The Times of Israel publishes Thursday’s progress as they unfold.
Google is updating its loose mapping service this week with a color code that maps spaces with a large number of COVID-19 instances, the search giant said.
By pressing the new “COVID-19” option on a layer, maps will be displayed in a higher corner of the screen by employing the most recent 7-day average case for another 100,000 people in the spaces being viewed, he said.
A label will also let users know if the number of COVID-19 instances in a specific location has a tendency to increase or decrease, according to Sujoy Banerjee, Maps product manager.
The tool is intended to provide “critical data about COVID-19 instances in a region so you can make more informed decisions about where to go and what to do,” Banerjee says.
The knowledge used in the COVID layer comes from resources such as Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the New York Times and Wikipedia, which are downloaded from public fitness organizations such as the World Health Organization and ministries of fitness, according to Banerjee.
The Covid layer will be deployed internationally this week in versions of the card app designed for mobile devices powered by Apple or Google-backed Android software, the California-based company said.
Google Maps already featured tools related to the pandemic, such as informing users when public transportation is most likely to be congested.
“While it’s more confusing those days, we hope those Google Maps features help you get where you want to be as safely and effectively as possible,” says Banerjee.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would contact the press later tonight, after Defense Minister Benny Gantz and opposition leader Yair Lapid separately announced press meetings to discuss closing the closure.
Gantz is scheduled to speak at 8:15 p. m. , followed by Lapid 10 minutes later. It is not known when Netanyahu will speak.
A Chinese pharmaceutical company says the coronavirus vaccine will be able to be distributed internationally until early 2021, he added in the United States.
Yin Weidong, CEO of SinoVac, promises to ask the US Food and Drug Administration to sell CoronaVac in the US if it approves its third and final human testing circular. Yin says he won the experimental vaccine.
“In the early days, our strategy was designed for China and Wuhan. Soon after, in June and July, we adjusted our strategy to deal with the world,” Yin said, referring to the Chinese city where the virus first appeared.
“Our purpose is to supply the vaccine to the world, adding to the US, the EU and others,” Yin says.
Strict regulations in the United States, the European Union, Japan and Australia have traditionally blocked the sale of Chinese vaccines, but Yin says that may change.
SinoVac is presenting one of the top 4 candidate vaccines in China with the state-owned SinoPharm, which has two in development, and the cansine Army affiliate.
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Transport Minister Miri Regev said flights scheduled to depart Tel Aviv in the next 24 hours will be cancelled, prior to the planned closure of Ben Gurion Airport due to emerging coronavirus levels.
The government has still unveiled its plan for the airport at the next closure, which begins on Friday afternoon.
Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen, a high-level closet member on coronavirus, said visits to nursing homes should continue amid the pandemic.
“Relatives will have to continue visiting parents in retirement homes, otherwise citizens will simply die of loneliness,” he told military radio.
Many service apartments and retirement homes have experienced severe COVID-19 outbreaks since the start of the pandemic.
The economic outlook is less bleak than in June, an IMF spokesman said, noting that the organization’s forecasts will increase when it is released next month.
“Recent incoming knowledge recommends that the outlook may be a little less dire than when the global economic outlook was updated on June 24, with parts of the global economy starting to turn the corner,” the International Monetary Fund spokesman said.
But the spokesman added that “the picture remains very challenging,” as emerging markets besides China face a “precarious” due to coronavirus.
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U. S. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said the effects of the November 3 presidential election will be implemented in an orderly manner, a day after U. S. President Donald Trump refused to guarantee that he would give up force if he loses the vote.
“The winner of the November 3 election will be endowed on January 20. There will be an orderly transition, as there has been every four years since 1792,” McConnell said in a tweeted statement.
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Anti-government protesters chased a Likud minister out of the Knesset, calling him “garbage” and “corrupt,” the Twelfth Canal reports.
