One suggests that the rate of transmission is slowing in England but that infections are expanding “significantly”; The Madrid Lock is coming; South Africa to reopen borders
Ian Sample, the scientific editor of The Guardian, wrote about the study that it appears that the rate of expansion of Covid-19 instances could slow.
An interim report from a giant Network Covid-19 screening program found symptoms that the severe buildup of infections has begun to decline in England.
The lacheck test on imperial college’s React-1 exam revealed a higher point of infections and the number of cases observed continued to increase, but the accumulation rate gave the impression that it had decreased.
Scientists analyzed swabs of more than 80,000 people out of a total of 150,000 collected between 18 and 26 September and found that infections were higher, especially in all age teams and regions.
Millions of others in China are crossing the country in an era of “revenge tourism” after nearly a year of quarantine, closures and restrictions, writes Lily Kuo, director of the Guardian’s Beijing office.
China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism expects another 550 million people to travel to the country on the 8 public holidays marking the mid-autumn festival and China’s national holiday.
Photos posted on social media on Tuesday, the first day of the national holiday, showed crowded tourist sites of visitors and exercise stations occupied by concerned passengers. In the forums, internet users complained that hotels and tickets to tourist sites were complete or that there was traffic. “Congestion is inevitable,” said one commentator on Weibo. “It’s better to stay home. “
Hotel bookings for popular destinations such as Dali and Lijiang in Yunnan and Sanya Province on Hainan, a southern island, have doubled, according to the Qunar reservations site. Travel sites have been fighting for discounted consumers, while airlines have added new routes to meet demand. More than 500 picturesque sites across the country will offer free tickets or discounts to visitors.
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson told BBC Breakfast that he was expecting an announcement about new restrictions for Merseyside on Thursday morning following a Covid coordination assembly chaired by the Prime Minister.
Anderson said he hoped that families would be barred from mixing in public places, as was the case in the north-east of England.
We have already been told that restrictions and regulations will be implemented on those of Newcastle and the northeast, so we hope that, but potentially also the government can simply introduce even stricter measures, so we have to wait now and see what they are announcing.
Anderson said he believed the government was contemplating measures, adding that he would make sure restaurants only settled for reservations. He said that the restriction measures in place in some parts of Wales had not been proposed by ministers.
He said there were 9,000 schoolchildren in town, as well as 500 teachers. He said 20,000 academics had also returned to the city, which may have helped increase infection rates.
Environment Secretary George Eustice told BBC Breakfast that a resolution had yet been taken on new restrictions on coronaviruses in Merseyside.
I know there are discussions, I understand, that are ongoing in Liverpool, but no resolution has yet been taken.
It’s up to me to say what they can and can’t do, because I think lately there’s a discussion between the fitness officers and the local town hall.
When more was pressed, he added:
I sense that no resolution has been taken, but I am aware that positions have been taken in the discussions on the additional restrictions that are needed, I am thinking specifically of Merseyside and Liverpool.
Rolls-Royce, one of the British corporations most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, has announced plans to raise billions of pounds to consolidate its balance sheet, Graeme Wearden reports on the Guardian’s industry blog.
Derby-based jet engine manufacturer is asking shareholders for 2 billion pounds per rights factor (in which investors buy new shares at a reduced price). It also plans to raise an additional billion pounds through a bonus offer.
Pressure has been on Rolls-Royce since the start of the pandemic and countries have begun imposing flight restrictions and quarantine rules. Demand for new engines has plummeted as airlines canceled orders.
With many aircraft on the ground, HR engine activities also had less activity.
Read all about it and more on our corporate blog, which has just begun.
Blacks in the UK are almost twice as likely to die of Covid-19 as whites, according to a new study commissioned through London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Khan urges the government to address the inequalities that have led Londoners to suffer a disproportionate effect on Covid-19 after the report highlighted the asymmetrical effect of the pandemic on points such as ethnicity and gender, PA Media News reports. Agency.
The report, published on Thursday, was conducted through researchers from the University of Manchester and analysed knowledge of local and national resources to assess the effect of the pandemic on others whose characteristics are protected by law.
He found that blacks were 1. 9 times more likely to die of Covid-19 than whites, with disparity partly due to long-standing socioeconomic inequalities and overrepresentation of blacks, Asians and ethnic minorities (BAME) in careers. such as fitness and social activities: occupations are more likely to be exposed to the virus.
He also found that men were more likely to die of Covid-19, according to the knowledge of the Office of National Statistics (ONS), but that women had suffered disproportionate economic, social and mental impacts, and that mothers were 47% more likely to have lost or resigned. their jobs than parents.
Khan said the report showed that Covid-19 had a disproportionate effect on “disabled Londoners, others living in very disadvantaged spaces, and those of minority, Asian and black ethnic minorities. “
It is right for ministers to say that they will do “whatever is necessary” to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus crisis, but that they stand by as entire sections of our society threaten their lives and livelihoods.
