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The United States reached the bleak milestone of five million coronavirus cases on Sunday, when Donald Trump’s executive orders to break a political stalemate over additional economic relief were denounced through a Republican as “an unconstitutional slope” and Joe Biden accused the president of doing nothing but “apologies and lies.”
Recruitment has been underway in Washington since negotiations on more aid for the unemployed and states facing a public fitness crisis collapsed Friday.
Trump spoke Friday and Saturday, holding press meetings at his lavish New Jersey golf club, encouraged through affluent members gathering near another, a discordant executive amid a pandemic and recession:
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said reopening schools in September is a social, economic and ethical imperative and insisted that schools could operate safely despite the coronavirus pandemic.
His comments stick to a study earlier this month that warned that Britain could see a momentary wave of Covid-19 in winter twice as large as the initial epidemic if schools opened without an advanced verification and track system.
In Sunday’s Mail, Johnson said restarting schools is a national priority.
Schools would be the last chance to close in long-term local closures, he said Thursday at an assembly, the paper quoted.
Schools in England closed a national closure in March, with the exception of young people from major workers, and reopened in June for a small number of pupils.
“Keeping our schools closed for longer than it is surely socially intolerable, economically unsustainable, and morally indefensible,” Johnson wrote.
Economic prices for parents who paint if schools are closed are skyrocking and the country is facing major unrest if young people are disadvantaged in education, the prime minister warned.
“This pandemic is not over, and the last thing we can do is become complacent. But now that we know enough to safely reopen schools to all academics, we have an ethical duty to do so,” Johnson wrote.
The directors’ union criticized Johnson’s drive and warned that it would teach academics on a “week-to-week” basis in the occasion of a coronavirus resurgence, and are drawing up a number of contingency plans, according to the Telegraph.
The Sunday Times reported that Johnson had ordered a public relations crusade to make schools open on time.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that the infection in the state is now at its lowest point since the outbreak began.
According to the New York Times, infections in the United States are now developing faster in the states of Virginia, Illinois, Hawaii, South Dakota, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, such as Puerto Rico.
Brazil recorded 23010 new coronavirus infections up to Sunday, bringing the country’s official total to 3035422.
The Ministry of Health announced 572 new deaths, bringing the total number of deaths by Covid-19 to 101,049.
The official count of deaths by Covid-19 in the UK can be cancelled after an investigation into the approach used through Public Health England to calculate the death toll, The Telegraph reported.
Findings from the investigation, which he ordered through Health Secretary Matt Hancock after officials were learned to be “exaggerating” deaths from the virus, are expected to this week, according to the newspaper.
One tip may be simply to move to an official weekly death toll, a government source told The Telegraph.
Britain suspended its update on the death toll last month and the government ordered a review of how Public Health England reports coronavirus deaths, after academics said the numbers may come with others who died from other causes.
Academics in a blog post warned that the way the government fitness company calculated the numbers was biased because patients who tested positive for coronavirus but were effectively treated will still be considered to be dying from the virus “even if they had a fit at the center or were hit by a bus 3 months later.” Reuters reports.
Death figures in England vary significantly from day to day for this reason, he argued.
On the other hand, the other regions of the United Kingdom follow the same approach.
There is a 28-day threshold in Scotland after a positive test, after which a patient should not die automatically from the virus.
Britain, one of the countries most affected by the virus, reported more than 1,000 new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, its largest accumulation since June, bringing the total number of cases to 310,000.
Belarusian police fired crippling grenades and made arrests as part of the crackdown on protests that erupted when President Alexander Lukashenko nearly claimed another election victory on Sunday in the face of the biggest challenge in years: his control of power.
Thousands more took to the streets of Minsk as protesters cheered, shouted “victory” and honked in solidarity with the opposition.
Police blocked the streets and at least 10 others were arrested at one location in Minsk, a Reuters witness said, while local media reported arrests and clashes between police and protesters in the capital and other cities.
The Internet and social media have been disrupted.
The government said in a statement that no protesters were injured.
A former Administrator of Soviet collective farms, authoritarian Lukashenko has had the country since 1994, but has struggled with a wave of anger for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, his economy and his human rights record.
State-approved polls showed him winning 79.7% of the vote, while his main opponent, Svetlana Tikhanouskaya, a former English teacher who emerged from obscurity a few weeks ago to lead rallies against him, won 6.8%.
