Glynn said there is no indication lately that additional action is needed in Dublin and hopes that national restrictions announced last week will reduce cases.
Turkey: 259692 (up to 1443), 6139 deaths (up to 18)
Spain: 405,436 (up to 2,060), 28,872 deaths (up to 3)
The governor of Bali has said that foreign tourists will not be able to stop on the Indonesian island for the remainder of 2020 due to coronavirus problems, thus cancelling an opening plan next month. The opening plan was cancelled due to considerations of the accumulation of virus cases in Indonesia and the fact that many foreigners are subject to prohibitions in their home countries.
The Czech government has expanded its employment program for companies affected by coronavirus until the end of October, said the country’s minister of labour, Jana Malacova.
The labour leave programme, as well as direct reimbursement bills to the self-employed, are the two most important elements of the government’s efforts by the global pandemic-affected economy.
In the two main parts of the antivirus program, the Ministry of Labour paid 17.3 billion kronor ($785.72 million) as of August 24, reported on the ministry’s website.
Syrian constitutional talks at the United Nations were suspended a few hours after the start of Monday after 3 delegates tested positive for COVID-19, the UN said. The UN special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said he had obtained confirmation that “3 members of the small framework of the Syrian Constitutional Committee tested positive for COVID-19” and that the consultation in Geneva “is recently suspended.”
An Italian hospital has injected a first volunteer with a COVID-19 vaccine in human trials that are expected to last six months. The woman, in her fifties, won the first dose developed through the Roman biotechnology company ReiThera at the Spallanzani Institute of Infectious Diseases in the capital. The trials, developed between researchers ReiThera and Spallanzani, will be conducted in 90 volunteers divided into age teams to determine the effectiveness of the other doses of the vaccine, developed since March.
Greek teachers and academics will have to wear masks in study rooms and indoors when schools reopen in September due to the accumulation of infections, the country’s education minister said.
The accumulation of coronavirus cases in recent weeks has forced the Greek government to re-impose restrictions to curb the spread of the new virus.
A naturist station on the Mediterranean coast of France has noticed a strong accumulation of infections and nudists have been ordered to wear at least one mask and practice social estrangement, according to the fitness authorities.
Tests showed a 30% infection rate among others who visited the village of Cap d’Agde, which is a village of naturists and libertines, said Occitanie’s regional fitness authority.
This is more than 4 times higher than the 7% rate for others in the region who had not visited the centre, the authority added.
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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back in the paintings filming the Indian Who Wants to Be a Millionaire after a fight over COVID-19.
A total ban on studio activity in March dealt a blow to India’s film and television industries, affecting not only Bollywood, the world’s most prolific film factory, but also regional film production centers and television productions and broadcasting platforms.
In June, later recording was allowed, but with strict rules, adding a ban for actors and team members over the age of 65, adding 77-year-old Bachchan until a court overruled that earlier this month.
The veteran actor, his son actor Abhishek, actress stepdaughter Aishwarya Rai and granddaughter Aaradhya were admitted to the hospital last month. Since then, all four have been released.
A luxury hotel in southern India has turned its swimming pool into a fish farm to keep the company from sinking.
Normally, aveda Resort’s 150-meter (500-foot) pool in Kerala state is for European tourists. Now, thousands of pearly fish are causing splashes.
The complex was forced to close in March when a national coronavirus closure was ordered. Since then, few hotels have been able to reopen.
Of those that are still closed, few have a pool of 7.5 million liters of water, which can be used for a purpose.
Some 172 countries are committed to the WHO-led COVAX plan designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization said, but more investment is urgently needed and countries are now committing binding commitments.
“Initially, when the source [of COVID-19 vaccines] is limited, it is to get the vaccine for the world’s highest at-risk people,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference.
Indonesia has received up to 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China and the United Arab Emirates, authorities said.
The source is one of 290 million vaccines that will be available to Indonesia in 2021, President Joko Widodo said at a cabinet meeting.
During a Chinese state last week, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Public Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir got 50 million doses of a candidate vaccine for China’s Sinovac, which will be delivered between November and March next year.
The first 20 million doses are expected to be delivered until the end of this year.
Finland will tighten restrictions on public meetings from September on, restricting them to 50 other people unless other measures are taken, due to the recent accumulation of COVID-19 cases, the government said.
Having allowed up to 500 more people to meet in August, the new limits will apply to internal and external public meetings, the state administrative firm said.
The cumulative number of COVID-19 cases consisting of 100,000 inhabitants in Finland for 14 days 5.2 on Friday is among the lowest rates in Europe, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
But the number of cases has increased in weeks, and the fitness government accounted for a total of 7,871 cases and 334 deaths on Friday.
Japan scored a year before the opening rite of the Delayed Paralympics in Tokyo, the coronavirus pandemic created uncertainty for the event.
The Olympic host city has been grappling with a coronavirus resurgence since early July.
The International Olympic Committee and local organizers at the end of March postpone the Tokyo and Paralympic Olympics until the summer of 2021 due to the immediate spread of coronavirus.
In the coming days, the French government will take the UK’s resolution to impose days on all people arriving from France, the young minister of European Affairs said.
The UK said Friday that British travellers to France must certify that they have coronavirus symptoms or have been in contact with a case shown in the 14 days prior to travel.
Since 15 August, the British government has also demanded that travellers returning from France isolate the accommodation on their return due to the maximum coVID-19 infection rates in France.
