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Virginia has introduced the first touch tracking app to use Google and Apple software. The mayor of Los Angeles said the city could cut off electricity from homes hosting giant gatherings.
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Who. such verification effects for the first suspected case of coronavirus in North Korea, which triggered quarantine orders for more than 3,600 people, were not “conclusive.”
High-level lawmakers remained far from close to a deal Wednesday for a new economic bailout amid the recession, and seemed pessimistic about the election of Friday’s assembly deadline.
A dispute over U.S. Postal Service investment has joined the rise in unemployment and aid to state and local governments on the list of issues that divide Democratic leaders and the Trump administration.
“I’m sure there’s a twin at the end of the tunnel,” California Democrat Nancy Pelosi said, after holding another discussion circular at her Capitol with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff of the White House; and Senator Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, minority leader. “But how much time is left to see this tunnel,” Pelosi added.
In the Senate, Mr. Schumer asked the postal service to correct the delays in friendly mail as a result of the cuts that the post office had set in motion the pandemic. Democrats and voting rights teams have accused cuts of being part of a planned effort by President Trump to undermine service to interfere with the mail-in vote that will be essential for a secure election in November. Democrats have asked for $3.6 billion in aid to ensure some electoral security, adding a broader vote by mail, but Republicans oppose the funds.
Other outstanding disputes include whether to appropriate hundreds of billions of dollars to help states and local governments avoid laying off public workers as tax revenues fall, and whether to reinstate a $600 per week unemployment supplement from the federal government to laid-off workers.
Democrats are pushing to increase payments, which expired last week, until January. Republicans retaliated Tuesday with plans to recover them at $400 a week through December 15, according to two other people familiar with discussions that insisted on anonymity to describe them. Democrats turned down the offer, they said.
“There are no key figures that have been agreed upon,” meadows, the White House staff leader, said after the Capitol meeting, accusing Democrats of no less than making primary concessions. “We remain separated by billions of dollars in terms of commitments that Democrats and Republicans ultimately expect.”
“Is Friday a deadline? No,” he added. “But my optimism continues to decline as we approach Friday and fall exponentially after Friday.”
Trump warned Wednesday that he would act on his own to impose a federal moratorium on deportations and temporarily suspend payroll tax cuts if an agreement is reached. He also reiterated his opposition to a critical Democratic proposal to send more than $900 billion to state and local governments whose budgets have been devastated by the recession.
“We have states and cities, you all know them, they’ve been very poorly controlled over the years,” he said. “We’re not going to settle for that.”
More than 53,720 cases and 1,250 deaths were reported Wednesday in the United States. The U.S. Virgin Islands set a record case and Florida became the state where, after California, 500,000 infections were exceeded.
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In an unbeatable world, academics would be in the study rooms more, not less. But, unfortunately, that’s not where we are today. As we said, our resolve to reopen the school will have science. It will guide through science, the recommendation of our public fitness officials and the answers we get from our families through a robust network engagement procedure. A moment ago, we started telling our families and Chicago Public Schools staff that we will start the new school year through the house and continue from a distance during the first trimester, which ends November 6. For starters, the school year actually differs from all of the above. But our commitment to providing our academics with an attractive and stimulating environment to the fullest has not wavered or not. We continue to expand this telecommunication platform. We will continue to use the knowledge and feedback of our parents and school leaders who have helped chart this new path.
Students at Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest district, will begin the school year remotely in September, leaving New York as the formula for elementary school in the country. It starts this fall.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools Executive Director Janice Jackson made the announcement Wednesday, as the Chicago Teachers Union amid tentative arrangements for a school protection strike.
“We want to be guided through science, period,” Lightfoot said. “When we announced the possibility of a hybrid style a few weeks ago, we were in a very different position in the pandemic arc. She added: “It was not a simple resolution to take.”
Of the 25 largest school districts in the country, five now plan to open the school year with some form of face-to-face learning. Six of the big seven will be online.