Foreign observers have tried free and fair elections in Belarus since 1995.
Married to a Soviet-style economic model, Lukashenko has struggled to increase his source of income and popular lifestyle in recent years.
He also faced anger at his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which he called “psychosis” while suggesting drinking vodka and playing ice hockey as remedies.
Some 850 French passengers aboard a cruiser riddled with coronaviruses who denied many ports in March filed a class action in Paris with 180 complaints, adding involuntary manslaughter, opposed to Costa Cruises, his lawyer said on Sunday.
The action of elegance, which includes court cases of the families of 3 passengers of the deceased Covid-19, accuses the Italian giant of cruises of negligence and various failures on its holiday on the Magic Coast.
From 6 to thirteen March, the vessel refused to dock at the top of the Caribbean islands it visited, adding Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados and Saint Lucia.
In the absence of stopovers, the team encouraged passengers to use the ship’s shops, spas, restaurants and casino with sufficient sanitary measures in place or informing them that there were suspicions of infections on board, the whistleblowers said in their suits.
The ship “was to blame, the passengers had almost no data and only knew from local media that there were cases on the ship,” lawyer Philippe Courtois, representing the collective of about 850 French passengers, told the AFP.
Courtois criticized the “extremely light” viral measures on the boat.
“I intended to be a dream cruise, but it ended in a test,” he said.
Costa Cruises, a component of Carnival, has been suspended worldwide until August 15 due to the pandemic.
All arrivals in Germany from high-risk spaces have been subjected to compulsory coronavirus since Saturday, amid a build-up of infections in the country.
On Sunday morning, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported 555 new infections, less than in the last 3 days, in which the number of infections exceeded 1000 for 3 consecutive days.
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A total of nine academics and one of the best schools in Georgia that made headlines after a photo shared on social media showed that their teenage-filled hallways, many of whom were not dressed in masks, tested positive for coronavirus, my colleague Tom Lutz reports.
North Paudling High School Principal Gabe Carmona wrote Saturday that six students and 3 tested positive in a letter received through the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Hannah Watters, a sophore student at the school who was suspended in the first place for posting the photo on Twitter, has seen her punishment revoked, CNN reported.
Elsewhere in Georgia, AP reports that school officials in a neighboring metropolitan county in Atlanta said 12 academics and two staff members in a dozen schools tested positive for the virus in the first week back to school. The Cherokee County school formula reported that more than 250 potentially exposed students had been quarantined for two weeks.
As our Ed Pilkington wrote today, Georgia is one of 21 U.S. states. They have been placed through the White House Coronavirus Working Group in the “Red Zone,” indicating that the disease is now so widespread that immediate restrictions will need to be imposed to prevent it. disastrous consequences.
A giant study on coronavirus transmission in schools, involving some 20,000 academics and teachers in 100 schools across the UK, will find that “there is very little evidence that the virus is transmitted” there, according to a leading scientist, the Sunday Times reports. .
Professor Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and a member of the sage government advisory organization, said: “A novelty in British schools confirms that there is very little evidence that the virus is transmitted in schools.
“These are some of the most important knowledge found in schools around the world. Britain has been very successful in thinking about collecting knowledge in schools.”
It is being carried out through Public Health England and is expected to be released later this year.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported cases of the new coronavirus on Sunday 4974959, an increase of 54,590 cases of its count last day, and said the number of deaths had increased from 1064 to 161284.
The CDC reported its respiratory disease case count known as Covid-19, through a new coronavirus, at 4pm. ET on August 8.
CDC figures necessarily reflect cases reported through individual states.
Although tourism faces its worst crisis since a record start, Saudi Arabia agreed with Europe’s largest hotel organization, Accor, to expand and operate a beach hotel on Al-Ula’s $20 billion tourism allowance of the kingdom in the northwest region of the kingdom, the Royal Project Commission said On Sunday.
Al-Ula, that of an ancient civilization in a remote corner of the northwest of the country, is part of the plans of the world’s largest crude oil exporter to diversify its oil-free economy and open up after decades of isolation, Reuters reports.
The agreement will cause Accor to operate in an extended Ashar Complex of the Banyan Tree brand, with 47 new sets that will bring the overall capacity of the complex to 82 high-end villas, as well as a spa and several gourmet restaurants, according to a statement from the commission.
