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Florida has surpassed 500,000 cases of coronavirus as tests are accentuated after the closure of some sites due to Tropical Storm Isaias.
On Wednesday morning, a long line of cars waited outside Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium for a coronavirus control site to reopen after it was closed due to the storm.
Florida reported 225 new deaths Wednesday, a who averaged more than seven days of daily deaths reported to a peak of 185, Texas at 197.
The Florida rate is a quarter of the one noted in New York at its peak in mid-April.
The number of other people treated in hospitals throughout the coronavirus state continued to decrease by two weeks, with 7622 patients defeated Wednesday morning, 175 fewer than the day before and highs of 9,500 two weeks ago.
The Florida Department of Health reported 5409 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday.
Overall, Florida reported 502,739 instances at the time in California, with more than 527,000 instances, and in Texas with more than 466,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The Hard Rock site soon closed Wednesday due to lightning in the area. Tests resumed once the weather cleared.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced this week that the fastest tests, with effects in about 15 minutes, would be presented at the stadium and in Marlins Park.
“Obviously, if you are symptomatic and don’t get your result for seven days, you’re dead. For asymptomatic candidates, if it takes seven days, control is essentially dead at the time,” DeSantis said.
Brazil has reported 57,152 new cases of Covid-19 and 1,437 deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours.
The country has recorded 2,859,073 cases of viruses since the onset of the pandemic, while the official death toll has risen to 97,256, according to ministry data, in the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak after the United States.
Turkey expressed fear of the increasing number of coronavirus cases as the number of infection deaths exceeded 1,000 for a consecutive time on Wednesday.
Ankara has eased to the maximum restrictions that have been applied since the first case in March, peaking at more than 5,000 infections per day in April.
But after nearly a month of daily cases numbering around 900, Turkish health minister Fahrettin Koca said 1,178 infections were recorded in the past 24 hours.
Koca suggested Wednesday citizens take precautions for further increases.
“We are involved in the accumulation in the number of cases, in the past limited to some provinces, that are spreading across the country in the coming days,” said Monday, which recorded 995 cases shown.
On the day, Turkey recorded 1,083 infections.
The total number of deaths is now 5,784 and infections are 236,112.
Koca said this weekend that “the first wave had reached the beaches” when Turks and foreign tourists visited the country’s famous turquoise coast, especially the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha last week.
The epidemic appears to have worsened in the capital, Ankara, Turkey’s most populous moment after Istanbul.
The Ankara Medical Chamber said Tuesday that “pandemic hospitals and their sprawling care facilities in Ankara are 100 percent full” and cannot accommodate new patients with Covid-19.
But the Ankara provincial health directorate contradicted the statement, saying intensive care units were 63% full in the city and insisting the pandemic remained under control.
One of the most affected areas is the southeast, especially the provinces of Diyarbakir, Mardin and Sanliurfa, according to the Turkish Medical Association.
Canadian finance minister Bill Morneau said he is hosting a call with his counterparts from the US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to discuss the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Government representative Andrew Breitenbach argued the case was about “lives and livelihoods” but said the minister behind the ban had “taken steps” to allow trade between tobacco producers and cigarette manufacturers.
“The ban deals with prohibiting sales,” Breitenbach added. “So infringements on rights are just incidental.”
BATSA estimates that South Africa has around one million smokers.
Its legal action has been supported by Japan Tobacco International and by teams and organizations representing tobacco consumers, shops and producers, who agree that the ban fuels an illicit cigarette market.
The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA) legally challenged the “irrational” ban last month, claiming it has diverted revenue away from a multi-million dollar business and into the black market.
The court has since ruled in favour of the government but granted FITA leave to appeal.
BATSA’s case is scheduled to resume on Thursday.
South Africa was already in recession before the coronavirus struck in March and the economy is now forecast to contract by more than six percent this year as a result of the pandemic.
The country is the hardest-hit in Africa with at least 521,318 infections diagnosed so far, accounting for more than half the continent’s cases.
Its mortality rate has remained low however, with just over 8,800 deaths reported to date.
Customers flock to a coffee shop in downtown Wellington after a QR code is displayed on the door that allows others to sign up for the New Zealand government’s Covid-19 tracking app.
None of them take a break to get their phones out. On the sidewalk, ribbon crosses, which denote physical estrangement measures for buyers who ended months ago, seem like a reminder of a bad dream.
New Zealand has achieved the prestige of one of the safest countries in the world for coronavirus; there is no known network transmission in the country and life has largely returned to normal.
But with an eye on countries where the virus was cancelled before re-equipping, officials and the government have replaced their language in recent days to start a new war, this time opposed to complacency.
“We have to be absolutely on our toes,” Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand’s top health official, said in a Radio New Zealand interview on Wednesday. “That’s not just the health system … it’s everybody.”
It has been 96 days since the last domestic case of Covid-19 was transmitted from an unknown source in New Zealand; all 24 diagnosed instances of the virus are among travellers returning to the country who are in quarantine at government-managed isolation hotels. But it was inevitable, Bloomfield said on Wednesday, that New Zealand would have an outbreak beyond the isolation facilities.
“It’s a matter of when, not if,” he said. “We’re working on the basis that it could be any time.”
A Senate Republican organization supported the extension of a $25 billion payroll program for U.S. airlines after warning that airlines may be forced to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs without government intervention, according to a letter notified through Reuters.
The airlines’ stocks rose dramatically with the news. American Airlines shares rose 8.9% in afternoon operations, while United Airlines shares rose 6.3%.
The letter was the first Republican-led public disclosure of meaning in the Senate for greater emergency investment for U.S. airlines.
The senators who signed the letter said they backed a new six-month extension of the $25bn payroll support program “to avoid furloughs and further support those workers”.
Airline officials and unions have been urging US lawmakers to extend new assistance in the face of the coronavirus epidemic’s devastating impact on airline travel. The letter said:
With air travel anticipated to remain low in the near future, Congress should also consider provisions to support and provide flexibility for businesses across the aviation industry similarly impacted, such as airport concessionaires and aviation manufacturing.
On 27 July, a majority of the Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives signed a letter also calling for a six-month extension for the payroll aid programme that they argue is crucial to keeping hundreds of thousands of aviation workers employed through 31 March.
The letter signed through 195 Democrats and 28 Republicans.
Congress provided $25 billion in payroll assistance to U.S. airlines in March, as well as $4 billion for carriers and $3 billion for airport contractors. Most of the rescue budget must be refunded.
Airlines and unions have warned that mass layoffs may take place after the $25 billion in aid that expires on September 30, just over a month before the November 3 US election.
Between American Airlines and United Airlines, more than 60,000 frontline workers have received warnings that their jobs are on the line.