The Czech Republic is experiencing a resurgence of coronavirus infections; India’s death toll exceeds 50,000; Japan’s GDP falls at an annual rate of 27.8%
Reuters reports that the Spanish Ministry of Health announced on Monday 1833 new coronavirus infections diagnosed in the last 24 hours, below the post-patron saint’s record on Friday 2987, but more than 3 times the average observed in July.
Daily infection statistics tend to decrease on Mondays because there are fewer diagnoses on Sundays.
The cumulative cases, which come with antibody control effects in patients who have already recovered, increased to 359,082, of which 32,389 were detected in the last seven days, the ministry said.
In Brazil, AP reports, an organization of indigenous protesters is blocking a main route to ask for coverage against the coronavirus:
Dozens of Aboriginal people, many of them covered in black paint depicting their pain and combativeness, blocked a main road in the Brazilian Amazon on Monday to pressure the government to help them from Covid-19.
The other people of Kayapo Mekragnotire blame the government for the deaths of four of its elders and the infection of dozens more on their lands in the southern state of Para, near the city of Novo Progresso. Leaders said that other outdoors on their territory had spread the new coronavirus among them because there were no restrictions on access to their lands.
Approximately 400 other Kayapos Mekragnotire people live on 15 separate teams in the region. They said they had few doctors, uncommon non-public protective devices and no large beds in the care units nearby for Covid-19 patients.
“Health here is precarious. There aren’t enough physical care staff to handle the situation. We want to press in the middle of the pandemic,” said Doto Takak-Ire, Kayapo Mekragnotire executive. “We want more non-public hygiene products, more masks. If the government had done its job, we wouldn’t be here in the middle of the pandemic.”
They said they’d leave their logs and tires on the road until the federal government came to negotiate.
Brazil’s ministry of fitness says the virus has inflamed nearly 20,000 indigenous people and killed at least 338. Experts say both figures are largely underestimated. A recount across the nonprofit APIB, founded on official statistics and executive information, indicates that more than 25,000 Aboriginal people have become inflamed nationwide and 678 have died from the virus.
Tens of thousands of Brazilians are shown to have died from the virus in the country, and the actual number would be higher.
Bei Kayapo, an indigenous leader, said the deaths of the four elders is difficult. “They are our history, our museums. They have all the stories of our people,” he said.
In the UK, the government has taken a 180-degree turn by saying that the effects of this summer’s exam will be discovered in the instructor’s assessment that a debatable style of standardization that has angered academics who have been greatly degraded based on their school precedents. Performance.
My colleagues Richard Adams and Sally Weale have an article here…
… and you can continue with our british live blog to be more informed about this latest story here.
Previously, we published a link to an attractive article from El País that noted that in recent months, the average age of other people recently inflamed by coronavirus had been significantly reduced. If you are interested in this phenomenon and its consequences more broadly, take a look at this piece from our own Jon Henley from last week:
Unlike the first months of the crisis in March and April, when the elderly accounted for the highest number of cases, in France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium, people aged 20 to 39 now account for up to 40% of newArray infections. .
According to experts, the challenge for governments and fitness agencies is to prevent the virus from spreading to more vulnerable populations. “There is no explanation for why to believe that it may be contained in an age group, without affecting others,” Pascal Crépey, an epidemiologist and public fitness expert, told Le Parisien Pascal Crépey.
“Other older and more vulnerable people actually more vulnerable themselves, paying more attention to dressing in the mask, observing the measurements away. But they don’t live alone. They have contact with their friends and family.”
At a press conference in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said a plan would be in two weeks to reopen the economy.
On Saturday, Obrador said the economy had added 52,455 jobs in August and that the news is a “good indicator.” But Mexico’s economy is expected to contract more than 10% this year, Reuters reports.
The country lost more than one million jobs to the pandemic and ranks third in the world in coronavirus deaths, with a figure of 55908.
South Africa, which imposed one of the strictest anti-coronavirus closures in the world five months ago, will particularly ease its restrictions on Tuesday, adding permits for the sale of alcohol and cigarettes, as the country appears to have triumphed over its first increase in Covid-19 cases. .
An AP continues:
With the decline in the number of instances and hospitalizations, the country will expand its regulations to allow the opening of bars, restaurants, gyms, places of worship and entertainment, all with distance restrictions. Schools will gradually reopen from August 24, starting with grades 12 and 7 and gradually opening other classes.
