New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called President Donald Trump’s executive orders “laughable” and bankruptcy in the federal government’s failed reaction to coronavirus by praising New Yorkers for the maximum of smart behaviors that have reduced the infection rate in their state.
The Democrat particularly criticized Trump’s announcement Saturday that states will have to pay a portion of the $400 weekly unemployment insurance benefits.
He said at a news convention over the phone that Trump’s plan would likely charge New York State $4 billion.
Coronavirus deaths in Chile exceeded 10,000 with more than 373,000 cases shown, with Latin America being the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticized the “slackness” of the country’s most watched television channel for suggesting that he endured the hard work of the country’s more than 100,000 coronavirus deaths.
The far-right president accused TV Globo of treating the death mark as a “World Cup final,” on Twitter that he had been “relaxed and disrespectful to the dead.”
On Saturday night, shortly after the official announcement that the death toll had exceeded 100,000, TV Globo opened its report with a long and highly critical editorial on Bolsonaro’s handling of the fitness crisis.
An Israeli jewelry company uses what it says is the world’s ultimate coronavirus mask, a face covered in gold and diamonds priced at $1.5 million.
The 18-carat white gold mask will be adorned with 3600 black and white diamonds and will be supplied with premium N99 filters at the buyer’s request, said designer Isaac Levy.
Levy, owner of Yvel, said the customer had two other requirements: that it was finished until the end of the year and that it would be the most expensive in the world. The last condition, he said, “was the one that had to be fulfilled.”
Not long ago, I wrote an opinion piece for Al Jazeera English, suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “will become the first leader to owe his seat to a virus.”
Indeed, in April, public concern about the pandemic that led alliance leader Kakhol lavan Benny Gantz to violate his election promise that the electorate would not form a coalition with Netanyahu.
The outgoing prime minister had used the army’s call for everyone to “pass under the gurney” to urge his political rivals to join forces with him to defeat the unusual viral enemy.
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A total of nine students and one of Georgia’s top schools tested positive for coronavirus, the principal said in a letter to parents after the school appeared in online image headlines showing hallways full of teenagers, many of them without masks.
Principal Gabe Carmona wrote Saturday that six students and 3 from North Paulding High School west of Atlanta tested positive for COVID-19.
Georgia has more than 197,000 coronavirus and more than 4,000 deaths.
The prime minister of the Australian state of Victoria says that more than 2,700 active cases have no known resources and the greatest fear of fitness authorities.
Victoria has noticed a welcome drop in her new COVID-19 instances with 394 and a record 17 deaths, adding two other 50-year-olds. It raised the death toll of the most affected state to 210 and the death toll from Australia to 295.
Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews said the instances shown also included some 1,000 health workers.
The number of UK companies making plans to reduce their size in June was five times higher than the same month last year, a sign of concern about the economic effect of COVID-19.
Figures received through the BBC show that 1,778 companies have informed the government of their goal of eliminating a total of 139,000 tasks. A year earlier, the figure of 345 corporations delivered a total of 24,000 task cuts.
Companies are required to notify the insolvency service if they are planning 20 or more jobs.
Greece has reported 203 new cases of COVID-19, its highest count since the outbreak began in the country, a government official said.
The most recent increase in cases raises the total number of infections in the country to 5,623 since its first infection appeared in late February.
The Indian Medical Association says 196 doctors have died of COVID-19 and, in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have asked for good enough care for doctors and their families.
The Ministry of Health has recorded almost 64,000 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours for a total of 2,153,010. At least 628,747 patients are still being treated.
India recorded 861 deaths, bringing the death toll to 43,379.
The number of new COVID-19 instances in Italy has increased, with 463 instances, according to figures from the Ministry of Health.
Many of the most recent cases were discovered in other young people returning from vacation abroad.
The number of new daily cases in Italy had already far exceeded 500 infections, but the number had fallen to 347 on Saturday, more in line with the figures of recent weeks.
A Belgian beach that the city has closed to tourists following Saturday’s arrests after clashes on a beach.
Local reports in Blankenberge suggest that its mayor, Daphne Dumery, took the resolution after the police fought with those who refused to stick to social estrangement regulations.
