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The St. Louis Cardinals will return to action this weekend after delaying a total of 14 games while facing a COVID-19 outbreak within the club, Major League Baseball said.
The Cardinals, who last competed on July 29, will finish their two-week break when they play a double against the Chicago White Sox on Saturday before concluding the three-game series on Sunday.
Argentina has extended restrictions opposing the coronavirus until August 30, President Alberto Fernandez said, and said the blockade of the country would continue in its current form in the capital, Buenos Aires.
The measures, which are more comfortable in less densely populated areas, were to expire on Sunday. “The only therapy we’ve discovered so far is restricting other people’s movements and face-to-face encounters as much as possible,” Fernandez said.
“The plan has worked and it works, but it still exists.”
The UK has won 90 million doses of two “promising” coronavirus vaccines, the government said, raising its overall requests for potential COVID-19 vaccines to nearly 350 million doses.
The country has entered into agreements to buy 60 million doses from US biotechnology company Novavax and another 30 million doses of Janssen Pharmaceuticals from US giant Johnson and Johnson.
South Africa, ravaged by the crime, has noticed a drastic drop in crime offences, sexual assault, in the first 3 months of its coronavirus blockade, the police minister said.
The most recent quarterly statistics showed that crime fell by 40% between April and June, when the country’s issue with the strict house remains restrictions aimed at restricting the spread of the virus.
“These statistics show significant decreases in all categories of crimes relative to it was comparative last year,” Police Minister Bheki Cele said.
President Donald Trump has said he is in a position to act to inject stimulus cash into a U.S. economy hard hit by the coronavirus crisis, a week after his negotiating team failed to reach an agreement with Congressional Democrats.
The Republican-controlled Senate and the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives came into a casual suspension after the end of last week’s talks with the separate $2 billion parties. However, leaders of either party said they could withdraw their members 24 hours in advance if an agreement is reached.
In a series of Twitter posts, Trump said he is willing to take unilateral action, this time to provide Americans with direct and effective bills for small businesses and state and local governments. “DEMOCRATS KEEP THAT!” the president has written several times in the tweet series.
Oman will end the ban on night movements from 15 August at 09:00 GMT, Oman’s Supreme Committee announced on COVID-19 on Twitter.
Oman recorded 82,743 cases of coronavirus, 557 deaths and 77,427 cures.
Canada is predicting a “reasonable worst-case scenario” in which new waves of coronavirus would intermittently overwhelm the public fitness system, he said.
Under the stage, there would be a peak at the end of this year, followed by a series of smaller peaks and valleys that would run until January 2022. Each of the peaks would exceed the capacity of the health care system.
Several of Canada’s 10 provinces have reported a higher number of COVID-19 infections as the economy recovers and restrictions on social gatherings are eased.
Austria’s Foreign Ministry has joined Italy as opposed to Croatia amid developing considerations that tourists can simply contract the coronavirus and spread it on their return.
Nearly a quarter of other people whose infections have been reported in the last seven days have no symptoms, said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober. The average age of inflamed Austrians is 33.7 years.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security He said the ban on non-essential products at Canada-Mexico border crossings lasted until 21 September.
The reciprocal ban to stop the spread of coronavirus was first imposed in March and has been extended several times since.
Germany has added all of Spain, with the exception of the Canary Islands, to its list of spaces at maximum threat of coronavirus, the Ministry of Health said, in a blow to primary tourist destinations such as Mallorca.
The resolution means that travellers returning from mainland Spain or the Balearic Islands must undergo mandatory covid-19 control and face a quarantine period.
“A very dynamic epidemic is appearing in Spain. The number of cases continues to increase,” a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Fitness told the AFP.
The 8 Aberdeen who violated COVID-19 protocols and postponed three league matches have been severely reprimanded and fined, the Scottish Premiership club said.
Media reported that the players visited a bar on 1 August in violation of their own COVID-19 and government protocols after their first 1-0 loss to the Rangers.
“As a result of our investigation, they have been severely reprimanded and fined,” the club’s president, Dave Cormack, said in a statement.
“Contractually, the details must remain confidential between the club and all players, but, have security, monetary fines are in line with the seriousness of the consequences of their actions,” he added.
Thousands of Albanians formed a massive queue of cars on the Greek border as they returned to the country to paint before new virus regulations, police said.
Adjustments came when thousands of Albanians living and working in Greece, basically in the agricultural sector, were preparing to return home after the summer holidays.
