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Brazil has recorded 566 more deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours and 16,158 new cases, the fitness ministry said Sunday night.
The country has now registered 120,828 deaths attributed to the coronavirus and 3,862,311 showed cases.
Sundays have a tendency to have low coronavirus counts in Brazil due to delays in testing through the country’s state governments, Reuters reports.
Coronavirus cases in Colombia surpassed 600,000 on Sunday as deaths from the virus approach 19,400, ahead of the end to more than five months of lockdown.
The Andean country has 607,938 registered cases of the virus to the Ministry of Fitness, with 19,364 reported deaths. Number of active instances 136,702, Reuters reports.
President Iván Duque declared a national shutdown to curb the spread of the virus last March.
The measure will end on Monday when the country begins a “selective” one-month quarantine.
Many sectors have already reopened. Under the new measures, restaurants can operate at 25% capacity, but giant occasions like concerts are still banned.
Bogotá’s extensive care packages have a capacity of around 73%, according to fitness authorities. The capital is home to more than a third of the cases in Colombia.
Piers Corbyn, the brother of Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labor Party, has one of the first people to get a constant £ 10,000 fine under new coronavirus legislation that restricts public gatherings of more than 30 other people.
The substitute meteorologist and weather denier has been arrested and fined for organizing Saturday’s protest in central London against lockdown restrictions.
The 73-year-old said he was arrested at Trafalgar Square level at the end of the occasion as protesters described Whitehall.
My colleague Damien Gayle has more.
Ghana will reopen air borders to foreigners from September 1 after finalizing them in March to restrict the spread of the coronavirus, President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a speech to the country on Sunday.
Land and sea borders will close, he said.
According to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, Ghana has so far recorded 44,205 infections, and 276 deaths.
United Airlines said Sunday it would permanently ditch replacement fares on tickets to the United States with swift effect, the latest effort by a US airline to verify and bring life to reservations affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Chicago-based United is one of the leading U.S. airlines that began implementing transitional exemptions this year to give passengers more flexibility in their plans given the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic.
It now makes the policy permanent for all Economy and Premium cabin tickets and also applies to tickets already reserved until the end of the year.
The standard change fee – charged to passengers who change their tickets – for domestic flights was $200.
In a video message to customers, Managing Director Scott Kirby said waiving fares was one of the most sensible demands from passengers.
The move matches Southwest Airlines’ long-standing policy of not charging fees for ticket changes, Reuters reports.
Rivals American Airlines and Delta Air Lines traditionally do charge for changes.
With United, they recorded record revenue before the pandemic crushed demand, largely through fees such as baggage registration or seat selection.
On another change, starting January 1, United will allow consumers to register as loose on another flight on the same day with the same departure and arrival cities if a seat is available.
Jordan reported 73 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, his highest count since the outbreak began, the ministry of fitness said.
The total number of contagions shown in the country now stands at 1,966, with 15 deaths, as the first case gave the impression in early March, according to the Ministry of Health.
Jordan has noticed an increase in numbers in the last 10 days, which has led the government to tighten a national night-time curfew, which now begins at 11 p.m. instead of 1 a.m., and introduce a one-day closure in the capital Amman on Friday.
The government also delayed the resumption of scheduled advertising flights from Alia international airport, which were due to take a position this month, making it difficult for clients to immediately recover their debt-ridden economy.
Prime Minister Omar al Razzaz said Sunday that while the government will continue to take express steps to curb the spread of Covid-19 by isolating certain neighborhoods and cities, it does not foresee a return to the radical blockade that stifled the economy.
This month he sealed his border crossing with Syria after a Covid-19 outbreak involving truck drivers from his northern neighbor, Reuters reports.
Police dispersed an illegal rave in a forest in eastern England on Sunday, days after the British government took tougher steps to attack “serious violations” of Covid-19 restrictions, adding fines of 10,000 euros (13,000 euros). Dollars).
Dozens of officers, some with protective shields, clashed with revelers at Thetford Forest, but despite some refrieks, the organization dispersed widely and peacefully.
It appears that there have been arrests and the police have dismantled the public confrontation system.
Before a three-day holiday weekend, the government had declared that “those who facilitate or organize illegal raves, unlicensed music events or other illegal gatherings of more than 30 people threaten a fine of 10,000 pounds.”
“I sense that other people are combining into teams of more than 30, but other people are eager to socialize and pass out at night,” said one reveler who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“People don’t want violence,” the man added.
“We came here to socialize and then be transparent.”
The police have had to dismantle several illegal raves in other parts of England as the government tries to strike a balance between opening up the economy by relaxing restrictions on socialization and protecting public health.
Not all study rooms in France can reopen safely on Tuesday, the country’s education minister said Sunday, as a persistent buildup of coronavirus infections is jeopardizing the government’s efforts to get 12.9 million schoolchildren back to school this week.
Like many governments around the world, in addition to the UK, France needs to reopen all schools on Tuesday to reduce the learning gap among deficient academics who were aggravated by the blockade of the virus this spring, and for parents to repaint and revive the sick. Economics, reports Associated Press.
With several thousand new infections now reported in France every day, Jean-Michel Blanquer, the education minister, told the Journal du Dimanche that some categories will remain closed when the national reopening begins on Tuesday, but as little as possible.
Less than 48 hours before the end of the first bells of French schools, he said that the openings and closures were made in the day to day through an investigation based on the fitness scenario of each territory.
French doctors issued an appeal Saturday saying the government’s anti-virus measures for schools are strict enough.
They mask for young people up to six years old and a combination of online and in-person instruction.
Currently, French schools resume largely as usual, but all-day masking is required for all over-11s and movement and meeting restrictions.
In contrast, other European countries like Denmark and many school districts in the United States are experiencing a complete overhaul of the school day that includes smaller classes, more teachers, greater separation between academics and classes. and a combination of online learning.
