JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organization has suggested that African governments accelerate the reopening of schools, saying that young people on the continent will suffer prolonged closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHO officials have warned that poor nutrition, stress, increased exposure to violence and exploitation, and teenage pregnancies are among the disorders faced by school-attending academics in sub-Saharan Africa.
Only six African countries have fully openedArray according to a survey conducted in 39 countries through WHO and UNICEF. Many governments have closed as a component of measures to restrict coronavirus transmission. Some reopened and had to be shut down when cases of viruses appeared in Array
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– The growing call for tasks reflects a suffering U.S. economy
– WHO asks for more information on Russian vaccine
– India reports 69,000 new infections in last 24 hours
– Working families turn to grandparents to help young people. As the school year begins for many young people whose parents work, more and more grandparents have become day caregiver roles.
– Two players from the South African cricket team tested positive for COVID-19. Positive tests took position in a team camp with more than 30 of the most productive players in the country.
– As hospitals treat others with COVID-19 and seek to prevent its spread, more and more patients choose to receive treatment where they feel most safe: at home.
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HERE’S WHAT’S GOING ON:
MADRID – Spain’s coronavirus expert has made a stern appeal for others, especially other younger people and social influencers, to be more guilty amid an increasing number of infections basically similar to nightlife and socialization during the summer holidays.
At a regular press conference on Thursday, the head of Spain’s fitness emergency coordination center, Fernando Simon, said the other young people take into account the fact that they can infect older parents who would possibly suffer the most from COVID-19.
“No one be fooled, things aren’t going well,” Simon told reporters.
The Ministry of Health added on Thursday 7,000 new cases in total, approximately 378,000 infections since the start of the pandemic, the number in Europe. The total number of deaths increased to 28,813 with 16 new deaths.
Simon said the stage deserves to be controlled, locks located if necessary, before the start of the school year in mid-September.
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ATLANTA – President Donald Trump’s new administration rules that say teachers are “critical infrastructure workers” can simply exempt teachers from quarantine needs after being exposed to the coronavirus and send them back to the classroom.
Staying symptom-free in the classroom, as a handful of school districts in Tennessee and Georgia have already said, increases the threat of coronavirus spread to academics and colleagues.
Many teachers may be required through public fitness agencies to quarantine the site for 14 days in the event of an epidemic, which may stretch a district’s ability to continue teaching courses in person.
South Carolina fitness officials also describe teachers as critical infrastructure workers, it’s unclear whether a district asks teachers to return within 14 days.
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SAN TAN VALLEY, Arizona – A school district in the suburbs of Phoenix forced an unhealthy instructor to abandon their in-person learning plans this week and only resumes virtual instruction.
The Olympics. The Combs Unified School District Board voted 4-1 on Wednesday night to resume distance learning starting Thursday. Superintendent Gregory Wyman said the district council will meet on August 27 to review updated state measures on coronavirus on the reopening of schools and the resumption of face-to-face teaching.
After teachers hesitated, the district abandoned its plan to resume in-person learning this week and canceled the school for 3 days. Many say that no Arizona county has met the state’s voluntary criteria for face-to-face learning.
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ROME – Italy has noticed a sharp increase in coronavirus infections, adding 845 new cases to its reported death toll.
Nearly 77,500 viral tests were performed on the last day, compared to an estimated 50,000 tests in the first part of August. Accelerated testing to verify for new clusters before they increase.
The government has required testing for all other people returning from Spain, Malta, Greece and Croatia and has established test sites at airports to verify and inform inflamed passengers upon arrival.
Sardinia has become its own access point, after an entire station crashed and 26 infections were reported. Many young Italians reported being inflamed after partying in island nightclubs and other maskless beach destinations.
There are considerations about the reopening of public schools. However, Education Minister Lucia Azzolina said the reopening of schools on September 14, wearing protective masks, spaced desks and changed classrooms.
The confirmed instances in Italy amount to 256,118. Six other people have died in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll shown to 35,418.
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TRENTON, N.J. – The firm that oversees the best school sports in New Jersey says indoor fall sports will be delayed until early next year, but outdoor sports will begin in about a month.
The New Jersey State Inter-School Sports Advisory Working Group published its “Return to Sport” plan on Thursday. It has condensed schedules and will maintain maximum local competitions. The plan also prohibits out-of-state competitions for “ionic circumstances” and indicates that the postseason game will be limited and local, with no state championships.
The working group noted that if cases require the postponement of autumn sports, their seasons will be played in the spring.
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THE HAYE, Netherlands – The Hague police arrested several other open-air protesters that the Dutch parliament opposed government measures to contain the coronavirus.
The national television channel NOS on Thursday posted a video on its online page featuring an insurrectional police officer hitting a woman twice with a baton and pushing her with her shield after ignoring orders to move on.
