Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and his wife tested positive for COVID-19, announced Friday, the same day President Donald Trump is scheduled for a demonstration at a state airport.
Trump’s occasion is expected to attract about 4,000 more people to Newport News, yet the democratic governor and other state officials have expressed fear that the demonstration could spread the virus and challenge Northam’s order banning meetings of more than 250 others.
“Collection poses a worrying threat to public health,” dr. Natasha Dwamena, district director of the Virginia Department of Public Health, in a letter to the company that rents the aircraft hangar where the rally is scheduled.
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The global death toll from the new coronavirus is just under 1 million, but without additional action to curb spread, it is likely to double before a vaccine becomes widely available, a World Health Organization official said Friday.
Dr Mike Ryan, director of WHO’s fitness emergency program, said 2 million deaths were “not conceivable, but woefully highly likely” in the absence of higher testing, screening, social distance, masking and other measures to curb the virus.
“The time to act is now in each and every facet of this strategic approach,” Ryan said.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he lifted COVID-19 restrictions on restaurants and other businesses in Florida while pushing to reopen the state’s economy.
DeSantis also said that any local government restrictions affecting restaurants and other businesses will be justified through its administration.
“We have nothing definitive in the future,” DeSantis said, while insisting that the state is in a position with plans in place if infections increase again.
The Phase 3 order will allow theme parks to operate at full capacity and remove all restrictions on meetings, the state still advises others to avoid crowded spaces.
Bars can pass more than 50% of their capacity if authorities give them the green light, DeSantis said.
– John Kennedy, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
British Queen Elizabeth II and her circle of relatives face a $45 million blow over the coronavirus pandemic, in component due to tourist shortages, the monarch’s cash manager said Friday.
By publishing the Royal Household’s annual accounts, personal wallet manager Michael Stevens said the lack of a source of income for visitors to real buildings would likely result in a general investment deficit of $19 million over 3 years.
He said the effect of the pandemic would likely result in a $25. 4 million deficit in a 10-year program and $469 million to upgrade replaced heating, plumbing and wiring at Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s house in London.
Two former operators of a veterans nursing home in Massachusetts, where nearly 80 patients have died from the virus, now facing crime charges, the state attorney general announced Friday.
The former superintendent and medical director of Holyoke Soldiers’ Home will face 10 fees, adding criminal negligence and serious injury. Attorney General Maura Healey said Bennett Walsh and David Clinton were charged through a grand jury, the first such case in the United States involving domestic workers facing COVID-19 death offender rates.
At least 76 veterans in the house died from COVID-19 after operators took the “most disturbing” resolution to consolidate two sets into one, mixing positive COVID patients with those with no symptoms and allowing the virus to spread, Healey said.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and first child Pamela Northam tested positive for COVID-19, said his workplace on a Friday morning.
Both were evaluated after a staff member of your apartment developed symptoms and tested positive. According to a press release, Governor Northam is asymptomatic, while First Lady Northam has mild symptoms.
“We are grateful for your mind and support, but what you can do for us and, more importantly, for your fellow Virginians, is take this seriously,” Northam said.
The United States surpassed 200,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, and by the end of the week, the country had already lost more than 3,000 people, roughly the death toll from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
As of Friday afternoon, another 3,147 people in the United States had died since the country reached the mark of 200,000, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins. On 9/11, another 2,977 people were killed in the attacks.
According to a projection from the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Assessment and Metrics, the number of deaths in the United States from the virus could nearly double until January 1, and is expected to succeed by approximately 371,500 to the end. of the year.
New York City may see its first COVID-19 closures in months, and the city’s fitness branch says some sensitive spaces may have non-essential businesses closed if the number of cases continues to increase.
Parts of Brooklyn and Queens faced a decline in reopening after neighborhoods saw an increase in cases over the following month. The city said it looked at non-essential final businesses and personal schools and banned meetings of 10 or more people in the spaces if cases did not rise early next week.
The city also plans to send more inspectors to the spaces to monitor compliance with masking and social estgnation. Fines may be imposed on those who refuse to wear masks, the fitness branch said.
Pac-12 will sign up for the Big Ten in an attempt to play soccer this fall, the league announced Thursday, reversing a resolution made in August to postpone winter or spring as soon as possible due to physical disruptions. for the coronavirus pandemic.
The Mountain West convention followed a few hours later when he delivered a setback on October 24, the ninth of 10 FBS meetings that now plan to end their season until December 20.
The Pac-12 game will begin on November 6 with a seven-game calendar that includes championship games and culminates with the convention championship game on December 18.
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A Virginia fitness officer warns that President Donald Trump’s Friday-planned rally is a “serious risk to the public’s physical condition,” as another 4,000 people are expected to attend.
Dr. Natasha Dwamena, district director of the Department of Public Health, wrote a letter to the company renting the hangar where the rally will take place. He said the demonstration at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport would challenge Governor Ralph of Northam’s order to ban meetings of more than 250 people.
The governor’s most sensible transportation and fitness officials also sent letters to airport officials reminding them that they had “the strength to enforce” state law.
A conservative radio host and president of the Virginia delegation for Trump’s crusade said Democrats would block the demonstration for political reasons. “Panic has gripped Virginia Democrats,” Fredericks said.
Rio de Janeiro has delayed its annual carnival parade for the first time in a century due to the coronavirus, authorities said Thursday. are a cultural pillar and, for many, a source of income.
“Carnival is a place on which much humble staff depends. Samba schools are networking establishments and parades are just a detail of that,” said Luiz Antonio Simas, a historian specializing in the Rio Carnival, in an interview with The Associated Press. The cultural and productive chain has been interrupted through COVID. “
Rio City Council has not yet announced a resolution on carnival street parties, which are also taking a position in the city.
The first showed a case of coronavirus in Brazil on February 26, a day after the end of this year’s carnival.
More than 824,000 unemployed Americans
An uptick in hiring that began this summer is hot amid regional coronavirus outbreaks, indicating that it may be years before the task market fully recovers.
More than 824,000 Americans filed an unemployment application for the first time last week, the Department of Labor said Thursday.
The most recent set of 824542 claims is particularly below the record of 6. 2 million others who first filed claims in early spring, when they closed the maximum of non-essential businesses to curb the spread of coronavirus.
But the number of applications increased to 28,527 until last week. And in less than seven months, more than 57 million people have implemented unemployment assistance for the first time.
– Charisse Jones
Contribute: The Associated Press