Belgium has 14 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 10,001; Ukraine 4,027 cases; Slovenia notifies 567 new cases
Slovakia has reported 567 new cases of coronavirus, the largest on a general day in the country since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic this year, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health today.
The Central European country of 5. 5 million more people has one of the lowest disease mortality rates in Europe and kept the number of cases low in an initial wave in March and April, but like other countries, it has recently faced an increase in cases. and has limited public opportunities and taken other steps to combat the spread of the virus.
Indonesia reported 4,284 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 287,008, according to the knowledge of the country’s Covid-19 group of runners.
139 more coronavirus-related deaths were also reported, bringing the total number of deaths to 10740.
Russia has reported 8,481 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the national total to 1,176,286.
Authorities said another 177 people were killed, bringing the official death toll to 20,722.
The record contraction of the BRITISH economy in the current quarter was less severe than expected, however, the 19. 8% decline still saw Britain suffer the worst recession of any primary economy.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) revised the current quarter figure of an earlier estimate of 20. 4%, while the updated figures also showed a more powerful contraction of 2. 5% between January and March. In the past it estimated that GDP fell 2. 2% in the first quarter.
Despite revisions, the UK has still sank into the largest recession since the beginning of existing registrations and worse in this quarter than any of its complex economic counterparts.
The ONS said:
While it is still true that these initial estimates are subject to review, we prefer the magnitude of the contraction that occurred in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic. It is transparent that the UK is in the largest recession on record.
More recent estimates show that the UK economy is now 21. 8% smaller than at the end of 2019, highlighting the unprecedented scale of this contraction.
Since the peak of the recession in April, GDP has grown for 3 consecutive months, but has only recovered about part of the floor lost by the pandemic, according to the ONS.
There was a record 23. 6% drop in household spending following the April-June freeze, which economist Samuel Tombs of Pantheon Macroeconomics said was “responsible for the UK’s poor performance. “
The Russian sovereign fund said it agreed to supply 25 million doses of its possible Covid-19 vaccine to Egypt Pharco, which it described as one of the country’s leading pharmaceutical groups.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund has concluded several agreements to obtain the Sputnik V vaccine abroad, adding one hundred million doses in India, where it also plans to conduct clinical trials.
Belgium, one of the European countries most affected by coronavirus, said the number of pandemic victims had exceeded 10,000.
The country, with a population of 11. 5 million, has recorded 14 more deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 10,001.
Reported infections increased to 117,115 out of 115,353, the Sciensan Research Institute said.
Since the beginning of the pandemic seven months ago, the Belgian government has included as many instances as imaginable in the toll, adding deaths in hospitals and nursing homes, as well as others whose deaths would possibly have been caused by the virus but which have not been proven.
At the peak of the pandemic in April, Belgium recorded more than 250 deaths per day for a dozen days, to Sciensano.
Since the summer, screening capacity has increased, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of positive cases recorded, i. e. in September, when other people returned to paint and school after the summer holidays.
The daily number of deaths has increased since the beginning of this month, from 3 to an average of seven to 8 in recent days, as the elderly and healthy are infected.
The pandemic has affected older people in approximately 1,500 nursing homes, which according to official figures accounted for roughly part of the deaths, a figure that rises to about two-thirds if you include nursing home citizens who died in hospital, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Israel’s parliament passed a law restricting protests as a component of a coronavirus-related emergency that critics say aims to silence protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The law, which passed its final reading by 46 votes to 38, was intended to be part of a series of measures passed by Parliament on Friday for a moment of national blockade, but the debate over the measure was postponed because the government struggled to get the necessary votes amid an opposition clamor and an open-air demonstration of parliament.
The closure, which entered into force on 18 September, closes the maximum number of jobs, markets, places of worship and cultural places.
It also prohibits travel more than 1 km (0. 6 miles) from home, for essential reasons, such as buying food and medications or receiving medical treatment.
The new law gives the government the strength to claim a “special emergency over the coronavirus pandemic” for renewable periods of one week.
During this time, the 1 kilometer limit will apply to protests and there will also be number restrictions.
The state of emergency can only be declared a blockade. The government has not yet used these powers, however, with more than 237,000 coronavirus infections and 1,528 deaths in a population of nine million, Israel has lately the highest weekly rate consistent with the world’s rate of respiratory infection.
Meir Cohen, of the main opposition party Yesh Atid-Telem, condemned new controls on protests as a “slippery slope,” while Yair Golan of the left-wing Meretz party warned that the new law will “avoid protests. “
“The anger that unfolds in the streets will have a way out,” he says.
In recent months, weekly protests have taken a position outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence, it is not easy for him to resign over his handling of the pandemic and his ongoing corruption trial.
Ukraine has recorded 4027 cases of new coronaviruses in the last 24 hours, the National Security Council said today, with a record beyond the 3,833 new cases reported Saturday.
When the number of coronavirus infections exceeded 3,000 before this month, the government expanded employer closure measures until the end of October.
The council said a total of 208,959 had been recorded in Ukraine to date with 4,129 deaths.
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The respected living goddess will leave her temple this year, AP reports:
The palace’s old courtyard was filled with thousands of other people each year, the Indrajatra festival is deserted, temples are locked and all public celebrations are banned by the government to prevent coronavirus.
Autumn is the festival season in predominantly Hindu Nepal, where religion, celebrations and rituals are an integral component of life, but others this year will have their rituals at home.
Many in this Himalayan country who would anger the gods avoiding the rituals that would cause disaster. Violent clashes even broke out between police and the faithful defying government orders at a separate tank festival south of Kathmandu.
A lock-up was ordered around 8 days that supposedly took place at the cancelled Indrajatra festival, and instead a small rite to apologise to Indra, the Hindu god of rain, took place under the security of the government.
