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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 topped 600,000 on Sunday as deaths from the 19,400 virus, before the end of more than five months of lockdown.
The Andean country has 607,938 confirmed cases of the virus according to the health ministry, with 19,364 reported deaths. Active cases number 136,702, Reuters reports.
President Ivan Duque declared a national shutdown to stop 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. Depending on the new measures, restaurants can operate at 25% capacity, but major occasions, such as concerts, remain prohibited.
Extensive care sets in Bogota have a capacity of around 73%, according to fitness authorities. The capital is home to more than a third of Colombia’s cases.
Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn, a former British Labor Party leader, one of the first to be fined a constant fine of 10,000 euros under new coronavirus legislation that restricts public gatherings of more than 30 people.
The meteorologist and substitute weather denier has been arrested and fined for organizing Saturday’s protest in central London against the lockdown restrictions.
The 73-year-old said he was arrested at the established level in Trafalgar Square at the end of the event, as protesters marched through Whitehall.
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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 be closed, 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 on Sunday it would permanently ditch replacement fees 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 among the top U.S. airlines that began implementing transitional waivers from replacement fares 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 any tickets already booked until the end of the year.
The popular replacement payment – charged to passengers who replace their tickets – for domestic flights $ 200.
In a video message to customers, managing director Scott Kirby said ditching fares was one of the most sensible demands from passengers.
The move is in line with Southwest Airlines policy of not charging fees for ticket price changes, Reuters reports.
The fares of rivals American Airlines and Delta Air Lines for changes.
With United, they were making record profits before the pandemic crushed demand, thanks in large part to fees like checked baggage or opting for a seat.
In some other change, effective January 1, United will allow consumers to register as loose while waiting for 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 infections shown in the country is now 1,966, with 15 deaths, since the first case emerged in early March, according to the fitness ministry.
Jordan has noticed an increase in the daily number over the 10-plus days, prompting the government to tighten a national curfew in the middle of the night, which now begins at 11 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. and to introduce a one-day closure in the capital, Amman, on Friday.
Authorities have also delayed the resumption of scheduled advertising flights from Alia International Airport, which is due to take a position this month, making it difficult for clients to immediately recover from their indebted economy.
Prime Minister Omar al Razzaz said on 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 lockdown that stifled the economy.
The government sealed its border crossing with Syria earlier this month following a Covid-19 outbreak involving truck drivers arriving from its northern neighbour, Reuters reports.
Police dispersed an illegal rave in a forest in eastern England on Sunday, days after the British government took more difficult measures to tackle “serious violations” of Covid-19 restrictions, adding fines of 10,000 euros ($13,000).
Dozens of officers, some with protective shields, clashed with revelers at Thetford Forest, but despite some refrieks, the organization dispersed widely peacefully.
There appeared to have been arrests and the police dismantled the public confrontation system.
Before a three-day holiday weekend, the government had stated that “those who facilitate or organize illegal raves, unlicensed music events or any other illegal collection of more than 30 other people face 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 need violence,” added the guy.
“We came here to socialize and then be transparent.”
The police have had to break up several illegal raves in other parts of England as the government tries to balance opening up the economy by loosening restrictions on socialising with protecting the public’s health.
Not all study halls in France can safely reopen on Tuesday, the country’s education minister admitted on Sunday, as a persistent buildup of coronavirus infections jeopardizes government efforts to recover 12.9 million. schoolgirls elegantly this week.
Like many governments around the world, adding the UK, France needs to reopen all schools on Tuesday to narrow the learning gap between poor academics who have been exacerbated by the virus lockdown this spring, and for those to parents repaint and relive the sick. economics, the Associated Press reports.
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 few as possible.
Less than 48 hours from the end of the first bells of the French schools, he said that the openings and closings were made on a day-to-day basis through an investigation based on the fitness scenario of each territory.
French doctors issued an appeal on Saturday saying the government’s anti-virus measures for schools are strict enough.
Masks for children up to six years old and a combination of online and in-person education.
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 categories, more teachers, a greater separation between academics and categories, and a mix of online learning.
Mexican airline Interjet said on Sunday it would increase the number of routes and the frequency of its domestic flights starting in September, adding expansion features to the country’s northern states 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 suffocated global travel.
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 4pm. SUNDAY ET to its previous report a day earlier, bringing the total number of cases shown in the country to 5.93four, 82four.
The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by 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 others hospitalized with the disease is 4,535 compared to 4,530 the previous day and the number in resuscitation 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 nearly 370 migrants landed overnight on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the country’s news agencies said on Sunday, fuelling anger from local officials over a recent rise in 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 ship with 367 people, which threatened to sink due to strong winds, was escorted through the Italian coast guard and police to the island’s port, the ANSA news firm said.
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.
About 30 other small boats, mostly from the Tunisian coast, had already reached the island since Friday carrying a total of around 500 migrants, the 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 people have been tested for Covid-19 following an outbreak being linked to a bingo night in Staffordshire, England.
There are known cases similar to the occasion at Silverdale Working Men’s Club in August, according to Staffordshire County Council.
He said anyone who tested positive would isolate themselves, while the contacts of those who tested positive were traced.
As a component of the council’s testing and traceability efforts, it urges those who have visited certain sites in Silverdale or Newcastle on urgent dates to get tested as soon as possible.
The venues are: – Silverdale Working Men’s Club august 16-21 – The Bush Pub from August 20-22 – The Vine Pub August 20-23 – The George and Dragon Pub August 20-22 – Newcastle (King Street) Working Men’s Club on 22 August – The Kiln on 22 August – The Crown on 22 August – Yachts in Newcastle on 22 August – The Roebuck pub on 23 August – The Bilash Dining Place on August 24 – The Arnold Machin between 26 and 27 – The Westbury Tavern in Clayton from August 26 to 27
Staffordshire County Council said testing continues on holidays, and appointments can be made online or through a presentation at a cellular testing unit in Knutton or at a visiting center in Newcastle.
All indexed sites have been tested and, with the measures in place, can continue to open and accommodate customers, the council added, PA reports.
Dr. Richard Harling, Director of Health and Care, said: “What we see in testing and traceability activities is an expanded network compared to the original bingo occasion, as other people met with friends and the family circle and went out to socialize.
“More than 1,000 more people have already been tested, but we want the tests to be performed on everyone at one of the sites on the dates indicated.
“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 infection.”
The UK recorded 1,715 cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, according to the government’s knowledge on Sunday, the point since 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 via 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 initially the worst-hit area in the country, new infections and deaths have dropped sharply after mass-scale testing was introduced.
Of the 100,022 tests reported yesterday, 698 were positive (0.69% of total), making Saturday the 23rd consecutive day with an infection rate of below 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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