International coronavirus cases exceeded 20 million, and Brazil and Mexico reported 27,000 infections combined in a single day without getting married. More than 12.4 million people have recovered and more than 744,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Here are the updates:
The two top Democrats in the U.S. Congress said the White House had called for a new assembly on talks about aid to blocked coronaviruses, and showed no signs of deviating from the positions it held when negotiations failed last week.
In a joint statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had made the “opening” to meet, but “clarified that Array … the White House does not move from its position on the extent and scope of a legislative package.”
“Democrats have made commitments,” they said, noting that they abandoned their original $3.5 trillion proposal and expect President Donald Trump’s team to increase their $1 trillion bid to $2 trillion.
Friction points come with the duration of extended unemployment benefit, assistance to state and local governments, cash for the reopening of schools, and other problems.
Congress has already approved about $3 trillion in aid for families, hospitals, health care workers, state and local governments, vaccines and testing.
A Reuters/Ipsos ballot released Wednesday found that Americans spread the blame lightly between Democrats and Republicans.
Germany has added Bucharest and 10 other regions of Romania, adding Brasov, Gorj, Prahova and Vrancea, to a list of places with the greatest threat of coronavirus infections.
This means that travelers who enter Germany after visiting those sites will have to pass a mandatory coronavirus check and go to quarantine if it testes positive.
German Labor Minister Hubertus Heil announced Wednesday night that he would cancel the planned stopover for Thursday in Bucharest, where he will meet with Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu and Labor Minister Violeta Alexandru.
The scale in aimed to discuss the plight of Romanians operating on farms and slaughterhouses in Germany, after a wave of coronavirus groups brought the climax to their terrible operating conditions.
Travellers arriving in Italy from Croatia, Greece, Malta and Spain will want to get tested, while Colombia has been added to a list of countries subject to a general ban.
The measure occurs when the country has reported approximately 500 new cases and 10 deaths in the last 24 hours, twice the degrees noticed in June. “We will have to continue on the path of caution to protect the effects we have achieved in recent months thanks to the sacrifices of all,” Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Facebook.
The Brazilian state of Paraná has reached an agreement with Russia to produce a COVID-19 vaccine that Moscow has presented as in a position to be put on the market, said the workplace of the state press. The Russian vaccine made headlines for its commercialization, which has led to skepticism in other countries because its final trials are not yet complete.
The Turkish clinical council warned that schooling in schools deserves not to begin for at least another month, Fahrettin Koca said, after the council met to discuss measures to stop the spread of coronavirus. In a post-meeting brief, Koca said face-to-face education would begin gradually and that online education would be provided if necessary.
The UK held its first concert in Newcastle in order to distance itself socially. The organizers placed 500 separate steel platforms, each with up to five more people from the same house.
Russia said the first batch of the global COVID-19 vaccine would be launched within two weeks and discarded as explicit “unfounded” protection considerations through some experts on Moscow’s immediate approval of the drug. “It turns out that our foreign colleagues are feeling the explicit competitive benefits of Russian drugs and expect explicit reviews that we are completely unfounded,” health minister Mikhail Murashko said the day after President Vladimir Putin announced regulatory approval.
Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said he had recovered from the new coronavirus after 33 days of the disease.
“Thank you to President Nicolás Maduro and [the first lady] Cilia Flores for all her prayers,” El Aissami, who is also economic vice president of OPEC, said on Twitter. “We won.”
As the British government followed a new way of counting deaths due to considerations of its previous method, the official death toll in the UK fell by more than 5,000, from 46,706 to 41,329. The UK government and decentralized regional administrations agreed to publish the number of deaths daily within 28 days of a lab-confirmed COVID-19 test, the Department of Health said. Previously, there was no time limit for deaths after a positive test.
France reported 2,524 new cases in the last 24 hours, marking a new daily high after closing and bringing the country’s cumulative total to 206,696. The seven-day moving average of new infections, which is the average weekly knowledge reporting irregularities, rose to 1,810, the highest point since April 24, when the epidemic was in full swing.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats and the Trump administration were far from any agreement on increased economic assistance amid the pandemic. “We’re miles away from each other,” Pelosi told MSNBC in an interview, and mentioned education-specific funding, among other needs. “It’s an abyss … however, in practice, they will have to sit at the table.”
