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Health officials said thirteen deaths had been reported in hospitals across England, while two had been reported. While Wales and Northern Ireland reported further deaths from COVID-19. This occurs after Aberdeen was now in the middle of a coronavirus case organisation in the Scottish city.
Meanwhile, councils have been given the strength to demolish buildings and even houses amid coronavirus outbreaks under new measures to save it from a momentary wave of the killer virus.
The local government will have the strength to blow up trains, cars, buses and planes if approved by the magistrates. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given local councils a wide range of forces to involve COVID-190 epidemics as soon as they are detected in their attempt to save the country from the final for the time being.
Under the government’s COVID-19 Containment Framework, councils will be empowered to rely on six separate Parliament laws for events, order massive coronavirus tests, and impose zippers on public buildings.
They will also have the power to limit travel to key workers only and limit school openings.
The document, published through the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, tells councils under the Public Health (Disease Control) Act 1984 that they may ask a Justice of the Peace “to impose restrictions or needs to close infected premises; Close public spaces in the area of the local authority; retain a shipment or cell design disinfect or decontaminate premises, or order the destruction of a building, shipment or design.”
This means offices, factories, care homes and even private care homes could be destroyed as a last resort if it is deemed to be at the centre of a surge in coronavirus cases.
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2.20pm: England’s death toll
There have been thirteen coronavirus deaths in hospitals in England.
2.16pm update: Wales and Northern Ireland COVID-19 toll
Public Health Wales said a further two people have died after testing positive for Covid-19, taking the total number of deaths in the country to 1,568.
The number of in Wales increased by 14, bringing the overall total to 17,374.
While no new deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland, leaving the total in the region at 556, according to official figures.
However, another 10 positive cases of coronavirus have been detected in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health said. The total number of other people inflamed is now 6,006.
1.17pm update: UK factory could help produce vaccines
A factory in West Lothian is expanding as part of a deal to secure 60 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by the French firm Valneva.
The UK government and pharmaceutical company are making an investment in the Livingston plant, with 75 new jobs expected to be created.
The Government had struck a deal for early access to Valneva’s “promising” vaccine candidate.
If clinical trials are successful, you can deliver up to one hundred million doses of vaccine across the UK and around the world.
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12.33am update: Aberdeen placed on lockdown
Restrictions will be reimposed in the Aberdeen City Council area after a cluster of coronavirus cases.
Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, speaking at the coronavirus briefing in Edinburgh, said cases had been reported on Wednesday.
She said 191 contacts were discovered in relation to the cluster and that an accumulation in the number of cases contributed to a greater concern that it is a “significant epidemic” in the city.
According to the prime minister, more than 20 pubs and restaurants are concerned in the group.
As a result, restrictions will be re-imposed in the Aberdeen City Hall area.
The five-mile travel rule has been put in place and residents are being told not to enter each other’s houses. All indoor and outdoor hospitality has also been told to close by 5pm on Wednesday.
The closure will be supported through government regulations, the Prime Minister said, and will apply if regulations are not followed. The prime minister added that the amendments will be revised next Wednesday, when she hoped they could be removed if they could, in whole or in part.
However, if necessary, Sturgeon said they can extend beyond that seven-day period.
12:31 p.m. Update: No coronavirus deaths in Scotland
There were no coronavirus deaths in Scotland on the consecutive day, Nicola Sturgeon said.
The Prime Minister gave the latest figures at the Scottish Government coronavirus briefing in Edinburgh.
A total of 2,491 patients died in Scotland after testing positive for COVID-19. Sturgeon said that 18781 other people had tested positive for the virus, 64 more than 18717 the day before. There were another 267 people in the hospital with a Covid-19, three less.
Of these, 3 were in intensive care, unchanged.
11:20 a.m. update: One in 20 people doesn’t aim to get back to work
About one in 20 people in England who protected the coronavirus do not plan to return to paintings in the coming months, new figures suggest.
About 6 according to the penny of those classified as clinically incredibly vulnerable, who had painted before receiving protective advice, they said they did not aim to return to paintings in the near future.
Another 21% said they planned to keep running from home, while 35% said they would return to their old workplace.
The figures come from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) and are in a survey of 9-16 July.
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11:11 a.m. update: North Korea’s first coronavirus inconclusive
The effects of North Korea’s tests for a man suspected of being the country’s first case of coronavirus have been inconclusive, the government has quarantined more than 3,635 number one and secondary contacts, a World Health Organization said.
On July 26, North Korea declared a state of emergency and closed the border of the city of Kaesong after a user who defected to South Korea three years ago returned across the fortified border with what state media described as symptoms of COVID-19.
At the time, state media knew if the type had been examined, saying that “uncertain effects were received after several medical checks.”
But leader Kim Jong-un said that “the vicious virus may be in the country.”
If confirmed, the case would have been the first officially identified through The North Korean authorities, since then state media have continued to say that no cases have been reported.
Dr Edwin Salvador, WHO Representative for North Korea, said: “The user verified COVID-19, but the effects of verification were inconclusive.”