On Saturday, the Belgian television channel VTM covered the strong police presence in the seaside city and showed photographs of ongoing arrests.
The UK has reported 1,062 new positive tests for coronavirus, the largest buildup of new COVID-19 infections since last June, at a time of new local blockades in some areas and considerations of a momentary wave of infections.
Official knowledge showed that another 1,062 people tested positive on COVID-19 on Sunday, more than 1,000 new cases for the first time since June and 304 more than the 758 new cases reported on Saturday.
Oxfam Brazil has to conduct an official investigation into coronavirus deaths in Brazil, which exceeded 100,000 on Saturday.
“This is a shameful day for Brazil. We can no longer witness our government’s in the face of the great death of the coronavirus. We stand in solidarity with other Brazilian organizations by invoking the force of the law to interfere and hold this government accountable.” Katia Maia, executive director of Oxfam Brazil, said in a press release.
Oxfam Brazil and the Brazilian Consumer Protection Institute (IDEC) asked the Federal Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Federal Court of Auditors on July to investigate the “innumerable” failures in the government’s reaction led by Jair Bolsonaro, according to the statement.
The United States has recorded more than five million cases in the coronavirus pandemic, as well as at least 162,000 deaths while the country is battling the disease, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Polls showed that a large majority of the electorate was dissatisfied with President Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis before the November election, which may remove him from office.
Los Angeles County public fitness officials reported 2,645 new cases of coronavirus and 51 similar deaths Saturday, but said hospitalizations continued to decline. The most recent case numbers came with an accumulation of pending lab reports that the county expects the state to send through its electronic reporting formula in the coming days, authorities said.
It is transparent if this will replace the overall image of how temporarily the virus continues to spread.
However, officials said, statistics on deaths and hospitalizations were affected by the problem of reports, which made the new case numbers inaccurate.
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Malawi has closed bars and churches with new restrictions to restrict the “alarming” coronavirus, three months after a court prevented the government from enforcing a total lockout.
Since the first positive case detected on April 2, the cases shown have almost doubled in the last 4 weeks to more than 4,624, adding 143 deaths on Saturday.
Malawi was not placed under lockade after a court in April prevented the government from enforcing a total blockade because it had failed to announce measures to protect vulnerable people.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reported 31 new cases of COVID-19 and one more death, bringing the country’s total to 841, with 11 deaths.
All new instances are due to the central city of Danang, where the new outbreak began late last month, the ministry said in a statement.
There have been 355 cases since the virus reappeared in Danang, with deaths. Since then, coronavirus infections have been detected in at least 15 locations in Vietnam.
North Korea’s ruling party has delivered special food aid packages and medical devices to the citizens of Kaesong, near the border with South Korea, after enforcing a blockade there due to COVID-19 issues, state media said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an emergency and imposed the closure of the city’s small border last month after a person, who defected to South Korea in 2017, returned to Kaesong across the highly fortified border with symptoms of coronavirus.
Pyongyang has shown some coronavirus infection, but has taken strict quarantine measures and detected the city, while offering food, verification kits and other medical equipment, according to state media.
South Korea showed 14598 coronavirus and 305 coVID-19 deaths, the Korea Centers for Disease Prevention and Control announced Sunday.
The new coronavirus detected at one point in Papua New Guinea after a worker at Newcrest Mining Ltd’s Lihir mine tested positive for the disease.
The 30-year-old man, who arrived from Port Moresthrough at the end of July, is one of 26 cases shown reported through the National Center for Pandemic Control in the capital Port Moresthrough.
The island country has now reported a total of 214 coronaviruses and 3 deaths.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said reopening schools in September was a social, economic and ethical imperative and insisted that they could operate safely despite the risk of pandemics.
His comments stick to an earlier analysis this month that warned that Britain could see a momentary wave of COVID-19 this winter twice as giant as the initial epidemic if schools opened without an advanced control and track system.
Johnson said restarting schools is a national priority. Schools would be the last chance to close in long-term local closures, another newspaper quoted by him at an assembly on Thursday said.
