Iran’s record is in the Middle East; strict restrictions imposed on the Greek island; global instances pass 22m
Toulouse has the first city in France to impose the mandatory outdoor face mask wardrobe, in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Officials in France’s fourth-largest city are concerned that a large movement of others towards the end of the summer holiday could lead to a build-up of infections, according to French public news firm AFP.
New infections in France have increased in recent weeks and the number of other people admitted to the hospital and extensive care has also increased.
Face masks are already mandatory on public transport in France and indoors in public places. Many French cities, in addition to Paris and Toulouse, have also used discretionary powers to make masking mandatory in some spaces: busy streets, close to tourist spots and in outdoor food markets.
Toulouse officials said the mask would be mandatory outside the city gates from Friday, from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. the next day, for all other people over the age of 12, adding bicycle and scooters.
The coronavirus epidemic has claimed more than 30,400 lives in France to date.
Carnival season in Germany will be cancelled due to fears that festivities and mass gatherings could contribute to the spread of coronavirus, writes Kate Connolly, Guardian correspondent in Berlin.
Health Minister Jens Spahn is expected to announce the ban in the coming days, and said he is preparing for a backlash.
For many Germans, the carnival season is the ultimate vital cultural culture of the year. Millions of others participate in festivals and festivals for the so-called Karneval or Fasching, which are held basically in Roman Catholic regions but popular in the country.
The season begins on November 11 and the highlights are the massive parades held the week before Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the loan.
It ended in Mykonos, and officials from Greece’s civil cover firm handed out strict restrictions on the island, a tourist hotspot, to involve the spread of coronavirus infections.
The measures, which also cover the coastal dominance of Chalcidique in northern Greece, come with a total ban on live parties and festivities, a restriction of nine other people at all public and personal meetings, and the mandatory use of a mask in enclosed and open places. spaces, according to Reuters.
They will arrive on August 21, for 10 days.
On Tuesday, Greece recorded 269 coronavirus infections, its highest daily count since its first case detected on February 26. Despite this, the Deputy Civil Protection Minister, Nikos Hardalias, told reporters that Greece remains in a “better position” compared to other European countries. .
Greece, he said, ranked 180th in terms of deaths consistent with one million inhabitants, noting that 83% of recent infections were due to a domestic lack of coherence with the virus because others did not see good enough social estrangement.
The Australian prime minister backed down after declaring that he would make a possible vaccine opposite Covid-19 “mandatory,” rather than saying she would be “encouraged,” reports Martin Farrer of Guardian Australia.
While governments around the world anticipate resistance to mandatory inoculation of anti-vaccine equipment and a skeptical public, Scott Morrison said Wednesday that the purpose was to get 95% of the population to get the vaccine and that they hoped it would be medically obligatory. .
“I hope it’s as obligatory as possible,” Morrison said in a radio interview. “We are talking about a pandemic that has destroyed the global economy and killed thousands of people around the world and more than 430 Australians. So, you know, we want Australia to have the maximum normal integral and complete reaction. »
But during the afternoon, Morrison had replaced his language, telling the 2GB radio that he meant it would be obligatory, but that he would be “encouraged.”
“We can’t stop and get caught,” the prime minister said.
One report found that the spread of incorrect fitness information had attracted nearly a billion perspectives on Facebook in April alone, as the coronavirus pandemic intensified around the world, Emma Graham-Harrison and Alex Hern write.
Facebook had promised to take strong action against conspiracy theories and misconceptions at the start of the pandemic. But because its leaders have promised to be held accountable, their set of rules seems to have driven traffic to a network of sites that share fake and harmful news, the avaaz crusade organization discovered.
False medical data can be fatal; Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine connected a single piece of erroneous coronavirus data with 800 deaths.
The pages of the 10 most sensitive sites that sell erroneous data and conspiracy theories about fitness have gained nearly 4 times more perspectives on Facebook than the 10 most sensitive fitness data sites, Avaaz warned in one report.
The global product industry suffered an unprecedented decline in this quarter of 2020, as concerns about the coronavirus pandemic ended large portions of the world economy, according to the World Trade Organization.
The WTO said Wednesday that its barometer in the product industry had reached a record, according to Reuters. The World Trade Monitor said:
Additional signals imply a partial accumulation of global industry and production in the third quarter, but the strength of such a recovery remains very uncertain: an L-que V trajectory will be discarded.
