India reports 1 million tests; The world death toll exceeds 800,000; new restrictions for British travellers from Croatia. This blog is now closed. Follow the latest updates below
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Here are the key developments at a glance:
I leave it for today and now I give the ground to my colleagues in Australia. Thanks for reading, night.
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin on Saturday, EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan “reflected on his position” following revelations that he had attended a parliamentary golf event in violation of coronavirus guidelines.
Martin and Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar – leader of Fine Gael, the party for which Hogan was once a legislator – “met today with Commissioner Hogan and asked him to reflect on his position,” said a government spokesman, according to AFP. .
Hogan was named through the Irish Examiner as one of 82 participants in an Oireachtas Golf Society (parliament) dinner on Wednesday night.
The occasion took place 24 hours after the government announced new Covid-19 restrictions to stem a new outbreak of cases, without “formal or casual occasions or parties” at the hotel’s restaurants.
He reported that participants sat at ten tables in violation of coronavirus guidelines, and that organizers erected a room separator to circumvent the law prohibiting meetings of more than 50.
But police on Friday had opened an investigation into the incident over alleged violations of the same legislation.
Irish Agriculture Minister Dara Calleary and Parliament Space Vice President Jerry Buttimer resigned on Friday after attending the event.
Hogan, first of all, said he was confident that the dinner, attended by many lawmakers, a Supreme Court ruled over Morocco’s ambassador and would be in line with government guidelines.
He then issued an apology for “the misery caused by his involvement,” according to state broadcaster RTE.
A spokesman for Martin said: “The Commissioner’s apology came behind and Array … you still have to give a full explanation of your actions.”
Martin and Varadkar “both that the occasion deserves never to have taken place,” he added.
The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives approved an invoice to provide a $25 bill to the postal cash service and block policy adjustments that have raised considerations of vote by mail before the November 3 election.
Under restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the slow voting procedure began after more than 3 hours of debate, a rare consultation convened Saturday through House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, amid the August Congressional recess, Reuters reports.
The Democratic bill, which was passed by Republicans on Saturday despite the opposition, would provide $25 billion in aid to the USPS and prioritize mail as a “first class” to ensure that ballots arrive in time to be counted in an election in which the coronavirus pandemic will succeed and cast a shadow over the vote in person.
But it will be assumed by the Republican-controlled Senate.
The White House strongly opposes the law and has said President Donald Trump will veto the measure.
While mail voting is expected to increase during the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has alarmed Democrats by continually denouncing mail ballots as an imaginable source of fraud.
Postmaster Louis DeJoy suspended cost-cutting measures that have delayed deliveries in weeks.
Democrats, who accuse Trump of seeking to discourage the vote by mail to obtain voter merit over Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, offer themselves as advocates for a postal service-dependent audience for major deliveries, adding prescription drugs.
“The other Americans don’t need to play with the post office. In fact, they don’t need to be politiced. They just need your mail, they need their medications, and they need their ballots delivered at the right time. And that’s precisely what our bill is doing,” said Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who drafted the bill.
Maloney also released a postal service document showing an 8% slowdown in first-class mail processing, the maximum after DeJoy’s postmaster in June.
Republicans denied that the Postal Service was in danger and criticized Democrats for advancing the law before DeJoy simply testifies at a House of Representatives hearing scheduled for Monday.
“This is the result of a legislative procedure that is hardly less absurd than the conspiracies, innuendos and fabrications they gave to the intended need,” Republican Rep. James Comer said.
While lawmakers were ready to vote, Trump used Twitter to accuse Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of an unnecessary budget for the postal service and seeking a “universal mail scam.”
“Vote NO to Pelosi/Schumer HOAX’s waste taking position now,” the president wrote.
DeJoy told a Senate committee Friday that the postal service would deliver the ballots “safely and on time” in the November election, but said that more significant adjustments could occur after that.
In fact, the House bill would prevent DeJoy from taking any action that impedes service before next January or the end of the coronavirus fitness emergency, taking into account the latter eventuality.
“Our law is just about elections. This is, surprise, surprise, Mr. General Manager of Post Office, coronavirus!” Pelosi said at a press conference.
England’s leading officer said it would be “foolish” to plan for winter based on a coronavirus vaccine.
But Professor Chris Whitty told reporters Saturday that there is a “reasonable possibility” of vaccines opposed to the virus before winter 2021-2022, the Press Association reports.
He warned that at the beginning of winter there would be “real problems” with Covid-19 and said the country’s plan is based on a lack of vaccine.
He said:
I would be very happy if I got here faster than later, but I would be surprised if we had a highly effective vaccine in a position to be used en masse in a giant percentage of the population before the end of winter, in fact before Christmas. .