The assignment is in the Ashar Valley, 15 km (9 miles) from the first site of the UNESCO World Heritage Kingdom, Hegra.
In April, Saudi Arabia’s tourism minister said the sector could experience a 35% to 45% decline this year as a result of government movements to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
The ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, closed for decades, has in recent years strict social codes such as the segregation of men and women in public and the demand that women wear fully covered black robes, or abayas.
The progression of Al-Ula is part of a crusade to maintain pre-Islamic heritage sites in order to attract non-Muslim tourists and national identity.
An official opening to the world is expected as a year-round destination in October 2020.
The kingdom closed its borders to foreign pilgrims “umra” and tourists from at least 25 countries at the end of February.
In March, he banned everything inside and outside the country.
Saudi Arabia has reported 287262 cases of Covid-19, respiratory disease through the new coronavirus, and 3130 deaths to date.
Separate dual couples and immigration restrictions related to coronavirus will soon receive a “pass”, a special exemption that allows the spouse of the high-risk country to meet with their spouse in France, the newspaper Sud Ouest reports.
Since restrictions and lockout regulations were introduced in France in March, some couples have been on long-distance appointments in two other countries.
The Secretary of State for Tourism and the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne announced on Saturday that a derogatory procedure would allow binational couples to be reunited.
Starting Monday, a pass can be issued at the consulates for one wife to enroll the other in France.
They “must be delivered to the consulate with documents certifying non-unusual activities, their identity documents, evidence that the French spouse is in France, a return ticket,” Lemoyne said.
Greece recorded 203 new infections in 24 hours until Sunday, its highest count since the outbreak began in the country, a government official said.
The accumulation of the past in some cases raises the total number of infections in the country to 5623 since its first infection emerged last February, Reuters reports.
Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Britain increased to 1062 on Sunday, exceeding 1,000 for the first time since the end of June.
As instances accumulate in the country, new local locks are being implemented in some spaces and considerations abound about a momentary wave of infections.
Official knowledge shows that the instances reported on Sunday are 304 more than the 758 new instances reported on Saturday.
In mid-June, the World Health Organization said the blockade of coronavirus in England will no longer rise until the government’s contact search formula has proven to be “solid and effective,” after much complaints about the initial effects of the government’s new tracking operation.
Non-essential outlets began to reopen in England and Northern Ireland in mid-June, and in Wales and Scotland at the end of that month.
Hotels, pubs and restaurants in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland followed suit in July, visitors were not allowed to return to Welsh pubs and cafes until the first week of August.
While the shown cases of coronavirus in the United States reached five million on Sunday, until the end of any country, the world’s toughest inability to involve the virus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, the Associated Press reports.
Perhaps nowhere in the open air in the United States is america thinks more dismayed by america’s failed viral back than in Italy, which is point 0 of the European epidemic.
The Italian government was unprepared when the epidemic broke out in February, and the country still has one of the highest official death rates in the world with 35,000 deaths.
But after a strict 10-week national blockade, careful monitoring of new groups and widespread acceptance of mask mandates and social estrangement, Italy has a style of containment of the virus.
“Don’t you mind your health?” asked Patrizia Antonini, a masked woman about the other people in the United States as she walked with her friends along the shores of Lake Bracciano, north of Rome.
“You will have to take our precautions. […] They want a genuine closure.”
Much of the disbelief in Europe is due to the fact that the United States has benefited from the time, European delight and medical knowledge to treat the virus that the continent itself did not have when the first patients with Covid-19 began to fill the units with extensive care. .
However, more than 4 months after the onset of a sustained epidemic, the United States has reached the five million mark, according to the existing count conducted through Johns Hopkins University.
Health officials estimate that the actual number is likely to be 10 times higher, or closer to 50 million, given the limitations of the evidence and the fact that up to 40% of all other inflamed people have no symptoms.
“We Italians have seen America as a model,” said Massimo Franco, columnist for Corriere della Sera.
“But with this virus, we discovered a very fragile country, with poor infrastructure and a non-existent public conditioning system.”
Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza has criticized the United States, officially condemning the Trump administration’s resolve to withhold investment to the World Health Organization and expressing astonishment at President Donald Trump’s viral response.
After Trump, even though he all put on a mask last month, Speranza told La7 television: “I’m not surprised by Trump’s habit now; I’m deeply surprised by the habit of before.