The barometer reading 84.5 dropped by 18.6 points compared to the same time last year. Normally, it anticipates adjustments to the industry’s trajectory in a few months, but the volatility triggered by the pandemic has reduced its predictive value.
This reading, the lowest ever recorded in 2007 knowledge and at par with the 2008-09 monetary crisis minimum, is broadly in line with WTO statistics published in June, which estimated an 18.5% decline in the product industry at the time of the 2020 quarter last year.
The exact scope of the decline will not be transparent until official industry knowledge from April to June is available.
South Korea’s ministry of fitness warned that the country is facing a “desperately damaging crisis” in the spread of coronavirus, after the country reported its largest daily buildup in some cases since early March.
On Wednesday, the authorities asked the citizens of Seoul, the capital, to stay if they could, warning that detection, tracking and isolation measures were inadequate to prevent the spread of the virus.
The 297 new infections mark the sixth consecutive day of three-digit increases in a country it has controlled to mitigate several past outbreaks, according to Reuters. The national count has increased to 16,058 infections and 306 deaths, according to the knowledge of the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
Deputy Health Minister Kim Gang-lip in a briefing:
We are in a desperately damaging crisis in which infections are spreading in the Seoul metropolitan area and are threatening to cause mass transmission nationwide.
Passing governance involves existing propagation only by tracking and isolating Array. Please stay in the house unless you have to pass out.
The government stated that if the number of infections increased or continued at the existing rate of spread, they would most likely impose the point of social estrangement rules, according to which schools would close, businesses would be asked for paintings from home and meetings would be limited to 10 people. .
It took a weekend for Italy to go back three months in its fight against the pandemic, Lorenzo Tondo writes in Caltanissetta.
The immediate accumulation of coronavirus infections last week threatens to erase the progress made through the first European country to be absorbed by Covid-19 and prolong the closure of schools in September.
The alarm sounded last Saturday, when Italy registered 629 new instances in 24 hours, up from 500 in the last two days. These figures recorded in a row had not been observed since May, when Italy emerged cautiously from one of the world’s longest blockades after more than 30,000 Covid-like deaths.
On Sunday, the government ordered the closure of nightclubs and made the mask mandatory outdoors in express spaces at night, the first genuine restrictions since the rest of the closure.
“We cannot undo the sacrifices made in recent months,” health minister Roberto Speranza said as the specter of a momentary wave began to spread across the country.
Walter Ricciardi, senior adviser to the Italian Ministry of Health on the coronavirus outbreak, told the Guardian: “Italy is lately at a crossroads. If we do not put containment measures into force and the number continues to increase, localized padlocks will be required. »
The first days of restrictions on the movement of coronaviruses in New Zealand were illegal, he found a court.
The ruling comes after a Wellington lawyer, Andrew Borrowdale, challenged the legality of the measures taken at the beginning of the closing of five weeks, adding appeals through Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other officials between 26 March and 3 April to the New Zealanders. stay home.
An order enforcing the restrictions of the house remains that it was not approved until April 3, so the rights and freedoms of New Zealanders were illegally limited for the first nine days, the court said. According to the judgment:
While there is no doubt that the requirement was a necessary, moderate and proportionate reaction to the Covid-19 crisis at the time, the requirement was not legislated.
All situations demanding for confinement were discarded.
He said that few, if any, prosecutions for violations of lockout would be affected.
Following the decision, New Zealand Attorney General David Parker said:
The government seeks to teach others about the dangers of fitness and move them temporarily to take measures that limit general freedoms, such as staying at home to prevent the spread of the virus. Ultimately, government movements eliminated the Covid-19, stored lives, and minimized the damage to our economy.
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Iran surpassed the 20,000 deaths shown by coronavirus on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health said, the death toll from any Middle Eastern country so far in the pandemic.
The announcement came when the Islamic Republic, which has been grappling with the largest epidemic in the region and the number of deaths, has taken university exams for more than one million students. Iran is also preparing for mass Shia commemorations e late this month.
Iran has suffered the region’s first primary epidemic, with high-level politicians, fitness officials and devoted leaders of its Shiite theocracy inflamed by the virus. Since then, it has struggled to involve the spread of another 80 million people across the country, first, pushing it back to rise again in early June.
However, foreign experts distrust the number of cases in Iran. Investigators from the Iranian parliament warned in April that the death toll is likely to nearly double officially reported numbers, due to insufficient count and the fact that not all other people with respiratory disorders had been tested for the virus.