New York City schools in the country’s largest district are expected to reopen in about a month, and students are expected to attend in-person categories one to 3 days a week. But the city is facing a torrent of logistical and political unrest that can disrupt Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to bring students back into the classroom.
In other parts of the country where schools have already been opened, positive cases were temporarily found, and some had to quarantine academics and staff and even temporarily close schools to involve outbreaks imaginable. On Tuesday, on the day of his school year, Cherokee County in Georgia closed an undergraduate classroom after a student tested positive for the virus.
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Arkansas public schools will have to open to students five days a week when the school year begins on August 24, state officials said Wednesday. Districts “allow flexible schedules and virtual learning options, but will first need to provide an option on the site where academics can access daily educational resources, school meals, and other mandatory support,” the state’s Ministry of Education said in a statement, adding that some schools can open only 4 days a week pending council approval.
Education officials in Kenya announced in July that they would cancel the educational year and force academics to repeat it. They are not expected to return to school until January, the same beginning of the school year in Kenya.
Boston Public Schools announced Wednesday a draft of the initial reopening plan that would allow schools between distance learning and a combination of in-person and online education, meaning neighboring schools might be offering other features to families at the same time this fall. The district, the largest in Massachusetts, serves more than 50,000 academics in more than 125 schools.
For many Tennessee academics, the school year has already begun; Some neighborhoods open in early August, rather than in many other parts of the country. Several schools in the state have already reported Covid-19 cases on their campuses. Some have imposed transitional closures in response, while others try to track infections by seeking contacts and urging academics who may have been exposed to staying at home.
In Maryland, Montgomery County officials have been wrangling with Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, over reopening private schools. Public schools in the county, the state’s most populous, will start the school year learning remotely, and county officials used a directive to make private schools do the same. Mr. Hogan overruled it, arguing that private schools should be free to make their own decisions. But on Wednesday, county officials issued a new order to keep them closed, citing a new authority under state law.
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Today, we’re launching a new way of running in combination to help engage this pandemic, a really difficult tool in our toolbox. Virginia is proud to launch a new virtual app called Covidwise, C-O-V-I-D-W-I-S-E, which can send you alerts if you have been in close contact with someone who tests positive. Virginia is the first state in the country to use this technology. I repeat that Virginia, where we deserve to be, is the first state to use this technology.
Virginia released the first application in the United States on Wednesday that uses new apple and Google software to inform users of their imaginable exposure to coronavirus.
The app announcement, called Covidwise and developed through the Virginia Department of Health, comes two days after Alabama announced a verification of a similar application also from the corporate generation system.
The use is voluntary, but strongly encouraged, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said at a press conference. “I hope Virginians across the state use this,” he said. “It’s a way that all paintings in combination can involve this virus.”
China and other countries have used viral programs to impose a new social control bureaucracy. Apple and Google software, on the other hand, will offer public fitness agencies a formula with some built-in privacy protections.
Instead of consistently tracking users’ locations, they can reveal sensitive highlights about people’s routines, for example, Apple-Google software uses Bluetooth signals to trip across users of apps whose smartphones are close to others. And it registers the contact with rotating identity codes, not non-public data, such as names or phone numbers.
If app users get positive results, they can use the app to inform other users, such as strangers who had sat on a train, without sharing this information with government agencies.
Epidemiologists say such programs can be useful in places where testing and tactile search are widespread and effective, but they can offer few advantages when other people have difficulty getting tested or face long waits for results.
The app can only tell if two users have approached each other; can’t tell if they were dressed in a mask or considering if they were in a place to eat poorly ventilated or in a yard. And you can’t trip over the exposure of other people who don’t use it.
Despite this, fitness agencies in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Switzerland and other European countries have recently presented national virus alert programs based on Apple-Google software. Google said last week that 20 U.S. states were doing the same.
The effects of the test for the first suspected coronavirus case in North Korea were not “conclusive,” a World Health Organization official said, after the case triggered quarantine orders for more than 3,600 people.
