The coronavirus pandemic has inflamed more than 20 million people and killed more than 746,000. Here are the most recent updates from August 12: A waiter wears a protective mask while running in a bar amid the spread of coronavirus disease in Athens, Greece. August 1, 2020 (Costas Baltas / Reuters) Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Greece reports the highest cases
The most recent increase in cases raises the total number of infections in the country to 6,177 since its first infection appeared in late February. There were 216 recorded deaths.
The buildup of infections in recent weeks has led the government to gradually introduce more restrictions at the peak of the tourist season.
Turkey confirms more than 1,000 new cases
Turkey has shown 1212 new cases of coronavirus, bringing health minister Fahrettin Koca to the total to 244392.
The country also showed 934 additional recoveries, bringing the total to 227,089, Koca said.
Meanwhile, another 18 people have died as a result of the virus, which killed another 5,891 people in Turkey.
Health professionals performed more than 67,200 tests to diagnose the disease on the last day, the number since March 2, bringing the total to more than 5.45 million.
Turkish to reopen in September
Turkish schools are expected to begin reopening on 21 September as a component of a slow transition to face-to-face education, the country’s education minister, Ziya Selcuk, said, delaying reopening after a build-up of coronavirus cases.
The UK has the number of deaths in Europe
The official death toll in Britain due to the Covid-19 pandemic has fallen by more than 5,000, as the government has followed a new way of counting deaths after expressing fear that the old approach overestimates them.
From now on, the government will publish the number of deaths occurring within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test, the Ministry of Health said.
Under the new method, Britain has an official covid-19 death toll out of 41,329 of the 46,706 registered under the old system.
The death toll remains that of Europe, ahead of Italy of about 35,000.
The World Health Organization said it is awaiting review of clinical trials of a possible vaccine opposed to coronavirus developed in Russia.
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia was the first country to approve a vaccine, that final phase tests involving more than 2,000 people should not begin until Wednesday.
WHO reports that 28 of the more than 150 prospective vaccines are being actively tested in humans lately, six of which have reached Phase 3, the highest level at which candidate drugs are tested in giant teams of people.
Cases in France see a new record
The French Ministry of Health has reported 2524 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, setting a new record after the blockade and taking the cumulative total of instances in the country to 206696.
The seven-day moving average of new infections, which is the average weekly knowledge reporting irregularities, rose to 1,810, the highest point since April 24, when the epidemic was in full swing.
Argentina bypassing restrictions
In the Argentine capital, the government closed a bar after consumers were noticed drinking beer on the sidewalk in violation of pandemic blockade measures. Some retail establishments in Buenos Aires ignored the ban on remaining closed, saying online sales were insufficient.
Tired of 40 months, an Olympic rower broke the rules and trained in a river. He wept with joy and a feeling of liberation once back to the water.
People are at the forefront of generation in Argentina, where the number of new cases of coronavirus is expanding despite nearly five months of strict restrictions and activities in the Buenos Aires region, where approximately two-thirds of the country’s population lives. .
Nba reports 0 cases
The NBA reported no positive Covid-19 cases for the fourth week in a row, the last testing circular in the league’s “bubble” in Orlando, Florida.
The league said of the 342 players evaluated for Covid-19 on the NBA campus at Disney World since last Wednesday, none have returned to the evidence.
Since players began entering the NBA’s ‘bubble’ in Orlando, none have tested positive for the virus.
Two players tested positive when they arrived in Florida last month, but none had turned 40 to be admitted to the NBA area.
U.S. struggles to launch e-learning
In the US state of Georgia, the largest school district fought Wednesday to free up online learning for its 180,000 students, and parents complained that they and their students had tried to connect to the Gwinnett County online system.
And Georgia’s largest district, which has lately been looking to offer face-to-face categories, has now quarantined more than 1,110 students, an increase of more than three hundred children in a day, due to exposure to the coronavirus imaginable since the categories resumed last week. Cherokee County.
Gwinnett County is one of Atlanta’s premier metropolitan districts that chose to offer virtual courses to all of its academics before this year.
German RKI says vaccine may be available in autumn
Germany’s leading infectious disease institute said a first coronavirus vaccine may be available as early as the fall, but warned that the pandemic could take longer.
“Preliminary projections make the availability of one or more vaccines imaginable until the fall of 2020,” the Robert Koch Institute said on one website, posing a global effort to bring vaccines to market.
“It would be harmful at this level if vaccination from autumn 2020 could control the pandemic,” he warned.
Coronavirus discovered in Ecuadorian shrimp in China
A people in China’s Anhui province in eastern China discovered the new coronavirus in Ecuadorian shrimp packaging, according to state media, in the most recent case of virus detection in imported products.
The coronavirus was discovered in the outer packaging of frozen shrimp purchased at a place to eat in Wuhu city when the local government conducted an inspection of the regime, said CCTV, China’s national television.
The news came a day after a port city in eastern Shandong Province said it had discovered the virus in the packaging of imported frozen seafood, but specified where it came from.
