The Nikkei Asian Review tracks the spread of the new coronavirus from the city of Wuhan in central China.
Global instances reached Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore at 25,096,636.
The death toll internationally reached 844,118.
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Here are the advances (Tokyo time):
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Tuesday, September 1
9:10 am The South Korean government announces plans to aggressively increase spending in the coming years to keep jobs and bring the welfare of a coronavirus-sorry economy to life, pushing public finances to red numbers.total spending would accumulate by 8.5% to a record 555.8 trillion won ($468.3 billion) next year, while expected revenue is expected to increase by only 0.3% to 483 trillion won.
9:05 am Japan’s unemployment rate worsened 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.This ratio means that there were 108 vacant tasks for one hundred task seekers.
9:00 am Japanese corporate capital expenditure fell by 11.3% in the April-June quarter compared to last year, as the pandemic tarnished the business outlook, according to government data.Investments in all non-financial sectors for purposes such as structure and plant apparatus the additions totalled 9.64 trillion yen ($91 billion).
6:47 a.m.AstraZeneca began recruiting 30,000 adult participants on a late-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 went 9.9% in the quarter of this moment, a blockade that practically crippled activity, Reuters reports, bringing new government knowledge that showed the worst functionality of the country in a year in a decade.
6:00 PM Hong Kong will resume face-to-face categories from September 23, as the government targets restrictions that have prevented 900,000 schoolchildren from reading at home for more than 4 months. The city secretary of education said grades one, five and six would resume in upper 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 reports that Philippine hospitals have been known as clinical trial applicants for a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured throughout 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 app was originally scheduled to end on Monday.
3:05 p.m.As Hong Kong prepares to launch city-wide coronavirus tests to eliminate COVID-19 transmission in the city, the involvement of medical experts will be key to the effectiveness of the program, which will generate considerations about processing 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 rose by more than 400 points, or 2%, at a time.News that Yoshihide Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary and right-hand man to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has become one of the leading contenders for Abe’s acquisition, has relieved investors that no adjustments would 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. A more infectious mutation of the new coronavirus has been discovered in Indonesia, according to the Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology discovered in Jakarta.The “infectious but milder” D614G mutation of the virus discovered in the genome sequencing knowledge of samples collected through the institute, Deputy Director Herawati Sudoyo told Reuters.
6:00 p.m.The global instances of COVID-19 have 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 last 24 hours, the worst one-day peak ever recorded in all countries, while the government continues to reduce pandemic restrictions across the country, AP reports.The Ministry of Health also showed 948 deaths in the same period.raising the total number of deaths to 63,498.
10:48 a.m. South Korea reports more than one hundred new infections for the seventeenth consecutive day, as restrictions on on-site food in restaurants, pubs and bakeries in Seoul’s densely populated region take effect.
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 when 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. The 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 only in Indonesia.
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 3 figures for the sixteenth consecutive day and splendid considerations on the growing shortage of beds in poor health conditions.critical cases starting Friday, up from 22% of the previous week, according to Reuters.
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