North Korea’s state media said the patient was a guy who defected to South Korea three years ago, but secretly returned to the kaesong city border last month. North Korea declared a “maximum” national emergency and put Kaesong in closing.
North Korea, one of the most remote countries in the world, has continually said it has no virus cases, but outdoor experts are skeptical. Local media said last week that the national workload remains nil, offering no additional main points on what happened to the man.
Dr. Edwin Salvador, a W.H.O. The representative of North Korea said Thursday that the effects of human control remained “unfinished.” An in-depth search of contacts is being carried out, he added, with 64 of the man’s first contacts and 3,571 quarantined secondary contacts in government facilities for 40 days.
Dr. Salvador said separately that a lot of staff at a North Korean seaport and on the border with the Chinese city of Dandong who contacted imported products were also quarantined.
North Korea’s authoritarian government has taken drastic action against the virus, adding seal its borders in January and final agreements with China, which accounts for 90 of its foreign trade.
A coronavirus outbreak can further damage the Northern economy, already hampered by foreign sanctions, and put pressure on its extraordinarily ill-equipped public conditioning system. Dr. Salvador said the government had designated 15 laboratories for Covid-19 testing and that all schools were on extended summer vacations.
Eric M. Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles, said Wednesday that the city can cut the force to homes or businesses that hold giant meetings in defiance of public fitness guidelines.
Large meetings in personal homes are prohibited by the public physical fitness ordinances of Los Angeles County due to the pandemic, however, there have been a number of reports from the parties in recent weeks. One that lured a giant organization to a mansion on Mulholland Drive on Monday night fell into chaos and gunfire after one night, injuring five people, one of whom later died, the government said.
“These primary parties are not and can claim the lives of angels,” Garcetti said at a news convention on Wednesday. “That’s why tonight I’m authorizing the people to close the Los Angeles Department of Water and Electricity in serious cases where homes, businesses, and other venues organize unauthorized giant meetings.”
He said that as of Friday night, “if the Los Angeles Police Department responds and verifies that a giant collection takes up position on a property, and we see those houses repeating over and over again, they will notice and begin the procedure to request that DWP cut service within the next 48 hours. »
He added that this would not apply to small house meetings, suggesting that citizens avoid them as well.
“Some studies have shown that 10% of others are to blame for 80% of the spread,” Garcetti said. “These super spreaders and other super spreaders that other people have a disproportionate effect have an effect on the lives we lose, and we can’t let that happen as we saw on Mullholland Drive on Monday night.”
The accumulation of coronavirus cases since mid-June in California has led officials to reconsider their measures to ease some restrictions. California surpassed New York last month as a state with the number of coronavirus instances.
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As Europe reopens, cases have begun to multiply almost everywhere, to varying degrees, leaving countries in a constant and swinging war to mitigate epidemics before cancelling months of hard-won advances in blockades this spring.
Germany is no exception. This week, it recorded 879 new coronavirus infections in one day, a component of an upward trend that has begun to worry officials as others return from traveling abroad during the summer holiday season.
To address this concern, Germany began this week to require virus testing for all travelers entering the country from coronavirus “hot spots”, making it again a leader in using tests as a firewall to prevent the spread of the virus. He has established loose test sites at airports and border crossings. The effects return in a day or two.
Germany has become a key tool in its fight against the virus since the start of the pandemic, and its ability to make testing available and effective has been highlighted in industrialized countries.
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Aichi Prefecture in central Japan declared a state of emergency on Thursday, following an increase in infections since mid-July. The order, which extends until August 24, coincides with the Obon Festival, where others regularly see their families and honor the spirits of their ancestors. In anticipation of the upcoming holiday, the local government has asked citizens and businesses to restrict their activities.
The Philippine economy contracted through 16.5% in the quarter, its slowest quarterly expansion rate since 1981, officials said Thursday. The decline “slightly more powerful than the maximum projections,” said Astro del Castillo, a money analyst. The Southeast Asian country, whose capital returned to the lockout this week, has more than 115,000 cases.