“This will be a relief to all South Africans who have had to submit to strict restrictions over the past five months,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his weekly letter to the nation.
“This is a sign of the progress we are making in eliminating new infections and demanding it in our fitness facilities. It’s also a big progression as we try to restart our economy,” Ramaphosa wrote.
With more than 580,000 cases shown, South Africa accounts for more than all reported cases in Africa. The continent’s 54 countries reported a total of more than 1.1 million cases on Monday, according to the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
South Africa recorded more than 11,800 deaths from Covid-19, while overall, the continent reported just over 25,600 deaths. The actual number of cases and deaths is estimated to be much higher, according to fitness experts.
South Africa closed all economic activity at the end of March, banning the sale of alcohol and cigarettes and ordering everyone to stay home. The country reduced its restrictions on 1 June, but re-imposed the ban on alcohol in July as cases increased.
Under intense pressure to revive the country’s economy, South Africa will relax significantly on Tuesday. Restaurants and bars can serve alcohol to consumers until 10 p.m., while liquor outlets can sell for limited hours Monday through Thursday.
A curfew at night will take effect from 10 p.m. at four o’clock in the morning and the mask are mandatory in all public spaces. All meetings are limited to 50 people.
The ban between the country’s provinces has also been lifted, a measure aimed at boosting domestic tourism, while the country remains closed to foreigners.
South Africans are now also allowed to stop in the circle of family and friends, which they have not done since March.
“Many restrictions have been lifted on social and economic activity. This leads to a greater threat of transmission,” Ramaphosa wrote. “We will now have to manage this threat and make sure that the progress we have made so far to contain the spread of pandemics does not fall apart. The greatest threat to our country’s health right now is complacency.”
Ryanair cancels a flight on one of its schedules in September and October after a fall in bookings in the last 10 days, my colleague Gwyn Topham reports:
One spokesman said: “In the last two weeks, although several EU countries have higher restrictions, advance bookings, especially for business trips in September and October, have been adversely affected, and it makes sense to reduce frequencies to adapt our on-demand capacity over the next two months.”
Discounts will be the frequency of flights from countries such as France, Spain and Sweden.
You can read Gwyn’s article here.
Nightclubs closed on Monday in 4 other parts of Spain when new measures came into force to curb Covid-19 infections, a day after a noisy demonstration in Madrid against viral restrictions, AFP reports.
The most populous region of Spain, Andalusia, with Galicia and Cantabria to the north, and Castile and León in the center, were the last Spanish regions to start implementing 11 measures that the government unveiled on Friday to curb one of the fastest viral expansion rates in Europe.
Two other regions, La Rioja and Murcia, began implementing the measures on Sunday.
They come with the closure of all nightclubs, nightclubs and ballrooms, while restaurants and bars will have to close at 1 a.m., without allowing new visitors in a country known for night parties.
Spain’s 17 regional governments, guilty of physical care, have agreed to put in place measures that also come with the prohibition of smoking in public places where a distance of 2 meters and limits to visits to nursing homes cannot be maintained.
Singing “Freedom”, between 2,500 and 3,000 people, according to a police estimate, accumulated Sunday night in Madrid opposed to the mandatory use of mask and virus restrictions imposed through the government.
Many protesters did not wear a mask in public despite Spanish law requiring it and did not respect social estrangement regulations.
“What happened will be punished with the utmost severity,” Cadena Ser José Manuel Franco, the central representative in Madrid, told Cadena Ser.
In the Czech Republic, the government will make the use of masks again mandatory from 1 September on public transport and in many public offerings covered after an increase in coronavirus infections and sooner than it expects it to be a complicated autumn, Reuters reports.
The Czech Republic is among the first countries in Europe to order others to wear masks in the maximum number of public posts in March, but gradually eliminated this requirement as infections declined last spring. But infections have started to increase again.
“We see this as a preventive measure as we are facing a confusing autumn, especially after 1 September, when there will be strong social interaction,” Health Minister Adam Vojtoch said Monday in delivering the decision.
Schools must reopen on September 1 after the summer holidays. The new regulations will require others to wear masks in shops, in non-unusual spaces at school, and in public buildings, but not in restaurants and bars.
It has also reduced the minimum quarantine requirement to 10 days since the assembly of 14 days of an inflamed person.
