The Nikkei Asian Review tracks the spread of the new coronavirus from The city of Wuhan in central China.
Global instances reached 26,201,282, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The international death toll has reached 866,671.
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Here are the advances (Tokyo time):
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Friday, September 4
18:00 Indonesia reports 3,269 new infections, up from the previous day’s 3,622 record, bringing the country’s total to 187,537.This is the third day in a row of new instances exceeding 3,000.
5:20 p.m.Thailand is accelerating the search for contact after detecting its first national transmission in more than 3 months, according to fitness officials, with checks carried out on nearly two hundred other people potentially exposed to the new patient.Thailand had gone a hundred days without local transmission when a prisoner’s control tested positive on Thursday.
5:10 p.m. Philippines reports 3,714 new infections, compared to 1,987 the previous day, bringing the country’s total to 232,072 and adding 49 deaths, up from 65 on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 3,737.
16:00. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalized in Milan after testing positive for coronavirus, his Forza Italia party said, adding there is no cause for concern. .
1:39 p.m. India reports 83,341 new cases in the last 24 hours, marking the time-in-a-row of more than 83,000 cases and bringing the country’s total to more than 3.93 million.The country has now recorded 68,472 deaths, 1,096 more than Thursday morning.closer to Brazil as the highest affected country in the world, after the United States.
1:10 p.m.Virgin Australia Holdings creditors approve the acquisition of Bain Capital from Australia’s second-largest airline.The U.S. justice group agreement will allow the airline to do what Australia calls a voluntary administration, which ended in April with A$7 billion ($5 billion).
12:11 p.m. Asian stocks opened up after Wall Street fell to its lowest level in nearly 3 months because the tech rally lost momentum.Japan’s average Nikkei stock and South Korea’s Kospi fell 1.3% in the first operations.Shanghai and Shenzhen, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost more than 1.5%.
11:40 am The Philippine inflation rate exceeded the central bank’s forecasts and returned to its slowest speed in 3 months in August amid slow demand.The customer’s value index rose at an annual rate of 2.4% last month, below a six-month maximum of 2.7% in July, while value rises are reduced for the heavily weighted food and non-alcoholic beverage index.
11:33 am South Korea reports 198 cases, compared to 195 a day ago, bringing the country’s total to 20,842 with 331 deaths.The ruling Democratic Party agreed with doctors to suspend the government’s plan to increase the share of admissions to medical schools.
10:50 a.m.Australian stores see heavy sales in July, advancing in all regions Victoria, which is suffering with a momentary wave of infections.Retail sales increased by 3.2% to A$30.7 billion ($22.3 billion) in July compared to a month ago, a forged profit of 12% year-on-year.This follows a 2.7% forged monthly build-up in June.
10:30 a.m. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country’s restrictions on involving the coronavirus pandemic will continue until mid-September.New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, will remain at alert level 2.5, restricting meetings to a maximum of 10.Other parts of the country will be at alert level 2, forcing others to practice social distance and restricting meetings to up to a hundred more people.
At 9:10 a.m., China reported 25 cases on Thursday, up from 11 a.m. the day before.All new cases originated abroad, marking the nineteenth consecutive day with no transmitted infection.
8:40 a.m.The coronavirus hot spot in Australia, Victoria, reports 81 new infections, up from 113 the day before.The death toll in coronavirus status has increased to 59, adding another 50 people in nursing homes who died in July and August.
7:30 a.m.Brazil reports 43,773 new cases and 834 deaths in the last 24 hours, the country recorded 4,041,638 contagions and 124,614 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
U.S. stocks strongly at 5:00 a.m., with the dow Jones industrial average final at around 800 points, or 2.8%, and the S
4:30 a.m.A coronavirus vaccine could be in a position to be distributed in the United States by October, before the presidential election, Reuters said, mentioning public fitness officials and Pfizer.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany “no one is pressuring” the Food and Drug Administration to rush approval of a vaccine for political reasons, Reuters reports.
3:01 a.m., Israel announces that it will impose a partial national blockade next week to combat the accumulation of coronavirus cases.
Health leader Ronni Gamzu said the county at a “decisive moment” to involve the pandemic.Approximately 3,000 new cases are now reported daily in the country of nine million people.
01:10 Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has announced a combination of voluntary and involuntary redundancies for a total of 2500 workers: 900 additional task cuts to its previous plans.
Thursday, September 3
23:55 Japan confirms 652 new instances of COVID-19 at 22:00.Thursday.Tokyo, the country’s main infection focus, reports more than two hundred new cases.
