Australia has the deadliest deaths on the 25th; India’s death toll exceeds 50,000; Japan’s GDP is declining at an annual rate of 27.8%; Italy closes nightclubs. Follow the latest updates
Russia reported on Monday 4892 new cases of coronavirus, bringing its total to 927745, the fourth largest in the world. Authorities said another 55 people had been killed across the country in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll from Russia to 15740.
Thailand’s economy has suffered its worst contraction since the Asian currency crisis more than two decades ago, according to today’s data, when the coronavirus destroyed the country’s tourism industry.
The kingdom has escaped much of the worst of the disease: it recorded 3,300 cases and 58 deaths, while it was the first country outside China to sign an infection in January.
But lockouts through a pandemic led to a sudden closure of the economy, reducing expansion by 12.2% in the current quarter, according to the Office of the National Council for Economic and Social Development (NESDC).
The epidemic “caused our economy to fall by 12.2%, less than the Tom Yum Kung crisis,” Secretary-General Thosaporn Sirisumphand said, using the local call for the Asian currency crisis that struck in 1998. The country’s economy fell by 12.5%. quarter of this year.
NeSDC forecasts a contraction of 7.5% by 2020.
The recession is “not as dramatic as that of some regional peers,” said Singapore-based capital economics economist Alex Holmes, noting that Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines performed worse.
But “the outlook remains the worst in the region due to Thailand’s dependence on tourism,” he told the AFP.
Some 40 million tourists would arrive in the kingdom this year, however, the industry was the first victim when pandemic closures came into force around the world in March.
The kingdom’s plummeting economy has been a catalyst for near-daily national protests through student-led demonstrators denouncing the management of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, a former army leader who led a coup in 2014.
Chinese vaccine specialist CanSino Biologics Inc received Beijing patent approval for its covid-19 Ad5-nCOV vaccine candidate, state media reported, according to the country’s high-level asset regulator.
The patent, issued on August 11, is China’s first Covid-19 vaccine patent, according to the state-sponsored People’s Daily newspaper. The patent is a non-scientific step.
“The patent will prevent others from copying the vaccine, but it is not a step to advance the vaccine to additional clinical trials,” Professor Marc Pellegrini of the Walter Institute and Eliza Hall for Medical Research told the Guardian.
Pellegrini noted that the vaccine was published in The Lancet a few weeks ago, around the same time that the Oxford organization published its vaccine.
Both use adenovirus (which causes non-unusual infections, such as colds) to mimic the Sars-CoV-2 layer and induce immunity.
Saudi Arabia announced this month its goal of initiating Phase III clinical trials for the CanSino vaccine. CanSino said it is also in talks with Russia, Brazil and Chile to launch Phase III trials in those countries.
CanSino’s shares in Hong Kong rose by about 14% in Monday morning’s session. His Shanghai stock rose 6.6% at noon.
Lebanon is expected to be blocked for two weeks after an increase in COVID-19 infections, the acting government’s fitness minister said Monday.
“Today we indicate a general state of alert and we want a courageous resolution to close (the country) for two weeks,” Hamad Hassan told Voice of Lebanon radio.
Lebanon recorded a record 439 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours on Sunday, Reuters reports.
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In case you missed it before, Australia suffered the deadliest day of the pandemic with 25 deaths reported in the southern state of Victoria, 22 of them in elderly retirement.
In the neighboring state of New South Wales, the government has announced adjustments in schools over the next six weeks to reduce the spread of the virus in the community. These come with a ban on everyone making a song and making a song and playing wind tools in groups.
Schools will no longer be able to leave their local network for sports, adding between rural and regional areas. And sports carnivals between schools and regionals will be limited to another hundred people according to the place and will have to take position only in the local area.
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The death toll in India from coronavirus reached 50,000 on Monday, with more than 900 new deaths reported in 24 hours, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health.
The country surpassed Britain last week with the fourth-highest death toll in the world, the United States, Brazil and Mexico, and recorded 2.6 million infections.
India’s death toll from the pandemic is now 50,921, an increase of 941 since the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health’s website. India, the world’s most populous country at the moment, has only about 2.6 million infections, making it the third most affected country after the United States (5.4 million) and Brazil (3.3 million).
Experts say India wants to intensify additional testing for the virus as it spreads to rural and regional areas where fitness systems are fragile or difficult to access.
In case you missed this previous blog post, you can read our story about the fears about the possible effect of the virus in rural India here.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said trials and tests were underway with three potential vaccine applicants in India and that his government was preparing to produce a large number of doses, if any, deemed viable.
“Once we have gained a green signal from our scientists, we will launch a production of the vaccine. We’ve made all the preparations,” Modi said in a speech on Independence Day on Saturday.
“We have developed a plan to accelerate vaccine production and make it available to all users as soon as possible.”
The number of cases shown of coronavirus in Germany has increased from 561 to 224,014, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) knowledge for infectious diseases showed Monday.
The number of reported deaths has increased from one to 9232, in the count.
There is renewed fear of the japanese economy’s ability after suffering its biggest contraction in the current quarter, as the coronavirus pandemic kept companies closed and crushed customer spending.