Since July, several other Chinese cities have also reported cases, adding the port cities of Xiamen and Dalian, leading China to suspend imports of 3 Ecuadorian shrimp producers.
CCTV said Wednesday that Wuhu’s dining room had stored infected products in a freezer since the acquisition and that all similar products in the city had been sealed.
Norway will quarantine more travellers as it grows
Norway last week suspended a plan to reopen the company and suggested its citizens do not travel abroad in choir.
Although it is not a member of the European Union, Norway belongs to the Schengen passport-free area. It had some of the strictest restrictions in Europe at the start of the pandemic before gradually lifting them from June.
It will now re-impose 10-day quarantines from Saturday for all travellers from Poland, Malta, Iceland, Cyprus and the Netherlands, such as the Faroe Islands and some regions of Denmark and Sweden.
Norway has already reintroduced similar restrictions for Spain, France, Switzerland and many others, and has suspended a plan to allow recreational activities in certain non-European countries, which has been banned since March.
The non-approval board will remain in force until October 1.
With a population of 5.4 million, Norway reported a total of 9,750 on Wednesday, with 256 deaths.
Nigerian minister recovers from coronavirus
Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama recovered from the positive for Covid-19.
Onyeama took Twitter on Wednesday to announce that his Covid-19 result had returned negative after 3 weeks of isolation “by the very special grace of God.”
Onyeama tested Covid-19 in July.
Nigeria showed 423 more cases of the new coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 47290.
Philippines talks to Russian vaccine manufacturer about testing
Philippine scientists are expected to meet with representatives of the Russian state study center that developed a vaccine opposed to coronavirus, to discuss participation in clinical trials and data from their studies.
Undersecretary of Health Rosario Vergeire said Filipino experts would meet with representatives of the Gamaleya Research Center to discuss the trials and ask for a “full record” on the vaccine.
The Philippines is among the highest number of coronavirus cases in Asia, which increased to 143749 on Wednesday, two days after achieving a record 6958 infections.
A strict blockade has been imposed again on the capital.
Jordan closes Syria border after case spikes
Jordan will close its land industry’s border with Syria for a week after an increase in Covid-19 cases from its northern neighbor.
Authorities said the interior minister’s resolution to close Jaber’s crossing would take on Thursday morning.
The decision, which also quarantines officials running at the crossing, comes after 12 cases were reported on Wednesday, plus thirteen on Tuesday in the first wave of this type in several weeks.
Vietnamese PM says next 10 days are ‘critical’ to fighting virus
Vietnam’s prime minister said the next 10 days would be in the Southeast Asian country’s fight opposed to a new coronavirus outbreak, which resurfaced late last month after three months without a national case.
Vietnam has been praised for suppressing past contagion through competitive testing, tactile search and quarantine, but is now rushing to infect several locations related to the popular Danang city party, where a new outbreak was detected on July 25.
Vietnam reported 17 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, bringing its total number to 880, with 17 deaths.
Cases in India exceed 2.3 million
The number of viruses in India exceeded 2.3 million after reporting 60,963 new infections in the last 24 hours.
India showed a total of 46,091 deaths.
The Asian country has the third number of cases after the United States and Brazil, but only the fifth number of deaths.
Authorities say the mortality rate has fallen below 2% for the first time.
Indonesia reports 1942 virus
Indonesia has reported 1,942 cases of the virus, bringing the total number of infections shown in the country to 130,718, according to the knowledge of the government’s Ministry of Health website.
The Southeast Asian country also added 79 new deaths, bringing the total to 5,903, the number of pandemic deaths in Southeast Asia.
Russia said that the first batch of its vaccine opposed to the virus would be in position for some doctors in two weeks’ time and ruled out as “baseless” protection considerations expressed by some experts about Moscow’s immediate approval of the drug.
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia was the first country to grant regulatory approval to a vaccine opposed to the virus, after less than two months of human testing.
The vaccine has not yet completed its final trials. Only about 10 percent of clinical trials are successful and some scientists fear Moscow may be putting national prestige before safety.
Developing a vaccine the virus ‘is not a race to be the first’
U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said the preference to expand an vaccine opposed to the virus “is not a race to be the first.”
Azar’s comments on a scale in Taiwan adhere to Putin’s announcement that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine, raising doubts about the science and safety behind the alleged achievement.
Azar says the United States combines the powers of its government, economy, and biopharmaceutical industry to “provide safe and effective vaccines as temporarily as can be imagined for the advantages of American citizens, but also for the peoples of the world.”
The number in Russia exceeds 900,000
Singapore registers 61 cases, lowest in four months
Singapore reported 61 cases of the virus, its lowest number in more than 4 months.
The city-state closed in mid-April after major epidemics in the overcrowded dormitories of migrant staff took their workload to one of Asia’s highest.
Last week, he said he had eliminated infections from all dormitories, which house about 300,000, with the exception of some blocks that continue to serve as isolation zones.
The Singapore government says the maximum foreign staff can now repaint because their bedrooms have been cleared of the pandemic after months of closure and virus testing.
Wearing a mask is mandatory in all public squares in Brussels, as the number of viral infections has reached a government alert point that places the municipality among the highest affected in Europe.
