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Bangladesh is in a position to test potential vaccines opposed to India’s Covid-19 and will temporarily obtain materials from any successful candidate, officials said, according to Reuters.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday sent his foreign secretary to Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, to meet for two days with Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s prime minister and officials.
“Bangladesh is able to assist in the progression of a Covid vaccine, adding its test, and expects immediate and affordable availability of the vaccine when it is fit,” his Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The communiqué follows an assembly by foreign minister and his Indian counterpart, Harshdhan Shringla, in which Shringla discussed India’s economies of scale in the production of vaccines with Bangladeshi officials, according to the statement.
“They (India) responded positively, saying that vaccines would come only for them, but also for others,” Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said after the meeting.
“It will be done to take you to Bangladesh at stage number one.”
India is home to the world’s largest vaccine production company, the Serum Institute of India, and is recently conducting trials for 3 Covid-19 vaccines, adding one authorized to AstraZeneca through Oxford University.
Bangladesh’s national medical studies agency, which reported 285,091 coronavirus infections and 3,781 deaths, approved a third-phase trial of a possible COVID-19 vaccine developed through Sinovac Biotech in China last month. However, final government approval is still pending.
Italy recorded 642 new infections in a day on Wednesday, setting a new record since May, when the country emerged cautiously from one of the longest blockades in the world after more than 30,000 Covid-related deaths, writes Lorenzo Tondo.
Seven other people died from the virus. The total number of instances is now greater than 255,178. The death toll is now 35,412.
On Sunday, the government ordered the closure of nightclubs and made the mask mandatory outdoors in express spaces at night, the first genuine restrictions since the rest of the closure.
Walter Ricciardi, senior advisor to the Italian Ministry of Health on the coronavirus outbreak, The Guardian:
Italy is lately at a crossroads. If we do not put containment measures into force and the number continues to increase, localized locks will be required.
Sweden recorded its highest death toll in the first part of 2020 in 150 years, the country’s national statistics, according to Reuters, said Wednesday.
A total of 51,405 Swedes died between January and June, a number higher than any year since 1869, when 55,431 died, partly due to famine. Sweden’s population at the time was around 4.1 million, up from 10.3 million today.
Official statistics show that Covid-19 killed another 4,500 people in the era through the end of June, a number that has now risen to 5,800. This was a much higher percentage of the population than in other Nordic countries, a decrease than some other European countries such as Britain and Spain.
Deaths were about 10% higher than the average for the past five years, Swedish statistics workplace said. In April, the number of deaths was almost 40% higher than average due to an increase in the number of coronavirus-related deaths.
Sweden has adopted another technique for tackling the pandemic in more European countries, depending more on voluntary measures aimed at social estrangement and opting for strict blockade. Most schools remained open and many companies continued to function to some extent, which the economy drove better than many others.
Spain has reported 3,715 new coronavirus infections in more than 24 hours, the Ministry of Fitness announced on Wednesday. According to Reuters, this sets a new record since the country came out of a strict blockade in late June.
The cumulative cases, which come with antibody tests in patients that may have already recovered, increased from 6,671 to 370,867, the ministry said.
EU knowledge shows that Spain recorded the number of cases in Western Europe.
Slovenia is urging its citizens to return from Croatia until the end of the week or face a mandatory quarantine two weeks after the number of Covid-19 cases has continued there, a government spokesman said.
“The scenario is so bad that we still don’t have an option to urge citizens to return as soon as it’s imaginable from the harmful country,” Jelko Kacin said.
Slovenian tourists already in Croatia will be able to return freely until the end of this week, while those travelling to the neighbouring country from 21 August will have to be quarantined upon their return, Kacin said.
Croatia escaped the worst of the first wave of the pandemic due to immediate closures and lack of tourist arrivals at the end of winter, and when its economy reopened, it presented itself as a destination for tourists.
But on Wednesday, it recorded 219 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of Covid-19s to 7074.
Slovenia recorded 2,493 cases of Covid-19, dozens of which have been attributed to others who returned from travel to parties in Croatia in the past two weeks.
According to Croatia’s tourist office, more than 140,000 Slovenians visited the Adriatic country this month.
Austria also warned that it was opposing Croatia last week and the UK said it could also remove it from its unsealed list this week. Italy has brought mandatory coronavirus tests for anyone entering Italy from Croatia.
Over the weekend, bars and nightclubs in Croatia were ordered to close after 10 days, to prevent it from spreading the virus.
The country expected to receive about a third of tourists this year who visited the last summer seasons, however, the July and August figures in many options reached 60-70% of the 2019 figures.
