuador and Colombia and Peru.
Carissa Etienne said at a virtual conference at PAHO’s base in Washington that some Central American countries saw their highest weekly growth in instances since the advent of the virus, and that due to the increased burden of infectious and chronic diseases in the Americas, 3 out of ten other people, 325 million, had a “increased risk” of COVID-19 headaches.
The World Health Organization said it will bring together scientists from various fields to combat the development of incorrect information about COVID-19 that is putting lives at risk.
Researchers from disciplines ranging from mathematics to computer science, sociology, psychology, fitness and communication should participate in the WHO project. The collaboration will be carried out in a domain of developing studies called infodemiology.
Unclear and misleading data can “compromise trust” in fitness authorities, the UN firm said.
“The maximum harmful facet of the data is the false and misleading data of non-health actors. This has led to harmful and unfulified statements.”
Major airlines in the United States and the European Union on Tuesday asked the EU and the White House to adopt a joint US COVID-19 check programme. And the EU to allow others to travel back among the US. And Europe.
In a letter to Vice-President Mike Pence and Ylva Johansson, the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs, the CEOs of American Airlines, United Airlines, Lufthansa and International Airlines Group called for “the safe and immediate restoration of air between the United States and Europe.”
Lately, all Europeans are not allowed to go to the United States and there are similar restrictions for Americans who want to reach the EU maximum.
The U.S. Department of Justice He has accused two Chinese hackers of stealing millions of dollars of industry secrets from corporations around the world and more recently attacked corporations proposing a coronavirus vaccine.
The indictment, which officials expected to speak at a press conference, says hackers have been looking for vulnerabilities in the computer networks of corporations known publicly for their paintings on the vaccine and the progression of remedies in recent months.
The indictment includes fees stealing industry secrets and conspiracy to electronically defraud hackers, who, according to federal prosecutors, stole data just for them, but also knew they would be of interest and price to the Chinese government.
“China has now taken its place, along with Russia, Iran, and North Korea, in this shameful club of nations that will offer a haven to cybercriminals in exchange for those criminals” on guard “to the paintings to gain the advantages of the state, here to feed the insatiable famine of the Chinese Communist Party for the high-value assets acquired by American and non-Chinese corporations. .
Poland needs academics to return to their study rooms when the school year begins in September and meets standards of protection amid the pandemic, the Ministry of Education tweeted Tuesday. The ministry is also running in a legal framework to allow directors to temporarily respond to a sudden outbreak of the new coronavirus, the ministry said, citing Education Minister Dariusz Piontkowski. Regular categories were suspended in Poland in mid-March and later that month teachers were invited to take courses remotely.
At the end of June, several weeks before the end of the school year, schools for 7- to 9-year-olds were allowed to reopen. However, local governments and administrators were able to take the final ruling on this issue themselves. Most did not reopen their schools and many who did say that attendance was low.
Austria is reintroducing the requirement to wear a face mask in supermarkets, banks and post offices due to a buildup of coronavirus infections in recent weeks, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Tuesday.
“There are spaces of everyday life where you can’t pass or not: the supermarket, the bank, the post office,” Kurz said at a news conference.
“Then we must make the face mask mandatory in supermarkets, in banks, in post offices.”
U.S. Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer tuesday asked Republicans to provide a detailed plan for the next coronavirus law in Congress, when Lawmakers and Trump’s management officials meet later in the day.
“Republicans don’t seem to have their own action together. It’s hard to negotiate when the president says one thing, Senate Republicans say and many of them are divided,” Schumer told CNN.
“We hope you will join us and give us, give us in detail.”
The number of coronavirus infections in the Netherlands is increasing, the country’s government warned in an update on Tuesday.
The Dutch Institute of Health said 987 other people tested positive for the disease last week, up from 534 last week.
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Spain will send 1.7 billion euros in aid to countries coming to the coronavirus pandemic, chancellor Arancha González Laya said after a meeting in the closet.
Spain aims to help save lives and public fitness systems, as well as protect and repair rights and capacity, among other goals, Gonzalez Laya said at a press conference.
