The Netherlands and Russia report record cases; Eli Lilly says the protective factor has suspended trials of the drug LY-CoV555; Emmanuel Macron prepares to announce new blockade measures in France
My thanks to a reader from Singapore, who alerted me to positive news in the country.
Singapore reported 4 imported instances, but no local instances yesterday, for the first time in about six months.
Today, five new instances, two and three imported instances, have been reported. The full story can be discovered here at Channel News Asia.
Our educational reader reminds us that the transmission of the network in Singapore has already been minimal for several months, with maximum instances appearing on a handful of remote dormitory equipment that spasp migrants and have noticed the worst of the epidemic.
The country has noticed more than 57,000, but has only recorded 28 deaths. “This is probably due to factors, but also at least in part to the right fitness care in Singapore,” writes our reader, who prefers to remain anonymous.
This ABC article (July) in Australia examines how they did it: install a short-locking “circuit breaker” and then, when the blockade relaxed, other measures were strictly applied, such as dressing in a mask and social estrangation.
In dormitories of immigrants where cases were doped, vulnerable elderly people were isolated to separate isolation centres. Wages were paid and food, salary, physical care and Internet access were earned.
Tests have intensified and the ability to speak the local language has also been deployed in the dormitories.
After controlling the “second wave,” the government deployed expert groups in places where possible “weak spots” can lead to a “leak” of the virus.
Last month, Singapore distributed tens of thousands of portable tracking and traceability devices (designed for others without smartphones) that can track who a user has interacted with, the BBC reported.
In May, the government generation company (GovTech) made it mandatory to use its SafeEntry formula, adding all workplaces, grocery shopping, shopping centers, hotels and educational institutions, gyms, supermarkets, hairdressers and taxis. The virtual registration formula will also be extended. taxis.
A smart micro-news (we will take what we can get) from Italy, where corriere della Sera reports that Stefano Lancilli, a 55-year-old policeman hospitalized at the height of the Lombardy epidemic in northern Italy, has in Yet left the hospital. He tested positive for Covid-19 seven months ago in Codogno, he told the paper, “It’s a very strong virus. “
Israel prolonged its momentary blockade until Sunday, delaying the resolve to reopen the country as infection rates remain high.
With about 3,000 cases shown consistent with the day despite a nearly 4-week blockade, the government said more days were needed to see “a clear, definitive and continuous decline in morbidity. “
The Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Health said on a whole that the government would assess Thursday whether some initial measures, such as the opening of small businesses and nurseries, could be taken next week.
Faced with some of last month’s highest daily infection rates, Israel was one of the first countries to impose a momentary national blockade.
Some governments around the world are introducing virtual surveillance and knowledge collection teams that can pose a lasting risk to citizens’ rights, according to a report by the Freedom House Research Institute.
The Freedom on the Net 2020 report, a 65-country assessment released Wednesday, accused some governments of the virus as a pretext for suppressing critical discourse, according to a CNN report.
Michael J. Abramowitz, president of Freedom House, which is funded through the U. S. government, said:
The pandemic is accelerating society’s reliance on virtual technologies at a time when the Internet is getting less and less free. Without safeguards good enough for privacy and the rule of law, these technologies can be seamlessly reused for political repression.
CNN reports:
Nowhere has this been more obvious than in China, according to Freedom House, which ranked the country as the worst free country on the Internet for the sixth year in a row.
Since the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan last December, China has deployed all of its Internet arsenal equipment, from virtual surveillance to automated censorship and systematic arrests, to stop the spread not only of covid-19, but also of unofficial information and government reporting, according to investigators.
But the report found that the practices were unique to China. The government censored independent reports in at least 28 countries and stopped online complaints in 45 countries, he said.
Bangladeshi governments in Belarus blocked reports and emails that contradicted official sources, revoking their powers and arresting hounds who questioned their statistics. to remove online content about the spread of the virus in hospitals.
Although incorrect information about the coronavirus is a pandemic in itself, Freedom House states that at least 20 countries, including Thailand, the Philippines and Azerbaijan, have imposed excessively broad restrictions on discourse, adding much new or expanded “false” government information, according to the report.
Allie Funk, co-author of the report and senior analyst of studies on generation and democracy at Freedom House, said the effect of oppression can be lasting:
People may be less likely to report disorder because they don’t need to face criminal sanctions or because they don’t need to be harassed or violent through pro-government online supporters.
In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “all those fundamental things” such as the desire to wash hands, social esttachment and mask are if “we want to get out of this and allow other people to have something like a general Christmas. “.
But my colleague Haroon Siddique spoke to a WHO official who said, “It’s too early for Christmas. “
What are for the upcoming Holiday season “as usual” where you are?Do you make plans?
Moscow will present many academics online from Monday to involve Covid-19, Reuters reports.
The measure will apply to academics in grades 6 to 11 over a two-week era, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobianin said in a message on his website.