The UK has reported 1,009 new cases in the last 24 hours, marking the third time in a month that the number of infections daily has exceeded 1,000. However, today’s figure dropped from 1148 the day before.
After a month-long blockade, Uzbekistan said it would remove maximum restrictions from Saturday. People will be allowed to drive their cars back and hold ceremonies such as weddings for up to 30 other people in their homes. Companies such as hotels, hairdressers and cafes will also be able to reopen and air and rail traffic will resume, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s workplace said in a statement. The government reintroduced a lockout last month after the lifting of the restrictions in June led to an increase in the number of new cases, leaving hospitals suffering to cope.
After more than a hundred days without a local case, New Zealand imposed a blockade around its most giant city, Auckland. While the government has reported 4 new cases within the same family, for 3 days Auckland citizens will be invited to stay at home, giant meetings will be banned, non-essential businesses will be closed, and some restrictions on social estrangement will be reintroduced. the rest of the country. The country.
The number of infections in Germany peaked at three months when the government suggested citizens remain vigilant and comply with public skills guidelines. The country’s disease control authority reported 1,226 new infections, the highest number since early May, which has exceeded 1,000 in a few days recently.
“This is definitely worrying,” Health Minister Jens Spahn told a local radio station. “And this, of course, can lead to a new dynamic, if not all of us are cautious now,” he said, adding that small and medium-scale epidemics have occurred in almost every region, largely due to returning travelers and party-goers. have a circle of family reunions.
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Jordan will close its land industry border crossing with Syria for a week after an increase in COVID-19 cases from its northern neighbor, authorities said.
They said the interior minister’s resolution on The main Border Crossing in Jaber would take effect on Thursday morning.
The art that ostentation is the raison d’etre of the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, Israeli jewelers who make the $1.5 million item for an unidentified American customer say.
Made of 18-carat gold and studded with 3600 black and white diamonds, the mask will be supplied with a transparent N99 to provide a superior protective point, said Isaac Levy, owner of the Yvel jewelry logo.
“I don’t think [the customer] uses it to move to the supermarket, yet it’s going through to use it here and there, I’m sure,” Levy said.
He described the consumer as a Collector of Chinese Art Living in the United States.
Norway is re-imposing quarantine on more travellers from foreign countries, the government said, and reiterated its recommendation that Norwegians deserve to avoid travel amid an increase in the number of new coronavirus cases.
“We are doing this now so that everyone can have their s as freely as possible,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg said at a press conference.
“All foreign travel is associated with a risk of infection,” Solberg said.
The country will now re-impose 10-day quarantines from Saturday for all travellers from Poland, Malta, Iceland, Cyprus and the Netherlands, such as the Faroe Islands and parts of Denmark and Sweden.
Vietnam’s prime minister said the next 10 days would be in the Southeast Asian country’s fight opposed to a new coronavirus outbreak, which resurfaced last month after three months without a domestic case.
“Keep in mind that the era from this week to the middle of next week is critical,” Said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, according to a statement.
“What measures do we continue to put in place to defeat the virus? What classes have we learned from this existing epidemic?” Phuc said.
Vietnam reported 3 new coronavirus infections, bringing the number in the country to 866, with 17 deaths. All deaths are due to the new epidemic.
Global Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks tripled in the last quarter of 2020, according to a report by cybersecurity company Kaspersky.
Kaspersky experts believe that behind the development of malicious activity lies the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the 2020 quarter, DDoS attacks increased by 217% year-on-year, 30% more than in the first quarter.
“The DDoS attack will send multiple requests to the attacked Internet resource, in order to overcome the website’s ability to handle multiple requests and prevent the website from functioning properly,” Kaspersky’s website said.
Philippine scientists were scheduled to meet with representatives of the Russian State Research Center, which developed a vaccine opposite coronavirus, to discuss participation in clinical trials and data from their studies.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte praised the Russian vaccine and proposed being “injected in public” to allay public fears about their safety.
Undersecretary of Health Rosario Vergeire said Filipino experts would meet with representatives of the Gamaleya Research Center to discuss the trials and ask for a “full record” on the vaccine.
South Korea has opened a new high-tech front in the fight against coronavirus, fortifying bus canopies with thermal doors and UV disinfection lamps.
Ten complex amenities have been installed in a neighborhood northeast of Seoul, providing coverage against monsoon rains, summer heat and the new coronavirus.
