France reports 1,695 new instances, Spain 1,772; Record greek government number of physical fitness since April 22
Virginia has introduced the first coronavirus touch search app in the United States that uses the next generation of Apple and Google.
The state is hoping that the app, COVIDWISE, can help it catch new cases faster, though long delays in getting test results must be overcome in order for it to be effective.
Phones with the app exchange Bluetooth signals to keep an anonymous list of close encounters.
The app then allows people who catch the virus to notify those contacts without anyone revealing their identity.
“This is a way we can all work together to contain this virus,” Democratic governor Ralph Northam said. “No one is tracking you. None of your personal information is saved.”
At least three more states are nearing the launch of similar apps, aiming to ease the burden on underfunded manual contact tracing teams.
But the United States remains Europe, where millions of people in 11 territories in the past two months have downloaded smartphone tracking apps using Apple-Google’s specialized Bluetooth technology.
A couple of US states previously released contact tracing apps that experts have described as more privacy-invasive because they rely on tracking users’ locations, as opposed to Bluetooth transmissions.
The Grampian NHS has suspended all hospital visits in Aberdeen, Scotland, with immediate effect, adding the Royal Aberdeen Infirmary and the city’s children’s and maternity hospitals, to patients and staff.
While hospitals in Aberdeenshire and Moray were unaffected, NHS Grampian said the ban extended to anyone living in Aberdeen who is a designated guest for patients from out-of-town hospitals, even if they are less than 8 kilometres from home.
Caroline Hiscox, the board’s director of nursing, said
We recognize that this replacement is imposed in the short term, however, it is of the utmost importance that we do our best to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and that it does not give you the opportunity to do so.
Initially, these measures are applied for seven days, with reviews every seven days and extensions if necessary.
The value of gold rose to a record high of $2047 (1538 euros) on Wednesday when investors panicked for fear of a momentary wave of coronavirus pandemics that rushed to buy yellow steel as a safer position to buy their wealth.
The value of gold has risen 34% since the start of the year, and this week crossed the $2,000 consistent with the ounce barrier and continued to rise, as investors worry about Covid-19, as well as emerging geopolitical tensions and a weakening of the US dollar. Training
Ruth Crowell, executive leader of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), said that in the following week, more gold has been exchanged every day than ever, some distance away.
Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, one of Brazil’s most influential indigenous leaders who led the other upper Xingu people in central Brazil and helped create an indigenous park there, died Wednesday as a result of Covid-19, said his circle of relatives in a statement.
His death underscores the risk faced by Brazil’s indigenous peoples as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that has spread to their communities, inflamed thousands of them, and killed many of them.
Aritana, 71, ran to a hospital in Goiania two weeks after a 9-hour adventure from the western state of Mato Grosso, breathing in oxygen tanks so he can move into an intensive care unit.
He died in the hospital of pulmonary headaches from the disease.
One of the top classical indigenous leaders in central Brazil, Aritana led the other people from the Upper Xingu and one of the last speakers of the language of his tribe, Yawalapiti.
Aritana worked with the Villas-Baas brothers to create the Xingu National Park, the first vast indigenous domain in the Amazon where 16 tribes live.
According to Brazil’s largest indigenous umbrella organisation, APIB, 631 indigenous people have died from Covid-19 and there have been 22,325 confirmed cases in the community so far.
The Ministry of Health reports fewer than 294 deaths among Aboriginal peoples and 16,509 showed cases, as is the case with indigenous peoples who have left their lands to settle in urban areas.
Half of Brazil’s three hundred indigenous tribes have shown infections.
Russia is expanding Covid-19 express tests to other major air hubs in Moscow after using them at the country’s busiest airport, Sheremetyevo, in the capital.
The portable testing system, which fits in two small suitcases, gives results within an hour and is already being used by some Russian companies and at major events, the Russian Direct Investment Fund said
Moscow announced the resumption of some regular international flights on 1 August to Turkey, Britain and Tanzania, as the coronavirus crisis eases in Russia.
The country has also been in talks with other countries to re-launch the flights.
Russia has the fourth number of coronavirus instances in the world at 866,627. He says another 14,490 people have died from the virus.
As a component of a broader plan to create coronavirus in airport hubs, RDIF said Wednesday that explicit testing would be extended to Moscow’s other primary airports, Vnukovo International and Moscow Domodedovo.
He said the tests would be carried out for both arriving and departing passengers. The service will be implemented at airports within a week.
Germany has warned against all that is not essential to the Belgian province of Antwerp following an outbreak of coronavirus in the region.
The German fitness firm said the region focused on Belgium’s largest port and the city for the time being a high-risk area, meaning returnees would possibly be forced to spend 14 days of quarantine.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has written.
The number of new infections and deaths has increased since the end of July, in the province of Antwerp, where the number of new cases has lately exceeded 50 cases, equivalent to 100,000 inhabitants over seven days.
Romanian schools will reopen on 14 September as the case may be, and cities affected by the Covid epidemic will likely take online courses, President Klaus Iohannis said.
Coronavirus infections in Romania have exceeded 1000 new instances according to the day in all the last 15 days, bringing the displayed instances to 56550.
Another 2,521 people were killed and Romania prolonged the state of alert until mid-August and placed several small villages and villages with peaks in the number of localized quarantine cases.
Iohannis Reporters:
For up to a child, they will physically go to school.
There are 3 scenarios based on the number of instances in the city.
The way each school functions will be decided locally, on a decentralized county level.
Cities where only one case has been reported consistent with another 1,000 people in the last 14 days will see all young people in class.
Those with up to three cases will see only kindergartens and a few grades back, with other classes held online.
Cities with more than 3 instances will take online courses.
Iohannis said several hundred cities were recently in the middle and that there were 50 cities where schools could reopen.
The prestige of the school would be constantly reassessed.
The resolution to close schools at the start of the pandemic highlighted the inequality of schooling in Romania for young people in rural areas and disadvantaged communities.
On Wednesday, the Romanian unit of charity Save the Children commended the move to reopen schools but urged authorities to see that all students are treated equally.
“What is essential is that all children return to school safely and with equal access,” it said in a statement.
France’s daily Covid-19 infections reached the highest in more than two months on Wednesday, with 1,695 new cases.
The seven-day moving average stood above the 1,300 threshold for the first time since the end of April, when the country was still in lockdown.
The 1,222 daily average of cases seen since the beginning of August is now almost three times higher than June’s 435 figure but still half April’s 2,585, when the pandemic was in full swing.
France’s main seaside resorts have made wearing masks in the streets mandatory and some have restricted access to the beaches in the wake of the uptick in new cases.
Paris authorities are expected to announce shortly that people will have to wear face masks along the banks of the Seine and around the trendy Canal Saint-Martin, as well as in some of the capital’s other tourist hot spots.
However, after creeping up over the past two days, the number of patients in intensive care units in French hospitals for Covid-19 went down by four, to 384.
And the overall number of people hospitalised with the disease fell by 14 to 5,148, following a downward trend of two and a half months and suggesting the spike in cases has not yet translated into renewed strain on the health system.
The number of people in ICUs for the virus peaked at 7,148 on 8 April and overall hospitalisations at 32,292 on 14 April.
French health authorities reported nine additional deaths from the disease, bringing the total to 30,305, the seventh-highest in the world. The number of confirmed cases stands at 194,029.
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