Restaurants in Paris can open but bars can’t; Russia reported 10,499 cases on Sunday; nine New York neighborhoods are heading for closure
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio asked the state for permission to close and restore restrictions on non-essential businesses in several neighborhoods due to the resurgence of the coronavirus.
The action, if approved, would mark a daunting retreat for a city that has experienced a summer with less spread of the virus than most other parts of the United States, and recently celebrated the return of academics across the city to face-to-face encounter. -face-to-face learning in the classroom.
Closures would occur from Wednesday on nine postcodes in the city, Blasio said Sunday.
About one hundred public schools and two hundred personal schools are expected to close. Indoor meals, which had just been resumed a few days ago, would be discontinued; open-air restaurants would also close in affected spaces and gyms would close; places of worship could remain open with current restrictions, de Blasio said.
He said he was acting to verify and prevent the virus from spreading deeper into the city and fit into a “second wave,” like the one that killed more than 24,000 New Yorkers in the spring.
“We have learned time and time again from this disease which is to act aggressively, and when knowledge tells us that it is time for the most difficult and rigorous actions, we stick to knowledge, we stick to science,” Blasio said.
Authorities in the northwestern region of Spain of Castilla y León announced that the towns of Palencia and León would be placed in partial blockades for a fortnight from Tuesday following a build-up of cases.
The restrictions, which will affect some 200,000 people, are similar to those in force in Madrid and nine neighboring municipalities since Friday afternoon.
Under the new rules, other people can only enter or leave confined cities for medical or painting reasons.
The blockade in and around the capital led to a clash between the regional government and the central government.
The coalition government led by the Spanish Socialists imposed containment after the conservative-led regional government in Madrid voted against the measures, saying it was in control of the stage.
Although the management of the president of Madrid, Isabel Daaz Ayuso, has stated that she will obey the closure, it is nice to see the central government’s resolution to the court.
To date, Spain has recorded 789,932 cases of Covid-19, 240,959 of them in the Madrid region, representing almost a third of the 32,086 deaths in the country.
Iran has recorded 3,902 new coronavirus cases in more than 24 hours, and the total number of known cases in the most affected country in the Middle East amounted to 475,674, state television reported.
Ministry of Health spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told the television channel that 235 patients had died in the last 24 hours, equivalent to the highest death toll on July 28.
Some rare smart news, despite the pandemic, came from Greece this morning when the announcement of a billion-dollar investment through Microsoft is perceived as a major condiment for an economy hit by Covid-19.
In a rite held at the Acropolis Museum in the 5th century BC, the American tech giant announced his goal of creating 3 knowledge centers in the metropolitan area of Athens.
“It’s nothing we do and it’s not something we do lightly,” said Microsoft President Brad Smith.
Like almost every European state, Greece has been greatly affected by the epidemic; however, unlike other countries, it has just emerged from a disastrous debt crisis that lasted a decade when the pandemic occurred.
With Greek domestic production falling more than 15% in this quarter and unemployment falling from 16. 4% to 18. 3%, coronavirus has highlighted, as rarely before, over-reliance on the tourism economy after a sharp drop in the number this year.
This investment is the first of its kind in southeastern Europe. Knowledge centers will lay the groundwork for a generation of Greek digital science start-ups.
The centre-right government in Athens hopes that through virtual skills programs for some 100,000 public and personal sector employees, not only will the economy be rejuvenated, but that after the pandemic it will play a central role in its renewal.
By reducing dependence on tourism and increasing the energy, generation and defence sectors, brain drain was expected to reverse with thousands more people coming out of the crisis.
“We are starting to create situations for his return,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told his socially remote at the event. “The creation of a knowledge center makes a country popular as an investment destination . . . Greece has the sun and now it becomes a cloud. “
The Kremlin said it has no knowledge of any plans through the government to impose a strict blockade in Russia to curb the heavy accumulation of coronavirus cases.
The number of new coronavirus cases across Russia peaked since May 12, while the government reported 10,888 new infections across the country, adding 3,537 in Moscow.
Bars in the Paris region were ordered to close after the fitness government reported a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 infections among the 20- to 30-year-old age group.
Restaurants in and around the French capital got a break and said they could stay open as long as they implemented stricter fitness protection rules.
This will involve taking the call and the phone number of the guests, consisting of sending up to six other people according to the organization and offering hand gel on the table.
The city’s police leader said this applies only to institutions whose main activity is to serve food.
Cinemas, theatres and museums will remain open, but sports and fitness clubs will remain closed. Please note that swimming pools and gyms will be closed for adults and minors. Paris police prefect Didier Lallement said at a press conference:
This morning we entered a new phase. We’re adapting to the progression of the virus. These measures aim to stop the spread of the virus because it spreads too quickly.