Now that this would possibly be wrong, many other people are doing a lot of scientific and logistical things to make sure it’s a pessimistic statement, to see if we can get a vaccine at an incredibly fast rate, however, we have to check that it works and we have to make sure that it is and that those things take time.
So I think if we look at a year in the long run, I think the odds are much higher than if we look at the long term for six months and keep this kind of calendar in mind.
So when making plans for next winter, it would be foolish to plan on the basis that we’ll have a vaccine.
We deserve to plan on the basis that we won’t have a vaccine, and then, if one of them proves effective and available, we’re in a solid position to use it and it’ll be great, but we deserve to plan the foundation of what we have now.
Whitty added that he “trusts the long term” that science will have the ability to “get us out of this hole,” but under pressure that this probably wouldn’t be the case in the coming weeks or even months.
Brazil has reported 50032 new cases of coronavirus and 892 deaths from the virus in more than 24 hours, the Ministry of Fitness announced Saturday.
Brazil has recorded 3,582,362 cases of viruses since the start of the pandemic, while the official death toll by Covid-19 has increased to 114,250, according to the ministry’s knowledge of the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world outside the United States.
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem on Saturday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the country’s summer protests over alleged corruption and government management of the coronavirus pandemic showed little sign of a slowdown.
A giant crowd marched through the streets in front of Netanyahu’s official residence, waving banners and flags and calling for his resignation.
Some protesters clashed with police, who arrested at least seven people.
A wounded police officer, Reuters reports.
The protest motion gained ground during the summer months, and critics accused Netanyahu of being distracted through a corruption case that opposed him as Covid-19’s instances increased.
He denies acting badly.
On Friday, Israel exceeded 100,000 reported coronaviruses.
It recorded 80nine deaths of Covid-1nine among its nine million inhabitants. The country is in recession and unemployment soars above 20%.
Netanyahu condemned the protests, accusing demonstrators of trampling on Israeli democracy and means to inspire them.
He argued that Israel’s economy is better placed than many evolved countries affected by the global pandemic.
Saturday’s demonstration comes days before the August 25 deadline for the government to approve a state budget.
Failure to do so will lead to elections.
The U.S. state of Texas reported 5559 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, bringing the state’s total number to 573139.
Deaths in Texas increased from 215 to 11,266 in total, the state fitness branch said.
Current hospitalizations in the state fell from 292 to 5,274 in total.
Face masks and transparent shields are expensive compared to their traditional counterparts, but they can be a boon for deaf and hard-hearing people struggling in the coronavirus era.
The concept has to take off, helped specifically through tutorials on Youtube or through football coach Nic Saban, who makes a spot of dressing in his field.
Other supporters come with French Secretary of State for Disabled People Sophie Cluzel, who put on a mask with a transparent segment to speak in parliament, and a signal language interpreter at a hospital in Portsmouth, southern England.
As Cluzel pointed out, the window facilitates communication by allowing lip reading and the appearance of facial expressions.
There are around 70 million deaf and hearing impaired people in the world, according to the World Federation of the Deaf.
According to AFP, the French federation of speech therapists states that the traditional mask means “patients are at a disadvantage of the main oral message: mouth and facial expressions”.
Teachers say they like the model, too.
Rory Burnham Pickett, a professor in Sapporo, northern Japan, said:
“I know it’s frustrating that my students don’t see my mouth or my facial expression. I made my own mask transparent because they’re hard to find.
Governments take a proactive position and orders.
The Quebec government has placed a request for another 100,000 people to distribute in the Canadian province’s fitness care system, according to local media.
In the United States, U.S. personal medical corporation ClearMask LLC said Tuesday that it obtained food and drug administration approval for a completely transparent surgical mask to be used in hospitals and clinics, but also in schools, retail stores, and hospitals.
The Baltimore-based form has already produced non-surgical versions.
Standing in a cemetery on the outskirts of Mexico City, guitarist Eberardo Vargas had fewer funerals to play this week than the maximum of the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reports.
Although Mexico is approaching a bleak level in its war opposed to the pandemic (60,000 dead), symptoms of relief begin to appear in the country that has recorded more deaths than any other bar other than the United States and Brazil.
Vargas, 49, said that May, June and July were the busiest months in which perhaps as a musician as a mourner in the municipality of Ecatepec, northeast of Mexico City, he paid him and his band to pay attention to the favorite songs of their lost enjoyed. in his last farewells.
But that call has declined in recent times as public life becomes general again in Mexico’s growing capital, leading the government to claim this week that the scourge of coronavirus is in “sustained decline” in Mexico.