Mexican airline Interjet announced Sunday that it would increase the number of routes and frequency of its domestic flights from September, adding expansion features to the northern states of the country and popular tourist destinations.
Interjet, one of the 3 largest Mexican airlines with a portfolio of more than 50 routes, said it will have physical conditioning and protection measures and will also offer its passengers immediate Covid-19 tests and no N95 mask.
In July, Interjet won a capital injection of $ 150 million (£ 112 million) to navigate a primary restructuring in a bid to offset the crisis in the airline industry as the coronavirus pandemic stifled travel around the world. .
The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus rose from 1,006 to 182,149 people, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday.
The CDC reported four,292 new infections at four in the afternoon. Sunday’s ET to its previous report from the previous day, bringing the total number of cases shown in the country to 5.93four, 82four.
CDC figures necessarily reflect cases reported across individual states.
France reported 5,413 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, down from the 5,453 new cases recorded on Saturday.
The Health Ministry said the cumulative number of Covid-19-like deaths had increased to 30,606 from 30,602 reported on Saturday.
The number of other people hospitalized with the disease is 4,535 compared to 4,530 the day before and the number in extensive care has increased from 400 to 402.
“In mainland France, the progression of the Covid-19 epidemic is exponential. The dynamics of expansion in the transmission is very worrying. The ministry said in a statement.
A fishing boat carrying about 370 migrants landed overnight on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the country’s news agencies said on Sunday, fueling anger among local officials over the recent backlog of illegal arrivals, AFP reports. .
Italy has struggled in recent months with the arrival of large numbers of migrants departing from North Africa for its southern shores, a task confused by the security measures imposed through the current coronavirus crisis.
The mayor of Lampedusa, Toto Martello, has been on a general strike on the island since Monday to protest the “appalling silence” of the national government on the issue.
“Lampedusa can no longer cope with this situation. Either the government makes quick decisions or the whole island goes on strike, ”Martello told the ANSA news agency.
“We cannot deal with the emergency and the scenario now is unsustainable.”
The boat carrying 367 people, which was threatening to sink due to high winds, escorted through the Italian coast guard and police to the island’s port, news firm ANSA reported.
Among those on board there were thirteen and 33 minors.
They were received at the port by a demonstration organized through the far-right party, the Anti-Immigrant League.
The migrants, whose nationality is unknown, underwent temperature checks before being taken to an emergency reception center on the island that now houses some 1,160 people, ten times its expected maximum capacity. Martello told ANSA.
Around 30 other small boats, usually from the Tunisian coast, had already arrived on the island since Friday with a total of around 500 migrants, Italian press reported.
Nello Musumeci, the right-wing leader of the sister island of Sicily, wrote on Facebook on Sunday that he would call for an assembly on the “humanitarian and fitness crisis.”
“Lampedusa can’t do it anymore. Sicily continues to pay for the indifference of Brussels and the silence of Rome, ”he wrote.
Musumeci issued a decree last week ordering the closure of migrant centers in Sicily to curb the coronavirus, a resolution that has been rejected by Italian courts.
More than 1,000 more people have been tested for Covid-19 following an outbreak related to a bingo night in Staffordshire, England.
There are known cases related to the occasion at the Silverdale Working Men’s Club in AugustArray, according to the Staffordshire County Council.
It said anyone who tests positive is being told to self-isolate, while the contacts of those who test positive are being traced.
As part of the council’s test and trace efforts, it is urging anyone who visited certain venues in Silverdale or Newcastle on specific dates to get tested as soon as possible.
Options are: – Silverdale Working Men’s Club from August 21 – The Bush pub from August 20 to 22 – The Vine pub from August 20 to 23 – The George and Dragon pub from August 20 to 22 – Newcastle (King Street ) Working Men’s Club on August 22 – The Kiln on August 22 – The Crown on August 22 – Yachts in Newcastle on August 22 – The Roebuck pub on August 23 – Bilash Restaurant on August 24 – The Arnold Machin in between 26-27 – The Westbury Tavern in Clayton August 26-27
Staffordshire County Council said verification continues on public holidays, with appointments to be made online or appearing at a cell verification unit in Knutton or at a visitor centre in Newcastle.
All indexed sites have conducted tests and, with the measures implemented, can continue to open and accommodate customers, added the advice, REPORTS PA.
Dr. Richard Harling, Director of Health and Care, said: “What we’re seeing in the testing and traceability activity is an expanded network compared to the original side of binpass, as other people would combine with their friends and their family circle and approve of going out to socialize.
“Over 1,000 more people have already been tested, but we want everyone on one of the sites on the indexed dates to take the test.
“This is essential in our paintings to identify other people who are at risk of becoming infected with the virus and to further involve the spread of the infection.”
On Sunday, the UK recorded 1,715 cases of Covid-19, according to the government’s knowledge on Sunday, the point from 4 June.
One user died within 28 days of testing positive for the disease, he said.
The government said a total of 41,499 more people died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 on Sunday.
Separate figures released through UK statistical agencies show that there are now 57,200 deaths recorded in the UK where Covid-19 was discussed on the death certificate, AP reports.
A total of 334,467 were confirmed.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday criticized US President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic, accusing his administration of being “still in denial mode.”
Writing on Twitter, Cuomo denounced the lack of a national strategy to verify and hide the rules, which has forced state governments to seek solutions.
After New York was the worst-hit region in the country in the first place, new infections and deaths dropped dramatically following the arrival of large-scale testing.
Of the 100,022 tests reported yesterday, 698 were (0.69% of the total), which makes Saturday the 23rd in a row with a contagion rate of less than 1%.
The total number of hospitalizations has dropped to 429 and an additional 8 people in the state have died from Covid-19.
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