Another video posted on social media showed protesters colliding with police near parliament.
Hague police may simply not say how many protesters were arrested.
Infections have increased in the Netherlands in recent weeks. Dutch public fitness firm says another 529 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours. The Netherlands has shown more than 6,000 coronavirus deaths.
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LONDON – The Scottish leader said he had recorded another 77 cases of coronavirus, its highest number in nearly 3 months.
Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland will remain in third place in its four-part plan to ease blocking restrictions.
She says moving to the next level can only take place when her government is convinced that the virus “is no longer a significant risk to public health.”
Sturgeon will allow the reopening of indoor gyms, swimming pools and sports fields on August 31.
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BRUSSELS – The Belgian government has taken a decision on some measures to involve the corona virus, but others.
While avoiding close contact, officials say they can shop with two other people from being alone and eliminate a 30-minute wait in a store.
Indoor occasions can be extended to another two hundred people in one hundred and 400 outdoors of two hundred if social estrangement rules can be respected.
Belgium has one of the most consistent COVID-19 capita mortality rates in the world. Approximately 10,000 others have died in a country of 11.5 million more people.
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LONDON – The World Health Organization’s European workplace said it had begun talks with Russia to verify and obtain more data on the coronavirus vaccine that Russia obtained last week before the vaccine passed the complex tests needed to prove its effectiveness.
Catherine Smallwood, WHO’s senior emergency officer in Europe, said: “This fear we have about protection and efficacy relates in particular to the Russian vaccine, fears all vaccines in development.”
He said WHO is adopting a “boosting approach” to drive the progression of vaccines that oppose coronaviruses, but said that “it is imperative not to take shortcuts in terms of protection or efficacy.”
Smallwood said who had initiated “direct discussions” with Russia and that WHO officials had shared “the steps and data that will be needed for WHO to conduct assessments.”
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BERLIN – The German Foreign Ministry has issued a warning for parts of Croatia as spaces at risk of coronavirus.
This follows the Robert Koch Institute by pointing to the Croatian regions of Sibenik-Knin and Split Dalmatia as spaces at risk.
Threatened areas mean that other people returning from there in Germany will have to be tested for the virus.
Croatia is a popular holiday destination for Europeans. Last week, Austria already issued a warning to Croatia, prompting a mass exodus of Austrian tourists.
In Germany, another 1,707 new cases were reported on Thursday, reflecting peaks in Europe after an era of reduced viral activity in June and early July.
The increase in new cases in Germany is basically similar to travelers returning from abroad, but also to a larger crowd of other people who gather for family reunions and other celebrations. In addition, several German states returned to school.
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LONDON – The head of the World Health Organization’s workplace in Europe said the region was “on its own trajectory” and noted that coronavirus cases have been expanding weekly for the next two months, even as the epicentre of the pandemic moves towards the Americas.
At a press conference on Thursday, Dr. Hans Kluge said that while European countries had made “phenomenal efforts” to involve the virus after being hit hard earlier in the year, there were now around 26,000 cases every day across Europe.
Kluge said new virus equipment occurs primarily in localized settings, such as long-term nursing homes, food production services, or traveller-induced services.
Kluge noted that the region was “in a much better position to eliminate those localized viral outbreaks” and “can handle the virus now than when COVID-19 appeared.”
Kluge also called for schools to reopen as much as imaginable and said WHO Europe will convene a virtual assembly of its 53 member countries on 31 August to discuss how schools in the region can be safely reopened.
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BERLIN – The driving force of a high-speed exercise in Germany called the police after a far-right lawmaker refused to wear a mask and then locked himself in the bathroom.
The use of nasal guards is mandatory on public transport, however, the railway company Deutsche Bahn has had difficulty applying the rule with a small number of travellers who oppose the use of masks.
Stephan Brandner, a member of the Alternative party for Germany, showed that the incident took place on 12 August and mocked reports that he had tried to hide in the bathroom.
The German news firm dpa quoted a police spokesman on Wednesday confirming that officials had responded to a driver’s request after two passengers from an exercise in Berlin bound for the Baltic city of Binz refused to wear masks.
Brandner wrote on Twitter that he had tasted a cake when the driver asked him to put on a mask, to which he replied, “I can’t, I’m having dinner right now, I’ll talk about it later.”
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CAIRO – The Egyptian government has announced that the faithful may soon stop at the mosque for Friday prayers, now that the count of new cases of viruses shown has reached less than 200.
Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowment Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa said weekly prayers can take place from 28 August. Rallies were suspended for about five months.
The faithful deserve to practice social estrangement and wear a mask to prevent another viral epidemic, Gomaa said on a Wednesday.