To enter, passengers must stand in front of an automated thermal imaging camera and the door will only open if their temperature is less than 37.5 degrees Celsius (99.5 Fahrenheit).
A separate camera is installed underneath to control children.
Inside glass-walled huts, which charge around a hundred million won ($84,000), air conditioning systems are equipped with UV-lamps to kill viruses while cooling the air.
France will intensify police checks to ensure that others wear masks where needed and respect social distance amid a new wave of COVID-19 infections, the government spokesman said.
“We are at a turning point. Array. We will mobilize the police to make checks,” Gabriel Attal told BFM TV on a stopover on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
“But it’s not the police who are afraidArray … he’s worried about the virus that’s hiding and contaminating,” he said.
Hong Kong reported 62 new cases of coronavirus, and the government warned that the global monetary center is still facing a critical era to involve new transmissions of the virus and warned citizens to remain vigilant for social estrangement.
The government said of the 62 instances had been transmitted locally.
Indonesia has reported new cases of coronavirus in 1942, bringing the total number of infections shown in the country to 130718, according to the knowledge of the website of the government’s Ministry of Health.
The Southeast Asian country also added 79 new deaths, bringing the total to 5903, the number of DEATHS from COVID-19 in Southeast Asia.
The use of a mask is mandatory in all public squares in Brussels, with the number of COVID-19 infections achieving a government alert point that places the town among the highest affected in Europe.
The Belgian capital, home to the headquarters of the European Union and NATO, recorded an average of 50 inhabitants consisting of 100,000 inhabitants in the day last week.
Everyone in the city, which has a population of 1.2 million, will now have to wear a mask in parks, streets or other public places, as well as in personal spaces available to the public, the regional government said.
Singapore reported 42 new coVID-19 instances, their lowest number in approximately 4 and a half months.
The city-state crashed in mid-April after major epidemics in the overcrowded dormitories of migrant staff took their workload to one of Asia’s highest.
Last week, he said he had eliminated infections from all dormitories, which house about 300,000, with the exception of some blocks that continue to serve as isolation zones.
Among Wednesday’s cases, the lowest since 29 March, the majority were among the remaining quarantined.
Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said allegations that Russian COVID-19 vaccine was unfounded and competitively motivated, Interfax news firm reported.
Moscow’s resolve to grant it its approval has raised considerations among some experts. Only about 10% of clinical trials are a success and some scientists fear that Moscow will put national prestige first to safety.
Britain has tried to calm a dispute over the delivery of school diplomas to the pandemic by allowing academics to use the effects of past trials, in a last-minute replacement following a protest in Scotland.
The coronavirus pandemic meant that almost no review took a position in the UK. Students in England are expected to earn grades for their A-level on Thursday, which are passed to the 18-year-old to earn a position at the university.
The effects were to be on a student’s school trial and then moderated through exam jurors.
But Education Minister Gavin Williamson said academics would now have the option to decide between their calculated grade, decide to pass with their fictitious result, or take a new exam in the fall.
The number of cases shown of coronavirus in Russia, the fourth in the world, increased to 902701 after the government reported 5,102 new infections.
Authorities said 129 more people had been killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 15,260.
The town of Jingzhou in Central Hubei Province, China, reported a case of coronavirus in which the user regained positivity after recovering months ago, the Jingzhou government said.
The 68-year-old woman, who had the coronavirus test on February 8 but recovered a few months ago, was tested on August 9, the government said.
She is now quarantined and in treatment, and the other people who contacted her tested negative for the coronavirus, she said.
There’s no evidence of relapse transmission, he added.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn said he was skeptical that Russia became the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine, and said it was imperative to have a proven product rather than the first.
The Russian vaccine, which will be called “Sputnik V” in homage to the world’s first satellite introduced through the Soviet Union, has completed its last tests. Regulatory approval came after less than two months of human testing.
“It’s not about being the first one one or another, it’s about having an effective, proven and therefore,” Spahn told Deutschlandfunk radio.
“To have confidence in such a vaccine, I think it is very, very important, even in times of pandemic, doing the studies, the applicable tests and above all making them public. The challenge is that we know very little. Because the Russian government is very transparent,” he said.
Facebook deleted more than seven million posts in the last quarter containing erroneous data on coronavirus that could harm people’s health, the social media giant said.