According to the new rules of Athens, arrivals from Albania will be limited to 750 after 16 August.
Greece has set a transitional limit for another 50 people for public meetings and said restaurants and bars in Athens and other regions will have to close earlier, as the country seeks to involve a recent increase in COVID-19 infections.
The Deputy Minister of Civil Protection said that the restriction on public gatherings would last until 24 August and would be imposed in the areas of the country where the number of contagions has increased.
Previously, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis suggested other young people wear masks, reminding them that they are not invulnerable to the new coronavirus and that they can unknowingly infect their own families.
Brazil’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro’s approval rate is at its highest level since he took over last year despite 105,000 deaths in the country due to the world’s second worst coronavirus outbreak, according to a new survey.
The Datafolha ballot found that 37% of respondents said their government was smart or smart, up from 32% in June, while their rejection rate was reduced through 10 issues to 34% that their government was bad or terrible.
Bolsonaro has been criticized for rejecting social estrangement and blockades to stop the pandemic, which has not yet succeeded in its heyday in Brazil.
U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the new coronavirus that could be used in human vaccine provocation trials, a questionable type of examination in which healthy volunteers would be vaccinated and then deliberately inflamed with the virus, according to Reuters News. Agency.
The paintings are initial and such trials would not update large-scale phase 3 trials, such as those currently being conducted in the United States to verify the COVID-19 experimental vaccines from Moderna Inc and Pfizer Inc, according to an email sent to Reuters from the National. Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the National Institutes of Health.
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All Spanish regions have agreed to order the closure of nightclubs and ban smoking in outdoor spaces when it is more unlikely to be kept at a distance, among other measures aimed at curbing the accumulation of coronavirus infections, health minister Salvador Illa said.
Illa also opposed the meetings of more than ten others and, in particular, warned young people not to gather outdoors to drink alcohol.
Infections have increased in recent days, bringing Thursday’s total to 337,334 since the start of the pandemic.
The Philippines imposed a transitional ban on imports of poultry meat from Brazil after two cities in China discovered lines of the new coronavirus in shipments of imported frozen food, adding bird wings from South America.
The Shenzhen city government knew that the bird came from a factory owned by Aurora, Brazil’s third largest poultry and pork exporter.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that it had not noticed evidence that coronavirus spread through food or packaging and suggested to others who are not afraid that the virus enters the food chain.
The Dutch economy has been hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, as blockades have halted activity in the country, according to data.
The EU’s fifth largest economy fell by 8.5% between April and June compared to the last 3 months, according to CBS central statistics.
“Never before has such a contraction been measured,” CBS said in a statement.
More than part of the contraction is due to a sharp drop in household consumption, statisticians said.
The British rushed back from a summer vacation to France after their government announced that it would soon impose 40 14 days on travelers across the Channel due to the accumulation of coronavirus infections.
The British government announced on Thursday night that it would impose about 40 from 03:00 GMT on Saturday on arrivals from France, giving 160,000 British tourists just over 24 hours to return home and isolate themselves.
The sudden change in regulations dealt an additional blow to hikers, airlines and tour operators, all hoping to spend a holiday after the pandemic, which left many teams out of cash and with a dubious future.
The European Commission has reached an agreement with the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to acquire at least three hundred million doses of its future COVID-19 vaccine.
The EU’s executive arm, which is negotiating on behalf of all 27 EU states, said the agreement also included an option to acquire one hundred million more doses if the vaccine was effective.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is being developed in collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxford.
The UK will buy COVID-19 vaccines from US drug brands Johnson and Johnson and Novavax Inc, corporations said, expanding the number of drug brand agreements as the global vaccine race progresses.
The UK and the US lead the way with six drug-branded vaccine agreements each, while corporations and governments around the world’s tables to locate a vaccine.
The most recent agreements bring the total number of doses in the UK to 362 million for a population of 66 million.
Coronavirus has been classified as a pandemic and has been reported in at least 188 territories.
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One in five criminals in India’s largest Indian-administered criminal tested positive for coronavirus, the government said, while the Ministry of Health reported a build-up of more than 60,000 cases nationwide for the third day in a row.
Authorities at the criminal power plant in Srinagar, Kashmir’s main city, said they were going to move some criminals after 102 of the 480 tested positive.
“We are very careful and all new participants are screened and quarantined for two weeks,” Reuters VK Singh, as well as director general of Kashmir prisons, told Reuters VK Singh.