Students in grades 1 through 5 will return to school on Monday after a two-week holiday that has been put in position to prevent them from contracting and spreading the virus, he said.
Older academics would do it online at home because they account for two-thirds of young people inflamed with the virus, Sobyanin said.
He said:
The decisions we have made are not simple but simply mandatory, either because of the epidemiological scenario and the need for schoolchildren to obtain a quality education.
As of Tuesday, Russia had registered 1,326,178 infections, 339,431 in Moscow.
The city of nearly thirteen million more people also opened two transit hospitals and ordered companies to operate at least 30% of their operation remotely.
Malaysian King Al-Sultan Abdullah postponed everything scheduled for the next two weeks due to coronavirus brakes, according to a senior palace official.
Reuters reports that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who needs to update Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, met with the king on Tuesday to show that he has a “convincing” parliamentary majority to shape a new government.
The king was to meet with the main leaders of major political parties to verify Anwar’s existence, but all appointments were postponed due to a two-week partial closure in the capital, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor state, which took effect on Wednesday. Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin Palace controller.
The new dates won’t be until the borders rise, Fadil said.
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Iran is one of the most affected countries in the world and has surpassed two unwanted records this week: its highest number of deaths in 24 hours without getting married since the outbreak began in March and the highest number of new infections.
The Covid-19 has so far killed 29,070 Iranians, according to official statistics, and on Wednesday 254 were added, just below the record set on 12 October 272. Many think the actual numbers are much higher.
Patrick Wintour, our diplomatic editor, reports on how the “exhausted and impoverished” country faces a third wave of coronavirus.
Here’s Patrick’s full story:
Bulgaria reported 785 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, setting a record for the fourth time in a week as infections continue to increase, official knowledge showed.
The Balkan country now has 25,774 cases shown of COVID-19, adding 923 deaths, a total of 1,307 more people are hospitalized and 63 are under intensive care, according to knowledge of the coronavirus data platform.
Health officials suggested that others wear protective masks on public transport and indoors and in a social distance to avoid the need for stricter restrictions.
The foreign community’s reaction to the lack of global food confidence is “dangerously inadequate,” Oxfam said in a new report Tuesday, published just days after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the UN World Food Programme.
“The risk of ‘Covid famines’ and widespread excessive famine is triggering alarms within the foreign community, but so far the slow investment has hampered humanitarian agencies’ efforts to provide urgent assistance to those in need,” Oxfam wrote.
“The foreign community’s reaction to a lack of global food confidence has been dangerously inadequate,” says the Later Will Be Too Late report.
The NGO complained that investment for another 55 million people facing excessive famine in the seven hardest-hit countries – Afghanistan, Somalia, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen – is “excessively low. “
In five of the seven countries, donors have not given “money” for coronavirus-related nutritional aid, which is a component of the UN’s $10. 3 billion humanitarian appeal, according to the report.
“To date, donors have pledged only 28% of the UN Covid appeal that was filed in March this year,” Oxfam said.
All sectors (gender-based violence, protection, health, water, sanitation and hygiene) “suffer from chronic under funding,” Oxfam said.
“But some of the least funded sectors are food security and nutrition. “
Last Friday, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the World Food Programme for feeding millions of others from Yemen to North Korea, as the coronavirus pandemic pushes millions more into hunger.
Founded in 1961 and fully funded through donations, the United Nations firm helped 97 million people last year, distributing 15 billion rations to others in 88 countries.
Coronavirus groups have given the impression in Australia’s two most populous states, authorities said Wednesday, prompting New South Wales, with the highest population, to expect to ease some restrictions.
Australia is one of the highest effective countries in the fight against the virus, registering 904 dead and some 245 active instances according to official accounts.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said it involved that the state was on the cusp of some other primary network transmission after 11 new instances were acquired locally and a group emerged in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Lakemba.
He said the easing of some social restrictions and weddings would now be suspended.
“We were going to make restrictions on reception options even more flexible,” Berejiklian said. “I’m still hopeful that we can make arrangements. . . the more people come to get tested. “
Victoria, the state at the epicentre of Australia’s wave, recorded deaths and seven new cases of coronavirus overnight. One moment and the third regional outbreak threatens a long-awaited relief from the severe blockade restrictions in place since mid-July.
Restrictions in the state capital, Melbourne, come with widespread store closures and only two hours outdoors for leisure.
Three cases were reported in the northeastern Melbourne city of Shepparton through a driving force of truck traveling from the city two weeks earlier and had not fully revealed that he had touched the tracers until long after the event.
This has raised fears that the virus could spread uncontrolled in the city, fitness officials said. Queues for testing in Shepparton lasted until six o’clock on Wednesday morning.
“We have to tell the whole story. Visiting a regional primary city and having told us is the right thing to do,” Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews said at a press conference, adding that the matter had been referred to the Victoria State Police. (the state, at that time).
Andrews is expected to announce relaxation measures on Sunday.
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