“Sometimes we had 10 or 15 functions a day at the height of the pandemic, but it was reduced,” he said, who had little to do in the Ecatepec cemetery for much of Friday.
“Now it’s more like three or five.”
Coronavirus deaths are on track to succeed at their lowest weekly level in two months, and new cases have eased since they reached a record number in early August.
“Our total organization was waiting here, there was work,” Vargas said. “Now we’re rereading because it’s become so quiet.”
However, the country will almost certainly cross the threshold of 60,000 deaths this weekend.
Early in the pandemic, the Mexican tsar of the coronavirus and the deputy minister of health, Hugo López-Gatell, rated a “catastrophic” result.
Despite the improvement in the news, Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that there is no explanation for why she is complacent.
“This week we’ve lost some downward momentum in the number of infections and hospitalizations,” he said.
The French Ministry of Health reported on Saturday 3602 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, a smaller buildup than on Friday and after accumulation reached a peak after the previous blockage in the week.
The ministry said the total number of coronavirus deaths in the country increased by more than 24 hours to 30512.
The total number of infections shown in France is now 238,002, while the number of other people in resuscitation has increased from 1 to 380.
Most Poles that schools deserve to reopen on 1 September, according to a recent poll.
According to an examination by the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, 43.1% of respondents said they thought Polish schools would reopen, while 33.3% said no.
23.6% explicitly expressed some opinion.
The Polish government is recently making plans to reopen the maximum schools on 1 September.
According to the Polish news agency, Poland announced on Sunday that arrivals from Russia could soon return to the country, after the Polish government updated its list of runners.
According to the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University, Poland has reported 60,281 cases of infection and 1,938 deaths.
U.S. President Donald Trump saturday accused members of a so-called “deep state” in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), offering no evidence, of running too slow with Covid-19 vaccines until the end of the November presidential election.
In a Twitter article, Trump said a deep state “or otherwise” at the FDA made it very difficult for pharmaceutical corporations to recruit others in clinical trials to check vaccines and treatments opposed to coronavirus.
The comment came after a senior FDA official said Thursday that he would resign if Trump’s management approved a vaccine before it proved effective.
“Clearly, they hope to delay the reaction after November 3. They must accelerate and save lives!” Trump wrote, tagging FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn in the tweet.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it was a “dangerous statement” and that the president was “misplaced” for accusing the FDA of policy-making.
The FDA may not be contacted for comment.
Drug manufacturers, in coordination with the FDA and the National Institutes of Health, are accelerating production while testing to respond as temporarily as can be imagined with a vaccine opposed to Covid-19, which has killed another 800,000 people worldwide.
Trump uses Twitter to criticize federal agencies, accusing them infrequently of being controlled through the “deep state” in an obvious reference to a long-time staff who, in Trump’s eyes, is determined to undermine his agenda.
His tweet pushed the FDA further after Peter Marks, director of its Center for Biological Assessment and Research, said last week in a conference call with government officials, pharmaceutical executives, and that he would resign if the firm approved an unproven vaccine.
Scientists, public fitness officials, and lawmakers are concerned that the Trump administration is pressuring the FDA to approve a vaccine before the vote, even if the knowledge of clinical trials is not in widespread use.
Marks, whose department regulates complex biotechnological treatments, vaccines and gene therapies, told Reuters that it had been under any political strain and that the FDA would be guided only through science. If that changed, he said Thursday, “I would feel compelled (to resign) because doing so would tell the American public that something was wrong.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that young people over the age of 12 wear a mask to combat the corornavirus pandemic in the same situations as adults, while young people aged six to 11 use them with a risk-based approach.
Children over the age of 12 wear a mask when a distance of one meter from others cannot be guaranteed and widespread transmission in the region, WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a dated document on the WHO website. . August 21.
The fact that young people between the ages of six and 11 wear a mask depends on a number of factors, such as the intensity of transmission in the area, the child’s ability to wear the mask, access to the mask, and good enough adult supervision, the two organizations said, according to Reuters.
Perspectives that have an effect on learning and psychosocial development, as well as the child’s interactions with others at risk of serious illness, also deserve to play a role.
Children under the age of five should not wear a mask because of the child’s protection and general interest, WHO and UNICEF said.
Studies recommend that older youth potentially play a more active role in the transmission of the new coronavirus than younger people, WHO and UNICEF said, and added that more knowledge is needed to better perceive the role of young people and adolescents in the transmission of the virus. covid-19 explains.
WHO first pleaded with others to wear masks in public on June 5 to help reduce the spread of the disease, but in the past it had not issued express rules for children.
