The Nikkei Asian Review tracks the spread of the new coronavirus from The city of Wuhan in central China.
Global instances reached 23,519,827, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The death toll internationally has reached 810,051.
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Here are the advances (Tokyo time):
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Tuesday, August 25
5:15 a.m. The World Health Organization says 172 countries are participating in its global vaccine investment programme. The COVAX facility groups the budget of countries committed to the advancement of the COVID-19 vaccine. Participants get enough vaccine to inoculate at least 20% of their population.
3:55 a.m. Luxury hotels in Vietnam will offer accommodation to quarantined foreigners to compensate for the loss of tourist benefits from the pandemic.
One such hotel, the FLC Grand Hotel Halong, a five-star hotel in the well-known Halong Bay, east of Hanoi, received about 500 Japanese in May and June.
12:35 p.m. Nonwoven fabric mask made in a Japanese supercomputer style for its ability to block respiratory droplets carrying viruses, however, other types of mask have also proven its effectiveness, according to the government-backed Riken Institute.
Fugaku of Japan, which recently earned the name of the world’s fastest supercomputer, modeled the functionality of cotton, polyester and nonwoven mask by blocking the user’s cough projections.
Monday, August 24
11:30 p.m. Researchers in Hong Kong report that the former showed a case of reinfection by coronvairus.
“A young, healthy patient had a momentary case of COVID-19 infection, which was diagnosed 4.5 months after the first episode,” researchers at the University of Hong Kong said in a statement.
The timing of the 33-year-old man’s SARS-CoV-2 infection was detected through airport control on his return to Hong Kong from Europe this month.
19:00 h. Singapore’s principal customer value index fell to less than 0.4% year-on-year in July, peaking at its lowest point since January 2010, according to official data. As a result of the pandemic, customers spent little, which reduced value. City-state authorities, suffering from the innermost recession in history, expect underlying inflation to average at least 1% to 0% by 2020.
6:45 p.m. The popular beach island of Bali, Indonesia, has abandoned plans to reopen to foreign tourists this year. The island began bringing domestic travelers in late July and had planned to begin receiving foreign visitors on September 11.
18.30am. Bio Farma, based in Indonesia, has announced that it has signed an agreement with Sinovac Biotech of China and a company in the United Arab Emirates. Bio Farma will import 50 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine from November to March 2021. In addition, Sinovac will prioritize Bio Farma for additional materials until the end of 2021.
6:18 p.m. The Olympic Flame will be exhibited at the Japanese Olympic Museum from September 1 to November 1, according to the Japanese Olympic Committee. Reservations must be made to see the flame, and museum visitors will be placed in a one-way direction to prevent crowds from forming.
6:07 p.m. Petronas from Malaysia and LG Chem of Korea signal an agreement to build a plant in Malaysia to start generating uncooked artificial rubber gloves in 2023. The use of nitrile gloves is greater amid efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other infections.
3:07 p.m. Tokyo reports 95 new coronavirus infections, up from 212 the day before, and the first time the Japanese capital count has fallen below 100 since July 8.
13:53 India reports 61,408 in the last 24 hours, up from 69,239 the day before, bringing the country’s total to 3.1 million. The death toll increased to 57,542, up from 836 since Sunday morning.
12:40 p.m. New Zealand will impose greater restrictions on coronaviruses in its largest city, Auckland, until Sunday night, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. An outbreak of COVID-19 cases about two weeks ago in Auckland led Ardern to lock up another 1.7 million people in the city, forcing the company to shut down. The lock will expire on Wednesday.
12:00 p.m. As the number of COVID-19 cases in Japan increases, the country’s approximately 470 public gyms once suffer back while dealing with a developing call for coronavirus testing, traceability and surveillance.
11:00 Seoul is not easy for the first time face mask for indoor and outdoor public spaces, as the country faces an increase in the number of cases. In May, the city government ordered masks to be worn on public transport and taxis, but the more recent increase raised fears that the country would have to impose its highest point of social estrangement. South Korea reported 266 new cases on Sunday, after more than a week of three-digit daily accumulations.
9:20 a.m. China reports 16 new cases for Sunday, all of which were imported infections involving travelers. This represents a slight increase of 12 new instances a day earlier, also imported, and marks the eighth consecutive day with no reported local stream instances. The total number of instances shown is now 84,967, while the death toll remains unchanged at 4,634.
At 8:30 a.m., the Australian state of Victoria reported 116 cases, the lowest accumulation of new infections in seven weeks, fueling optimism that a fatal wave would disappear at a time. Victoria also reports 15 deaths from the virus in more than 24 hours.
8:00 a.m. More than a dozen people were crushed or suffocated when revelers tried to flee a Lima nightclub after being attacked by police for throwing a party in violation of coronavirus restrictions, Reuters reports. Eleven of the thirteen deaths tested positive for COVID-19. The revelers were caught between the only entrance, which closed in chaos, and a ladder leading to the street, police said.
6:03 a.m. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizes the use of blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients to treat the disease. The focus was considered to be based on research of 20,000 patients who gained treatment, according to the agency.
At five in the morning, China administered experimental coronavirus vaccines to the most battered teams since July, a fitness officer told state media.
2:03 a.m. China’s global reliance on China’s private protection apparatus has increased dramatically as the country boosts exports to meet demand, even as countries seek to increase domestic production and diversify their sources.
