More than 22.5 million other international people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 14.4 million have recovered. More than 790,500 more people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University’ knowledge.
Here are the updates:
India has surpassed the 3 million coronavirus mark, reporting 68898 new infections in the last 24 hours, according to the information of the Federal Ministry of Health.
The total number of in the country is now 2.9 million.
Deaths at the same time jumped to 983, and the total now reached 54,849. India is the worst hit country in Asia, and the third after the United States and Brazil in terms of general cases of coronavirus.
Russia reported 4870 new cases of coronavirus, bringing its national total to 946976, the fourth largest in the world. Authorities said 90 other people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 16189.
Venezuelan opposition said the U.S. had given it access to millions of dollars of the Venezuelan government’s frozen budget to assist in efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the country. without specifying the total amount. According to theArray, part of the released budget would be used to pay about 62,000 fitness employees $300. In a live appearance on Twitter On Thursday night, opposition leader Juan Guaidó said fitness staff can simply log in to accounts to get bills of $100 a month starting Monday. Health personnel in Venezuela can earn as little as $5 a month.
The number of cases shown of coronavirus in Germany has increased from 1427 to 230,048, according to the robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases, the number of reported deaths has increased from seven to 9260, according to the count.
Hungary will tighten border crossing regulations from 1 September to prevent the spread of coronavirus as the number of new infections in neighbouring countries increases, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio.
Orban, a nationalist in force for more than a decade, also said the government would draft a two-year plan to bring the economy to life until the middle of next month, after a deeper-than-expected drop of 13.6 percent at the time. quarterly economic output.
The United Arab Emirates can simply reintroduce a de facto night curfew to parts of the country if there are a large number of COVID-19 infections there, a government official said.
The Arab Gulf state saw the number of cases accumulated this week to more than 400 for the first time since mid-July, adding 461 infections and two deaths within 24 hours of Thursday.
When asked if the national sterilization program, which included a curfew at night, could be redeployed, the spokesman for the National Emergency Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA), Seif al-Zahri, told Emirates TV: “Yes, it is imaginable in some spaces where we are seeing the major infections.”
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South Korea reported 324 new cases of coronavirus, its one-day total since March 8, while the recent COVID-19 outbreak in the great capital region now appears to be spreading nationally.
On Friday, the eighth consecutive day South Korea reported a daily three-digit increase, for a total of 1,900 infections over 8 days.
Most of the new recent cases have occurred in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, however officials said the most recent infections were recorded in virtually every major city in the country, adding Busan, Gwangju, Daejeon, Sejong and Daegu. Some of the new instances included others attending a rally of conservative political teams in Seoul last week.
“This is a very serious situation,” Deputy Health Minister Kim Gang-lip said in a briefing, urging others to come forward and take the test. “The threat of spreading the virus nationwide is increasing.”
The government is now looking to gather the names of thousands of other people who attended the rally, as well as the names of the drivers who took the participants from the provinces, he said.
India has a mark of 3 million cases of coronavirus, reporting 68898 new infections in the last 24 hours.
The total number of cases in the country now stands at 2.9 million. Deaths at the same time jumped to 983, and the total now reached 54,849.
The Peruvian and Moroccan government approved phase 3 clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine developed through the National Biotec Group of China (CNBG), the company announced on Thursday.
Phase 3 trials, involving several thousand participants, allow researchers to gather knowledge about the effectiveness of prospective vaccines for final regulatory approvals.
THE experimental vaccine of CNBG, a unit of the public pharmaceutical company China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm), has entered a phase 3 trial in the United Arab Emirates that has already recruited 15,000 volunteers.
It also granted permission to be tested in Bahrain as a component of a Phase 3 exam intended to involve approximately 6,000 component participants.
The health government ordered citizens of Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, to remain at their homes after another 3 cases were detected, according to the Myanmar Times newspaper.
A total of nine cases have been reported in Rakhine since 16 August, when the government detected the first case transmitted in Myanmar in nearly a month.
Buses and flights suspended operations to and from Sittwe starting Thursday.
For years, Rakhine has been embroiled in a clash between the army and ethnic teams of greater autonomy. The restless state is also home to the Rohingya, a predominantly persecuted Muslim minority, many of whom now live in camps for displaced people.
Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, said his “first step” if elected president of the United States would be “to end the virus that has ruined so many lives.”
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Biden said, “We will never get our economy back on track, we will never get our young people back to school, we will never get our lives back until we treat this virus.”
His plan to involve the pandemic included the progression and deployment of immediate testing, an improved source of protective equipment, and the status quo of a national mandate for masks.
Biden also presented a disappointing assessment of Donald Trump’s reaction to the pandemic: “Our current president has failed in his ultimate fundamental duty to the nation: he failed us.”