The Philippine government has an additional delay in opening schools across the country to allow more distance arrangements amid the new coronavirus outbreak.
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the postponement of the categories until October 5, according to a memorandum issued through executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.
School categories in the Philippines begin in June, but the government has postponed the opening until August 24. Duterte has ruled out allowing face-to-face courses until a COVID-19 vaccine is available.
Instead, learning will take place at home, whether online, television, radio or published materials.
An investigation into how thousands of passengers were allowed to land in Sydney since the cruiser inflamed with the Ruby Princess virus has criticized border and fitness officials.
The research report released Friday found that it was “inexplicable and unjustifiable” that fitness officials made a “serious mistake” on March 19 calling the cruiser to send a “low risk” and allowing 2,700 passengers to leave without waiting for checks. Coronavirus.
This was the mistake that spread COVID-19 across the country, as 700 passengers were inflamed and passed on to friends and family across the country.
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Belgian hospitals are storing medicines and protective kits and are in a position of emergency plans in the midst of an ongoing outbreak of new COVID-19 infections that has forced the capital, Brussels, to make masking mandatory in public spaces.
With nearly 10,000 coronavirus-related deaths to date, Belgium with a population of 11 million has one of the coVID-19 mortality rates consistent with the capita.
In March and April, when the pandemic accelerated, Belgian hospitals faced a shortage of equipment and administrative obstacles.
“We have stocked up with curare, anesthetics and antibiotics that allow us to last two or three months at any time that may happen,” Medical Director Michel Dewever of Delta Hospital in Brussels told Reuters.
The French government has declared Paris and the Bouches-du-Rhane region around Marseille on the Mediterranean coast as “red” spaces at the highest threat of coronavirus infection, according to a new government decree.
The decree gives the local government the strength to limit the movement of other people and vehicles, limit public transport and air transport, limit public buildings and close safe institutions where the threat of infection is high.
The measure follows a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections over the more than two weeks.
Indonesia: 135123 (2307), 6021 deaths (53)
Philippines: 153660 (6216), 2442 deaths (16)
Russia: 912823 (5056), 15498 deaths (114)
Ukraine: 87,872 (1,732), 2011 deaths (0)
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The UK did not yet have the option of imposing 40 14-day arrivals from France from Saturday to national public fitness, said Transport Minister Grant Shapps.
“It’s a dynamic situation, and I don’t think anyone oneArray … he would like us to do anything other than public health and public safety,” Shapps told Sky News.
“This is that when we see countries breaking a safe point of instanceArray … then we still don’t have the pick to act,” he added.
New Zealand has prolonged the blockade of its largest city in Auckland for at least 12 days, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced as the government grappled with a new and developing coronavirus outbreak. “The Cabinet has agreed our existing parameters for another 12 days, which takes us a total of two full weeks,” Ardern said. Since another 4 people tested positive on Tuesday, the first cases of network transmission in 102 days, New Zealand has detected an organization of 30 cases. Most of these cases were discovered in Auckland, a city of 1.5 million people who were asked to stay home. The authorities are still suffering from knowing how the virus returned to New Zealand, which had received international praise for its handling of the crisis.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has registered to buy a Russian COVID-19 vaccine as the Southeast Asian country is battling a new epidemic after months of a local case.
Russia said the first batch of the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine would be launched within two weeks, dismembering it as “baseless” protection considerations expressed through some experts about Moscow’s immediate approval of the drug.
“In the meantime, Vietnam will continue to expand its own COVID-19 vaccine,” said the national television channel Vietnam Television, referring to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.
The ministry did not specify how many doses of the Russian vaccine he had ordered or when he planned to obtain them. The local Vietnam vaccine will be available until the end of 2021, the ministry announced last month.
The number of coronavirus deaths in India has surpassed that of the UK and has become the fourth-highest in the world, and the government has reported another record for the accumulation of infections in one day.
According to the Ministry of Health, India has reported 1,007 deaths in the last 24 hours. Its total increased to 48,040 deaths, the United States, Brazil and Mexico.
Confirmed in India reached 2,461,190 with a one-day peak of 64,553 reported in more than 24 hours, the ministry said. The South Asian country reported 66,999 on Thursday.
New Zealand Health Minister Chris Hipkins said two of the thirteen new infections reported Friday had been discovered on the northern island of The city of Tokoroa, about 210 kilometres south of Auckland, the site of the country’s most recent outbreak.
