Malta closes bars and clubs; 70 tested positive in a dessert factory in the UK; Czech Republic sees resurgence of coronavirus infections
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Australia’s most populous state of the time, Victoria, has reported 17 coronavirus deaths in more than 24 hours, a day after recording its deadliest day of the pandemic with 25 victims. The state also reported 222 new cases of coronavirus compared to 282 on Monday, suggesting that the six-week level 4 blockade in the city of Melbourne is beginning to bend Covid’s curve.
Panama allowed beauty salons, churches, retail stores and fleets to open Monday after five months of closure amid the Covid-19 pandemic, The Associated Press reports.
The government has also allowed public and structural projects to resume and non-governmental organizations to reopen to revive a faltering economy.
There’s a question about the number of other people who were still obeying in their forties anyway. Traffic jams became commonplace again and reports of beach visits and house parties through government officials have increased.
“We can start climbing at 40 and start to take to the streets,” said Dr. Jorge Luis Prospero, former representative of the Pan American Health Organization in Ecuador and Nicaragua.
I rely on the fact that since July 1 we have maintained a solid number of new instances and deaths.
Panama’s economy will contract from 2% to 4% this year and unemployment has doubled to 14%.
Beauty salons and hairdressers will only have paintings with dates and 50% of their capacity. Retail sales will be allowed online or over the phone with delivery of purchases or pickup at designated locations.
On Sunday, the country reported nearly 82,000 infections and more than 1,700 deaths.
As Australia wakes up, a summary of the latest developments in recent hours:
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Brazil reported 19373 new cases of coronavirus and 684 more deaths in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday.
Brazil has now recorded 3,359,570 cases of viruses since the start of the pandemic, while the official number of Covid-19 deaths has risen to 108,536, according to ministry data, marking the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak after the United States.
Malta will recover its bars and clubs after an increase in coronavirus cases, Health Minister Chris Fearne said Monday.
The measure, which will take effect on Wednesday, will also include sports equipment and social clubs, said Fearne, who is also deputy prime minister.
Mass public gatherings were limited to 15 people, while restaurants and allowed to remain open.
Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci said the new “more controlling” measures aim to ensure social estrangement.
Coronavirus cases are spreading in Malta, considered a few months ago as a good European fortune for its control of the pandemic.
Lately it has 607 active instances of Covid-19, double the peaks recorded in March and April.
This wave, which began almost a month ago, has been attributed to a weekend party in a hotel and a classic devout festival in the village.
Malta has recorded a total of 1,375 infections since 7 March, when the first case was detected. Of these, 759 recovered and nine died. Lately, two other people are receiving intensive care.
Meanwhile, Fearne also announced that Malta would introduce a new “orange list” of countries whose citizens will have to provide a certificate showing a negative Covid-19 swab from the last 72 hours before they are allowed in.
The most difficult measures were met with cautious optimism, and the country’s doctors’ union renounced the imaginable defense over government management of the pandemic.
The Chilean government closed a grocery shopping center in downtown Santiago on Monday morning after many others stormed the community to buy goods for sale, a few hours after the domain relented.
At least three hundred other people covered the Asian Pacific grocery mall outdoors, which specializes in the promotion of Chinese-made products, before business hours and rushed inside as personal security guards tried to distribute alcohol-free gel and take temperatures, in some cases leading to physical confrontations with buyers.
The grocery shopping center is located in the central exercise station of the capital, where on Monday morning a strict closure of the more than 3 months was eased.
Like many Latin countries, Chile has a giant population of occasional suppliers who have fought after movement restrictions have reduced their clientele.
The reopening of the central station, as well as the adjacent center of Santiago, which houses government offices and headquarters, passed largely without incident, but with higher concentrations of others in the reopened department stores and public transport.
Approximately 12 of the 70 outlets in the Asia Pacific Mall have reopened, according to the municipality.
Felipe Alessandri, mayor of Santiago, said that some retail establishments had submitted “irresistible” sales that had attracted buyers from all over the capital province. He warned that short-term thinking would restore quarantine.
He told the journalists outside the mall when the government arrived to close it:
Now there is more freedom and more daily work is needed, but it is transparent that human stupidity knows no bounds.
Isabel Zúñiga, owner of one of the outlets she reopened, said she had tried to put in place a consumer dating formula on Facebook, but that she had moved ahead of the crowd.
That’s understandable, because those other people are street vendors who haven’t worked for three or four months. They don’t get the government and they desperately want to repair their businesses and feed their families.
More than 70 at a dessert factory in Nottinghamshire, England, tested positive for Covid-19, Nottinghamshire Live reports.
A total of 701 Bakkavor employees have already been tested in the first few days on site at the Newark plant, and many more will be tested in the coming days.
The county council worked with Bakkavor controlArray, which employs 1,600 people, to set up control after 72 positive cases were reported. The verification centre will operate until August 19 so that all workers can be controlled.
Since self-isolation, 33 members have returned to work, authority added.
Nigeria will resume flights on 29 August as it eases restrictions on the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s aviation minister said Monday.
Africa’s most populous country closed its airspace in March to involve the spread of the virus, which has inflamed another 49,068 people and killed another 975 people.