9:13 p.m.More than 1,000 schoolchildren in Japan have tested positive in the past 3 months, according to the Ministry of Education.Since the categories resumed in June, 1,166 cases have been reported among school-number one schoolchildren, with 924 cases in August alone.
8:15 p.m.La 100-day series in Thailand without local transmission ends, with the government giving a positive check to a 37-year-old man imprisoned on August 26 for drugs, while 32 other prisoners who were with the man were negative.to a hospital run by the prison service.
6:15 p.m. Indonesia reports another new record of 3,622 cases, with 134 more deaths, bringing the country’s total to 184,268 infections with 7,750 deaths.
5:10 p.m.Philippines reports 1,987 more infections, a new five-week low and 65 more deaths.
4:50 p.m.Singapore’s fitness government has detected new COVID-19 groups in dormitories of foreign personnel in the past that broke free of the virus, underlining the challenge of containing its spread, informs Reuters.La large majority of the approximately 57,000 cases of the city-state come from cramped dormitories There are more than 300,000 employees in that space, most of them from South Asia , contracted in sectors such as shipbuilding and structure.
16:00.Vietnam plans to restart foreign flights between six Asian cities from mid-September, ending a one-month suspension after easing restrictions on foreign business travelers.The Vietnam Civil Aviation Authority proposes to resume flights to Guangzhou, Seoul, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Taipei and Tokyo, which would mean the arrival of about 5,000 passengers per week, according to Giao Thong newspaper, running through the Ministry of Transport.
3:13 p.m.Tokyo reports 211 new infections, up from 141 wednesday and the first time in days for a total of more than 200.
2:50 p.m.The French drug manufacturer Sanofi and its British counterpart GSK have presented a clinical trial for a protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate. If the candidate goes through the process, corporations intend to make the vaccine worldwide.
1:30 p.m. India reports 83883 new cases in the last 24 hours, its largest accumulation in a day and a world record, bringing the number of coronavirus infections in the country to more than 3.85 million.Deaths increased from 1043 to 67376.
11:24 a.m. South Korea confirms 195 cases, up from 267 a day ago and the first increase of less than two hundred in 17 days, bringing the country’s total to 20,644 with 329 deaths.
10:16 a.m.La the Philippines’ unemployment rate fell to 10.0%, about 4.6 million others, in a July government survey, up from 17.7% in April, while the economy was partially reopened in June.Before the pandemic, the unemployment rate was 5.3%.
9:00 a.m.The Australian state of Victoria reports 113 new infections, compared to 90 the previous day and the first three-digit build-up in 4 days, hampering optimism that a momentary wave of cases has been contained.
6:31 a.m.Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi tested positive for coronavirus, his spokesman said.The 83-year-old media mogul allegedly told his video followers that he would continue to fight.
5:30 a.m.La coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Working Group, Dr.Deborah Birx dismisses court cases that Trump management contemplated a technique of “collective immunity” to the coronavirus pandemic.”Neither I, nor anyone in management, are willing to sacrifice American lives for collective immunity.We’ll get collective immunity through a vaccine and that’s the right way to do it,” Birx told reporters.
5:10 a.m.U.S. stocks record their biggest gains in weeks, with the S
4:20 a.m. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked state governors to accelerate arrangements for coronavirus vaccine distribution centers through November 1, before the presidential election, the media says.approval of the vaccine before a presidential election, than science.
At 3 a.m., Turkey is experiencing the peak of the coronavirus epidemic due to “negligence” at weddings and other social gatherings, health minister Fahrettin Koca said.”The virus spreads to more people every day.Our tests are expanding each and every one.”day, our new number of patients is not declining,” Koca says.
01:55 United Airlines, founded in the United States, told its staff that it is ready to eliminate 16,000 jobs if government assistance ends in October.American Airlines has already warned that it will fire 19,000 employees if aid is not extended.
12,05pm The race itself would possibly have been cancelled, however, more than 45,000 people have registered to run a London “virtual” marathon in October, according to media reports.Participants will run and record their time in an app.
Wednesday Sept 2
10:50 p.m.The Thai Prime Minister congratulates the country for having served a hundred days without showing instances of transmitted coronavirus.
10:40 p.m.Steroids can reduce the death threat in critical COVID-19 patients by 20%, Reuters reports, bringing up research into seven foreign trials published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
9:50 p.m.The Japanese government will begin a study next month on the merits of hospital ships, taking into account examples of their use in the United States, the United Kingdom, China and other countries. Tokyo, considered to be the advent of floating medical services after the 2011 tsunami in Japan, but discouraged by the cost.A resolution may be taken until the end of the fiscal year next March.
