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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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VIRUS BRUTE:
– Strong demand for virus testing in South Carolina, long waits
– Virus cases in Spain continue to accumulate since the reduction of blockage
– Members, suffering suffers when virus hits Choctaw tribe in Mississippi
– Virginia has implemented a smartphone app to notify others if they may have been exposed to the coronavirus. It’s the first state in the U.S. In using the new generation of pandemics created through Apple and Google.
– After more than a week of meetings, there is some clarity in bipartisan discussions in Washington about a mass reaction bill to COVID-19.
– The mayor of Chicago said the third-largest school district in the country would offer distance education to begin the school year.
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HERE’S WHAT’S GOING ON:
BEIJING – New COVID-19 cases in the northwestern China city of Urumqi showed a slight increase, 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 there have been no deaths.
In the absence of further deaths, China’s total remains at 4634, of 84,528 showed reported cases since the coronavirus was first detected in the central city of Wuhan due to 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 that 829 deaths showed recently 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, Ind. – Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is protecting the reopening of schools from developing academic reports and positive coronavirus schooling tests since they returned to class.
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 efforts in some districts to restrict schooling at the site due to coronavirus.
Education Secretary Johnny Key issued the rules Wednesday, and the state reported 912 new cases of viruses 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 of the virus in the country in late January. Since then, Washington has recorded more than 59,000 demonstrated 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 eight countries said after a closed U.N. Security Council session Wednesday that Russia’s presence further divides communities and puts at risk “the health and lives of the conflict-affected population” during the pandemic.
Russia’s vice ambassador, the ambassador to the UN, 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.
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SACRAMENTO, California – California officials say that up to 17,600 inmates can be released due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This is 70% more than past estimates and a total that, according to patients and police, includes harmful criminals who deserve to be locked up. However, criminal officials say corrections secretary Ralph Diaz will likely block the release of approximately 5,500 people, in part because many are serving a life sentence.
Early releases are also causing dismay as probation officers and network teams struggle to provide housing, transportation and others to inmates who may pose a threat to public health, as only about 300 have been released on parole while still contagious.
Officials have been put under intense pressure from lawyers, some state legislators and two federal judges to more detainees.
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ATLANTA – Georgia has the fifth state of the U.S. It records 200,000 cases of coronavirus.
Wednesday’s announcement comes when the speed of new infections in the current increase has slowed, hospitalizations and deaths remain high. Georgia has about 4,000 deaths due to COVID-19.
Governor Brian Kemp’s administration continues to explicitly rely on its efforts to involve the virus, pointing to the opening of more hospital beds as an achievement. Kemp ignored calls from some medical experts to take action such as applying mask and bar closures.
A spokesman on Wednesday reiterated Kemp’s confidence that voluntary action is sufficient to control the epidemic and that the state will have to divide its purpose between physical fitness coverage and the economy.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – An organization of the Oglala Sioux tribe network in South Dakota is doing everything possible to keep others in their homes, for fear that coronavirus will wreak disproportionate havoc on an elderly population that maintains the tribe’s language and culture.
Prior to the pandemic, the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation worked to teach the Lakota language to young people as a component of efforts in recent years to revive the Lakota language and culture.
The organization says less than 3% of network members speak out. Many elderly Sioux in the Pine Ridge Reserve still speak fluently, however, they are among the highs of COVID-19.
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FARGO, N.D. – The mayor of the city that once the coronavirus hot spot in North Dakota is supporting an annual outdoor music festival that will be broadcast as planned this weekend.
The 25th Fargo Blues Festival is scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Newman Outdoor Field, home of the American Baseball League’s Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks. It attracts up to 2000 music fans.
Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney is a member of a task council that was convened two months ago when North Dakota’s largest city saw a buildup of virus cases. He says the screen continues as the number of viruses in the city has decreased thanks to the accumulation of tests and tactile search. He cites statistics that show that Cass County, which includes Fargo, maintained a 2% daily positive rate for 60 days.
“I hope other people wear mask and social distance,” Mahoney said. “But we had times when we have more people and we haven’t noticed the increase.”
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday that Statewide Wi-Fi hotspots will be established to give academics the ability to take virtual categories when schools are scheduled to reopen in September.
The Republican governor said the counties will submit plans to re-enter this month for the planned reopening of the state school on September 8, adding that it sought to give academics and parents a “total option” to take user or online categories.
Justice said he had committed $6 million to install more than 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in the state’s schools, libraries and parks so academics could simply take online courses when schools restart.
Signs of viruses are highest in West Virginia, with hospitalizations, intensive care unit patients, and fan use in some of the grades since the epidemic began. About 7,100 people tested positive and 124 died, according to state fitness records.
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BOISE, Idaho – Idaho Gov. Brad Little said he would remember the legislature to a special consultation last August due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Republican governor in a statement on Wednesday says the special session will start during the week of Aug. 24 and possibly include how to conduct the November general election.
The special consultation can also come with the law by creating a duty shield for coverage opposed to prosecution in emergencies declared as the pandemic.
A calendar asks lawmakers to give the governor an express law until mid-August. Few people would consider a proclamation on August 17 detailing the precise questions to consider.
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BOGOTA, Colombia – A policy spokesman for former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said the former leader had tested positive for the new coronavirus.
A representative of the Democratic Center showed Wednesday that Uribe, who is under space arrest, had tested positive for The Associated Press in WhatsApp. The representative contacted the AP under anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.
A Colombian court ordered on Tuesday that Uribe be placed under space arrest while under investigation in an alleged witness manipulation case. A medical team visited Uribe for 20 minutes on Wednesday.