Hadi Sirika said on Twitter that flights would resume for the first time in Lagos and Abuja:
“Protocols and procedures will be announced in due course,” he said, adding that the country’s other foreign airports would be adequate.
The resolution came six weeks after the resumption of domestic flights through the West African economy.
My colleagues Simon Murphy and Kate Proctor have compiled this very (and growing) list of some of the british government’s missteps and sense changes in Covid-19.
After obvious bugs in the touch search app, a center replacement on school food and school opening dates, the A-level effects have the most recent number in the spotlight. You can read the full list here:
Oman will allow the reopening of tourist and foreign restaurants from Tuesday, as well as gyms and swimming pools in hotels, under certain regulations and requirements.
The country’s Ministry of Tourism said the ideal committee dealing with Covid-19 was reopened.
The Supreme Committee also announced the end of the overnight ban on Saturday.
Oman recorded 83,226 cases of coronavirus, 588 deaths and 77,812 cures.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Monday that the mink on two Utah farms tested positive for coronavirus, the first to show such a case in animals in the country.
People who have been in contact with animals have also tested positive for the virus, which causes Covid-19 in humans, the firm said. He added that the tests were carried out after the death of an unusually high number of mink on the farms.
It is known that the animal, which is bred for its fur, is vulnerable to Sars-CoV-2, the firm said, after visors carrying the virus were discovered on 4 of the 155 farms in the Netherlands.
Two cats in New York have become the first pets in the United States in April to contract coronavirus, there is no evidence that pets transmit the virus to humans.
The USDA stated that lately there is no evidence that animals, in addition to mink, play a role in spreading the virus to humans.
Limited data show a low threat of coronavirus spread to humans through animals, but more data is needed to determine whether animals can play a role in spreading the virus, the firm added.
Poolside parties and party boats will be banned in Mallorca and Ibiza, while the Spanish Balearic Islands are grappling with an outbreak of coronavirus cases.
Approximately two months after opening its doors to tourists, the region has gone from registering a handful of new instances each day to an average of one hundred daily instances in the more than two weeks.
From Tuesday, the region will put in place measures throughout Spain, adding the closure of restaurants and bars at 1am and the ban on smoking in public places when estrangement is not possible, said regional leader Francina Armenpassl. But it would also happen more in taking strong action against activities such as boat parties and pool parties in the region, he said.
“There are other young people and others of all ages who get the virus,” Armengol told reporters. “Everyone’s in danger.”
His government has taken a hard line in its war against the virus, with fines ranging from 100 euros for running a mask and up to 600,000 euros for those caught throwing illegal matches.
In July, after photographs of tourists on the streets as they disobeyed regulations on masks and social estrangement, the government responded through the latest shops, bars and restaurants on the main street of Magaluf and two other popular streets of Mallorca for two months. with German tourists.
However, the number of cases in the region has continued to increase, at an infection rate of 14 days of 145 consistent with 100,000, according to the latest figures from the Spanish Ministry of Health.
The total number of coronavirus cases in Turkey has increased to more than 250,000, with 1,233 new cases known in more than 24 hours, the ministry of fitness showed on Monday, while the death toll approached 6,000.
Data show that another 22 people have died in the last 24 hours in Turkey, bringing the death toll to 5,996, while the total number of recoveries has increased to 231,971.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted:
Reuters reports that France recorded 493 other Covid-19 infections on Monday in more than 24 hours, a drastic drop of more than 3,000 cases in the following two days, but respiratory disease hospitalizations were highest for the third day in a row.
The numbers for new cases published on Monday have been lower than for the weekend since the outbreak began, as fewer coronavirus tests are performed on Sundays, so the drop in infections does not necessarily mean a replacement in the trend.
The seven-day moving average of new infections, which eliminates irregularities in reports, stands at 2322, above the 2000 threshold for the fourth day in a row, a series that has not been observed since 20 April, when France was in the midst of one of the strictest in Europe. . blockages to involve the spread of the virus.
The cumulative total of infections in France reached 219,029.
As infections rise again, the French government is facing a moment of national economic blockade.
The government is expected to propose on Tuesday that the mask be used in shared indoor workspaces, while Paris and Marseille, France’s two largest cities that were once declared “red zones” of infection, have expanded spaces where masking is mandatory.
Since early August, Covid-19 instances have increased to 1830 on average, two-and-a-half times more than the July average, and also higher than the 1678 figure in March, when the spread of the virus accelerated.
After steady falls from a peak of 32,292 on April 14, the number of others hospitalized for the disease increased from 65 to 4,925, after an increase of 3 on Sunday and 29 on Saturday. And the number of others treated in intensive care (ICU) sets has increased from 17 in the last 3 days to 384.
This intensive care figure peaked at 7,148 on April 8, when the French fitness formula was on the brink of collapse.
Coronavirus-related deaths increased from 19 on Monday to 30,429, after four years of accumulation over the weekend.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday that the number of coronavirus deaths increased from 654 to 169,350 and reported 5,382,125 cases. This represents an accumulation of 41,893 instances of your past count.
The CDC reported its covid-19 case count at p.m. ET on August 16 of its previous report published on Sunday.
CDC figures necessarily reflect cases reported through individual states.
Here’s a summary of the day to date.
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