New Zealand marked on Sunday a hundred days without national coronavirus transmission, but warned of complacency, as countries such as Vietnam and Australia, which once had the virus, are now battling a resurgence of infections.
New Zealand’s successful fight against COVID-19 has made the Pacific island country of five million others one of the safest places in the world today, News firm Reuters reported.
New Zealanders have returned to a general life, however, the government is concerned that others are now conducting benchmark tests, not in government contact tracking applications and even ignoring fundamental hygiene rules.
“Achieving a hundred days without network transmission is a vital step, but as we all know, we can’t be complacent,” warned Director General of Health, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield.
New Zealand has 23 active facilities in controlled insulation and has a total of 1,219 COVID-19.
Qatar recorded a recovery rate of 97.15% in its 112650 coronavirus cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
109,438 were recovered from the total number of Arrays, with a total of 182 deaths on Sunday.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recorded 1,467 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 287262.
Al Arabiya quoted the ministry of fitness on Sunday that 37 other people had died as a result of the disease, bringing the death toll in the country to 3,130.
A total of 250,440 of patients recovered, according to the report.
Singapore celebrated its National Day on Sunday, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called for “unity and resistance” to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
In his speech, Lee warned that the pandemic is “far from over” and that the number of cases in the country could continue to increase “despite all our precautions.”
Amid health concerns, Singapore Air Force (RSAF) aircraft flew over the city and the magazine guard fired their weapons to greet the nation.
Singapore has more than 54,000 and 27 deaths. At least 48,500 of the patients have recovered.
The number of cases shown of coronavirus in Germany has increased from 555 to 215891, the Reuters news firm reported on Sunday that brought information from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on infectious diseases.
The number of reported deaths has increased from one to 9,196 in the count.
New cases of coronavirus in South Korea have risen to 36, with 30 infections, bringing the total number to 14598, Yonhap news firm reported on Sunday, bringing out the country’s fitness firm.
The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported that of the new cases transmitted locally, 25 were recorded in the densely populated Seoul region and neighboring metropolitan areas, where approximately part of the country’s 50 million people reside.
The country reported coronavirus-related deaths, bringing the total to 305.
The number of patients cured of the virus reached thirteen,642, thirteen more than the previous day, representing 93.45% of the total cases.
China reported 23 new cases of coronavirus on the continent at the end of August 8, up from 31 the day before, Reuters news firm reported On Sunday that it mentioned the country’s fitness authority.
Of the new cases, 15 were transmitted locally and 8 were imported infections, the National Health Commission said on its website.
Some forty-five more people were released on Saturday and there are still 817 active cases in the country, adding up to 43 serious cases.
The total number of infections in mainland China is now 84,619, with an unchanged death toll of 4,634.
Mexico began to have other people repaint in August after wasting 1.1 million formal jobs between March and July due to the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, reuters said he mentioned to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“We’ve stopped wasting jobs,” López Obrador said in a video posted on YouTube. “So far, in August, some 15,000 new jobs have been created.”
Citing information from the Mexican Social Security Institute, López Obrador said that between March and July 1.1 million formal jobs were lost, the lowest in April with about 555,000 losses. That cut to 3,900 formal jobs in July, he said.
Most Mexicans paint in the informal economy and have suffered most of the loss of tasks due to the effects of the pandemic on Latin America’s second-largest economy.
Mexico’s Ministry of Fitness reported 6,495 new coronavirus infections and 695 more deaths, bringing the country’s total to 475,902 cases and 52,006 deaths, according to Reuters news agency.
Authorities said the actual number of other inflamed people is much higher than the cases shown.
Mexico has the third highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world, the United States and Brazil.
The United States set a record for coronavirus cases on Saturday, with more than five million people now infected, according to a Reuters count, while the country’s most sensitive infectious disease officer held hope this week that an effective vaccine could be coming. had until the end of the year.
With one in 66 people inflamed, the United States leads the world in COVID-19 cases, according to a Reuters analysis. The country has also recorded more than 160,000 deaths, or nearly a quarter of the world’s total.
The most recent progression comes when President Donald Trump signed executive orders to provide economic relief to Americans affected by the coronavirus pandemic after the White House failed to reach an agreement with Congress.
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