Verification shows a “robust” immune response; caution in general has an effect on travel collapse; The death toll in Belgium exceeds 10,000
Austrian prosecutors said they had put four other people under investigation in relation to about 40 and other restrictions imposed on the Ischgl ski hotel in March due to a large outbreak of coronavirus.
Thousands more people caught fire at the beach hotel known as the Ibiza of the Alps, many of whom were foreign tourists who brought the virus home before the first case detected on March 7. The Austrian public fitness firm believes the virus got there a month earlier, spreading into crowded bars.
Prosecutors in the provincial capital of Innsbruck investigated whether others had been endangered in Ischgl, for example by not reporting a case before 7 March, but today’s announcement appears to be similar to quarantine and other measures taken on 13 March.
The prosecutor said in a statement: “In particular, the implementation of decrees related to traffic restrictions in Ischgl and quarantine in the Paznaun Valley is being more closely tested. Four other people are under investigation as suspects. “
A personal client rights organization has filed civil lawsuits in opposition to Austria, saying the government has acted before and more decisively to save it from the outbreak, which occurred before the national shutdown in mid-March.
Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced a rapid quarantine in Ischgl and his valley on March 13, but tourists were allowed to leave in an arranged procedure that the customer rights organization described as “chaotic. “
Officials in Tyrol, the province that includes Ischgl, say they acted kindly on what was known at the time.
Slovakia has reported 567 new coronavirus cases, the largest in a day overall in the country since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic this year, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health today.
The Central European country of 5. 5 million more people has one of the lowest disease mortality rates in Europe and kept the number of cases low in an initial wave in March and April, but like other countries, it has recently faced an increase in cases and limited public opportunities and taken other steps to combat the spread of the virus.
Indonesia reported 4,284 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 287,008, as shown by the country’s Covid-19 brokerage organization.
139 more coronavirus-related deaths were also reported, bringing the total number of deaths to 10,740.
Russia has reported 8481 new coronaviruses in the last 24 hours, bringing the national total to 1176286.
Authorities said another 177 people were killed, bringing the official death toll to 20,722.
The record contraction of the BRITISH economy in this quarter was less severe than expected, yet the 19. 8% decline still saw Britain suffer the worst recession of any primary economy.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised the current quarter figure from a previous estimate of 20. 4%, while the updated figures also showed a stronger contraction of 2. 5% between January and March. In the past, he estimated that GDP fell 2. 2% in the first quarter.
Despite revisions, the UK has still sank into the greatest recession since the beginning of existing registrations and worse in this quarter than any of its complex economic counterparts.
The ONS said:
While it is still true that those initial estimates are subject to revision, we prefer the magnitude of the contraction that occurred in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic. It is clear that the UK is in the biggest recession on record.
More recent estimates show that the UK economy is now 21. 8% smaller than at the end of 2019, highlighting the unprecedented scale of this contraction.
Since the depths of the recession in April, GDP has grown for 3 consecutive months, but has made up for only about part of the floor lost by the pandemic, according to the ONS.
There was a record 23. 6% drop in household spending following the April-June freeze, which economist Samuel Tombs of Pantheon Macroeconomics said was “responsible for the UK’s poor performance. “
The Russian sovereign fund said it agreed to supply 25 million doses of its possible Covid-19 vaccine to Egypt Pharco, which it described as one of the country’s leading pharmaceutical groups.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund has concluded several agreements to obtain the Sputnik V vaccine abroad, adding one hundred million doses in India, where it also plans to conduct clinical trials.
Belgium, one of the European countries most affected by coronavirus, said the number of pandemic victims had exceeded 10,000.
The country, with a population of 11. 5 million, has recorded 14 more deaths in more than 24 hours, bringing the total to 10,001.
Reported infections increased to 117,115 since 115,353, the Sciensan Research Institute said.
Since the beginning of the pandemic seven months ago, the Belgian government has included as many instances as imaginable in the toll, adding deaths in hospitals and nursing homes, as well as others whose deaths would possibly have been caused by the virus but which have not been proven.
At the peak of the pandemic in April, Belgium recorded more than 250 deaths per day for a dozen days, to Sciensano.
Since the summer, screening capacity has increased, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of positive cases recorded, i. e. in September, when other people returned to paint and school after the summer holidays.
The daily number of deaths has increased since the beginning of this month, from 3 to an average of seven to 8 in recent days, as the elderly and healthy are infected.
The pandemic has affected the elderly in approximately 1,500 nursing homes, which according to official figures recorded approximately part of the deaths, which rises to about two-thirds if citizens of nursing homes who died in the hospital, according to Médecins Sans, are included. Frontiares (MSF).
Israel’s parliament passed a law restricting protests as a component of a coronavirus-related emergency that critics say aims to silence protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The law, which passed its final reading by 46 votes to 38, was intended to be part of a series of measures passed by Parliament on Friday for a moment of national blockade, but the debate over the measure was postponed because the government was struggling to get the votes. necessary in a cry of opposition and a demonstration in front of parliament.
The closure, which entered into force on 18 September, closes the maximum number of jobs, markets, places of worship and cultural places.
It also prohibits travel more than 1 km (0. 6 miles) from home, for essential purposes, such as purchasing food and medicine or receiving medical treatment.
The new law gives the government the strength to claim a “special emergency over the coronavirus pandemic” for renewable periods of one week.
Meanwhile, the 1-kilometre limit will apply to demonstrations and there will also be restrictions on the number.
The state of emergency can only be declared a blockade. The government has not yet used these powers, however, with more than 237,000 coronavirus infections and 1,528 deaths in a population of nine million, Israel has lately the highest weekly rate consistent with the world’s rate of respiratory infection.
Meir Cohen, of the main opposition party Yesh Atid-Telem, condemned new controls on protests as a “slippery slope,” while Yair Golan of the left-wing Meretz party warned that the new law will “avoid protests. “
“The anger that unfolds in the streets will have a way out,” he says.
In recent months, weekly protests have taken a position outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence, it is not easy for him to resign over his handling of the pandemic and his ongoing corruption trial.
Ukraine has recorded 4027 cases of new coronaviruses in the last 24 hours, the National Security Council said today, with a record beyond the 3,833 new cases reported Saturday.
When the number of coronavirus infections exceeded 3,000 before this month, the government expanded employer closure measures until the end of October.
The council said a total of 208,959 had been recorded in Ukraine to date with 4,129 deaths.
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