France is adding paint spaces to the developing list of places where other people wear masks; WHO says other young people are not invincible; A trial in South Africa will involve another 2900 people
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has reinforced recommended measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, warns that if the country does not have new infections, the Netherlands can simply “return to the starting point.”
Rutte pleaded with others not to hold parties at home and to restrict occasions such as birthdays and other personal gatherings to up to six other people. However, the Dutch government has not imposed new mandatory restrictions.
“If we are not careful, we will return to the starting point for the foreseeable future,” Rutte warned.
“If other people need to hold parties for more than six people, they hire an area where all visitors can keep a social distance while sitting,” the prime minister said. He also suggested that others keep running from home.
His comments came here after the Dutch Institute of Public Health announced that more than 4,000 new cases had been filed in the Netherlands last week, roughly the same number as last week.
The percentage of positive tests in the country decreased slightly to 3.5%. The death toll shown by Covid-19 in the Netherlands was 6,175 on Tuesday, the actual figure is expected to be higher as many suspicious deaths have not been analysed.
The number of new cases shown has increased since the Netherlands fell apart from the peak of its coronavirus restrictions on 1 July. Students returned to the best schools in the north of the country for the first time in months without the need for masking or social estrangement among children.
To prevent infections in schools, Rutte said academics stay home if they have symptoms of coronavirus and if a member of a circle of family members has tested positive for the virus.
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Ireland particularly tightened its national limitations on coronaviruses on Tuesday to curb the accumulation of cases, urging everyone to limit visitors to their homes, public transport and the elderly to limit their contact.
An increase in the number of cases in the last 3 weeks after Ireland experienced one of the lowest infection rates in Europe in several weeks led the country to 26 cases accumulated over 14 days, equivalent to 100,000 inhabitants and led to the first local closure. Last week.
Tuesday’s 190 new cases, the second-highest increase since early May, brought the rate of expansion from more than two weeks to the fourth highest in Europe and meant that infections would inevitably spread to the maximum vulnerable if they continued, Prime Minister Micheal said. Martin said.
“Surely we are not at a level where we can return to normal. We are at a critical time,” Taoiseach said at a press conference, saying the new measures would remain in place until 3 September.
Ireland has followed one of the most cautious approaches in Europe to combat the virus, reopening its economy at a slower rate and now has many restrictions in place for longer.
The government has already twice delayed the final phase of its reopening plan, which would allow nightclubs and all pubs to be opened, after accelerating the plan in June, when instances began to decline.
In addition to reducing the number of visitors allowed in a space to six, where the maximum of groups were located, meetings are limited to another 15 people out of 200, and all enthusiasts are prohibited from sport. The police will have greater powers to enforce the rules.
Restaurants and pubs serving food can remain open. Martin said the goal of the restrictions is to ensure that key elements of the economy continue in the industry and that schools can reopen for the first time since March.
“Schools are so for young people in general, for society, also for the economy, that we need our schools to reopen and our schools to reopen,” Martin said.
Zimbabwe has abbreviated a night curfew imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic and a prolonged opening hours despite the accumulation of cases, the government said after a weekly closet meeting.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced last month a curfew starting at 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., however, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said she had left travelers un transported.
Night curfew will now begin at 8 p.m., while opening hours will run until 4:30 p.m. 3 p.m.
Zimbabwe recorded 5,308 cases and deaths.
Officials are concerned that a general elimination of traffic restrictions will lead to increased infections and overwhelm a fitness sector that is collapsing due to worker movements and lack of medicines and protective clothing.
The government banned public taxis in March, but state bus service was unable to cope, forcing travelers to queue beyond curfew.
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Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said new instances of Covid-19 had been shown on Tuesday.
He said:
We are now seeing many clusters across the country, in people, in many workplaces, and in a number of social contexts. Our instances accumulated over 14 days consistent with one hundred thousand inhabitants, a key measure tested through NPHET, are now 26, or four. Our average of five days of new instances is 116 new instances consistent with the day and increasing. Today, the total number of new instances is 190 ».
Taoiseach Micheal Martin said:
The evidence is that many other people act as if the virus does not pose a risk to them or as if it were general to take more risks. Many other people think that if they or those with whom they socialize have no symptoms, no problem. We are at a point where we want to recommit to adopting key behaviors and accepting more controls. »
He pointed to outbreaks between families and in contexts of social activity.
Germany is expected to expand its pandemic licensing programme to 24 months after Angela Merkel said it welcomed the proposal to allow the Kurzarbeit programme to continue until 2021.
The Chancellor’s spokeswoman said Monday that she was “positively” susceptible to the suggestion to expand the program, which allows corporations to hire their part-time staff to reduce costs. First, Britain’s licensing program only allowed staff to be sent to the house and not to the paintings, however, staff can paint part-time from July.