But Hipkins has minimized fears that the virus is now endemic elsewhere.
“All instances so far are connected, they are all components of an Auckland-based cluster, that’s good news,” he said, adding that Tokoroa’s instances were temporarily identified.
All instances so far were similar to an existing instance organization in Auckland, while all thirteen are still under investigation.
“We now request that all positive instances and, if necessary, your circle of family members or family members be transferred to the Auckland Quarantine Facility in Auckland for those Auckland-based instances,” Bloomfield said.
South Korea reported 103 new cases of coronavirus, of which they were transmitted locally.
The figure marks the largest accumulation of a day in national bodies since the end of March, according to the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said the government would be forced to increase social estrangement measures in Seoul’s metropolitan domain, something politicians had been reluctant to do because of economic considerations if transmissions continued to increase. Eighty-three of the new cases were recorded in the capital.
He advocated for citizens’ vigilance during a three-day holiday that runs until Monday and criticized the plans of some militant teams to hold demonstrations in Seoul over the weekend despite the city’s ban.
Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s ideal leader, has lifted a blockade on the town near the border with South Korea, where thousands of others had been quarantined for weeks due to coronavirus considerations, according to state media.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Kim took the resolution at a party assembly on Thursday. The North Korean leader said it was transparent after 3 weeks that the viral stage in Kaesong was solid and expressed gratitude to citizens for their cooperation with the closure.
Kim also insisted that the country keep its borders closed and rejected all foreign aid while Pyongyang was engaged in a competitive antivirus crusade and rebuilt thousands of homes, roads and bridges broken by heavy rains and flooding in recent weeks.
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Peru surpassed part of one million cases of coronavirus on Thursday and now has the mortality rate in Latin America, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health.
The Andean country has 507,996 instances shown and 25,648 similar deaths. Peru’s mortality rate is 78.6 consistent with 100,000 people, according to a Reuters count, more than the hardest-hit regional neighbors, Chile and Brazil.
President Martín Vizcarra attributed the recent outbreak of contagion to the accumulation of social and sporting events and a lax attitude of the public.
“There has been too much public confidence, ” said Vizcarra. “Let’s be informed from history, the right mistakes and now we’re united despite the differences in some of the decisions that are made.”
On Wednesday, Vizcarra banned the family reunion circle, restored a general curfew on Sunday and extended the closures to five other parts of the country, with figures revealing a 75% increase in youth and adolescent infections.
Mexico’s Ministry of Health reported 7,371 new cases of coronavirus and 627 more deaths, bringing the total in the country to 505,751 cases and 55,293 deaths.
The government has stated that the actual number of other inflamed people is much higher than the cases shown.
Dario Vivas, governor of the district of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and best friend of President Nicolás Maduro, died on Thursday of COVID-19, the authorities said.
Vivas, 70, a prominent member of the ruling Socialist Party, said on Twitter on July 19 that the new coronavirus had been tested and isolated.
“He died in warArray … taking care of his physical condition and all of us in this complicated war opposed to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Vice President Delcy Rodriguez wrote on Twitter.
Vivas is the first high-level Venezuelan government official to die from the virus, several tested positive.
Clément Beaune, a young French minister for European Affairs, said the UK’s resolution to impose 40 14 days on all arrivals in France is that “we repent and will lead to a measure of reciprocity.”
France “hoped to return to the general as soon as possible,” Beaune said on Twitter.
On Thursday, France recorded 2,669 new infections, its highest number since May.
The UK will impose 40 14 days on all arrivals from France, holland, Malta and 3 countries, said Transport Minister Grant Shapps.
“Knowledge shows that we want to remove France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba from our list of brokers #coronavirus to keep BAS infection rates,” Shapps said on Twitter.
“If you arrive in the UK after 04:00 on Saturday from those destinations, you’ll want to isolate yourself for 14 days.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has attacked his rival, Joe Biden, for calling on governors to order the face in public for the next three months.
“We don’t want to put the full burden of the federal government on law-abiding Americans to achieve this goal. Americans will have to have their freedoms,” Trump said.
“I have a lot of religion in the other American people and their governors. I accept as true with the other American people. And governors must do whatever it takes to make wise decisions. And Joe didn’t.”
Early Thursday, Biden, the alleged Democratic presidential candidate, called for a national masking term, raising predictions from fitness experts that it could save 40,000 lives in the next three months.
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