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Thousands more people in Berlin are protesting against German measures opposing coronaviruses. The virus is gaining momentum in the Midwest. A summer camp in Georgia apologizes for making a retreat after many other people in the room became infected.
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The United States recorded more than 1.9 million new infections in July, nearly 42% of the more than 4.5 million cases reported nationwide since the onset of the pandemic and more than double the amount documented in any other month, according to the knowledge compiled. through the New York Times. The last monthly peak occurred in April, when more than 880,000 new instances were registered.
The virus is accelerating in much of the Midwest, and in states from Mississippi to Florida and California that idea had already noticed the worst.
Gone is the concept that the country could soon take on the pandemic. The average seven days of new infections daily has hovered around 65,000 in more than two weeks, more than double the spring average, when the country experienced what was necessarily its first wave.
In many states, government officials in misery are tightening restrictions on citizens and businesses and warning of a build-up of hospitalizations similar to the virus.
Across the country, deaths from the virus continued to increase after a sharp drop from mid-April highs of around 2,200, consistent with the day. In early July, the average death toll was about 500 according to the day. Over the next week, it averaged more than 1,000 a day, many of which are concentrated in the states of the solar belt.
The Northeast, which was once the biggest focus of the virus, has advanced significantly since its April peak. But cases are now spreading slightly in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, as citizens move more freely and congregate more in groups.
The scenario is equally distressing abroad, where even governments that seem willing to fight the virus are experiencing outbreaks.
New infections in Japan, a country with a long culture of dress-up masks, more than 50% in July. Australia, which can isolate itself from the rest of the world more easily than most, is suffering a wave of infections in and around Melbourne. Hong Kong, Israel and Spain are also battling waves at the moment.
None of those options have as high an infection rate as the U.S., which has the highest number of instances and deaths in the world.
Hours after unemployment benefits for tens of millions of Americans expired, administration officials arrived on Capitol Hill Saturday morning for a rare assembly with the most sensitive Democrats in Congress to talk about a coronavirus relief program and paints to break the deadlock over new aid as a U.S. economy. keeps shaking.
California President Nancy Pelosi, who hosted the assembly with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York in her suite on Capitol Hill, emerged after 3 hours and said the discussion “was productive in terms of making us move forward,” but they were far out of the sidelines in a number of problems. They refused to give details, but said they would meet on Sunday and that key negotiators would meet on Monday for another assembly.
“Here we have this drastic challenge and what they said before is, “We will make your benefits,” Pelosi said. I mean, let’s say, the discussions we have.”
“This is a normal discussion, because there is great urgency in terms of fitness and monetary fitness,” he added.
Mark Meadows, the White House staff leader, and Steven Mnuchin, the Secretary of the Treasury, also attended. (Mr. Mnuchin observed before entering Ms. Pelosi’s suite that “they were just paintings from another day at the Capitol”).
Among the main issues in conflict in the discussion is a $600 weekly federal allowance without a task that has become a lifeline for tens of millions of unemployed Americans, while helping the economy. Aid expired at midnight, as Washington officials failed to agree on a new emergency bill, however, Meadows and Mnuchin said there were symptoms that the two sides could begin to locate non-unusual land, and added the revival of a federal moratorium on evictions and investment for schools and day care.
“There are things we agree on. There are things we disagree on,” Mnuchin said after the meeting. “We seek to restrict issues that we disagree on. Obviously, any negotiation is a compromise.”
Unemployment remains at record levels, with some 30 million Americans receiving unemployment benefits. More than 1.4 million other people filed for state unemployment benefits last week, the nineteenth consecutive week in which the total exceeded one million, a record high before the pandemic.
Nearly 11% of Americans reported living in families where there is not enough to eat, according to a recent Census Bureau survey, and more than a quarter did not meet the payment of a rent or loan.
The expiration of the award will force Louise Francis, who worked as a banquet cook at the Sheraton Hotel in New Orleans for nearly two decades before being fired last spring, to fend for herself with the state’s unemployment benefits, which she says amount to $247. a week.
“With the $600, you might see the way a little bit,” said Francis, 59. “She feels a little more comfortable. You can pay 3 or 4 expenses without feeling so late.”
Aid has expired because Republicans and Democrats in Washington have stayed away from what the next circular of anti-virus aid efforts will look like.
Democrats sought to finish weekly bills through $600 until the end of the year, as part of a large $3 trillion aid program that would also help state and local governments. Republicans, worried that the benefits of getting $600 would leave other people with more cash than when they were working, sought to reduce it to $200 a week as a component of a $1 trillion proposal and began to boost the prospect of a short-term program that addresses only a few issues, adding unemployment insurance has advantages.
“They made it clear that there was a preference in their component to make a total package,” Mnuchin said of the Democrats. “We have made it transparent that we are willing to deal with short-term problems, to adopt anything temporarily and to review the broader problems so that we are at a standstill on this issue.”
Democrats rejected a proposal.
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