The Belgian capital, home to EU and NATO headquarters, recorded an average of 50 inhabitants in line with last week’s population of 100,000.
Everyone in the city, which has a population of 1.2 million, will now have to wear a mask in parks, streets or other public places, as well as in personal spaces available to the public, the regional government said.
UK economy contracts by 20% in the quarter
The UK economy fell to a record 20.4% between April and June, when the virus blocked the biggest contraction, the biggest contraction reported through a primary economy to date, with a wave of loss of tasks expected to arrive later in 2020.
Official figures published also showed the world’s sixth-biggest economy entered a recession as it shrank for a second quarter in a row.
There were signs of a recovery in the month of June when output grew by 8.7 percent from May, the Office for National Statistics said, just above economists’ average expectation in a Reuters poll for an eight percent rise.
German Health Minister Jens Spahnon said he was skeptical that Russia became the first country to grant regulatory approval to a vaccine opposed to the virus, and said it was imperative to have a proven product rather than the first.
The Russian vaccine, called Sputnik V, in homage to the world’s first satellite introduced through the Soviet Union, has yet finished its last tests.
His regulatory approval came after two months of human testing.
The number of domestic viruses in China reaches a figure
National bodies transmitted in China were reduced to single digits, while Hong Kong recorded another 33 cases of infection.
The National Health Commission said the nine new cases had been discovered in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose capital, Urumqi, was in the midst of China’s last primary outbreak.
25 cases were brought through Chinese travellers who arrived from abroad.
There were 4,634 pandemic deaths in 84,737 cases.
Hong Kong, a densely populated semi-autonomous city in southern China, also recorded six other deaths, bringing the total to 58 out of 4181 cases.
South Korea reports cases
South Korea has reported 54 cases such as government paints of fitness to stop transmissions of higher social and recreational activities.
Figures announced through the South Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised the number of national bodies to 14,714 infections, 305 deaths.
New Zealand could delay elections after the return of the virus
New Zealand’s looming general election may be delayed, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned, as the resurgence of the pandemic’s surprise has blocked the country’s largest city and forced the closure of the country’s elderly houses.
Ardern said the government was running to find out who had been in contact with four Auckland citizens whose positive tests on Tuesday ended the country’s 102-day race without network transmission.
A three-day home stay order for Auckland, a city of 1.5 million more people, took effect at noon on Wednesday, ending weeks of near-normality, when thousands of people piled up in restaurants and filled rugby stadiums.
Germany 1226 cases
The number of virus cases in Germany has increased from 1,226 to 218,519, according to the knowledge of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases.
The reported death toll rose by 6 to 9,207, the tally showed.
Coronavirus deaths in Brazil now in general 103026
Brazil has recorded 1,274 new coronavirus deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,03026, the Ministry of Fitness said.
Overall, it showed an increase of 52,160 to 3,109,630.
Mexico reports 926 deaths
Mexico’s Ministry of Health reported 6686 new cases of coronavirus and 926 more deaths, bringing the country’s total to 492,522 infections and 53,929 deaths.
Australia’s victory sees deadliest day
Australia’s most populous state of the time, Victoria, reported its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic with 21 deaths in the last 24 hours and 410 new cases.
The state reported 19 coronavirus deaths, its last one-day record in death toll, on Tuesday and Monday. He recorded 331 a day earlier.
An infection organization in Melbourne, Australia’s Victorian capital and second-largest city, forced the government last week to impose a night-snout, tighten restrictions on people’s movements, and order the closure of much of the state’s economy.
New Zealand delays electoral process
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is behind a key step toward next month’s general election, as the country sank again into the blockade after the first instances of Covid-19 were discovered in more than 3 months.
Ardern said Wednesday that he postponed the dissolution of parliament, which was to give way to an election scheduled for September 19, until Monday. A resolution on the postponement of the vote has not yet been taken, he added.
“It’s too early to make decisions, but there’s a bit of flexibility to move the election date if necessary,” Ardern said at a televised press conference, adding that any date before November 21 can be selected for the election.
Argentina death toll over 5,000
The death toll in Argentina has surpassed 5,000, the government said, while cases have soared in recent weeks, leading the South American country to raise global ratings despite months of blockade and a promising start.
Argentina has been quarantined since March 20, the government in the past has eased restrictions in many parts of the country, a resolution attributed to the recent accumulation of cases.
The country recorded 7,043 new Covid-19s on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections shown to 260,911, surpassing the total number in Italy.
The government’s most recent knowledge on Tuesday shows that another 5004 people have died from the disease.
More than 900 students, Georgia district quarantined
A Georgia school district has quarantined more than 900 academics and staff due to imaginable exposure to coronavirus since the ranks resumed last week.
None of the scholars in the images were dressed in masks.
Cherokee County School District quarantine figures come with at least 826 academics, according to the knowledge posted through the district online. Located about 58 miles north of Atlanta, the district serves more than 42,000 schoolchildren and began the new school year on August 3.
Quarantine affected at least 19 in the district.
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