8:49 p.m. Hong Kong canceled its October 1 fireworks display, which draws giant crowds along Victoria Harbour.Last year, the occasion was also cancelled because the territory was devastated by anti-government protests.
7:51 p.m. South Korea and Singapore reached an agreement for a company and a must-have official between the two countries starting Friday, Singapore’s Foreign Ministry said.The situations of the canopy tests prior to departure and post-arrival for COVID-19, and the requirement to stick to a controlled address for the first 14 days after arrival in Singapore or South Korea.
18:50 The Chinese aviation regulator has announced that it will resume direct flights to Beijing from 8 countries, Thailand, Cambodia, Greece, Denmark, Sweden and Canada from 3 September.
6:43 p.m. Hong Kong will alleviate social estrangement measures as the city recorded the lowest number of new COVID-1nine infections in nearly two months.The restaurant will run from nine o’clock at night.until 10 p.m., while gyms and sports facilities will reopen.
5:40 p.m.Indonesia reports 3075 new cases of coronavirus, up from 2775 the previous day, bringing the country’s total to 180646, according to the data.The country also recorded 111 deaths, bringing the total to 7,616.
5:10 p.m.Philippines has 2,218 new infections, the lowest accumulation of cases in the country in five weeks and another 27 deaths.The total number of infections reached 226,440 and deaths amounted to 3,623.
3:50 p.m.British space costs rose to an all-time high in August, according to the lender Nationwide, adding to the symptoms of a sharp uptick in the country’s housing market after the coronavirus, Reuters reported.Prices have gone up 2.0% since July, the most important month.-in a month accumulating since 2004.Prices were 3.7% higher than the previous year.
3:30 p.m. Tokyo reports 141 new infections, compared to 170 the previous day, marking the fourth consecutive day of more than one hundred cases.
2:30 p.m.Thailand is offering money donations and employment measures worth 68.5 billion baht ($2.2 billion) to a pandemic economy, a federal government official said.The allocations of 3,000 baht ($96), intended to stimulate consumption, will pass to another 15 million people in the country.about 69 million people.
13:59 India confirms 78,357 new ones in the last 24 hours, more than 69,921 the day before and raising the country’s total to 3.77 million.The total number of deaths rose to 66,333, an increase of 1,045 since Tuesday morning.
1:30 p.m. The Japanese government plans to offer a loose coronavirus vaccine to all citizens, resources said.The government will prioritize the elderly and fitness staff and then make further immunization to all citizens who wish to do so.vaccines for all until mid-next year.
1:15 p.m.Exxon Mobil is comparing imaginable task cuts around the world, a spokesman said, after the company announced a voluntary redundancy program in Australia.Exxon is the newest major oil tanker to cut tasks after a historic fuel demand crash due to the pandemic.
1:10 p.m.South Korea reports 267 new infections, compared to 235 the day before, this is the fourth consecutive day of more than two hundred cases.The Seoul Metropolitan Government has banned others from eating at retail convenience stores after nine o’clock at night, starting today.
9:50 a.m.La Australian economy 7 consistent with cents in the 3 months through the end of June, reducing a 0.3 consistent with the downturn in the March quarter, according to government data, marking the country’s worst economic slowdown.
8:42 a.m.China reported 8 new CASES of COVID-19 on Tuesday, up from 10 the day before. The most recent infections affected travelers, marking the seventeenth consecutive day without a local case.
7.40 am Victoria Coronavirus’s Australian hotspot reports six virus deaths in the last 24 hours and 90 new infections.The previous day, the country’s most populous state had recorded five deaths and 70 cases.
7:20 a.m. New York City’s largest public school system reached an agreement Tuesday that resolves considerations for the protection of union leaders who oppose coronaviruses and delays the opening of study rooms for the new school year for 11 days until September 21.
6:40 am The degrees of antibodies opposed to coronavirus were higher and remained solid for up to 4 months in more than 90% of COVID-19 patients recovered in Iceland, according to a publication on Tuesday.months, which raises questions about the duration of immunity that the infection can provide.
4:50 am The White House is rejecting the considerations expressed through the World Health Organization after a US fitness officer has been a major player in the world.But it’s not the first time I said that a coronavirus vaccine can be approved without completing the full tests.this virus, however, will not be limited through multilateral organizations influenced by the World Health Organization and China,” said White House spokesman Judd Deere.
At 1 a.m., Saudi Arabia postponed its fourth Future Investment Initiative (FII) Conference until January 2021 from October 2021, organizers said on Tuesday, raising global problems similar to the coronavirus pandemic.government officials will now take place from 26 to 28 January in Riyadh under the name “The Neo-Renaissance”.