Lallement said the measures he had were a great “balance between preserving the fitness of our compatriots and the pursuit of economic and social life. “
The measures came hours after the government announced that the Paris region declared a “maximum alert” after Covid-19 infection rates worsened.
Aurélien Rousseau, director of the regional fitness service, said the number of coronavirus cases in the Ile-de-France region had increased to 270, equivalent to a population of 100,000, but the highest concern details an increase of more than 500 corresponding to 100,000. population among the age group 20-30.
Rousseau said 35% of hospital beds for extensive care in the Paris region were occupied by coronavirus patients and that this figure rises to 50%.
The following restrictions are in effect for 15 days from Tuesday.
The markets remain open and demonstrations, funerals and weddings will be allowed in town halls and churches. Public delivery will continue as before.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to downplay the failure of England’s Covid-19 knowledge verification system, which delayed the 15,841-result schedule, saying the much higher figures to date were more in line with forecasts of the spread of the epidemic.
The failure will most likely cast more doubt on Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Sunday, the government reported a backlog of 22. 96 in Covid-19 instances, after saying a technical challenge had meant that thousands of verification effects had not been transferred to PC systems in time, adding for tracers. touch.
Johnson said:
The effect on what we are seeing in those cases is pretty much where we think we were.
To be honest, I think the slightly diminished numbers we saw don’t reflect where we think the disease is most likely to go, so I think the numbers are realistic.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock will tell Parliament the turn of fate later monday, he said.
The technical issue, which became known on Friday and has now been resolved, has caused 15,841 instances not to be downloaded to the reporting panels used through the National Health Service (NHS) touch search system.
“We fully perceive the fear this could cause and, as a result, new physically powerful measures have been put in place,” said Michael Brodie, an executive leader in office at Public Health England, the government-funded public fitness control company in England.
PHE stated that all interested parties had gained the effects of their tests in a timely manner and that those who had tested positive had been asked to self-insulate.
When asked about a vaccine, Johnson said he believed AstraZeneca’s assignment “should be about to be” but warned that “we’re here. “
We’re running too hard to get one. We’re already here.
I went to see the Oxford scientists at the Jenner Institute, the AstraZeneca team; it’s amazing what they’re doing. You know you think they deserve to be about to be, but this wants them to prove it well.
Services for the mentally ill and drug addicts were disrupted internationally by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the disease is expected to cause more misery to many, the World Health Organization said.
Only 7% of the 134 countries that responded to the WHO survey indicated that all intellectual conditioning facilities were fully open, and 93% reported limited facilities for disorders, according to the report.
“We believe this is a forgotten facet of Covid-19, in a sense, a component of the demanding situations we face is that this is traditionally an under-funded area,” said Devoura Kestel, director of WHO’s Addiction and Mental Health Decomposer, at a press conference. .
Only 17% of countries provided more investment to implement activities that met the pandemic’s desires for intellectual development, he said.
“We estimate, and initial data tell us, that there may be a buildup in other people with mental, neurological and addiction-related disorders that will require attention,” Kestel said.
But WHO had no knowledge of the potentially fatal consequences, adding higher rates of suicide, seizures or dependence on un operated opioids that can lead to an overdose, he said.
Outpatient and network services, in middle- and high-income countries, have been more affected, WHO said, but many richer countries have used telemedicine and generation to track down mental patients, he said.
“We see a greater choice policy in high-income countries and want to make sure everyone has access to some kind of choice,” Kestel said.
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be quarantined for 14 days after a minister who attended a high-level government assembly to discuss the evolution of coronavirus on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19.
The Southeast Asian country has noticed a stable build-up in some cases during the week following the Sabah state elections in Borneo on September 26.
The Malaysian government warned that restrictions on coronaviruses should possibly be re-imposed if the trend continues, amid popular anger against politicians who have been accused of the increase.
In a statement, Muhyiddin showed that Religious Affairs Minister Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri had tested positive and that those known as close contacts at Saturday’s National Security Council assembly to discuss Covid-19 had won a 14-day house supervisory order from 3 October.
“As a result, I will go through the self-quarantine in my house for 14 days, as requested by the Ministry of Health,” Muhyiddin said.
“However, this will disrupt the government’s activities. I’ll continue painting from home and use video conferences to arrange meetings if necessary. In a statement, Muhyiddin said all his recent tests for Covid-19 were negative.
In an earlier statement, the Ministry of Health said contacts had been registered, symptom screenings had been performed, and samples had been collected for Covid-19 infections.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Zulkifli showed that he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was now in treatment.
In a separate statement, Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 432 new cases on Monday, setting a new record since the country began tracking the pandemic.
Renewed efforts through the U. S. Congress to reach a new agreement to inject the coronavirus relief budget into the pandemic economy is more confusing through news that President Donald Trump and 3 Senate Republicans tested positive.
