Midwest states report record infections; Colombia exceeds 600,000 covid-19 instances; Australia has the highest death toll.Follow the latest updates
The South China Morning Post reports that Hong Kong schools will resume face-to-face categories in stages starting in the week of September 21, following a drop in the number of new Covid-19 instances in the city.
Education officials said this month that on-site categories for Hong Kong’s 900,000 academics in kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools would be suspended until more are held for the new school year, after teachers were asked to change the online categories to the third wave of infections in the city. Training
Education Secretary Kevin Yeung Yun-hung will announce the main points detailed at a press convention Monday afternoon.
The scientist leading Oxford University’s push for a coronavirus vaccine has warned of an increasing risk of disease outbreaks spreading from animals to people, Press Association reports.
Professor Sarah Gilbert said human activity was the driving force behind the developing threat, adding that the threat is unlikely to minimize in the long run as globalization continues.
“Higher population density, increased displacement, deforestation, all this makes it more likely that these epidemics will happen and anything spread,” he told The Independent.
“Because of the way things are happening around the world, we’re more likely to have zoonotic infections that cause epidemics in the future.”
Most researchers gave the impression that Covid-19 in swollen bats and humans through some other animal, probably at a market in Wuhan, China. Other deadly diseases such as Ebola, SARS and West Nile virus are also of animal origin.
The Oxford allocation is awaiting the effects of phase 3 trials of your vaccine and, if a maximum point of efficacy is demonstrated, the team hopes it will be available until the end of the year.
The number of doctors in Indonesia who died after being inflamed with Covid-19 has exceeded 100, according to the Indonesian Medical Association.
The country is facing one of the worst outbreaks in Southeast Asia, and it is feared that a recent increase in cases will leave hospitals overwhelmed.
On Sunday, Indonesia reported 2,858 new infections, according to the Ministry of Health, which is higher than last month’s average.
On Thursday, Jakarta’s governor Anies Baswedan halted plans to reopen the capital’s bars and nightlife, where some local hospitals warned they were reaching their peak.New Year.’
Since the beginning of the epidemic, there have been 172,053 cases and 7,343 deaths. Last week, a photo of a doctor, dressed in EPI, leaning over the coffin of her late husband, also a doctor, appeared widely on social media.
Private schools closed for the first time and traffic was lighter in South Korea’s capital on Monday, the first consecutive day of stricter social estrangement regulations designed to prevent a momentary wave of coronavirus outbreaks, Reuters reports.
On Friday, South Korea took an unprecedented step to limit the operation of restaurants, cafes and so-called cram in the Seoul metropolitan area, with churches, nightclubs and the highest public already closed.
There were fewer cars and others on the streets of Seoul in the morning rush hour, as more businesses encouraged painters to paint from their homes.
Private extracurricular academies, which worked as they used to in March of the first wave of coronavirus infections in South Korea, were closed. There are 25,000 intensive schools in Seoul and, nationally, 3 out of 4 young people, from grades 1 to 12, have taken these courses.
The government has reduced staffing in public offices, while many companies, adding the giants of generation Samsung Electronics, LG and SK Hynix, have expanded or reinstated house painting policies.
Food on site at restaurants, pubs and bakeries in the Seoul domain is prohibited after nine p.m. until Sunday, while coffee chains are limited to takeaways and home delivery.
South Korea reported a total of 19,947 infections and 324 deaths from Covid-19.
Earlier we reported the Times of India saying the country had passed 80,000 new infections for the first time, which would be a national and global record. However the figure on the Indian government website now says 78,512. Reuters news agency is also reporting the lower figure.
On Sunday, India’s total of 78,761 new cases exceeded the previous record of 77,299 in the United States in mid July.
With a total of 3.62 million cases, India is catching up with these two countries in terms of cumulative cases, but its mortality rate is relatively lower.
Deaths in India from Covid-19, the disease through coronavirus, have increased to 971 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 64,469, the Ministry of Health said.
Japan has recorded 600 new cases of coronavirus, while new cases continue to decline since the recent peak of 1605 on August 7. The seven-day average for new instances is 757.
In South Korea, new infections remained below two hundred for the time in a row, Yonhap reports.
The country reported 248 cases on Monday, adding 238 local infections and 299 cases on Sunday. This reflects a drop in testing over the weekend.
In Australia’s hardest-hit state, Victoria, Prime Minister Daniel Andrews is preparing to define an exit strategy for the tough state closures, which have a major flash point with the Australian federal government.
Victoria recorded 73 new cases on Monday, the smallest build-up since early July.
It also recorded another 41 deaths, but eight occurred in the last 24 hours.
The remaining 33 were added to the account after being reported to the Department of Health.
The death toll from coronavirus is 652.
The prime minister of Victoria will provide a plan to ease social and industry restrictions on September 6.
“It’s too early to set up this roadmap and block it,” Andrews told reporters.
“Knowledge of the week is critical to ensuring that the strategy continues to work.”
