Africa comes in 1. 5 million instances in its 54 countries; Italy “considers extending the state of emergency”; record case in Ukraine
More than 1. 5 million people in Merseyside, north-west England, are expected to be banned from mixing in pubs and restaurants under the new coronavirus regulations to be announced thursday, writes Josh Halliday, a correspondent for the Guardian in the north of England.
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said he was expecting an announcement about new restrictions for the region on Thursday morning after an assembly chaired by Boris Johnson.
He said families are most likely prohibited from mixing in public places, as are 2 million other people in the north-east of England.
“We have already been told that restrictions and regulations will be imposed 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 announce,” he told BBC Breakfast.
Africa has 1. 5 million cases of coronavirus in its countries, according to the African Centers for Disease Control.
According to the latest update released this morning through the African Union fitness agency, there have been more than 36,000 Covid-19 deaths on the continent, while 1. 2 million inflamed patients have recovered.
Southern Africa, and in particular South Africa, is the continent’s greatest affected, accounting for the maximum number of infections and coronavirus deaths.
You can view more statistics on coronavirus in the coronavirus control panel of the CDC in Africa.
Ian Sample, the Guardian’s scientific editor, wrote about the study that the rate of expansion of Covid-19 instances appears to decrease.
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 tourist sites crowded with visitors and exercise stations occupied by concerned passengers. In forums, netizens complained that hotels and tickets to tourist sites were full or that there was traffic. “Congestion is inevitable,” said a commenter on Weibo. “It is 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 imposed on those of Newcastle and the northeast, so we hope that, but potentially also the government can 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 through 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 that there are discussions, I understand, that they are ongoing in Liverpool, but no resolution has yet been taken.
It is up to me to say what they can and cannot do because I think there is a discussion lately between the fitness officials and the local council.
Pressed even further, 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 UK corporations most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, has announced plans to pay billions of pounds to shore up its balance sheet, Graeme Wearden reports on the Guardian’s business 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 highly 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 chairman 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’m speechless and I know there’s capacity problems.
(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 doesn’t 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 31 January 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’s not yet official, where while at first (the government) talked about delaying it until December 31, in the assembly (the government) thought it went beyond the end of the year, since coexistence with the virus is doomed to disappear for a long time.
A new higher point of coronavirus cases was reported across Ukraine, and the government recorded 4069 new cases in the last 24 hours.
The past record of 4,027 new instances reported 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 kiosk 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:
“I probably wouldn’t have been 100 percent aware of it, but it’s my first day back in England after 3 weeks.
So [the rules] possibly would have changed.
I am very sorry for this mistake and urge everyone to follow the rules.