The number of virus deaths around the world passed 700,000 on Wednesday, according to a New York Times database. The virus has sickened more than 18.5 million people. Almost twice as many countries have reported a significant rise in new cases over the past two weeks as have reported significant declines, according to the database.
About a third of Afghanistan’s population, or about 10 million people, has probably become inflamed with the virus and cured, the Ministry of Fitness, founded on a family survey that deployed immediate antibody tests, said Wednesday. Kabul, the capital, with more than five million inhabitants, the most affected, with about 53% of its population inflamed.
For Kenyan students, 2020 turns out to be the one who has disappeared.
Education officials announced in July that they were canceling the academic year and making students repeat it. They are not expected to begin classes again until January, the usual start of Kenya’s school year.
Experts say Kenya is the only country that has come to claim failure throughout the school year.
“It’s an unhappy and big loss,” said Esther Adhiambo, 18, who hoped to finish high school and attend college this year. “This pandemic has destroyed everything.”
The resolution to abolish the educational year, taken after a months-long debate, not only to protect teachers and academics from the coronavirus, but also to address the blatant unrest of inequality that arose when the school was suspended in March, George Magoha said. Education. Secretary. After the school closed, some academics had the generation to access distance education, but others did not.
But while the goal was to point to the playing field, researchers can simply widen existing gaps. Once the schools are reopened, the two teams of academics will not be at the same point and will not be able to compete in a similar way for national exams, education experts said.
The resolution affects more than 90,000 schools and more than 18 million academics from preschool to high school, adding 150,000 more in refugee camps, according to the Ministry of Education. Universities and schools are also closed by physical categories until January, but can continue to organize virtual courses and diplomas.
On Wednesday night, a letter signed by approximately 400 fitness experts suggested to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it conduct comprehensive reviews of the protection and efficacy of possible coronavirus vaccines before making the products widely distributed to the public.
The organization called Dr. Stephen Hahn, the F.D.A. Commissioner, stay on top of the agency’s deliberations to approve a new vaccine, in order to gain public trust.
“We want to be able to let the public know what we know and don’t know about these vaccines,” says the letter, which was organized through the Nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. “For this to happen, we want to be able to witness a transparent and rigorous F.D.A. approval procedure without political considerations.”
More than 30 experimental coronavirus vaccines are in clinical trials, and several corporations rush to the first U.S. product. In a position until the end of the year. To date, the federal government has promised more than $9 billion to companies for those efforts. But many other people are very skeptical of these new vaccines and may refuse to receive them.
In an effort to reassure the public, Dr. Hahn recently stated that he would seek the F.D.A. Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biological Products.
The F.D.A. declined to comment on the letter on Wednesday night.
New York City will establish checkpoints on the main bridge and tunnel crossings to inform others entering the city about the state’s requirement that travelers from dozens of other states be quarantined for 14 days upon arrival, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.
The announcement included photographs of police officers who prevented cars and arrested others out of state. The truth is perhaps much less austere and much more confusing.
The government won’t stop all cars. They probably wouldn’t be at every crossroads on a given day. The police branch probably wouldn’t even be involved. Checkpoints, controlled through the city sheriff’s office, will be designed to inform travelers about the rules.
State restrictions have been in place since last June and apply to travelers entering New York City by road or rail, however, enforcement efforts have focused primarily on airports. However, as the highest levels across the country, officials expressed fears about the possibility of a widespread outbreak in New York.
Until Tuesday, travelers from 34 states and Puerto Rico, where virus instances have increased, increased 40.40. And since this week, a fifth of all new instances in the city come from travelers from other states, said Ted Long, executive director of the city’s contact studies program.
At bridge and tunnel checkpoints, officials will avoid random vehicle sampling, city sheriff Joseph Fucito said. The effort will begin on Wednesday.
Officials will then ask travelers from designated states to complete the bureaucracy with their non-public data and provide the main points of the state’s quarantine rules, authorities said.
Laura Feyer, a spokeswoman for Mr. de Blasio, said the city would not announce where the checkpoints would be, so motorists would not retire to avoid them.
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