Sunday, August 23
8:17 p.m. Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang said the country’s economy could grow this year, state radio reports, despite the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world’s largest economy grew by 3.2% year-on-year in the current quarter, recovering from record contraction as coronavirus blocking measures came to an end and policymakers stepped up their stimulus measures to combat the surprise of the crisis.
5:41 p.m. On Sunday, the Philippines recorded 2378 new coronavirus infections, its smallest peak in just about 4 weeks, but the national count increased to 189601, still the highest in Southeast Asia. In a bulletin, the Ministry of Health also reported 32 more deaths, bringing the death toll in the country to 2,998.
5:16 p.m. Indonesia reports new cases of coronavirus on Sunday 2037, bringing its total to 153535, according to the knowledge of the group of COVID-19 brokers in the country. The Southeast Asian country also added 86 new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total to 6680, the number of COVID-19 deaths in Southeast Asia.
3:21 p.m. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reports 212 new cases of new coronavirus, surpassing two hundred for the fourth consecutive day. The one-day figure, compared to 256 the previous day, took Tokyo’s cumulative total to 19333.
2:42 p.m. India reports that its coronavirus cases have exceeded 3 million, a sign that the time when the world’s most populous country is suffering from the virus slowing.
12:31 p.m. Australia reported 17 more coronavirus deaths on Sunday, but infections in Victoria state, the site of all the most recent deaths, show a downward trend. Apart from Victoria, which accounts for more than 80% of COVID-19 deaths in Australia due to a momentary wave of infections, the country has largely moved away from the largest number of patients in many countries with around 24,500 infections and 502 deaths.
12:00 p.m. Personal shoppers, known as daigou, which in Chinese means “buy on call”, have been one of the main channels that allow Chinese to get their hands on products that can’t be obtained or that are expensive at home. With the coronavirus pandemic ending the maximum number of foreign flights, cross-border transhipment and intermediate platforms capable of saving the market hole are booming.
11:43 a.m. South Korea reports 397 new infections, compared to 332 the previous day, marking its greatest buildup since early March, as epidemics continued to spread from a Seoul church and political protests attended through its members.
9:19 a.m. Mexico’s Ministry of Health reports 6482 new cases of coronavirus infection and 644 additional deaths, bringing the total in the country to 556216 cases and 60254 deaths.
7:52 a.m. The death toll from coronavirus infection reached 800,000 internationally on Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The accumulation rate has not decreased, after exceeding 700,000 on August 5. Nearly 23 million other people have been infected.
4:52 The aviation industry has been directly affected by coronavirus, with approximately 8600 aircraft, a third of the world fleet, stranded for a month which is the high holiday season. In addition, aircraft leasing corporations are suffering a blow because airlines are asking leasing corporations to reduce costs.
Saturday, August 22
8:03 p.m. Japan and Cambodia agreed on Saturday to reopen their borders to expats, in all likelihood from the beginning of September, on the condition of an era of 14-day auto-40s and other precautions opposed to the new coronavirus. Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi agreed on the policy with Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen at his meeting in Phnom Penh, according to Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
19:00 h. Japan began preparing to allow long-term foreign nationals to return to the country in September after being criticized as the only Group of Seven economy that limits its access to prevent coronavirus infection. A resolution will be taken in a while through the government’s leading group. Returnees will be required to carry out a PCR check and quarantine for 14 days, the same regulations that apply to Japanese citizens.
5:17 p.m. India reported on Saturday a record build-up of COVID-19 infections, raising the total to nearly 3 million and lobbying the government to stop mass meetings when a major devout holiday began. The 69878 new infections, the fourth consecutive day above 60,000, brought the total number of cases in India to 2.98 million, in the United States and Brazil alone. Deaths increased from 945 to 55,794, according to the knowledge of the federal Department of Health.
1:30 p.m. Mountains of disposable masks and gloves used to oppose coronavirus are poured into rivers and oceans around the world, causing severe damage to fishing and ecosystems. The United Nations estimates that global sales of disposable masks will increase by about two hundred times from last year to about $160 billion by 2020, and that about 75% of used masks and other pandemic-like plastic waste will end up in landfills or float. . in the seas.
1:10 p.m. South Korea has said the strictest social estrangement rules to combat COVID-19 will be implemented nationwide starting Sunday, as it fights a new outbreak of the disease spreading from the capital, Seoul. The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 315 new domestic infections on Friday, the most recent in a series of three-figure increases in new local instances that brought the country’s total to 17,002 with 309 deaths.
11:00 a.m.Moderna says it has so far recruited 13,194 participants in an American trial of 30,000 complex volunteers testing their COVID-19 candidate vaccine. The drug developer says 18% of participants enrolled lately are black, Latino, Native Americans, or Alaska, all the toughest groups. Modern began reading its candidate, MRN-1273, in July and plans to complete his registration in September.
7:10 a.m. Boeing says a portable wand that emits soft ultraviolet light is coming in to neutralize bacteria and viruses, a component of a number of strategies for disinfecting cabin surfaces and controls, as well as cabin surfaces, Reuters reports. The wand eliminates the desire to use alcohol or other disinfectants that can damage sensitive electronic equipment.
6:19 a.m. The transmission of COVID-19 from youth or adults to others in Rhode Island child care systems occurred only on a limited basis, Reuters reports, which led to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention screen. Director Robert Redfield told reporters in a call that the effects indicated that there is a way to “reopen those child care systems, which are very vital to our country.”
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