Australian police warned that “insidious” online predators are targeting new children suffering after a buildup of coronavirus infections put the country’s second-largest city under a partial blockade.
The Australian fitness government said it would take weeks to tame the COVID-19 outbreak after many new cases were reported in Victoria, whose capital, Melbourne, is closed.
The measures led the Australian Federal Police to urge parents to ensure that their children are not victims of “insidious online predators” after higher abuse cases during a national closure in March.
Traffic to internet sites hosting online child sexual abuse content soared past blockage and this dark curtain posted on the web doubled, police said.
Russia is cutting military spending due to low oil costs and the coronavirus crisis hit its economy, according to a document published by the Ministry of Finance.
The ministry proposed that the state government army spend up to 5% between 2021 and 2023. The proposal, published Monday, also includes 10% cuts in budget spending for the judiciary, Russian debt service and civil servants’ salaries.
Russia, which showed the army’s strength with its annexation of Crimea to Ukraine in 2014 and its intervention in the Syrian conflict, removed the army’s five most sensitive spenders list in 2018 after spending fell 3.5%.
Iran has noticed a record 229 deaths from the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to Ministry of Health figures.
Iran, the Middle East country most affected by the pandemic, began loosening its blockade in mid-April.
Two South African ministers have been hospitalized for a coronavirus, they announced.
Labor Minister Thulas Nxesi, 61, and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, 65, were admitted to the hospital on Monday.
The spokeswoman for the law company Phumla Williams said in a statement that they had been hospitalized on the recommendation of their doctors for “greater medical care” and greater follow-up.
They did a coronavirus test about a week ago and had been quarantined at home.
Oman will ban among all provinces from 25 July to 8 August to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, according to the official NEWS agency ONA.
The Gulf State will also put into force a daily curfew from 7 p.m. at 6 a.m. of the same period, which includes the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha. Shops and public spaces will be closed during curfew.
The Philippine Ministry of Health reported two new deaths from coronavirus and other infections in 1951.
In a bulletin, the ministry reported that the total number of deaths had increased to 1,837, while the instances had reached 70,764.
President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to arrest anyone who does not wear a face mask or who violates the rules of social estrangement, as the number of infections and deaths has increased considerably since the lockdown was lifted in June.
The Vojvodina region of Serbia is the new outbreak of coronavirus in the country, according to the authorities.
The Serbian government warned of a cave imaginable in case the stage does not improve in the coming days, saying it will probably face the Italian stage.
Nearly three hundred patients are recently being treated at the Vojvodina clinical center in Novi Sad, and the city administration is asking citizens to adhere to the prescribed measures.
In Pakistan, at least 1,013 new instances of the virus were registered on Monday, bringing the national total to 266096, according to the data.
However, active instances of the virus continued to decline, with 1,128 less active instances Monday through the last day. At least 52,337 active instances of the virus remain in the country, according to official data.
Test grades also continued to fall, with 17,783 checks performed on Monday, the lowest on a single day since June 2. The positive check rate was 5.7%. The Pakistani government says checks have been reduced as fewer patients seek re remedy or diagnosis in hospitals.
Nepal will allow scheduled flights through foreign airlines from 17 August, said one minister, just 4 months after postponing them to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Stuck between China and India, Nepal imposed a domestic blockade, disrupting scheduled flights in March, when it reported that it first showed cases of COVID-19. To date, Nepal has reported 17,844 infections, 40 deaths from the disease.
Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest, is dependent on tourism including mountain climbing.
Russia reported 5842 new instances of the new coronavirus, bringing its general infections to 783328, the fourth in the world.
The country’s coronavirus reaction center said another 153 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths in Russia from the virus to 12580.
The imaginable COVID-19 vaccine from Oxford University could be implemented until the end of the year, but there is no certainty that this will happen, said the main developer of the vaccine.
The experimental vaccine, which authorized AstraZeneca, has produced an immune reaction in early clinical trials, showed knowledge on Monday, increasing hopes that it can be used until the end of the year.
