A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 772,000 people worldwide.
More than 21.7 million people internationally have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to knowledge compiled through the Center for Science and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual figures are thought to be much higher due to a lack of evidence, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments hide or minimize the scope of their epidemics.
Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the United States has the worst-affected country, with more than 5.4 million cases diagnosed and at least 170,434 deaths.
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New York gyms will open next week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said hours after the announcement of the reopening of the state’s fitness facilities next Monday.
“There is no higher priority than making sure our schools and day care centers are informed in the fall, and the city’s committed team of inspectors will continue to prioritize this work,” de Blasio said in a statement. “While indoor fitness categories and indoor pools are not opening at this time, we will extend a fair and rigorous inspection formula for other gym amenities in the coming weeks.”
Early Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York State gymnasiums could reopen with a 33% masked capacity limit worn at any time from August 24. The facilities will also have to go through inspections to remain open.
When the Kansas City Chiefs begin their season next month, Super Bowl champions may have more than 16,000 enthusiasts present.
Team officials announced Monday that The Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium will have a reduced capacity of about 22% to start the season. The stadium can accommodate more than 76,000 people.
Local officials, Kansas City’s mayor, fitness director and EMS medical director approved the plan, the team said.
Among the COVID-19 protocols of the stadium, mask will be required at all times unless when you eat or drink, no bags will be allowed inside, hand sanitizer stations were installed in the stadium and the most affected spaces will be cleaned earlier. during and after each game with hospital grade disinfectants.
He starts his season on September 10 against the Houston Texans.
More than 60 NFL players have opted out of the upcoming season due to issues related to COVID-19, 3 leaders, according to ESPN.
After positivity rates for coronavirus increased from 2.8% to 13.6% at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, school officials moved all face-to-face undergraduate courses to distance education, announced Monday.
When students began moving to the dorms two weeks ago, officials kept the buildings at less than 60% of their capacity and study rooms at less than 30% capacity, the school said. However, 177 academics are now remote and another 349 are quarantined, authorities said.
The transition of undergraduate academics from face-to-face service to distance service will take effect on Wednesday. Classes for universities, vocational and fitness issues will continue as they were, authorities said.
Simona Halep, the top-ranked tennis player at this year’s US Open, withdrew from the tournament due to COVID-19 issues.
Halep tweeted Monday: “After weighing all the points in question and given the exceptional cases in which we live, I have made the decision not to travel to New York to play @usopen. I said I would put my fitness at the center of my decision.”
Halep, who has recently ranked No. 2 in the world, is the singles player retiring from this year’s Grand Slam tournament. Most of those 12 players cited COVID-19 as a reason.
Ashleigh Barty, who was ranked No. 1, had also retired in the past due to COVID-19.
The American Tennis Association launched its fitness and protection plan for the U.S. Open on Monday. Players and members of the highest dot bubble will be evaluated twice; after two negative results, they will be analyzed every 4 days. Members of the narrowest bubble will have access to the National Tennis Center after the first negative test.
The U.S. Open begins on August 31.
Nearly part of American adults (45.4%) have a greater threat of more severe coronavirus disease because they live with one or more underlying medical conditions, according to a CDC published in the August issue of the Journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). , Emerging infectious diseases.
Researchers focused on central disease, diabetes, lung disease (COPD and asthma), peak blood pressure and cancer, as these six situations were related to a higher mortality rate, according to early Chinese data.
People with one or more of these medical situations are more likely to revel in more severe fitness disorders if they are inflamed with COVID-19, according to the study.
The older the person, the greater the risk, according to the study.
The study was based on self-informed data from telephone surveys. It doesn’t come with data from nursing homes and long-term care facilities, so it’s probably an understate fitness issues.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans, has been discovered in mink on two Utah farms, to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories.
It has been discovered that some other people who have been in contact with the mink have COVID-19, the USDA said.
The number of inflamed animals has been revealed.
“After the death of an unusually high number of mink on farms, the Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory performed autopsies on several of the affected animals,” the branch said on a Monday. “The samples were sent and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Washington. Both laboratories are members of the National Network of Animal Health Laboratories. Positive suspicious samples were then sent to the NVSL for confirmation testing.”
These are the first cases of mink virus in the United States, to the USDA.
The Canadian Football League announced on Monday that it will cancel the fall season to move forward with the short season.
“The league lost its first source of sites, enthusiastic in the stands, when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented giant meetings,” the league said in a statement. “Unlike U.S.-based leagues. That they may rely on television or streaming to get the highest percentage of their income, the CFL relies heavily on its live portal.
“Despite months of discussion, the government, however, rejected the CFL’s monetary support request,” the league said.
“Even with more support, our homeowners and network paint groups would have had to suffer significant monetary losses to play in 2020,” commissioner Randy Ambrosie said in the statement. “This result after months of discussions with government officials is disappointing. But now we are focusing on the long term and will continue to work with the federal and provincial governments in this context.”
Emory University infectious disease expert Dr. Rafi Ahmed said in a video briefing Monday that it is imperative that the United States does not get the flu as the pandemic progresses.
Over the past decade, influenza infections in the United States have ranged from nine million to forty-five million by year, and deaths have ranged from 10,000 to 60,000 by year, he said.
The vaccine is used for flu adjustments for both one and both years because other strains of the virus emerge year, requiring the progression of new vaccines adapted to combat them, Ahmed explained. Occasionally, a more harmful strain emerges that can lead to a pandemic, such as swine flu in 2009, he said.
