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Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, is extending the national night-curfew for another 30 days to curb the virus.
Faced with a staggering currency crisis triggered by component through the coronavirus crisis and a stalemate in Washington, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday presented an apocalyptic plan on Wednesday if it did not get up to $12 billion in federal aid, adding 40% relief on the subway and bus in New York City.
The plan paints a grim picture for passengers: waiting times would accumulate up to 8 minutes on the subway and 15 minutes on buses; The Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains would run in 60- or 120-minute periods. Updates to subway signalling systems, which have caused many delays, would be suspended.
The M.T.A. – which manages the city’s subway, buses and two commuter trains – presented the plan as a broader political strategy to pressure Washington to help.
The company faces a massive deficit of $16.2 billion through 2024, after the pandemic ended its operating revenue, which comes from fees, tolls and subsidies, almost overnight. The number of passengers in the subway, which fell by 90% in April, has reached only a quarter of the same previous levels, even as more and more New Yorkers return to work.
The transportation company has requested $12 billion in assistance to cover its operating losses through 2024. But after negotiations on the next stimulus package stopped before this month, there does not appear to be a federal outcoming.
“The long-term M.T.A. and the long term of New York’s dominance is entirely in the hands of the federal government,” authority president Patrick J. Foye said Wednesday. “Without this additional federal funding, we will be forced to take drastic measures, the effect of which will be felt throughout the formula and in the region over the coming decades.
Other landmark infrastructure projects, such as the current stretch of the Harlem Street Subway and the connection of commuter trains on Manhattan’s West Side to the Pennsylvania station, would be suspended indefinitely.
The transport company would also delay the acquisition of a fleet of electric buses and new subway cars, and the addition of elevators to stations to make them more accessible. It would also be a widely acclaimed program that supplies cars on demand to adapted transport customers.
As countries struggle to involve new coronavirus outbreaks, some face threats of heavy fines and even criminal convictions for those who break quarantine regulations or border restrictions.
In the last example, a Kentucky guy accused of violating Canadian quarantine regulations faces six months in prison, a $569,000 fine or in all likelihood both.
The man, John Pennington, was fined about $900 through police last June after staff at an Alberta hotel began to suspect that he was violating the province’s quarantine rules. Police then accused him of doing just that after locating him at Sulphur Mountain, a tourist attraction.
Although the Canadian border is closed to the United States, a loophole allows Americans to travel to and from Alaska, as long as they take a direct route, quarantined in hotels and choirs to visit national parks, recreation sites or tourist attractions. A one-year-old woman in Australia was sentenced to six months in prison on Tuesday after hiding in the back of a truck during a nationwide vacation more than 1,800 kilometres from Victoria State, a coronavirus hot spot, to Western Australia. Police said they picked her up through her spouse at a gas station.
The woman had travelled to Victoria to care for her sister and had been granted an exemption to return to Western Australia, which closed its borders to travellers, her lawyer said in court. But the exemption was applied to road trips, and she pleaded guilty to violating the order.
Pandemic regulations in Western Australia come with a mandatory 14-day quarantine for the maximum number of hotel travelers, and the consequences for non-compliance with diversity, from prison terms up to 12 months to fines of up to $35,000.
Australia recorded 549 deaths and more than 25,000 showed instances on Wednesday, according to a Times database. Many of its state borders are closed due to the recent outbreak in Victoria, where the state capital Melbourne remains locked.
Victoria’s most recent outbreak has been linked to violations at a quarantine hotel, however, others across the country have tried to circumvent virus restrictions anyway.
Last month, four men in their 20s were discovered hiding in an interstate cargo exercise from Melbourne to Perth on the west coast of the country. Police issued subpoenas to hot spot travelers like Sydney for mendacity on border declaration forms.
In July, Mika Salamanca, a Filipino social media influencer, was arrested in Honolulu, Hawaii, for violating the state’s mandatory 14-day quarantine. Ms. Salamanca was arrested after posting photographs and videos with her friends a few days after her arrival, which led an organization of locals to report it to the authorities.
A couple in Key West, Florida, was also arrested last July for raping their 40s after testing positive, according to the Associated Press.
As Americans anxiously debate how reopening schools and more and more campuses cancel face-to-face categories, Europe is a living laboratory. Despite a strong accumulation of coronavirus cases in recent weeks, even countries that were hit hard last spring, such as Italy, Spain, Britain and France, are determined to return to normal categories this autumn.
Germany, which was much less affected at the height of the pandemic, closed schools from the start and then switched to a hybrid style of distance learning and in the classroom. The size of the classes was smaller and strict social distance regulations were used for the number of infections.
But now a new experiment is underway: teachers and academics have been called to classes, if new surveillance is sufficient.
Social estrangement and mask are mandatory on the grounds of the maximum school, but rarely in inner classrooms, despite the recent recommendation of the World Health Organization that young people aged 12 and over wear a mask when distance is impossible. If the scholars wore a mask for several hours a day, according to the argument in Germany, their ability to be informed would be affected.
Instead, schools aim to better ventilate separate study rooms and study rooms so that students only come into contact with a few dozen other people and epidemics can be contained.
Germany’s abandonment of the more cautious part-time reopening strategy is partly due to resource constraints: like most countries, it has very few teachers to divide academics into smaller categories and allow social estrangement.
But several weeks after returning to school, educators and even virologists who were skeptical about reopening say the early effects look promising. Despite the emergence of individual infections in dozens of schools, there have been no serious epidemics or lasting closures.
Berlin is a good example: by the end of last week, there had been 49 infections among teachers and academics in the city. But thanks to immediate testing and selective quarantines, no more than six hundred academics out of about 366,000 had to stay home on a given day. Of 803 schools, only 39 were affected.
“It’s messy and imperfect and I would have liked to see more precautions, but the most important thing not to forget so far is that it works,” said Sandra Ciesek, virologist at Frankfurt University Hospital, who signed a certificate from leading German virologists. supporting reopening.
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