South Korea’s capital has ordered a mask to be wearing for the first time in closed and public places.
In May, the city government ordered a mask to be worn on public transport and taxis, but a recent increase in cases has raised fears among fitness officials that the country will have to impose its physical distance point: phase three.
In this category, companies will be asked to close, which will most hurt Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 266 new cases Sunday, up from 397 the day before, but some in more than a week of daily three-digit increases.
Overall, South Korea reported 17665 coronavirus and 309 deaths.
Residents of northwestern China’s Xinjiang region have complained on social media about severe coronavirus blocking measures in the delicate region after an outbreak.
China, where the disease first struck, had largely controlled national transmission through blockades, restrictions and testing, but sporadic regional outbreaks made the impression.
A new group in Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, in mid-July caused new restrictions.
A total of 902 has been officially reported in the epidemic.
Officials said earlier this month that the Urumqi group had “effectively contained” and that no new cases have been reported in the last 8 days.
Tokyo reported 95 new cases of coronavirus, marking the lowest one-day count since July 8, according to metropolitan data.
There were cases of approximately 2,900 tests, and children under the age of 40 accounted for 60% of new cases.
The total number of serious cases in the Japanese capital decreased from one from the day before 38.
Russia reported 4,744 new cases of coronavirus, bringing its total infections shown to 961493, the fourth in the world.
Authorities said another 65 people had been killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 16,448.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he had undergone additional medical tests, but refused to provide details.
Abe interrupted his first term in the component due to a crippling condition similar to ulcerative colitis, a disease he said he overcame when he returned to force in 2012.
But in recent weeks, reports have warned that the 65-year-old prime minister is back in poor health, with tabloids claiming to vomit blood and even confidants who publicly say he needs to rest.
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The Russian government could announce this week the resumption of foreign flights to France, Hungary, Malta, Cyprus, Jordan, Egypt and China in Shanghai, Izvestia newspaper mentioning unidentified air and airport sources reported.
Russia blocked foreign advertising flights by blocking the previous coronavirus this year and has so far only resumed flights to London, Turkey, Tanzania and Switzerland.
Russia has shown the fourth highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. It has recorded almost 5,000 new cases of viruses in recent weeks.
In Bangladesh, nearly one in five people treated for physical disorders suffers from a form of lung disease, according to a new report, making them vulnerable to coronavirus as it spreads to the camp where thousands of Rohingya live in Myanmar.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said many refugees face chronic fitness problems, as well as malnutrition and diarrhoea, in one of the world’s most overcrowded camps.
Officially, there were only 82 cases of COVID-19 and six similar deaths, however, the International Federation said that considerations remain the main ones that the figures tell the full story.
The Philippine Department of Education reported that at least 311 and 268 academics were inflamed by coronavirus.
In a social media ad, Undersecretary of Education Alain Pascua said of all cases, 318 remain active while 22 have died. It is known how many of the dead were teachers or students.
The branch postponed the resumption of categories amid fears of the spread of COVID-19, which ignited nearly 190,000 and nearly 3,000 deaths.
Mexico reported 226 more coronavirus deaths, ending the week with 3,723 deaths, the lowest overall in more than two months, according to government figures.
Previously, the government had said that the new coronavirus was in “sustained decline” in Mexico, control rates in the country remain low.
The U.S. state of Iowa showed the death in June of a 15-year-old boy due to coronavirus headaches, the first showing the death of a minor in the state.
Confirmation comes a day before dozens of school districts in the state prepare to start the school year, leaving many educators and parents nervous.
The pandemic has already killed another 1,036 people in Iowa. Nationwide, nearly 177,000 died in the United States, with about 5.7 million infections as early as Monday morning.
New cases of coronavirus in South Korea have slowed slightly to 266 new cases, however, the country remains on alert to the country.
News firm Yonhap cited the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as 258 of the new cases being locally transmitted.
The country now has a total of 17665 cases, without new deaths, which helps keep the death toll in 309.
China’s National Health Commission (NHC) reported 16 cases of coronavirus imported into mainland China on Monday, compared to 12 cases imported the previous day.
The NHC also stated that, for the eighth consecutive day, no new local infections had been detected in the country, another 27 new people would have been asymptomatic.
China has a total of 84,967 deaths, while the death toll remains unchanged at 4,634.
The use of outdoor masks is now found in Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
Seo Jeong-hyup, acting mayor of Seoul, issued the ordinance hours after the country reported 397 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, starting in early March.
There have reportedly been more than 2,600 cases in the last 10 days. The country reported approximately 17,400 cases and 309 deaths.
Australia’s most populous state at the time of Victoria reported 116 new cases of coronavirus, the smallest buildup in seven weeks.
The state capital, Melbourne, has been the subject of a strict closure and curfew since a new wave of epidemics emerged a few weeks ago. Authorities say 15 other people have died from the disease in the past 24 hours.
Australia now has more than 24,800 cases and 500 deaths, all the way to Johns Hopkins University.
The Pakistani government closed some 20 hotels in a picturesque tourist domain in the northwest of the country after dozens of hotel workers tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Associated Press.
Up to 47 hotel workers who tested positive were quarantined in the hotels where they worked.
Pakistan has shown more than 275,000 infections and nearly 6,300 deaths since its first reported case in February.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has legal use of blood plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to treat those with the disease.
The FDA said preliminary evidence suggests that plasma may decrease patient mortality and fitness when administered within the first 3 days of hospitalization.
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