The incident occurred when MP Dudi Amsalem walked from parliament to the neighboring Ministry of Finance, protesters ran after him shouting slogans until security intervened and closed the doors of the ministry so that activists could enter construction after Amsalem, according to the report, which describes the minister. as shaken by the meeting.
Protesters also brought bags of fertilizer to the Knesset, throwing them in handfuls into parliament, shouting, “This is the stench of corruption,” the network said.
During the demonstration, police arrested two of them for questioning.
The Knesset plenary begins a debate before a parliamentary vote to allow the government to limit protests over the coronavirus pandemic.
Current law stipulates that demonstrations should be allowed.
Lawmakers will vote on the amendment paving the way for the government to prohibit protesters from gathering more than a mile (0. 6 miles) from their homes and in teams of more than 20 at the next lockout beginning Friday afternoon.
During Wednesday’s harsh government assembly on the subject, a compromise was reached that allowed protests to continue outdoors in the Prime Minister’s apartment on Balfour Street in Jerusalem, where protesters have accumulated for months to call for Netanyahu’s resignation.
U. S. President Donald Trump is interrupted by protesters as he travels to the Supreme Court to pay tribute to Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Trump, dressed in a black mask, and First Lady Melania Trump remain silent in front of the coffin wrapped in the progressive justice flag that died last week.
Anti-Trump protesters can be heard on the street shouting “Delete it” and “honour your wish,” a reference to Ginsburg’s desire to be replaced in court before the election.
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Police arrest two protesters gathering outdoors in the Knesset who oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and new lockout measures, which restrict protests.
The two are being arrested on suspicion of “disturbing a police officer, denying themselves and disturbing peace,” according to police.
Most likely, the Department of Health and the Department of Finance will allow restaurants to deliver during closing, Channel 12 reports.
Final government regulations on the blockade have yet to be officially made public.
Egypt is holding an army funeral for the three police officers killed when they prevented four death row inmates from escaping an infamous Cairo prison.
The 4 men convicted of postponing terrorism fees were shot dead by security forces in the rare attempt to escape the heavily fortified Tora crime complex, according to the Interior Ministry.
He says the 3 policemen also died in the neglected prison bust, under the circumstances.
Local media reports on grieving families during army funerals for police officers.
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Foreign ministers from Jordan, Egypt, France and Germany urge Israel and the Palestinians to engage in a “credible dialogue” to repair “hope” in the peace process.
“Ending the impasse in peace talks, creating political horizons and restoring hope through credible discussion will have to be a priority,” they said in a statement.
The assembly comes after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain officially established a full diplomacy with Israel, the third and fourth Arab states to do so after Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
Talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been frozen since 2014, and a US peace plan announced in January was welcomed through Israel and categorically rejected by the Palestinians as biased.
Following Thursday’s meeting, ministers pressed “the urgency of resuming serious, meaningful and effective negotiations on the basis of foreign law and the parameters agreed between the parties or under the aegis of the United Nations. “
“We call on the parties to focus beyond the agreements and resume a credible discussion on this basis,” they say.
The EU envoy for the peace procedure attends the meeting.
Ministers also met with King Abdullah II of Jordan, who reaffirmed a long-standing position that the end of the confrontation required “a two-state solution with an indefinite (and) viable) Palestinian state” at pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as Palestinians. ‘Capital.
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Russian fitness officials have reported 6595 new cases of coronavirus, the biggest increase since July.
In Moscow, more than 1,000 new ones were registered on Thursday for the first time since June.
The number of new cases began to accumulate at the end of August in Russia, which has the fourth highest number of cases in the world with 1. 12 million infections, and nearly 20,000 deaths have been recorded.
Officials have continually ignored the hypothesis of a momentary blockade, saying construction was expected and Russia’s health infrastructure was ready for it.
Russia, the first country in the world to pass a virus vaccine last month. The resolution provoked complaints from experts around the world as the images were tested on a few dozen people. More studies are needed to identify the protection and efficacy of the virus. Vaccine.
