The UK reports 22,961 new cases, according to an “artificially high” figure; nine New York neighborhoods moved towards closure; Health experts in Ireland proposed to move to the level. Follow the latest updates
Mainland China reported 20 new instances of Covid-19 on October 4, all imported, up from 16 the previous day, the country’s national fitness authority said Monday, the National Health Commission said overseas on Monday. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as shown cases of Covid-19, increased to 27 from 26 the previous day.
The total number of cases shown of Covid-19 in mainland China is now 85,470, while the death toll has remained unchanged at 4,634.
As we are concerned about the number of updates from the White House administration, my colleague Jim Waterson has this buckingham Palace update:
Queen Elizabeth II has sent a message to the British press industry praising the classical media.
The monarch said that “it is important to have reliable and trustworthy information resources, especially at a time when so many resources compete for our attention. “
In a letter to the News Media Association, the industry organization representing all major publishers of national and local newspapers, the Queen said: “The Covid-19 pandemic has once demonstrated how established the media are, both nationally and regionally.
“Media efforts to help communities across the UK to the pandemic have been invaluable, whether by raising funds, encouraging volunteerism or offering a lifeline for the elderly and vulnerable to the outside world. “:
Going back to Trump’s now:
White House doctor Sean Conley told his colleagues in the spring, before the president hired Covid-19, who was experiencing intense non-public tension in his current work, according to a new report by The Washington Post.
Conley, a 40-year-old Navy commander, joined the White House workers’ medical corps in December 2016 after serving as an emergency navy doctor and serving in a trauma unit in Afghanistan, and appointed a White House doctor in 2018.
The Post reports that those who have worked with Conley believe that the public he made appears to be dictated through politics. “Everything he does turns out to be political, dictated through the White House or the president,” an anonymous source who worked with Conley told the Post. “These are not done through a doctor. “
After portraying a positive image of the president’s state of form on Saturday, Conley admitted today that the president’s oxygen grades had dropped at some point and said he was “trying to reflect the positive attitude of the team, the president, his illness.
In the UK, thousands of paint trainers will be hired under a new government employment programme to help those who lost their jobs to the pandemic, amid additional warnings of an unemployment crisis at the end of the leave programme.
The 238 million-pound Directed Employment Assistance Program (Jets) will help job seekers who have been without paints for at least 3 months. It will be available to others who get the benefits of the universal credits “All paint-related requirements” or the new taste task seeks tolerance:
Like the major European countries, Ireland has seen a steady increase in infections since late July, having slowly emerged from one of the worst closures in Europe. It reported the highest number of daily cases since last April on Saturday, yet Ireland’s 14-day cumulative total of 104. 6, consistent with another 100,000 people, is only the fourteenth highest infection rate of 31 European countries monitored. through the European Center for Disease Control. The worst infection hotspot Spain has an infection rate 3 times that of Ireland and, although containment measures have been seriously tightened in Madrid, restaurants, gyms and retail stores can still open with limited capacity on Friday. to other European countries. The number of patients hospitalized for Covid-19 has risen to 132, but peaked at 881 in April during the first lockout. Ireland’s top business, Ibec, has reacted with dismay, calling for the council’s underlying evidence to be released. It is unbearable that after six months we continue to receive indistinct and changing criteria to push for such serious restrictions, ”said Ibec CEO Danny McCoy in a statement.
Irish fitness chiefs to the government on Sunday said the country will begin a moment of national blockade for 4 weeks in a wonderful resolution that the closet will talk about on Monday, two government resources said. controls in 24 of Ireland’s 26 counties and stricter Level 3 measures in Dublin and Donegal.
The government followed almost entirely the recommendation of its fitness chiefs on the pandemic, however, one source said that returning to the blockade would have a serious economic and social impact. The medical director on Monday before a cabinet assembly to discuss the recommendations. On level 5, other people are encouraged to stay home unless they exercise within a 5-kilometre radius, and only must-have stores are allowed to remain open. Unlike the first closure, schools and day care centers wouldn’t have to close.
