France registers 4,711 new infections in 24 hours; Russia to start testing another 40,000 people next week
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Nigeria will ban access to citizens of countries that do allow Nigerians because of coronavirus restrictions, said Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika.
Sirika Reporters:
Reciprocity will apply.
If you forbid us to come to your country, the same will happen at the address.
Nigeria earlier this week announced its goal to resume overseas flights on 29 August. All foreign flights, with the exception of flights, were suspected of ending in late March in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus.
The resumption will begin with 4 daily flights to Lagos and Abuja, although Sirika said that, first, the number of passengers would be limited to 1280 depending on the day.
Nigeria has 50,488 covid-19 shows and 985 deaths.
France has reported 4711 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, a new post-patronage record and one last noticed at the height of the epidemic in France.
During the confinement, France experienced a peak of 7578 infections that coincided with the 31st of March, but since then there have been some days with a number of new infections exceeding 4500.
The infection rate has skyrocketed in recent days, however, the number of other people hospitalized with Covid-19 has been solid and the number of new deaths consistent with the day has also remained solid at double digit lows. Twelve new deaths were reported on Thursday.
Vietnamese police arrested four men accused of defrauding more than 5,000 Americans seeking to buy Covid-19 protective devices online for nearly $1 million, the Department of Public Safety said.
The arrests of the four, aged 22 to 36, were made after a joint investigation through the U.S. Department and Department of Homeland Security.
In March, all 4 began operating 110 Internet sites that provide non-public protective devices (PPE), added hand sanitizers, masks and disinfectant wipes, and earned cash from Americans through their Paypal accounts, the branch said.
The four never had the products on the Internet sites and their victims never earned what they paid, the ministry said.
“This research resulted in significant monetary losses for others already facing high demand situations due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” said U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink.
The ministry said the four men had been charged with “appropriation of assets from a computer network, telecommunications network or electronic device,” a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Madagascar’s fitness minister has been fired as part of a government reshuffled, a month after he clashed with the president for asking for help outdoors with the coronavirus.
The Indian Ocean island country reported an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in July amid hospital considerations of the lack of beds, leading health minister Ahmad Ahmad to write a letter asking foreign agencies to send medical supplies.
His call provoked the wrath of President Andry Rajoelina’s government, who said Ahmad had acted “without consulting” either the head of state or the head of state.
The departure from Ahmad’s closet was revealed Thursday in the announcement of a new list of ministers following a reorganization.
“Jean Louis Hanitrala Rakotovao has been appointed as the new minister of health,” Cabinet Secretary Valery Ramonjavelo said at a press conference, without giving the main points of change.
Rajoelina promoted an infusion derived from artemisia, a plant with proven antimaladic properties, such as a for Covid-19.
The drink, called Covid-Organics, is widely distributed in Madagascar and sold in several other countries, basically in Africa.
The World Health Organization warned that no clinical studies have been conducted to validate the claims of the beverage, and classical scientists have highlighted the potential dangers associated with unproven preparations.
Rajoelina ignored the warnings and attributed the increase in the number of cases last month to “capacity increase.”
The coronavirus outbreak in Madagascar appears to have slowed since then, with new cases shown emerging from peaks of more than 400 in July to an average of around 80 since Monday.
To date, the country has recorded more than 14,000 infections and 177 deaths.
The Republic of Congo will reopen its air borders next Monday, which closed in late March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, authorities said.
The land, river and sea borders shall remain closed for the shipment of goods, which has been authorised.
The National Committee for the Management of Coronavirus has opened air borders as of Monday, according to Thierry Moungalla, Minister of Communication.
In an internal message noticed through AFP on Thursday, the Chancellery called on embassy and consular officials to take the necessary steps to return to their workplaces from Monday.
The Republic of Congo, known as Congo-Brazzaville to distinguish it from its largest neighbour, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, recorded its first case of Covid-19 on 14 March.
The country has recorded 3,850 infections, 77 of which are fatal.
The coronavirus crisis has created copious demanding situations for humanitarian operations around the world, the Red Cross said, adding that the pandemic had led the government to open more prisons for inspections.
Peter Maurer, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in Geneva that his organization’s operations had been reduced to 85% of past capacity.
Given the significant logistical demand situations created through the pandemic, closures and other measures imposed to prevent the spread of the virus, a slowdown of only 15% “surprisingly good,” he said.
Locks, border closures and flight cancellations are particularly confusing for spaces in need.
Humanitarian teams, he said, have faithful “increasing time and powerArray … to explain the [Covid-19] scenario” in the spaces and to negotiate with the government and armed teams on mandatory measures before aid. operations can simply continue.
This is holding back aid operations at a time when, in several countries, the pandemic is aggravating the explosion of desires due to violence and economic crises, he added.
