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Donald Trump falsely claimed that he did not downplay the coronavirus pandemic on the city corridor Tuesday night, saying, “In fact, in many ways, I played it, in terms of action. “
His comments came here in reaction to a seedless voter at the ABC News event, who asked Trump why he would “minimize a pandemic known for disproportionately damaging low-income families and minority communities. “The president said he had not minimized the risk of the virus: “My action is very strong. I’m not looking to be dishonest. I don’t need other people to panic. “
Trump’s deceptive reaction comes a week after investigative journalist Bob Woodward revealed that the president had explicitly admitted that he had minimized the virus in interviews with him. Woodward reported that while Trump’s national security adviser gave him a “discordant” warning in January about the virus, he called it the “greatest risk to national security” in his presidency, Trump continued to underestimate the dangers in public statements:
Asked through a voter for the first time, “If you believe it is the president’s duty to the United States, why would you minimize a pandemic known to disproportionately harm low-income families and minority communities?”
Trump replied, “Well, I didn’t downplay it, I raised it” in terms of action,” and once in the back quoted his bans from Europe and China. At the time of the bans, public fitness experts said that once a disease started circulating in a community, banning foreigners was usually useless.
The United States has the number of coronavirus-related infections and deaths in any country in the world, with 6,595,476 cases and 195,735 deaths.
At City Hall, Trump also criticized Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for not having issued a national protection order.
“He didn’t. He never did,” he said. He added that “many other people didn’t need to wear masks. “
He gave the example of the waiters touching their faces with the mask and then touching the plates.
U. S. President Donald Trump gave an assembly of the city corridor in which he said Covid-19 would disappear without a vaccine.
This would be because of the “herd mentality,” he said. It is not known if when speaking of immunity he understood, as he repeated the phrase several times.
“I’d pass the George vaccine,” he said, talking to ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos. “In time, it disappears. And you’ll expand as a herd mentality. It will be an evolved flock and it will happen. It’ll all happen.
Taiwan’s government has granted a third automatic extension to foreign tourists still within its borders, “considering that the current state of the global pandemic is still bleak. “Third extension of 30 days for visitors who arrived in Taiwan on March 21 of this year and exceeded the duration of their 180-day visa, prompting further outbreaks and reducing the burden of preventing epidemics in local neighborhoods. “
Taiwan, with a population of around 23. 8 million, acted from the outset on reports of the new coronavirus and recorded 499 cases and seven deaths.
Charlotte Graham-McLay for The Guardian:
New Zealand reported a day in a row without a new case of Covid-19 spread across the network on Wednesday. A new case of singles diagnosed in the country on Wednesday, fitness officials said, was discovered in a traveler returning to New Zealand who is quarantined in a controlled isolation facility, though another has died from the virus. . to the hospital, bringing the Covid from New Zealand. The news of a time when no internal cases were reported comes two days after Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister, announced that existing coronavirus restrictions on social gatherings would remain in effect until next Monday, at which time her government will begin to mitigate them. If the spread of the virus on the network appears to be low New Zealand has already defeated the virus once, in June – at one point there were no active instances of Covid-19 in the country – but a resurgence in the largest city, Auckland, has led to a momentary lockdown, which is now easing. Health officials said Tuesday that there were 79 cases of Covid-19 in the countries, a number that is slowly decreasing as more people are recovered than diagnosed cases, adding 52 to the network and 27 imported instances to quarantine facilities. Three other people are hospitalized with the virus. A total of 1,451 cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in New Zealand.
A UN-led aviation organization aims to make a recommendation until the end of October on the use of Covid-19 controls to reduce the long-term quarantine needs that have decimated air travel, two resources said, following a meeting of the organization on Tuesday, Reuters Airlines and airports asked the executing organization to recommend that countries accept negative control of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) passengers within 48 hours of travel from countries with maximum Covid-19 infection rates instead of 14-day quarantines. CART, led by the organization, which runs the organization plans to make a non-binding recommendation to countries on the use of controls at an assembly on 29 October, although such efforts may be delayed, resources said. did the checks.