While existing flu vaccines are effective, there is room for improvement, he said.
In particular, Ahmed said that “we would like to vaccinate others each year” and spread a long-term flu vaccine that can last “five years, ten years or more.”
In New York, gyms can open on August 24 at 33% capacity, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
The masks will be at all times, he said, and fitness rules will apply, adding ventilation requirements.
Localities will have to inspect services before or within two weeks of reopening, Cuomo said, and localities will also make decisions about indoor fitness classes.
New York, once the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, now has one of the lowest coronavirus rates in the country, Cuomo said.
Among those examined Sunday in New York State, 0.71% tested positive for coronavirus, the lowest number to date, Cuomo said.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s largest school district at the moment, is launching a program to detect coronaviruses and contacts in schools, Superintendent Austin Beutner said.
The community reopens with virtual startup on Tuesday.
Staff, academics and their families will go through normal tests that will be used “to examine the effect and effects of reopening,” the district said.
“While this effort to verify and search for contacts is unprecedented, it is appropriate,” Beutner said in a statement. “This will bring public health benefits to the school community as well as the Greater Los Angeles area.”
It also benefits schooling for schoolchildren “by bringing them back to school before and safer and now there,” he said.
“We hope this effort will also provide learning that can gain benefits in other school systems,” he added.
California has more than 625,000 cases of coronavirus, more than any other state in the United States.
More than 100,000 other people in Bolivia have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Bolivia’s ministry of fitness announced the bleak milestone on Sunday night, noting that 60% of diagnosed cases are active, adding 1,198 new infections. There have also been 55 more coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 4058 nationwide.
The South American country fell into chaos and civil unrest last month after the government postponed the first circular of presidential elections due to the coronavirus pandemic. The vote, which was originally scheduled for May, will now take place on 18 October.
Thousands of people continued to demonstrate in the streets.
A growing number of teachers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will register a will amid the coronavirus pandemic and fear of returning to school, according to a report through ABC’s local subsidiary, KTUL.
The Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association told KTUL that teachers’ applications to register a will were over 200% since May.
Tulsa Public Schools is scheduled to resume categories on August 31.
Teachers told KTUL that they were grateful that the school district began remote learning for the first nine weeks and that they expect it to continue if the city’s COVID-19 numbers decrease. They said they were afraid to take the virus house to their families.
An Arizona school district was forced to cancel Monday’s categories after more than a hundred staff members were called.
J.O. Combs Unified School District in Pinal County, Arizona, is about to resume categories in person, but informed parents in a letter dated Friday that “we earned a lot of staff leave on Monday for fitness and protection reasons.”
The school district added that they “will continue to monitor the update rate until five o’clock on Monday afternoon.”
A school district spokesman told Phoenix ABC’s KNXV associate that at least 109 people, in addition to teachers and workers, had asked not to work.
Last week, the head of the Arizona Department of Health Services and the state superintendent of public education presented a set of rules that public schools were asked to use to determine whether COVID-19 infection rates are low enough to safely reopen in person. Learning.
India’s Ministry of Health has recorded 941 more coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 50921.
The country of 1.3 billion more people has the fourth highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world, the United States, Brazil and Mexico, according to a real-time account of Johns Hopkins University.
More than 2.6 million people in India have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, the third number in the world.
A third in Cherokee County, Georgia, is final due to an increasing number of coronavirus cases among its academics and staff.
The Cherokee County School District announced Sunday that it temporarily ended Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia, hoping to resume user categories there on August 31.
“Over the weekend, the number of positive cases in the Creekview High School building increased to a total of 25, with 500 of its 1,800 academics now quarantined preemptively, and more pending tests that would particularly increase quarantine in general,” the Cherokee County School District said in a statement. “We perceive that these closures create difficulties and are disappointing for students who need to be informed of the user and their families, however, these are measures to prevent them from spreading leads within our schools.
The school district also closed face-to-face learning at Woodstock High School and Etowah High School, where the reopening is also tentatively scheduled for August 31. Distance learning will be in effect for all students in the 3 schools in the meantime.
Cherokee County reopened its schools on August 3, welcoming 30,000 students for face-to-face learning. Since then, at least 1,876 academics and forty-five of more than a dozen schools have been quarantined for two weeks, according to the knowledge published on the school district’s website.
There were 42048 new cases of COVID-19 known Sunday in the United States, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
The number of instances on Sunday is well below the record set on July 16, when more than 77,000 new instances were known over a 24-hour period.
A further 572 coronavirus-related deaths were also reported on Sunday. This is the first time in seven days that the country has reported fewer than 1,000 new deaths.
A total of 5,403,361 people in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and at least 170,052 of them have died, according to Johns Hopkins. The cases come with Americans from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. territories, as well as repatriated citizens.
By May 20, all U.S. states They had begun to lift house orders and other restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Daily accumulation in instances in the country was around 20,000 for a few weeks before emerging and exceeding 70,000 for the first time in mid-July.
An internal memorandum from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, received through ABC News on Sunday night, shows that the number of new cases nationwide in the following week has continued to decline in weekly comparisons, while the number of new deaths has reversed. . and assembled.
Stephanie Ebbs, Alexandra Faul, Josh Hoyos, Aaron Katersky, Josh Margolin, Arielle Mitropoulos, Darren Reynolds and Sony Salzman contributed to this report.
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