France will introduce new measures on Friday after 8,500 more infections; India has another record number of infections
The number of others in the United States claiming unemployment benefits remained unchanged last week at 884,000, the Associated Press reports.
The latest update of the Ministry of Labour still exceeds the number of other people who claimed benefits in any week recorded before this year, a sign that layoffs are blocked at a traditionally high point six months after the viral pandemic flattened the economy.
While parts of the economy have reopened, some corporations have temporarily withdrawn laid off workers, adding about part of the 22 million jobs lost in the initial crisis.
But hiring has slowed since June and an increasing number of fired employees say their job losses are permanent. The government also said Thursday that another 13. 4 million people continued to make classic unemployment benefits, up from 13. 3 million last week.
Julian Assange’s extradition case has been suspended until Monday so that a member of one of the legal groups can be examined by Covid-19 after a possible exhibition, Ben Quinn writes in London.
Judge Vanessa Baraitser granted an adjournment at the request of wikileak co-founder and the US government. But it’s not the first time
“We shouldn’t be here today. Covid would be in the courtroom,” said Edward Fitzgerald QC, who represents Assange in his fight to resist extradition to the United States, where he could face up to 175 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
His request for adjournment was supported through James Lewis QC, on behalf of the United States government, who addressed Old Bailey via a video link.
Baraitser said he was told Wednesday night that a member of one of the legal groups might have been exposed to Covid-19. She said she intended to move things step by step, but after listening to both sides, she agreed to postpone the hearing.
Belgium has been cited through British Health Secretary Matt Hancock as a style for controlling coronavirus, just as its public fitness company has noticed a 15% increase in the number of infections compared to last week, writes Daniel Boffey, director of The Guardian. Brussels office.
Despite a drop in the number of new infections in August, after Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilms tightened the rules, the latest knowledge recommends that the country’s good fortunes can last little when others return to painting and school.
On average, another 509. 7 people a day have tested positive over the past seven days, according to the latest figures from the Belgian Scientific Institute of Public Health.
Thursday marked the fifth consecutive day of increase in the number of recently inflamed people.
Hospital admissions are also increasing. Between 3 and 9 September, there were an average of 20. 6 new admissions in line with the day, up from 16. 7 last week.
Hancock had praised Belgium as it sought to justify strict new legislation on social gatherings in England, adding the so-called six-person rule, restricting the length of social groups.
The Health Secretary said the UK is learning from the joy of other European countries that have noticed an increase in coronavirus infections in recent months.
The business spouse who to manufacture the coronavirus vaccine at The University of Oxford in India had to be ordered to stop phase 3 trials to be taken up next week after a trial in the UK became ill.
The Serum Institute of India won an order from the Comptroller-General for Medicines of India on Wednesday after the vaccine stopped in the UK, Brazil and South Africa due to the “potentially unexplained disease” in a trial participant.
According to Indian broadcaster NDTV, DCGI had questioned why trials were being conducted in India when they had been suspended elsewhere, and why it had won a report detailing the patient’s symptoms in the UK.
The Serum Institute in the procedure for identifying volunteers for trials, which were scheduled to begin next week and would involve 1,600 volunteers at 17 sites in India.
The Serum Institute quoted NDTV as saying, “We are reviewing the stage and postponing rehearsals in India until AstraZeneca restarts rehearsals. “
AstraZeneca leads vaccine production. On Thursday, the company’s leading executive, Pascal Soriot, insisted that the vaccine could be available until the end of the year or early next year.
Russia reported new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the national total to 1046370, the fourth largest in the world, to Reuters.
Authorities said 128 more people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 18,263.
The Philippines has shown 3,821 new coronavirus infections, the highest in 11 days and 80 more deaths.
In a bulletin, the Ministry of Health reported that the total number of cases shown had increased to 248,947, the peak in Southeast Asia, while Covid-19-like deaths had reached 4,066. So far, 186,058 people inflamed with the virus have recovered. fitness ministry said.
Cats may get coronavirus at a higher rate than previously thought, suggesting a new test.
Researchers from Huazhong University of Agriculture found that 15 out of 102 cats in Wuhan were positive for antibodies to the virus; 11 also had neutralizing antibodies, which prevent infections altogether by strongly binding to the virus.
The pattern included 46 abandoned cats from 3 animal shelters, 41 from five puppy hospitals, and 15 cats from families of Covid-19 patients. None of the cats tested positive for coronavirus or had apparent symptoms and, on the effects of subsequent visits, none. died.
Commenting on the results, the lead author of the study, Meilin Jin, said that lately there is no evidence of cat-to-human transmission, so precautions should be taken.
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The French will announce new Covid-19 measures tomorrow, it became known, after Emmanuel Macron held an assembly of the defense council, writes Kim Willsher, the Guardian’s correspondent in Paris.
Ministers say nothing is governed, but we know that the president and prime minister oppose a national shutdown, which would be catastrophic for the economy.
Central European countries, emerging from the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in a much larger way than the maximum of their Western European counterparts, now face a higher number than at the Spring Peak of Covid-19, as restrictions return to the region, writes Robert Tait in Prague, and Shaun Walker, Guardian’s correspondent in Central and Eastern Europe.
On Tuesday, the Czech Republic first crossed the threshold of more than 1000 cases of Covid-19 according to the day, while Hungary closed its borders in September to counter the immediate increase in daily infection rates. in August, numbers have declined since then.
The rise of the Czech Republic is a transparent setback for a country in the past hailed as one of the European countries that have had the utmost success in the fight against the pandemic, which led the government to intensify the need for masks.
On Tuesday, 1164 new infections were documented in the country of 10. 7 million more people, and in the last 14 days the country has experienced one of the infection rates in Europe after adjusting for the population, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Czech officials attributed the increase to a strong backlog in testing. They also stressed that the maximum number of new cases are mild and in a different way than healthy young people. Some 168 cases were attributed to a party at a Prague nightclub in July.
Prime Minister Andrej Babia told the World Health Organization to “shut up” after expressing fear at reports that the Czech government was making plans to search and prove why many of the new cases were asymptomatic.
Romania has reached the milestone of 100,000 cases shown of coronavirus, until the last update of the country’s public fitness agency.
On Thursday, 1,380 new infections were reported, bringing total cases in the country to 99,684, of which 4,065 died, an increase of 47 on Wednesday.
Of the recently reported maximum deaths, forty-five patients affected with comorities and 2 patients who died had comorities, according to the update.
The total number of other people treated in the hospital with Covid-19 is 7133
Since the onset of the epidemic in Romania, 41,010 patients have been declared cured, while 12,568 asymptomatic patients have been discharged 10 days after detection.
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