New Zealand has reported nine new cases of transmitted coronavirus and postponed the resolution until next week to ease restrictions in its largest city in Auckland.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she would announce Monday that the government would ease the restrictions of alert spot 3 in Auckland and level 2 measures in the rest of the country.
Germany will have to borrow further in 2021 to mitigate the effect of coronavirus on the economy, finance minister Olaf Scholz said.
“Next year we will continue to be forced to suspend the debt rule and spend a wealth of budget for citizens’ fitness and stabilize the economy,” Scholz said in an interview with media organization Funke, referring to Germany’s beloved policy of keeping balance. Budget.
Scholz already plans to borrow some 218 billion euros ($258 billion) this year to pay a massive ransom to advise the country on the coronavirus-induced slowdown.
The minister said he hoped the German economy would come from viral surprise and return to pre-crisis grades “by the end of next year or early 2022.
Victoria of Australia reported its lowest number of new infections in weeks, registering 179 new cases in more than 24 hours, below 240 the previous day and below more than 700 two weeks ago.
The drop in cases comes after the government imposed a night curfew and closed large swaths of Victoria’s economy. The state reported deaths.
Despite the wave of epidemics in Victoria, Australia has largely moved away from the many sufferers in other countries with just under 24,500 infections and 450 deaths from the virus.
Japan plans its access restrictions to COVID-19 for foreign nationals with resident visas starting next month, state-owned broadcaster NHK reported.
Re-entry will be allowed for visa holders, adding permanent citizens and exchange students, provided they go through a 14-day coronavirus check and quarantine, the same policy that applies to Japanese citizens returning to the country, according to NHK.
Mexico will get at least 2,000 doses of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, called ‘Sputnik V’, to be tested among its population, according to the Mexican chancellor.
Marcelo Ebrard called the Russian a “very new thing”.
Mexico has already agreed to manufacture a candidate vaccine that is being developed through AstraZeneca uk and oxford university to stock up on the Latin American market. It is also preparing for final stage testing for the US-based Johnson-Johnson company and two Chinese companies.
World Bank president David Malpass warned that the coronavirus pandemic could lead a hundred million people into excessive poverty.
The Washington-based progressive lender had estimated in the past that another 60 million people would fall into excessive poverty due to COVID-19, but the new estimate estimates that the deterioration is between 70 and one hundred million, and Malpass told the AFP news firm “that number can simply increase.” if the pandemic worsens or continues.
The scenario makes it “imperative” for creditors the amount of debt held through poor-at-risk countries, going beyond the commitment to suspend debt payments, he added.
King Mohammed VI warned that Morocco could return to a total blockade of the coronavirus amid a buildup of infections that has affected physical fitness and provoked protests by medical staff.
The new national bodies have risen to more than 1,000 according to the day since Morocco lifted a strict three-month blockade at the end of June and reached a record 1766 on 15 August.
“If the numbers continue to increase, the COVID-19 clinical committee may simply present some other blockade, with even stricter restrictions,” the king said in a speech.
As of Thursday, Morocco had recorded a total of 47,638 cases, 775 deaths and 32,806 cures.
Canada announced a four-week extension of emergency assistance for others who lost their jobs to the pandemic, and a rest of the unemployment benefit eligibility regulations when they expire.
Officials estimated the cost of the new measures at 37 billion Canadians ($28 billion) over a year.
Approximately 4.5 million Canadians, or 12 according to the percentage of the population, lately get $2,000 per month in emergency assistance. He will now be in place until September 27.
Applicants will then be transferred to an unemployment benefit program.
Peru’s year-on-year gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 30% by the time of the 2020 quarter due to coronavirus containment measures, he said.
In Peru, mandatory containment was in position at the time of the quarter and did not rise at the country’s high until July 1. The sectors of the economy most affected were mining, with a decline of 20.9%; treatment, a decrease of 44.5 in line with the percentage; 28.3% less, according to the National Statistical and Information Institute.
In Argentina, official knowledge shows that the country’s economy passed by almost 13% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same time last year.
The year-on-year fall in GDP in June was 12.3%, an improvement in April and May.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Latin America exceeded 250,000 on Thursday, according to a Reuters count.
The dark level reached when Brazil reported 1,204 deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours.
Over the following week, the region reported more than 3,000 deaths according to the day, while the number of cases continues to increase in Peru, Colombia and Argentina.
Brazil has reported 45323 new cases of new coronavirus and 1204 deaths from the disease through the virus in the last 24 hours, the ministry of fitness said.
Brazil has recorded 3,501,975 cases of viruses since the start of the pandemic, while the official death toll from COVID-19 has increased to 112,304, according to ministry data.
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