Japan’s GDP fell to a record 7.8% in the april to June quarter, the worst contraction in the country’s fashion history, and at an annual rate of 27.8 percent, increasing pressure on policy makers to prevent the world’s third-largest economy from sinking into a deep and prolonged recession.
This is the third consecutive quarter of contraction and a decrease greater than the average market forecast for a decrease of 27.2%.
Private consumption, which accounts for more than a portion of Japan’s economy, fell 8.2% during the quarter, more than analysts predicted a 7.1% drop. Exports fell sharply, at an annual rate of 56%.
Much of the economy has reopened since the state of emergency rose in late May, however, analysts said an expected uptick by the end of this year could be at the mercy of the pandemic.
“We expect the economy to grow in double digits in July-September, but there will be a pick-up in the April-June losses and the point is unlikely,” said Saisuke Sakai, senior economist at the Mizuho Research Institute.
“There is a possibility that economic activity will stagnate if primary nations take blocking measures again and Japan restores a state of emergency.”
Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said the government will take “flexible and timely” measures for the economy.
“We hope to do everything we can to get japan’s economy, which hit a low point in April and May, to return to the path of recovery driven by domestic demand,” he told reporters after the publication of GDP data.
Coronavirus deaths in the United States have exceeded 170,000, according to Johns Hopkins University tracker. Cases now amount to 5.4 million and deaths to 170,052.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Protection, the 7-day moving average for new ones is lately 52,182.
Meanwhile, White House counselor and president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said he would send “absolutely” his children back to school when the categories reopen, despite widespread considerations that face-to-face learning puts young people, teachers, and their families at risk. COVID-19.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a Tokyo hospital, the media reported Monday morning, in what his aides described as a “regular check.”
However, this is to mitigate the hypotheses about Abe’s health. The 65-year-old man seems tired and attracted in recent weeks, suffering from a chronic bowel disease, for which he is taking medication, which partly ended his first term as prime minister in 2007, after a year in office.
Abe’s stopover at Keio University Hospital on Monday came here a day after former Economy Minister Akira Amari said on a television broadcast that the prime minister needed to rest.
Abe has been criticized for not holding normal press conferences about Japan’s reaction to Covid-19, as cases have resurfaced in Tokyo and other parts of the country. His plans for a short summer vacation last week were derailed through Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, who asked Tokyo citizens to avoid all that is still essential outdoors in the capital. Speculation about Abe’s fitness has been on the rise since a weekly newspaper reported this month that he vomited blood in July.
Mexico’s Ministry of Health reported 4,448 new cases of coronavirus infections and 214 more deaths on Sunday, bringing the total to 522,162 cases and 56,757 deaths.
The government has stated that the actual number of other inflamed people is much higher than the cases shown.
China has not reported new cases of coronavirus in western Xinjiang according to national data, marking the first time the number of cases in the region has been 0 since mid-July.
Nationally, there were 22 new cases of coronavirus on the continent on August 16, to 19 cases a day earlier, the fitness authority said.
All new infections imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement. There are no new deaths.
China reported 37 new asymptomatic patients, up from 16 the day before.
Gladys Berejiklian also apologized for the mistakes made on the Ruby Princess cruiser, which docked in Sydney in March. Passengers were allowed to disembark despite several flu-like symptoms.
Gladys Berejiklian said:
Can I now unreservedly apologize to the one who has suffered the mistakes described in the report made through others within the Department of Health or the fitness agency, and I wholeheartedly apologize?
Especially the other 62 people who contract the virus secondaryly or tertiaryly.
These other 62 people who were not yet sent were infected by the virus in one way or another as a result of this landing.
And I mean I can’t believe what it would be like to enjoy one or be someone who continues to suffer and suffer trauma as a result, and I need to apologize unreservedly, to anyone who continues to suffer or who has suffered trauma. unimaginable loss as a result of mistakes made within fitness agencies.
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In the neighboring Australian state of New South Wales, the country’s most populous country, Premier Gladys Berejiklian expressed fears of network transmission:
Although the number of cases decreases pleasantly, my anxiety remains the same, if not higher, because every week we have had undetected or untreated cases.
Health works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to locate genomic links or to locate links between instances that have a known source and existing clusters.
I mean, potentially, the virus continues to spread in parts of south-west and west Sydney and that’s a big fear because if you look back in Melbourne, Melbourne didn’t get worse because of the number of cases they had, they had undetected network transmission. they then took it to a level where he did it unknowingly: he shaped a number of other groups and we didn’t need to know what this is happening here in New South Wales.
New South Wales has noticed a much smaller number of network transmissions, with instances of less than 10 in the last 4 days.
Just an update of the other two press meetings that took place, either in Australia:
First in Victoria, where we talk more about the 25 Victorians who died in the last 24 hours, Australia’s deadliest day:
Twenty-two of those 25 deaths are similar to outbreaks of care for the elderly.
There are 657 Victorians in the hospital, 44 of them are receiving intensive care and 32 of those 44 are on ventilators.
Bloomfield congratulates new Zealanders preparing for testing:
“It’s very encouraging to see the number of other people approaching to take the tests,” Bloomfield says.