Russia’s daily rate remains lower than Israel’s, which recorded 6,808 new infections on Wednesday, Russia’s population is 16 times higher than that of the Jewish state.
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The Al protests its sale to an American Israeli yeshiva student, claiming that Eli Rozenberg, 27, is only a leader of his father, who is not an Israeli citizen and therefore, by law, owns the Israeli national airline.
A letter from airline officials to government ministers accuses Kenny Naftali Rozenberg of creating Kanfei Nesharim under his son’s call to circumvent Israeli law and take the airline. Young Rozenberg “has no independent means and lacks commercial experience,” the letter says.
The airline is asking ministers to block the sale.
Kanfei Nesharim of Rozenberg has bought a majority stake of 42. 85% on the airline with an offer of $150 million.
Austria, a winter sports enthusiast, announces a ban on the nights of aprs-ski, which were accused of creating coronavirus hot spots this year, and warnings of problems for Israel, Paris, Prague and other destinations, but eliminates Sweden, Australia, Japan and others. on the list.
Even as infections are emerging in the Alpine country, the government insists that world-famous Austrian ski resorts, which generate massive tourist revenue, will continue to open in the upcoming winter season.
Thousands of tourists from all over the world lit up in the narrow bars of the ski slopes in early March.
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Five thousand travelers are leaving the country in anticipation of a imaginable closure of Ben Gurion Airport as a component of the closing measures, Channel 12 reports.
It is not yet clear when and if the main airport will close. The government has said a resolution on the matter will be presented to ministers later today.
The trial in Paris over the January 2015 terrorist attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket suspended for a day on Thursday after one of the defendants became ill in the locker room.
The defendant, Nezar Mickael Pastor Alwatik, will undergo diagnostic tests, adding COVID-19, his lawyer said.
Judge Regis de Jorna told the court that the trial had been suspended until Friday at 9. 30am. M. (7. 30 a. M. GMT) to give medical examinations time.
Pastor Alwatik’s lawyer, Marie Dose, said her consumer suffered from “a lot of fever, cough, vomiting and headaches. “
He said these symptoms were out of fear of the COVID-19 pandemic and warned that hearings would not even resume on Friday if the result of his verification was not yet available.
The defendant was taken to criminal Fleury-Mérogis in the open air in Paris for examination.
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Facebook’s long-awaited supervisory board, which will act as arbitrator of express content allowed on the tech giant’s platforms, is expected to appear in October.
Ceo Mark Zuckerberg said two years ago that he was forming the near-independent board, following a strong complaint that the company was not moving fast enough toward disinformation campaigns, hate speeches and malicious influence. like when Facebook or Instagram posts are a hate speech.
“Lately we are testing newly implemented technical systems that will allow users to appeal cases now,” he said Thursday.
If such tests pass much, the Board of Directors has stated that it will begin accepting and reviewing user calls in mid-October.
The council was originally scheduled to start trading in early 2020, but the launch was delayed.
“Establishing a rigorous, principled and globally effective procedure takes time and our members have been actively working to get you out of the room as temporarily as possible,” the Board of Directors said.
The 20-member board is a multinational organization that includes lawyers, human rights experts and journalists.
You’ll start by listening to calls from users whose content has been deleted through Facebook before extending to calls from users who need the company to delete the content. Facebook may also refer instances to the board itself.
Your answers and those of the company will be public. Decisions will be binding on individual cases, but broader policy conclusions will be consultative.
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The head of the employment department, Rami Garor, warns of a imaginable “lost generation” of young staff amid rising unemployment rates.
“We would like to remind you that thousands more people have not returned to painting since March, adding painters in sectors seriously affected by the crisis,” he says. “As we have warned, such a long era of unemployment is most likely to force thousands of others into “chronic unemployment,” to create a lost generation of young people suffering from long-term unemployment, as well as other repercussions. “
“We have to do everything we can to get back to work quickly after lockdown, otherwise the ramifications will persist for a long time,” he adds.