The mayor of New York said Sunday that he had asked the state for permission to close schools and restore restrictions on non-essential businesses in several neighborhoods due to the resurgence of the coronavirus. The action, if approved, would mark a daunting retreat for a city that enjoyed a summer with less spread of the virus than most other parts of the country, and had recently celebrated the return of scholars from across the city to face-to-face encounter. face learning in the classroom. The stops would take place from Wednesday in nine postcodes of the town, Mayor Bill de Dit Blasio.
Around one hundred public schools and two hundred personal schools are expected to close. Meals inside, which had just resumed a few days ago, would be suspended, outdoor restaurants would also close in the affected spaces and gyms would close. Houses of worship would be allowed to remain open with the restrictions in force, de Blasio said.
In the more than two weeks, the number of new instances of the virus has increased in the city’s wallet, mainly in the Neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens that house the city’s gigantic Orthodox Jewish population in the last 4 days alone, according to state figures. .
Up to 500,000 more people live in neighborhoods affected by the proposed closure, said De Blasio, who said the blockade could rise in 14 or 28 days if the percentage of other people who tested positive for COVID-19 declines.
Now there’s more data on doctors condemning Trump for his wonderful car stop for outdoor supporters at Walter Reed Military Medical Center, where the president is being treated for an infection in Covid-19.
At least two other people, in all likelihood Secret Service agents, dressed in respirators and glasses, were video-watched in the vehicle accompanying Trump, who was also hiding, on the short tour.
James Phillips, an emergency physician at George Washington University who is a treating physician at Walter Reed, called the trick “nonsense. “
“Every user in the vehicle in this presidential step completely dead” will have to be quarantined for 14 days. He may just get sick. They may die, ” he wrote in a tweet.
Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Services, said in a tweet: “As we take a walk of joy in front of Walter Reed, the president is putting the top secret service points in a wonderful danger. “:
Trump noted his goal of stopping at his flag-waving followers in a tweet video on his own, posted moments before a black SUV ride passed through the gates of Maryland Medical Center. Repeated cars in the hospital grounds.
Meanwhile, in England: a new three-tier blocking formula is being planned, with leaked government documents paving the way for potential more serious restrictions, adding pub closures and banning all outdoor social contact with family groups.
The draft traffic light plan, noticed through The Guardian, is designed to simplify the existing mosaic of localized restrictions, which apply to about a quarter of the UK. It also shows more difficult measures that can be imposed through government at the local or national point if Covid’s instances are under control.
On Sunday, the number of instances increased to 22,961 after it was learned that more than 15,000 verification effects had still been transferred to PC systems, which is in addition to touch plotters.
Dubbed the “Social Estating Framework proposed by Covid-19” and dated 30 September, it has still been signed up to number 10 and the measures may still be diluted.
The 3rd maximum serious alert indicates stricter measures than those observed so far in local locks since the start of the pandemic.
Jessica Elgot and Heather Stewart report:
Shortly after a masked U. S. president, Donald Trump, was delivered to a car driven by a Secret Service agent, dressed in a medical gown, face shield and mask, a doctor treating Walter Reed Medical Center, where Trump is recently being treated for a coronavirus. , condemned the conduct, calling it “madness. ” At least one other Secret Service agent in the car, too.
In a tweet, he said, “Irresponsibility is amazing. “
Dr. James Phillips is a full-time emergency physician at Walter Reed.
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Speaking of U. S. President: A doctor treating Walter Reed Medical Center, where Trump is being treated for a coronavirus, condemned the president’s resolve to pressure enthusiasts to wait outside the hospital, calling it “madness”:
A few moments ago, Dr. James Phillips tweeted: “Every user in the vehicle, this completely unnecessary presidential step will have to be quarantined for 14 days. They can just get sick. They can die. For political theater. He ordered through Trump to endanger their lives for the theater. This is crazy.
Meanwhile, the total number of international coronavirus cases has taken a step, with 35 million infections shown through Johns Hopkins University, that of us president Johns Hopkins. But it’s not the first time Among the amazing ones in general.
So far, 1,035,208 more people have died.
Here are the key advances of the last few hours: