NEW DELHI – India has recorded the highest deaths in a day in 904 in the last 24 hours, while new coronavirus infections have increased through 56282 cases to just 2 million.
The Department of Health reported that the total number of deaths is 40,699. India has recorded 20,000 deaths in the last 30 days.
The ministry said the recovery rate had increased from 63% to 67% in the last 14 days. Nearly 600,000 patients are still being treated.
The case is 2.09%.
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are the hardest-hit Indian states.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– The virus in the United States is declining, even as deaths increase
– Seeking refuge in the United States, young people fleeing danger are deported
– Blocking the virus in Colombia fuels anxiety and depression.
– North Korea’s state media claim that leader Kim Jong Un ordered government agencies to act to stabilize the livelihoods of citizens of a closed city due to coronavirus problems.
– California has stopped updating a list of counties that face more restrictions on business and schools after a technical challenge in the state coronavirus database led to insufficient count.
– Scottish officials ordered the closure of bars, cafes and restaurants in aberdeen in reaction to an organisation of 54 COVID-19 instances connected to a singles bar.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
MELBOURNE, Australia – The prime minister of the Australian hot spot in the state of Victoria suggested citizens to panic and buy through steep cuts in meat production.
The state capital, Melbourne, began its first full day of strict blocking restrictions on Thursday, while Victoria reported 471 new COVID-19 infections and 8 kills.
Prime Minister Daniel Andrews said beef, lamb and red meat production will be reduced to a third from Friday due to transmission of the virus at slaughterhouses and meat processing plants.
Poultry production will be reduced by 20%.
He says the measures are designed to reduce as few staff as possible while offering a product shortage.
Andrews said it was not mandatory for shoppers to store, as happened spasmodicly and to varying degrees, the Melbourne locks for the first time.
He says: “You may not necessarily get exactly the piece of meat you want, however, you will get what you want and get all the products that are fundamentally for you.
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TOKYO – The governor of Japanese Aichi Prefecture has announced a regional “state of emergency” aimed at reducing coronavirus.
Governor Hideaki Ohmura on Thursday asked companies to close absolutely or close early and suggested others stay at home at night.
The measures continue until August 24, the era that coincides with Obon’s vacation, when schools and many businesses close. Aichi includes Nagoya, which is home to Toyota Motor Corp.
The governor said coronavirus cases had spread in Aichi from mid-July to a hundred or more according to the day. Before that, the instances were 0 for a long time, consistent with periods of time.
In April, the Japanese national government called for social estrangement and business closure, these measures gradually rose. Japan has had about 42,700 cases of coronavirus and about 1,000 deaths.
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BEIJING – New cases of COVID-19 in the city of Urumqi in northwest China increased slightly, with 27 reported on Thursday, five more than the previous day.
The increase in the Xinjiang region shows that the government is still struggling to end the country’s last primary outbreak, which emerged about 3 weeks ago. The government responded with strict control measures, adding closure of some residential areas, restricting public transportation and restricting the city gates.
Urumqi is the capital and largest city of Xinjiang, which has reported more than six hundred cases of coronavirus but no deaths.
In the absence of further deaths, China’s total remains at 4,634, of 84,528 cases recorded since the coronavirus was first detected in the central city of Wuhan delayed last year.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico is approaching 50,000 deaths demonstrated due to COVID-19.
The federal Department of Health reported 829 new deaths on Wednesday, giving the country a total of 49,698 deaths. This is the third number of pandemic deaths in the world.
Authorities said the number of infections shown in Mexico increased from 6,139 to 449,961.
The government recognizes that the actual number of deaths in Mexico can be much higher, in component because it has conducted very little testing. Only about 1 million tests have been conducted in the country of around 130 million other people since the start of the pandemic.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is protecting the reopening of schools from developing reports from scholars and schoolchildren who tested positive for coronavirus since returning to classes.
Box said Wednesday that “continues so our schools can reopen safely.” She says improving the hospital’s testing and capacity are additional guarantees for returning academics for face-to-face learning.
The governor adds that his biggest advice to academics and families is knowing when to return home.
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – The Arkansas state government requires the public to remain open five days a week when the categories resume this month, complicating the efforts of some districts to restrict on-site schooling due to coronavirus.
Education Secretary Johnny Key issued the rules Wednesday, and the state reported that 912 new cases of viruses shown and 18 more deaths.
State rules state state rules state that schools must be open every five days of the week to comply with the state constitution. Some districts had planned to restrict on-site training and use distance learning on days when schools were not open.
Arkansas Public Schools is scheduled to reopen the week of August 24.
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OLYMPIA, Washington – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said schools in the state’s top deserve strong online learning only for academics this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Inslee also suggested on Wednesday canceling or postponing sports and other extracurricular activities in person.
Health experts say the virus is still spreading too much in the state, which saw the first case shown of the virus in the country in late January. Since then, Washington has recorded more than 59,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 1,600 deaths.
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MONTPELIER, Vermont – Vermont officials say about 150 Vermont inmates in a Mississippi prison have tested positive for coronavirus.
Vermont is home to 219 inmates at The Tallahatchie County Correctional Center in Tutwiler, Mississippi, due to the lack of their own prisons.
Last July, six inmates who were returned to Vermont by the Personal Criminal from Mississippi tested positive when they arrived at the Rutland Correctional Center. This led the Vermont Correctional Service to order other inmates in Vermont, Mississippi, to be examined.
Vermont interim corrections commissioner James Baker said there were 147 tests, 62 negatives, two pending tests, and eight inmates refused to get tested.
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United Nations – The United States and seven European countries are calling on Russia to withdraw its forces from the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions of Georgia and to authorize medical evacuations and aid deliveries for the coronavirus pandemic.
The 8 countries said after a closed consultation of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that Russia’s presence divides communities further and threatens “the fitness and lives of others affected by the conflict” pandemic.
Russia’s vice ambassador, the ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, tweeted that it was “just a fiction.”
Georgia made a failed attempt to recapture its separatist province of South Ossetia in 2008, triggering a brief war with Russia. Moscow then identified the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and established military bases there.