He says Friday’s sermon, which lasts about an hour, will be reduced to 10 minutes.
In August, the number of new instances in Egypt was particularly reduced to less than two hundred new instances by day.
On Wednesday, Egypt reported 161 cases shown and thirteen deaths. Overall, Egypt reported that only about 97,000 cases showed and more than 5,000 deaths.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Norwegian government reports at 8 p.m. not to Great Britain, Ireland, Greece, Austria and parts of Sweden and Denmark, the last European countries where the government does not present non-essential
Norwegian fitness officials said these countries had now exceeded the threshold of 20 new cases of coronavirus, in line with another 100,000 people in recent days.
From Saturday, citizens of the Norwegian Red List must isolate themselves for 10 days.
Other countries on the list for which Norway advises to oppose unnecessary are the Netherlands, Poland, Cyprus, Iceland, Malta, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Romania and Bulgaria.
Norway reported 10,162 coronaviruses and 262 deaths.
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NEW DELHI – India has recorded a record number of new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, as it increases testing to more than 900,000 per day.
The 69,652 new reported on Thursday pushes the total number of reported in India to more than 2.8 million, of which 2 million have recovered.
The Ministry of Health reported that 977 coronavirus deaths have been recorded in more than 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 53866.
India has conducted 3 million tests for the virus, but experts have suggested a significant increase in its testing capacity, as India currently has a global population of 1.4 billion people.
It has the third highest reported case in the world, the United States and Brazil, and the fourth largest number of deaths reported in the United States, Brazil and Mexico.
The national blockade imposed through India in late March began to soften in May and is now widely implemented in high-risk areas.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Australian lawmakers will attend Parliament remotely for the first time due to new regulations introduced in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.
Attorney General Christian Porter announced the new regulations Thursday before parliament resumed for two weeks on Monday.
Lawmakers can participate in discussions and ask questions of ministers via video. They will have to convince House Speaker Tony Smith that they cannot come to Canberra because the pandemic made him “essentially impossible, unreasonable, or would pose an unreasonable risk” to Parliament.
But they will not be able to vote on a bill, motions or propose amendments to the legislation.
Most states and territories have closed their borders to non-essential interstate travellers to curb the spread of coronavirus, which is concentrated in the cities of Melbourne and Sydney.
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported 288 new cases of coronavirus, its third consecutive day of more than two hundred as fitness officials struggle to curb an epidemic in the region around the capital.
Figures from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised the number of national deaths to 16,346 and 307.
The firm says 230 of the new instances are in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, home to some of the country’s 51 million inhabitants.
Health personnel have struggled to track the transmissions of places and groups, adding churches, restaurants, schools and staff. The authorities have banned giant gatherings and closed nightlife and churches in the capital region, fearing that the epidemic will spread across the country.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s leader in the coronavirus outbreak says that 3 weeks of continued decline in the number of new coronaviruses mean the country is experiencing pandemic relief.
“Now we are seeing a sustained trend,” said Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez.
However, he warned that “the threat is not over,” as its still reported peaks showed infections and deaths. Confirmed cases increased from 5,792 to 537,031, and another 707 deaths were shown, bringing Mexico’s total to 58,481.
Gatell warns Mexicans that the physical emergency is likely to last until October, when the normal flu season begins.
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LOS ANGELES – The mayor of Los Angeles said he had legalized the closure of utilities in a Hollywood Hills home that was the scene of noisy parties despite the ban on giant meetings by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that “this space has become a nightclub in the hills, giant gatherings in flagrant violation of our public fitness orders.”
The people did identify the domain of space or the owner.
Garcetti has previously warned that such measures would be taken against housing and business to host parties. He says parties can be “superpropathing” of the coronavirus.
His caution came days after many others attended a party at a mansion without a mask or social move. The party ended with a shootout that killed a woman and injured two other people.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – The Government of Victoria says citizens of Australia’s second-largest city can now drive up to five kilometers (3 miles) of their homes to exercise.
Those who have been fined for doing so since the employers’ closure restrictions were higher this month, can ask the police to review their case.
Government retirement followed a public dispute between a Victorian prime minister, Daniel Andrews, and an angry Melbourne resident because he simply walked in his own neighborhood.
Andrews says that “if walking the streets of your community is boring, well, it’s better to get bored than to be in intensive care.”
Meanwhile, Victoria’s assistant director of fitness, Allen Cheng, said the daily count of new coronavirus deserves to be “significantly lower than it is now” before the government eases the Melbourne blockade.
The numbers are in 200, Andrews says “the trend is good.”
“We will have to recognize that even in this issue, even in a part of that number, if you opened up, you would not have defeated the wave at the moment. You just started the third wave procedure,” says Andrews.
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