A final resolution on an extension, estimated at 10 billion euros (9 billion pounds), is expected on 25 August.
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz first proposed on Sunday to extend the benefit program, which is lately limited to claims of up to 12 months. “The crown crisis will not suddenly go away in the coming weeks,” said Scholz, who recently announced himself as a candidate for chancellor of the center-left Social Democrats in next year’s elections.
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The Lebanese government announced a new blockade and a curfew at night to stem the outbreak of infections.
The new measures will come into force on Friday and last just over two weeks, the internal ministry said, adding that they will not carry out cleanup work or assist efforts following the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut on August 4.
A curfew will be imposed from 18:00 (15:00 GMT) until 06:00.
Shops will be closed and restaurants will be limited to home delivery, with reduced opening hours. Social gatherings will also be prohibited.
The airport will operate and the departments will have half their capacity, AFP reports.
Areas affected by the explosion in Beirut on August 4 will also be free of restrictions as cleanup efforts continue in several neighborhoods.
Montenegro will postpone the start of the school year one month due to the “uncertain” prestige of the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Education said today.
Balkan countries have discussed how to safely resume categories after a summer of expanding infections.
“A normal start date poses dangers to children’s health,” the Ministry of Education said, saying that the first day of school would move from September 1 to October 1, AFP reports.
In neighboring Serbia, which has been much more affected by the virus, the government recently allowed parents of first graders to decide to send their children to school or continue online in the fall.
As in the region, courses in Montenegro were published online after the start of the pandemic in March.
The country reduced a small number of infections to 0 during an era in May, however, cases began to increase in the summer, now reaching about 4,000 for a population of just 620,000.
With the tourism sector in the Adriatic heavily affected, the government has tried to mitigate the economic benefits by reopening the borders to tourists from neighbouring Balkan countries and Russia, one of the main markets.
An hour after the ban on the sale of alcohol in South Africa was officially lifted at Nine o’clock on Tuesday, Seal Ditabe pushed a cart filled with a dozen bottles of gin and liqueurs from a sprawling warehouse in Johannesburg, where the aisles were stacked with 15 boxes of spirits and beer, reports Jason Burke of Johannesburg.
“I’m very relieved. My brother’s getting married next week and we’re all very worried,” said 31-year-old Ditabe.
Across the country, enthusiastic consumers flocked to retail liquor and cigarette stores, which can also be resold.
In the other aspect of Johannesburg, delivery driver Sanizo Mabaso also spends a busy morning. In one hand he held a bottle of Moet-Chandon champagne and in the other two bottles of a hard fruit snack, ordered through a customer. “It will be a long and complicated day,” he said. It was not yet mid-morning, he and the other drivers of the local delivery service where he worked already had three hundred orders.
Despite one of the strictest blockades in the world, South Africa has been heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, with nearly 600,000 cases and a death toll believed to be well above the official figure of 12,000.
The sale and shipment of alcohol and cigarettes was banned at the end of March, the ban was briefly lifted in June.
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Namibia’s health minister warned against elephant manure, historically steamed and inhaled as a remedy against influenza, to protect himself from coronavirus.
Infections have doubled in the populated southern African country during the following month, with 4,464 cases and 37 deaths recorded to date.
Many Namibians have resorted to herbal remedies in the hope of protecting themselves from coronavirus, adding the use of elephant manure.
The practice has been scientifically proven.
“I am involved with other unscrupulous people who would spend cash on others to obtain remedies in the hope of curing them,” the country’s fitness minister, Kalumbi Shangula, on Tuesday, denounced elephant manure traders as “opportunists.”
“A desperate user can do anything desperate,” he added. “It’s unethical. Don’t spend cash on remedies.”
In Karachi, Pakistan, others visited the beach after the government lifted the maximum remaining restrictions on coronavirus in the country.
South Africa will launch clinical trials on a coronavirus vaccine developed in the United States with 2,900 volunteers this week, the time in Africa’s hardest-hit country, chief investigator Shabir Madhi said Tuesday.
Known as NVX-CoV2373, the vaccine evolved through the US biotechnology company Novavax from the SARS genetic series. Voc? 2, the virus guilty of COVID-19 disease.
The first volunteer will be given in the random blind trial on Wednesday.
“It’s a two-dose program, and they get two vaccines or placebosArray … 3 weeks apart,” Professor Madhi of the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg told the AFP.
With 589,886 cases and 11,982 deaths, South Africa ranks fifth in the world rankings in the most inflamed countries.
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The United Arab Emirates has noticed an “alarming” increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the past two weeks, its fitness minister warned.
The United Arab Emirates has recorded 365 new cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours, the government said, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the Gulf state since the start of the pandemic to 64906, with 366 deaths.
The new daily cases of coronavirus in the United Arab Emirates peaked in mid-May, but the country has experienced periodic peaks since then, despite a downward trend.