(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed the FDA’s approval of the coronavirus remedy’s emergency use using blood plasma from recovered patients, a day after he accepted it to obstruct the deployment of vaccines and treatments for political reasons.
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France reported 4,897 new infections in the last 24 hours on Sunday, the highest point since a two-month blockade ended in May.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko underwent tests to detect the new coronavirus and is in serious condition with fever, her party spokeswoman said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that the number of COVID-19-like deaths increased from 1006 to 175651 and reported 5643812 cases, an increase of 45265 cases from its previous count.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Brazil exceeded 3.6 million after reporting 23421 new cases and 494 more deaths in the last 24 hours, while Mexico reported 226 more deaths on Sunday, ending the week with 3,723 deaths, the lowest overall in more than two months.
Peruvian government officials have convicted the nightclub owner after at least thirteen other people were crushed or suffocated when revelers tried to flee a party attacked by police for violating restrictions on coronaviruses.
ASIA PACIFIC
South Korea’s capital Seoul ordered the first time on Monday to wear a mask in enclosed and public places as it fights an increase in the number of cases.
The total number of cases in India exceeded 3.1 million, while the number of deaths reached 57,542.
The time when Victoria’s most populous Australian state reported 15 deaths in more than 24 hours and 116 cases, the lowest buildup of new infections in seven weeks.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has completed a coronavirus blockade in the country’s largest city until the end of the week and has brought the mandatory use of the mask on public transport across the country.
Saudi public sector painters will return to paintings on the site on August 30, state television, which he mentioned to the Ministry of Human Resources, which will ease additional restrictions on coronaviruses.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that young people aged 12 years use masks to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the same situations as adults, while young people aged six to 11 use them under a risk-based approach.
Some 1,500 volunteers dressed in face masks, hand sanitizers and tracking devices attended a concert in Germany on Saturday as part of a program to simulate the spread of the new coronavirus at giant meetings.
Asian stocks rose Monday, driven by hopes of coronavirus after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration legalized the use of blood plasma from recovered patients as a remedy option. [MKTS / GLOB]
Irish customer confidence plummeted in August after local COVID-19 closures and stricter national restrictions, which survey authors say may cause some to think again about the duration of the outage.
Effective unemployment in Australia will exceed 13% until the end of September, said treasurer Josh Frydenberg, as nearly a share of a million others lose their jobs due to the total blockade of the country’s most populous city.
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