Dozens of protesters gather outdoors in the Knesset to protest against new government lockout measures, which will cause protests to seriously stop until the end of the holiday in mid-October.
Protesters oppose the resolve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to restrict weekly outdoor demonstrations at their Jerusalem residence.
The new regulations are expected to take effect on Friday afternoon.
The demonstration occurs when lawmakers prepare to pass regulations.
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The employment service says another 120,752 people registered as unemployed last week since the government began establishing a blockade.
For the vast majority, 93,766, this is the time when they have been fired or placed on undeced leave since the pandemic began in March.
A total of 854,367 Israelis are registered as unemployed.
Seven European Union countries – Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Malta – are “very concerned” about emerging mortality rates related to COVID-19, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention warns.
The most recent assessment report through the Stockholm-based EU firm states that these countries have “a higher proportion of hospitalized and severe cases” and that “increasing or maximum death reporting rates are already being observed . . . or they may be observed soon”. because of a spread among the elderly. .
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A report through the Twelfth Channel, which cites the source for its figures, states that many Israelis with COVID-19 cooperate with the search for contacts, about 40% mendacity or refuse to disclose to investigators with whom they have been in contact and where.
The search for touches was done at random through the Ministry of Health, which criticized for not cutting the chains of contagion. The army has taken care of this role in recent months, but its touch-seeking unit may not be operational until November.
The Israeli comedy “Chamishim” (“Fifty”) has been nominated for an Emmy Award, Deadline reports.
The exhibition focuses on a 50-year-old single Israeli mother writing a script about a woman who suffers from close drawing.
Fatah and Hamas agreed to pan-Palestinian elections in the coming months after reconciliation talks in Istanbul, Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of Fatah’s Central Committee, told Anadolu News.
According to the head of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Wasil Abu Yousef, parliamentary elections will be held in the next six months.
Palestinian parliamentary elections have not taken place since 2006, when a Hamas victory over Fatah provoked a bloody struggle for the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Legislative Council has not met since 2007.
Several similar announcements that Palestinians would return to the polls have failed for more than thirteen years. Local municipal elections were held three times in the West Bank; Hamas has largely boycotted the procedure.
Al-Ahmad said no elections would be held unless Palestinians were allowed to participate in East Jerusalem, a key call for a long time ago from Hamas President and Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel prohibits the Palestinian Authority from operating Jerusalem and has never accepted previous Palestinian demands that east Jerusalem citizens vote in Palestinian Authority elections.
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Sudan and the United States have reached a “declaration of principles on the role of Arab standardization with Israel in building peace in the region and preserving the rights of Palestinians,” reports pro-Saudi al-Sharq al-Awsat.
The agreement is expected to be announced in the coming days, he said.
As a component of the agreement, the United States and Sudan reached an agreement to remove Sudan from the list of states that sponsor terrorism and provide monetary assistance, according to al-Sharq al-Awsat. Family.
“Khartoum has conditioned its position on standardization in exchange for assembly requests that come with an aid and lending program from foreign monetary institutions,” the newspaper says.
Yesterday, Sudanese head of state, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, returned from three days of direct talks in Abu Dhabi with the United States. In a statement, he called the talks “frank and sincere” and said they would provide the effects. to the country’s sovereignty council.
According to al-Sharq al-Awsat, al-Burhan will announce the agreement after the Sovereignty Council, both the army and civilian leaders, officially approved the agreement.
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Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of distorting and blaming its own “crimes” after the Saudi king criticized the Islamic Republic in a UN speech.
King Salman claimed in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that Iran had “targeted” oil facilities in the Sunni-dominated kingdom last year. He accused Iran of “expansionist activities” and “terrorism. “
Iran’s ministry responded on Thursday.
