4 July,2020
Here are summaries of the latest stories worldwide on the coronavirus pandemic, including:
WHO is finishing the hydroxylorquine test for COVID;
Pubs and hairdressers are in Britain;
The Fourth of July comes at a time when Americans are divided like never before;
The economic effect on Sun Belt can last for years;
The authorities remind families not to borrow the encouragement checks of citizens from enclosed care homes.
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BERLIN – The World Health Organization says it is completing a test to determine whether hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, is helping patients hospitalized by COVID-19.
WHO said it had “accepted the recommendation” of the trial monitoring committee to stop tests for hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir, a mixture of medicines used to treat HIV/AIDS. The drugs were compared to popular care for inpatients.
WHO says a review of the interim results showed hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir “produce little or no reduction in the mortality of hospitalized COVID-19 patients when compared to standard of care.”
The agency adds that while there was no “solid evidence” of increased mortality for hospitalized patients given the drugs, there were “some associated safety signals in the clinical laboratory findings” of an associated trial.
WHO says the resolution will not include trials of patients who are not hospitalized or receiving medicines before or after possible exposure to coronavirus.
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BERLIN — The World Health Organization says member states reported more than 212,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 to the global body today, the highest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic.
WHO, based in Geneva, said the largest number of new infections have been reported in the Americas region, which includes the United States and Brazil, with only 130,000 cases shown.
WHO’s count can differ from other global case tallies due to official reporting delays.
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ORLANDO, Fla. A week before the first Walt Disney World theme park reopened for the first time since March, 3 government firefighters at the theme park tested at COVID-19, union officials said today.
Up to 10 firefighters from the Reedy Creek Improvement District are quarantined, said Tim Stromsnes, an IAF Local 211 official at Reedy Creek Fire Rescue.
The 205-member Reedy Creek Fire Department has fewer than firefighters.
Firefighters are disappointed that they are expected to use on days of poor health or quarantined paid vacation. They also stated that Disney’s personal government had misinterpreted its coronavirus policies and informed other firefighters from their health-challenged colleagues.
“They can’t take care of COVID in firefighters. How will Reedy Creek protect visitors?” said Stromsnes.
Reedy Creek firefighters enjoy some of Florida’s maximum benefits, with 20 days of poor health leave, which translates into 10 weeks as firefighters paint two days a week, said Eryka Washington, a spokesman for the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
The district has an infectious disease protocol before the pandemic and firefighters and paramedics have done so, he said.
Two theme parks, Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom, are expected to reopen next Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus closes in March. The resort’s two theme parks, Epcot and Hollywood Studios, will open 4 days later.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia – The growing number of COVID-19 deaths is overwhelming the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, where desperate relatives of an obvious victim of the new coronavirus left their coffin in the street for several hours to protest the difficulties of burying it.
Neighbor Remberto Arnez said the 62-year-old man died on June 28 and that his body had stayed home ever since, “but it is complicated because of the contagion imaginable.”
After a few hours, the funeral agents got up and took the coffin to a cemetery.
Police Col. Iván Rojas told a news conference that the city is collecting “about 17 bodies a day. This is collapsing the police personnel and funeral workers” in the city of some 630,000 people.
The Andean country reported that more than 36,800 showed COVID-19 and 1,320 deaths.
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NEW YORK – The coronavirus has prevented the Fourth of July celebrations in New York, but some things have remained the same. Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo rehearsed as male and female champions in Nathan’s famous Fourth of July hot dog competition.
Chestnut slaughtered 75 sausages and buns in 10 minutes and Sudo sacrificed 48 1/2 at a festival that took place in an unknown place with no spectators in person. Both hot dog totals were world records. “I’m still pushing for a record,” Chestnut said before the contest aired on a live, sports-hungry ESPN.
New Yorkers have been suggested to gather on giant holidays during an outbreak of coronavirus cases as other states see.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said more than 720 new cases of coronavirus were reported throughout the state on Friday and the deaths were attributed to the virus.