“This is a new reality, which Covid imposes on us,” he said.
At the same time, donor countries are focusing on the crises that plague their countries and are more reluctant to provide budget for humanitarian work abroad, wondering about resources that were once reliable, Maurer said, adding that the scenario was “very difficult.”
EU state aid regulators have provided a guaranteed loan of EUR 62 million ($73.5 million) from the Romanian government to the airline Blue Air, which complies with EU state aid standards.
The package includes a 28 million euro guarantee to compensate the airline for damage caused by travel restrictions related to the coronavirus, and a 34 million euro guarantee that provides urgent liquidity to assist canopy losses incurred since the outbreak.
The European Commission said Blue Air had a deficit before the pandemic, but had been profitable again until the end of 2019, until the virus outbreak hit the aviation industry hard and the company suffered significant losses.
He said the Romanian programme would compensate for the damage directly similar to the pandemic and depended on Blue Air’s presentation of a long-term sustainable plan and was therefore in line with EU state aid rules.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio doubled his commitment to reopening schools for face-to-face learning next month, a day after the city’s teachers’ union said its reopening protocol was inadequate to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Mayor and School Chancellor Richard Carranza have issued a “back-to-school commitment” that describes the characteristics of their reopening plan, adding the fact that all schools will have a 30-day source of non-public protective devices at any time and will be closed if the percentage of positive Covid-19 tests in the city is 3% or more for an average of 7 days.
The New York City District, the largest in the United States, is scheduled to open on September 10 for a combination of in-person and remote learning.
“We’ll make sure those schools are ready. And if we think they’re not ready, they may not reopen,” de Blasio said Thursday.
Compared to De Blasio’s threshold of a 3% Covid-19 infection rate for schools to close again, the city’s positive verification rate on Thursday is 0.88%.
On Wednesday, New York City teachers threatened to strike or take legal action unless the city government met the needs of express protection, such as a stricter Covid-19 control plan and protocols to isolate students with symptoms of the virus.
“The moment we feel that the mayor is looking to force others into a damaging scenario. Array… we move on to court, we act,” said Michael Mulgrew, president of the union representing the city’s 133,000 teachers. adding that “professional action” can come with a strike.
“Now is the time to say: officials, opportunity and respond to the call,” de Blasio said of the teachers.
The plan to reopen the mayor’s school “encourages” teachers to review each month to detect Covid-19 and promises that the city’s control sites will accelerate the effects on the city’s school staff.
If at least two instances of Covid-19 are shown in other study rooms at a school, the mayor’s plan requires the school to close for 14 days. If one or two similar instances register with the same elegance, only that elegance will have to be closed for 14 days.
“Schools will communicate with all families and students at the school once a case is shown in the lab,” says the New York Department of Education website.
Travellers arriving in the UK after 4am on Saturday from Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago will have to be quarantined for 14 days, shipping secretary Grant Shapps said.
He said Portugal had now been added to the list of runners, meaning that visitors from the country will no longer have to be quarantined when they arrive in the UK.
However, he added that the scenario can be temporarily replaced and that others deserve to do so only “if it settles for a 14-day quarantine without warning if necessary.”
The Czech government has reduced plans to reinstate the requirement to wear a mask in public from early September to stem the expected outbreak of Covid-19 infections, following public and business reactions.
The Czech Republic is among the first outdoor countries in Asia to order citizens to cover their faces in public in March.
He was also one of the first to abandon this requirement this summer, after recording only a few hundred deaths due to respiratory diseases.
The government, fearing an increase in the number of cases in which young people return to school and others to paint after their summer vacation, said Monday that other people wear masks on public transport, in public buildings, medical and social care facilities, department. shops and restaurants, sometimes public and in school corridors.
But after a wave of complaints that the order was exaggerated and difficult to enforce, Health Minister Adam Vojtoch said Thursday that the government’s team of experts had to abolish the requirement for schools, department stores and restaurants.
The order will be kept in force in public buildings, by public transport and sometimes with more than one hundred people. Vojtoch told reporters:
We see opposing opinions. We will have to seek a compromise: we are not deaf or blind.
It is a consultation of what is ideal from an epidemiological point of view and what the reality is, the effect on individual groups, etc.
Vojtoch said the government would assess the scenario of its regional “traffic lights” formula and impose stricter needs in places where the instances are multiplying.
He said there was little visibility of the most likely severity of the pandemic in the fall, and said he saw a 50-50 chance that the stage would fit in earnest.
The Czech Republic, with a population of 10.7 million, has reported on 20,798 cases of Covid-19 in total and 404 deaths, fewer than many other European countries.
Lately it has 4,778 active instances and only 112 other people hospitalized on Wednesday.