Tuesday, September 1
8:28 p.m.Indonesian President Joko Widodo said the coronavirus outbreak in indonesia is likely to peak this month, adding that he was “very confident” that he would have access to an effective vaccine until the end of this year.
5:30 p.m. Indonesia reports 2,775 cases, bringing the country’s total to 177,571; it also reports 88 new deaths, bringing the total to 7505, the number of coronavirus deaths in Southeast Asia.
4:30 p.m. The total number of coronaviruses in Russia surpassed the mark of one million after 4,729 new infections were reported on Tuesday, and 123 new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours.
4:15 p.m.Tokyo reports 170 new infections, compared to the 1000th day before, marking the third consecutive day of more than one hundred cases.
16:00.AstraZeneca has extended its previous agreement with Oxford Biomedica to mass produce the candidate vaccine COVID-19 from the British drug manufacturer, while looking to accumulate materials before imaginable expedited approval from US genetic and mobile treatment company Oxford Biomedica, said AstraZeneca would give 15 million pounds ($20 million) in advance to reserve its plant’s production capacity and that it could get another 35 million pounds plus other prices in 2021 as component of the 18-month agreement.
2:30 p.m.AirAsia Group, which does not record cash, says it will rate consumers for check-in at airport counters, in a component to minimize physical contact with staff.($4.83) for domestic flights and 30 ringgit for foreign flights, with some exceptions.
2:14 p.m.India confirms 69,921 new cases in the last 24 hours, their lowest accumulation in almost a week after the first of less than 75,000 in the last six days.The country now has 3.69 million infections in total and 65,288 deaths.
1:43 p.m.Japan’s leading mask manufacturer plans to export face cover coatings to Asian countries now that national demand is met.Unicharm will begin exporting around 20 million masks for the month, distributed in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in early next year.
1:30 p.m. Indonesia’s inflation rate cooled more in August to 1.32% than last year, according to government data.The lowest reading since May 2000 occurs when the pandemic is controlling demand.The rate of 1.54% in July.
12:00 PM The Australian state of Victoria, the epicentre of infections, reports the least number of virus-like deaths in two weeks. Victoria says five other people have died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the smallest since August 15.and that another 70 people tested positive for coronavirus, a minimum of seven weeks.
10:11 a.m. China reports 10 new infections on Monday, up from 17 a.m. the previous day.All new cases worried travelers, marking the sixteenth consecutive day without local infection.
9:10 am The South Korean government announces plans to aggressively increase spending in the coming years to maintain jobs and improve the well-being of a coronavirus-affected economy, pushing public finances to red numbers.total spending would increase by 8.5% to a record 555.8 trillion won ($468.3 billion) next year, while expected revenue is expected to increase by 0.3% to 483 trillion won.
At 9:05 a.m., Japan’s unemployment rate was extended to 2.9% in July from 2.8% in June, according to government data.The employment availability rate fell to 1.08 from 1.11 in June and the lowest since April 2014.108 task vacancies for one hundred task seekers.
9:00 am Japanese corporate capital expenditure fell by 11.3% in the April-June quarter compared to the previous year, the biggest drop in a decade, as the pandemic eclipsed the business outlook, according to government data.as additions to the plant structure and apparatus totaled 9.64 trillion yen ($91 billion).
6:47 a.m.AstraZeneca began recruiting 30,000 adult participants on an advanced-stage exam to compare its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222.
12:32 p.m.An independent union of teachers in Russia urges its members to be forced to obtain the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.The vaccine will be presented voluntarily to doctors and teachers from September.
Monday, August 31
22:18 India’s GDP contracted by 23.9% year-on-year in the quarter from April to June, when Asia’s third-largest economy crossed one of the world’s strictest locks to involve the COVID-19 pandemic.
18:42 The Turkish economy is growing 9.9% in the quarter of the moment, a blockade that practically crippled activity, Reuters reports, bringing new government knowledge that showed the country’s worst functionality in a year in a decade.
18:00 Hong Kong will resume face-to-face categories from 23 September, as the government points to restrictions that have prevented 900,000 schoolchildren from reading at home for more than 4 months.The city’s education secretary said grades one, five, and six would resume in higher kindergartens, number one schools and high schools on September 23, while other categories would open on September 29.
5:30 p.m. The Philippines reports 3446 coronavirus infections and 38 deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 220,819 and the number of deaths to 3558.The country also claims that Philippine hospitals have been known as clinical trial applicants for a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured through China.Sinovac Biotech.
3:09 p.m. Tokyo confirms one hundred new infections, compared to 148 the day before.The capital has extended an application to alcohol and karaoke institutions to shorten opening hours until September 15.The request was originally scheduled to end on Monday.
