Israel said Sunday that it would re-impose a national blockade following the increase in coronavirus cases, while European countries are dealing with an accumulation of infections amid protests against restrictions aimed at reducing the pandemic.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the three-week closing, which will keep others within 500 metres of their homes, will begin on Friday and could spread.
The plan led to the resignation of ultra-Orthodox housing minister Yaakov Litzman, who said the measures would prevent Jews from visiting the synagogue on the upcoming rosh Hashaná and Yom Kippur holidays.
According to an AFP count, Israel is just one moment for Bahrain for the rate of coronavirus infection in the world in line with the population.
Britain, France, Austria and the Czech Republic were among the European countries reporting outbreaks, with new cases in the UK reaching more than 3,000 in 24 hours on the consecutive day of Saturday.
After a series of local closures this month, new government restrictions will come into force in England on Monday, restricting social gatherings to up to six people.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the country is already facing the “beginning of the wave of the moment,” as new daily infections increased to around 1,000.
Kurz said the government would further restrict occasions and expand spaces where masking is mandatory for all public buildings.
The Czech Republic recorded 1,541 new instances on Saturday, recording a record expansion for the third consecutive day.
“If the epidemic continues to grow in this explosive way, we will be able to restrict the capacity of our hospital,” epidemiologist Roman Prymula told Czech television on Sunday.
France reported 10,000 new infections on Saturday, to the peak of the first wave in April, however, the number fell to 7,183 on Sunday.
Worldwide, 921,387 more people died from the virus of 28. 8 million cases.
– Aggressive locking manifestation –
However, some countries had their anti-coronavirus restrictions.
In South Korea, the Seoul government said it would alleviate some infection measures implemented in recent weeks after an increase in cases in the capital region, home to the country’s 52 million inhabitants.
Cafes, restaurants and bakeries will return to general service, while gyms and personal schools will reopen.
The country has largely triumphed over an early wave of Covid-19 with extensive studies and evidence, however, it has noticed new daily three-digit instances since mid-August after weeks with figures in the 1930s and 1940s.
And Saudi Arabia has announced that it will partially lift its suspension of foreign flights from 15 September, six months after the imposition of restrictions.
Meanwhile, police on Sunday arrested dozens of participants in an illegal protest opposed to the closure in the South Australian city of Melbourne, which attracted some 250 people.
The demonstration, the moment of the city in so many days, saw the crowd defy orders to stay home to meet at Queen Victoria’s central market, where she greeted through a strong police presence.
“Many protesters competed and threatened to rape the officers,” Melbourne police said.
The Australian demonstration followed a series of protests in Germany and Poland on Saturday in which thousands protested the measures against the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, U. S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized outgoing President Donald Trump as “reckless” for organizing a Saturday crowded rally in Reno, Nevada, where many attendees wore masks.
The Republican president is under pressure as the death toll in the United States continues to rise, reaching 6. 5 million cases Saturday with more than 193,000 deaths, above the highest for both cases in the world.
In Latin America, which this week surpassed 8 million instances of the virus, the continent’s hardest-hit country, Brazil, on Saturday recorded more than 131,000 deaths by Covid-19, the time globally after the United States.
– Vaccine trials resume –
In Britain, regulators have given the green light to pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University to resume clinical trials with one of the most complex Experimental Covid-19 vaccines.
Researchers had “voluntarily suspended” their vaccine trial after a British volunteer developed an unexplained disease.
Even after the break, AstraZeneca said he hoped the vaccine would still be available “by the end of this year, early next year. “
All fashion lovers who expect New York Fashion Week to bring a distraction opposed to the virus may be disappointed, as the occasion will open almost without concerts and with few important names.
But organizers hope the exhibits can help American design houses of all sizes, many of which are on the edge of the abyss.
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