“The end-of-year goal for vaccine deployment is a possibility, but there is surely no certainty about this because we want 3 things to happen,” Gilbert told BBC Radio, saying it shows it worked in complex trials, giant quantities had to be manufactured and regulators had to temporarily accept its use for emergencies.
Passengers on flights arriving in China must provide negative COVID-19 verification effects before boarding, the aviation authority said.
Nucleic acid testing should be completed five days before shipment, china Civil Aviation Authority said on a website.
The total number of coronavirus cases in Ukraine reached 60,166 and 1,518 people died as of July 21, Ukraine’s Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week that Ukrainians were fed up with the coronavirus blockade and that the government distrusts its extension.
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The organizers of the Tokyo Olympics are a day of celebrations to commemorate a year before the start of the Games, which is now expected to take place in July 2021 after a year of waiting due to the coronavirus.
The postponement raised considerations on costs, as well as the protection of athletes and spectators; A recent Kyodo News ballot found that less than one in 4 were in favor of the Games as scheduled next year.
A third idea of the Olympics being postponed and a third called for the Games to be cancelled altogether.
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The EU controlled success in an agreement to bring the EU’s post-pandemic economies to life after Charles Michel, President of the European Council and President of the summit, proposed commitments on a stimulus fund of 750 billion euros ($860 billion).
Some countries, called the “frugals”, have expressed fears about the proportion of subsidies under the fund. Non-reimbursable subsidies will amount to 390 billion euros, compared to the 500 billion euros proposed in the first place. Disbursements will also be related to the accession of governments to the rule of law.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, said the talks lasted “four long days and nights of negotiation. However, it was worth it,” he said. “This is a sign that Europe is capable of acting. Before Europe is accused of being too slow to act. In this case, it’s quite the opposite.”
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Charles Michel tweeted that the leaders of the 27 EU countries have reached an agreement. There are still no main points, just a very enthusiastic tweet.
European Union leaders resume discussions on a proposal for a post-pandemic recovery plan.
Leaders appear to be close to an agreement after four days of difficult negotiations.
South Korea has reported forty-five new cases of coronavirus.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 20 of the cases were locally acquired, and nine of them came from a nursing home in western Seoul.
Imported cases have been growing by the double digits for 26 days, according to Yonhap news agency. The latest were found mostly in workers returning from Iraq as well as among sailors on Russian-flagged ships docked in Busan.
Brazil is to start mass testing of a vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac on medical workers from six states, starting at the Clinical Hospital of Sao Paolo.
The first effects are expected in days.
Sinovac is running with the Butantan Institute, a public gymnasium, in rehearsals and the institute will be entitled to produce 120 million doses if the trial is successful.
The coronavirus outbreak in the Australian state of Victoria continues to grow as state Prime Minister Daniel Andrews announced that there had been 374 new and three deaths.
He suggested that others be reviewed, noting that there are 160 checkpoints across the state, and said that if the number of instances exceeded the previous day, measures to combat the epidemic had an impact.
Masks will be mandatory from (14:00 GMT) on Wednesday.
China offers loose coVID-19 evidence of COVID-19 to the citizens of Urumqi in western Xinjiang after a sudden increase in coronavirus cases in that country, according to state media.
The tests are designed to “effectively threaten the spread of the virus,” the city’s anti-epidemic organization said, according to the Global Times.
Urumqi has a population of approximately 3.5 million people, and the outbreak has been linked to the organization’s activity, according to the newspaper. The source of the infection remains unknown, he added.
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Tenet is behind.
After being late twice, Tenet will launch on August 12, but Warner Bros. He told the AFP news firm that he needed to reconsider because “the coronavirus continues to proliferate.”
Many cinemas in the US and other parts of the world remain closed.
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Two South African ministers hospitalized for a coronavirus Two South African ministers have been hospitalized for a coronavirus, the government announced Tuesday. Labor Minister Thulas Nxesi, 61, and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, 65, were admitted separately to the hospital on Monday. Williams said in a statement that they had been hospitalized on the recommendation of their doctors for “greater medical care” and increased follow-up. Or they had tested positive for coronavirus about a week ago and had been quarantined at home.