“Saudi Arabia has been seeking for years to escape the truth and respond for its crimes by adopting a policy of blaming and distorting the facts,” spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement.
Riyadh and Washington accuse Tehran of being in the September 2019 attacks on Saudi oil services claimed through Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. They also claim that Tehran is arming the Houthis to attack the kingdom. Iran denies the accusations.
The Islamic Republic, for its part, accuses Saudi Arabia of committing war crimes in Yemen, where the kingdom leads an army coalition of Houthi Shiite rebels.
In the statement, Khatibzadeh called Riyadh “the main monetary and logistical factor for terrorism in the region” and “the origin of takfiri terrorist thinking. “
Shiite Iran uses the term “takfiri” to refer to Sunni jihadists.
“The box of the process and political defeats in Yemen have led Saudi Arabia to deception,” khatibzadeh says.
The foreign Ministry spokesman called the kingdom a “miserable creature” among Arab countries because of U. S. tension that opposes Iran and attempts to expand relations with Israel.
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The European Commission urges EU member states to deepen and implement social estating and hygiene regulations to end a new harmful wave of coronavirus infections.
Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said: “In some Member States, the situation is now even worse than at the peak of March. That’s a genuine concern.
“All Member States will have to put in place measures without delay and at the right time to the first sign of possible new outbreaks. “
Europe now has more than five million cases of coronavirus, and several countries have begun to reimpose local blocking regulations to prevent it from going back to out-of-control spread.
The mortality rate has returned to the levels noted earlier this year, however, cases of new infections have soared in many regions.
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The government’s coronavirus tsar reiterates his opposition to the new restrictions on employer closure, the economic damage will be “huge. “
Closing is expected to begin Friday at 2 p. m. and you’ll see almost all closed businesses, cancelled flights, severely reduced prayers and public events, particularly reduced public transportation, and Israelis still ordered to stay within a mile of their homes.
“I advised a [less severe] hardening of the blockade, but the government has made a decision in a different way and respect,” Gamzu said on a scale in the hot spots affected by the virus in Jerusalem.
“Obviously, when it closes more tightly, the infection rate slows down more drastically, but the economic burden is enormous. Still, the government has the strength to make that decision. He took up the resolution after careful consideration, and if they did, close it harder, it doesn’t matter. Let’s go. This will help prevent infections. “
He adds: “The morbidity rate is very worrying. We may have been able to close in less time, but it is widespread that the government has made that decision. It’s a message to the public. If the government has reached the point where it imposes such an airtight seal on the whole industry and economic activity, it says nothing about the extent of infections. “
The government’s resolution to toughen lockdown measures follows the recommendations of the closet coronavirus committee Wednesday night and was approved in a closet vote Thursday morning. It is expected to get final approval of the law from the Knesset next Thursday.
Google is updating its loose mapping service this week with a color code that maps spaces with a large number of COVID-19 instances, the search giant said.
By pressing the new “COVID-19” option on a layer, maps will be displayed in a higher corner of the screen by employing the most recent 7-day average case for another 100,000 people in the spaces being viewed, he said.
A label will also let users know if the number of COVID-19 instances in a specific location has a tendency to increase or decrease, according to Sujoy Banerjee, Maps product manager.
The tool is intended to provide “critical data about COVID-19 instances in a region so you can make more informed decisions about where to go and what to do,” Banerjee says.
The knowledge used in the COVID layer comes from resources such as Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the New York Times and Wikipedia, which are downloaded from public fitness organizations such as the World Health Organization and ministries of fitness, according to Banerjee.
The Covid layer will be deployed internationally this week in versions of the card app designed for mobile devices powered by Apple or Google-backed Android software, the California-based company said.
Google Maps already featured pandemic-like equipment, such as letting users know when public shipping is most likely to be congested.
“While it’s more confusing those days, we hope those Google Maps features will help you get where you want to be as safely and effectively as possible,” Banerjee says.
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