The company also placed precautionary tags on some 98 million questionable but less harmful content about the virus, said Facebook’s vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen.
“While our generation to identify and remove infringing content is improving, there will be spaces where we rely on others to review the content and exercise our generation,” Facebook said in a blog post.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her wardrobe would explain friday what the next steps are in the new restrictions imposed across the country, as she has reported 4 new cases, probably new, of coronavirus in the community.
Of the 4 likely new cases, two are co-workers of one type who took the test and two are similar to the family in which one of the cases remained.
Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who has a coronavirus, is in critical condition after surgery for a blood clot in his brain, an official broadcaster reported.
Mukherjee, 84, was living at the New Delhi Army Research and Reference Hospital, All India public radio reported.
He entered the hospital on Monday when tests revealed a giant brain clot for which he underwent emergency surgery.
Mukherjee tweeted on Monday that he had also tested positive for coronavirus after arriving at the hospital and suggested to those who had contacted him to isolate themselves and get tested.
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Hong Kong’s cathay pacific said it lost H $9.9 billion ($1.27 billion) in the first part of this year after the border locks caused by the pandemic destroyed its fleets.
“The first six months of 2020 were the most difficult months The Cathay Pacific Group has faced in its more than 70-year history,” President Patrick Healy said in a stern statement.
“The global fitness crisis has decimated the industry and the long term remains very uncertain,” he added.
New showed that community-transmitted coronavirus cases in China were reduced to a single number on Wednesday, while Hong Kong recorded 33 cases of infection.
The National Health Commission said the nine new cases had been discovered in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose capital, Urumqi, is in the midst of China’s last primary outbreak.
Another 25 were brought through Chinese travelers arriving from abroad.
New Zealand officials are investigating that their first instances of COVID-19 in more than 3 months were imported by freight.
Ashley Bloomfield, a leading fitness officer, said fitness officers are “working hard to put together a puzzle combination on how” the 4 members of the same circle of relatives were inflamed in Auckland.
Research focused on the possibility of loading the virus through shipping and Bloomfield said surface tests are being conducted at a fresh store in Auckland where an inflamed circle of relatives worked.
South Korea and the United States will launch their joint annual army training this week, but mobilize U.S. troops after cutting the program due to coronavirus problems, according to South Korean media.
News firm Yonhap said the training would take place from 16 to 28 August, but on a small scale, the deadline was extended for a few days for participants to remain scattered and minimize activities in the middle of the night.
The exercises begin in August and involve tens of thousands of infantrymen on both sides.
The death toll in Argentina from coronavirus reached 5004 on Tuesday amid an increase in the number of cases despite the months of blockade since March 20.
In the past, the authorities had eased restrictions in many parts of Argentina, a move attributed to the recent increase.
The country recorded 7,043 new COVID-19s on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections shown to 260,911, surpassing the total number in Italy.
Mexico reported on Tuesday a near-record number of 926 deaths recorded through COVID-19, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 53929.
The Ministry of Health reported 6686 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of cases shown in the country to date to 492,522.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern postponed the dissolution of parliament for general elections until Monday, following the country’s most recent COVID-19 outbreak.
Parliament will be dissolved on Wednesday morning, the first step towards holding the general election scheduled for 19 September.
Ardern has not yet taken a resolution on the postponement of the elections.
Australia’s most populous state of the time, Victoria, reported its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic with 21 deaths in the last 24 hours and 410 new cases.
The state reported 19 deaths from the coronavirus, its previous one-day high in casualties, on Tuesday and Monday. It logged 331 cases a day earlier.
Last week, Victoria imposed a night-time curfew, tightened restrictions on people’s movements, and ordered much of the local economy to close to stop the spread of coronavirus.
The U.S. reached an agreement with drug manufacturer Modern Inc. to obtain one hundred million doses of its possible COVID-19 vaccine for about $1.5 billion, the company and the White House said.
The value of Moderna is approximately $30.50, consistent with the user of a two-dose diet, its vaccine candidate, mRN-1273, is one of the few that has already reached the maximum level of testing.
The U.S. government He has allocated a total of at least $10.9 billion for the progression and manufacture of a coronavirus vaccine and has already ordered one hundred million doses of vaccine from Johnson-Johnson, Novavax, Pfizer and Sanofi and $300 million from AstraZeneca.
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