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All the enthusiasts attending next season’s National Football League games in the United States will have to wear masks, the league showed on Wednesday.
Teams and local governments in NFL markets across the country have made the decision to restrict the number of enthusiastic internal stadiums next season, which begins September 10, to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
The New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens had said in the past that they would particularly reduce the number of participants on game days, while the New York Jets and New York Giants said this week that no enthusiasts would attend the upcoming games at MetLife Stadium, bringing up an executive order from the governor of New Jersey. Phil Murphy.
Bolivia’s plan to hold elections in September, seen as a key to stabilizing its democracy after a year of political turmoil, is increasingly being questioned amid emerging coronavirus deaths, adding grim reports on police in two cities that locate the bodies of suspected COVID-19Array patients
Police said they recovered 420 bodies from the streets, cars and houses of Bolivia’s capital, La Paz, and Bolivia’s largest city, Santa Cruz, within five days. It is believed that between 80 and 90 percent of them had the virus.
France has registered 998 new instances shown as COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the latest knowledge from the Ministry of Health.
The number of instances shown is now 178,336, the ministry said. The number of other people in hospitals inflamed with the virus fell to 6,366 from 6,482 a day earlier, and the number in extensive care was reduced to 445 from 455 a day earlier, according to figures.
The number of deaths in France due to the new coronavirus is 30,172 to 30,165 a day earlier.
Egypt has extended the opening hours of cafes and restaurants from 10 p.m. while allowing them to operate at 50% of their capacity as of July 26, the company reported in a statement.
The opening hours of the stores, in addition to grocery shopping malls, also lasted until 10 p.m., he said.
Egypt had reduced opening hours in its initial reopening phase to restrict public meetings and curb coronavirus.
With the accumulation of coronavirus cases, Washington, D.C.,s mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that it would include an executive order that would make the outdoor mask mandatory, an unprecedented step in the nation’s capital.
Bowser said the order would come with an “application language” detailing the conceivable fines for violations.
Having controlled the infection curve this summer, fitness officials said the number of infections had slowly increased, reaching 3 figures on Wednesday for the first time in weeks.
The number of new international coronavirus cases has exceeded 15 million, according to an ongoing count from U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.
The death toll from the virus is 618,000, with recoveries exceeding 8.5 million, according to the data.
The United States remains the most affected country with more than 3.91 million infections, while the number of deaths in the country is 142,350. The country has recorded more than 1.18 million recoveries to date.
WHO is working to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines, but in the meantime it is essential for the spread of the virus, said Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s emergency programme, as new daily international bodies are at near-record levels. .
“We are making smart progress,” Ryan said, noting that several vaccines were lately in Phase 3 trials and none had failed in terms of protection or ability to generate an immune response.
“Actually, it will be the first component of next year before we start seeing other people getting drained,” he said on a public occasion on social media.
Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress aim to pass a fifth coronavirus program before the end of the month, but to do so, they will have to succeed over significant differences.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives approved a $3.4 trillion relief bill against the virus in May. Republicans who are expected to present a package later this week that will charge more than $1 trillion, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday.
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Women leaders are doing a greater job in the face of the coronavirus crisis, European Central Bank leader Christine Lagarde said in an interview with The Washington Post, congratulating them on their fair communication and giving the impression that they care for themselves.
The differences and communication were “pretty surprising” in women-led countries, she said.
The leading women in Germany, Taiwan, Belgium and New Zealand had also “carried the water from bad news, as well as transparent explanations and strong recommendations,” she added.
The English Premiership Rugby said two players had produced a positive result in their lacheck COVID-19 check on 896 players and the club this week.
“Players who have tried and their close contacts will now be isolated and evaluated according to the agreed rules of PHE (Public Health of England),” the prime minister said in a statement.
“No major points will be provided on clubs or Americans.”
Thousands of South African owners of places to eat and bars have placed tables and chairs on the streets in front of their premises as part of a national protest against closing restrictions that prevent them from promoting alcohol or trading after nine o’clock at night.
The country’s hospitality sector is one of the highest affected by government restrictions imposed at the end of March to curb the coronavirus.
At the end of June, restaurants were allowed to offer alcohol-free services with limited capacity.
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health said 44 other people had died and 2,313 had the disease in the past 24 hours.
Wednesday’s count raised the total number of cases to 258,156, 2,601 deaths and 210,298 recoveries.
In Qatar, the Ministry of Health said the virus killed 3 other people and set 441 people on fire, bringing the total number of cases shown to 107,871, 163 deaths and 104,641 cures.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had another positive result for the new coronavirus in the third check he has performed since it became July 7, a Ministry of Communications secretariat said.
Pfizer Inc and German biotechnology company BioNTech SE will get $1.950 million from the U.S. government. To produce and deliver one hundred million doses of their COVID-19 candidate vaccine, corporations said.