Apple Inc launched a new virtual fitness service and suite of all its subscriptions, Apple One, focusing a holiday product launch on facilities that are the backbone of Apple’s expansion strategy. and serving consumers fleeing the home from the Covid-19 pandemic, Reuters reports. Apple also brought in a new Apple Watch Series 6 that monitors blood oxygen and will charge $ 399 and a more fundamental Apple Watch SE for $ 279, but the large number of incremental upgrades to existing hardware and the value tag subscription disappointed users. investors, with Apple shares finally rising. 0. 2% The Apple One plan will charge $ 15 per month for an individual plan or $ 20 per month for a family circle plan and will come with TV, music and games. Apple also offers a $ 30 per month plan that adds news, a fitness service, and more storage. Apple’s main rival in music streaming, Spotify Technology, criticized the plan, saying that Apple was abusing its dominant position in the market by selling its own Apple Music service. Spotify, which is pursuing an antitrust case against Apple in the European Union and has spoken with the US government to investigate the iPhone maker, charges $ 10 according to the month for its competing streaming service. with Apple but will not be eligible for the Apple plan. .
In the United States, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Tuesday that a $1. 5 trillion relief proposal opposed to the coronavirus of a bipartisan organization of moderate legislators does not meet the administration’s priorities, but could offer a “genuine openness to further discussions. “. It has no compatibility with a vision of the president’s priorities,” Meadows told Reuters. It opens for additional discussions,” he said.
China suspended imports from an OK Foods poultry plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas, due to cases of coronavirus workers, the U. S. poultry company said Tuesday.
Although Scientific American had never endorsed a presidential candidate in the magazine’s 175-year history, its editor-in-chief said Tuesday that there was little internal debate about Democrat Joe Biden’s resolution, AP reports. Helmuth said President Donald Trump’s management is much worse for the clinical network than the magazine feared. Helmuth said the moment was a coincidence and that the publisher had been written in the last two months.
At least seven other people have died from a coronavirus outbreak that continues to make others sick in Maine following a wedding reception held over the summer that violated state virus rules, public fitness officials said. in Millinocket is connected to more than 175 reported cases of the virus, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. Maine authorities have known overlaps between the wedding reception and outbreaks in other parts of the state. An employee from the York County jail attended the wedding, Maine CDC officials said. Maine fitness officials also said a staff member from a rehabilitation center in Madison, which is the site of six of the seven deaths, attended the event. stretch for scores of miles in a state that largely controlled the spread of the coronavirus in the summer. Maine has reported fewer than 5,000 cases of the virus overall since March, yet the growing number of marriage-related cases, which topped state rules of another 50 or fewer people in indoor gatherings, may cancel some of this progress if keep going. puff up. Authorities said more than 65 people attended the wedding. The other six people who died at the Madison Rehab Center were all citizens of that facility and none of them attended the wedding reception, said Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC.
Approximately 872 million school-age children, part of the world’s student population, still go to school in users due to the pandemic.
Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore said she closed 192 countries at the height of the pandemic and sent home 1. 6 billion academics.
“Millions of these young people have been able to be informed remotely online via radio, television or the Internet. However, Unicef’s knowledge shows that for at least 463 million young people whose schools closed during Covid-19, remote information did not exist,” Fore said at a WHO briefing on the effect of Covid-19 on young people.
She added:
The sheer number of young people whose schooling has been absolutely interrupted for months is nothing less than a global school emergency.
The global is still at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, said a special envoy of the World Health Organization on Covid-19. Dr. David Nabarro called it “grotesque” at a meeting of the UK Foreign Affairs Committee.
It’s much worse than any science fiction about pandemics. It’s serious, we’re not even in the middle yet. We’re still in the beginning.
“And we are beginning to see the damage it is causing to the world. And it gets more and more cruel as we go through this specific phase in Europe of seeing it come back. “
He added: “None of us place the existing stage in anything other than horrible, grotesque, shameful.
“It’s a dreadful situation, a fitness challenge is so uncontrollable that it plunges the world, not only into a recession, but into a massive economic downturn that would likely double the number of poor, double the number of malnourished, take millions of small businesses bankrupt. »
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The world is still at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, said a special envoy of the World Health Organization in Covid-19.
Dr David Nabarro described it as “grotesque” at an assembly of the UK Foreign Affairs Committee.
The Member:
It’s much worse than any science fiction about pandemics. It’s serious, we’re not even in the middle yet. We’re still in the beginning.
“And we’re starting to see the damage this is going to do to the world. And it’s getting more and more unpleasant as we enter this specific phase in Europe to see how things come back. “
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