9.47am update: WHSmith to axe 1,500k jobs
WHSmith warned it could cut up to 1,500 jobs after being paralyzed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The stationery said the COVID-19 crisis had reduced the number of consumers in its stores. It is the last British branch to fall victim to the pandemic. WHSmith said its restructuring plans will create 1,500 jobs at the company, and the proposals are expected to charge the company between 15 and 19 million pounds.
9:37 a.m. update: Sadiq Khan calls for ‘match plan’
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said local leaders “desperately want to know what the government’s plan of action is if they want to prepare for effective action in the event of an increase in the number of infections.”
He predicted that they would have “more difficulties” in the final geographic spaces, as if the virus were spreading between several districts, than the final institution.
He told Good Morning Britain: “I think we would be willing to close the establishments, so if God hadn’t, a building to do with a factory or in a school or an individual worship position, we think we would have planned with the councils closing the buildings.
“We are taken care of through 4 airports and the Eurostar, so if they (the government) spoke to me and spoke to the leaders of London, we could solve some of the complexities.”
“None of this is second to none. But let’s paint together.”
8.54am update: Russia’s coronavirus cases exceed 800k
Russia reported 5,204 new instances of new coronaviruses on Wednesday, bringing its national total to 866,627, the fourth number of instances in the world.
Russia’s coronavirus taskforce said 139 people had died over the last 24 hours, pushing the official death toll to 14,490.
8.31am update: Globath death toll exceeds 700k
The overall number of coronavirus deaths exceeded 700,000 on Wednesday, according to a reuters count, with the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico leading the deaths.
Nearly 5900 other people die every 24 hours of COVID-19 on average. This equates to another 247 people consistent with the time, or one user every 15 seconds.
8.14am update: Tightening of restrictions to open schools
Professor Neil Ferguson said restrictions will “harden” if school opening increases the number of “Rs.”
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “Let it be so, in the best schools, higher education universities, young people want to go back to 100 percent or if we can have other means of supply, young people are in a week and faint the other week.” , therefore, cut off contacts at school and outdoor school, or if we move back to the restrictions of flexibilization in the rest of society to allow schools to be completely open, for example, social spaces, entertainment venues, more paintings of the house, those things.
“I mean that really is a policy decision, but I’m just saying, in my view, it is likely that some form of those measures will be necessary to maintain control of transmission.”
On whether the virus can be controlled in winter, he added: “Things could get quite difficult. I mean, I’m reasonably confident that as long as there is the political will in place to maintain control of transmission that we can do it, we’ve have good enough surveillance now to know what is going on.”
7.50am update: Lockdown laws come into force in 16 UK towns and cities
Laws applying blocking restrictions in the north of England, adding Manchester, parts of eastern Lancashire and West Yorkshire, have come into force.
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions on Gatherings) (North of England) Regulations 2020 were finally published on Tuesday afternoon.
Ministers had said the rules – which ban people from different households meeting in a private home or garden following a spike in coronavirus cases – would apply from midnight on July 31.
Officials refused to comment when asked why there had been a delay in introducing the laws and on what legal basis they had been enforced for the first five days of the measures.
Human rights barrister Adam Wagner, commenting on the legislation on Twitter, said: “They come into force and do not (cannot) apply to anything which happened before that.”
The legislation imposes restrictions on metropolitan, city and borough council areas in: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale, Calderdale and Kirklees.
7:47 a.m. update: Ukraine reports record in cases
Ukraine recorded a record daily jump of 1,271 coronavirus cases on Tuesday.
The number of infections has increased sharply in Ukraine in the past two months as authorities have eased some restrictions, allowing cafes, churches and public transport to reopen.
Health Minister Maksym Stepanov suggested others obey broader restrictions that are still in place.
He said: “Ukrainians, the opposite fight against the coronavirus is without you. The regulations are very undeniable: the use of masks, antiseptics and a distance of 1.5 meters. Following these undeniable regulations greatly reduces the threat of disease.”
The total number of cases greater than 7cincin, 490, 1,788 deaths and 41, 527 cured as of August 5.
7.40am update: Schools will return in September
Schools minister Nick Gibb has confirmed the Government’s position that all children will return to school in September.
He told Sky News: “We are very transparent that all young people will return to school in September, adding local lock-up spaces like Greater Manchester.
“It is hugely important for children’s education, for their wellbeing, that they do return to school and schools are working enormously hard in preparation for September to make sure that the risk of transmitting the virus within the school environment is kept to an absolute minimum.
“We’ve given schools very detailed hygiene recommendations on how to keep young people in these bubbles (bubbles the size of an elegance in schools number one, school bubbles), making sure that young people don’t unnecessarily combine with other young people in school, staggered lunch breaks, staggered play times while doing everything possible to minimize contact (one-way systems in schools , etc.) for the children to be in school.”
When asked about the government’s option of the last pubs and restaurants to make sure all young people can return to school safely in September, Gibb said, “Our priority is to make sure young people return to school with their friends.”