I urge ministers to invest in our communities and organizations that are most at risk, to ensure that available fitness forums are available to all, and as the number of instances increases, that there is enough for those who have lost their jobs, their hours were reduced, or forced to isolate themselves.
Former British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Thursday morning that local closures may have prevented the existing wave of coronavirus infections from settling across the country.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today show, Hunt said:
I think the evidence of what happened earlier in the year, not only in this country but all over the world, is that acting early, decisive, fast, is the most productive way to involve the spread of the virus and that’s what Chris believes. Whitty and the prime minister are saying.
One of the things that is not noticeable about Italy is how he controlled involving the outbreak of the virus in northern Italy, in Lombardy, and preventing it from spreading to the rest of the country.
Now, we haven’t been able to do it for the first time, however, possibly those local locks, we haven’t noticed a lot of relief in the transmission in those areas, possibly they would have just contained it and prevented it from fitting in. the national epidemic we had before.
Hunt also stated that, as an initial measure, the entire body of NHS workers in spaces vulnerable to Covid-19 infections deserve to be evaluated weekly. Hunt, who is now president of the Commons Health Committee, said that ideally, all NHS staff across the country deserve to be evaluated.
When asked if he knew why more frontline tests were being performed, he said:
I am speechless and I know there are capacity issues.
(The teacher) Chris Whitty moved a little to that position when he said in July that he agreed to the regime tests of NHS asymptomatic staff in delicate spaces; I wish he was everywhere, but he agreed it was the right thing to do. .
But that does not happen.
Some of those hospitals are actually looking to verify all their staff that they use their own labs, but to do so every week, they want the NHS Test and Trace, they want more reagents and what we really want the government to say that. , “You want this to happen at least in the most predominant spaces and we’ll help you if you can’t do it yourself. “
Italy plans to expand its coronavirus state of emergency until January 31 next year, Reuters reported in two national newspapers on Thursday morning.
The state of emergency, which expires lately in mid-October, gives the government greater powers, allowing officials to evade the bureaucracy that drowns out many decisions in Italy.
Il Messagero and Corriere della Sera said that an assembly of cabinets had discussed the factor on Wednesday night. Il Messaggero reported:
It is not yet official, while at first (the government) talked about delaying it until December 31, in the assembly (the government) thought to go beyond the end of the year, since coexistence with the virus is doomed to disappear for a long time.
A new record of coronavirus cases was reported across Ukraine, and the government recorded 4069 new cases in the last 24 hours.
The last record of 4,027 new instances was reported on Wednesday.
The count of coronavirus infections increased in September to more than 3,000, which led the government to extend blockade measures until the end of October, Reuters reports.
Ukraine Security Council said a total of 213,028 had been recorded in Ukraine as of 1 October, with 4,193 deaths.
More questions for the Prime Minister, this time about this father, Stanley, who photographed on the cover of the Mirror entering a newsstand without a mask.
BORIS Johnson’s father is caught buying unmasked food, in breach of Covid-19 regulations applied by the Prime Minister with fines of two hundred euros.
Stanley, in a high-risk organization at 80, said he “maybe wasn’t 100 percent. “
The Mirror quoted Johnson as saying:
“Maybe I’m not 100 percent,” but it’s my first day back in England after three weeks.
Then [the rules] would possibly have changed.
I am very sorry for this mistake and urge everyone to follow the rules.
The Daily Telegraph reports this morning how Boris Johnson (who for many years was a newspaper columnist, of course) defied calls from members of his own party to ease restrictions on coronaviruses.
In reaction to his critics, the Prime Minister said at a press conference on Downing Street that “no matter how impatient we are, how much we’ve had enough, there’s a way to do it. “
This came after Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, said it was time to live “fearless” and many Conservative MPs said the blockade was damaging the economy. Clearly explaining his determination to stick to his plan, Johnson said, “I know a few other people will think we surrender and let the virus run its course, despite the massive loss of life this could cause. I have to say I totally disagree.
Let’s start with some newspaper covers. The print edition of The Guardian (go buy it) is at the forefront of an article about leaked documents that revealed Downing Street’s plans to process asylum programs in Moldova, Morocco or Papua New Guinea.
The documents recommend that officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs oppose No. 10’s proposals to process asylum applications in detention centres, which also included the recommendation to build centres on the South Atlantic islands of Ascension and St. Helena.
The documents, marked as “official” and “sensitive” and produced before this month, summarize the recommendation of Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials, whom Downing Street asked to “offer recommendations on features imaginable to negotiate an australian-like overseas asylum processing facility. “Papua New Guinea and Nauru”.
The Times is commenting this morning on a similar, albeit slightly different, asylum proposal, and politicians are also contemplating proposals to keep asylum seekers aboard disused ferries moored off the coast of Britain while their applications are being evaluated. The Times has not published any documents to continue, however, its reporters depend on what they were “told. “Write:
The Times also learned that the Ministry of the Interior had held talks on the transfer of migrants to dismantled oil rigs in the North Sea for treatment. general logistics and security issues.
