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
8:30 p.m. A coronavirus vaccine “is not necessary” for the success of the Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo next summer, said the head of the organizing committee.
20:00.Based on the effects through the medical journal The Lancet, the Russian vaccine “Sputnik-V” COVID-19 produces an antibody reaction in all participants in the initial trials.
6:27 p.m.A spokeswoman for the World Health Organization said she expected widespread vaccines opposed to COVID-19 until mid-2021.
6:00 p.m. Indonesia reports 3,269 new infections, up from the previous day’s record of 3,622, 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 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 check on an inmate 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 coming positive for coronavirus, his Forza Italia party said, adding that 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 deal 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 Nikkei Stock Average and South Korea’s Kospi recorded a 1.3% drop in early operations.China’s CSI 300, an index of the largest shares traded in 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, down from a six-month high of 2.7% in July, while value rises were 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 on a medical agreement to suspend the government’s plan to increase the admission fee to medical schools.
10:50 am Australian stores recorded strong sales in July, emerging in all regions of Victoria, which is experiencing a momentary wave of infections. Retail sales increased 3.2% to $30.7 billion ($22.3 billion) in July compared to a month ago: a 12% counterfeit year-on-year profit.This follows a monthly forging increase of 2.7% 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 one hundred more people.
At 9:10 a.m., China reported 25 instances on Thursday, up from 11 a.m. the day before.All new instances originated abroad, marking the nineteenth consecutive day with no transmitted infection.
8:40 a.m.Australia’s coronavirus access point, Victoria, reports 81 new infections, up from 113 the day before.The death toll in the state from coronavirus has increased to 59, including 50 other 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 may be ready for distribution in the United States no later than 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 says the county is at a “decisive moment” to involve the pandemic.Around 3,000 new cases are now reported 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 number-one scholars in high school, 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 who had eliminated the virus in the past, underlining the challenge of containing its spread, reports Reuters.La large majority of the approximately 57,000 cases of the city-state come from overcrowded dormitories.In this space there are more than 300,000 employees, most of them from South Asia, hired in sectors such as structure and shipbuilding.
16:00. Vietnam plans to restart foreign flights between six Asian cities from mid-September, ending a month-long suspension after easing restrictions on foreign business travelers. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam proposes the resumption of flights to Guangzhou, Seoul, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Taipei and Tokyo, which would mean the arrival of about 5,000 weekly passengers, according to the daily Giao Thong, passing 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 government survey in July, from 17.7% in April, when the economy partially reopened in June.Array 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 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.
05:30 AM. Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Working Group, rejects court cases that the Trump administration contemplates a “collective immunity” technique for the coronavirus pandemic.”Neither I nor anyone in the administration are willing to sacrifice American lives for collective immunity.get collective immunity through a vaccine and that’s the right way to do it,” Birx told reporters.
5:10 a.m., U.S. equities recorded their biggest gains in weeks, the S
4:20 a.m. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionBut it’s not the first time They called on state governors to push for arrangements for coronavirus vaccine distribution centers until November 1, before the presidential election, according to media reports.approvals motivated by political considerations before a presidential election, than by 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, looking for 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 cost.This time, a resolution can be reached until the end of the current 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 mandatory and official business between the two countries starting Friday, Singapore’s Foreign Ministry said.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 estating measures, as the city recorded the lowest number of new COVID-1nine infections in just two months.Please note that the restaurant will last from nine o’clock at night.until 10 p.m., while gyms and sports facilities will reopen.
5:40 p.m.Indonesia reports 3,075 new cases of coronavirus, up from 2,775 the previous day and raises the country’s total to 180,646, according to data.The country has 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.Housing costs in Britain 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 crashed, Reuters reported.accumulating month 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 passing government official said. The allocations of 3,000 baht ($96), intended to stimulate consumption, will pass to another 15 million people in the country of 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 convenience retailers 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, from 0.3 consistent with the downturn in the March quarter, according to government data, marking the worst economic slowdown in the country on record.
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 17th consecutive day without a local case.
7.40am The Australian Victoria Coronavirus Hotspot reports six deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours and 90 new infections. The day before, the most populous state in the country had registered five deaths and 70 cases.
7:20 a.m. The New York City public school system, the largest in the United States, reached an agreement Tuesday that resolves the considerations of protecting union leaders who oppose coronaviruses and delays the opening of study rooms for the new school year for 11 days through 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 could 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 bill to 7,505, the number of coronavirus deaths in Southeast Asia.
4:30 p.m. The total number of coronaviruses in Russia surpassed the one million mark after 4,729 new infections were reported on Tuesday, in addition, 123 new deaths have been shown 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 expanded its previous agreement with Oxford Biomedica to mass-produce the British drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, as it seeks to stockpile materials ahead of an accelerated approval imaginable from US mobile and genetic treatment company Oxford Biomedica, AstraZeneca said. would give 15 million pounds ($ 20 million) up-front to reserve its plant’s production capacity and that it could get another 35 million pounds plus other prices in 2021 as a component of the 18-month deal.
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 their first 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 teachers’ union in Russia urges its members to be forced to obtain the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, which will be presented to doctors and teachers on a voluntary basis from September.
Monday, August 31
10:18 PM India’s GDP contracted 23.9% year-on-year in the April-June quarter, as Asia’s third-largest economy passed through one of the world’s tightest locks to engage 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.
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 first, fifth, and sixth grades would resume in higher kindergartens, number one schools, and high schools on September 23, while the other categories would open on September 29.
5:30 pm. The Philippines reports 3,446 coronavirus infections and 38 deaths, bringing the total number of cases to 220,819 and the number of deaths to 3,558. The country also reports that Philippine hospitals have been known as applicants for clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured to across China. Sinovac Biotech company.
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 launch city-wide coronavirus tests to eliminate COVID-19 transmission in the city, the participation of medical experts will be key to the effectiveness of the program, leading to considerations about 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. 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 crowned 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.
2:25 a.m.India will reopen underground exercise networks and allow sports and occasions on a limited basis from next month as a component of efforts to revive the economy, even when coronavirus infections soar, 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. Sinovac Biotech’s coronavirus vaccine candidate, CoronaVac, is approved for emergency use in a program in China to vaccinate high-risk teams such as medical personnel, Reuters reports, becoming familiar with the matter.
5:19 p.m.Indonesia confirms 3,308 new cases, their highest accumulation of infections for the third day in a row.The death toll in the country is 169,195, while 92 new deaths raise their number 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 recording 76,472 new cases, bringing its total to 3.46 million, the media reporting, 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 about a growing shortage of beds in poor sanitary conditions.for critical cases starting Friday, up from 22% the previous week, according to Reuters.
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