Germany and France will give more cash and force to the World Health Organization after the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the LONG-standing monetary and legal weaknesses of the UN agency, according to an internal document noted through Reuters.
It is possible that the proposed reforms will already be discussed at WHO in mid-September, Reuters reports in a timely manner that would verify the developmental considerations of the two European powers on the organization, which are also too much of an external influence.
In a joint paper circulated to diplomats involved in the reform negotiations, Berlin and Paris said that WHO’s mandate, which includes preventing epidemics around the world and helping governments deal with them, does not have sufficient monetary resources and legal powers.
“Not only has the existing pandemic become transparent that WHO does not have the capacity to fulfill this mandate in part,” the document said, noted through Reuters.
France and Germany are a “Washington to Beijing” consensus around the document, a source close to the talks said.
The resolution shows the strong interest of both countries in a WHO review, despite discussions about the factor with the United States that collapsed earlier in August at the G7 point due to differences of opinion on the reform.
France and Germany, whose fitness ministers promised a new budget after talking to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in June, have not hidden their complaint from WHO.
But his is very different from that of the Trump administration, which cut funds, announced his withdrawal from Next July and accused Tedros of being a puppet of China.
The Franco-German reform plan focuses on strengthening WHO, a component to enable it to be more critical of Member States if they comply with global transparency regulations in reporting health problems and diseases.
A German government official, who was asked to comment on the document, said: “Germany with other reforms, the talks are ongoing at other levels.”
At Beijing’s famous roast duck restaurant chain, Beijing’s Quanjude has sent a new message to diners: don’t ask for more than they can eat.
The place to eat is the newest company to join a crusade against food waste, which began across the country last week after Chinese President Xi Jinping said such practices were “embarrassing” as the country fought a pandemic, Reuters reports.
Local governments and food stall associations have suggested that food stalls offer smaller portions, while some food stalls have imposed penalties for wasting food. A eating position even began to weigh diners on how much they could ask for, but then backed off after being criticized online.
Quanjude’s servers are now telling consumers to sort by their number of visitors and even urged them to order a less plate than their general staff, he said. They are also asked to pack the leftovers to take home.
China’s food wastes between 17 and 18 million tons of food a year, enough to feed a population of 30 to 50 million, state media reported.
The anti-food waste campaign, clear your Plate, follows Beijing’s considerations of food security over disruptions in agricultural supply chains through the pandemic.
Live broadcast stars known for their ability to eat giant amounts of food were warned last week as they opposed food waste on platforms such as Kuaishou and Douyin, the Chinese edition of TikTok, which he said could be banned or face sanctions if they did.
Special investigators in South Africa are investigating the government for grafting irregularities in coronavirus-related tenders worth five billion rand (220 million pounds).
In a presentation to a parliamentary committee, Andy Mothibi, the head of the Special Investigation Unit, which investigates accusations opposing public sector figures or institutions, said it was presented in 658 cases across the country.
The provincial fitness branch of the central province of Gauteng, an economic center and home to Johannesburg, accounted for just under the total, with 2.2 billion rand, Reuters reported that he mentioned Mothibi.
“The reported complaints to SIU are similar to the acquisition of PPE (personal protective devices), hospitals and quarantine sites, food catering (food packages), fans, disinfection appliances and motorized wheelchairs,” he said.
The figure is most likely to be caused by pressure on South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ruling African National Congress, who have struggled to deflect complaints from alliance partners and opposition parties amid corruption allegations involving senior NAC politicians.
Ramaphosa, who replaced his scandal-prone predecessor, Jacob Zuma, in 2018 with promises to eliminate corruption, has fought to eliminate the crime similar to the fight opposed to Covid-19 in South Africa, which has the fifth number of coronavirus infections in the world. . 592.144.
Toulouse has the first city in France to impose the mandatory outdoor face mask wardrobe, in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Officials in France’s fourth-largest city are concerned that a large movement of others towards the end of the summer holiday could lead to a build-up of infections, according to French public news firm AFP.
New infections in France have increased in recent weeks and the number of other people admitted to the hospital and extensive care has also increased.
Face masks are already mandatory on public transport in France and indoors in public places. Many French cities, in addition to Paris and Toulouse, have also used discretionary powers to make masking mandatory in some spaces: busy streets, close to tourist spots and in outdoor food markets.
Toulouse officials said the mask would be mandatory outside the city gates from Friday, from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. the next day, for all other people over the age of 12, adding bicycle and scooter doors.
The coronavirus epidemic has claimed more than 30,400 lives in France to date.