During the festival, Kumari, a woman respected as the living goddess, is taken to the central component of Kathmandu in a cart pulled by worshippers. After the cancellation, he never left his temple palace. His tank is locked in the hangar and the armed police. keeps the courts.
“There would be thousands of faithful crowded in the courtyard and on the streets of the festival, which would have put many at risk of contracting the coronavirus,” said Gautam Shakya, Kumari’s guardian leader. “We had to prevent this century-old festival for the first time. “
Shakya and her circle of relatives have been worried about Kumari for generations. An impeccable woman is selected from extended single relatives and is respected as a living goddess until she is replaced at puberty. Senior officials and commoners touch their feet to unload their blessing. .
A small organization of worshippers who sneaked through blockade and security to pray before the living goddess said they continue the culture followed through their ancestors.
“The festival and Kumari are not just a tradition, it is our culture and a giant component of our life that we cannot prevent for anything, not even because of a pandemic,” said Shanker Magaiya, a washerwoman who may have been offering flowers. and chocolates to the goddess.
Magaiya had their hearts broken by cancellation and said that while they underestimated the government, they had to protect their religion, culture and traditions.
“We have disappointed the gods and will have to keep the gods satisfied so that we can all be satisfied and prosper,” he said.
The Nepalese government imposed a strict blockade of the coronavirus in March, which at ease in July.
More than 76,000 people have become inflamed and 491 have died, but the ban on devout festivals and gatherings continues and temples remain closed.
Near Kumari Temple, a huge statue of the Hindu deity Swet Bhairav is only open to the public once a year during the festival. The faithful strive to take a sip of the rice wine that is released from a pipe attached to the head of the statue. .
This year, the doors were only open and very few people had the opportunity to drink the sacred wine.
The temple priest, Prakash Tamrakar, said the festival was allowed with precautions of social estating and that police blocked the court.
“My circle of relatives has been doing this for generations and not once have I heard it canceled,” the priest said.
“These parties are made to pray to the gods to prevent other people from suffering discomfort and that we do not suffer from diseases and disasters. “
Just south of Kathmandu, in the city of Lalitpur, a five-story tank with a statue of the deity Rato Machindranath built for a festival that was parked by order of the government.
Frustrated devotees rebelled and thousands of others gathered to pull the tank before this month. They clashed with police who fired tear fuel and water cannons and hit some with lathi, bamboo sticks. Several people were injured and many arrested.
Nepal’s largest and most prominent Dasain festival in October is held for two weeks on public holidays. People can see the extended family, hold daily parties, and stop in temples. However, reduced activities are expected with some bans this year.
“We don’t hold festivals this year for the virus and we don’t have any extra money to spend, however, if we’re alive and healthy, there will be festivals next year and the next year and we’ll have a big party,” he said. Kumar ShresthaArray owner of a confectionery.
North Korea has exposed “failures” in its anti-coronavirus measures, state media said Wednesday, following a protest in South Korea over a citizen that North Korean infantrymen killed near its maritime border, where strict antivirus controls are applied.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made rare apologies for the assassination of South Korean fishing officer last week in waters off the west coast of the peninsula.
North Korea said his infantrymen shot him because he tried to flee without revealing his identity, but denied a South Korean claim that the body was then set on fire, saying that only a flotation device he had used had been burned to prevent the novel. Coronavirus.
Kim convened an assembly of the tough political bureau of the ruling Workers’ Party to review and take action against the coronavirus, the official KCNA news firm said, adding that participants had discovered “some flaws” in its implementation.
KCNA did specify the flaws and mentioned the murder of the South Korean man.
“The assembly wants to watch over complacency, abandonment, irresponsibility and rest in the anti-epidemic field,” the briefing said.
“He also called for an effective implementation of a strong anti-epidemic formula and order. “
North Korea has shown no coronavirus infection and imposed strict virus control measures, adding that the closure of its borders, South Korea, and the United States doubt that they have managed to avoid the pandemic at all.
North Korea’s ambassador to the UN said in a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday that his country’s epidemic efforts were “safe and robust” and that he would “now focus on improving its economy. on the basis of its “reliable and effective war deterrent”.
KCNA said the political bureau assembly had also discussed arrangements for the 75th anniversary of the party’s founding on October 10, a vital birthday party that North Korea celebrates with a giant army parade.
Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the North Korean University of Studies in Seoul, said the politburo could have discussed the shooting and replaced those responsible, with the aim of ending the controversy before the anniversary.
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In Australia, the Government of Victoria aims to have all elderly care personnel and high-risk staff tested monthly as the state intensifies its asymptomatic screening program.
Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews has announced that 25% of those on the floor in high-risk industries will be tested weekly to verify and prevent epidemics as the state opens.
This regime will start with 95 companies, mainly meat and poultry processing plants, but is expected to expand in the coming weeks.
Victoria recorded thirteen new cases of coronavirus and another 4 deaths, raising the death toll in the state to 798 and the national number to 886. The latest victims are a Woguy in her 70s, a Woguy in her 80s and a boy and a Woguy. in his 90s.
These new ones raise Melbourne’s average from 14 days to 16. 4 and 0. 3 in the Victoria area:
The number of coronavirus cases in India has risen to 6. 23 million after reporting 80472 new infections in more than 24 hours, the Ministry of Health’s knowledge showed Wednesday. you have a chance of higher infections with a giant part of the population not yet exposed to the virus, a survey showed Tuesday.
The British government spent 569 million pounds to buy 20,900 enthusiasts to keep others alive during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the lack of a call means that NHS hospitals have used only a few.
All purchased machines, 2150, are still kept in a Ministry of Defence warehouse if necessary at the time the disease is coming:
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