Victoria’s restrictions are dragging down the national economy and the federal government has been pushing the state to re-open more quickly.
Melbourne’s six-week stage four restrictions – including a nightly curfew – are due to end on 13 September.
But Australia’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick Coatsworth said “it’s hard to see that happening”.
“I think the numbers have dropped a lot than they are now.”
Coatsworth compared the state to NSW and Queensland, which are recording fewer than 10 new daily cases.
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Lady Gaga wore an astonishing array of masks at the MTV Video Music Awards, which won five awards.
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Adrian Horton reports:
India turns out to have taken a dark step.
The Times of India, which has been at the forefront of communicating the country’s figures, reports that India recorded 80092 new instances of Covid-19 on Sunday, a new record for the world’s largest democracy and the first country in the world to cross the 80,000 threshold cases in a day without getting married since the start of the pandemic.
India has recorded more than 3.5 million of the new coronavirus and more than 63,000 deaths.
The number of cases shown of coronavirus in Germany has increased from 610 to 242381, as Monday shown by knowledge of the Robert Koch Institute of Infectious Diseases.
The number of reported deaths has increased from 3 to 9,298, in the count.
Chinese state media, Global Times, reported that millions of academics in Wuhan returned to campus for the first time in six months.
Learn more about new instances in New Zealand with our reporter Charles Anderson:
There are nine new cases of Covid-19 in Auckland, as the city emerges from confinement and allows travel around the country.
It has been almost 3 weeks since Auckland moved to alert level 3, which closed and many businesses.
However, Auckland is now at point 2.5, while the rest of the country remains at point 2, meaning that Auckland residents have stricter restrictions, with meetings limited to 10 other people and funerals and tangihanga are allowed in 50. nationwide by public transport and planes for all over 12s.
All new Covid-19 instances are similar to the original Auckland cluster that triggered the lock. There are 11 other people with Covid-19 in the hospital with a total number shown of 1387.
The new cases occur when Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern checked to evade the Ministry of Health’s ill recommendation, which advised that all other people in south and west Auckland take the Covid-19 test.
She said she was “incredibly angry” about the communications failure, and said that only ministers should be summoned to provide “significant” updates to Covid-19, not the ministry’s website.
Ardern also asked New Zealanders not to leave their homes without masks.
“We know that mask protects you and the other people around you,” he says. “They restrict the threat of Covid-19 spreading to places where it is more difficult to distance and locate others.”
The Minister of Health and Education, Chris Hipkins, told parents to get involved in sending their children back to school: “Bring your children back to school. Its long term depends on it.”
The switch to point 2.5 occurs when some experts say they would have liked Auckland to stay longer in point 3 to make sure the group was contained.
The epidemiologist at the University of Otago, Professor Michael Baker, said it’s up to Auckland residents to follow the rules, use contract tracking apps and get tested if they show symptoms, they looked for the virus under control.
Yesterday there were two new network instances in New Zealand, a doctor in Tokoroa.
France’s education minister said Sunday that all schools in the country could reopen safely on Tuesday.
With several thousand new infections now reported in France every day, Jean-Michel Blanquer told the Journal du Dimanche that some categories will remain closed when the national reopening begins, but as little as possible.
French doctors issued an appeal Saturday saying the government’s anti-virus measures for schools are not strict enough. They mask for young people up to six years old and a combination of online and in-person instruction. Spain announced last week that young people will be required to wear masks at school from 6pm.
Currently, French schools resume largely as usual, but all-day masking is required for all over-11s and movement and meeting restrictions.
Back in Australia, there are 10 new instances of Covid in the most populous state of New South Wales.A little reassuring, six of them are quarantined.The 4 purchased instances are connected to a cluster in central Sydney.
The state’s prime minister, Gladys Berejiklian, is asking others about her movements as the weather warms.
Today is the last day of winter and I am glad that we spend the winter months as well as we are, and now that the weather is warmer, I can ask everyone to think about their activities when they are outdoors … I’m sure you’re keeping your social distance.
She says that August and September are usually peak hours for the flu, however, other people assume that if they are sick, it is Covid.
Normally, August-September is the peak time for the flu, however, as we disinfect our hands and keep our distance, those numbers have materialized, but that means that if you have a symptom, you must assume it is Covid and the flu. .
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New Zealand reported new Covid-19 and 4 transmission network instances in controlled isolation. All new network instances are connected to the Auckland cluster.
The city has now moved to alert point 2, with more restrictions, adding the mask costume on public transport. Meetings in auckland domain can involve up to 10 people.
China has reported 17 new cases of Covid-19, compared to the day before, the country’s fitness government said Monday.
The National Health Commission said all new cases were imported infections involving travelers returning from abroad, marking the fifteenth consecutive day of local infection in the country.
The number of asymptomatic cases increased to 19 of the four reported a day earlier. The total number of COVID-19 infections in China now stands at 85.0four8, while the death toll has remained unchanged by four, 63four.