News of the effects of the three senators led Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to announce over the weekend that the House would be absent until October 19, suggesting that he saw an imminent settlement on the bill after a week of talks between the Democratic president of the House of Commons Nancy. Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Pelosi and Mnuchin met daily last week and met with the user on Wednesday to negotiate a new bipartisan aid program to address the economic effects of the pandemic.
“We’re making progress,” Pelosi Sunday said.
“OUR GREAT AMERICA WANTS AND NEEDS ENCOURAGEMENT. WORK TOGETHER AND DO IT. Thank you!” Trump tweeted Saturday from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, has been hospitalized since Friday night.
Congress and the White House approved more than $3 billion in coronavirus relief measures prior to this year, but no new relief has been approved since March. Muchin, along with members of Congress from either party, said more stimuli are needed, a strengthened point through a bizarre september job report on Friday.
Democrats proposed spending $2. 2 billion. Trump’s management called it “nothing serious,” but his offer would be more than $1. 6 billion last week, adding a weekly unemployment allowance of $400.
Although Trump has publicly called for an agreement, it is unclear to what extent he will be worried behind the scenes while he is sick. There have long been varying degrees of enthusiasm for increased coronavirus spending within the administration itself, and it is unclear which faction could dominate hospitalization.
There are still family obstacles to an agreement. In a letter to his fellow Democrats on Friday, Pelosi defined spaces in the factor with Mnuchin, adding state and local government assistance, unemployment insurance, test and follow-up provisions, and democratic demands for a child tax credit.
Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives, but Pelosi faces pressure from moderate Democrats running for re-election in dynamic districts to bring a bipartisan deal to the ground before Election Day. at the house last week.
In the Senate, Republicans have a 53-47 majority, but some Republicans are susceptible to some other expensive coronavirus package, meaning any plan will want bipartisan aid approved.
Poland’s new education minister tested positive for coronavirus, while new cases in Poland continued to achieve record levels over the following week.
Czarnek, 43, announced that he had become angry before a time at the presidential palace, where President Andrzej Duda hoped to verify the appointment of new ministers following a reorganization of the government announced last week.
“I did the test this morning because of a headache for not exposing the president, the company and the other participants to today’s events. I feel good. Don’t underestimate your symptoms,” Czarnek said in a tweet on Monday.
Poland reached a record number of new coronavirus infections on Saturday and as of Monday, Poland had a total of 102,080 cases shown and 2,659 deaths.
“We don’t expect the stage to be drastically replaced in the coming days. We will see effects at the point of 2000 instances or more . . . said a spokesman for the Ministry of Fitness at a press conference on Monday.
“The coronavirus chooses, everyone goes through the same procedure,” the spokesman added, commenting on Czarnek’s announcement.
Czarnek, a vocal critic of “LGBT ideology,” participated on one occasion last week when Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced the reorganization of the government, in the presence of many new ministers.
Government spokesman Piotr Muller said Monday that the number of wedding visitors allowed in Poland’s so-called green areas, where coronavirus cases are the lowest, could be reduced, but Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said in an interview with the newspaper that an unplanned national blockade.
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius will be isolated for a week after contact with members of French President Emmanuel Macron’s delegation, which then tested positive for coronavirus.
The minister was provided several times on the scale on 28 and 29 September, spokeswoman Rasa Jakilaitien. La Lithuanian news firm BNS reported that two staff members of the French Embassy in Vilnius, who were part of the delegation, tested positive for coronavirus in the past. The embassy can be contacted without delay to comment.
It was not transparent without delay whether Linkeviius, who had met Macron at the visit, had taken the test. President Gitanas Nausaa, his wife and several members of his workplace underwent coronavirus tests on Sunday. All effects were negative, the president’s workplace said in a statement. .
Russia on Monday recorded a build-up of coronavirus cases near the May peak, but stopped before imposing strict blockade measures again.
With the fourth largest number of cases in the global pandemic, Russia took serious action in the face of the first outbreak of the virus, adding up the closure of borders from March, while the Moscovites had to apply for electronic passes to travel around the city.
On Monday, the government showed 10,888 new cases, reaching the point recorded on 11 May, at 11,656.
Of these, 3,537 were in the capital, through the hardest-hit city, where Mayor Sergei Sobianin said Sunday that there were “many serious patients. “
Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said Friday that a strong recovery in cases since last September would be serious, but she added that “we expected it,” the official news firm Tass reported.
He cited the return of others to the office and the buildup of influenza and pneumonia expected for autumn and winter.
In Moscow, the mayor took steps to curb the infection rate, telling those 65 and older to stay home and forcing corporations to take at least 30% of their income away from home as of Monday.
These measures are well below the narrow closure that peaked in Moscow in March. The capital peaked in new instances in May, at 6,703, well above the existing figure.