More than 23 million people have reportedly become inflamed with international coronavirus since it first became known in China last year and 798997 have died, according to a Reuters count.
The Italian region of Rome has recorded 215 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours until Sunday, basically because other people return from the holidays, the largest build-up of this kind since the Italian capital closed in March, fitness officials said on Saturday.
The figure is a record number and surpasses another 208 people inflamed in one day on 28 March, when Rome practically stalled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, said the capital’s fitness officer, Alessio D’Amato.
“61% [of cases] are similar to other people returning from vacation,” D’Amato said, adding that almost part of the cases were from Sardinia.
Sardinia had been saved from the first wave earlier this year, but D’Amato said the movement of tourists and revelers had helped the virus.
Most of those inflamed are other young people who show no symptoms and there is an urgent desire to “block the chain of transmission as temporarily as can be imagined by asymptomatic localization and prevention of the spread of the virus among families,” he said.
“Be very careful with those who enjoy and enjoy,” he said in a call to the youth.
He warned them to stay home and not meet other people while they waited for the results of the controls.
“Don’t feel invincible, ” he suggested.
Italy, especially the northern region of Lombardy, the Venice region and Rome, revel in the resurgence of the virus during the summer, although daily figures remain below the national threshold of 1000, unlike neighboring France.
The Italian government has taken several steps to block the spread, closing nightclubs since August 17 and making masking mandatory in a busy audience between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Italy has recorded more than 257,000 cases, more than 35,000 deaths.
Ireland reported 156 new coronavirus infections, the fourth highest count since early May.
This is the fourth time in 8 days that Ireland has reported more than a hundred cases of coronavirus.
Ireland particularly tightened its national restrictions on coronaviruses on Tuesday in an attempt to involve the new peak, which began last July after cases fell to an average of about 20 for much of the past two months.
On Thursday, Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said the country “is at a tipping point.”
On Friday, the government lifted stricter measures in two counties, but extended them for two more weeks in Kildare, where there were 36 cases. Dublin accounted for 55, and the rest was distributed throughout the country, as in recent days.
The Green Climate Fund (FVC) has promised the next countries to redouble their efforts to help them cope with demanding climate situations as they prepare to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, approving $879 million in 15 new projects worldwide.
In a four-day virtual board assembly that ended Friday night, the fund added Afghanistan and Sudan to a list of more than 100 countries receiving a total of $6.2 billion to reduce global heating emissions and climate resistance.
The PVF was established as a component of the UN climate negotiations in 2010 to help the next countries combat global warming and began allocating a budget in 2015.
Chief executive Yannick Glemarec said the fund had “a key role to play in maintaining climate ambition in the Covid-19 era” and would point to the speed and effectiveness of its reaction to the wishes of emerging countries.
The council’s co-chair, Nauman Bashir Bhatti of Pakistan, said climate finance will be very important by the end of the pandemic and that the fund deserves to be built “even in these difficult times.”
The promises came when small island states criticized the speed and duration of PVF aid, now they were battling the economic coup of the pandemic, in addition to the effects of climate change, such as emerging seas and more powerful storms.
Fiji’s ambassador to the United Nations Satyendra Prasad said Covid-19 risked exacerbating the already larger debt burden of small island states as tourism collapsed.
“The importance of the [FVC] matrix is underestimated … accelerating transformative climate action in this decade,” he added.
He told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that island countries were suffering from other investment resources and suggested to the PVF to accumulate aid to help them prepare allocation proposals and unlock investment for approved allocations more quickly.
The Alliance of Small Island States reported that its members accounted for less than 10% of total investment applications.
Italy has reported 1,071 new coronavirus infections in more than 24 hours, the Ministry of Fitness said Saturday, surpassing 1,000 daily instances for the first time since May, when the government reassured itself of its uncompromising blocking measures.
Italy, one of Europe’s most affected countries, controlled to involve the epidemic after an uptick in deaths and cases between March and April.
However, the country has noticed a steady buildup of infections over the next month, and experts blame other people’s holiday and nightlife-related meetings.
The last time the country recorded a higher number on May 12, with 1,402 cases, six days before the reopening of restaurants, bars and department stores was allowed after a 10-week closure, Reuters reports.
India announced Saturday that the country had one million tests consistent with the day’s mark, with 10,23,836 tests completed on Friday.
It is the highest in China’s global exterior and now well above the U.S. testing efforts, across the world’s hardest-hit country to date.
India’s recovery rose to 74.30% from 73.91% on Friday, the Ministry of Health and Family reported.
This follows Narendra Modi’s call to increase testing to 1 million just two weeks ago.