(Reuters) – India reported on Saturday a record build-up of coronavirus infections, raising the total number of cases to nearly 3 million and lobbying the government to stop mass meetings when a major devout holiday began.
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Nearly 1,500 volunteers dressed in masks, hand sanitizers and tracking devices attended an indoor concert in Germany as part of a program to simulate the spread of coronavirus in giant meetings.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy suggested that others stick to fitness recommendations after official knowledge showed that COVID-19 infections had reached a record level.
The head of the Israeli Coronavirus Working Group has asked Zelenskiy to forbid an annual pilgrimage in which Jasidic Jews stop in the town of Ouman in central Ukraine, for fear that the site may be a hot spot for viruses.
The United States closed the lanes of some access ports on the Mexican border on Friday and will do more secondary controls to restrict non-essentials and the spread of the coronavirus, an official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said.
New York City tried to involve the virus when it reopened, but is at risk of it accumulating in cases later in the year, Reuters were told public fitness experts.
The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico is “underrepresented” and “poorly recognized” and limited, said Dr. Mike Ryan of the World Health Organization.
ASIA PACIFIC
South Korea said it would implement stricter social estrangement rules to curb coronavirus across the country while battling a new epidemic in the capital.
Do you locate the terrifying pandemic? A Japanese organization tries to divert the attention of the other people from COVID-19, placing them in coffins surrounded by zombies wielding a chainsaw.
Saudi public sector painters will return to paintings on site on August 30, state television, which he mentioned to the Ministry of Human Resources, will ease additional restrictions on coronaviruses.
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Africa have exceeded 600,000, the Ministry of Health said Friday, the number of new cases has fallen since a peak in July.
Lebanon imposed a two-week partial blockade on Friday to counter COVID-19 infections that have doubled since the catastrophic explosion in Beirut’s harbor.
China has administered experimental coronavirus vaccines to the most infection-threatening teams since July, a fitness officer told state media.
China approved human testing for a possible vaccine opposed to insect cell-grown coronavirus, the local government of the southwestern city of Chengdu said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may update its emergency authorization for the use of the Gilead Sciences Inc. reusing drug for patients hospitalized with moderate COVID-19, despite the results of the combined trials, said the company’s leading director of studies. Friday.
More than a portion of the Spanish corporations that closed at the height of the coronavirus pandemic have reopened, according to government data, suggesting that the economy is slowly recovering.
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