3:05 p.m.As Hong Kong prepares to embark on city-wide coronavirus testing to eliminate COVID-19 transmission in the city, the involvement of medical experts will be key to the effectiveness of the program, which generated considerations for the processing of citizens’ DNA data.
2:15 p.m.India reported 78,512 cases in the last 24 hours, less than its one-day accumulation of 78,761, a world record, the day before, which raised the country’s total to more than 3.6 million.The deaths reached 64,469, 971 more since Sunday morning.
1:40 p.m.Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average has gone up by more than 400 points, or 2%, at some point.News that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s leading wardrobe and right-hand secretary Yoshihide Suga has become one of the leading candidates to take over Abe.has relieved investors that no adjustments will be made to the country’s economic policy.
12:10 p.m.Private housing costs in Hong Kong fell by 0.5% in July, the first drop since April, as one of the world’s most expensive genuine real estate markets continued under pressure from the pandemic and political uncertainty, Reuters reports.
10:45 a.m. South Korea confirms 248 new cases, up from 299 a day ago.The total number of infections reached 19,947 with 324 deaths.Most schools in the country start the fall semester this week with online conferences.
10:00 a.m.The Australian state of Victoria, the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, says it has detected new infections in the last 24 hours, the lowest amount since July 3.41.
9:30 am Japan’s commercial production rose 8% in July from last month, according to government data, winning for a consecutive month and signaling a slow recovery after a setback via COVID-19.Retail sales fell for the fifth consecutive month.
9:00 a.m. China reported 17 new instances on Sunday, up from nine in the previous day.All instances were imported, involving travelers returning from abroad, marking the fifteenth consecutive day of local transmission in the country.
5:40 a.m. in the United States, the coronavirus exceeds 6 million, with more than 180,000 deaths.
Sunday, August 30
10:30 p.m.Schools in Lagos, Nigeria’s capital, will reopen next month as the African country seeks to restart its economy, the state governor said.
7:00 p.m. According to the Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology, discovered in Jakarta, a more infectious mutation of the new coronavirus was discovered in Indonesia.the institute, Deputy Director Herawati Sudoyo told Reuters.
6:00 p.m.The global instances of COVID-19 exceeded 25 million, according to knowledge compiled through the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University.
1646 Indonesia reports 2858 new coronavirus infections and 82 more deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 172,053 and deaths to 7,343, according to the knowledge of the country’s Ministry of Health.
2:19 p.m. India has recorded 78,761 cases in the past 24 hours, the worst one-day peak ever recorded in all countries, as the government continues to ease pandemic restrictions across the country, AP reports. The Ministry of Health also showed 948 deaths in the same period. bringing the total number of deaths to 63,498.
10:48 a.m. South Korea is reporting more than 100 new infections for the 17th day in a row, as restrictions on on-site food at restaurants, pubs and bakeries go into effect in the densely populated region of Seoul.
At 2:25 a.m., India will reopen underground exercise networks and allow sports and occasions on a limited basis starting next month as a component of efforts to revive the economy, even as coronavirus infections skyrocket, Reuters reports.
Saturday, August 29
11:29 p.m.Myanmar reports 77 new infections, the largest increase in the country, amid a recent resurgence of the virus after weeks without national transmission being shown.The Epidemic in Myanmar has been low compared to that of its neighbors since the country discovered its first case in March, with only six deaths and 733 infections reported to date.
8:21 p.m.La Sinovac Biotech coronavirus candidate, CoronaVac, is approved for emergency use as a component of a program in China to vaccinate high-risk equipment such as medical staff, Reuters reports, bringing a user familiar with the topic.
5:19 p.m.Indonesia confirms 3,308 new cases, their highest accumulation of infections for the third day in a row.The country’s death toll is 169,195, while 92 new deaths raise their death toll to 7,261.
5:15 p.m.Philippines reports 3,637 new infections and 94 more deaths, bringing the number of new infections to 213,131 cases and 3,419 deaths.The country has the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia and a death toll in Indonesia alone.
16:45 India is registering 76,472 new cases, bringing its total to 3.46 million, media reports, bringing up the Ministry of Health.The cumulative death toll is 62,550, with 1,021 new deaths.
3:57 p.m. South Korea reports 308 new cases, achieving three digits per sixteenth consecutive day and stoking considerations about the growing shortage of poorly ill beds.The COVID-19 resurgence has left hospitals in Greater Seoul with only 4.5% of their beds available for critical cases as of Friday, up from 22% the previous week, according to Reuters.
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