The U.S. government agreement to get 500 million more doses, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense said.
Trump’s management agreed to spend billions of dollars on the launch and a possible vaccine.
Switzerland has a greater number of territories in its surveillance of coronavirus hot spots at 42, with new arrivals from which to enter a 10-day quarantine, the fitness government said.
New registrations from Thursday arrive with Bosnia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eswatini, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Maldives, Mexico, Montenegro, the Palestinian territories, Suriname and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The number of coronavirus infections in Romania has increased through a record 1030 new cases in one day, the government said, while the World Health Organization said peaks in southern Europe and the Balkans were worrisome.
Romania has shown 40,163 cases since the pandemic reached the pandemic at the end of February and 2,101 others died. The government has extended the state of alert for 30 days, in office from May 15 to mid-August.
Hong Kong has reported 113 new coronavirus infections, a new record, while a sudden buildup in some cases shows no signs of slowing despite the strengthening of social estrangement rules.
The monetary center is one of the first places to be affected by the virus when it left central China.
But the town has had an impressive fortune in the fight against the disease, practically ending local broadcasts by the end of June.
However, infections have increased this month and doctors say a new epidemic is spreading unchecked in the densely populated territory of 7.5 million people.
The number of coronavirus cases continues to grow internationally. More than 14 million other international people have been infected.
But researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say the actual number of deaths can be only 12 times higher.
Gabriel Elizondo of Al Jazeera of New York, Usa:
Nearly two dozen potential vaccines opposed to the new coronavirus are in human testing stages around the world, and at least two are ongoing in Brazil, the country with the world’s second-worst epidemic.
One is a drug manufactured in China that is tested in 9,000 volunteers, the other evolved through the University of Oxford. Tests are ongoing and are expected to last about 3 months.
Teresa Bo of Al Jazeera reports:
Belgium is experiencing a damaging build-up in coronavirus cases after making many of its blocking measures more flexible, fitness officials said, warning of a wave of infections at a time imaginable.
Belgium’s National Security Council will meet on Thursday and could postpone the next phase of the country’s slow return to overall economic and social life.
Iran says 138 fitness professionals have been killed fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
Semi-official news firm ISNA cited Hossein Kermanpour, spokesman for Iran’s fitness professional regulator, as the death toll includes 90 doctors and 28 nurses.
Iran announced earlier this week that 12,000 exercises had been swollen across the country.
Beijing accused the United States of “defamation” after two Chinese citizens were accused of borrowing coronavirus vaccine studies and hacking into piles of companies.
“The Chinese government is a strong advocate for cybersecurity and has opposed and suppressed cyberattacks and cybercrime in all its forms,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.
India first cancelled a historic Hindu pilgrimage to a sacred cave in the snow-capped mountains of the disputed Kashmir region, as the new coronavirus continued to increase.
37,724 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, according to federal fitness knowledge released Wednesday. India reported nearly 1.2 million cases in total, the United States and Brazil alone.
The organizers of the Amarnath Yatra, where Saffron-clad Hindu ascetics walk 46 kilometers (28 miles) to cave glaciers and waterlogged trails, said a “very clear” increase in coronavirus cases forced cancellation.
Tourists from Australia, New Zealand and several Arab states will no longer want a visa for Ukraine from August 1, according to a decree signed through President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and posted on his website.
In June, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine was contemplating the possibility of rescinding its visa requirement for tourists from several countries, adding China, in order to attract more visitors once the blockades imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic are eased.
The new visa-free regime will apply if the tourist’s stay in Ukraine exceeds 90 days.
Qatar will begin reopening its borders to foreigners and will allow citizens and permanent citizens to enter and leave the country from 1 August, according to a government statement, as the Gulf state prepares to gradually lift restrictions to control its coronavirus outbreak. .
The Government Communications Office (GCO) said Wednesday that arrivals in Qatar from “low-risk countries” should take a coronavirus at the airport and signal a formal commitment to comply with quarantine at home for a week.
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The Nobel Foundation, which manages the prestigious Nobel Laureates, says it canceled the classic December banquet at Stockholm City Hall of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lars Heikensten, executive director of the Nobel Foundation, said it was not imaginable to gather up to 1,300 visitors at the banquet and let them sit side by side amid existing COVID-19 restrictions. He said the pandemic also makes it doubtful that winners can travel to Sweden.
Ireland could simply introduce new restrictions for countries with very high COVID-19 rates, foreign minister Simon Coveney said after the government lifted its 14-day quarantine requirement for 15 European countries.
Ireland, which has one of the lowest infection rates in the European Union with approximately five cases per 100,000 more people in the last 14 days, on Tuesday night removed the restriction for other people from countries with similar or declining rates.