The plan to move migrants to boats is considered more realistic and is being seriously seen as a preferred option in a list to be presented to the Prime Minister. There is also the option of building a repair centre on a Scottish island However, nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Prime Minister, is feared to oppose it.
Hello, it is Damien Gayle who takes the reins of the now live blog in London, where the mornings are getting darker and colder during the day.
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Here are the advances of the last few hours:
Research conducted through Imperial College London on the effects of England’s largest network cancer screening programme suggests that the rate of infection has declined in the country, but that the number of infections has increased “significantly” in age teams and regions of the country:
The effects of smear tests on more than 80,000 people out of a total of 150,000, conducted between 18 and 26 September, show that infections are higher, particularly in all age teams and regions of the country.
Research, conducted through Imperial College London, estimates that more than 1 in two hundred people in England has SARS-CoV-2, or 0. 55% of the population, at 0. 13% in the last test circular.
The largest increase in cases seen in others over the age of 65, who recorded seven times as many cases as before. A similar increase observed in other people over the age of 55 to 64. The other young people continued to have the highest infection rates, an estimated 1 in 100 has the virus.
The number of reproductions (R) decreased from 1. 7 to 1. 1, but with a wide diversity imaginable by the recent price from 0. 7 to 1. 5. This suggests that the rate of new infections has decreased, but an R greater than 1 would mean that the instances will continue. build if existing trends continue.
The study’s lead author, Professor Paul Elliott, said studies show “some initial evidence that the expansion of new instances could have slowed down, suggesting that infection efforts are working. “
However, he explained, “The prevalence of infection is the highest we have ever recorded. This reinforces the need for protective measures to restrict the spread and acceptance of the public, which will be important to minimize other primary diseases and the loss of life due to Covid-19. »
In Australia, Victoria recorded 15 new cases of coronavirus and two more deaths, bringing the death toll in the state to 800 and the national to 888, the SPG reports.
Prime Minister Daniel Andrews showed Thursday that the most recent victims were women in their 70s and 90s, both similar to elder care.
There are 289 active instances across the state, adding 135 citizens and elderly staff, forty-five fitness personnel and a disabled worker.
The last time the state registered fewer than three hundred active instances on June 29.
Thirty-eight Victorians are fighting the virus in the hospital, six of them in intensive care.
South Africa will reopen its borders to all African countries while banning tourists from some 50 countries with the highest infection rates, adding Britain, France, India, Russia and the United States.
The continent’s top industrialized economy closed its borders at the start of a strict national blockade on March 27 to restrict the spread of the virus.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the country would open its border with New Zealand “very soon. “
Morrison told Adelaide radio station 5AA on Thursday that the Kiwis would soon be allowed to fly to Australia without having to carry out a two-week quarantine, but said New Zealand would not return the favor immediately.
“We can move on very soon, ” he said. ” New Zealanders can move to Australia, it’s smart for Australian tourism. “
Morrison said it would also help ease tension in the quarantine system of foreign hotels, which has prevented thousands of trapped Australians from returning.
“It frees up more opportunities for Australians to come home,” he said.
The prime minister said South Australia and New South Wales would be the first to gain advantages from new New Zealanders, suggesting that states that insist on quarantine for domestic citizens will not be included in the bubble.
“We bring tourists from New Zealand and occupy those quarantine sites in those states,” he said.
It is unclear whether long-term New Zealand tourists will be required to quarantine when they return home, but a fully functioning trans-Tasmana bubble seems a little distant:
Oscar-winning managers James Cameron, Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorse joined forces with movie theater owners Wednesday to launch a call for monetary aid, saying they feared for the industry’s long run, Reuters reports. Senate and U. S. House of Representatives said the coronavirus pandemic had struck theaters devastatingly and that without funding, “cinemas may not have an effect on the pandemic. “The letter was signed through more than 70 other administrators and manufacturers, as well as the National Association of Theater Owners, the Guild of Directors of America and the Film Association.
The pandemic forced cinemas to close in mid-March and major chains, like Cineworld Plc’s AMC Entertainment and Regal Cinemas, have reopened, with reduced capacity, in many U. S. cities, but not in the largest markets in Los Angeles and New York, according to the letter, 69% of small and medium-sized movie theater corporations will be forced to file for bankruptcy or close permanently unless provided. “Cinemas are an essential industry that represents the most productive that American skill and creativity have to offer. But now we care about your future,” the letter says. Other signatories to the letter include James Bond film makers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the director of “Wonder Woman” Patty Jenkins and action film director and producer Michael Bay. To redirect the unspending budget of the coronavirus aid package followed this year, or to adopt new proposals that would succeed in cinemas over the pandemic.