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PHILADELPHIA – In Philadelphia, descendants dressed in the mask and gloves of The signatories of the Declaration of Independence participated in a Rite of Liberty Bell pats at Independence Mall on July 4.
Originally called State House Bell, known as Liberty Bell in the 1830s as a symbol of the abolitionist motion and has since been used as a symbol through other teams that advocate reasons such as women’s right to vote and civil rights.
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St. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Fourth of July holiday weekend began today with exhilarating figures in the sunshine state: Florida has recorded a record number of other people who tested positive for coronavirus.
State fitness officials have reported 11,445 new instances, a one-day record since the pandemic began earlier this year. The most recent count raises the total number of instances in the state to more than 190,000. An online page through the Ministry of Health shows 245 hospitalizations more similar to the outbreak.
Local officials and fitness experts fear that others will meet over the holiday weekend and transmit the virus through close contact. They tried to mitigate propagation through statewide end bars. Some regional attractions, such as the Miami Zoo and Jungle Island, have closed. Universal Studios in Orlando is open.
Mayor Carlos Giménez closed the beaches of Miami-Dade County over the weekend. The boroughs of South Florida, from Vero Beach to Broward County, did the same. The beaches of the Florida Keys are closed. Public beaches along 56 km of sand in Pinellas County are open.
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ROME – For the fifth day in a row, the number of new instances of coronavirus in Italy has increased.
The Ministry of Health said today that 235 new cases of coronavirus infections had been reported since the previous day. In general, the known number of coronavirus cases in Italy amounts to more than 241,400, according to the government, many infections of others with mild or nonexistent symptoms have probably not been detected.
Today saw a sharp jump in day-to-day number of infections – 27 to 51 — in the northern Emilia-Romagna region, whose beach towns are attracting vacationers.
The Lazio region, which includes Rome, also recorded a strong accumulation of infections, 31, compared to 11 new instances a day earlier. The city has tried to deter other young people’s teams from mixing outdoors on summer nights to drink without keeping distances despite not being dressed in masks.
There were 21 deaths nationwide, bringing the number of deaths in the pandemic to 34,854.
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ATHENS, Greece – The Greek government announced that there have been 25 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, but there were no deaths.
Eight of the 25 new cases of incoming tourists, who are being tested upon arrival in the country, the government said.
The number of cases shown was higher than 3,500, while the number of deaths remained in 192. ___
BARCELONA, Spain – Barcelona’s iconic Basilica La Sagrada Familia has reopened for visits exclusively to fitness staff after only 4 months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Today the basilica invited a first organization of fitness staff to make a stop at the temple designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Others will be able to make a stop on Sunday and July 11 and 12 in a reopening phase, the church calls a “homage” to doctors, nurses and other fitness professionals.
This will be followed through a moment phase reserved for the people of Barcelona. The church says it is still waiting to announce when visitors from outside the city will be allowed in.
The Sagrada Familia is The first tourist attraction in Barcelona, with 4.5 million in 2019.
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NEW DELHI – India recorded its highest peak in a single day of new coronavirus cases, with 22,771 other people testing positive in the last 24 hours.
India has now shown 648,315 instances, fourth in the world, the United States, Brazil and Russia. It also reported 18,655 deaths from the virus.
Of the 442 deaths in 24 hours, 198 have occurred in Maharashtra state.
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MOSCOW – The number of victims of Russian coronavirus has exceeded 10,000.
The National Working Group on Coronavirus reported 168 COVID-19 deaths on the last day, bringing the national total to 10027. It also experienced 6,632 new infections, bringing the total to 674,515.
Russia’s workload is the third largest in the world, the United States and Brazil, yet its reported deaths are lower than in many other countries. Russian officials have denied the hypothesis that the numbers are being manipulated.
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JOHANNESBURG – South Africa announced another record number of coronavirus cases with 9064, as the country with the maximum evolution of Africa shows symptoms of tension to deal with the pandemic.
Thirty consistent with the penny of more than 177,000 instances in South Africa are lately in Gauteng province, which Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria.
More than 2,900 people in the country have died. The African continent has more than 433,000 cases of viruses.
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