The Czech Republic, with a population of 10.7 million, has reported some 20,000 cases of Covid-19 in total, but only 397 deaths. Only 104 other people with Covid-19 were in the hospital on Sunday.
One of the maximum family tropes of coronavirus: a skeptic goes to a crowded position to protest against the restrictions of coronavirus, a skeptic against a coronavirus. The most recent episode is the Associated Press:
A conservative pastor in South Korea who has criticized the country’s president has tested for coronavirus, fitness officials said Monday, two days after participating in an anti-government demonstration in Seoul that attracted thousands of people.
More than three hundred instances of the virus have been linked to the great church of the Reverend Jun Kwang-hun in northern Seoul, which has a primary infection organization amid developing fears of a major epidemic in the great region of the capital.
Officials fear that the spread of the virus may worsen after thousands of protesters, adding that Jun and members of his Sarang Jeil church marched Saturday in central Seoul despite calls from officials to remain in their homes.
Jang Shi-hwa, a disease expert in Seoul’s southern Gwangak district, said Jun was examined Monday morning at a local hospital, who then informed his workplace that he tested positive but had no symptoms. Jun was seen smiling and talking on his cell phone, his mask coming down his chin, while he boarded an ambulance that took him to another hospital in Seoul for remote treatment.
South Korea reported 197 new cases of the virus on Monday, the fourth consecutive day of three-digit increases. Most new cases in recent days come from Seoul’s densely populated metropolitan, home to about part of the country’s 51 million inhabitants.
Churches have been a constant source of infections, many of which have forced the faithful to wear masks or allowed them to sing in choirs or eat together.
Health personnel have connected 319 infections in Juns Church after testing about 2,000 of its 4,000 members. Police are chasing about 700 church members who remain out of touch.
Deputy Health Minister Kim Gang-lip suggested everyone who attended the weekend occasion to come forward to check for fever or other symptoms. Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of south Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Proccasion, said he was involved in the church epidemic being spread across the country through the activities of its members.
“We are in the early stages of a primary epidemic,” he said.
At Saturday’s demonstration, Jun, known for his provocative speeches full of bizarre accusations, said the outbreak in his church was the result of an attack, accusing an unspecified opponent of spreading the virus in the church.
Below is an attractive article on El País about how the epidemic was divided into two periods with very different characteristics. This part of how the average age of other inflamed people has been repositioned when measures to prevent the spread of the virus have been implemented is striking:
Years. In the new normal, other younger people are inflamed by coronavirus. The reports prepared through the Carlos III Institute, which come with diagnostics of all methods, not just PCR tests, verify a significant minimum in the average age of new positives. For example, the report published on April 3 through the Institute of Studies shows that the average age of other people diagnosed with inflammation is between 50 and 59 years. However, the most recent report, published on August 6, reports an average of 30 to 39 years. Spanish health minister Salvador Illa recently said that the average age of new contagions is 40 years, while at the peak of the pandemic exceeds 60.
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In New Zealand, Bryce Edwards, senior associate at the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at the University of Victoria in Wellington, writes that Jacinda Ardern’s decision to delay elections is a policy:
Keeping the election date early, when your own party votes at frantic speed, would have to be a non-public interest. When set aside, she is magnanimous and conciliatory and, as a result, receives applause. The resolution is a reminder of Ardern’s strong leadership and decision-making skills that helped the country overcome the fitness crisis.
Edwards’ article has just been here:
Meanwhile, in France, a collection of another 9,000 people at a theme park sparked a protest after circumventing a legal restriction on the collections of more than 5,000 other people.
Le Puy du Fou, which organizes recreations of old French events, allowed to occupy 9,000 of its 13,000 seats on Saturday by installing its outdoor stands in 3 separate blocks separated by plexiglass screens, Reuters reports.
The Puy du Fou occasion sparked a typhoon of protests on social media and through opposition politicians.
“There are social estrangement regulations and exemptions for the president’s friends. Macron had complex the (re) opening of the Puy du Fou (after the blockage of the coronavirus). They are now allowed to create clusters of coronavirus,” the national secretary wrote. Julien Bayou on her Twitter account.
French Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot has denied that Puy du Fou owner Philippe De Villiers, a former conservative minister who made two presidential offers, won special treatment. “Puy du Fou has not been given favors,” Bachelot told BFM tv on Monday.
She said the occasions for more than 5,000 people can get the go-ahead as long as they apply individual seats, strict social estrangement and mandatory masking.