Thailand will end the state of emergency until the end of August, said a senior official, keeping the security measure in place to involve its coronavirus outbreak.
The announcement comes after almost two months without local transmission and with many others in Thailand wondering if you want an emergency decree.
The decree, first submitted at the end of March, will be submitted for approval by the cupboard next week.
Hong Kong has made it mandatory to use a mask on public transport, indoor spaces and passenger terminals.
The measures will last until August 5, as the city attempts to break the transmission of local infections.
Hong Kong recorded 2,019 infections and 14 deaths. On Tuesday, he reported cases, 25 of which came here from an unknown source.
The city’s fitness minister, Sophia Chan, is asking others to stay home as long as possible, saying Hong Kong is the main threat of a network outbreak.
The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, lifted a fitness emergency after the coronavirus outbreak and ordered a three-stage reopening of commercial activities and borders.
The vast country of more than 80 million people has recorded 8,534 infections, with 196 deaths since 10 March.
Tshisekedi said the figures position the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the ninth most affected country in Africa in terms of number of cases and twelfth in terms of deaths, “ending all catastrophic predictions for our country at the beginning of the epidemic.”
Pakistanis with COVID-19 threaten their lives and navigate a dark black market for blood plasma transfusions, despite little medical evidence of the effectiveness of the remedy.
Convalescence plasma treatment, in which the antibody-rich component of a cured patient’s blood is transfused into a coronavirus victim, is gaining popularity across Pakistan amid claims of good fortune widely disseminated on social media.
Like other countries, Pakistan is conducting medical trials on treatment, which has shown promising symptoms but is proven.
The number of active coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic exceeded 5,000 for the first time after laboratories reported the largest buildup in nearly a month, the ministry of fitness said Wednesday.
Authorities reported 212 new instances Tuesday night, bringing the total number of active instances to 5,046. The total number of instances, adding up to those that are recovered or killed, reached 14,324.
The central European country of 10.7 million more people has reported 360 deaths from coronavirus-induced COVID-19 disease, fewer than many Western European countries.
More than one in five people in Delhi has become inflamed with coronavirus, according to one study, indicating that no maximum instances have been detected in the Indian capital region.
The National Centers for Disease Control analyzed 21,387 randomly decided people in others in Delhi, the state that includes New Delhi, and found that 23.48% had antibodies to the virus.
Taking into account false positives and negatives, he estimated that 22.86% of the population had become inflamed with the virus, Dr. Sujeet Kumar Singh, who runs the institute, said at a press conference.
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Hello, it is Elizabeth Melimopoulos in Doha who resumes updates from my colleague Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur.
Japan is going to launch a debatable domestic tourism crusade that some have called “Go to Problems.”
The “Go To Travel” initiative aims to bring the tourism industry to life with subsidies of up to 50 cents.
But as coronavirus cases increase, to and from Tokyo it has been eliminated and politicians should suspend the crusade for fear of spreading the virus. A vote showed that 69% of the public searched after it canceled.
The Australian state of Victoria has reported a record 484 new cases of coronavirus and two deaths from the disease, either 90-year-old men.
Masks have been manufactured in the state; everyone who comes out has to use one.
The citizens of Melbourne can leave their homes lately just for food and supplies, medical reasons, paintings and paintings or education (if this cannot be done at home).
The Japanese Ministry of Health has approved the use of dexamethasone as a remedy for COVID-19.
Dexamethasone is a reasonable and widely used steroid.
Studies have shown that it has benefits for others with moderate or complex cases of the disease.
A new examination from the University of Nebraska suggests that COVID-19 can spread through speech and breathing in general, and more than two meters, according to an AFP report. The effects have not yet been reviewed in pairs.
Scientists took air samples from the chambers of five COVID-19 patients about 30 cm (about one foot) above the foot of their bed. Patients were talking, generating microdrops that can stay in the air for several hours, and some coughed.
Three of the 18 samples could be reflected in the lab. Joshua Santarpia, associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said the findings the concept that other people can get COVID-19 through microdroppers.
China has reported 14 new cases of coronavirus, five of which are imported and the rest in western Xinjiang.
There have been no new cases of network transmission in Beijing in the following days, according to state media.
From 1 August, Qatari citizens and permanent citizens will be able to travel abroad and return, while citizens will be able to return.
Travellers from low-risk countries will need to perform a COVID-19 check on arrival and after a seven-day home quarantine period, the government Communications Office said in a statement.
A list of low-risk designated countries will be published on the Ministry of Public Health’s online page and updated every two weeks.
After months of downplaying its importance, US President Donald Trump has spoken unequivocally in favor of dressing in masks.
Speaking at the first White House press conference in weeks of medical experts, Trump suggested Americans put on a mask and put it on.
Trump spoke at his first white house briefing in weeks and showed off his mask as he spoke. You can find out more about what happened here.
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