Scotland has imposed new restrictions on the city of Glasgow after a build-up of coronavirus cases, as similar local blockade measures have been criticized in Britain.
Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said other people living in Glasgow and two surrounding spaces are not stopping at other people’s homes, after 66 new instances were registered in the domain on Tuesday. Measurements will last two weeks.
“I know how complicated it will be, I’m a resident of Glasgow, so those regulations apply to me as well.But they are essential, I hope, to stifle this at the root and stricter restrictions,” he tweeted.
Russia has reported 4952 new cases of coronavirus, bringing its national total to 1005,000, the fourth in the world.
Authorities said 115 other people had been killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 17,414.
Australia’s Victoria hotspot prolonged its state of emergency by six months on Wednesday, and its weekly COVID-10 infections dropped to 95.
The victorian parliament’s office passed the law by 20 to 19 votes to enlarge the state of emergency, strengthening the government’s powers to impose restrictions in the event of a pandemic.
He had asked for an extension of 12 months.
India has recorded 78357 new cases of coronavirus in more than 24 hours, bringing its total to more than 3.7 million as the government eases national pandemic restrictions on the suffering economy.
India, a country of 1.4 billion, is the global epicenter of coronaviruses.
It reported the highest daily increases in new instances in more than 3 weeks and, at the current rate, it is expected to soon overtake Brazil and, despite everything, the United States in reported instances overall.
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A spokesman for the Hong Kong Hospital Authority said two other people who showed COVID-1nine died Wednesday morning.The two patients were a 66-year-old man admitted to Yan Chai Hospital on August 2 with persistent fever and cough, and a nine-year-old boy who had been at United Christian Hospital since August 9 and who had underlying problems.
Hong Kong is expected to announce later tonight a loosening of some coronavirus boundaries.
Public service station RTHK said gyms and massage parlors can open with certain restrictions, while restaurants will open more time for visitors wishing to dine.
The territory, which has just introduced a massive testing campaign, is expected to announce 8 cases of the disease on Wednesday, the broadcaster said.
The Australian Football League Grand Final will be held outdoors in Melbourne, and at night, for the first time in its history, as Australia’s second-largest city fighting the resurgence of coronavirus.
The spotlight on the Australian football season is played on a past September afternoon at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of 100,000 fans.
This year it will take a stand in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, on October 24.
Dozens of online barter sites have given the impression in the Philippines to help other suffering people to make ends meet.
Many others visit to exchange their products, from kitchen appliances to branded products, for food.
“It’s so complicated those days,” Lorraine Empire, a mother of two, who swapped Nike shoes for a chicken, told AFP.”You don’t know where to find the cash to pay the purchase bills.”
AFP estimates that around 98 online barter teams have made the impression in the archipelago with tens of thousands of members.”Barter” searches on Google have also increased, and there has also been an increase in barter teams on Facebook.
A documentary about the organization of K-pop BTS was postponed due to the outbreak of coronavirus cases in the country.
Big Hit Entertainment, the band’s agency, said Break the Silence: The Movie, which was originally scheduled for release in September, will be delayed indefinitely, according to Yonhap news agency.
South Korea reported 267 new instances on Wednesday, the consecutive day of three-digit increases.
The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the government was unable to determine the direction of transmission in 24.3% of patients in the past two weeks.
The White House has announced that it will send up to its newly purchased 150 million COVID-19 rapid response tests to states for schools, day care and emergency services.
Tests can give a result in 15 minutes and charge $5.
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for reopening, but many districts are reluctant to do so as the virus continues to circulate.
In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio reached an agreement with teachers’ unions to resume categories with the resumption of physical schooling on September 21.
Coronavirus has ended Australia’s 3 decades of economic growth.
The most recent figures show that the economy is around 7% at the time of the quarter after a 0.3% drop in the first quarter.
The decline is the largest quarterly decline since registration began in 1959.
A recession is like two consecutive quarters of contraction.
China’s state media reports that citizens of western Xinjiang have resumed “the normal order of life and production” after a sudden increase in cases last month.
CGTN says some epidemic measures remain in place.
Cases will be reported in the state of Victoria, in southeastern Australia.
The state showed 90 new cases on Wednesday, facing a peak of more than 700 last month.Six other people died.
State officials will announce Sunday their goal of imposing restrictions on coronaviruses.Melbourne, the state capital and Australia’s second-largest city, is in the fourth week of a strict six-week blockade.
The United States has stated that it will not be enrolled in the World Health Organization’s global crusade for a coronavirus vaccine.
More than 150 countries have established the COVID-19 Global Vaccine Access Center, known as COVAX, but the United States says it will not enroll because it does not need to be “forced” through multilateral organizations such as WHO.in early July.
“The United States will continue to interact with our foreign partners to defeat this virus, but we will not be limited through multilateral organizations influenced by the World Health Organization and China,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said.
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Niger, the current President of the United Nations Security Council, will hold a video convention between heads of state on 24 September to discuss the long-term global governance after the coronavirus pandemic.
The summit will talk about “global post-COVID-19 governance on the maintenance of foreign peace and security,” Niger’s ambassador to the UN Abdou Abarry told reporters.
The consultation will take place at the annual assembly of the United Nations General Assembly of World Leaders, which will be held this year basically through a videoconvention due to the pandemic.
“This will be an opportunity for our leaders to have political discussions about the desire to adapt the existing foreign formula built in through the UN and the Security Council to address classic security threats, such as conflicts, but also new threats, such as organized crime and pandemics,” Abarry said.
A new Icelander found that antibody grades opposed to the new coronavirus increased and then continued for up to 4 months in more than 90% of COVID-19 patients who recovered.
Kari Stefansson, managing director of DECODE Genetics, who led the study, said the findings may have implications for the dangers of reinfection and sustainability of vaccines.
Researchers measured antibodies in more than 30,000 Icelanders.
Based on the results, they estimate that around 1% of the population has been infected; of this group, 56% had obtained a proven diagnosis after a laboratory polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test; 14% had been officially diagnosed but had been quarantined after exposure to the virus. For the remaining 30%, antibody tests revealed a past infection.
Of the other 1215 people with confirmed PCR infection, 91% had higher antibody grades in the first two months after diagnosis and then stabilized, the researchers reported.
The findings were published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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